With Hydronox I am moving out of the poisons and cleansing, but what seems to happen is that my team winds up getting scattered (like, at least 2 members will, for some reason despite my not telling them to IWT, run off to some far corner of the room and sit in a corner) or the placement of the poison graphic on the ground will make it look like we aren't in it, but we are. I'm sure I'll get it at some point.

Yesterday I did the following heroics:

Heroic Nexus - the *entire* thing was trivial (I was assuming the mage would wreck me, but we ripped her to shreds FAST), cleared it in like, 20 minutes, no deaths.

DTK - Dred was the only one who posed any challenge, but tanking him at the middle of the stairs made the fears a non-issue. No deaths.

UK - 99% of the time this is now pretty easy assuming I don't fumble-finger during Ingvar.

OK - Totally easy, 20-25 minutes, tops.

HoL - I can get past the first 2 bosses easily, but there's no way I'm going to handle the lightning boss, so I didn't even try. Maybe once I figure out movement better I'll try - I know I could kick Loken's butt if I could get to him, so that's no worry.

HoS - I keep fumble fingering during the event; it's the stupid stuff on the ground that I wind up getting stuck in for just a tick or 2 before I can get out that winds up taking me out. So I can't even take 1 boss here, alas.

I'll try CoS today to see if I can handle it now - it was ripping me up a while ago, but that was pre-IS and pre-getting my tank geared.

What I'm doing now is just running random heroics with my team and if it's a dungeon I can handle, I clear it of course, but if I can't I just do the parts I can, by which time I can just teleport out and try to run another. If it's one I'll just repeatedly die in without taking out a single boss, I teleport out and raise some professions til the timer resets. As my gear gets better hopefully I'll clear more and teleport out less I did get about 35 badges on each team member yesterday, so I figure the gear will be improving quickly!

I think mostly I just need to figure out a better way to move out of stuff like fire, poison, etc. Is there any kind of add on that will say "HEY! Idiot! There is about to be stuff on the ground so move!" either while the thing is being cast or right when it gets cast? Between the consecrate and divine storm spam, it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between my stuff and patches of fire/void/etc. If anyone has ideas on better ways to handle lots of movement (I have keys set up to help my followers strafe while I sit in place, ones to make us all strafe, etc.) I'm all ears.

Right now, yes, doing the distributed healing with the rets spamming FoL as needed, and it works very well. There's never really been a time where I've died due to a lack of healing - it's always been a mechanic/movement kind of thing. What's making a dedicated healer setup seem more necessary for Cata? Though, I have been collecting a healing offset for one of my team - might as well, to get some experience with it, and maybe it'll help in some of the fights I'm finding tricky.