ToC heroic vs normal

[Multibocks]

If you can do faction champs on heroic I would do it everyday and skip the paletress and BK. Some good shit on the first chest for upgrades.

[Catamer]

ToC non-heroic is a joke that drops whatever the team doesn't need.
I hate ToC heroic myself... I can do it just fine with the team that doesn't need anything from there. (classic pally + 4 shaman)
If I bring in a new character it's usually bad news with several team wipes.
It is supposed to be a fast way to gear up but once I got the weapons on my main team I quit doing it.

[offive]

Pretty sure Paletress's holy fire does fire damage, I drop a FireResist totem in my farm and it negates more damage. I farmed the heck out of the place on normal and hero... still missing one haste trink and one 1h SpellPower weapon on my shammy team Pretty much got and de'd most everything else multiple times. I find if I run the instance during peak server load I have a much tougher time than off peak times. Lag seems to effect this instance more than others.

However, I have not gone in ToC in a while, ever since I subbed in my hunter for weeks trying to get the polearm to drop and hate the place with a passion now (the pole arm dropped the one day ToC was the daily and I decided not to take my hunter). Besides I think when 3.3 hits most people will be skipping ToC all together. Of course with the removal of daily heroic quests and the introduction of the daily random badge reward, who knows how many times we will be getting stuck in ToC. Unfortunately I have two more teams I a leveling up and fear I will be back in ToC a bit more...

[Clone]

Honestly going for Rogue > Mage > Shaman as a shaman team doesnt make any sense at all.. Why would anyone kill a boss first who doenst hurt you at all?

I would always go for Rogue > Warrior > Shaman, always drop grounding totem, get out of the poison clouds and stun/windshear the shaman if hes healing too much..

For the paletress: As soon as she summons the boss keep your toons to follow you and of course drop grounding totems and tremor totems.. After a fear just hit follow again.. its also possible to purge her HoT btw (no need to if you have decent dps though)

The black knight is a lot harder: I would recommend to watch some ToC movies (i think the way I do it is the same as Multibocks did it) Get your shadow resistance aura and drop frost resistance totem, chain heal and cast Holy Wrath if you have trouble with the ghouls.. and drop grounding totems of course :P Good luck..

I didnt think of the mage as not hurting me as I dont even use grounding totems. Bit noobish of me but its really not needed anyway, its tank and spank with the only the rogue forcing any movement.