[25H] The Lich King

[Joanadark]

It can cause gib problems, yes, but it shouldn't. The adds still have a spawning animation (the growth) during which they are inactive. Adds spawning in melee should be even less of an issue, as they are immediately in range of tanks. Either way, heroic guilds (the ones that could actually use the advantage) aren't going to have spirit gibs.

I agree with Belloc on this one.
Even if it's kind of embarrassing how it makes the US top guilds look even worse by comparison to the EU ones.

[Belloc]

Yeah... I've had enemy nameplates on for the entirety of ICC, at least. Easymode add pickups.

[chinoquezada]

Damage is so **** legit on this fight. I feel undergeared in my 264s/277s.!

[Felyndiia]

Damage is so **** legit on this fight. I feel undergeared in my 264s/277s.!

You are not a feral drood
Btw soulstones at the tanks is quite important, because there will be always the instagib case unless you do the tankswitch when he casts soul reaper (but then you have to find an other solution for the valkyrs).

[Rhiannon]

Watching both the Paragon and FTH kill videos, it seems like keeping an AP reduction on the horrors wasn't a big concern. Is it a case of the healing being very manageable right up until they enrage, and then AP reduction or not you're going to die if the hunters/your stuns screw up?

[chinoquezada]

Watching both the Paragon and FTH kill videos, it seems like keeping an AP reduction on the horrors wasn't a big concern. Is it a case of the healing being very manageable right up until they enrage, and then AP reduction or not you're going to die if the hunters/your stuns screw up?

It's not being handled by paladins but I highly doubt its not up.
We handle it with a fury warrior getting close and demo shouting as they spawn.

[Rhiannon]

Checking the FTH parse, indeed demo roar is up. Didn't look like they were within 10 yards of the LK tank that often, guess I misjudged.

[chinoquezada]

Checking the FTH parse, indeed demo roar is up. Didn't look like they were within 10 yards of the LK tank that often, guess I misjudged.

Wait, demo ROAR (as in Bear) is up on both? I can see that happening with the first shambling horror, but, unless you have very lucky spawn points with the 2nd one, it would be hard to pull off on every attempt.

/cast Summon Felyndiia
/ask How do you handle this?
/thank

[Felyndiia]

I usually tanked the first add as near as possible to Arthas, but the second spawn and/or unlucky shadow traps will screw the whole positioning up.
That means after that it was pure coincidence that demo roar was up

[fafhrd]

A pet can AoE demo screech for you at near trivial DPS cost to a hunter (of any spec) if you need - it's the same AP reduction as talented demo shout now IIRC. Uptime will normally not exceed 90% though from one pet, so you can still get unlucky if depending on it.

[Treck]

I usually tanked the first add as near as possible to Arthas, but the second spawn and/or unlucky shadow traps will screw the whole positioning up.
That means after that it was pure coincidence that demo roar was up

We do this aswell. I mean we put demo up, and its a plus if it gets on the adds aswell. But when your moving, you got more important stuff to focus on.
A demo roar wont save you from a 160k hit in the face anyway.
I dont know, we seem to have the same kind of tactic with adds as both FTH/paragon, and nomatter your gear, if your unlucky you can get oneshotted, and that will never change even with the 30% buff.
Pagaon had their AD proccing on the very last hit on the last shambling on their kill, and speaking from experience, having a paladin on that task does reduce the risk of wasting tries on some bad luck.
However i think having 2 hunters to dispelling would be a great improovement compared to progressing this with only one (who is currently out of gametime...)

[chinoquezada]

I usually tanked the first add as near as possible to Arthas, but the second spawn and/or unlucky shadow traps will screw the whole positioning up.
That means after that it was pure coincidence that demo roar was up

We do this aswell. I mean we put demo up, and its a plus if it gets on the adds aswell. But when your moving, you got more important stuff to focus on.
A demo roar wont save you from a 160k hit in the face anyway.
I dont know, we seem to have the same kind of tactic with adds as both FTH/paragon, and nomatter your gear, if your unlucky you can get oneshotted, and that will never change even with the 30% buff.
Pagaon had their AD proccing on the very last hit on the last shambling on their kill, and speaking from experience, having a paladin on that task does reduce the risk of wasting tries on some bad luck.
However i think having 2 hunters to dispelling would be a great improovement compared to progressing this with only one (who is currently out of gametime...)

In our case, I mark STAR and CIRCLE (although we use a much more colorful name for it lol) on the shamblers and instruct our 2 hunters to focus one mark and have that as their tranq shot target.
It is, still, much easier to also have paladin (myself in our case) tanking them as we can Holy Wrath when 2 are up and HoJ when 1 is up. The tranq shot arrow has a flight time.
Whenever the shamblers one shot me, the hunters and I joke around that tranq shot arrow was on its way and that my Hammer was 0.5ms from reaching target

[Treck]

We used our warrior on add duty first so we could have them both stunned the same way with shockwave/conc blow.
Having only one hunter really do suck since we have to just chain CDs when theres 2 up and casting enrage.
We dont really mark, its just to focus one and target the other, if they both cast enrage you can holy wrath and move back a few steps so tranq has time to fly aswell.
I also save my Avenger shield for those times, since at some point DR on stunn is kicking in and they cant be stunned. Throwing the shield so they are slowed is a lifesaver, i guess you could have 2x dedicated Dks on it aswell, focusing them the same way as hunters, and when they cast enrage, you have the DKs focuscasting chains of ice, so you can move a bit before they reach you.
Remember seeing a vid from Exodus, where they had the DKs kiting horrors on the edges, but no clue how they got it down when they needed to (or if they are using that strat anymore at all).

[Felyndiia]

The "best" way to tranq is a rogue even with two adds up. The Problem is, that you loose a dps on the boss, but I've never got an enraged hit while we used this strat in 10 man mode.
If you only got one hunter, it's seems very risky with the enrage even with cds or stuns. It's maybe clever to take only the first 3 ghul waves + 2 horrors and let the rogue tranq after the second spawn. That would let the two horrors die often as fast as possible but after that you'll have to take the ghuls down with cleave effects.

[Treck]

We dont even have a hunter for our 10man kills, so we pretty much just soak it there.
How do you prevent enraged hits with only one hunter then?
All i do is a ministunn after the cast so that tranq has time to land, and a bigger stunn on the 2nd one so that its stunned for the whole duration, alternately tossing the shield dazing them so they dont catch me, we have lost the plague stacks to this once or twice tho so i dont really like doing so, but if it keeps you alive its good.
Enrage isnt gibbing us really, havnt been an issue for a while (AD proccs for those few tries aswell so), If anything in P1 its the last tick getting a horror below 20% then refusing to jump back in time that is wasting a few tries now and then.