Another Stab At Magtheridon
Following a short visit to Gruul’s lair to finish off Gruul this week, Eternal Force and a few others gathered up for an attempt on Magtheridon tonight. This would be only the second time Eternal Force has attempted Magtheridon. The first experience ended up being a lesson in how we weren’t yet ready for this encounter. Hopefully tonight things would be different.
Marluce (now with Prime) would be the main tank, with Rockstar, Sohelia (a pickup druid) and Thadril (an impromptu paladin tank) tanking the other channelers.
The first attempt ended with a quick wipe. DPS was only able to down one of the three clustered channelers…three channelers were clustered together and too many heals were getting off. They probably killed three channelers’ worth of health on the one guy. Hopefully this would be an icebreaker, a chance for those who had not yet been here to see how things work in the early phase.
The second attempt lasted 3 minutes, 57 seconds…four channelers were killed before Magtheridon got loose. A much better try. I was disappointed no one was calling out for deaths in the kill order…the off-tanks were supposed to rotate their targets clockwise to assist in bringing subsequent targets to the DPS group. (Quick positioning of the targets can speed the DPS). I ended up having to taunt an infernal off my healer, and dragging my target across the floor. The first Blast Wave ended up nuking about 20 out of the 25 people in the raid. That’s no good. The designated clickers were having trouble knowing when to report to their stations, and that would have to be addressed.
The third attempt lasted 3 minutes, 7 seconds. The big problem continued to be getting to the cubes on time…and then clicking and holding.
The fourth attempt was insane. We got him to 28% before a mistake was made on the cube clicking and the raid ate a Blast Wave. It ended up being pretty fatal. Marluce went down, and I had a chance to pickup Magtheridon and get him in place and do some tap-dancing on his face. That’s good practice for me, as I will possibly have the task of tanking him in weeks to come. The fourth attempt was 11 minutes, 10 seconds. Some of the raid wanted to go to bed (late on a Sunday night), but we decided to give it one more go.
The fifth attempt was great…it started similarly to the fourth. The fight is so long, you never know how things are going to turn out. The channelers were going down, and weren’t getting heals off. Magtheridon emerged, and Marluce took him. Finally the last channeler (mine) was killed, and I was quickly moved into place and switched to dual-wield and started hacking away at Magtheridon’s underbelly. The clicking was going smoothly. The Cave-In struck…I still think it’s tough to figure out where things are landing, it seems like the blocks are landing everywhere to me. Magtheridon’s body and large fires in the area weren’t really helping visibility. After 15 minutes and 45 seconds, Magtheridon was slain, and Marluce had tanked him the whole way. Everyone rejoiced, as this was our first kill of Magtheridon, and was truly an unprecedented kill. No one thought we were going to get further than a few minutes into the fight, much less actually slay him.
Magtheridon dropped the Girdle of the Endless Pit (won by Rockstar for offset), the Eredar Wand of Obliteration (won by Shria), Chestguard of the Fallen Defender (won by Elest), and a pair of Chestguard of the Fallen Hero (won by hunters Coydog and Zaroo). Magtheridon’s Head went to Shinryu, and the Pit Lord’s Satchel went to Shadowknives.
This run was one of the finer raids I’ve had since The Burning Crusade came out. It wasn’t necessarily smooth. During the fourth and fifth attempts, some of the leadership qualities of Marluce, Trivia, and the Eternal Force guild master Blackelement were really emerging. Warnings were being given. Clicking assignment were being clearly assigned. Contingencies were being addressed. The raid leaders were really on the same page and on top of their game, and that is going to take us deep into content. I’m looking forward to it.
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[...] Another Stab At Magtheridon: “The fifth attempt was great…it started similarly to the fourth. The fight is so long, you never know how things are going to turn out. The channelers were going down, and weren’t getting heals off. Magtheridon emerged, and Marluce took him. Finally the last channeler (mine) was killed, and I was quickly moved into place and switched to dual-wield and started hacking away at Magtheridon’s underbelly. The clicking was going smoothly. The Cave-In struck…I still think it’s tough to figure out where things are landing, it seems like the blocks are landing everywhere to me. Magtheridon’s body and large fires in the area weren’t really helping visibility. After 15 minutes and 45 seconds, Magtheridon was slain, and Marluce had tanked him the whole way. Everyone rejoiced, as this was our first kill of Magtheridon, and was truly an unprecedented kill. No one thought we were going to get further than a few minutes into the fight, much less actually slay him.” [...]