Re-activating your WoW account, or interested in "Trying Before You Buy"?Practicing The Adventure of Malygos
Eye of Eternity is a one-boss instance found in Coldarra, above The Nexus and The Occulus. It is the home of Malygos the dragon.
I don't know a lot of Warcraft lore, nor am I really truly very interested in it beyond how theatrical the voices are in acting out the parts we do see in instances, but Malygos definitely is a challenging boss, presenting a challenging encounter.
Our guild is one that raids 25 man content on our official nights, and as a result, that leaves our 10 man raid ID's free to be spent how each member sees fit or as we each get the opportunity.
So, after finishing off the last few bosses in 10 man Naxx with a guild who is still building towards their 25 man group, I was invited to attempt Malygos in Eye of Eternity with them.
Joining A Malygos PUG Is All About....
Practice.
Repair bills.
It's certainly not about loot - at least, not at this point in its release.
Even joining a Malygos group in most guilds is going to be the same thing - all about practice and learning the encounter, and absolutely nothing about loot or any type of financial compensation for your efforts.
And of course, that means this is one of the encounters I personally quite enjoy - everyone there knows it's not a loot pinata, and that means they're a different type of player than those who seek the loot pinata experience.
Practicing On Malygos
For me, practicing on Malygos right now is largely about practicing mana efficiency, because most of our issues - either in-guild at the 25 man level, or in PUGs at the 10 man level - are related to living through Phase One and Two with enough time left in Phase Three to finish him off.
Malygos has a 10 minute enrage timer that acts as a DPS barrier of sorts if your raid cannot deal enough damage quickly enough, and at this stage of the expansion, most players are simply not geared well enough, nor familiar enough with the encounter, to make this DPS target.
Dual Priest Death to Malygos
When the healers run out of mana and have no more tricks left through which to regenerate mana quickly, that's generally when the fight completely deteriorates and a wipe happens.
That is, if something else doesn't happen to cause Malygos to turn around and puff an Arcane Breath on a bunch of key people.
Introducing Friends To The Raid
I got a chance to invite three of my friends/social guildmates to the 10 man Eye of Eternity / Malygos raid this time, which was a lot of fun on its own - although none of the three had ever seen the encounter before, they all did very well at adapting, and when we hopped over to our social vent afterwards the chatter was happy and positive about the experience, despite the repair bills.
I always love bringing friends into interesting raids, and am glad I've got a group of friends who are interested in dropping everything to try something new, even if it doesn't mean they'll get any upgrades from the experience.
I certainly count myself as a lucky raider, and I marvel at the difference one year has made within my friendship group - last year at this time I was the only one of my peer group able to do/interested in Heroics, nevermind raiding - but now we've got our own 10 man Naxx group of just buddies. It's quite cool :)
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This fight certainly is a DPS race that will test healer mana pools and throughput when you first start it out.
One of the key things that has improved my guild's performance in here is spark stacking during Phase 1. Our spark stackers have gotten substantially better at positioning the sparks (usually druid roots and death knight death grip), so we routinely have two stacked, sometimes even three.
By stacking sparks, your DPS can burn maly through Phase 1 very quickly, and can even put a big dent into him during the transition to phase 2, which in turn makes phase 3 go more quickly.
I think i would like this fight.
As someone who is new to raiding in LK its nice to rtead blogs about the fights thanks.