You should be able to do it with 5 DPS, but it's not the ability of you dps to hammer him down. We had similar problems, being a 10 man only guild (ie. 10 man gear), our DPS just didn't seem enough with 5 DPSers yet with 2 healers the end of gormok and start of worm phase were just too much for our healers - especially without any paladin to bop or even a holy pala to beacon and make it easy mode.
However, what we did was change the way we dealt with snobolds to try and minimise the dps lost to them: As soon as a ranged or healer gets a snobold they run to the back of gormok and when they get there all dps nukes them down, with melee using cleaves and ranged usibng and chain abilities to maintain a reasonable chunk of damage on the boss. With this and a heroism for the last 40 secs of gormok we managed to get to p2 with plenty of time left over before the worms came.
These days with a little bit more gear from ToC 10 and triumph badges, we can get away without using heroism until the start of the worm phase to get acidmaw down before the first burrow. Also, as we have 3 healers it means we can just take the enrage on worms easily, although in p3 one of our healers tends to just smite or lightning bolt as that phase is a lot less forgiving.
I will say that you mention you're a holy paladin but your method negates one of the major strengths of a holy paladin in this fight: beacon. What sort of problem were you having with just two healers? were you just having to chain cast holy lights too much and going oom? What class was the other healer?
Originally Posted by Kaist
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