Kaboomski – Oh, I absolutely use my spellpower set on Dreamwalker. I’ve got a set where I have 4300 spellpower (including a flask of the frost wyrm) and still have ~700 haste.

Normal Saurfang, for the most part, doesn’t even require any special tricks, not with the ICC buff, but it’s good practice for heroic. The reason I hold off on DS/DS on heroic is because if I can eliminate the damage I’m taking entirely AND help prevent damage to others, that’s the best use possible. If I wanted to absolutely min/max the whole situation, I’d keep my eye on the Blood Power and cast DS/DS on the last Boiling Blood before the first mark, if I hadn’t already gotten it myself. That’s something I may try next week.

Alex/Rilgon – Does using a Snake Trap to absorb the explosive damage actually work? I just went through my old guild’s logs and it doesn’t look like anyone ever pulled out a Snake Trap.

Saunder – :D Glad that we’ve made you a believer! :)

Enlynn – I didn’t get a chance to go through the logs, but thanks for bringing this up! I guess the reason for Libram of Renewal is that he recognizes that even a FoL style paladin will use HL and if you have enough insane spellpower, there’s a tipping point between 400 extra spellpower’s benefit on FoL vs. mana savings on HL?

I envy the shields too. ><

Scripts – That’s fair enough. Although on heroic, the added benefit of healing yourself is that it completely negates the damage taken through the stacks of Twisted Nightmare you’re piling on. I can imagine that if you’re only getting to 10 stacks or so that there’s absolutely no reason not to heal a pet for it, except that… why do you need a shorter fight at that point? ;)

If parking a turtle/bear/ means that you can shave time off healing Val, it means the fight is shorter, which then makes it easier :)

If a hunter DPS is freaking out about not topping the meters in Princes or Val, they aren’t doing it right.

His beefy shields make me a jealous paladin!

Anyone that’s not doing that is bad too :P

and then the results here

http://nonsquishyheals.blogspot.com/2010/06/haste-mana-and-gear.html

Trust me, Kurn and others have made me a believer. No need to gem for it!

During Saurfang, we pop DiSac/DS early in order to slow increase in blood power. Two paladins with DiSac is really, really nice to have. There are just so many tricks up our sleeves that it gets really easy to just down him before the first mark anyway. Or at least, on normal. We’re not there yet to try him on heroic, as we still have to get past BQL, Sindy and finally Arthas himself. With my new raid group though, I’d expect this to happen within a few weeks.

13k DPS on Festergut, 10.5k while kiting on Saurfang, and kiting two Blistering Zombies while turtle-boosting our Holydin on Dreamwalker. /flex

:P

Just sayin’. <3