Thanks for going to the effort of compliling this

“The boss mod will announce that Icehowl is glaring at a player and lets out a bellowing roar. A quicker way is to see if the boss is facing your direction. If he is, RUN TO THE SIDE AND GET OUT OF THE DAMN WAY.”

You never say why. The next line says….

“At this point, Icehowl gets stunned for several seconds allowing the raid to get back into position.”

Actually, he charges the player which is why the player needs to move? Just editing stuff. Keep up the awesome work.

Coming out of the stun, he can whirl, melee and head butt in very rapid succession. On our first attemtp on him, we lost three tanks at that point, as they took shots in excess of 40K damage in less than 1.5 seconds.

The problem was solvced by 1) making sure the tank was not in range of the whirl (we had him stand in the center of the arena) and 2) using various CDs as the stun wore off to make sure a big spike did not occur. We generally had no aggro issue and Icehowl returned to the center of the ring where the MT was positioned in subsequent attempts with one exception (where he diverted to backup tank who got a bit eager coming out the stun phase.

Thanks for the write up Matt- this guide was very useful in our attempts.

You are missing two abilities from the list: Acidmaw’s Acid Spit and Whirl (from both). For complete symmetry, you could present the abilities of the two jormungars paired up like this:
* Both of them : Slime Pool (on the movable mob) and Whirl (performbed by the “underground” mob)
* Acidmaw vs. Dreadscale:
Paralytic Bite – Burning Bite
Paralytic Spray – Burning Spray
Acid Spit – Fire Spit
Acid Spew – Molten Spew

I think it’s not entirely clear from your post, but the two jormungars use their abilities as follows:
* Whichever is above ground (movable) uses its Bite and Spew, with the bite applying either toxin or bile as appropriate to the melee tank.
* Whichever is partially underground (immovable) uses its Spit and Spray, with the spray applying either toxin or bile as appropriate, to random raid members.

Again, it’s not entirely clear from your post, but toxin and bile always gets applied symmetrically like this:
* The toxin on the melee tank and bile randomly on the raid, or
* The bile on the melee tank and the toxin randomly on the raid.
To cope with the toxin/bile pair, only one golden rule needs to be remembered: [b]whoever in the raid has a debuff runs to the melee tank[/b], as they will always have opposing debuffs. The melee tank shouldn’t have to worry about the debuff himself, other than moving the boss around as on Grobbulus. If you check out the video carefully, you will notice that this is exactly what they are doing, with raid members running to the melee tank when needed.

If you watch the video carefully, you can actually see this being explained in raid chat. Regardless of whichever of the two jormungars is movable, the instruction the raid leader is giving that debuffed raid members run to the melee tank.

Icehowl:
The Ferocious Butt is actually something he applies to the tank whilst he is being normally tanked and spanked, and it happens fairly frequently as well. This is only dangerous only in so far that the 3 second stun on the tank as a result causes extra damage (no dodge, parry or block possible) and reduced threat generation.