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Vanquish / Staghelm » Topic: Baleroc - Healing Perspective http://www.vanquish-guild.com/main/forum/ A World of Warcraft Raiding Guild en Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:13:21 +0000 Yourstruly on "Baleroc - Healing Perspective" http://www.vanquish-guild.com/main/forum/topic.php?id=10294#post-45126 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:15:27 +0000 Yourstruly 45126@http://www.vanquish-guild.com/main/forum/ Yes it's first hit at approx 5 seconds and every 2.5 there after. Every 5 seconds on 10 man. I'll update that above for clarity.  When Decimation Blade is in the first few crystals the balance of healing to tank vs dmg taken is in Baleroc's favor so CD's are necessary.  Using 7 healers as we did last night in gdkp we also have 1 healer who's job is to just gain stacks and help on tanks during Decimation Blade.  We made really good progress and I dont think we'll have an issue downing him next gdkp with pretty much the same healing grp and given time for everyone to read up on the strat and how it pertains to their class. mackabimbam on "Baleroc - Healing Perspective" http://www.vanquish-guild.com/main/forum/topic.php?id=10294#post-45125 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:22:27 +0000 mackabimbam 45125@http://www.vanquish-guild.com/main/forum/ Generally as a resto shaman, you want to do riptide -> hw -> UE -> hw+riptide combos, throwing in greater as necessary. Using unleash and casting a cast time heal followed immediately by riptide will buff both direct heals and the riptide HoT by 30%. On this fight it doesn't matter all that much, since you'll likely be recasting riptide and overwriting the buffed HoT anyways purely to get haste/crit on your cast time heals, but I thought that after typing the other stuff up there and I'm making this damned post anyways! Another random comment coming from freshly healing this in 25man for the first time. It REALLY seems like decimation blade hits are more frequent than 1 every 5 seconds. I'd get a 200k+ heal on the tank right after the first decimate which would bring him up to ~80%, and he'd drop during the cast time of my next heal. I'm fairly certain I wasn't reactively attempting to heal it either, thought I had things timed fairly well...who knows. Yourstruly on "Baleroc - Healing Perspective" http://www.vanquish-guild.com/main/forum/topic.php?id=10294#post-45124 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:43:19 +0000 Yourstruly 45124@http://www.vanquish-guild.com/main/forum/ Bump. priestpujols on "Baleroc - Healing Perspective" http://www.vanquish-guild.com/main/forum/topic.php?id=10294#post-44932 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:38:27 +0000 priestpujols 44932@http://www.vanquish-guild.com/main/forum/ Holy Priest would be good to be in the chakra serenity state. Throw a pom,renew,and the serenity heal immidiately on your target that will get crystal. Then begin to cast your heal,greater heal and flash heal to gain stacks. Then immidiately begin to pre cast a flash heal on tank specially if they gonna dip. It may be a little rough on mana but is very necessary to use flash heal and hit the tanks as soon as they dip. Also a guardian spirit on the tank when they get low on my rotation is great because the tank will not die and about 40% of there health will be replenished if they did eat it.   Yourstruly on "Baleroc - Healing Perspective" http://www.vanquish-guild.com/main/forum/topic.php?id=10294#post-44931 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:42:09 +0000 Yourstruly 44931@http://www.vanquish-guild.com/main/forum/ I'm sure I missed stuff so let me know so i can update. Yourstruly on "Baleroc - Healing Perspective" http://www.vanquish-guild.com/main/forum/topic.php?id=10294#post-44912 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:08:58 +0000 Yourstruly 44912@http://www.vanquish-guild.com/main/forum/ Baleroc is not a hard fight when mechanics are fully understood.  I have found myself explaining this fight quite a lot in the past few weeks so I figured it was better to write it all down as to not miss any mechanics. This encounter is all about keeping the tanks and crystal soakers alive.  No one else should be taking damage.   All healers will be healing both tanks and crystal soakers at different points in a set rotation during the fight.   Tanks will be taking stacks of <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=99252">Blazing Glory</a> which increases damage taken,  but also increases their health pool.  To counteract the tanks health pool gain healers spells also have the ability to increase their output by gaining stacks of <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=99262">Vital Spark </a>. Stacks of Vital Spark are gained when healing the crystal soakers. Healing is assigned in a rotation. For 25 man the rotation is as follows:    Crystal Set 1    Crystal Set 2       Crystal Set 3 <ul> <li>Healing group A:   Tanks                Soak Group 1          Soak Group 2</li> <li>Healing group B:   Soak Group 2     Tanks                     Soak Group 1</li> <li>Healing group C:   Soak Group 1     Soak Group 2          Tanks</li> </ul>   This is the rotation and the 4th crystal = back to crystal 1. Shards of Torment <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=99260">Shards of Torment</a> is what the soakers are well soaking. When healing soakers 2 things are being accomplished, keeping them alive and gaining vital spark stacks.  Both are equally important so using a rotation of hots and direct heals (direct heals are the only way to gain stacks) is important.  Each crystal will be shared between 2 players (soakers) first person taking 12 stacks and the next person taking the rest.  Due to the shards ability <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=99256">torment</a>, each stack does more damage so be prepared to keep them up as the gain more stacks. *** It is very important to only be healing soak targets when assigned to them.  Putting a heal on a tank will put your Vital Spark ability on CD and lock you from gaining stacks for 15 seconds. ***  I cannot stress that enough, losing out on stacks = not being able to keep up in healing on the tanks as the fight progresses.  Especially for Decimation Blade. Decimation Blade When <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=99352">Decimation Blade</a> occurs the OT will taunt the boss and take 3 hits,  First hit at approx 5 sec and every 2.5 after. (Every 5 on 10 man.) The damage is 90% of the tanks current health pool.  Big heals are a must to get the tanks to full health before each hit.  Heals need to be timed to land right after the first hit in order to maximize healing time. CD's and using instant casts necessary. To win this fight, know your assignment and prepare to have a solid rotation on healing crystal soakers that allows you to gain a good number of stacks, but also does not put you a mana situation later in the fight. The trick is to squeeze in as many direct heals as you can near the end of that person's Torment rotation, because you'll accumulate more stacks faster in the last few seconds. Example rotations: (Please help me with more accurate rotations, these are what I found googling different sites) Resto Druid: Start off with a Rejuv then roll Nourish at the low stacks and low damage, then ramp up to Regrowth and finish off with a Swiftmend as the stacks get higher. Resto Shaman: Riptide>Healing Wave>Healing Wave>Unleash Elements >Riptide (Healing Surge or Healing Wave if UE is on cd)   Holy Paladin: Use Holy Shock, Word of Glory, and Holy light. Maintain mana discipline (Judge and use Divine Plea). Holy Priest: ? Disc Priest: Greater Heal > PW:S > Greater Heal > Penance > Flash Heals (Can use Heal instead of Greater Heal early on to conserve mana if needed)