Forged Alliance

Ran it twice, learned a few things -- and so my 73 gold repair bill wasn't for naught, I thought I'd share what I learned here. Selin Fireheart -  Like Warlord Kalithresh, DPS those crystals or he becomes "Like a God!!"   I think it was just some sort of lame minor diety, because even though he was breaking it, he didn't seem to be as painful as Kalithresh when he broke a tank. Vexallus - Like Curator, The key here we found was to spread out completely -- and for people to kill the energy ball that heads towards them.  The ball needs to be killed quick, the aoe effect was pretty damaging. Priestess Delrissa - Like Moroes, CLEAR THAT ROOM.  At least up on the sides where the people are draining the arcane watchmen -- this fight can be chaotic.  I really struggled to control the Priestess, who I'm not sure has a threat table.  The biggest PITA add to me was the warlord who would AOE fear, I got in the habit of using berserker rage right after pulling. Kael'thas - Easiest fight in the instance?  Tank Kael -- blow apart his Phoenix and make sure to kill the egg immediately afterwards.  When you're levitated, avoid the balls - you can swim fast enough to get out of their way so cancel those casts.  45 seconds into it (or about) he weakens and you can lay into him heavily. Couple other notes: *  My arcane trinket from Kara seemed a most worthwhile tanking stamina trinket for Kael / Vex.
*  CC rules the day here

with our group we just burnt down the priestess  and cleaned up the adds after, granted i only ran the instance in non heroic. with selin fireheart, does  he only do his aoe attack after breaking a crystal? he got one on us and it was the only time noticed him doing an aoe attack that that may be all you have to worry about for the crystals   and if  you did not know there is a bop 20 slot bag that is a trash drop in the instance

drp wrote with selin fireheart, does  he only do his aoe attack after breaking a crystal? he got one on us and it was the only time noticed him doing an aoe attack that that may be all you have to worry about for the crystals

I read the wiki on it - - apparently he's draining mana from the crystals and he does the AOE with whatever mana he got.  Break early and he only does  alittle ...

on kael, if you did you die during a gravity phase, you can run back in and you will be teleported to the end on the next gravity phase

Heroic Thoughts: Trash - Not NEARLY as bad as you would think after doing regular.  All the same, all susceptible to the same CC.  Sure, they hit a little harder, but its really not bad, assuming you use your CC wisely (we didnt have a mage even).   First boss - his aoe hits harder and the crystals have more hp, and he seems to gain a lot more mana from it.  Not bad though Second boss - the chain aoe hits like a truck.  This was a DPS race in my group.  People can't stand close enough for aoe heals, so I could only heal people so fast even with haste gear on... We lost our whole party besides our warrior, and he solo'd the last few percent of the boss and then he had 1 (ONE) HP left and there was one of those mana worms still up and he shield walled and killed it all by himself, the whole time with 1 hp.  It was pretty heroic. Third Boss - The rogue and warrior hit HARD and FAST.  We struggled a lot on this boss and wiped numerous times.  We ended up clearing the whole room and using fears liberally (warrior and spriest fears). Kael'thas - With me healing as a shaman, everyone ran to the door when gravity lapse started and I chain healed until the orbs got close.  Then we just high tailed it around the room and tried to stay alive.  Don't get caught with the bird up during this phase, as he will just shoot ranged fireballs and pick people off.  Also, the bird aoe hits a bit harder.