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Good:

• After the confusing first try, our phase 1/2 strat worked every time. Frost bomb damage is way down from last week, several air phases I didn't need to heal at all.
• DPS was good. Melee was about right from a healing POV - the debuff hit hard in p1/2 but it was never dangerous. Casters can still possibly push more stacks of Unstable Magic?
• We're getting the hang of Ice Block positioning in P3 - frequency of being in the wrong place dropped as the night went on

Needs improvement:

• Lots of people still getting caught in the icy grip AOE bomb thingy.
• We shouldn't have gone two-heals when we weren't even surviving long enough to hit the enrage timer
• Beyond ice block placement, our p3 strategy is still a bit ad hoc
• Too many cooks. I'm as guilty of this as anyone, but near the end our p3 strategy was getting confusing because we were all suggesting different things at once. In retrospect I should have talked less and listened to Furgin more.

Suggestions for next week:

• Leave P1/2 the same
• P3:
  • Tanks swap as often as possible: i.e. whenever one tank manages to drop Mystic Buffet, it's their turn to tank. (For all I know this is what you were doing already)
  • One melee DPS is 'dedicated iceblock DPS'. If they're not blocked themselves, they're nomming on an ice block
  • Other DPS alternate ice blocks: group 1 is "front foot", group 2 is "back foot". If their block isn't up, they're DPSing boss. When it is, they're killing the ice block

Good:

• We've got phase 1 and 2 down pretty well. We usually had all 10 raiders up for phase 3 for our later attempts.
• We haz a moonburn
• I was totally impressed by the two (three?) attempts we did with two healers. Nice work Carl and Thatrayna.
• Great tanking, in particular Furgin was positioning Sindy well in all three phases.

Needs Improvement:

• Everything that Carl said above. In particular;
  • I personally felt like I knew what to do in p1 and p2, but p3 felt pretty chaotic. I don't think we were on the same page with strategy and should have just followed Furgin's lead.
  • Don't stand at either drop point for the frost tomb in p3 (unless you are melee dps-ing or dropping stacks using an existing tomb). I ran to the drop point a few times and someone was already standing there.
  • I didn't expect the frost tombs to come up so quickly in p3. I spent hardly any time dps-ing the boss at all in p3 as I was either killing a tomb or running to the next tomb. We do need to get the tombs down ASAP, but perhaps we need to co-ordinate dps on the boss better. I like Carl's idea. If I can spend about 5-7 seconds on the boss I can get a full rotation off, otherwise my dps is pretty useless.
• I didn't hear when tanks were calling for a block to stay up, so I'd nom it down ASAP. This is probably me not paying attention.

Suggestions for Next Week:

• I'd recommend that anyone who is having trouble with getting hit by aoe, frost bombs, etc, get the run speed/stam enchant for their boots (Tuskarr's Vitality). I'm happy to do the enchant if anyone needs it.
• Let's go back to three healers. We did well on tombs with two heals, but an unlucky debuff on the healers can cause the whole raid to implode.
• As mentioned above, I like Carl's idea of assigning dps to front/back tombs.
• Don't lick the side of a frost tomb. It's a bad idea.

I think you guys are over-analyzing. Everything went well. We just need to get the rythm down for phase 3.

• People need to know where to run if they are going to be tombed. Several times people would run into the middle of the crowd.
• We were burning the frost tombs down too quickly for me to lose the mystic buffet debuff. It amplified damage from the frost aura. The number of healers is moot if we don't lose the debuff. I would typically die with 9 stacks.

Looking at the logs, we were dying from the frost aura. This is the same debuff that is going on the entire fight but amplified by mystic buffet in phase 3.

Congrats on getting to Phase 3! Sindra is definitely challenging .. especially when you hit the final phase and everyone gets that burst of Adrenaline .. but everyone needs to stay disciplined.

Just to recap the differences in Phase 3.
Mystic Buffet stacks multiplies ALL magical damage - ie. Frost Aura / Chilled to the Bone / Instability - meaning stacks that you were comfortable with in Phases 1/2 need to be controlled a lot more carefully.

By not being close to the enrage timer, means you have more time to drop your stacks and minimise Raid Damage.

Ideally, everyone should be grouped up behind one block after it's dropped. This means that provided everyone moved to the block AFTER it's been dropped in time, no one should be at the next Frost Tomb drop location.

This has a two-fold advantage 1) The next Frost Tomb can be dropped safely; 2) Everyone is dropping their stacks. If someone hasn't dropped their stacks, then make it a priority to get to the next ice tomb AFTER it's dropped so that you're the first there. It gets too hard on the healers if people are not reliably dropping their stacks.

My concern if you alternate DPS on a frost tomb is that if one of the allocated DPS gets tombed, that's already one dps down in bringing that tomb down
2nd, if a healer is tombed, you don't have as many ppl bringing down the tomb ASAP.
3rd - it means that the people that didn't drop their stacks MUST drop their stacks next tomb .. and if they miss it ... they are taking even more damage if they continue to dps.
and that includes if Blistering Cold is then cast ... if you haven't dropped your stacks .. you'll take even more dmg.
4th - alternating dps means that the person is likely to be in the frost tomb drop location since they'll be standing there and dpsing rather than moving to the next frost tomb.

Tank swap should be clearly expressed over vent, and at this time, only 1 person can bring down the frost tomb (rest of raid hide behind it .. but still dps the boss, and then when the tank calls that his/her stack is dropped, then EVERYONE destroys the tomb. If healer gets tombed -> Everyone break it instantly.

The raid has to also control their Instability buffs / Chilled to the Bone and drop these at good times.
eg. running to behind an iceblock / running out from Blistering Cold

From personal experience as a Melee DPS.
If the next frost tomb is about to drop, and i need to drop my chilled to the bone, I would run to the back
so that i'm still behind the frost block location, but not near it ... and when it drops, all i have to do is run forwards ...
ie ... the extra time where i am hopefully LoS means mystical buffet will 100% drop off as opposed to me running from where i am dpsing sindra, to around to the back of the iceblock and then start dpsing .. my time LoS from Sindra is only when i finally get behind the block as opposed to if i started at the back.
But that positioning is ONLY if I need to drop stacks of my debuffs.

If you have enough dps to bring the frost tombs down + some to dps the boss, then 3 heals gives that buffer
if not, then maybe 2 heals... but people have to be stricter on their debuffs and maybe not left it go as high.

If all else fails,
The Tanks get craft some Frost Resistance Gear + Lesser Flask of Resistance as the majority of dmg the tank takes is Frost.

I don't have any strategy, I'm just here to praise cheeses. Love the puns =)