Alexstrasza Claims The Heart Of Magic
Tonight marks the second time that our core raiding team has downed Malygos 10-man style. I have to say that this fight is still incredibly intense and althought I hate to say it, we still struggle with it… tonight we had about 15 failed attempts before we were able to put the dragon to rest. I do think; however, that from a healing perspective I have this fight down. I have clearly seen what a disadvantage some healing classes would have on this fight and quite frankly, the resto druid shines. During the vortex phases, it would be impossible without HoTs and the same goes for the second phase because of all the raid party movement in and out of the magic barrier bubbles. For all the hard work in the first two phases, Blizzard did give healers an easy sauce job for phase three. Basically, target yourself, stack the HoT on yourself, then after each spark movement, burn the raid wide heal effect. Flame shield of course keeps you alive during times when Malygos tries to go all crazy on you.
On our successful attempt tonight, we actually downed Malygos about 30 seconds prior to the enrage timer. As we develop more, we will push that timer back each time. Time management is a critical portion of this fight.
Congrats again, DoA! We are getting there for sure! Ulduar may be a challenge, but I think it is one that we are nearly prepared for.
