9/30 Trial of the Grand Crusader

Baraccus · Post by **Baraccus** » October 1st, 2009, 6:51 am

Anyone have the log from our few attempts in there? It would be interesting to plug that in to one of the analysis tools available online.

Baraccus · Post by **Baraccus** » October 1st, 2009, 11:08 am

Also, here are some comments from some tankspot people, who do it without paladins for tank bops, etc.

http://www.tankspot.com/forums/f218/560 ... strat.html

Particularly post #4 by Xianth.

I wish DBM had an impale timer, if he uses a timer...

thandrenn · Post by **thandrenn** » October 1st, 2009, 12:26 pm

Thanks for the guide. reading it.

Baraccus · Post by **Baraccus** » October 1st, 2009, 2:05 pm

I'm thinking I need more armor, and we both need around 45k HP raid buffed. Seems like that would get us out of insta-gib territory if the stars align for Gormok.

Baraccus · Post by **Baraccus** » October 1st, 2009, 2:09 pm

Another idea is to do a rotation like this:

Tank 1 takes 4 stacks, uses a cooldown before stack 3 hits.

Tank 2 taunts when tank 1 gets 4 stacks, tanks for 4 stacks, also uses a cooldown at 2-3 stacks.

Tank 1 taunts at 4 stacks. Tank 2 gets HoP at this time to clear his 4 stacks. Tank 1 takes two more stacks, and Gormok should be dead before the third stack, or things begin to get ugly.

Then its on to phase 2.

Aezelkvalae · Post by **Aezelkvalae** » October 2nd, 2009, 9:50 am

IDK if this helps at all. The heroic 10 man ToC group I run with in Crisis, the tanks are switching @ 2 stacks. I hear panic in the tanks' voices when they get 3 on heroic and at that point we usually wipe. If you are going to plan on 4 stacks you are gonna have to have a cooldown for every single time. If the fight goes even a few seconds beyond what you plan and you end up with 4 stacks on you and no cooldown, you are done. Not saying it can't be done, just that it will have to be super clean execution.

Daghi · Post by **Daghi** » October 2nd, 2009, 5:03 pm

We were doing it with the tanks taking 2 stacks and kept wiping once the boss got 4 of his buffs and started hitting harder.

Baraccus · Post by **Baraccus** » October 5th, 2009, 6:40 am

I have more HP now, so this might go a little better. I'm probably above his max burst now with raid buffs now.