A fun note here -
Five of us decided to do it yesterday as it was the daily heroic and we are looking forward to the new gear coming out in the next patch (2.4) so are wanting to start collecting badges again. However, this particular five consisted of two tanks, two healers, and one melee dps. Not exactly a 'classic' group makeup.
We tanked and spanked our way through it and in record time. It was, honestly a LOT easier to just tank every pull (the two tanks just fought for aggro) - and the healers never even got hit by the trash in spite of the spam healing necessary at times (we wound up pulling the entire first room after the intial hallway in one go - completely on accident. After we all lived we realized we were gonna be just fine). It was the easiest/fastest Heroic Shattered Halls run I've ever done. Took us a little under an hour and a half - had one wipe in the sewer tunnel because we thought we'd zerg through the oozes, lol...
So to groups finding this hard, try taking a second healer - or a second tank... or maybe two of both ;) CC and dps is really overrated, hahahaha! (I'm kidding, dpsers - but the advice about taking a second healer/tank IS sincere.)
Best of luck, as always!
PS - for the person above that was having trouble with the first boss - it is very very important that the healer keep make healing herself a priority - and front-load a HoT/bubble just before the shadow volley. Those shadow bolts hit for enough to two-shot a LOT of healers (who typically have only 8-9k health) assuming she is at full health to start with. The same is true during the last boss, as his blade-dance hits VERY hard. If you have a class capable of offhealing or bubbling, have them be prepared to bubble/heal your healer during the appropriate parts of those two fights as typically a live healer = dead boss and dead healer = group wipe. ^^
A healer that is good enough to get you to the first boss is likely geared enough to complete the instance. She may just need some help from her teammates to survive those two rather brutal random attacks. :)
Have fun!
Five of us decided to do it yesterday as it was the daily heroic and we are looking forward to the new gear coming out in the next patch (2.4) so are wanting to start collecting badges again. However, this particular five consisted of two tanks, two healers, and one melee dps. Not exactly a 'classic' group makeup.
We tanked and spanked our way through it and in record time. It was, honestly a LOT easier to just tank every pull (the two tanks just fought for aggro) - and the healers never even got hit by the trash in spite of the spam healing necessary at times (we wound up pulling the entire first room after the intial hallway in one go - completely on accident. After we all lived we realized we were gonna be just fine). It was the easiest/fastest Heroic Shattered Halls run I've ever done. Took us a little under an hour and a half - had one wipe in the sewer tunnel because we thought we'd zerg through the oozes, lol...
So to groups finding this hard, try taking a second healer - or a second tank... or maybe two of both ;) CC and dps is really overrated, hahahaha! (I'm kidding, dpsers - but the advice about taking a second healer/tank IS sincere.)
Best of luck, as always!
PS - for the person above that was having trouble with the first boss - it is very very important that the healer keep make healing herself a priority - and front-load a HoT/bubble just before the shadow volley. Those shadow bolts hit for enough to two-shot a LOT of healers (who typically have only 8-9k health) assuming she is at full health to start with. The same is true during the last boss, as his blade-dance hits VERY hard. If you have a class capable of offhealing or bubbling, have them be prepared to bubble/heal your healer during the appropriate parts of those two fights as typically a live healer = dead boss and dead healer = group wipe. ^^
A healer that is good enough to get you to the first boss is likely geared enough to complete the instance. She may just need some help from her teammates to survive those two rather brutal random attacks. :)
Have fun!