So as a guild, we've been cruising through BT and Hyjal. But this past week, we spent quite a bit of time at Reliquary of Souls (or as I like to think of it, Reliquary of Suck). For those of you not immediately familiar with this fight, allow me to briefly recap:
It's a 3 phase fight... in phase one, if you heal anyone who takes damage, the Reliquary is healed, ergo, avoid healing people. Not too bad since she/he/it doesn't hit that hard. In phase two, it's all about interrupt the Spirit Shock using a series of interruptions (rogue kicks ftw). And the third phase is just a speed burn since RoS does aoe dmg to the raid (shadow) that increases to the point each raid member is taking 3000-3500dmg per tick (in other words, beyond normal healing capabilities).
It's phase 3 that is giving us a run for our money. Our tanks are supremely geared for the first phase and the rogues have the interrupt rotation in pro-form, but the speed burn in phase 3 is just killing us. So here's how we're handling phase 3... one tank goes in, picks up aggro, the MT taunts (RoS target changes), Seethe is cast on the raid, Hunters execute their MD to the MT (we have 3 hunters), and then the raid opens full fire. In a perfect world, the taunt/MD portion takes under 10 secs. A few hiccups aside, we're getting the aggro onto the tank fast enough. But we're consistently wiping around 20%. We're holding off on cooldown burns until we're taking a bit more damage (b/c the more damage she/he/it does to us, the more we do to her, that's the effect of the shadow dmg aura).
Personally, I think we're just a tad undergeared. We have a few folks filing ranks that didn't farm SSC/TK. Shadow priests would be a huge help too. We were only using one and that is just not gonna cut it. So we're in a holding pattern right now... farm a few more Hearts of Darkness, build some more shadow gear, and keep pluggin' away.
So TDQ readers who have RoS on farm, share your thoughts! Any tips/tricks/ideas for helping get over the phase 3 bump?
And as a closing thought, our server is seeing many more guilds enter Hyjal/BT in recent weeks. I think it is great that more guilds and therefore more players are getting to experience this content. And some of these guilds have not spent much time in SSC/TK. Should be interesting to see how many are ready for the Sunwell patch.
Edit: Ok, so we cleared to RoS last night after the reset and took a shot at him. I'm beginning to think it's a healing issue. Specifically, Shadow Priests. The more damage they do, the more group healing that takes place. Combine that with the dmg buff that happens as phase 3 continues, that could really help keep us up. WTB 5 shadow priests for RoS...
