If you decide to do that, please warn your tanks that they will be targeted with Coldflame. Very often. Almost all the time.

Make them aware of it, so they won’t panic and run out of the fires in different directions, as the Saber Lash the boss does has a limited range and it’s possible that they will go splat. Or just make them stand in his hitbox as well.

The reason behind this is that stacking everyone in melee range somehow messes with Marrowgar’s script, and he starts casting the flame at melees since there’s not enough ranged targets (or at all). I haven’t tested how many ranged is enough (betting on 2 for 10-man seeing that’s how Festergut works), but I did my share of dancing around flames as a tank on quite a few raids now.
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I meant rotface on the above post

pick a healer, or the offtank pally to dispell. personally I handle it in my tens, dbm puts a cozy little mark on their heads, when I see them running out of the raid they get a bubble a pom and a dispell.

in 25 usually I go holy and body and soul them, if the pally tank is slow on getting it off them again i’m aware of where they are and dispell them to drop the lil slime.

just that alone will make this fight alot easier. mmm healy / raid communication.

I changed my trinkets around to be MP5 trinkets instead of my spellpower ones, but that didn’t help enough.

What I ended up doing was getting rid of my Glyph of Rapid Rejuvination. Because rejuv ticks in 10 seconds instead of 15 with GoRR I was spamming it a LOT to keep the raid heals going. By removing the glyph it meant I was casting it less often, and thus wasting less mana on keeping it rolling. That way I was spending less GCDs hittng rapid rejuv, and had more mana when I needed to spam a few nourishes on someone who’s taking damage.

I now have a small stock of glyphs in my inventory for when I go to that fight, just in case I need to swap around.
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My guild solo heals 10-man Deathbringer so the DPS kinda dies out of necessity; that is just way too much damage for one person to manage at our gear levels. However, the extra DPS provided by only using one healer makes up for the loss.

@Oktrag – Aye, discy priests are invaluable in the Saurfang fight. Bet Saurfang didn’t count on bubbles when he decided how he’d gather blood power!

@Cloee + @Matt – Good point on the shammies (and boomkins) earthbinding and rooting. Midfield is best, in order to avoid blood beasts being in range of either melee or stationary healers.

@Wikwocket – Thank you! As to the Deathwhisper tactic – I’ve heard variants of that before, but the LoS pillar pulling sounds like the key. We’ll have to give that a shot.

@Graam – I don’t know if there’s such a macro or addon. I do know that we’ve also had that problem before. However, since then I adopted a spam-heal tactic on DPS *as they return* from boarding, and for a couple of seconds afterwards. Haven’t had anyone bleeding to death in a cannon since, don’t know if it’s just luck or for some reason Muradin stops rending throwing them now. Also, be sure that your tank is the last one jetting back over.

@Vixsin – Salient points of all three fights. Nail on head

Also, thanks for the recommendation on stacking up in Marrowgar’s hitbox, folks. I’d heard that works but not had a chance to try it yet. Sounds like it’s becoming an ol’ faithful among tactics, good to know it’s reliable.

Thanks for the comments, folks. Some great tips here and such a variety of topics! Keep em coming, they’ll all help someone out there!

Other than that, pro writeup!