New start to the WOW week, new raid. We set off for the Coliseum again. We one shot our way through the Northrend Beasts and that pansy Jaraxxus died with ease….. on to the new encounter – The Faction Champions. We set the event going and 6 Horde Champions dropped into the arena.
We got: Rogue, Resto Shaman, Holy Priest, Ret Pala, Warlock (with Fel Puppy) and Moonkin. Damn, they were good, for only 6 (+puppy) of them! They used every trick in the book – bubble, fear, dots, silence, blind, everything. It took us 7 tries to even kill one of them! It was like a fast paced 5v5 arena match (not that I’ve done many, but hey!). I spent most of my time dispelling, bubbling, fearing and quick healing people, trying hard to keep myself alive. It was fun. Even though I hate pvp I loved that fight.
On a buzz from the kill and with 20 minutes of normal raid time left we chatted about what to do next. We talked through going back and trying Yogg-Saron (too long and not the right group), Sarth+3D zerg – not right composition and finally decided to go try Malygos. We had never killed him when we were in Common Sense and had not found time to go and tick it off the list for TakeTen.
Flying there, I thought of my Dad. He had tried so many times to kill Malygos – even more than me. Like me, he could cope really well with the first 2 phases, but the dragon flying bit we both found difficult.
So – we set the fight off and blasted straight through to phase 3 with ease. Then we died. We discussed it a bit and tried again. We died again. I had issues with my bars becuase I use bartender4 and had not got the dragon controls set up properly. I changed something in my set up and on the third try it all came together and once I worked out I needed to actually target the big bloody dragon I was trying to kill I managed to keep me and my friends alive and shield myself when he looked at me!
We did it! We actually killed him! Now THAT felt good. I know Malygos is old hat and passe and all that, but it felt great for me to have conquered my fear of dragon controlling and killed him AND stayed alive at the end.
I really feel like Dad was watching over us, cheering us on and Ferus must have felt the same because he dedicated the fight to my Dad – he had the very same thought as me. It brought a tear to my eye. Dad – I miss you so much, but it’s getting a tiny bit easier to cope day by day. That one was for you.
Well done!
Great work, good to hear.