Howdy!

[Kougar]

sup, mates?

How are you guys handling the Drakonids on each side? Currently we're having an issue with keeping drakonids by the door, or they aren't being dps'd hard enough (actually not quite sure.. it's tough keeping an eye on the whole raid, as it is during this chaotic fight).

Warriors are using Demoralize Shout, Whirlwind, Cleave, and Mages with Improved Blizzard rank 1 to slow them.

Not sure what else to give you for information. Any info would be appreciated.

[Savor]

It helps when you state the name of the encounter...

Have a warrior on each side main assist, peel off any that go to casters have warlocks mages rain blah blah. Have your mages do full rank AoE's if they're only using r1. Mages on each side can rotate out novas to keep mobs locked in place for a bit, as well.

[Wake]

Good assiting, and having at least one person assigned to pick up the stray runners are very important.

Having good rains and cycling frost novas helps a lot as well. Everybody needs to be busting their ass to get the mobs down as fast as possible and keep them wrangled. The ZG / Onyxia buff might help for your first few times learning the encounter. Sapper changes and other engineering shit can also help take the edge off.

Good luck.

[Kougar]

Good assiting, and having at least one person assigned to pick up the stray runners are very important.

Having good rains and cycling frost novas helps a lot as well. Everybody needs to be busting their ass to get the mobs down as fast as possible and keep them wrangled. The ZG / Onyxia buff might help for your first few times learning the encounter. Sapper changes and other engineering shit can also help take the edge off.

Good luck.

I will have to give the Engineering bit a try. I didn't think of that.

[Kougar]

Our biggest issue is not killing them fast enough. I sometimes find myself tanking 3-4 with whirlwind/demo shout.

Our last practice night we had 5 rogues and 8 warriors. O_O

[Wake]

Hrmmm are you dpsings the big ones down? If so don't bother, assign a tank to pick them up and just hold them they hit like little girls on plate. Having 3-4 out at any time seems pretty normal unless you are really crushing, it's all about keeping them close to the door and out of the casters. Cycle novas and or save them for when a couple get out.

Whoever is the main assist for that side should move the train onto ones that are running away assuming it's not too far out. Don't want to waste dps time chasing after one stray mob. Pretty sure our hunters help wrangle as well. Shoot them a couple times and drag them back through the AE and hope a wrangler picks them up.

[Kougar]

Sunday nights raid, we had 8 Warriors, 4 Hunters, 5 Rogues.

We had one Hunter on each side practicing their Frost Aura trapping. According to Warble (one of our good Hunters), he has 5/5 entrapment and clever traps, but he found his trap was being resisted alot when there were fewer mobs. Only when the number of them increase did his frost trap work more often. I am not sure how he came to this information.

4 Warriors on each side to keep them by the door. Mages/Warlocks aoe'd one side and Hunters/Rogues assist trained the other side. We are not dpsing the large ones, 1 of the 4 tanks pulls the big one aside and tanks all of the chromatic drakonids there. During the initital stage of the fight, at the very beginning things seem to go alright, then it's a big OHSHIT and the Drakonids spawn faster than we can kill them.

Originally, the mages were using rank 1 improved blizzard, and warlocks were shadowbolting/dotting. This is on our current week, mind you. I am not sure what the melee side's problem was.

Our Drakonids this week were red and black, btw. Our first week on Nefarian, we had bronze and green. We've had around 4 good nights of practicing on him in total.

One of the cool things about this fight is, I'm on top #1 for damage taken and damage healed. As a Fury Warrior, I am finding the sheer ammount of mobs hella fun.. I just wish we could learn this one faster.

[Wake]

You want a mix of aoe and single target dps on each side. All the warriors except for the ones wrangling and the ones tanking the big guys should be helping the assist train as well.

[Traumatize]

We have one tank on each side taking care of the big ones, and two DPS warriors AoEing and tagging new spawns to keep them at the doors.

1 Rogue at each side acts as mainassist and we use singletarget DPS from casters/rogues to get them down.

Shamans place earthbind and we also use a nova/warstomp rotation when there are many of them.
When Nefarian lands make sure you remove the drakonoids from the first and second tank, if they have any on them.

All in all it's a really fun phase:)