HEROIC Morchok - DEFEATED 03/01/12

[hubbah]

to be honest the fight aint hard, its like killing morchok normal with 5 people.
You just need to get used to the fight and then its a kill, im willing to bet youll get it in 1 night

[TeaLeaf]

From a healer perspective there's a definite rhythm to the fight and once you find it then you're good as gold.   Miss a global CD though or use the wrong heal at the wrong time and you'll need to blow CDs to catch up as it is a lot of healing.  From a gear perspective it is very achievable with RGW gear levels, I managed to heal it with my discipline gear which is significantly worse than my shadow gear, so it should be achievable.

The frustrating bit might be the pull, you'll see a lot of very quick early wipes if one of the tanks takes a double stomp, so work on the initial range as it is critical to get that bit right.  Once you are past that part then as the bosses split apart you are very much into your own little 5 man world.

[hubbah]

How did the RGW tries on wednesday? Havent seen any update on here..

[TeaLeaf]

How did the RGW tries on wednesday? Havent seen any update on here..

Haha, you beat me to it, I was looking for it in the logs just now and there's no Morchok fight listed.

[JonnyAppleSeed]

Rgw didnt have 4 healers at the start so i think they spent some time looking at how to do the soak rotation on ultrax

[Arcticfire]

We went for normal runs all the way after alot of wipes on zon ozz

[Sithvid]

With only 1 and a half healers at the start it limited our choices. Drea if u wondered i'm the half.

[Switchback]

We didnt have 4 healers even with me being lats....due to a holiday and rl issues for another...

So we were going for hc Ultra but the ball boss was bugging and took about 12 attempts ....

Next week hopefully we can go for 1st boss on hc

[Treach]

Kill was great. Going over tacs:

Tank: /range 15 really useful. as long as everyone is in range and your back to the cirlces then it;s all good. I was using 20 yards but found that sometimes the ranged could be out of range. 15 garentees range.
Melee: just stand close to the boss. As long as you;re closer then the ranged then you're going to soak the double stomp damage. So yes, you can stand behind the boss.
Ranged: Move to the circle and concentrate on your pewpew/heals. tank will move boss to you.

[TeaLeaf]

RGT have run into some problems with this fight the last couple of weeks.  We suspect (but this is not confirmed) that we were burning Morchok below 90% too fast, with the result that the first stomp gets double cast and kills the tank & soaker once the groups have split.    We deliberately slowed dps and allowed the first stomp to be cast before hitting 90% and forcing the split and this seemed to work as we got no double stomps.

So, a note for the future, let the first stomp happen before pushing below 90% HP.