For your setup, it seems quite good, on our last couple of kills, we used the same tank setup, one one kill we use resto shaman/holy paladin, however, holy paladin/disc priest is by far the best setup for this fight, and if the disc priest gets picked up, have the holy paladin use Aura Mastery with shadow aura.
I myself find this boss a lot easier due to the 25% buff we're running around with now, we useally kill valkyrs fairly quickly, and you want to transition into p1.5 with only 2 shamblers spawning, and you preferably want them both dead when you move out, this is done easily by having the maintank tank Lich King and the ghouls (pala preferably) and just have the warrior taunt the ghouls as he need them to stack up the Necrotic plague.
For the remaining ghouls, they are just cleaved down during phase 1, and AoE'd at 1.5 untill the first raging spirit spawns, as which point the ghouls will be about dead. Have your mage go fire for this fight.
for phase 1, the only difference is the shamblers 20% enrage that cant be dispelled, but the tank should cooldown/stun through this, and the shadow traps, which i find a no brainer..
Phase 2 if you ask me, is exactly like the normal version except valkyrs have more health and drop their target at 50%, just have your tank not tanking the lich king taunt the valkyrs, and go on as normal.
A ranged heavy setup is a good idea, but its not a requirement, last reset we did it with 3 ranged (MM hunter, Spriest and.... damn it, Can't remember, but we used 3).
Heavy ranged setup helps out on the defile and the vile spirits in the frostmourne room at phase 3.
For phase 3, what we do is soaking the vile spirits, tank LK at the edge, kite him to the other edge when he does his vile spirit cast, mark up your hunter with some mark, have him place a frost trap, and have your tank run over the frost trap to activate it, this helps alot with the vile spirits, and just have your entire raid stack up on the lich king so all spirits goes in the same direction.
For the frostmourne room, just mark your who you think will be best for guiding you in the room, a tank suits best for this since they got nothing to do in here anyway. To kill all the Wicked spirits, with a fire mage, demo lock and shadow priest, you won't have problems, seed of corruption, living bomb and Mind sear is your friend in here, even with 3 ranged with one of them being a shadow priest, on my hunter, I barely get to kill them because whenever i get a target, it ends up dying >.>
But for the soaking, have the paladin tank the boss, and warrior channel cooldowns through the vile spirit soaking, for the first wave, you will most likely have your holy paladin to use divine shield and soak the spirits, since your warrior will still be tanking 1 raging spirits, when the raging dies, just have the warrior soak the waves, if one of them goes through, its okay, they dont deal lethal damage if its just one, and if your disc priest is keeping the entire raid shielded, you will just absorb most of the damage anyway.
Originally Posted by Liehanna
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