Saturday night, right before my wife and I went out to dinner, 10 of us from the guild went to get our 6-minute Malygos achievement. (“We can go after we kill this boss, it will take less than 6 minutes.”)
While I had Fraps running, it actually crashed while recording so the video didn’t turn out. But that doesn’t stop me from writing down some thoughts on how we managed to get the achievement.
With the change to sparks, which causes them to de-spawn after a certain amount of time, we did the achievement with normal spark stacking and great DPS. DPS key because in all likelihood, your raid doesn’t have time to go through 2 Vortexes. It’s those few precious seconds that can make or break the attempt.
The first thing to pay attention to is the actual duration of the fight. From the moment the last Scion dies, you need 2 minutes or more left in the fight or you most likely cannot make the 6 minute mark. Our first attempt we had to let our stacks fall off and wipe because we were going to be short by a couple second.
The second attempt had terrible spark placement so we wiped it early. The third try was the actual kill. We needed to improve on our time in phase 1 and 2 by ten seconds or so. One issue during the first attempt was boss placement and spark placement. I had missed an entire second spark stack due to it being too close to Malygos. During the kill attempt, our tank did a great job of adjusting him to make sure that I was able to stand in all the stacks.
During phase 2, focus fire DPS on the Scions was superb. We let our 2 melee deal with the ground-level Lords while the ranged took out the Scions using the sparks for as long as possible. We were able to kill the last Scion just as the few melee we had drop the second Lord.
Phase 3 requires your people to have no question on what they are doing, faith in the people doing AoE heals, and the ability to group up on those healers at all times. The pattern we used as DPS as 1-2-1-1-2 and repeating 1-1-2 the entire time. With 2 AoE healers there is no need to shield or HoT yourself as long as you stay near the healers.
You have enough energy and energy regen at the start of the fight to use the aforementioned pattern just for the sake of getting your stack rolling early.
Key Point for Hunters (most apply to any Malygos attempt):
- You will not be at maximum range on Malygos ever. The sparks have to be used by everyone. Your pet included. Make sure they stand in it too.
- Use your highest DPS rotation and use Aspect of the Viper during the Vortex to regain enough mana to keep going. Just remember to switch back after the Vortex is over.
- Focus-fire Scions with ranged DPS as best as possible. Wherever your raid decides to stand, pick a Scion that is coming towards you and is passing over you to be sure that you have maximum DPS time on it. It should be dead before it ever gets out of range.
Overall, 6-minute Malygos wasn’t any different than a normal Malygos. Like all other achievements of a similar nature (3 minute Patchwerk, Thaddius, etc) it just requires your players to be well-geared and have a complete understanding of what’s going on.
Only one real achievement stands between me and my Plagued-Proto Drake now. 10-man Sartharion with 3 drakes. I am going to see what was wrong with Fraps and make sure it is running smoothly for that boss kill.
Hope everyone had a great weekend and that you did something fun. Now if you don’t mind, I have to go shovel a walkway. *grumbles about new snow*
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You guys use healers? If you stack up 5 blooms while waiting for him to become attackable, you can run a rotation of 1-1-1-2-3 and keep up 5 blooms at all times. If you get focused you still have enough combos and a shield and can keep the stacks rolling, it’s really nice and doesn’t force you to rely on anyone.
We thought about having everyone manage themselves but opted to have DPS do nothing but DPS. Either way you are relying on someone. It seems that having people manage their own health could be bad if they had to gazes in a row. They would either die or lose their stack because they needed to shield twice in a row. In the end, when we did it with two healers, every single DPS was within one stack of each other and we ended up with 6 seconds left.
gz drot, even thou i dont like that achievement as there’s to much luck involved with the sparks and stuff.
My guild got him at 6:09…so close! The only reason we didn’t have another try in us because some (read: me) didn’t hit the eject button fast enough so Malygos died. It was the first time in my WoW life I heard someone say:
“Hurry up and wipe, the boss is about to die!”
Our biggest issues was getting him to phase 2 before a second vortex. We had it so close that as soon as he would land he would go up for phase 2….but those precious vortex seconds killed us.
There’s always next week….and grats.
Also, does the 6-minute kill award extra loot, or just cool points?
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@Hesston Just cool points. Good luck with your attempts!
Grats on that.
As much as i wish i could get in to do some of these things; WoW just wont let me play. I am one of the unfortunate ones to suffer the extremely regular fps spikes/grinds. /sigh
Grats on getting the achievement. The proto drake is coming closer every day!
However, i was under the impression that pet’s don’t gain the buff from sparks. Correct me if i’m wrong.
Quick answer as I’m in a rush: Pets do gain the buff from sparks. They tend to move away from the sparks as Malygos turns to cast on the raid from time to time. Just call back your pet and put it on attack again when that happens.
@ Tyrae, how many stacks are you able to get doing a 1-1-1-2-3 rotation from 10 people and how does it compare to 8 dps doing a 1-1-2 and healers doing aoe heals?
@ Melz, shanx is correct. Pets get the buff from sparks because it’s and area buff and not a buff to the player. On fights like Thaddius where it’s a buff to the player pets do not get the buff.
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All I have left is the 6 minute Maly now. Last week my group got him at 6:02!!!!! We just did 10 man 3D last night. After going at it for weeks we decided to give a VW a try as MT on Sarth. After 5 tries we had out title “of the Nightfall”. Voidwalkers mitigate I beleive 80% of Sarth’s breath and not once did we lose him. Kill order was Tenbron, Vesperon then Shadron. After all 3 drakes were down our warrior grabbed Sarth and burned him down!!!!!
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@Bigvett Grats man! If you have 3D down, you are in the clear. No doubt you’ll get 6 minute Maly. :D
Thanks Drotara!!! Good luck to you as well. As you all know the mad rush is on to get the proto-drakes since come 3.1 they go the way of the Amani Bear mounts from what I’ve been told.
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Also, I might add there are some benefits to taking him to phase 2 before and after the second whirlwind. As long as your phase 2 strat/execution is sound and your DPS is high this achievement is quite easy. In 10 man we run 2 healers/8dps in phase three and often get the achievement with 20-40 seconds to spare.
RGATG has Nightfall right? Shouldn’t be an issue for you to get in there and get it done =) good luck, let me know when you get it and we can snap a few shots!
@Zenge We sure do. Hoping to be in this weeks run. :) I’ll let ya know.
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Lookin forward to it =)