I'm not sure if anyone is actually doing this, but if you really want a high WoL parse you could consider getting the Fel-Infused buff from Thunder Axe Fortress in Desolace before pull. 25% crit and 5% health regen for 1 minute. I'm not certain if this is hot fixed or not, but some guildies said they did it for regular Cho'gall and it worked. (This would have been 3 weeks ago.)

You must be referring to spamming instant pyroblasts at Cho'gall, and let me state what's obvious to many people:

You can get absolute corruption at Cho'gall intentionally, allowing you to spam instant pyroblasts, at the expense of all healing taken. Only unavoidable damage is Cho'galls aoe at shadow powered state, which is shadow damage and is mitigated through resists. You may use several tricks to keep you alive; power word: shield, hand of sacrifice, anti magic zone, resist trinket from tol barad, cauterize to iceblock, etc.

Mage armor is ideal for additional resist, and you need the mana regen anyway. Best time to get full corruption is probably right after the first adherent.

More of a warning, than tricks. On Heroic Ascendant Council, if you are targeted by the Frost Beacon and have Mirror Images up either previously or after the orb has spawned it will switch targets randomly and probably wipe your raid.

I'd advise you to not use Mirror Images for the entirety of Phase 2.

I have a small tip for the achievment "Headed south" which many think to be the hardest one for glory of the cataclysm hero.

You should start the fight with use trinkets and pyroblast, then fireball, hope for a crit and use combustion. Apparently combustion is not affected by his shield and you can take as much as 15-20% of his health down at the start, making the achievment a little bit easier.

It's possible to use invis to avoid the stun on the ascendant councils phase transition, similar to normal professor putricides tear gas. If you do this, make sure you have images available because you will be getting threat on the monstrosity before the tank has even touched it.

If I remember correctly a large portion of this stun is the various council members forming into the elemental monstrosity. How much time do you actually get on the monstrosity using this trick before the rest of the raid break?

In terms of tips and hints we can scrap now:

- T10 four piece. This no longer works as of the most recent patch. Any spell cast while not wearing the T10 set will now cancel the damage bonus.
- Combustion spreading on heroic Halfus. Due to changes in mechanics of this fight Halfus no longer takes full damage until all drakes are killed (as opposed to released as it was). Of course Combustion spreading will still be useful, but we can no longer roll giant Combustions off Halfus at max damage and spread to the Drakes and Whelps. It seems like this was specifically targeted at Fire mages and Disc priests.

On the change to Halfus I would like to add that it is still massively useful to spread DMG via impact from Halfus.

Unlike before, it is now actually needed to kill all or most of the drakes (while most strategies before relied on tanking them through all of the encounter, and only kill one or two. We just tried it yesterday, and left only one Drake alive, and could have made the fight even smoother and easier if we had killed that as well.

Knowing that, after the first Drake is dead it is arguably better to spread DoTs from Halfus at increased DMG. From what I've seen in my own logs, it works out to be a bit less dmg on the second drake you kill, but over time, constantly spreading will mean you will be doing most damage of any class on the whelps, and any Drake after the second. Just don't try spreading from Halfus while you're still working on the first Drake

Magmaw's exposed head will still take damage from dots even after it is no longer exposed. Whether this damage is reflected in his total health pool I do not know.

It is. Both me and our raiding warlock found a significant increase in DPS and damage done to Magmaw if we reapplied our DoTs just before Magmaw's head stopped being exposed. It's worth doing, because it also seems to still get the 100% extra damage throughout.

Haven't been much posting on Nefarian here:

Raiding in 10 man - I went Frost to kite adds in Phase 1 of Nefarian. Found it challenging and a nice change of pace.

Is anyone noticing any bugs or issues with threat relating to Nefarian's Bone Warriors? I find every so often I have no chance of actually having threat on them, despite hitting them instantly with a Frostbolt + Ice Lance, and being the only person with any threat on Omen.

One thought I had was that the Bone Warriors share the agro table with Onyxia and by opening up on Ony and fishing for some FoF procs, I found that to help significantly, but can't confirm that theory.

As a failsafe, we had a back up Hunter ready with slowing trap and his taunt to collect the 5 Bone Warriors.

Regarding the thread issue: Do you have a priest levitate the whole raid before jumping down? We noticed some strange behavior with Levitate, mainly Onyxia/Nefarian and the Bone Warriors not attacking anyone with an active Levitate. Try using Slow Fall instead of Levitate on everyone, who is involved in some sort of tanking.