Sartharion with three drakes up

Sweet Jesus, that fight is worse than Mimiron. We tried zerging it a couple weeks back to no avail - Sarth goes invincible when Shadron activates, leaving only 75 seconds to burn him. Even with all DPS doing an average of nearly 7k DPS (using 6 DPS:ers) I think some mechanic stops Sarth from being killed without the drakes going down first.

We came back hoping to do it right - surely we'd have the DPS to burn the drakes in between each phase, and healers + tanks good enough to deal with the adds so we could burn them down during transitions.

HELL NAW. And it's not like we brought the light hitters. The people in the raid group generally perform well on meters during raids, that was not the problem. People dodged flamewaves, the adds got tanked (on the last tries anyway, more on that later) and DPS was decently consistent. Second drake lands. BOOM. We blow up. When the adds were supposed to be tanked by the drake tank they frequently came loose and blew the healers up. When the adds were tanked properly we didn't have the DPS to burn Tenebron before Shadron landed, and we even struggled to do this after having killed Shadron - we had 90 seconds to burn her, and keep control of the adds, and still Tenebron would be up when Vesperon landed, and in that transition, we'd blow up. We ended up biting the bullet and killing him with just one drake up because of people having to leave (mostly me, had been up for quite a while) and repair bills stacking (and I was cloth and got off easy - it's just we'd been having wipenights for a few raids in a row, which takes it's toll even on the wallet of a reasonably rich mage).

All in all it was a great experience, because it tells me that some encounters still almost require a certain composition. We had no rogue to deal with the adds, we had no shaman to provide blood lust, and we weren't stacked for physical or magic damage but instead had a bit of both. Every little thing helps (or in this case, hinders) and correctly stacked we would have had a better shot at doing it. We did have good tankage and good healage. If you read this, well done!