Bump for RGT.
Looks like an interesting fight.
[video=youtube;a1RjTsbhh_M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1RjTsbhh_M[/video]
The fatboss guide.
Soo sand guy dead pronto it seems.
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1271823-Council-of-Elders-%28N%29
seems someone reccomended nuking the sand boss under hero in there too, when its empowered.
I stumbled across a post on Reddit, where a person asked for help with this encounter on 10-man mode. Turns out the fight becomes very simple if you start off by burning Sul for ~20 seconds with Hero/TW, Pots and personal cooldowns before swapping everyone but a single melee to the empowered one.
http://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/1a31cp/council_of_elders_10_man_help/
Edit: Apparently the bosses have received a slight nerf to damage done and instead of 90M hp each, now have 75M each. This fight should be a piece of cake.
Having read around this encounter more, I am coming to like splitting the bosses (High Priestess out solo) and burning Sul in the group with splash damage on the rest (with breaks for 25% HP off the empowered). I think it will allow us to ensure we do not get a 2nd sandstorm and should be more controllable (I think).
Ran this one with 2 tanks, 2 healers and 6 dps.
MT needs CDs to handle the stuns. Sorted a rotation and it worked fine.
Slows on the Spirit are essential. It died quickly enough with dps focus on it.
Movement is essential to avoid getting gibbed.
Empower order was always the same:
Frost Lord
Kaz
Marli
Sul
We focused Sul and used heroism at start to get Sul down a couple of percent before the first empower (to ensure Spirits always went accross the room to the MT (OT has Marli).
Positioned Marli OT on one tank on one side of the ring, MT had the other 2 on the other side of the ring (40yd range).
OT handles interrupts on Marli & calls Spirits.
Left 2 melee dps on Sul (splash on Frost Lord) full-time.
Ranged handled Spirit and Empowered target (needs focus as it was close a few times with only 4 dps on it)
Failing to do 25% on the Empowered target before they reach 100 energy is a raid wiper and it was tight a couple of times.
We managed to kill Sul before his first empower so had no dust storm to deal with at all (nasty little buggers, although from earlier tries they can be rooted, stunned and slowed to help MT keep kiting out and not landing in their spawned quicksand when they die).
We used melee as the group up spot for Frost Bite. When Malakk was empowered we had to ensure we were close enough to melee to run in if we got Frost Bite to group up with Guru & Ammon to reduce stacks of the dot to 1.
You need to watch big 'execute' type attacks on an empowered Kaz, as the 50% damage reflect can kill you (*coughs* and looks @ Guru!)
Kill order: Sul > Malakk > Marli > Kaz
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-oorqiqwb6me4cm9h/sum/damageDone/?s=8075&e=8560
This resulted in a kill time which was bang on current Median shown on WoL.