My first experience with my 5-group in Karazhan
I took my 5-toon group into Kara last night (up to Shade). My group consists of my group (a prot pally, 3 ele shamans, and a resto shaman), a prot warrior, holy priest, BM hunter, rogue, and holy pally. Some notes about the run:
Trash: I AOE tanked group pulls and used magma totems since we didn't have a lock or mage. I was surprised at how quickly groups went down with just magma totems + consecration down.
Attumen: I tanked Midnight and the prot warrior picked up Attumen. Simple fight.
Moroes: Started the fight throwing avenger's shield so I got aggro. Shackled one, hunter trapped one, pally feared another, and dps killed one immediately while the prot warrior picked up Moroes. I picked up the pally feared add, and all dps burned him down, then we killed the hunter-trapped one. I made sure to keep my consecration on Moroes while killing adds so I would be second on threat. Simple fight once the three adds were down. Killed the shackled mob after Moroes died.
Maiden: Spread out my team around the wall at the start. Cleansed and spot-healed on my pally. 4x heroism DPS FTW! Easy fight and picked up my Totem of Healing Rains for my resto shaman.
Big Bad Wolf: This was the fight that I didn't want, but ended up getting anyhow. I've only seen this fight once across all 4 of my other single-box toons. The biggest challenge for this fight was reacting fast enough to the clone that was turned into Little Red Riding Hood. Kept up as much threat from my pally and tried to dps him down as quickly as possible. Spam heals for target=focustargettarget so that my resto was constantly healing whoever BBW was chasing.
Curator: We one shot everything up to Curator, but wiped our first attempt on him due to my bad positioning. Make sure to line up in a straight line at the back of the room, and make sure the tank keeps Curator within casting range for Evocations. During the first fight my shamans started the spinning wheel of doom and in my efforts to get them to stop spinning the instead started (and got stuck) running forward. They were half-way to the end of the hall before I finally stopped them. It was too late, though. We wiped (no worries, I can self-rez). I positioned them better on the second time and we killed him with no problems.
Shade: We wiped here three times and called it a night (it was already 1:30am). Mass dispel from the priest makes it easy to get to the wall - out of the way of his blast. Blizzard isn't that much of a problem. Just keep moving and dps'ing. The problem I have is that I need more health on my shamans so they don't get pwned by his pyroblast after sheep. Not sure if grounding totems can be used to avoid the damage, I'll have to try it out. If I can make it past the pyroblast then this fight will be no problem. The focus-fire of my dps takes the elementals down very quickly.
Healing: This was the toughest part for me. I 'drive' from my prot pally, and heal from one of my clones through key bindings and macros. I am able to heal my normal group just fine. The problem is that there are many times where I need to help heal non-tank members of the other group, and my macros are not efficient for that to happen. I will spend some time to fine-tune my macros to try to make them better for dynamic group healing. Circle of Healing is looking sweeter to me every day, lol.
Overall, I had a great time. The hunter in my group is a RL friend that I've run many heroics with. But the rest of the group were pugs who didn't really know what they were getting in to. They figured out pretty quickly on the trash to Attumen that I was multiboxing. Naturally they were concerned about how well the run would go, but after we killed Moroes the tone lightened up and they started asking lots of questions about it. They were really cool about it and seemed to have an entertaining run.
