Thankfully I read the response to this post about 2 hours before our raid, and guess what – we downed him in 3 attempts. Thankfully we were already using the basics of the strat you outlined but we had two prot warriors. As I had described to you in my first comment, it was seemingly the healers that were the only ones that were screwing up (in the fear of sounding conceited, my healing team is awesome and I rarely feel we can’t handle stuff, which is why I was so desperate/frazzled)

Anyway, one thing I gained from your post was that for our starting swap, we were calling it faaaar too early, I think we were panicky. Also, for some odd reason we weren’t away that the burning flame was refreshing itself when healers were on tanks, which was screwing up our swaps even further (it seems so stupid now looking back on it, but ahh well, lol). Once we waited a bit longer for the initial swap, then followed the 15 second vital flame countdown, it picked up drastically. We went from barely seeing 65% to a 4% wipe then our kill was very clean!
Having some direction from your comment really helped me and also, I had the a little bit of time to get all the healers watch your Baleroc post during out ‘break time’. I think it made them sit back and think about what spells they were using a bit more too, which would have also helped a lot.

On a personal front, I also play a resto druid and followed your tips as closesly as I good. I must say I wasn’t overly impressed with my own performance – I think I was just really stressed about what everyone was doing and calling the swaps etc. The 3 rejuvs seem to help a bit though, but nourish still feels so sluggy and pumping out too many regrowths was making me cringe. I didn’t get anywhere near your stack amount, but I will hopefully polish it up a bit more next week as I’m sure our kill will be easier now that everyone’s confidence has been boosted.

Also another thing I found that was really throwing me off, was I had grid setup to show both the ‘torment’ and tormented’ debuffs. They look very similar and when I removed the ‘tormented’ one things became far more simple and I was able to zero-in on my targets much faster ( as the fight progressed the kill order became more memorable which was good!)

Anyways, I can’t thank you enough for both the response to my comment and your guide – it helped us an incredible amount.
On to the firebird >< lol!

I hope yourself and Monolith are doing well! I can't wait for more video guides =)

What have I been up to?

Well, I’ve been doing the Fireland Dailies on Zwingli. But, I’ve also been moonlighting as a Tankadin on a different server. It’s been a lot of fun. I actually got a compliment last night, one that has really stuck with me. A healer, one whom I respect, told me that I did a really good job. She even broke it down a little bit, telling me what I was doing well in particular. I was stunned, totally blown away. I mean, I’ve been a huntard for so long, I’m just not used to compliments. Then, to think that I actually “may” have done well as a tank?! I almost fell out my chair. So, it has been a good patch for me thus far.

Zwingli

We ended up doing an amazing job, and my raid team continues to astound me night after night.

If I never see another tier as gruelling as T11, I think I’ll die a happy druid!

Good luck on both Shannox and Rag!

Ah, the best laid plans, haha. It turns out all my stress was for nothing, we managed to get the big guy down regardless of all of the disconnect hurdles that were thrown at us! It was an ugly kill, for sure, but those are the most exciting first kills are they not?!

I hope you were able to get Staghelm alright!

Mostly, my goal for this content patch is to get through the content quickly enough that we can have some down time and a small breather before the next content patch! Even if it’s just a couple/three weeks