Tankadin's Guide to Sunwell Plateau

Finally EU PTR instance was up and lag below 1k, so we did first shot on Kalycgos. Few hints:

- Paladin should start tanking, as he can clear arcane debuffs to make it easier for healers. This is not 100% necessary as it's good to save bubble for Demon tanking. I am not sure if AR or -spellhit affects buffets, doesn't look like too much. I will confirm tomorrow with full AR gear.

- we can't taunt Demon in Inner Veil which sux. Current workaround is either taunt from previous tank(not always available) or spam taunt button when he is looking to someone while casting <-- taunt will work. Report this as a "bug" using Blizzard feedback tool

- bring 9 Full Tier6 healers and 2-3 shadowpriests if you want easy kill. It's very healing intensive fight.

Other than that, no gimmicks, he should be down tomorrow with more healers.
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Fiorina / <Black Division> / EU-Drak'Thul
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Drak%27thul&n=Fiorina

Downed Brutalis last night. Was pretty Clutch and we got him 1 second before enrage. went with a 2 tank strategy and an asston of dps.

Too bad other healers blow who Xfered and i gotta fill in!

- To clarify, he does a "Stomp" that reduces armor of the tank by 50% which caugh us by surprise (MT hit for 27k dmg in .66 seconds)
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Yeah, 2 tanks, 3 groups and at least 5 grounding totems is the way to go for the Brutallus 3.0. Enrage timer is definitely steeper but not undoable by any means. He DEFINITELY seemed to hit harder in v3.0 than 1.0 though; I don't think we saw the Stomp debuff once on our 4 attempts + kill on v1.0, but it was nasty this time around.
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Out of curiousity, what group/phase rotation setups have you guys been using on Kal?
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The danger must be growing, for the rowers keep on rowing!

I think 4 is a good enough number, proably works the same way as 5. 4 groups, one group taking each portal.

I really like separating out the tanks from the groups, that makes perfect sense.
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At Kalecgos we had much problems with not spawning portals. The reason was, that we were using 4 groups. The last tank used portal 4, together with the last group. So there was no guy without a debuff - portal 5 didn´t spawn. Since last week we always have a rogue waiting for portal 5, to assure the spawn. This problem took us 2 raid days though we killed him the week before.
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We're using 3 tanks, going in with portal 1, 3 and 5. After the 5th we take the next one that spawns once we've been taunted off of.

The rest of the raid is divided into 4 groups each taking a specific portal depending on who gets ported (i.e. your group). When the 5th portal spawns one out of two assigned healers follows the tank in.

This works for us.
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