10-man Ulduar, Take 2

So we attempted 10-Ulduar for the second time.

Ingis the Furnace Master
We took down the two sentinels on our way in by taking them at the corners of the walls where the healer could be out of LOS. This helped us stay out of the earthquake considerably. We also tanked them at opposite corners of the courtyard which helped us avoid getting hit by two earthquakes consecutively.

Once past the two sentinels, we cleared the other trash mobs quite easily. Just stay away from those tornadoes.

Our first attempt on the boss went pretty miserably. We only got him down to about 80%. We were all dying pretty quickly from the flame jets, and we got too many of us in the scorched ground area. We decided to make some changes to fix that:

The flame jets only get about a 2-second notice, so you have to stop casting immediately. This only prevents the 8-second global cooldown if you get hit, not any of the actual damage from flame jets.

We also had the tank pull the boss into the four quadrants of the room -- but a much larger square while doing it. Since the boss's scorched area he leaves on the ground is quite large, this allowed us a little bit more space in the middle for the DPS / heals so we didn't end up in it as easily.

With those two modifications, we still only got the boss down to about 60%. After a few more attempts, we noticed that our PUG's weren't putting out enough DPS. We were missing our regular OT, so we had picked up a pally who was pretty decent. However, the hunter and warlock were not good at all. The warlock was only putting out 800 dps. I didn't know that you could do that low of dps at level 80. Anyhow, I'm sure that was a little bit of our problem, but not the entire problem.