Quote Originally Posted by Nemis79 View Post
I'm running a frost spec DK, 3 retribution and 1 holy paladin as a healer. I'm having a seriously hard time with heavy aoe boss fights like Novos the Summoner, Ingvar the Plunderer, Drakkari Colossus, Slad'ran etc. The problem is paladins dont have any aoe heals.

Is there anyone in here with the same setup? How do you do it, spec all paladins as retribution? How do you deal with heals, AoW proc FoL on the tank, and burn the boss down as fast as possible?

Any input would be great.
I run 1DK 4 rets. All in gearscore 2600ish. And I can tell you. I am not rolling any bosses in heroics lol. Every single boss is a tough fight. To put it in perspective, for the first time ever, I had meathook (http://www.wowwiki.com/Meathook) enrage on me after fighting him for like 4 mins. My rets are doing a whopping 800 dps because they are constantly healing the tank.

4 rets is a solution once you have gears. But before that it struggles even more than DK 3rets, 1holy. For boss AOE on your melees, the way I see it. There are only two ways to solve this. Either you spread out avoid the damage, Or pop some defensive cool down (bubble + sacrifice) and continue to dps.

In details,
1. spreading out. Bind a spread out key to a place that is easy to access. 'E' for me. Hit this key for the AOE. Once you move out. Immediately start to heal tank. Once AOE done, move back with follow or IWT.

2. defensive cool down. No brainer here. Just use it in a castsequence. Bubble first. Sacrifice later.

One thing I would like to emphasis is that You have to know when the boss is going to AOE ahead of the time. So use DBM or whatever, know the timer. because when you see the AOE, and then cast bubble + sacrifice. that takes about 1.5 sec due to GCD. Its already too late. You have to pre-cast it before you get the AOE