CCing Abyssals isn't locks' job, it's everyone's job. Locks just have the best ways to keep them out. Paladins and priests shouldn't die to abyssals, not with 5 locks. Scream, HoJ and bubble are their friends and most of the time they are more important than finishing a heal. Tanks have last stand and w/e they want to use to survive those extra few seconds lost.

This is a short list I made of things that someone can do to control an Abyssal or avoid it's damage if it is going berserk. Note that it is better to stop DPSing a channeler and kite an infernal using slowing abilities (until a lock can fear/banish it) than it is to lose people to Abyssals.

Paladin: Bubble, BoP, Hammer of Justice
Priest: Psychic Scream, Fade, PW: Shield
Druid: Bash, Feral Charge, Cyclone, Taunt
Mage: Frost Nova, Blast Wave
Warlock: Banish, Fear, Death Coil, Howl of Terror
Warrior: Concussion Blow, Intercept, Intervene, Intimidating Shout, Taunt
Shaman: Frost Shock, Elementals, Earthbind Totem
Hunter: Frost Trap, Pets, Freezing Trap, Concussive Shot, Wing Clip

Shaman/druids may have some issues with infernals but priests/pallies shouldn't really, unless you get very unlucky and 2 drop on you closer then 30 secs or so. As a shaman my only real option is to drop an earthbind and run, and hope the infernal is picked up before I need to stop and heal. I don't know how possible it is to get a cyclone off before you get hit as a druid, without that druids are probably even worse off.

Thanks for the confirmation on the fear, that is exactly what I thought as well as far as the targetting mechanic. I'm still unsure if it's outrangeable or not though - seems like no.

I've noticed infernals attacking totems more often then shamans. Having all your shamans drop 4 totems (I suppose they sometimes dont drop a fire totem? Been a while since I logged my shaman) would help.

Stoneclaw should give you some time aswell.

Ok, tried to fix it, hopefully it will work when we have our next attempt tomorrow.

function UC_Assign_B(name, number, mod) and function UC_Assign_A(name, number, mod)
Replaced
fn = strupper(strsub(name, 1, 1 )) .. strlower(strsub(name, 2, length));
with
fn = name; (too lazy to edit all fn to name :p)


function Validate(name)
Replaced
if (name == GetRaidRosterInfo(i)) then valid = true; end
with
if (strlower(name) == strlower(GetRaidRosterInfo(i))) then valid = true; end

Now if I didn't overlook something, that should do it.

Those 2 calls just handle the case sensitivity of wow names (first char being upper and following chars lower case).

The issue probably is that the game *maybe* can not assign strlower("Ö") to ö, or something like that.

I don't think your solution works (not sure) to be honest and I don't have access to wow atm to test it. However if strlower("Ö") doesn't return the intended result then the strlower("Ölzelot") won't either. What you will probably recieve is that both strlower(name) and strlower(GetRaidRosterInfo(i))) will return Nothing which will be equal again but won't result in the intended case sensitivity check, but testing it doesn't hurt regardless.

Also with your change, If someone uses sp00n instead of Sp00n the addon will not notice it and will try to assign sp00n which will end in a wow error (character not found).

What you can do though, is to remove the entire case sensitivity check but make sure that the guy that uses the addon uses the right names (Ölzelot instead of ölzelot etc.)

As a postscript to my initial post, our guild killed Magtheridon last Friday night, after getting him to 47% and 41% the prior two raid evenings. So part of the problem was indeed just a matter of execution. Thanks for all the advice in this thread.

Now about the mobs in SSC.....

I noticed some oddity on our last kill. In all but one attempt my Channeler's CoT got cleansed. Our warlocks swear that they didnt use another curse, yet the icon disappeared and the cast bar went a lot faster (faster than the add kill buff would allow).

Can they cleanse themselves or is this simply some weird bug?

I've seen this happen when one of the channelers dies. Seems to be in relation to the channelers getting more powerful. At first I thought it was debuffs being cleared, but the only one that seems to get removed was CoT.

We noticed a similar thing happening to curse of tongues not "sticking" to the channelers a few times last night, we had attributed it to either:

1) debuffs stacked too high and it got pushed off

2) the curse fell off, and warlock didn't notice. We were really short on locks- we only had 1 warlock main there, and a second warlock that was someone playing a friend's account

This was last night (monday 5/21).

It seemed like an exact two hours to me, but I could've timed wrong.