It’s been ages since we took down a new boss, so it was lovely to completely destroy Hydross and his elemental friends on Friday night. I had been feeling pretty tense about it because I was main tanking the Frost Phase and a couple of times on Wednesday, I completely lost him and he crossed that damn invisible line and turned green again. For the uneducated this means the group is about to wipe. Sighs all round. After a sleepless night thinking about all the things I had done wrong (the worst thing is that sometimes there’s nothing wrong, but you never really know – all it takes is a warlock dot or a shaman totem left on the ground), I decided to employ a slightly radical technique to ensure Hydross hated me the most of all. 
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When all the Elementals are down, and he’s not far away from being transitioned from Nature to Frost, I run over the line and cast a rejuve and a regrowth on myself. The gives me healing aggro. Then, as he’s coming towards me – I moonfire him. Another DoT. Then I pop into bear and enrage (my new 3 points into the Intensity talent give me 10 instant rage as well as the Furor shapeshift rage points). I then hit auto-attack and start lacerating and backing up until he changes colour to Blue. Then I try a Mangle or Maul and hope I don’t get a parry. Meanwhile, all dps creep over the line so it he goes for them, it won’t cause another transition. It’s all sweat inducing stuff and I was very relieved when I only had to do 2 Frost Transitions before we dropped him. Our paladin tanks did a fantastic job on rounding up the elementals, and we AOE’d them down beautifully. Disappointingly all that’s left on the ground as a corpse is a couple of large rings form his belt. I didn’t give a toss about the loot – it was just sweet to take down a new bad guy.