Infraction for Daxe: Grammar

Kaubel · 11/14/07, 12:03 AM

Post: Gurtogg Bloodboil - Luck or Strategy?
User: Daxe
Infraction: Grammar
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

You have a bad habit of abbreviating words that do not need abbreviating.

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Désespoir

The last couple of weeks we had a very hard time killing gurtogg (and by the way, not killing him this week).

Our guild due to many players unable to raid is often limited to 8 healers, and among them 2 holy priest for group healing and one restau shaman for raid healing.

Besides of this, we only had 1 shadow priest during this period.

This raid group looks really suboptimal, and sadly it may happen again.

Do you think it is doable ? And what should we do in order to improve the healing (except the obvious "add a healer") ?

The main change we plan to do is to put the melee group in the BB rotation and leave a full heal group outside of BB rotation. Thanks to this change we would be able to stabilize the heal during the combat.
Any other ideas we could try if confronted to the same problem ?

Thanks

Sometimes you have to learn encounters in a hard way, when you might not get the 'optimal' raid or even close to that. With 8 healers and 1 shadow priest, its definately doable. We have done it with 7 healers and 1 shadow priest and wasnt even that close. Wasn't an easy task to do tho... warlocks were drain lifing in order to save healers mana and so on. So my suggestion would be.. keep on trying, because with that setup it will go down.

To improve healing... i would say:
- Take all the wlocks you can because they can overheal bloodboil dots. Also.. as u might know, 1-2 mages max.
- Assing a resto shaman to cast earth shield on fel rage target as soon as possible.
- Nice spread right before p2 is about to start. Wont kill low hp ppl and once again saves healer's mana which is very important when doing it with 1 spriest and 8 healers.

About your main change.. the difference aint that great. It really isnt that bad for healers to be in the bb cycle. Besides.. it would be a huge loss of dps to put melee running back and forward. What u might want to do.. is to put maybe one or 2 melees to replace important healers, such as MT healer paladins in bb rotation. We usually have mt group warlock or extra feral druids to do that job. Rest of the melee who wont be in that cycle can be used to replace dead bbgroup members if they happen to die.