Gurtogg bloodboil

My party is usually lock shaman (using wf or goa) tank tank

i ask the shaman to drop wrath of air when they use bloodlust tho

edit: i do use JoCR for what it matters
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Our GM and raidleader recently respeced shockadin, I've become addicted to sancticity aura ever since. ^^ (He refused to put our ret pally in the tank group to maximise DPS. )

Sanc aura and JotC helps alot on this fight! A bit too much sometimes.


Btw we tank him at the waterfalls, when you BoP... where do you run? Towards where he stands at the start, up the ramp, in the raid (prolly not an option )?
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Tanking is pretty much sorted with the tools i bring to the table.

The only issue we have is mages getting wtfkilled. Anyone got any tips?

We did our first try's on him last night, I hadn't read here about him first since we never though we would get Teron down first night there.
Since we did, we had time for 2-3 tries on Bloodboil and without proper info I went all out usual rotation and left the other tanks waaay behind, which wasn't good at all. Threat really skyrockets there, way more than I was expecting with the avoidance-set of gear I was using.
Next time will be better hopefully with some really nice help from this thread/forum.

So, as I've come to understand this fight. Reading through page after page of good info:

Let Warr go first as MT(usually 2 prot-warr's and me in raid, +drood dps'ing, tanking if only one warr).

He does his thing and at around 4-6 debuffs he stops attacking, or even drop target on Bb letting the other tanks catch up and take over(hopefully) at around 9-10 stacks.
If that's not working I can BoP him and he moves out to get that 130% threshold and stays there awhile after BoP has run out. Both OT's go all out to pass threat of the BoP'd one.

Whoever gets aggro, pulls some threat-abilities to gain alittle lead, then rinse repeat what the first one did.

That about correctly understood ? Try and get perhaps 2-3 hunters in raid to help out with MD if that should get necessary, and just to ease switches maybe.
I know others have asked similar "conclusions" but it always feels safer to have it truly confirmed before one stands infront of boss again.
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Target of target macro help a lot for this fight. Just tab to target gurtogg and mindless spam.
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I wasn't even supposed to be in the raid last night, but got pulled in just as they were heading towards gurtogg, since the MT/GM got called away.

First attempt, they insisted on having me be the first tank up, things went well except our warrior couldn't keep up in threat, so when i had to bubble to clear aggro/stacks (had 18 on me) and gurtogg went to our druid, who immediatly got ejected, gurtogg decided to pwn the raid.

Second attempt, we convinced them to MD to the warrior for the opening pull. Things were going great, then a healer died immediately after getting fel enraged.

Third attempt was textbook. MD to warrior, druid and I shot up to maintain secondary and tetriary threat. Tank handoffs were perfect, everyone survived the enrages. Guild first kill. woot!

I thank those who provided info in this thread. I was initially lowering SD on previous attempts, so that I did not out-threat the other tanks. For the attempts last night, I went with my normal spell damage (about 530 buffed) and simply did nothing but Rank 1 HS when I had aggro, so that they could overtake me. It worked like a charm, and I had zero issues with OT threat.

I tanked him by me being the first tank. Without realising that our OT can't keep up with the threat, RL asked me to bubble during the first fel rage when I have 15 stacks of debuff.

Subsequently, I am getting BoP and I run out to 30% aggro range after every fel rage. Yet, BB still comes back to me after each BoP ends and so I dont get any chance to drop off those debuff. I died when I had 35 stacks of debuff on me when BB was on 4%. Luckily, phase 2 starts 3s after I died and a rogue got fel rage. Lucky.. so lucky.
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If you start getting up to 20+ stacks of acidic wound, the bigger concern is probably going to be the other tanks being next on threat. Without taking damage from the DoT to refuel their rage/mana, OT's can fall behind, and it leaves damage at a fairly low threat cap in p1's. It is possible to hold Gurtogg through the knock away, but the bewildering strike means that it's absolutely essential to keep at least one OT high on threat (and the risk of disorient -> knock away means keeping two on top is much advisable).

-Splug
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(Usually) Prot warrior: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Illidan&n=Splug