HEROIC Iron Qon

[TeaLeaf]

My only concern is whether the melee stacking with the tank will reset his stacks in time?

I was thinking of having 2 groups of 3 and the third group (melee) with 4.    Depends on who is there on the night of course, but in principle it should work.   Jim can reset his stacks it looks like from the logs, so he'd be ideal to stick in there twice in the first and third groups.

1 - Tank, ranged, Jim (3) - 2 stacks
2 - Ranged group (3) - 2 stacks
3 - Melee Group (Jim resets stacks) - rest of stacks

We need to be seriously crisp on the stacking & splitting, they need to happen simultaneously within that 8 second window.

[TeaLeaf]

Remember we lose a lot of dps to the whirling winds, so we need to have our camera view set back to allow us to see Quet'zal fly down and to check which way he is facing before he casts them.

[TeaLeaf]

We need to spank this one hard on Tuesday to get a lead again over Reanimated who also killed a 4th Heroic boss on Sunday (but they did Qon so have nothing else to gain this week).

[Ziley]

[video=youtube;TAB36SGkF7g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAB36SGkF7g[/video]

Had a look at this video. They recommend a 3x3 stacking method for Unleashed Flame and never once mentioned the storms being a problem while stacked (outside of the obvious extra damage from Arcing Lightning). Did we ever experience someone stacked for Unleashed Flame actually getting the storm cloud? Maybe there's a mechanic in place to prevent that during the flame phase.

Also on top of that they mentioned some tips to handling the spear namely, the ranged all being behind the boss.. Not stacked obviously, but all positions would be somewhere behind the boss, and everyone would then move forward a tiny amount so that their back would almost touch the other line of flame. This would make lines become a little easier to deal with. Also when doing 3x3 stacks the Unleashed Flame should match up with spear so that just when a group is spreading a spear will come out and thusly make it a lot easier to avoid accidentally splitting or taking extra damage from the lines.

Also, from what I could gather from the video footage (note: I don't think it was actually mentioned) is that it might be better for the ranged groups to be completely split (as in not 2 + 1) when they're not soaking - probably due to lightning storm.

[Ziley]

Oh and a few more things that I gathered:

Using personal cooldowns just before we're sucked in for Wind Storm is better than doing it once we're no longer stunned.

A buddy system might be a good solution to Lightning Storm during phase 2.. Which means that every ranged are in a group with one other player who will stand close and take care of each other's lightning storm debuff.