Heroic Twin Val’kyrs down. Using the DUMBEST STRATEGY I have ever encountered in my ENTIRE LIFE.
The whole basis of the fight is that there are auras that you should switch to based on what’s happening right then in the fight, and the aura portals are in four spots (two for each) of the room.
But does my guild do this?
No.
On the kill, 3 of us got the light aura, 21 of us got the dark aura. (Did I mention we 24-manned it? No? We did.)
Those 3 were two hunters and a warlock in BT Shadow Resist gear, basically collecting white orbs and dodging as many black orbs as they could.
As I understand it, here are four abilities the twins use.
Light Vortex – surge of light, 16k fire damage to anyone not with light aura every second for 5 seconds.
Dark Vortex – surge of dark, 16k shadow damage to anyone not with dark aura every second for 5 seconds.
Twin’s Pact (Light) – light-coloured shield that people with dark aura should have no issues killing, then interrupting the cast (which is a heal)
Twin’s Pact (Dark) – dark-coloured shield that people with light aura should have no issues killing, then interrupting the cast (which is a heal)
So, just by describing that, one would think that half the raid is light, half is dark, everyone switches on vortex, right? WRONG.
We healed through Light Vortex.
2 resto shammies, 2 holy priests, 2 holy paladins, 1 resto druid.
It meant popping two Divine Sacrifices that overlapped (even if they don’t stack) AND all four druids in the raid popping tranquility for their groups.
But, by golly, we healed through it.
And the shammy blew heroism at the right time. And they swapped DPS targets on time. And we won!
But it was pure luck.
The order of those four abilities (which happen once a minute, I believe?) is random. But they won’t repeat until the fifth time an ability comes up. And THAT is also random, I believe. So we only got one Light Vortex. Had we gotten two, we would have been SCREWED. I was ready to Divine Protection/Divine Sacrifice (which would have killed me) if I had to, but we got through without a second Light Vortex.
Some stats:
Effective raid DPS: 121,717
Effective raid DT(taken)PS: 50,469
Effective raid HPS: 50,966
RAW raid HPS: 91,732
And only 44.4% overhealing.
My RL friend, the resto druid? 9133 effective health per second. To my 4064.7.
Whew.