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How to heal the offtank who's taking:

Use a few HoTs to keep the offtank topped off. You don't want the offtank to not be at full health when Meteor Fists hits. You have time for an instant cast after the meteor fist starts to be cast - a t8 boosted Rejuv or a Riptide is most ideal for this if the tank is mostly healthy but not topped off. You should not be forced to use your "oh *!@#" macro.

If the tank is fully healthy, the 1.5 second cast time of Meteor Fists allows for a slower casting big heal which will arrive right after the meteor fists hits, bringing the OT back up to a safe amount of health (and making you look good on healing meters due to it being a big heal with 0 overhealing). Regrowth for druids or Healing Wave (TW boosted) for Shamans is best for this. You obviously won't begin casting your heal at the exact same time that Koralon begins casting Meteor Fists, but with a decent reaction time and decent haste from gear, you can make your heal arrive within half a second of the tank taking damage.

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Tips for healing someone who is solo tanking Koralon:

This method of healing is essential for anyone attempting to solo tank the boss. It is possible to solo tank Koralon, but your healers need to be wise enough to anticipate damage and to cast heals before the damage arrives. Having a couple of big heals arrive in the first half of a second after meteor fists hits just the one tank (who's topped off before Meteor Fists, of course) will help prevent the melee damage from Koralon from killing the tank in the wake of an unsplit Meteor Fist. If the healers wait until after Meteor Fists lands, or cast weak flash heals on the tank, then the tank runs a much greater risk of failing to successfully solo tank Koralon.

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A couple of ideas on off-tanking Koralon (ideas coming from a healer, not a tank):

The MT will be taking physical damage, and needs armor and avoidance, and to maintain threat on the boss. The offtank will not be taking physical damage, and doesn't need to maintain threat - just needs to stay next to the main tank. If the offtank has fire resistance gear, the damage from meteor fists will be mitigated (i.e. fire resistance gear will make the healers love you).

A deathknight seems like a logical option here, as they are best suited among tanking classes to mitigating magic damage taken. I'm not an expert on DK tanking (so this is only a guess and could be wrong), but since the armor and threat from frost presence are not needed (the 3% stamina is nice, but not necessary), it seems that a DK could offtank in blood or unholy presence.

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Meteor Fists

Meteor Fists
Unlimited range
1.5 sec cast

Attacks inflict damage split evenly to nearby target within 10 yards of the primary target.

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Meteor Fists

Attacks inflict damage split evenly to nearby target within 10 yards of the primary target.
15 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

15 seconds

School

Fire

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)

Cast time

1.5 seconds

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Aura proc chance

100%

Effect

Apply Aura: Dummy
Value: 1
Value: 1 - Heroic
Value: 1 - 25 Player (Legacy)
PVP Multiplier: 1
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Meteor Fists

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