25 man raid night. A little different than normal — after taking Maly down the last 2 weeks, close to half the 25-man progression night regulars weren’t there, and a bunch of new people instead, including new recruits to the guild. Aaaand it’s Malygos. As you can see by the sea of skeletons floating above Maly, it was a painful, painful evening of pain. And pain.
We gave Maly around 2.5 hours. Now the problem with Maly is that you usually wipe on phase 3, and that gives a long, long time to churn through a lot of ammo before finally failing. By the time we called it on Maly and went on to other things I was already well over 200 gold into the raid, between repairs, ammo, flasks, potions, and food.
So new record for my most expensive raid ever.
If you’re struggling on P3 I assume you’ve tried the ezmode approach?
13 healers, 12 DPS drakes.
All follow one member of raid to stay close.
DPS just spikex3 then dot over and over.
Healers revivifyx5 then AOE heal.
No need for flame shield or self healing. Perfect stacking. One-shot in 1 min everytime.
Even easiermode is to macro the following to keys (which still work even when toolbars don’t) but I would understand if you think this destroys the challenge.
one key becomes:
/follow (name)
another key depending on assigned to healing or dps:
/tar malygos
/castsequence reset=target Flame Spike, Flame Spike, Engulf in Flames
or
/tar pet
/castsequence [target=pet] Revivify, Revivify, Life Burst
Go get ur loot!
Our problems were a lot of people who had never been there and weren’t used to progression raids — and a lot of people who could not master the art of staying close to the other drakes to get their heals.
I think my most most expensive raid was on friday. It was PUG Naxx 25, 3 quarters cleared. Costs of it were: 1600 Mammoth cutters, 3 Flasks of Endless rage and 12 Mega Mammoth meals. This with 80G for repairs could be close to 300G. And drops? Only Aged Winter Cloak and Stron-Handed Ring which was rolled for by approximately 78 people
Well, using the /follow macro means that only the designated raid lead has to move and everyone will stay right behind concentrating on either spamming their dps/heal macro, or getting the rotation right manually.
Even if not everyone has got the /follow sorted, with 13 healers the AOE wll be alot more forgiving on stragglers. Using 4 healers or so is very limiting on range.
Some call it a bit of a copout and Hrist may have something cynical to say but hey, anything to save a few bucks on arrows!
Can you use the /follow (name) macro if you dont have them targeted? and if so, does it target them when you do so?
Also, when you do the:
/castsequence reset=target Flame Spike, Flame Spike, Engulf in Flames
what happens? do you have to press it over and over? or does one push do 2 flame spikes and then an engulf in flames?
ooo I also forgot to ask that if you do the /follow (name) macro and it does target them, do you stop following them when you do the other macro that targets Malygos?
Anytime you make an attack, it will turn off autofollow. I assume that the idea is you keep hitting your follow macro — and you have to sit an not attack for a while?
The castsequence macro — you’ll have to push multiple times. Each time you push the button it will do the next spell in the sequence.
Yeah sorry should have said.
All group on top before platform shatters, then hit follow while raid gets in position then spam the shoot or heal macro. Leader will move when maly does his thing and u hit follow and drake will move after him into position then spam ur dot macro till you have to move again.
Picture perfect. After a while it will be no issue to just move yourself and spam the dot macro once u get used to the 3D nature of the fight. Most people in our raid had ditched the macros completely after one or 2 raids with them.
And to answer the other Q from mage the follow macro won’t cause you to target the person you want to follow.
And the malygos /tar is the first line of the macro, the castsequence is the second so its included in the same button to keep you targeted right.
Hope this helps, love the blog!
You dont need to his these too fast by the way. Theres no need for energy to drop below 75% really.
Sorry to bother you, but I found your question about the comments suddenly changing color on the wordpress db, and found out that the issue wasn’t resolved there. But you seem to have fixed it somehow. How did you do it? It’s giving me hell, I have that problem now.
Thank you in advance.