Wotlk - ICC - Forge of Souls - Devourer Of Souls

[crowdx]

So something on this dungeon, my biggest issue is the first couple of trash pulls coming up the ramp (after the two guys at the door in the very start). These mobs do a bunch of AoE nukes which I have wiped on several times. Anyone got a strategy to manage these pulls better? I currently run up to the mobs, park my team and then send in my tank focusing on the bone guy (I think he does most AoE damage), at this point the whole mob sometimes runs past my tank and AoE's my team, even though I have consecration down.
Anyone got some better strategy? My hunter's pet helps a little with the casters but normally it is the initial AoE damage which wipes the group.

[Khatovar]

So something on this dungeon, my biggest issue is the first couple of trash pulls coming up the ramp (after the two guys at the door in the very start). These mobs do a bunch of AoE nukes which I have wiped on several times. Anyone got a strategy to manage these pulls better? I currently run up to the mobs, park my team and then send in my tank focusing on the bone guy (I think he does most AoE damage), at this point the whole mob sometimes runs past my tank and AoE's my team, even though I have consecration down.
Anyone got some better strategy? My hunter's pet helps a little with the casters but normally it is the initial AoE damage which wipes the group.

I actually do looooong pulls on these guys, abusing LoS. I leave my team around the corner, before the ramp, Capt. America the first group and run back dropping Consecrates. The casters will keep running up and then stopping to cast, the Shade will jump between myself and the group. This breaks the group up so I can usually get the shade and one other around the corner and dead before the casters start to trickle in. With any luck, those casters have been stopping and standing in my consecrates when they try to cast {as I'm running out of their range} so they're good and pissed at me. Rinse and repeat for the rest of the groups on the ramp, then move up the ramp and use LoS again in the alcove at the far end of the ramp to clear the next few up to that first room.

BUT I haven't been able to box since Christmas {plane tickets are murder on the budget } so that might not even be viable anymore. At the time, most of my DPS was still in crap gear {my ret was fresh off leveling and my hunter was called out of retirement with nary a heroic drop to her name}, so that was my "play it safe" mode.