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Need help - how to disco heal for Garfrost (Heroic)
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ryansmith18
This wasn't your fault. This was a result of others not understanding the mechanics of the fight either. Garfrost is continuously doing an AoE attack, and as septimus said, the more stacks of Permafrost you have on you, the more damage you take. Each stack of Permafrost adds like 10 or 20 percent magic damage, so obviously when the tank refuses to run to the saronite rocks and clear the debuff (which takes all of about 1 second), things can get pretty hairy.
I had a Shadow Priest blame me for not healing him enough during that fight yesterday. He had 20+ stacks of Permafrost, and towards the end of that fight I had to stop focusing on healing him. It isn't worth my effort to heal if they aren't going to do their job.
Post by
ande9249
Also the only reason for not going for the adds first is if you are trying to burn garfrost quick enough for the achievement.....
Tell them to calm down a little, have the tank pick up adds first, then take down the boss. DBM starts to send warnings when you hit 11 stacks of the dot, and so that is when I try to drop it off, might not hurt to ask them to also look for a LoS drop of the dot at 10 stacks (by the time they get there it will be 11)
Now if the tank(or one other party member) decides that he cant afford to drop the dot EVER, then dispell magic can remove 2 stacks at a time. However, keep in mind that unless glyphed you are not healing him while dispelling and that he is still gaining a stack almost 1 per GCD.....
if the group if tightly stacked you might be able to spam the AoE dispell......but i wouldnt suggest it since you will just be barely faster than the stack generation, and who then is healing the tank?
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Nazeka
If you have a shammy or pally, get a frost resist totem/aura.
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ande9249
indeed, while shaman's can be kinda skittish about changing their totem drop composition, palladins seem kinda complacent if you ask for an aura change, especially for situations like this.
as a side note, often with my warrior lvling in wrath dungeons, If i am struggling with damage in the dungeon I will ask the paly to change from ret to devotion aura....they usually say "np"
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Skadja
Has anybody else noticed this fight bugging sometimes?
The boulders don't always seem to clear the debuff. Someone goes behind the boulder for several seconds, clearly out of Garfrost's LoS, yet the debuff continues stacking instead of clearing, causing someone - or several people - to take serious damage.
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ande9249
while i wouldnt call it a bug, I do know that the dot stacks every 3 sec, so that sometimes when you break LoS the dot drops in 1 sec, while other times it drops in 3, simply because of when you got your newest tick.
at Faen666, I am sorry, however, asking everyone to stack is just asking for a boulder to hit ALL of you. Better is to pick ONE ranged to be a buddy to, then once the boss is stable move towards the boss and you will have LoS of both the ranged you picked and the melee.... yes this leaves possibility of one ranged just dying....hopefully you can get enough dps without him :P
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