Baleroc 25HC healer rotation

[Afua]

Hi, our guild has decided to start raiding 25 man heroic (we cleared 6/7 HC in 10 man before nerfs) and are currently stuck on Baleroc.

Our setup is Disc, 2 Paladins and 2 druids as well as 2 shadow priests. We've been doing the following:

Paladin 1 and disc heal the 1 and 2 shadow priest, who are taking ranged crystal 1 and 2, meanwhile the druids and Paladin 2 heal the tank and the first 2 melee crystals.

After that Paladin 1 and Disc switch to tanks full-time, while the rest of the healers heal only crystals.

We are having issues with crystal soakers dying after a while (no they dont tank with Tormented^^), I am suspecting that healing crystals full-time is very mana intensive so druids and hpal 2 just can't keep that up forever.

Maybe a different rotaion would be more effective? Like about halfway into the fight the hpal 1 and disc heal 2 shadow priests while druids and hpal 2 heal the tank with the massive stacks they got?

I'm also interested in hearing about your strategy on this boss and any tips on positioning the ranged/healers (we keep spreading the damn tormented debuff)

Thanks a lot! ^^

[DiamondTear]

Switch healers between tanks and crystals every time a new crystal spawns. And start the fight by using one soaker per crystal.

[Afua]

Thanks, but we've already killed him yesterday ^^

We used the same tactics as I described in the original post, except we switched the Paladin 1 to crystals full-time and druid 1 to tanks full-time after first shadow priest crystal.

[DiamondTear]

Grats. Your strategy still doesn't make any sense though.

[Spiritrain]

Grats. Your strategy still doesn't make any sense though.

^ this

The whole point of Baleroc is that when you repeatedly SWITCH from the crystal targets to the tanks (every second set of crystals) your gain a massive +% to healing the tanks. Your strategy is actually making the fight far harder then intended, as the people healing the tanks are not able to increase the % of healing done while the tanks hp is increasing by huge amounts.

Simply set up your healers into 2 teams of 2 or 3 people and have them swap their healing targets (either crystals or tanks) every time a new set of crystals comes, and the fight will likely be a whole lot easier and simpler