Malygos, to Hell with Your Lore-atory

So as you may or may not know, my guild <Devierum> is kind of badass.  We’re the top guild on our server with the first-kills of Malygos (25), Sartharion + 3 Drakes (25), and most recently, Sartharion + 3 Drakes (10).  Oh, and also we had the first DK on our server to 80

Anyway, the guild is now ranked somewhere in the top 100 worldwide, which we’re all pretty proud of.  We discovered that if we bust our asses a little bit and knock out “The Immortal” and “You Don’t Have An Eternity”, we would be ranked nearly as high as top 20 in the world.  So guess what we’re doing this week?

We won’t be attempting Immortal until later this week, but Tuesday and Wednesday were devoted entirely to 5-minute Malygos.  For those unfamiliar, the basic idea is to save all the sparks up in a little clump until you have 4-5 of them together all held down with roots.  You stop dps a bit before 50% (ie. when he enters Phase 2 and summons the adds), pop all the sparks at once, and unload on his ass doing something like eleventy billion % bonus damage.  The goal is to get him down to 1hp before he summons the adds, so that he dies as soon as Phase 3 begins and you land on the drakes.

We work on it.  And work on it.  And work on it.  Part of the problem is you have to depend on RNG to a point, because if you get poor spark positions it’s a real pain in the ass.  Myself and the other DK use a Death Grip rotation to get all the sparks pulled to the right spot, but even talented the cooldown is too long to pull two consecutive spark spawns.

Anyway, last night, things are going VERY well.  We have a few close attempts that we purposefully wipe at the beginning of phase 3 because we’ve exceeded 5 minutes by 10 seconds or so.  Finally, the stars align, we get incredible spark spawns, we demolish his HP, make it through Phase 2 with about 25 seconds left on the timer and…

Malygos uses the next 25 seconds to talk before he breaks the platform.

At this point, its impossible for us NOT to kill him (as he only has 1hp left and we’ve dotted him up before the floor shattered).  So that’s it, he’s dead at 5 minutes, 4 seconds.

Whether it was lag, which we suspect might play a role as Phase 2 always hangs for about 10 seconds (gg instance server shared with Naxx) or just bad luck – Malygos and his stupid speech can eat a big fat one.  Anyone in the guild will tell that I’m probably one of the biggest lore whores we have, but this was just ridiculous.  We’re sitting on Vent screaming and he’s just chattering away, and the platform takes an ETERNITY to fall.  See what I did there?
Ah well, maybe next week…