Brutallus is a fairly simple fight, but very unforgiving. It is a Patchwerk 2.0. A gear check. We need the dps, we need the tanks not to get gibbed, and need the healers to heal through it all in a 6 minute span. Kinda like Archimonde where 1 death can wipe us, though not an obvious quick cascade of deaths like with soul charges, more of a slow grinding halt when the enrage timer creeps up.

He has 10,000,000 hp and a 6 minute enrage timer. That means it requires a 27,778 raid DPS.

It's a 2 tank fight, 7 healers, and the rest will be DPS. So on average, each dps has to output 1737 DPS on their own.

For the most part, it's tank and spank fight like a Teron. So should be one of the better optimal situations for any dps class. Stuff like [Elixir of Demonslaying], [Haste Potion], and [Destruction Potion] should be used liberally.

Abilities:

• Meteor Slash - A 30 yard frontal cone fire attack that does 20,000 damage split among all it hits. Also places a stacking debuff that increases fire damage taken by 75% for 30 seconds. 12 second CD.
• Burn - The new AIDS. A random target fire DOT that that ticks small at first but goes up slowly up to 6000. It also jumps to anybody within 2-3 yards of you during its duration. Can be cloaked, ice blocked, bubbled, resisted. Done approximately every 15 seconds.
• Stomp - Reduces armor of current target by 50% for 10 sec and does about 5K damage on a well geared tank. Removes Burn debuff. 30 second CD.
• Melee - He's a dual wielding boss. Attacks for about 6-8K MH, 3K OH. When the tank is Stomped, he can very well hit for 8-11K MH, 4-5K OH.
• Enrage - After 6 mins, 500% increase to damage, 150% increase to attack speed. Insta-gib!

Strategy:

There will be 3 groups. The melee group, the tank 1 group, and the tank 2 group.

The melee group just humps his butt. No tail lashes or anything. But spread out 2-3 yards all around him to the sides to avoid spreading Burns around.

The rest of the raid splits into half. One of them clumps up behind Tank 1 on one side, the other clumps up behind Tank 2 on the other. This is so you can all be hit by the Meteor Slash and reduce that 20K damage done on tank to a mere 2.5K ish to the raid. Though spread out just a bit while still being in range of the frontal cone attack.

Burn victims. If you can cloak/bubble/block out of it, do it. Otherwise, quickly move out of the group. If you're within 2-3 yards of each other it will spread. Preferably to a side where Brutallus will never be facing. Because the Meteor Slash fire debuff + 6K a tick Burns means you're screwed. This will probably be some assigned spot when we figure out our positioning.

After about 3 Meteor Slashes, the other tank taunts. Basically each tank tanks for about 30 seconds at a time to alllow for the Meteor Slash debuff to wear off.

And that's the fight. 6 mins of this.

Here's SK Gaming's triple perspective (rogue, hunter, shaman) movie on it: http://files.filefront.com/SK+Gaming+Brutallus/;9907600;/fileinfo.html

Update: Downfall Brut Positions:

Well, after a few pulls tonight, some great synnergy and communication (as well as a little luck), Kalecgos finally clicked and we killed our first internet dragon as a raid since Nefarian:

Kalecgos DEAD

It's a challenging fight requiring great execution and a very specific raid make-up. Great job to all the Hamfist members who wiped for the nights that we committed to this! Also, special thanks to the people that graciously stepped out for raid composition. It's always hard to ask people to sit out on progression fights. However, everyone was highly motivated and attitudes were great!

Drops:

[Pantaloons of Calming Strife] - Antiquite
[Bracers of Absolution] - Keisjaa
[Bracers of the Malefic] - Dikymo
[Lightbringer Bracers] - Garreth

Parses:

http://wowwebstats.com/k6nub6zvd32aw

Great job, again, to all of you! We even went and poked Brutallus to say "HAI!":

Brutallus

It feels kind of cool to be a legitimate "Sunwell Guild", for whatever that is worth. It's also great to know that we're keeping up with content and will get to experience the vast majority of it before Wrath comes out!

Some phat loots lie in sunwell off trash. We'll be farming this right after mAlt. This will be a roll run, but if we don't get enough guildies, it will become a gkp, so make sure to have gold on you just in case.