Heroic Cho'Gall 25 Second Week

Today we went back to Heroic Cho'gall and did better.... well better than last week in anyways. We changed our strat back to what we were used to on normal mode with the group stacking up in melee range so our boomkins can typhoon MC'd targets. Our warriors and hunters would DPS down the fire and shadow elementals to lower the stacks on Cho'gall and they would also watch each other's backs if they were MCd out of the Boomkin's range. Overall there was a lot less worship stacks on Cho'gall and didn't have much trouble during the stack up phase.

When the corrupted adherents spawned we would spread out a bit to avoid shadow crashes although some ranged would spread out way to far to the right or left and not be able to be broken from a MC. Our raid was plagued by DCs due to storms or whatever so ideally we would use our 2 enhancement shamans to interrupt Depravity, however one was not able to play. To counter this our warriors would pull off the elemental to handle interrupts on the adherents and I would switch off Cho'gall and DPS down the elemental. I noticed a lot of tank and raid deaths were because there wasn't much damage going onto the elemental, it seemed with the addition of the adherents and blood ads, our hunters couldn't focus on slowing adds and DPSing elementals. Finally we would then stack up as soon as the blood spawned and then funnel them down the center to the raid. Well this was the theory, but we found slows weren't slowing enough and they weren't dying fast enough. That's the strategy in a nutshell and I won't even touch on what the mages have to do.

Generally tho, progress was pretty good. We went from 85% wipes to around 65%, with our best attempt at 50%. We seem to be getting through one adherent phase "alright", reaching the second and usually wiping but have gotten to the 3rd a few times. There are a lot of individual awareness problems tho which in theory should resolve themselves once people become more comfortable. The biggest problem being corruption which can get out of hand pretty fast on heroic. People stand in shadow crashes, depravity doesn't get interrupted, The accelerated debuff doesn't get cleansed fast enough and people throw up on each other. I personally don't find it that much more difficult to avoid than normal mode but since it's heroic mode people seem to freak out about it.

We have one week to kill this fight before 4.2. Is it possible? Last week I would have told you not a chance but this week it seemed like it could be doable. Two more raid nights however seems pretty lofty, we'll have to see.