Hi guis. Lets do this, k?

 

This movie from Deus Vox demonstrates how a single tank can handle all vile spirits whilst the LK is kited between edges. The spirits spawn at his current location and hover there for a duration before sinking to ground level and persuing random targets. They do, however, have threat tables (and are also stunnable) - and will explode when coming into proximity with the tank that lies between them and the raid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKAT4kw59pU

Ok, Phase 3 is pretty challenging. Let’s try and look at this in a more structured manner:

 

A. Ideal position to run to when you recieve a Frost Beacon. This strategy does not support multiple ice tombs, and thus the drop-off zone will always be the same. This makes it easier for teams (see below) to reach the tomb quickly regardless of role. Frost Beacons are applied every 15 seconds, so teams need to be quick to hide behind the tomb and subsequently kill it when its their turn.
  The current OT should be behind the ice tomb, dropping any stacks of Mystic Buffet, moving into position and then taunting before the next Frost Beacon will be applied in order to reduce the chance that they will be selected as a target. This does not stop the newly-OT from being ice tombed, but they can hide behind the next ice tomb (after they are released), drop stacks and resume MT asap. (I have no idea what happens to mystic buffet stacks whilst entombed tbh, if they are dropped during the ice tomb, that would be funky)

B. Ice tombs can easily block los for healers focusing on the MT. This is bad!

C. Blistering Cold basically exists to fuck over any attempts to create a nice tidy rotation of teams ditching their stacks. That would be asking too much, k. If a tomb is up during Blistering Cold, the best way to handle it would be to have everyone run to ranged camp, then everyone except an MT healer (probably with the lowest stacks, and defo no Unchained) moving behind the ice tomb to remove stacks - then nuking the tomb before the next Beacon.

D. Ok, worst case scenario: 1 healer entombed, 1 healer Unchained. The Unchained healer should probably move behind the ice tomb to clear their stacks and perhaps help with raid healing (as much as they dare), since you can make no assumptions about what healer might be entombed and how many stacks they might be on at that time. The other healer must solo heal the MT and will thus be exposed to potentially high stacks (perhaps themself needing healing from the Unchained healer), so you’ll need someone with no stacks ready to swap them out afterwards. It may be an idea to abandon dps team rotation during this scenario and have everyone move behind and nuke asap.

Notes

• It is unwise to let Unchained or Chilled to the Bone stack above 3-4 during phase 3.
• Tombs occur every 15 seconds, Mystical Buffet stacks every 5 seconds.
• Unchained Magic targets 1 healer and 1 offensive caster each time. I’m not sure what will happen if the raid has no offensive casters, though. Targetting 2 healers each time instead would be rather brutal.
• It is allegedly only Sindragosa’s head area that eminates the Mystical Buffet, bear this in mind when attempting to los.
• It is potentially possible to position the ice tomb so that healers can heal the MT from behind it without incuring further stacks of Mystic Buffet. However, in practice, and in the heat of the moment, odds are that it will rarely be so perfectly positioned, and I don’t think we should rely on it.
• Backlash has recently been patched, and will no longer crit. Consider that a nerf if you so will.

Team rotations

Splitting the raid down the middle and rotating ice blocks per team isn’t really plausible. It seems wiser to rotate teams from each role individually. As shown above (see A), the tanks operate on their own rotation, completely independent from everyone else.
  Since we run with 5 dps here, we can split them into two teams of three dps/two dps. Team one hides behind and dps’s the first block, team two do the same to the second block and this pattern continues throughout (until Blistering Cold says hi, and if executed as per C, would effectively reset the rotation pattern)
  We have 3 healers here, and things are a little more complicated in their case. I can’t seem to find a pattern for Unchained Magic, sometimes it seems to be as often as 30 second intervals, sometimes way over a minute. If anyone knows the specifics, that’d be cute.
  However, what I suggest is rotating out one healer each tomb, preferably the one with the highest stacks (which may need some coordinating at some point, but otherwise could be basically rotational), then deviating from this pattern when a healer recieves Unchained Magic, swapping that healer out asap, and adjusting the rotation accordingly. In the case of D, above, its obvious who will be staying out, and the current MT should probably pop CD’s.

Just to re-iterate, Unchained and Chilled to the Bone should not be allowed to go as high as you might risk during phase 1/2. Yes, there is a hard enrage at 10 minutes, but getting through phase 3 (in 10-man at least) is largely attributed to how well the raid can conquer RNG, adapt without breaking a sweat, then tell the demented RNG in question to go fuck itself. Hf.