We finally killed Ragnaros last night. Here’s my video of the fight.
If you watched the 3% wipe video I posted last week, you’ll notice that this pull is messier. (For one thing, I fat-fingered the start-recording shortcut and missed the first few seconds of the fight.) We lost our bear tank in phase 3 when he stood in a meteor landing spot… not for the first time that night. He’d wandered into the fire zone on an earlier pull, victim of tunnel vision. Fortunately I was right there and I had a brez and we got through the rest of it. The key for us was learning how to handle meteors.
As our hunter Serix said, that was the slowest 10% of a boss’s health ever.
This kill followed a miserable time on Alysrazor, who is the boss that gives us the most trouble in the tier. Our holy pally & I usually two-heal that fight. This week he’s on vacation, so I was paired up with our new discipline/holy priest. She was completely new to the fight and there’s a learning curve there. You have to move properly to stay out of fire & think about how you’re going to handle the Gushing Wound debuff on your tank. And then you need to blast out the AOE healing on that initial phase in the cycle. If you ask me, Alys is the healing fight in T12, not Baleroc. Alys is the one that makes me think & plan & plot. And our disc priest had a hard time of it.
The thing I noticed that was by accident, we’d given her the tank who was taking the most damage (our warrior was taking noticeably more than our bear and our pally when they tank it) and we’d assigned the pair of them to the side of the zone with the annoying terrain. So she was new to the fight, healing a tough assignment, and learning to move on ground that made it difficult to move. Now I know this and can plan better in the future, but it made for a series of frustrating wipes. And I’m not yet perfect on that fight and can lose my own tank target (doesn’t help when he stands in fire again cough).
Upshot: We wiped more on Alys this week than on Ragnaros. Final result: Leafie now has the Eye of Blazing Power. However, I’m not sure I like it. I think the internal cool down is a bit long. It’s providing about 3% of my healing, judging from last night’s logs, and I’m not hurting for mana just now, so I’ll continue using it along with Jaws of Defeat. I need to investigate the Molten Front trinkets, now that I almost have access to everything there.
