Yashima Plays

( Note: when talking about any raid instances I always mean the 10-man version. We don’t do 25-mans as guild runs. )

When Wrath was young I never thought I could obtain the “Champion of the Frozen Wastes” title. I am not much into instances or raiding or whatever. A couple months ago I commented on a guildmate having the title and he said “What are you missing? It is not that hard!” I was still missing the final bosses of Naxxramas at that point, heroic Oculus, Sartharion and Malygos. I still didn’t think the title would be mine because I thought that I would never complete Naxx. We did – actually I did it twice so far.

After we finished that he asked again “So what are you missing for the title?” I had also completed the Oculus by then – just barely however which shows that I am not that “skilled” I think I learned a couple of things along the way and could now manage the Oculus more easily. So my answer was “Just Sartharion and Malygos”.

Mysteriously – not at all – guild events for Sartharion and Malygos started appearing on our event planer We managed to down Sartharion easily – with some weird randoms along the way – the first time I was there for such an event. Malygos however we tried and tried. We managed to get the first phase after a couple of tries. Then we managed to learn the second phase easily … the third … I was to be a healer and I just died all the time.

We gave up after getting to the 3rd phase about 3 times and failing miserably. Another night another Malygos event. More failure.

This Saturday some ambitious guildie had scheduled “Ony, Sartharion and Malygos – let’s kill all the dragons!” Tenobaal and I had no other plans so we joined in the raid. So far I had not been to the “new Onyxia” and I was rather curious if we could down her as a guild since I remembered the guild failing on the first night after the patch.

We managed to invite a random and a couple of guild-friends to fill the raid – Saturday rarely is a day with lots of guildies online and on to Onyxia we went. We wiped – due to some chaotic assignments and several people not knowing the new encounter yet (including Tenobaal and me). We wiped again I think and then on the third try we downed her easily. I have no idea why I survived the Deep Breath – must have gotten lucky. She dropped us 2 priest helmets and there was only one priest there … I was impressed with us, I had thought we might get stuck here.

Next up was Sartharion. After a short discussion we said to try him with one of his cronies up. Luckily there were 3 druids in the raid lots of battlerezzes were needed but we made the “Twilight Assist”. (I can’t remember if we wiped, I was too excited we made it).

Somebody noticed that the Alliance was controlling Wintergrasp and suggested we go down the 3 bosses there. First up: Archavon (the one with the Meteor Fists, don’t know if the name is right). After a really lame wipe – due to several people not knowing the encounter yet – someone relogged to another healer character and we downed him. The other two were quite easy.

Then it was Malygos time, finally. We had already spent two hours raiding and I was sure we would fail again on Malygos just like the last two times. It started out quite nicely on our first try we easily got to the third phase where we failed as usual. After that however we had a couple of awful tries with bad pulls in the beginning and people were starting to bash the tank in teamspeak. I think I figured out the first two phases as a druid healer quite nicely and concentrated on getting to try the third but we never got there. Wipe in phase one, wipe in phase two. Phase three with several people dead at start. I think we wiped at least 5 times on Malygos without getting to phase 3.

I was already thinking about calling it quits for the night when we manage a clean try until phase 3. Everybody alive and still some time to go before enrage hit. I targeted the one person supposed to be good at this encounter and hit /follow and then I hit the heal buttons as fast as I could. The trick really is to follow someone so you don’t have to worry about managing the skills and staying in range. A couple people died but we downed him!

It felt really wonderful knowing I will not have to down him again to get that achievement Now I might go there again to try and perfect phase 3 without much pressure.

So we downed them all and in good time: just over 3 hours for Ony, Sartharion, the Wintergrasp bosses and Malygos. For us that is pretty awesome.