Infraction for cupcakes123: 1. All posters are to make an effort to communicate clearly.

• Vulajin · 04/23/09, 1:33 PM

Post: Thorim
User: cupcakes123
Infraction: 1. All posters are to make an effort to communicate clearly.
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Capitalize your posts properly.

Original Post:

obviously, thorim requires that "perfect" class balance. this is what I would recommend to beat the encounter:

6 healers
3-4 tanks
15-16 DPS

our hallway group consists of 9 people. 2 healers, a warrior tank, and 6 ranged dps. everyone else is in the arena. our ranged dps usually includes:

2 elemental shaman
2 mages
2 shadow priests

it would be a bit quicker to go with a 10th (which would be our moonkin, but we've done it both ways so far)

we actaully do go with one cc, this is to prevent early stuns so the warrior doesnt lose aggro. he immediatly starts on one of the melee mobs on every pull. our casters focus and burn down the caster mob, while the 3rd mob is CC'd. we do not tank the initial caster mob at all, due to our ranged being able to "tank it" while they focus it down.

thorim is obviously finding the right balance for your individual guild. if you are having difficulty, i would suggest:

10 hallway (1 tank, 2 healers, 7 dps)
15 main room (everyone else)

tank everything in the middle and have the champions (i believe they are the WW mobs) tanked right outside the center.

also, for efficiency, make sure that at least in the hallway, heals are interrupted. you will get overwhelmed if you miss heal after heal. if 10/15 doesnt work, pinpoint what exactly is happening. are you getting overrun in the main room? are you not making it to thorim intime?

those are really the two biggest issues that you can "balance" your raid separation based on.

hope this helps.