The number one mistake I see eles doing on VG is positioning. If you are using staff, then all your dps is ranged, but you don’t want to be ranged unless you’re going to green circles. Part of the reason for this is buffs. If you are to far away from your warrior and rev, you won’t be getting might and fury.
More importantly, you need to be with the group to get heals. The druid has a limited number of heals, and can’t afford to use any on someone who has strayed from the group. They will usually drop some aoe heals on the circle team and then direct their ranged heals toward the tank. If you are not close to the tank, you aren’t going to get those heals. You should basically be standing in your own lava fonts.
Now to address sources of damage. As an ele you have to be particularly aware of all sources of damage in each fight because you’ll be hurt the most by them. In most fights, there is a tick of damage every few seconds so even if you don’t get hit by anything, you’ll take a little bit of damage. For ele, over the course of 10 seconds or so this is enough to be a significant chunk of your health, which brings us back to the positioning and healing point.
Seekers: You cannot afford to get hit by a tick of seeker damage. If you are on green team then it is the responsibility of your teammates to push seekers off the green, but you can still stand in the green safely when the seeker has it 90% covered if you go to the very edge. If you are on melee team then if a seeker gets into a bad spot you need to strafe around it, staying as close to the boss as you can without getting hit so you can still get heals.
Cleaves: You’re super squishy so you can’t afford to get hit by one of the bosses cleaves. Don’t stray in front of the boss or you will probably die. Hopefully your tank can keep VG facing away from you, but if the tank is moving around a lot it is ok to stand a little farther back (maybe 300 range, so you can still be healed) to stay away from the cleave.
Teleports: The way teleports work, is they actually drag your character from one location to another. You will take damage from anything between your start and end point. As an ele this means that if your teleport brings you through a seeker, you will probably end up downed from full health. Like everyone else in the raid, it is critical that you practice to the point where you don’t ever get ported.
Pie slices: This is tricky. Sometimes your tank will bring VG into a pie slice to ensure a good green circle. Hopefully they only bring him a little bit inside so you can continue melee dps from outside the slice. If VG goes too far in, stay close to the group as that’s where heals will be. This is likely a good time to use rebound.
Split phase: You need to be sure to stay stacked on green guardian when he is pulled over, as that’s where the heals will be and you’re going to need all of them. If someone goes down ask your druid not to res and instead focus on healing everyone else. Usually when I’ve seen wipes here it’s because someone was outside the druid’s heals and went down, and then the druid tried to res instead of heal causing everyone else to go down.
I hope this helps you with knowing what you need to watch out for. I really like playing ele in raids because it teaches you what to watch out for, thus improving your play on other classes. Sure a warrior can tank a seeker tick and not really care, but that doesn’t mean they should.
GLHF
