Fathom Lord - Just a couple of tips

Now, Fathom Lord is often referred to as a big meanie, a progression stopper. I personally do not see why. All you need are 8 solid healers and 2 good tanks.

Anywho, here's a couple of tips for the tanks out there that might have to tank the Boss soon. 

1. Kill the Shaman add first. Trust me, it just works.
   
2. Once the Shaman add is dead, you will have (if placed correctly - see Bosskillers for the correct placements, except switch Shaman with Hunter) a long way to run and kite the boss. Now it's really easy: as soon as he pops a Spitfire Totem, run like hell to the other side of the room. The totem will get out of range of you and your healers, and you'll be safe for another 10 seconds. As soon as he pops a new totem, run back to the starting place. If done correctly, the first totem will inevitably have disappeared when you come back there, and you'll be safe again. Once you get used to it, nothing could be more simple. Your healers need to run around too thought.
3. Once all the adds are dead, it's a piece of cake. Tell all your DPS to nuke from the start since you will have built a huge amount of threat by the time the 3 adds are dead, and you don't need to worry about over-eager DPSers. At that point you don't need to kite him anymore since the totems will get nuked by the raid. 

That is all. Simple right? As long as your healers can heal you enough there is no reason to screw up on this boss. In fact, we brought 8 healers with us, first try we wiped after 15 seconds because of some placement issues and second try he went down for the first time. Real easy.