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re: Heroic Magmaw
by Bananashroom on 04/10/2011 11:07 am
http://www.tankspot.com/showthread.php?74942-Heroic-Magmaw
Comments from tankspot.
-We just killed this last night, experimenting with who was at range. We found that as long as two people stay at range, all of the meteors will go to those two people. We chose a DK kiter and a resto druid to heal him up, and it worked out pretty well. I believe we also had our hunters at minimum range stacked up with the rest of the dps, which ends up helping out a lot.
One thing to note using this strat: if either the DK or the resto druid go down, someone HAS to get out of range quickly to battle rez. If a meteor is cast while only one person is in range, there's a strong likelihood the melee or tanks get targeted.
-After clearing Heroic Magmaw 25 last night, we started with 1 person at range along with the parasite kiter, and had 2 meteors select melee, after that we moved 3 people to ranged (4 counting the kiter), and had only 1 meteor select melee. To clarify as to what I mean by melee, we had everyone on the ledge almost to the point where tapping W would make you fall off, and we still received meteors in melee, however it is considerably more manageable. Also to note another Heroic change, the Bone Constructs lost about 2.5million health, so they are absolutely cleaveable in 25man.
The biggest difficulty for DPS would be moving during the vents, and knowing when to focus on the exposed head vs. kill the bone constructs. While the bone constructs have to be burned down fairly quickly, we really didn't have any trouble as long as people were focused on them.
The one issue with stacking up comes once he hits 30% and the shadow bolts start. We had everyone move at 31% to avoid any bad shadowbolts and spread out. Range burned down the last bone construct, then switched to Magmaw. We also saved Bloodlust for this phase when the head was exposed.
All in all, this wasn't a terribly difficult heroic once the kiter knows what paths to take and we changed strats to stack on melee. After Magmaw and Conclaive, I'm sure our DKs would like to go back to actually DPSing instead of kiting everything, though.
-If you're tank switching try to have the tank who's picking up the constructs taunt Magmaw after the other tank gets picked up and chewed on. You have to time it right however as sometimes he won't have a threat list when flopping around and it just gets plain ignored, as long as that tank manages to be at the top of the threat list after he comes up back off the spike we usually found he'd leave the melee pile alone.
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re: Heroic Magmaw
by Bananashroom on 04/10/2011 11:10 am
looks do able. from what im seeing in the h chimaeron page. people are communicating which is good. so feel free to contribute info if you found any. that way Fright or whoever is raid leader can check the various strat available and which ones are suitable for the guild.
good luck!
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