Malygos tonight!

My 10-man raiding group, the Over the Hill Gang, is going to be trying Malygos for the first time this week. I figured since I had a bit of time today, I'd post some helpful links and macros for the fight for everyone to use.

Phase 1

This is a tank & spank phase. Malygos should be faced away from the rest of the group so his breath attack doesn't affect the ranged folks. Every so often, a Power Spark will spawn from the portals around the room. These must be DPS'd down immediately, as they will increase Malygos' damage by 50% if they reach him. Death Knights can yoink the sparks away from Malygos if they get too close. Also, Malygos will occasionally cast Vortex, which spins the raid up into the air much like the Nexus boss Grand Magus Telestra's Gravity Well. If any sparks are alive while Vortex is active, they will stop in place while the raid scrambles around.

When the sparks are killed, they give raid members standing in range a stacking buff that increases damage dealt by 50%. This is a Good Thing™ to stand near.

Phase 2

When Malygos gets down to 50% health, Phase 2 starts. He'll disengage and send NPC's on flying discs to attack the raid. Throughout the phase, there will be purple bubbles around the room that the raid needs to get inside- they reduce magic damage taken by 50%. The bubbles start out large, and then shrink to nothing, so the raid will have to do two things: Stay in the dead center of the bubbles at all times, and move quickly to the next bubble when the time comes. When the NPCs on discs die, they drop their disc on the ground, and a raid member can take it over. This is a Good Thing™, as raid members on discs no longer take damage for the rest of the phase.

• The first discs should be taken by melee DPS classes. They can then fly up to the other NPCs and attack them without having to stay in the bubbles.
  
• The raid doesn't have to move to every bubble that spawns. Generally, every other bubble should be sufficient, as long as everyone's in the center of the bubble.
• There is a short amount of time in between NPCs on discs in which Malygos will be targetable. Ranged DPS can use this time to get in extra shots on Malygos.

Once everyone's had enough of this, we move on to

Phase 3

In which the floor breaks, and the whole raid is thrown into the air, only to land on the backs of red drakes, which will be your ride vehicle for the rest of the fight. Please hold small children by the hand, and keep your hands and arms inside the ride vehicle at all times. The platform is moving at the same speed as your ride vehicle. Watch your step and gather all personal belongings as you exit. Por favor, manténgase alejado de las puertas.

Wait. That's not right.

So you're riding a red dragon, and there's a Malygos here. Obvious exits are... well, there aren't any. So you've gotta kill Malygos. This is now a 10-man version of the Aces High! daily quest, which I know everyone loves doing and is expert at. What's that, you say? You hate it, and only ever did it once on a dare and promised yourself you'd never do it again? Well, crap. Don't give up hope, though. Here's some tips and a macro for you to mash that should help things along.

1. Make sure you have self-targeting casts turned on in your interface options. If you don't, you'll have to target your drake manually to cast Revivify and Flame Shield on yourself.
2. The first thing to do when you get on your drake is to cast Revivify on yourself five times. This will give you a good ticking HOT that should protect you through Malygos' Surge of Power attack and the random Static Fields that spawn around the area. Also, make sure the raid is spread out, so that the Static Fields don't do too much damage.
3. And finally, a macro that you can simply mash over and over once you've got your Revivify stacked on yourself and targeted Malygos:

   /console Sound_EnableSFX 0
/castsequence reset=target Flame Spike, Flame Spike, Engulf in Flames, Revivify
/console Sound_EnableSFX 1
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

And that's it. Thanks go to Wowhead's pages on Malygos and the Aces High quest, from whom most of the above was shamelessly stolen. Good luck out there!

Welcome to the Book of Heals!

I'm Secondaid, a level 80 priest on Earthen Ring in World of Warcraft, and this is my blog. I'll be posting my thoughts on being a priest, healing, using addons, keeping tanks topped off, and other randomness.

By way of introduction, I'll tell the story of my character's name. I was looking to start a priest lo these many years ago on another server, and I needed a name for a priest. All of a sudden, an old Peanuts cartoon came to mind: Charlie Brown is pitching, and he takes a line drive to the skull, knocking him out. The rest of the team gathers around, and someone asks if anyone knows first aid. "Oh, it's just Charlie Brown," Lucy says. "Second or third aid will do." So there it was: Secondaid. It's not quite as good as first aid, but it'll do in a pinch.