The Holy Paladin should heal the first tank, and use beacon on a second tank. Try to get beacon onto a tank that still has impale stacks on them. Be ready to bubble a tank to remove impale.

The Disc Priest should focus on maximizing mitigation on the Tanks, and healing Gormok’s current target. Be ready to use pain suppression when its called out for by the tanking coordinator (our MT has all the stacks worked out and knows when he wants a pally bubble or a PS/GS from a priest, usually on himself when he gets 4+ stacks on the first rotation).

The resto Druid can roll hots on all the tanks, and heal Gormok’s current target.

A resto shaman should also be assigned to help out with the tanks.

Two raid healers will be enough to deal with the relatively minor amount of raid healing during this phase.

Jormungar:

Have the Disc Priest, Holy Paladin, and the Tank-Spec Druid assigned to tanks, and the rest spread out and heal the raid. Watch for the AE burning bile that Dreadscale casts when he’s in the ground, especially if it lands on the melee, and also Dreadscale’s enrage on the tanks when Acidmaw dies. Acidmaw’s debuff is the responsibility of the Tank who gets Burning Bile, the healer’s job is to make sure both of them live long enough to meet up. People with acid pretty much need focused single target heals (ie, flash heal). Be ready to use cooldowns if positioning becomes a problem. Its really important to keep as many DPS alive as possible because the enrage timer is pretty tight. If you’re on raid heals, you probably were cross-healing the tanks during Gormok. Now you need to focus on the raid to stop as many preventable deaths as possible.

Icehowl:

Same assignments as Jormungar, be ready to use cooldowns in case of an enrage. Try as much as possible to spread out so that a minimum of healers get frozen by his breath. You need to top everyone off before a crash. Otherwise, this is probably the easiest part of the fight to heal.

Phase 2. Get the druids out of tank healing spec, that really hurts the ability and the dynamism of a healer that can break 9000 hps on any given fight on any given sunday. holy paladin on fire worm, with a disc priest for the inspiration buff. Shamans on the other with one of them hucking an ES over to the other tank. Make sure it has spell alert.

She shouldn’t be running 3 tanks, the fact that shes running 3 tanks is making it necessary. the more dps you have the easier the fight becomes. BoP impales and you wont need 3 tanks you’ll need two and the ability to live on a prayer.

phase 3 Mark your healers if any of the shapes overlap or get near, point it out. Most fights are exercises in the “Spread out Don’t suck” mentality and icehowl is no different.

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Healing:
1 pally healer (tanks) – coast for the first tank, get other healers keeping the tank up, then bacon tank 1, start HLing Tank 2. Bacon tank 2, HL tank 3. Use DP early. Holy pallies should be smashing healing meters on this section, as this is a fight really designed to make holy pallies shine.
1 Tank specced tree – MH the current tank.
1 raid tree – hots on current MT, Hots on snobold target/fire people
1 disc priest – bubbles on MT, bubbles on snobold target, general raid healing
1 resto shammy – melee
1 resto shammy – general topups/melee

Worms:
Bop the last tank to remove impales.
Pally – A pally in 245 gear should be able to almost solo heal the 2 MTs. Bacon the DK (on acidmaw) and heal the current MT on deadscale (as that MT should be rotating to get the acid off the raid)
MT Tree – Hots and heals on the 3 tanks.

In this phase there is a metric butt load of raid damage going around, so most everyone else should be busy keeping the raid alive. Hots and bubbles on the tanks whenever possible. Raid healers should keep an eye on people with the poison debuff (and there should be mo more than 1 ranged with it or 3ish melee with it at a time, any more than that and healing gets too stretched). Lots of talk from healers about who is stuck with poison is required. Be fast, be flexible. SPREAD OUT!

Icehowl
OK the hard work is done.
Keep the MT up (everyone pitch in) Pally and tree stay on MT heals the entire time.
Fast switch to heal anyone encased by ice.

WIN!
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Phase 2:
Acidmaw Tank: Resto Druid
Dreadscale Tank: Holy Paladin, Disc Priest
Raid: Resto Shaman, Resto Shaman, Resto Druid

Phase 3:
MT: Holy Paladin, Resto Druid, Disc Priest
Raid: Resto Shaman, Resto Shaman, Resto Druid

Phase 2, DK must tank acidmaw, dreadscale should be tanked by the pally and the warr. Healers, pally and a shaman on the Dreadscale tankes, pally with beacon on the DK tank. Healer for Acidmaw tank should be the other shammy and the resto drood. the raid heals, priest, drood, etc should be hotting melee and the tanks, just to prevent the burning bile explosion on melee.

2 shamans 3 tanks, just keep the earthshields on the Main tank of each phase and the OT of each phase.
Example: Phase 2, earthsield on the tank tanking acidmaw and on the dreadscale tank, the OT of dreadscale without shield, after the OT of dreadscale switch places with the MT, change the shield with him.

Phase 3
Depends how are they tanking icehowl, if they tank it in the north wall, just divide the healers in a mid circle, each taking a safe spot just to be in range of the other healers and never be stacked with another healer.

Phase 2:
-Paladin – Beacon the Paladin and follow the DK around. As long as they don’t get more than 60 yds apart, he can easily heal both tanks at once, counting as one healer on each tank
-Disc priest – Heal the DK tank
-Tank specced Druid – Heal the Paladin tank
-Other Druid – Focus on healing the range
-Shamans – Focus on bouncing chain heals off the melee.

Phase 3:
This is simple; you want everyone healing the tank, with the raid healers (1 druid and 2 shamans) breaking off to heal the raid after a frost breath or after the massive crash. Key thing is to split the healers up so everyone isn’t frozen at once. Ideally, you want to stand on the small points of the star during P3 so when you get thrown back against the wall you don’t get thrown into a corner or doorway. There should be two small star points within range of Icehowl. Put 1 tank healer and 2 raid healers on one of them, and 2 tank healers and 1 raid healer on the other. That way, no more than half of your healers ever get frozen.
Phase 2:

Don’t get me wrong… Simone will be fine with her setup… but your 3 tanks will not have as much buffs and constant healing and while looking much better on paper – damage taken on 3 tanks is much more then damage taken on 2 tanks if they are healed all the time – remember all procs healing gives today…