Paletress Tactics (Heroic)

[Ualaa]

In the original post, you mentioned anyone with a Priest.

My priest group have Fear Ward on round robin.
Each casts fear in sequence on the current active toon.
The active toon attempts to Mass Dispel quickly, while the other toons are within range.

Not exactly what you were looking for, but if your priest has Fear Ward on herself and is fast.
Possibly with Ellay's keyboard click for a mouse target AoE.
The first fear should be negated even without Tremor Totems in the party.

[Greythan]

Yeah, I put fear ward on my tank. So, he resists the first fear. Woopee!

I have my one tremor totem dropped. Only a small help.

I'll have to try to introduce a near consta-purge spam on a button next to my dps spam to see if that helps. Just not seeing it yet.

[heffner]

I think the idea was to fear ward your priest and use the mass dispell?

I typically fear ward my priest so I can heal during the first fear that lands.

I did this on normal several times tonight, wasn't nearly as difficult. Good practice IMO.

[Greythan]

Ah, thanks for the clarification Heff.

Mass dispell is a targeted AE, correct? If so, that's something I haven't yet incorporated into my playstyle as I haven't needed it. Plus, that's really only going to shorten one fear bomb and I don't think that's the silver bullet for me as yet.

[puppychow]

You must get renew off the adds, thats really the "gotcha" to this fight. Plus of course having your group facing the right way. I wiped a lot in heroic until I got a lot better at purging renew off, and keeping everyone always topped off. The fight is a LOT easier with (many) shamans, but even still I 1-shot it nowadays with a prot pally, boomkin, holy priest, and 2 shamans. I spam POH on my priest, since once the add is down you can basically kill her without any heals. I also lust usually as soon as the add spawns, so I can just burn it down asap -- I don't mind taking a 10 min AFK break between her and black knight.

[Smoooth]

I just tank and spank this and use interact with target to face it after the fears. I've never had any trouble with my mixed team on this one. I don't remove the renew either.

I only spot heal with my resto shaman and don't aoe heal at all so maybe that is the difference for me. I don't know if that would make it easier though. Earth shield might help out some for when I can't get heals while feared.

[pinotnoir]

I just tank and spank this and use interact with target to face it after the fears. I've never had any trouble with my mixed team on this one. I don't remove the renew either.

I only spot heal with my resto shaman and don't aoe heal at all so maybe that is the difference for me. I don't know if that would make it easier though. Earth shield might help out some for when I can't get heals while feared.

I have the interact with target setup but it seems like it doesnt work half the time. Any suggestions on why if I press the interact button the toon stands there doing nothing?

[sozay]

I got her today on my heroic and it went bad. I'm a mixed team (DK tank, rogue, ele shaman, shadow priest, resto druid). Something I was doing wrong, just in case this helps anyone:

many of my dps/tank rotation macros have some aoe in them. I still use chain lightning, I throw down d&d, I spread diseases around... I quickly realized all of this was putting extra burden on my healer b/c of Paletress' reflection bubble during this stage. I doubt anyone else is this slow but just in case.

I did the fight probably 5 times, maybe more, and each time it was going fine until everyone died. My DK is not amazing but he's def capped w/ 27k hp and usually does the job. But for some reason each fight, he simply goes from full to dead instantly. I've been back through all the combat logs and I just cannot find what happens.

Anyway, just wanted to add my 2 cents. I hate this see you next tuesday.

[puppychow]

I have the interact with target setup but it seems like it doesnt work half the time. Any suggestions on why if I press the interact button the toon stands there doing nothing?

Are you sure your team has the right boss targeted? Sometimes after a fear the target is removed, or for example if pala direct hits someone they may target her, or if you have heal macros that dont use [target=..] you may be changing targets. Interact with target only works with NPCs, not other players.

To be safe I have two keys bound, one is assist focus and one is interact with target. I always spam my assist focus 3-4 times and then spam interact target. Works great everytime.

Many of the adds have a melee-range AOE, in addition the priestess drops some nasty random hits. Also if your back is facing either boss and they melee you, you are treated as 0 defense (ie crittable, etc). You simply cannot let anyone ever drop below 50% health on this fight, you cannot let your tank be "back tanking" the add, and the more grounding totems and interrupts on pala you do the better - I keep pala /focus'd on my tank so I can mind freeze some of her casts, in addition to taunt as often as possible). I use macros like this on my DK:

#showtooltip
/cast [target=focus,harm][target=focustarget,harm][] Mind Freeze

You can get it down to a pretty easy 1 shot if you just follow the "rythm" of the fight, which is:

1. burn her to 40% fast, have grounding totems down and you won't really even need a single heal
2. let your tank build aggro when add comes out, drop tremor totem and grounding again. i lust when add comes out, since I don't really need lust for black knight anymore
3. never let anyone drop below 50%, just spam heals when necessary since mana is NOT a problem once the add is gone, the boss itself is cake
4. purge renews off adds, after every fear reassist tank, interact with target, press jump after a few steps, heal the tank, heal the group, DPS like crazy, always be dropping grounding totems every c/d, interrupt/taunt the boss whenever you can. always make sure the tank is positioned slightly away from group, and his back isn't facing add or boss

[Greythan]

Smooth, you must SERIOUSLY outgear me then.

I'm far from refined with my tactics but this fight has eaten my lunch. I mean not even close yet.

Care to share your tactics just to ensure I'm not missing something obvious?