remanz and heffner: Oh, right. I tank him at the opposite end of the room, but I haven't been moving him around. My /assist macros will target the soul shard if it exists ... so I guess I just need to kite him quickly away from the damn thing while the locks take their sweet time killing it, and then they'll return to the boss. Awesome, such a simple tweak should help tons. Thanks. That might do it for Bron ... I'll try tonight and cry some more if it doesn't.

genocyde: My locks aren't getting much above 2600 dps in Destro spec. This has been sufficient for everything but the 3.3 heroics. Does that seem low for my gear? 5k sounds unattainably high. I'm open to the idea that I need to work on my /clicks, though they seeeem to be OK ... Chaos Bolt asap, DoTs refresh almost right on the button. Conflagrate is a manual cast on my setup but I'm usually pretty close, etc.

HPAV: I haven't done anything without boxing in WotLK! I know the fights pretty well on normal difficulty ... but of course there may be something in normal that you can shrug off, while in heroic it's strategically critical to deal with it properly. Maybe I should pug the heroics once or twice to find out.