Another totem-related note: in phase 2 of the final fight, the corpse explosions are killing totems. I am not used to totems being this vulnerable to AOE, so it took me a while to figure out what was going on. But this is really what was going on, and here is a log file to show it:

Wow Web Stats

I don't know if this is a bug or otherwise but I zoned in during a boss's death on H5-man. I missed out on the loot (group loot) but got the Champion's Seal and WG shards after the loot was distributed. Zoning in during the other fights (not during a boss's death) were normal.

I speculate master looting would prevent that?

It was discovered on the Armory that ilvl 272 cloaks would be dropping in the new raid, likely from the heroic 25man chest. This puts the hardmode loot 50 points above the ulduar25 loot, a huge difference.

More likely the ilvl 272 cloaks are from doing the hard mode 25m within X attempts (25, was it?). It's already pretty well established that the hard mode loot is 258, and blues said previously that the Tribute runs would have a special reward. That would also explain why there are cloaks which are 272 but absolutely no other items as such an ilvl.

The hunter has a nasty multi-shot which hits cloth for 14k, he/she will also Disengage occasionally so if you place your clothies next to the hunter to avoid multi-shot they'll need to reposition at times.

Raid question. How hard. (in in comparison to Ulduar) is 10 man reg?
Is it "harder" than Uld 10 reg?

Also. How does the weekly boss thing work?
Do you face one a week and have to keep going from there? So therefore. Want to stay in the same grp. Or... once you beat the first one it stays unlocked?

It's harder to judge because Beasts of Northrend is probably tuned a lot easier than the rest of the instance, based on past raids. The overall difficulty of that fight is probably about the same as Mimi-10.

My notes on the 25 man fight -

Gormock won't use Impale when disarmed, but the 10s durations mean it's not much use for dropping stacks, just for reducing his overall damage output. Also in case it wasn't obvious, his melee stomp also causes spell lockout.

We lost tanks sometimes to Icehowl when he did a headbutt-melee combo, for around 45k in much less than a second. Is there something we are missing to mitigate this or is it just a matter of being fast with the shield buttons?

Also, can anyone confirm if Icehowl's enrage on successful trample is removable with Tranq shot? Not that anyone here has seen his enrage, of course.

Edit: And another thought - Can paralyzed victims be saved by Hand of Protection? What about PvP trinkets?

We tried 25-man on Tuesday, with our regular raid group - (3/9 hard modes in Ulduar down) and 2-shot the boss - very easy.

I do want to confirm that the 10-man, however, is not faceroll easy.
We tried a mostly random group(good tanks, good but random DPS(almost all melee - I think part of our problem), 1 resto druid 2 offspec discipline priests(when one wasn't enough)) and couldn't seem to get it down in ~1 hour of attempts. I have no doubt that with any sort of real group we'd have gotten it, but even outgearing it (full Ulduar 25 gear + some hard mode gear) we failed to kill it in 10 man. 9 out of the 10 players in that group had killed the 25 man version.

10man is a good challenge, as mentioned a few posts up, similar to Mimiron. Learning the different stages is the hardest part.

We had 1 hr to zone in last night before server shutdown, and we managed to kill the Beasts with only myself reading anything about the fight beforehand.

3 Healers (resto drood, disc priest, resto sham) was fine and healing was fairly constant with only a few spikey patches when starting each new stage.
We had a mix of melee/ranged dps and had them ALL killing the adds on the first Stage, and then using Heroism to drop Acidmaw asap which worked a treat.

Quoting myself from the EU-forums:
What the one boss rule means is this:
Week 1 you face boss 1.
Week 2 you face boss 1 and 2.
Week 3 you face boss 1, 2 and 3.
Week 4 you face boss 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Week 5 you face boss 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Regarding the first boss of beasts, does anyone know what are the criteria for the snobold throwing? Is it health-based or time-based and whether he requires a certain number of ranged targets before targetting melee (i.e. Vezax shadow-crashes). Reason being, I'm wondering if it would be possible for ranged to quickly duck into melee range before the snobold is thrown and have a dedicated soaker run out and take it (the current off-tank for example).