This happens often enough that it’s not possible for a tank to use a defensive cooldown for every single one. During this ability one of the bosses will pick up one of the two tanks and smash him into the other tank doing massive damage to the tank getting smashed into. There is only one truly deadly (and unavoidable) mechanic in the fight and it’s called Crippling Suplex.Also, you gotta love the homage to Hans & Franz from Saturday Night Live. This fight is a lot of fun, and actually quite easy when the mechanics are properly dealt with.

In addition, we got to try them several times and learn their mechanics well. We were unable to kill these guys last night, but we were able to get them to about 3% of their health, so I feel confident that they’ll go down on our next raid. The only damage that cannot be avoided are the Inferno Slices and the petrify, which by themselves, are easy to deal with. Neither of these abilities will happen to you all that often, and doing them correctly will effectively save you the need to heal anyway. Be prepared to move away from others when Gruul casts petrify, and strafe out of the overhead smash.

There is some movement in the fight, but not as much as it seems.

Furthermore, the off-tank specifically will be taking large chunks of damage from Inferno Slice twice as often as either of the other groups, so make sure that they’re topped up within 15 seconds of taking that hit. Losing a DPS player is far easier to overcome than losing a tank. Because of how Gruul’s mechanics work, it’s extremely difficult to kill the boss with one tank (unless he’s very close to dying).

Prioritize the tanks, especially the off-tank.

Regardless of your class, have your big AoE heal ready for the Inferno Slice and time it to heal as soon as they take damage.

As a druid, I apply a rejuvenation to every member of the group before the get hit by Inferno Slice and immediately use genesis once they take the damage. Be proactive about healing the appropriate Inferno Slice group.This way, when looking at your raid frames you can easily determine which group you should be focusing on before Gruul even casts Inferno Slice. So, in a 10 man raid, group 1 stands together, and group 2 stands together. Have your raid leader place people in groups such that each group(s) will be taking one of the alternating Inferno Slices.As healers our job is relatively easy, and it’s made easier by using a few simple tricks. FatBoss guides are great because they explain every mechanic the boss has, but most of the time only some of them will apply to your given role. Watching the FatBoss guide to Gruul made the fight seem much more complicated than it actually is. you need to move out of ground effects but might not have anywhere safe to move to). This is made trickier by the mechanics of certain groups (I.e. The trash in BRF tends to be relatively spread out, but it’s still close enough that you can body pull and extra group pretty easily. There are a lot of mechanics like this, so be ready. The flame binders (I believe that’s what their called) in specific will pulse a very nasty AoE damage effect on your raid if not dealt with quickly. Most trash encounters are very heavy on burst damage and can be made simpler by CC’ing and killing specific mobs.It takes the raid less time to wait for you to drink than it does to run back because you were trying to conserve mana. Trash pulls in BRF tend to be short, but damage heavy encounters, after which you’re welcome to drink up, so don’t be afraid to use the mana you have available to you. There are too many different types of trash to go over all of them but I do have some general healing tips. As usual with new content, the trash is significantly harder than expected. That’s right, I’m dedicating a whole section to the trash mobs in Blackrock Foundry. Hopefully it will help some of you fellow healers get a better feel for some of the encounters. I figured that this week I’d give some healing tips based on my personal experience with the content. Our group elected not to go to Oregorger next (as most groups seem to be doing) and instead went to Hans’gar and Franzok. I always ended up in groups that were either lagging behind new content, or I had joined them after they had already conquered the new stuff, so I found it particularly satisfying to be able to say that I killed Gruul on the very first day he was out. It was fun being a part of a progression raiding guild for once I’ve raided a bunch in the past but I never seemed to be in a group that was doing brand new content. My guild got in there last night and we managed to kill Gruul. As of yesterday Blackrock Foundry was live, with all its new bosses, new achievements, and of course new loot.

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