H-Baleroc - HELP!!

[divinite]

We're failing something serious on H-Baleroc. I think it's our healing strat. We have a holy paly and resto druid healing and we're having issues with them building stacks and conserving mana. I think we're doing something really wrong and I think it's how our healers are doing it.

We've been basically fine on crystals and countdown. Our deaths

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[zibbelcoot]

I'm not an expert, we've only gotten Baleroc heroic down 2x so far but here's what I see with your logs:
-Looking at all the wipes both your healers were too close to the shards at some point and got tormented from them. They should be avoiding this at all costs.
-Both healers were tormented more times than your hunter. Was this due to being targeted by countdown constantly or were people running torment into your healers?
-The torment debuff seriously compromises your healers, even if they had high stacks of vital spark.

On your longest attempt:
-Shadow priest didn't Hymn of Hope which would've helped your healers' mana and let them build more stacks.
--Your healers can also pop a mana potion or concentration potion if they have time.
-Druid was tormented just before you guys wiped. Did they call for the paladin to take over at that point (their stack #s were similar at that point) or did they try to keep tank healing?
-Druid took damage from the shard, so did the paladin but I can't see where that happened. Don't know if it was when you were actively wiping.

We tried 2 healing it with a disc priest (me) and holy paladin but between horrible countdowns (the paladin got almost every countdown that night) and the dps running torment into the raid it just didn't work. We had a druid go resto and having the third healer helped greatly when the first two healers were countdowned or tormented. Baleroc did enrage but we got him down before he killed everyone Our rotation was this BUT we called out if we were tormented and needed someone to help us on the target:
Priest - Crystal, Crystal, Tank to the end
Paladin - Crystal, Tank to the end
Druid - Tank, Tank, Crysta to end

When we were 2 healing it the paladin healed the tank for 2 crystals and I built up stacks for the first 2 crystals then swapped to the tank until the end of the fight. If I was tormented I'd have him take over, but unfortunately by that point both of us usually had torment. Edit - By taking 2 crystal phases in a row I can get 120-130 stacks which is fine for the rest of the fight. The holy paladin (and druid) can get similar numbers to me as well by the end of the fight.

[divinite]

Yeah, we had some very unlucky countdowns a few attempts and our people are not the best and not passing along torment.

Thanks for the tips!