Saurfang

[TeaLeaf]

Council/CLs discuss Saurfang tactics and other bosses on an ongoing basis, but I thought this was worth posting out to the members as I understand your strat lets the first 2 marks die.

Saurfang
If you let the first 2 marks die then everyone uses mana, you might get the odd RNG death and you lose 2 dps or healers, which then leaves you short-handed to kill the boss, the adds and the whole fight takes longer which is an added strain on your toon's resources.  If you heal the first 2 marks and keep them alive then the kill is quicker, your dps is higher (both due to numbers of dps and trinks/heroism having a greater % effect on the fight), you use less mana & CDs and you have less time for RNG gibs.

If you have 2 holy palas in the raid you can try this:

Set tank healing with priest & shaman via MT with hots from a tree.
Palas and anyone else raid heal/disc bubble/HOT people.
1st mark is healed by pala1
2nd mark is healed by pala1 beacon
3rd mark is healed by pala2
4th mark is healed by pala2 beacon
5th mark is healed by disc priest
6th mark is healed by resto druid

...and really by the 7th mark the whole shebang should be dead and you've not had to touch your tank healers.

One healer can easily handle a mark on their own.  A paladin can easily handle 2 marks on their own.  Asking them to do more than that is potentially possible, but asking for trouble, but 1 mark per healer (2 for paladins) is absolutely simple to handle and causes zero issues.

Some additional RNG goes like this:
If you get a mark in melee then the shaman healing via the MT will heal up a hell of a lot of the mark, so the resto druid can simply HOT the mark + shaman CH and you then have taken it out of the above list (so can handle 7 marks).
If you still need more time, DI a mark having soulstoned the paladin (ret is best for this as not involved in healing). Do not remove the DI, but the mark no longer needs healing. The paladin pops and carries on dps and you have extended your fight for the duration of the DI (total 8 marks).

If you regularly hit 7 or 8 marks then dps is woefully underperforming (assuming half the raid is not already dead of course)

Hope this is food for thought or at least ofhand dismissal!

[Bellanie]

thanks for the info TL has defo given me some food for thought this morning while waiting for the server to come back up:ranting2:

but will give it some good thought and have a chat with Jas about trying it out next time we get into a 25man:D