And She Calls Herself a Lady

[Hivetyrant]

Thats beyond awesome Merc,

I would love to see some in depth strategy and macro explanations on your setup.

every time I see your posts I am damn tempted to get a 10-man team going, it looks so fun and rewarding (and extremely frustrating too!)

[Mercurio]

I'm certain that I'm not doing anything too terribly exciting. I downloaded Vuhdo so I could click-heal for the first time when I was trying to get Marrowgar down and tried using it for Deathwhisper but couldn't figure out a good way to use it without ISBoxer (which as I noted I haven't been able to get working). So I still only have two types of heals - "heal the tank" heals and "heal the team" (AoE) heals. Very basic stuff.

What isn't basic is the strategy and setup to overcome each boss. I have had to clear out bars 1-6 so I can use each of them for specific encounters. Here is what I use them for:
Shift-1: basic setup - trash and heroics
Shift-2: for solo toon play (if I decide to play a single toon in a raid - which I haven't done in a long time)
Shift-3: for VoA
Shift-4: for Marrowgar
Shift-5: for Deathwhisper, and
Shift-6: for Gunship.
Each of those encounters is different enough that I have to think through what each toon will be doing with the very limited 1 through 0 keys I have available. I spend about 3 hours thinking through the encounter and setting up the encounter-specific bars the first time I try a new boss. Then some more time tweaking as I wipe. Then when I find something that works it takes about an hour to set up the bars for the other two teams - basically trying to replicate it (with small changes for different classes I have in my teams).

So like Theradin, I have to claim lack of skill but an abundance of endurance. It is pretty exhilarating to get a new boss down for the first time, though. I've proven the ability to repeat my successes pretty quickly and with three teams to play all the setup and wiping time is still worthwhile. Lady Deathwhisper was especially cool because the kill came out of nowhere - best ever before then was down to 100% life and 65% mana shield? Really?