Cata - End Times Heroic

[TheShox]

Hey pinotnoir. After buying 2-3 pieces of 378 gear last night on each toon except the mage, I went into End Time. I got Sylvannas and Jaina. They seemed pretty easy with my gear level (Avg 364/365 equipped). For some reason the armory isn't showing the 378 gear on some toons. Had one wipe on Sylvannas because for some reason if I have her selected when she pulls my team in, the assisting and macros break. The toons just stand there and do nothing. I use ISBoxer. So now, when she begins the quick summon, I make sure she isn't selected on the tank.

When the first ghouls spawn, I used Hero. On my last last Ghoul phase my mage was dead and barely killed the Ghoul in time. On the other phases, you can save your cooldowns/trinkets (EM, AP, etc). Right after you are dropped, hit your follow key, and drop your range a little in front of Sylvannas (I tap the back arrow key, which breaks follow on all the range) and then get next to the spawning Ghoul with your tank. Immediately when it becomes active, start your DPS cycle and tank the Ghoul walking backward. DPS with your healer as well, since you are not taking damage at that point. During the regular fight phase, I have the range grouped up and just use chain heal on the shamans when the team takes damage. The major damage dealer is the purple cloud crap that forms on the ground in a line under the group. When that happens, quickly use your strafe key that only broadcasts to the range, remove the echo debuff from a toon and chain heal/AoE heal. In your case, it looks like you have a priest, so AoE heals shouldn't be an issue. Since you have a lock, CoE should help compensate for the lower gear level.

The team I used was a Pally tank, 2 Elemental Shamans (Frost/Earth), a Mage (Kuromadoshi) and a Resto Shaman (Holy). Hope this helps.

PS. As for gearing up, all I did was brought my PVE team into AV weekend and converted honor to JP. Super fast. Doing it this way, you can pull at the right time instead of waiting for some other tank to walk halfway across the map. Same for Isle of Conquest.

~Shox

[pinotnoir]

My gear is lower. I noticed the targeting problem after the pull as well. I can do the fight but my ability to dps down the ghoul before it gets to me is a toss up. I just don't have the gear to do it. My dps are using season 9 weapons. The best I did on her was make it to the 3rd ghoul. If I had more dps I could kill her. I have the movement down just not enough dps. With SWT weeks away I don't plan on going crazy gearing up toons for heroics only to take a break and play SWT.

My gear equiped is - (some pvp gear boost the numbers)

Tank - 361
Priest - 354
Shaman - 358
Warlock - 360
Mage - 358