Ji-Kun Pool Soaking

[bessbrett]

On the fight Ji-Kun in Throne of Thunder the boss will spit out green pools from time to time, these pools can get very troublesome and wreak havoc on a friendly neighborhood raid group. Last night during the fight, whilst soaking pools I discovered if you stand in 2 pools at the same time or soak one and then immediately soak another you only gain one stack of the fight-long debuff.
BE WARNED You will collect two stacks of a 20 or so second dot which will hit you hard unless you pop a defensive cooldown, for example on my shaman I used Shamanistic Rage, Astral Shift and my dwarf racial. Dwarf Priests with dispersion and Stoneform can use this to the maximum. (Note: If using a dwarf priest cast stoneform, then dispersion or else you will be silenced and unable to cast stoneform.)
Also I am not saying the aforementioned class/race combinations are the only two capable of doing this, anyone with strong defensives can (i.e. Death Knight with AMS, IBF, etc, Pally with bubble and such, rogues with cloak and feint, and so on)

Oh an another tip this is common knowledge mentioned in most fight guides, but paladins and rogues can clear their fight long debuff stacks with previously mentioned abilities.

[Deathshiver]

You are correct. Most tanks have already realized this as they aim to pick up 3+ puddles in a given debuff period and only gain one stack as long as they continue to grab them before the DoT runs out.

That being said, I think the developers intended it to be this way. I'm not so sure that it's something they didn't realize. It is a good thing to know if you didn't already though.

[Galithiel]

This is working as intended.

[TehVoyager]

Yeah... working as intended. i've been doing this as a monk tank since week one.... as a monk with Zen Med or Dampen Magic you can Soak 6+ pools later in the fight and take almost no damage, then pop fort brew to shrug off most of the dot damage after the soak is completed.

[mckemo]

you are only supposed to get 2 stacks.
Working as intended.

[Caveguy]

People still need to soak that shit in your raids?

[Devilsdog]

People still need to soak that shit in your raids?

Have you done this fight on HC? Even after people grab the food buff there is a shitload of pools around.

[bessbrett]

I know you are supposed to gain 2 stacks of the dot but you will only gain 1 buff of the fight long debuff

[Caveguy]

Have you done this fight on HC? Even after people grab the food buff there is a shitload of pools around.

On HC, we clear the first two nests, wait for Feed Young and use Bloodlust. The boss dies within less than 4 minutes. What is there to soak?

[Tehstool]

Have you done this fight on HC? Even after people grab the food buff there is a shitload of pools around.

Bro, btw if you "grab" a pool in mid-air for the feed young buff, the pool still spawns.

[eggsampler]

It's funny if you use this durin ji'kun, it seems to taunt the pools and they follow the npc for a bit before snapping back into place, Salyin Battle Banner - Item - World of Warcraft

[alucard1]

Why would you want to soak two.... silly, soak one at a time. That's what i do on my mage to get to 7+ stacks so when i get nutrient the damage bonus is 170% instead. Makes the boss die soooo fast.