Some guilds have success allocating little to no DPS on the spirits, by maximizing distance between the raid and the explosions. The strategy is mostly about positioning: start on an edge of the platform, move the Lich King to the opposite side when the Spirits show up, the raid stays with the MT and LK, and the spirits will get close to ground level by the time they reach the middle of the platform. The offtank plays "tag" with all the spirits, hitting as many as possible. If executed well, this allows for most or all of the DPS to be on LK, so even if things start to fall apart, the percentage of time when survival/zerg cooldows are active goes way up.
Defiles could potentially cause serious problems for this strategy, so there's less room for error: there must be a clear path for kiting to the opposite side every time the spirits spawn, or else we'll end up with range issues and defiles splitting the raid into smaller groups. In this video, though, the defiles are not perfectly executed and they muddle through:
If anyone has other suggestions or concerns about this strategy please post them.
I apologize for any random and unnecessary movement, and also for the odd timing for the split between parts one and two. If you wish to view these on YouTube, you will find link-type comments that make it easy to jump to each attempt. Also, I'd be happy to upload a shorter segment at regular speed or whatever else may be helpful for anyone. Just let me know. :)
Here's my /2 ad macro to copy&paste for anyone who wants to spam trade. Feel free to make changes (it's already at the max # of characters though).
/2 SansReproache LF 1m to join us 9:30-12:30 ST 3X/week ICC10. Starting w/LK next lockout,H modes soon. Prefer restosham, considering shuffling toons to accommodate Warlock, Elem Shaman, or Moonkin. Pls be skilled & appropriately geared. Friendly group :)
I took our combat logs from last night, plus a few random chunks of combat logs from previous runs with Sans long ago (before I joined, maybe), and uploaded to World of Logs. Now we can pick apart our raids in excruciating and prettily-graphed detail! /woot!
Below is the widget that lists recently uploaded logs. I couldn't figure out how to insert the iframe code into the guild page itself - either I don't have the right permissions or I'm a moron. Either way, here's the stuff:
Monday, August 2, 2010
Ms. Garrison: All right, kids, it is now my job to teach you the theory of evolution. Butters: Oh boy! Ms. Garrison: Now I, for one, think evolution is a bunch of *bullcrap*! But I've been told I have to teach it to you anyway. It was thought up by Charles Darwin and it goes something like this... [goes up to a large poster of evolution and begins pointing things out with her pointer] In the beginning, we were all fish. Okay? Swimming around in the water. And then one day a couple of fish had a retard baby, and the retard baby was different, so it got to live. So Retard Fish goes on to make more retard babies, and then one day, a retard baby fish crawled out of the ocean with its... [waves left hand] ...mutant fish hands... and it had butt sex with a squirrel or something and made this. [points to a prehistoric mammal rodent] ...retard frog-sqirrel, and then *that* had a retard baby which was a... monkey-fish-frog... And then this monkey-fish-frog had butt sex with that monkey, and that monkey had a mutant retard baby that screwed another monkey... and that made you! So there you go! You're the retarded offspring of five monkeys having butt sex with a fish-squirrel! Congratulations!
Cartman: [impatient for a Nintendo Wii, hops out of his chair and leaves the room, shouting] Aahhh! I can't take it anymore! aaaaah!
Ms. Garrison: Yeah? You see? I *knew* that would happen.
