As for Patchwerk, the comment above about swapping tank order does help. It may not seem like much, but having the normal MT eat Hateful Strikes is usually easier to heal due to better mitigation and they’ll usually have a bit more of a health buffer over the rest of the raid to keep Hatefuls focused on them. You can also tell the non-OT DPS to take a dip in the slime to drop their health low enough they should never get a Hateful (no need to heal them since it’s all MT and OT damage).

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And Patchwerk is a bitch for sure. Getting the coordination right probably wipes us at least twice every time we get to him.

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On Loath, good idea bout doing something while not healing. I usually just twiddle my thumbs. The other thing is that it’s not that you can’t heal out 17 out of 20 seconds, is that no healingn occurs during those 17 seconds. You can cast stuff like wild growth a bit early, get ac ouple of LBs rolling, and do a glyphed HT or Swiftmend. I usually do WG a few second before, right at I’ll spam a bunch of HT for those who need it. There’s a bunch you can do, ie you can cast rejuv on like 10 ppl, LB so that it blooms during the 3s window, tranqulity, swiftmend, etc.

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In general, the OTs on Patchwerk tend to take more, and more spiky, damage than the MT; on plate, his Hateful Strikes hit for around 21k or so. The targeting mechanism they seem to use is to select between the 2nd and 3rd player on the aggro list, whichever has the higher health. (In 10-man it’s always the second on the list.)

Congrats on the Plague wing; Poison Cleansing totems are quite nice for Heigan, as well as a lot of the other bosses, if you can get them.