After doing attempts up to 11PM EST last night: deny. The timing is tricky and not all of our healers were always phasing it at first, but it's difficult to tell with latency or healers just hitting the button a half second too late. I would recommend coordinating a slow countdown and have all the healers use Heroic Will on "one" with Bloodlust/Heroism on "zero." We were able to pull this off easily on most of our attempts.

If you drop AS you'll get stuck and won't be able to go further down the tree unless you spec into Totemic Reach, Toughness, Frozen Power, Seasoned Winds, or Earthen Power, and non of which are a DPS increase on Ultraxion, and for a defensive talent would be Toughness, but I don't really see that being useful because 1: It's only 3% Stamina, and 2: Just more Healers have to Heal up, and on Ultraxion with the Healers already struggling to Heal at the end there's no reason to give them more to Heal.

I'm not saying you should spec into AS for Ultraxion because it's virtually worthless, but what else would be a viable option?

I have a question about targets that are far away, Such as Oozes on Yor'sahj or tenticals on Death-wing is it more DPS to Ghost Wolf all the way up to the target, or to Unleash elements and then Flame Shock on your way to it and then switch to Ghost wolf to close the gap? In one instance you get into melee range faster. In other one you are doing some damage on your way to the target.

As stated I believe in the tips, theres not much point in using flame shock on the oozes since they will die long before it falls off, you'll have higher dps using earth shock on the oozes providing you flameshock the boss before heading to it.

As I said above, Ultraxion is a static encounter. Considering AS isn't useful, you can drop 1 point in Improved Shields (remember we've only two points of tree 2/3) which is a DPS increase, and in addition, we can gain a bit of stamina dropping 1 point in Toughness.

While reading I thought I might contribute a little by providing an Ultraxion 10 HC logs in which I felt I did quite well as I placed second on wlogs on our kill. Keep in mind I made a few mistakes and it was our first kill and I started using Heroic Will pretty early as the Fading Lights and Hour of Twilights started rolling in. Note that our warrior was receiving Tricks throughout the match. Comments and questions will be answered.

Ultraxion 10 HC

A good tip I discovered in our attempts was that for the initial pull it seemed best to drop totems down before the pull as usual and as we all know Searing isn't as cooperative as we'd like and you sometimes need to reapply it after the actual pull, it was actually best to go through my first regular rotation without Searing attacking the boss for the first ~6 seconds. This resulted in an overall gain of about 6-7k of peak pull DPS.

Looking at Madness of Deathwing, some people tend to get very high Spellweave damage where others do not. Does anyone know if there are any tricks or proper ways to utilize this?

In attempts I have done Ive sat quite a long way below others, and after watching the KIN Raiders video and seeing their shaman at 95k dps it makes me believe I'm not utilizing this properly.

There's nothing you can do about it in a competent raidgroup. Almost every normal mode ranking is done via LFR pugs where adds live long enough for 2-3 or even more Fire Novas and as far as I know every FN hit and every FS tick can proc spellweave.

In heroic mode adds have a lot more life so you can use FN a lot and your spreaded FS tick longer. That's why heroic mode dps just seem to explode.

I killed Madness for the first time on reg the other night, and Spellweave was 1 of my top 3 if not my top attack on all of the attempts. I just kept FS up on Deathwing as I was hitting the tentacle and prioritized LB a little bit higher, and when the tentacles came out I would just put FS up on all of those and I'd get a bunch of Spellweave procs

Extra Action Button 1 can also be found in the Keybind interface so you can bind it anywhere you'd like to put it without a macro. In the Mac Client, and I assume the PC client as well, it's placed between Action Button 12 and Special Action Button 1.

Has anyone figured out how to get ST to target the Tendons on Spine of Deathwing? I tried all the usual and no luck. I'm guessing the only option might be magma?

EDIT:
Also wanted to add some tips of my own:
- On Hagara you can attack your own tomb when you are inside it. This also includes spreading FS and FN! Don't just sit there being useless - EDIT: This is actually false. I was just a moron getting stuck in tombs while not being selected.
- As Enh (with the blessing of our healers) I've found it much easier to loop around the oncoming ice wall by dipping into the bubble with GW. We have enough tricks to stay alive that it's really not a lot of damage. Also when the adds are about to die (the last one is 5% or lower) start moving to the center. You'll do no consequential damage to the adds at this point anyway and you will be in position for the burn phase.

