http://www.icy-veins.com/the-stone-guard-detailed-strategy-wow
http://www.tankspot.com/showthread.php?80101-Mogu-Shan-Vaults-Stone-Guard
Set up your energy at the start properly and you'll never need to take an explosion that isn't covered by a petrify. The dog channels behave in a similar way to Freya add summons, in that they will all channel before they get to channel again and the same dog can't channel twice in a row.
Tank A has two dogs. Tank B has 1 dog.
If one of Tank A's dogs starts channelling, leave them there until ~33 energy. Then Tank B taunts the channelling dog over and tanks both until explosion.
If Tank B's dog starts channelling, taunt one of Tank A's dogs over. At ~33 energy, taunt the channelling dog over to Tank A.
This should leave you starting the next channel with one dog at zero, one dog at ~33 and one at ~66-75.Then have whatever tank only has 1 dog at whatever point do the following:
After each explosion, if the dog you are tanking starts channelling, taunt the dog that just exploded. If not, leave it where it is.
As long as you do that in a timely fashion, you'll never get an explosion that isn't overlapping with a Petrification channel.
Lets save a few seconds of vent/brain lag time during the swaps (and Skarn a big head ache...) and have Swipe and I just do this on our own. Might take a pull or two to get it down, but should work well.
Kul
What a fun mess that was last night.. grats everyone!
We've killed three of the four combos now. Next week we can do the first one again! This should be the rotation, starting next week:
Amethyst -> Jasper -> Jade -> Cobalt
Obviously, that's the "missing" one. Cobalt missing this past week was so much simpler! Almost boring actually, which might be why suddenly at the end of the fight we lost people to chains when everything was smooth earlier. Jasper missing is also a pretty easy one, it's nice not to deal with the Chains. Amethyst and Jade are probably pretty similar. They're both a pain because they have Chains and Mines.
Get this last combo down and we should be good on these dogs!
For Science!
We can likely go in and one shot our first heroic. The rest won't be quite as easy but it will be nice to start on heroics.
Fatboss guide to the disco floor light show
Heroic loots!
I checked out the Heroic Stone Guard fight. Biggest thing to mention is that they can't explode "extra." The explosion is pretty massive and looks to be about 500,000. Survivable if everyone has some sort of CD ready, but likely a raid wipe.
So that's the biggest challenge if we want to take these guys on. We have to get the timing on the taunts right or we are just toast. The Fatboss video seems to have a pretty solid strategy, but it does depend very strongly on fast, accurate taunts.
Good luck tanks. ;)
For Science!
Ya tanks...fun...fast taunts...etc ...no blowie up things! Excellent I look forward to this...AS A DPS :p hehehe
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