Serix#1923 What classes is everyone playing? I didn't have time to play beta, but I am torn between Wizard and Demon Hunter. Not a fan of two resources. Witch Doctor starting to grow on me now after reviewing him.

So far based on some strategy research I see in a few videos and comments that only a FEW barrages are soaked. One video said they only soak about 2-3 the entire fight and focus on soaking the onslaughts. Barrages are only soaked if it is only convenience. Another comment said they stop soaking barrages after the first onslaught. Seems that barrages don't do that much damage unsoaked and priority is to get the adds down ASAP. Here is a video where they had little to no fire going into p2. http://youtu.be/Lb8GhK9HrdQ Even though they h...

I spoke with a friend who has this encounter on a farm mode. His guild uses melee to help with the range to zerg down the drakes and absorb only a few of the barrages. They usually have 2-3 melee in their group as well. I was thinking range can have the same positions and same order to soak up the onslaughts. Start of the second wave some melee helps with the drakes.This is where dps on them starts to fall behind. Range/healers soak up whatever barrage they can. I think if we can get most dps focus fire on each drake we should have plenty o...

Can't wait for season 2 tomorrow!

Yay I got my beta invite!

Survival is competing well with Marks. I am starting to favor it this patch and been using it on most of the Dragon Soul encounters. The 4pc set bonus may have marks the clear better spec though. I believe the Ravager provides the 4% physical damage. However, it is a cunning pet. I'm not sure how much of a personal dps loss using a cunning rather than a ferocity would be, but I've read it is not much. I could bring a ravager to some of the new heroics and see if it provides a good overall raid dps boost just as long as we have a class/spec/p...

Could have a hunter get max range Distract Shot(Taunt), kite, deterrance, and FD if needed too.

I also think making sure everyone has good visibility of the shrapnel debuff is key. DXE if you are using it has an option to give you a countdown for shrapnel. You can simply wait for the countdown and pop your green cooldown button when appropriate. I wanna say this mechanics works just like the Ultraxion fight. Icy veins says you get a debuff, so you should pop the button when you are around 3-4 seconds left. Or watch the cast bar and pop before the channel is done.

According to the Icy Veins strategy, we should do Verd's option 1. http://www.icy-veins.com/madness-of-deathwing-detailed-strategy Hold dps before 10%. Deal with the seconds set of adds. Then dps burn DW and ignoring dps on the third set of adds. DW dies around 3%.

I wanna say it is the corrupted blood that overwhelms the healers and them going OOM. Causing the tanks to die and raid to wipe. I don’t know what the healers view on p2 besides what’s said. Corrupted blood gushes from Deathwing, inflicting Fire damage every two seconds. The damage increases as Deathwing’s health lowers. At 15%, 10%, and 5% he hemorrhages increasing the damage dealt by Corrupted Blood. Now is hemorrhage is what causes corrupted blood to increase or is it in additional to the “as health lowers” ? On our goo...