I've heard this before and I believe that it is simply untrue. When you have the ice tomb debuff, you are stunned and cannot do anything. What most likely happens to make you think otherwise is you get stuck inside someone else's ice tomb because everyone groups up. At that point, yes, you can DPS the tomb you are inside because you don't have the debuff.

I've had the best luck on Spine with a Searing Totem that was up significantly before the plate lift. It seems completely counter to what usually happens, and I only discovered it when I basically gave up on it for an attempt or two and noticed I was getting stacks pretty early from my old totem.

You can't attack your own tomb, what I usually do is drop magma totem just before I get frozen so I still continue to do some dmg. Its pretty low yeah but its better than nothing.

Can you still control your wolves when you are frozen? If so, you could drop them and get them to attack as well.

You can control them but they do terrible damage alone (they struggle to break down a 20k bubble in HoO), and with 4pc T13 you'd waste all the maelprocs after the first 5.

Has anyone done any testing using [Rathrak, the Poisonous Mind] on Black Yor'sahj phases? With the amount of spell events fire nova generates, I'd imagine it would have a decent uptime.

Just remember you need to account for the internal cooldown (15 seconds?) when you swap it to your main hand. You can't simply weapon swap and have it instantly proc.

A note about soaking on Ultraxian:
There is another way to survive HoT other than a priest barrier and that's with a DK's AMZ. AMZ + SR is enough to survive, but of course you can use SC to be safe if you aren't fully healed. If you are fully healed you may want to consider holding off on the SC, especially if your Earth ele is up.

Overall this can help ease the stress on your raid as ideally you want to have those priest barriers up for the 5 minute mark.

So just a thought, it's what I've been doing and it seems relatively effective... I pop my Wolves 5-10 seconds before Ultraxion is engaged so I can use them up to 3 times in the fight. I know most of the time the fight doesn't last that long, but just a though

I really fail to see the dps gain in that. You must keep in mind that you're missing about 2000 - 2500 agility when you pop them (prepot + agility trinket + other procs), also you will get your 5 stacks of MWP extremely fast, while you'll still be munching up globals on SS / LL / totem refresh (and also BL if you're the only one in the group who can).
I personally prefer to ask the mage to do BL instead of me (then again, we have 3 shamans + 1 mage in our 10 man, "ideal" setup, not), so I can spare those precious early-fight globals.


A tip for Spine Heroic :
While the Hideous Amalgamation is exploding and you're running out, re-drop a ST, and don't attack anything else, when tendon comes up and you start your dps, it will automatically start attacking it, resulting in a gain of a global (which really does make a difference).
Also, pre-pop wolves when you've run out (use them only once per tendon, don't pop them mid-way).
Even though it's bad for every other fight, buy the Valor trinket (Kiroptiric Sigil), and use it EVERY time the armor plate lifts, 1min30 cd is just perfect for that one fight.
Save pot for second tendon (with wolves on the first time), unless your guild uses BL on that (which isn't ideal as the last one is the hectic part).
2 useful macros :

#showtooltip Stormstrike
/target Burning Tendons
/use Kiroptyric Sigil
/cast Stormstrike

(for maximum tendon uptime) - in the case /target Burning Tendons doesn't work for you (we have some issues for people with it), you can also use /target Boss2.

and

#showtooltip Feral Spirit
/use Blood Fury(Racial)
/use Kiroptyric Sigil
/cast Feral Spirit

(To pre-pop wolves 2-3 seconds before armor plate goes up)

This trinket is not as bad as people make out. It sims above Matrix normal and other FL trinkets when you reforge the haste to Mastery and use it on CD. It also seems to line up nicely with Zon'ozz normal high damage phases (I am not sure about HC) so in certain fights it may be better than some versions (LFR for example) of the recommended DS trinkets. It's also an easy trinket to swap in and out.