[10] Algalon

Even the unimproved CoW is better than a "unreliable" warrior shout due. If he forgets to update it before he runs to the portal and it falls off you can get twated fast because it takes off a fairly large chunk of damage. CoW however lasts for 2 minutes which he can apply each time he runs towards the big bang or back out of it.

Quite sure unimproved CoW had +100 ap more reduced that the unimproved warrior/druid one.

Nadir wrote:For this week's attempt I had a Druid, Shaman, and Holy Paladin healer. Getting my shit pushed in was the primary cause of raid wipes.

Are my healers just not on the ball? Am I doing something wrong? I'd appreciate feedback from anyone who has gotten past the second Big Bang.
http://worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-joelE ... OA/fights/
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Three weeks later. Got my first Algalon 10 kill on the 3rd attempt of this week's lockout. It seems that the problem with my previous attempts was healing. Switched out the Shaman and Holy Paladin for a Disc and Holy Priest. Night and day...

Although, I suppose the damage nerf helped as well. We weren't making use of Demo Shout / CoW stacking in the previous attempts.

I suspect the problem wasn't so much the classes you had healing you, as that your shaman was trying to do too much raid healing. only one healer should be raid healing ever. Both the remaining healers need to do nothing except spam the tank. If the difference was so dramatic going from a Shaman to a Disc priest it most likely means the shaman wasn't consistantly keeping Inspiration up on you. Disc priests always will because they heal with a single target rotation and can't really be tempted to randomly chain heal other people.

After many delays. The despawn soft reset glitch, a long weekend of our druid healer being out. We are finaly going to attempt him.

Warlock with imp CoW. Check.
Druid raid healer who is super pro. Check.
2 priest tank healers. Check
Me prot tank and DK tank.
Hunter for collapsing stars.
Fury warrior/Feral druid/ret pal

We all know the fight like the back of our hands (for not having done it). We are hoping we can get it this week.

I do have a question though.

Would it be more beneficial to have 2 holy priests (So we can DG every big bang) or make 1 of them disc for the better single target healing.

They are all super pro healers, with over 2500 whr. Im pretty sure 2 of them as holy could still heal me through anything. But still.

They will be duel specced so i can try both anyways. Just wondering is DG a big deal, or is just using a single tank cooldown (ibf or divine protection). Or do I need to stack CDs?

EDIT: By DG i mean Guardian Spirit.

Guessing you mean Guardian spirit? otherwise i dont know what DG stands for :S
Id reccomend a Disc and a holy, they complement eachother better imo, holy/holy will prolly work just fine but we like a Disc on that fight.
Disc still has Painsuppression and Guardian spirit thats usefull as CDs, but using CDs while tanking will prolly not help to much, healers will still be spamming you with heals the whole fight, On our kills we have used Divine Protection/HoS for 1st and 3rd, and Pain supp on 2nd. Having a Guardian spirit if things go really bad but we might end up not using it at all.

PS has a pretty short duration. Do you find it kinda of a close call the priest casting it, going in portal, then you waiting for big bang? Is it a close shave or is it pretty easy? (PS is 8 seconds isint it?)

Its pretty easy, havnt missed once yet.
Big Bang is 8sec cast and PS works for 8sec, he would have to cast it on you at the same time as Algalon starts casting Big Bang.
When we do it our disc puts it on me right before he jumps down and its usually about 4sec or so after the cast has started. Pretty safe

So you do need to combine HoS glyphed + DP to survive, but PS on its own is enough?

Do I need to tell my DK to IBF + anti magic shield?