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Lei Shi is fun, different and easy. We two shot the fight, albeit the kill was about as messy as you could get and still get a kill.

Once you’ve got the tank swapping and positioning down, the major mechanic to prepare for is CCing the adds at 80/60/40/20 percent. If your CC is good, the fight will go very smoothly. It is  note worthy that the most important skill in relation to crowd control is the ability to single target and not break mobs out. The mobs are difficult to trap, so hunters can use Wyvern Sting, which with a 1 minute cooldown, should reinforce the “super paranoid single target DPS” message.

If your group is using DBM, make sure to strip everyone of assist before you start the fight. DBM is great at marking up the adds, but if players with DBM also have the ability to mark, they can get overwritten.

The fight is a little strange as a tank, because the vast majority of damage during the encounter is magic damage. Taking so much magic damage really changes the way you think about active mitigation, since the physical half is useless most of the time. To make things worse, when the adds spawn, Lei Shi becomes immune which takes the active out of active mitigation. Once your resources are depleted, and other cooldowns blown it feels a little weird just not getting in anyone’s way or waiting around for a tank swap.

I really enjoyed the hide and get away mechanics, but the boss just feels a little underdone, possibly just giving a raid team too much wiggle room to deal with how different the mechanics are for the fight. All will be forgiven when you start dropping some Sha-touched weapons, young lady.