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I prefer to have my guys on the corner right next to the left side of the arch, they all face out and then I pull Eck and bring him and tank him facing away from the group he is right next to them so not much chance of him pouncing on them and if he does I can pick him up right away. Real easy that way he goes down like a sack of potatoes, I can one shot most of them, I might have an issue with the Colossus some of the times but for the most part had Gun on farm for a while.

Glad to hear you are doing better, its always about learning the fights and after a little bit they just become second nature.

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I recommend using the max-range trick on eck, tank him right in the arch into his cave and have your shaman stand about 30 yards out on the top of the mound with the ribcage sticking out of it. Removes the need to taunt, since eck never attacks anyone but the tank.

Edit: the first time i did this i made sure i started tanking him at about 40 yards and slowly brought him back until the dps started landing spells (the heals all have higher range, so it's a safe way to judge it without dying before you find the right spot)

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Ill try that the next time it resets :-)

I just killed the last boss on the second try. First try I whiped with the boss at 1645hp. I just had to laugh about that, not really anything to get sad about lol. I find the last boss rather easy. Everything is outhealable by the resto shaman, he got taken by the rhino once so I tossed him a LOH to keep him up. Besides that hes a fair tank and spank, like all bosses in that place.

you've probably managed to make it through the worst of the heroic learning curve from what it sounds like. Other instances provide unique (or not so unique) challenges, but it mostly comes down to figuring out how to handle the difference in incoming damage from the mobs between normal -> heroic.

My resto shaman macro is stupidly silly, but effective. With this I have cleared all but three heroics (I gave up on the team before trying them).

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#showtooltip
/use 13
/use 14
/castrandom [target=Coltimar] Earth Shield,,,Riptide,,,,,Chain Heal,,,,,Lesser Healing Wave,,,,Chain Heal,,,,,Lesswer Healing Wave,,,,,Chain Heal

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My experience in multiboxing is that it's 90% attitude. When I approach an instance with confidence I tend do well, when think "here goes the repair bill" I sucketh much. Here's what I know:

1) someone has killed all of the bosses I want to kill 5 boxing 1 pally 4 shaman
2) my computer setup is adequate
3) my macros are and boxing setup is solid
4) everyone who has succeeded can't be that much smarter than I am

With that in mind I KNOW I can anything that has been done, with enough practice. Keep hittin' in.

hmmm

From what I've been doing, I dont really think that a castrandom on healing is very good whatsoever.

On dps it is fine to start with, and from testing (there is a thread on shammy dps macro fixxors) they can pull good numbers.

FWIW I have a couple of keybinds for the healer and spam a castrandom atm on the dps. THe healing keybinds are right next to
the dps spam/mash key and takes absolutely minimum effort to cast a heal when required.
Give earth shield its own key. I have riptide macroed with trinket activation and I have that on the spam key with the healer.

The trick is trying to remember what key does what in an emergency, without dropping the ball. This comes in time.
You WILL learn from your mistakes.

Agree on the gearing. Get all the crafteds, JC items....as much as you can. Choose your rep and work on it until its finished.
If you run heroics often, it will not take time to grind out.

There are some doozy quest lines like the sons of hodir, or the ebon blade entry quests that are all boxable and will net you some
solid coin for the amount of time invested.

Go hard.
Have fun.
Keep working.

You will be flying sooner than you think.

I builded my whole setup in a way that I have the most control over healing. The tanking and dps actions are all a castsequence spam macro while the healing is basic but direct.

I played a holy priest in vanilla wow and a resto shaman in WOTLK so I had my fair share of healing experience and I know I`m not a bad healer :thumbup:

So I focus a lot on the single target healing, positioning and spamming a dps/tank key.

I spent 40 emblems on a nice belt for my paladin, and she now has 537 defence (from 525). I went for a quick Heroic Utgarde Keep run, and I cannot say I felt such a big difference, honestly. It just felt like a nice run where everything goes according to plan.

I guess it would be more significant in a harder instance.

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I spent 40 emblems on a nice belt for my paladin, and she now has 537 defence (from 525). I went for a quick Heroic Utgarde Keep run, and I cannot say I felt such a big difference, honestly. It just felt like a nice run where everything goes according to plan.

I guess it would be more significant in a harder instance.

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You won't feel that much of a difference. It's only meant to prevent the occasional moments where you're tanking a lot of mobs, are a bit low on health and then get hit with a badly timed crit.

It comes down to gearing the toon correctly.

If you read decent tanking forums, for example http://maintankadin.failsafedesign.com/ (particularly for pallies)....gearing makes such a difference.
For example with my loladin....geared up pretty well, 540 def and a LOT of dodge, block and parry along with different gear sets for each.
Can go into heroic trash fights and even BOSS fights and not EVEN get hit....it makes a MASSIVE difference. MASSIVE.

Bear in mind, my toon is geared PRE Naxx. Avoidance and mitigation gear makes all the difference.

To be honest, gearing your tank should be a priority. It can make it so much easier.

I dont mean to pyss in your pocket at all, but one piece of gear wont make all the difference. It comes down to the whole package. Over time it becomes obvious.

My point is that you can clear almost everything, even with a less-than perfect setup. /castrandom healing macros may not be optimal but I have done everything I have attempted using it.