Quote Originally Posted by Ughmahedhurtz View Post
Well, considering this was the first time I've set foot in the new ICC 5-mans, I was feeling my way along carefully. With a better understanding of things now, I could probably do SoC for the extra DPS on him. With his AoE shadow spells, though, I'm not sure my poor noobs with 17k HPs will live long enough to kill him. They are basically in quest blues still, so until I get some badge gear and weapon upgrades on the rets, things are going to be slow and careful.

I just thought it was a funny counterpoint to the "Heroic <Boss X> down in 18 seconds!" movies.
I was in a similar situation to you - mostly quest blues, though I did get myself titansteel destroyers and the titansteel boots/helm for my gang - and you will easily be able to handle him with SoC on and without having to worry about his AOE - just make sure you have some "heal myself" macros on all your Retadins. Also the passive healing from having a judge light on him and Divine Storm going off regularly helps loads.

I think my first kill of him took about as long as yours did - I don't bother kiting the adds, I just try to DPS through them and it works pretty well. My DPS is now around 1250 usually, though I know I can pump out almost 2k if I don't have to worry about self-healing etc.

Honestly, I'm impressed that you didn't run out of mana when using SoL!