As a raid healer i sticked to healing in p3 as follows : Shift+F1 target myself , counting stacks on myself then throw aoe heal. Whole raid was following member with skull over his head (we did have MT but it makes no difference).

Generally p3 is about proper moving as a group. Nothing else. And dont “count on counter” just spam stacks and then aoe heal then again spam stacks and then aoe… its working , If You see You didnt throw aoe heal just keep spaming another stack and so on. With few healers in raid its pretty smooth phase as long as all will stay in range

do the daily “aces high” = practice phase three.

its really not that bad.

just remember to avoid that player with the debuff on him, and for no reason get within 40 yards of maylgos.

have a few healer toons clicking the renew spell four times, and saving the big bang one for person in trouble = easy.

it can be frustrating, especially on 25′s

tens its a joke.

It was a little hectic the first hour or so just getting the power sparks down etc..But like with any multi phase fight seeing the phases more each time makes a big difference

Healers (5 or so) –
You don’t have to target anyone. The aoe heal is so OP, all you have to do is spamm the small heal on yourself until you get 5 combo points and then hit the aoe heal. As long as the whole group stays together, the aoe heals FAR outweigh any damage taken.

DPS – (20 or so) –
Harder then healing but still only 2 buttons to master. Keep the dot on the boss everytime it is available.

The Whole Raid (25 or so, lol) –
Before the floor falls away, our whole raid runs to the side and clumps up together. Then when we jump on our drakes we fly straight up to just above Malygos.

Stay together. When he casts the spark damage spell which effects a specific position, everyone moves together (we always move to the right each time). Strafing right for 3 seconds or so then resume heals and dps and it’s gg after a short time.

Worst part of phase 3 is LOOTING THE DAMN CHEST!!! lol

have fun -

I was the tank on our progression kill and subsequently got pants and finish my neck, so other tanks get to tank him if they’re around.

Phase 1:
The easiest way I found to explain to everyone about positioning is during the vortex orient yourself pointing South. I do the same. I walk backwards, they run forwards and within a second of landing they are out of danger of the breath.

Another thing of note is the Breath is a really really tight cone, but it does come from his center. If you kill a spark sitting at him NW or NE while having him pointed North, there is no reason for the tank to turn him at all, its better if you just keep him centered.

We ran 2 DKs on our progression kill, but 1 should be sufficient to stack sparks regularly. Kill the first spark in the direction it spawns and then DG the next to that spot. Whatever you do don’t try and DG through Malygos or it’ll just buff him immediately. (34k breath = lol)

Phase 2:
Just survive and pray for some nice shields. Sometimes he’ll stack them for you, other times you’re running all over the place. If it’s a long run and you think you might lose people you can always stay in the current shield until the next ones goes up. EVERYONE needs to stack really close for that work, and Deep Breath is up there is a very good chance the shield will be gone at or near the end. I personally don’t recommend trying that but it was on my mind every pull that we had to sprint several times.

If you have a prot paladin, divine guardian is a huge help. It by far isn’t required but I had it. Soaking up 30% of the damage during a breath and the random casts from the Scions helps lighten the load on the already overworked healers.

Phase 3:
We found the most idiot proof method was just stack up, healers use the healing finisher, everyone else works keeping their stack up. If you get targeted by the beam, shield.

Our healers at the end I think were just focusing on Malygos, doing the Flame Strike for combo points and then using the Life Burst off those combo points. It helped DPS Malygos down and got kept everyone healed.

Overall though I think the fight is one of the most well tuned encounters in Wrath. On our kill we hit phase 2 with 6:30 left on enrage, and moved into phase 3 with around 3:30 on the clock. Downed him with about 30 seconds left and it was a hell of a rush.

Also have your clump of drakes move together to the left whenever an electrical storm spawns. Or everyone should just know to move a bit every few seconds to minimize damage. The important thing here is to stay together so everyone will be hit by the large AoE heal from the healer drakes.

DPS needs to be on the ball, but its pretty simple. Target Malygos and press 1, 1, 2. Over and Over and Over. The goal here is to stack your debuff as high as possible. But remember to save fire shield (~25 energy) in case you get targeted, if your healers are awesome you might be able to get away with not shielding at all tho =).

If you’re hitting the berserk timer you need to either pick up DPS in phase 1/2 OR use less healers in phase 3. If your drakes are dieing in phase 3 but DPS is ok then use more healers. For the record five healers SHOULD be enough. Its even possible to do it with less.