Ok, not sure how often these forums are looked at but figured I would throw some discussion into this fight.
1) From what I can tell we have to do everything we can to make sure we do not sacrifice dps for the satisfaction of wiping the buff. This fight seems to have a very difficult soft enrage to deal with which its toughness is directly proportionate to its length of time dealing with it.
2) I have been looking at a lot of strats trying to figure out how to control who gets the fireball and maybe it was mentioned last night and I missed it but here is what I found.
- We attempted part of this last night as far as I can tell. Split into 2 groups one on the left of the tail and the other on the right. Make sure ranged is stacked with melee. There is no reason to have them separated since the fireball doesn't prefer one over the other.
- Here is the part I may have missed. Control which group the fireball is going to. For example, we will call the two groups Left and Right. We decide we always want the first fireball to hit the Left group first. The fireball is flung out and targets someone in the left group who steps slightly behind the group so that it is soaked and does less damage. Next someone is targeted in the right group and they do the same thing in their group. Butttttt, the next person who is targeted is in the right group but we want the left group hit so that person would run over behind the left group and take the hit. I would assume they would again run over to the right group and they would be one of the only people having a few higher stacks since they will be hit again but it shouldn't ever go over 3 doing that. This way we control the fireballs and take the random aspect out of them. We should just have someone on Mumble constantly calling out and clarifying who the next group is and also inform the person who is targeted to get there now.
These are just some of my thoughts and I hope to see it down soon.