Tempest Keep ( Tempest Keep )

TL;DR

Full clear in 2:00:06. Good, with some room to improve. Immediate target is 1:30 and zero wipes, with 1:15 as the long-term goal.

General Guidance

• People aren't drinking mana pots when they need them, preferring to use mechanics to get mana back (such as Aspect of the Viper). These puppies are quite cheap - drink 'em down. Use at least one combat potion per pull such as Destruction or Haste Potion.
• Healthstones are being totally ignored, with only 3-4 being used per fight. Granted, this has a shared cooldown with mage's mana gem and dark rune usage. I would get in the habit of planning to use your healthstone whenever a certain unavoidable mechanic hits you (such as Al'ar dive bombing you).
• Guild will provide drums. Spam Drums of Battle even on trash.

Trash

• The packs before Al'ar are still quite annoying for us to deal with, and we lose out on some speed here. Especially the packs with the small birds - let's bring those all the way back.
• Much better this weak on not fearing the group on pre-Astromancer trash.

Al'ar (Kill, 6:17)

• Dysmario died at 0:42 to Al'ar's Melee on the transition to the second platform, so the boss was swinging on a non-tank. I see Noshifty cast Growl on Al'ar at 0:40, so it may have resisted. Watch for the taunt debuff / call resisted taunts so melee can wait for the previous tank to get to platform.
• Unavoidable damage to the fire patch killed Stoneshok, but he didn't even take the most damage from that mechanic. Install the GTFO addon.
• GREAT avoidance from the Ember's explosion on death by Yesimatank. GREAT tank swapping on Melt Armor and platforms from Lincolln and Noshifty.
• Lots of unnecessary movement (myself included). Remember to only move until you are directly in range, and immediately start casting again.
• Could potentially go down to 4 healers for this one.

Void Reaver (Kill, 4:02)

• Threat was a problem we can try to solve.
  • Void Reaver hits for 9000 against zero armor, which isn't very hard. This means when he crushes, he crushes a tank for about 6k, which is only moderately hard. My advice: throw on some more threat gear, don't worry too much about crush cap (though bears do like their dodge to dodge the ability entirely -- catch-22).
  • Yesimatank can throw on more spell damage gear (replace Barbed Choker or Pocket Watch, for example).
  • Lincolln should prefer Dragonstrike instead of Mallet of the Tides with a sword off-hand as Devastate spam in Defensive Stance is preferable to Heroic Strike spam for chasing threat.
  • Tanks should use haste potions during Lust, sappers if engineering, and deal as much threat as possible.
  • Misdirects on cooldown to whichever tanks are not #1 on threat.
• Even with threat problems, Aethre ripped threat at 0:20. Lost about 300k damage, with 18,800 group DPS meant we could have saved 16 seconds.
• Mages should use Invisiblity a bit more - perhaps right after Lust, just drop all threat. Natrpotatr and Caffeinemax went down with about 10 seconds to spare, so not a huge deal, but preventable.
• Earlier an accidental engage during trash forced a reset. Watch pull discipline near the boss.
• Healthstone usage is very poor on this fight. Holy priest was nearing top threat from Circle of Healing spam.

High Astromancer Solarian (Kill, 2:18)

• Clean fight. Nothing notable to fix really. It's a short one - pop all CDs immediately, squeeze in a second trinket in phase 2.
• Tons of overhealing, and I've been told healers get bored. Could potentially go down to 4 or even 3 healers for this one. We will do 4 next time.
• Let's do 1 tank.
• We can also do parse reset strat if people are willing.

Kael'thas Sunstrider (3 wipes, Kill 8:04)

We will only cover the briefly rather than comprehensively. We will answer "What would have prevented a wipe" rather than "how could we have killed this better". Once we start one-shotting KT, we will answer "how can we kill this better".

• Wipe 1 (~wipe started at 6:22, in phase 4): tank did not get healed over 3.4s, and then it was a wipe. I believe looking at recap that a lot of healers had to move out of Flame Strike all at once. We also had five preventable deaths if we kept the tank up. Could have been a one-shot kill if we kept tank up.
• Wipe 2 (~3 min, early): collapsed in the weapon phase. The tank ( Yesimatank) died to the animated weapons.
• Wipe 3 (7:27, died at 41% in Phase 4): the tank ate Flame Strike - instant kill plus.