Even without safe spots it’s an easy fight. People just need to be on their toes and self-aware.

The tank sets up out from the group, along the right wall, with her back to it. She is of course in heal range and if we have an imp-using warlock the imp gets parked right there (phase shifted). A hunter misdirects the tank, runs out and hits Prince with an Arcane Shot. Prince dutifully rushes over and begins beating on the warrior. The hunter returns to the light-colored tile just inside the door with the rest of the ranged folks.

Melee dps position themselves on Prince’s butt. When Enfeeble happens, the afflicted melees (if any) run over to the door to get out of range of the shadow nova, then run back in and resume stabbing and slashing.

If an infernal drops on the tank, the melee dps will try to reposition to a non-affected spot if they can. If they cannot, they run back to the door. Any class that can do something else, does (e.g. enhancement shaman unable to melee will switch to healing). The tank does not move and our healers just heal her through the infernal damage. This gets rough if an infernal drops on her during Phase 2, so we blow all +damage and +haste cooldowns during this phase to get through it as quickly as possible.

Sometimes we do wipe due to infernal + phase 2 damage on the tank, but 90% of the time we just heal through it. Bear in mind these are experienced, well-geared Kara teams farming the instance for badges.

Cheers,
Moo

We have the fight pretty well down now, usually the infernals drop on just the wrong places and sometimes trap us so we can’t move. Usually takes a couple wipes until we get better infernals. :P It’s a pretty fun fight though. Last time the infernals totally sucked, but we one-shotted him with half the raid down in the end. Just me (a ret pally), the tank, a mage and two pally healers up.

Me and the tank were trapped between two infernals so tight we were taking aoe and couldn’t move safely, used up all my mana nuking him and in the end had regened just enough for one Crusader Strike and he fell. Good times. It is mostly about mobility, but you can’t ignore pure luck either.

I’ve wanted to operate a two group system, splitting the healers up so that I don’t lose all my healing on one infernal drop, but no one wants to hear that. They want to stand in the doorway and take the dice roll. If an infernal drops on the ranged spot then we generally wipe due to all of the healers running and not healing the tank.

We still do it normally on the first try, two attempts at max, but that’s mainly because we bring mostly T5 people along. I can imagine that phase three is hell with a group that still needs a lot of Kara upgrades and is mostly full of people throwing out 700 DPS or less.

If infernal placement is looking ugly, you don’t have to grit your teeth and prepare for the inevitable wipe. You can have Prince ‘punt’ the tank to a new spot by having the tank rotate around Prince until the tank has his back to the direction where there is a clean tanking spot, and let the next Shadow Nova send him flying across the room. Since the healers tend to be in the center and it take some time for Prince to catch up, its not too tough to pick up the healing and set up in a nice clean, Infernal-less space. Just make sure to stop ranged DPS during the transition. Its safe for Prince to even go running through the raid to catch up to the tank, since he just did the Nova.

Tank moves to max healing range and the healers confirm this. Hunter then misdirects to tank and we do slow DPS for phase one. Your rogues and feral druids don’t even have to do much except their ranged attacks until phase 2. When phase 2 starts, the tank has a lot of aggro built up and your casters should have most of their mana.

Phase 2 – everyone ramps up the dps and healers ramp up their healing. If an infernal drops in front of the door, half the time the healers are still in range and the ranged dps is either in range or can move. Melee DPS has to move around the infernal to do their damage.

There is a lot of luck involved, because sometimes the infernal will push the healers out of range and it’s difficult for him to move without getting bounced around or moving into the infernal aoe.

The key is to keep the tank in range of the healers…end of story. DPS can generally relocate, although I’ve noticed that infernals tend to cover the area pretty solidly now and people get killed trying to run around because they get enfeebled or just die for the aoe.

We just plan on it being a one-shot or taking up 3-5 attempts.