That is actually GridStatusHots. You just have to adjust the settings for Lifebloom to your liking. Let me know if you have trouble getting it set up how you’d like, and I can see if I can help!

As for the swill – a lot of classes have “special” AE rotations that they can use on the swill and aberrations to up their damage on them. For example, our moonkin does something with Solar Eclipse (Calculated has a great “how to moonkin Maloriak” video out – http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=KtVLgrxhg0Q), our warlocks all run demonology specs for the fight (I don’t know exact specifics, but immolation aura and hellfire make them pretty unstopable I believe), and I know our mages run fire and “farm” for procs.

Also, we have our melee focus one swill at a time using only incidental AE on the others. We found having one or two down early really helped minimize the number of black pools in the raid.

With regards to the tank – the only time he uses cooldowns and/or we use raid cooldowns on him is if we don’t think he’s going to make it to the end of engulfing darkness alive. Most of the time he comes out of it around 20-25% health without any cooldowns and we just get him topped up quickly. We generally have one of our tank healers call out if a cooldown is needed, otherwise we hold them.

I hope that helps!

One question about your Maloriak tank — does he blow a bunch of cooldowns while taking Engulfing Darkness? (Or does he have a bunch of CDs thrown on him?) Apart from if he’s standing in the Dark Sludge, that is.

Thanks again, these are so helpful to those of us learning the heroic versions of these encounters!