I know I haven’t posted a lot lately.  So busy and stressed… but things have all been resolved and hopefully the posts will flow forth!  Deathbringer Saurfang is the first heroic boss that drops a tier token on 10s, or an upgraded tier token on 25s.  I say first because he’s the first you come across, I wouldn’t say he’s the easiest of the tier token bosses, I think that title belongs to Blood Queen Lana’thal.

Deathbringer Saurfang gains blood power a lot faster on heroic.  Your tanks need to be spot on with their taunts, and nobody can get hit by blood beasts.  Five seconds after the beasts spawn the raid will be slowed by 80% so bear that in mind when choosing kiters/stuns/etc.

So… healers… you’re going to have to deal with healing a lot more marks than you are probably use to.  Plus, if someone with the mark does die he gains 20% life (not the 5% in normal) so it will be a wipe.  We tried to delay the first mark as long as possible.  We ran with 6 paladins so the first 6 bloodboils could be HoPed off.  We would save HoP if it was on a mage (iceblock) a rogue (cloak) or another pali (self bubble) and use it on people in the third round of bloodboil.

We then had an order for all marks.  Pali 1 beacons the first ranged mark, Pali 2 beacons the second ranged mark, Pali 1 pulls off the tanks and heals the third ranged mark along with the first (beacon), Priest 1 heals the forth ranged mark…. you get the idea.  A lot of it was RNGish too, because a shaman’s chain heal is defiantly OP if you get several marks in melee.  As a druid I was HoTting everything with a mark, or a blood boil, or a tank.  Between my hots, pali’s splash heals, judgements and chain heals, melee was fine with no specific healers assigned to them.

I have healbot setup to show “Mark of the Fallen Champion” as a different color, and all bloodboil victims were marked by DBM which also shows on my healbot.  Having those things very visible helps a lot, especial at the end when you may be rolling HoTs on 9-10 people.

Save all cooldowns till that last few percentages when you have a lot of marks.  Our priests all hymned in turn, including our shadow priests.  We also blew divine sacrifice near the end of the fight.

If you have other tips, please leave them in the comments, I’m sure people would love to hear what you did!