With ‘everyone’s a hybrid’, everyone can basically be fairly equal(making sure that all the classes have some tricks they can pull off), with player skill/knowledge being the big dividing point, and you just basically pick what kinda hybrid you want.

Either way I think runs into less problems. On the other hand, the strict class system runs into issues when tuning fights since said fights probably assume you have X number of this, Y number of that, etc. But at least there aren’t hybrids left feeling grumbly and pures left feeling grumbly that the hybrids are QQing. ;D

So as long as they’re close enough in dps that it doesn’t matter for raids, I don’t think a 5% gap is necessary. Just treat them all the same

It’s a really neat fight but it’s VERY tight in many respects, I found. Will have to try the add delay method. One thing I actually DO like about the fight is that there are several ways to approach it. Oh, most involve obscene AoE during green phase but there are several ways to get around.

Argaloth and Chimaeron are as close as we’re going to get to dps benchmarks. There’s no gimmick giving anyone more of an advantage than the next person (though getting a nice spot close to the stacking point for Feuds helps minimize dps loss).

Azaael mentioned interrupts on Maloriak. While important, for your first two kills, you may wish to delay the adds as much as possible. You’ll eventually progress to the point where you just let all the add casts go off and burning them all down in the green phase.

That is so painful! The cast time of 1 sec is really too short. And no visuals either. This is the most disgusting thing I have seen so far.

We’ve downed Magmaw, Omnitron, Halfus and The Double Dragons on 25 man, with those plus Conclave and Atremedes with Maloriak at 10% on 10 man(Oh, Ascendant Council was good progress as well-p3. Too many melee, though. Yes, sadly, rumors are true; take more than minimal melee in this fight and in comes the pain.) I’ve tanked all but Atremedes, Halfus and Dragons and DPS’d all but Conclave and Maloriak. Anyone who said tanking wasn’t fun this expac is lying. It’s great fun(I had more fun tanking Omnitron than I did DPSing it.)

I’ve been placing around 5th-7th on the meters average(in 25) though I typically have a lot of jobs(one of the chainers on Magmaw, P1 official gong person on Atremedes), and these fights are mostly not DPS races at all. Looking at things and doing napkin math I don’t see our buffs really doing huge things to our numbers; the best I see is us being a bit more even with other hybrids(which is good), but below pures(as well we should be, and any other hybrid. Yes, I’m a hybrid that waves the flag for my pure brethren.) Speaking of vengeance, on a twist, I placed 4th on 10 man Maloriak. :p I’m typically 3rd in a 10 man as my DPS spec. I can’t say about nerfing though, as I am starting to think these fights are tuned toward tanks actually putting out numbers. (We actually found that except for a couple of the real tight DPS races-Halfus, Maloriak-the answer if we’re having trouble is throw more tanks or healers at it, and we do fine. It’s no longer ‘throw more DPS at it.’)

If you think interrupting is bad on Halfus, wait until Maloriak, where one screwed up add interrupt at the wrong time can force a reset or cause a wipe. Oh yeah, it has a cast time so short you need a Tongues or Slow on the boss. (I had to tank him *and* interrupt the add phase. No stress there.)

I’m impressed with the design of those fights though. It bodes well for the rest of the bosses.