Icecrown Citedal 5 - Festergut.

[Erian]

1. Positioning. We had late tries yesterday with H back outside at the edge and so ranged keeping 10 yards distant. There is just no excuse for getting this wrong. I don't care whether its a new person on the edge or not. The fixed person doesn't move (can't move if it's a H otherwise). Ranged just keep moving until you're 10 yards away on /range.

2. Healing is quite stressed, though manageable with 6H. We had one H on grp 3 ranged, another H on grp 4 ranged and grp 5 healers, one H hotting Ts and healers where possible, one H ffa on melee splashing to Ts and two Hs on Ts splashing to melee. Easy to go oom. At last a use for Priest's Hymn of Hope: there is a relatively slack time between the 2nd and 3rd inhales when this can be cast.

3. DBM does report a stack of 3 inhales, but it is switched off by default. Those involved in saves need to activate it. We need to plan for two 3-inhale events, one for each T.

[Syrah]

Good Strats here:

http://dreambound-druid.blogspot.com/20 ... ergut.html

[Templaar]

There is still some confusion when multiple spores occur in the same group.
Since DBM marks the spored players as {skull}, {cross}, {square}, it may help to always have skull move to the tank, cross to ranged group 1 and square to ranged 2 for example.

[Sarri]

I thought of suggesting that last night but skull may not necessarily be in melee group... but I spose it shouldnt matter if all have a set place to go.

[Zuzza]

Well hve set places wont work people will end up runing out out of a perfect spore group just to be in another.Our only problem last night was not enough DPS.Atleast i now know we need atleast 8 people who need to be on the outside

[Sarri]

Well hve set places wont work people will end up runing out out of a perfect spore group just to be in another.

And thats why I didnt suggest it

[Fungi]

I heared you guys got him down yesterday ! YAY !

I was wondering what the difference was with the attempts on friday. What squeezed out that 2.8% extra dps we needed ? Was it different positioning, or different people being in ranged/melee ?

A.

[Copperknot]

I heared you guys got him down yesterday ! YAY !

I was wondering what the difference was with the attempts on friday. What squeezed out that 2.8% extra dps we needed ? Was it different positioning, or different people being in ranged/melee ?

A.

I went D

[Erian]

We went with 5H and Lux went shadow with VE. Every try over the last few raids we have improved and nearly all of us have practised on 10-man, so its not really a surprise. Its a fight where D have to maximise their dps and they do that partly by knowing when they can stand a nuke and when they can't. Plus, the H understand how and where to heal a bit better, so we have fewer random deaths during periods of stress. Plus we sorted out saves better. For H it really is essential to get 3rd impale warnings from dbm. Really this is a pretty easy boss, much easier than Rotface imo.

[Sarri]

Tbh, and cheers to you here Copp, putting sunder into yr rotation upped ALL the melee dps CONSIDERABLY. I did 1k more dps than normal on the kill fight. I think thats really what tipped the balance after all the prior wipes...

Synergy... gotta have it.