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Volazj's Quick Demise. I got this with a friend in the guild who BEGGED me to take him. 2 dks/3 shamans, we burned him down in 17 seconds. I just need to go back and get the last shaman his, but it's easy with bloodlust + burn.
I can burn him to about 30-35% and get a double insanity. Got through the double insanity once by positioning in a small cleft and the use of AoE but the insanity so far has always killed the DK tank I bring with me (very good geared tank but 8 elemental shamans kill him in a few seconds.). I can get through it because of grounding totem, magma totem, Thunderstorm and spamheal while doing a few chainheals here and there. But without a tank I can't finish him off. :<

I did around 4200 dps average per head until insanity hit, it seems impossible to kill him in the first insanity's cast time for me. How much dps did your group do to kill him before that happens?
I just checked DBM. Best kill - 21 seconds. So 20.5k group dps, about 4.1k. 2nd insanity was cast right as he died. We had 8 visages each, and all but my DK died but we got our achievement and loot. :P

Stupid questions...

1. assist doesn't -always- seem to work through insanity, do you have /target Herald Vol on your slaves to make sure they nuke? (I've noticed on previous attempts where 2 shamans get my herald target and the other 2 don't, not sure why)
2. are you spreading out and staying away from your DK? Keeping the shaman all grouped up means that the visages will all appear on you, and thunderstorm you around and cancel those crucial casts to get him to 30% during the first insanity, so he casts the 2nd and stays targetable - and the DK visage almost 100% of the time lead off with a mind freeze.
3. Totem buffs do not carry through insanity, so I found it IMMENSELY helpful to drop 4 totem of wraths, 4 wrath of airs, etc.
4. Fire Elementals are useless once the first insanity goes off, don't use them (use ToW's instead - see above) - and if the 2nd insanity does go off with him at say 5%, then use your fire ele totems... I did this on the 2nd kill I had doing this and the visages went down in no time while i just spammed LHW. My dk died horribly, but the shamans all lived.

The other suggestion. He starts his first cast at around 70% (i thin, if you want to buy some extra time, wait until he mind flays then take him down below 70%. I found this too hard to time with flame shocks/dk diseases and army of the dead out, but others may find it useful. I.E. take to 72% wait for a mind flay, burn him by the time the mind flay is done, you should have gotten him down another 10% and buy yourself more time.

If your dk is dying during the 2nd insanity with 8 visages, what spec is he? I can generally survive by using AMS and running like hell, dropping a dnd and continually losing shaman around pillars (It feels like I'm on the opposite end of S4, really). When I do this, my shaman die, but since he's solo controlling he shouldn't have an issue.