Mannoroth is a reasonably straight forward fight if you can survive the final phase - up until that point its just tank switch, kill adds repeat. After a few attempts where we got the final phase, we managed to sort positioning so we could avoid the pushback from his gaze and down he went - albeit with most of dying too!

Hellfire Citadel: Mannoroth (H)

3rd January 2016 - Stormhammer, Thoryn, Aidrianna, Silentdawn, Kristal, Kamira, Flowerpop, Azthus, Fost, Graciesbane

While we found this boss quite straightforward on normal mode, Velhari on heroic is really about maximising each of the three distinct phases - In phase one we changed things so that we were all a lot closer to the boss, meaning less running to get away from the cone of fire. In phase two we assigned just a couple of DPS to the add and had everyone else on the boss to speed up that phase as much as was possible, in the final phase we got people to focus on positioning so that we had room to kite. These changes seemed to work well and it did not take us long to get a kill

Hellfire Citadel: Tyrant Velhari (H)

3rd January 2016 - Stormhammer, Thoryn, Aidrianna, Silentdawn, Kristal, Kamira, Flowerpop, Azthus, Fost, Graciesbane

Xhul'horac is a very challenging encounter, we knew this from our kill on normal mode! - In heroic there is a very high DPS requirement, there is also a strong requirement to move correctly as a team, to interrupt and also to deal with the other abilities like the singularities and the voidies in a coordinated manner. However in heroic mode it is very noticeable the damage coming from the explosion caused by mixing the two colours (or "crossing the streams" to continue the ghostbusters analogy) is exceedingly severe - whilst it's not "total protonic reversal" - two of these happening close together can easily lead to deaths and from phase 3 onwards controlling when this happens is very hard. In the end we changed tactics from our normal and shifted our heroism to phase 3 - once we did that and shortened that phase we were able to get the kill

Hellfire Citadel: Xhul'horac (H)

15th December 2015 - Stormhammer, Thoryn, Aidrianna, Silentdawn, Kristal, Kamira, Flowerpop, Bilirubin, Azthus, Fost, Graciesbane, Zilden

Iskar is a tough boss to learn, and its very easy to wipe the raid or kill other team-mates with a single mistake. We took a while to get him down first time on normal mode, and even though there were very few significant changes needed to our tactics for heroic mode, we learnt this fight can go south rapidly. A lot of the encounter involves using the orb correctly - to remove the winds debuff, to remove the healing debuff and also to interrupt or cleanse add abilities. There are so many "fun" ways to wipe on this fight and we must have experienced them all. Notably this fight has a few pretty big turning points when adds appear (tip: don't have the winds debuffs up then!) and also a pretty big hump at the start of the third add phase - once we managed to blast past that part of the third add phase we had a kill as the enrage was no issue - though it was a admittedly more than a bit untidy

Hellfire Citadel: Shadow lord Iskar (H)

24th November 2015 - Stormhammer, Thoryn, Aidrianna, Silentdawn, Zilden, Kristal, Kamira, Flowerpop, Bilirubin, Azthus, Fost, Graciesbane