Thanks for the information Darm!
Thanks for the information Darm!
Rotface is dead. Aside from killing him, I haven't really had a chance for serious attempts at anything in ICC for the last two months, pretty much since posting my videos so I'm sitting at 6/12.Originally Posted by zenga
so mind giving us an update? progressed any further through icc? (a boxer solo'ing rotface would be insane)
soloing rotface ... no words for that tbh
the only way i can imagine i would try it is leave the MT, dps & healing in the middle the whole time, heal through everything with all mitigation possible, play the kiter yourself, and have 9 different keymaps that results in a 'follow offtank' per toon, where the infected one runs straight away to the kiter ... though this can become a mess at 30%
simply beyond imagination
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You pretty much sum up the strategy I started with, but getting characters to the big ooze while maintaining healing was a bit too distracting. I ended up positioning my characters in a circle around Rotface and then holding them there, using my kiter to drag the big ooze to the appropriate character and cleansing at the right moment. When people see the strategy in action, I can't help but think they'll be disappointed as I handle the fight in the most inelegant, straightforward manner possible.
I got some error when im trying to watch them
the youtube links aint working
They seem to be working for me. Was it a temporary problem? What particular error did they give you?I got some error when im trying to watch them
the youtube links aint working
Theradin --
I'm trying to emulate your success with Marrowgar--
It looks like you kjeep your ranged DPS + healers grouped up and only move them for the cold flame ground effect. And that you keep them grouped at all other times including Bone Storm?
I know that you're running two priests, but I seem to be having a real nightmare with some of the healing. I'm using a druid + shaman, so maybe the druid is part of the problem. Although Wild Growth is really nice.
I presume your priests are spamming Circle of Healing, Prayer of Mending and the casted group heal (name escapes me) ? That is you don't have time to micromanage things like Flash Heal and single target healing?
when I tried it with another 5boxer, you really don't take to much damage if everyone stays together, its when they are in different locations and the flams from a different bs drop point comes to your new location that you take bad damage and the movement becomes a dance dance party. it really is a nice strat he uses, though i cant get it to work for my purposes
I didn't see much coh but pom is a godsend most of the time for most encounters with raid wide damage, esp if it is damage that doesn't tick at same time
I've changed my strategy a bit since posting that video - but for what you see in the video:
- I keep the party grouped at all times, moving to avoid cold flame, and spamming holy nova during the bone storm.
- During a bone storm, I realign the party by having them follow one of the healers, and then moving that healer forward a bit. If I don't do this, the party becomes a bit too disorganized and bone spikes/evading cold flames become problematic
- My heal strategy is to use a prayer of healing followed by a circle of healing, which is why the circle of healing is tough to spot.
- In the video, my gear scores were in the 4400 level (healers) to the 4900 level (tanks). What you probably can't see in the video is that I've equipped a few pieces of frost resistance gear in order to mitigate some of the frost damage. The frost gear is stacked with stamina gems. It eases healing a lot, good for learning
- I don't use PoM. I should, but I've been a bit too lazy to set up a keybinding for it and I've come this far... but I really should make a binding for it
- I use a third healer, a shaman with a macro, to keep the tank topped off. Only rarely do my priests need to heal the tank. I don't recommend multiboxing Marrowgar with only two healers without much practice or without your tank heavily overgeared for the fight. I still use the third healer with my tank's GS at 5300 and the ICC buff at 15%, though I probably don't need to, it keeps things safe
- Flash heal only when somebody is bone spiked or if something goes horribly awry
As to what's changed:
- I no longer stand at a distance, save at the start of the fight, until the first bone storm. I now clump up on the red circle that appears when you have him targeted. Doing so means no more cold flame dodging, a lot less movement and a lot less damage to heal
- I stopped wearing FR gear as my raid gear score crossed 5k, with the ICC buff at 5% ( I think, can't quite remember ), but it still makes the fight easier
Mercurio took on Marrowgar successfully without a priest pair, but instead using a single priest and two restoration shaman. For that reason, he might be the better person from which to get healing tips. What I can really recommend is persistence. I wiped quite a bit while becoming accustomed to ICC damage levels, more than I'd care to admit.
Thank you for the reply, a lot of helpful information in there.
I'm a little chagrined to see how well do you did despite having most of the gear scores < 5000. Plus the Hellscream buff wasn't quite as large as it is now. I guess that just goes to show you important execution is.
It sounds like 3 healers might be the way to go. 3 healers + 2 tanks, +5 DPS.
Right now I'm running:
1 resto shaman, 1 resto druid
2 pally tanks
3 elem shaman
1 hunter
1 warlock
1 shadow priest
So maybe I'll should give some thought to switching the roles of the priest and druid. The tips on frost gear and positioning are also helpful, thank again.
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