10 box ICC

[Darm]

Theradin --


I'm trying to emulate your success with Marrowgar--

It looks like you kjeep your ranged DPS + healers grouped up and only move them for the cold flame ground effect. And that you keep them grouped at all other times including Bone Storm?

I know that you're running two priests, but I seem to be having a real nightmare with some of the healing. I'm using a druid + shaman, so maybe the druid is part of the problem. Although Wild Growth is really nice.

I presume your priests are spamming Circle of Healing, Prayer of Mending and the casted group heal (name escapes me) ? That is you don't have time to micromanage things like Flash Heal and single target healing?

[Theradin]

Theradin --


I'm trying to emulate your success with Marrowgar--

It looks like you kjeep your ranged DPS + healers grouped up and only move them for the cold flame ground effect. And that you keep them grouped at all other times including Bone Storm?

I know that you're running two priests, but I seem to be having a real nightmare with some of the healing. I'm using a druid + shaman, so maybe the druid is part of the problem. Although Wild Growth is really nice.

I presume your priests are spamming Circle of Healing, Prayer of Mending and the casted group heal (name escapes me) ? That is you don't have time to micromanage things like Flash Heal and single target healing?

I've changed my strategy a bit since posting that video - but for what you see in the video:

- I keep the party grouped at all times, moving to avoid cold flame, and spamming holy nova during the bone storm.
- During a bone storm, I realign the party by having them follow one of the healers, and then moving that healer forward a bit. If I don't do this, the party becomes a bit too disorganized and bone spikes/evading cold flames become problematic
- My heal strategy is to use a prayer of healing followed by a circle of healing, which is why the circle of healing is tough to spot.
- In the video, my gear scores were in the 4400 level (healers) to the 4900 level (tanks). What you probably can't see in the video is that I've equipped a few pieces of frost resistance gear in order to mitigate some of the frost damage. The frost gear is stacked with stamina gems. It eases healing a lot, good for learning
- I don't use PoM. I should, but I've been a bit too lazy to set up a keybinding for it and I've come this far... but I really should make a binding for it
- I use a third healer, a shaman with a macro, to keep the tank topped off. Only rarely do my priests need to heal the tank. I don't recommend multiboxing Marrowgar with only two healers without much practice or without your tank heavily overgeared for the fight. I still use the third healer with my tank's GS at 5300 and the ICC buff at 15%, though I probably don't need to, it keeps things safe
- Flash heal only when somebody is bone spiked or if something goes horribly awry

As to what's changed:
- I no longer stand at a distance, save at the start of the fight, until the first bone storm. I now clump up on the red circle that appears when you have him targeted. Doing so means no more cold flame dodging, a lot less movement and a lot less damage to heal
- I stopped wearing FR gear as my raid gear score crossed 5k, with the ICC buff at 5% ( I think, can't quite remember ), but it still makes the fight easier

Mercurio took on Marrowgar successfully without a priest pair, but instead using a single priest and two restoration shaman. For that reason, he might be the better person from which to get healing tips. What I can really recommend is persistence. I wiped quite a bit while becoming accustomed to ICC damage levels, more than I'd care to admit.

[Darm]

Thank you for the reply, a lot of helpful information in there.

I'm a little chagrined to see how well do you did despite having most of the gear scores < 5000. Plus the Hellscream buff wasn't quite as large as it is now. I guess that just goes to show you important execution is.

It sounds like 3 healers might be the way to go. 3 healers + 2 tanks, +5 DPS.

Right now I'm running:

1 resto shaman, 1 resto druid
2 pally tanks
3 elem shaman
1 hunter
1 warlock
1 shadow priest

So maybe I'll should give some thought to switching the roles of the priest and druid. The tips on frost gear and positioning are also helpful, thank again.

[Theradin]

I'm a little chagrined to see how well do you did despite having most of the gear scores < 5000.

You only say that because you don't know exactly how many times I wiped. > > It was definitely not a "walk in there and kill him" event. It took a number of different runs to work out a successful strategy and each of those runs involved many wipes. Pure stubbornness rather than skill on my part.

I may have had one or two characters just a bit above 5k gear score, I can't remember at this point, though that would have been before equipping the low ilvl FR gear. I may also have equipped stamina trinkets on all party members while learning, but again I'm not certain.

One thing I forgot to mention: I put a /targetexact bone spike into my DPS macro, that way I did't have to worry about targeting it manually.

[Mercurio]

For another perspective on soloing Marrowgar, see the thread I posted on it here:

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=29883

I included the write-up I made for myself on how to do it and what key binds I changed to get it done.

I can attest that following that well-documented strategy works pretty well - I tried it from scratch on team #2 yesterday (they have GSs around 5K) and downed him on my third attempt.

Got another tanking mace that one of my pallies was wishing for, too.