Overall, this is a balance between a survival fight and a dps race. It is a DPS race during the first few seconds of the portal and volcanoes phases. It is a Survival Fight when after we've dealt with the portals and we are busy DPSing down the adds. Everyone, please keep this pacing in mind.
MT: Always tank him in the center facing toward the gate where the beasts emerge. MT never ever moves. MT use your cool down when the melee peel off to handle volcanoes and portals, this is because the mages will be focused on the portals or volcanoes and so maybe a little late with the spell steals.
Melee DPS: The portal and the volcanoes will always spawn to Jaraxxus' left, get in position to dps the portal and volcanoes 5 seconds before they spawn. This is not a sustained DPS race, this is a focused DPS race and about target switching. As long as DPS switches on to the volcanoes and portals on time we'll be fine.
It is extremely important that the melee do not stack on top of one another because of Legion Flame, make a thin line around jaraxxus. If a melee receives Legion Flame they need to run out of the raid between the clumps of casters/ranged dps and paint the fires where it will do no harm.
Ranged DPS: Same as melee, portals and volcanoes are your main priorities, get ready when the timer is called. For the mages who will be spell stealing Jaraxxus' buffs, here is a macro you can spam while at the same time keeping focus on the portal/volcano/infernal. All mages need to make this macro:
/target Lord Jaraxxus
/cast Spellsteal
/targetlasttarget
When DBM calls out that he needs to be dispelled, all mages need to stop whatever you're doing and spam this macro, then get back onto the the volcanoe or the portal.
Off tanks: 1 Prot warrior, 2 DKs.
Prot warrior handles the mistress and brings her into the melee for cleaves. ALL DPS, get her down asap.
2 DKs (any plate wearing soft tank will do), you will be soft-tanking during the infernal phase; which means you will mindfreeze the hellfires, taunt them, chains of ice them, grip them, etc. Whatever the softtanks do, just make sure that your target isn't hellfiring in the middle of the caster line, and that it is away from the caster/healer line Each DK needs to make this macro so that they don't waste valuable time sorting out which one is tanking which.
/script if GetRaidTargetIndex("target")==nil then SetRaidTargetIcon("target",##NUMBER##) end
/cast **Insert Spell Here***
Where ##Number## means:
1 - Star,2 - Circle,3 - Diamond,4 - Triangle,5 - Moon,6 - Square,7 - X,8 - Skull
What the DPS need to be aware of:
First of all, everyone should make use of this macro to make target switching faster when the portals and volcanoes spawn.
/cleartarget
/target Nether
/stopmacro [nodead, harm]
/target Infernal
/stopmacro [nodead, harm]
/target Mistress
/stopmacro [nodead, harm]
/target Lord Jaraxxus
/stopmacro [nodead, harm]
a. Mistress, you can only allow 1 to spawn. If 2 or more spawn it's likely wipe because random people will start dying from their abilities.
b. Infernals. All melee get on the infernal the OT tanks and lock it down, when it starts to hellfire you must kick it, interrupt it, etc. 2 DKs split off in frost presence, use deathgrip and chains of ice to lock it down away from the raid (but not so far away that ranged dps can't get to it). You can only interrupt the infernal hellfires using a counter spell like effect. Stuns do not work on the Infernals.
Ranged DPS: dps down the most convenient infernal.
Melee DPS: dps down infernal in the melee group.
Once the volcano is dead (one of the DPS please call this out) and we've spawned our maximum number of infernals, Paladin DS, after DS runs out use aura mastery. 10 seconds of DS + 10 seconds of aura mastery = 20 seconds, by then hopefully 2 out of 3 infernals will be dead.
What the healers will need to be aware of:
If you are a raid healer, keep your group up - that is your primary focus.
If you are a holy paladin, both beacon the MT and be ready to heal Incinerate Flesh. Hard mode requires 85k of healing on the Incinerate Flesh target. We really need both Holy Paladin's throughput to make sure the Incinerate Fleshes do not bloom into Burning Inferno.
