So we finally spawned Ragnaros

[Tikker]

He's quite the chatty mofaka


looks like a fun encounter, we got him to 73% or so 1st time we saw him, so I think we can get him down once we get some more FR

[Tacks]

There's absolutely nothing "fun" about the new encounter. I have no desire to even fight him anymore.

[Tikker]

waht was changed?


as far as I knew, it was just made so you couldn't wtfpwn him before the sons popped

[Tacks]

The ridiculous randomness of the encounter is bullshit. Either you get lucky and do well or get unlucky and wipe.

[Tikker]

we'll have to see how it goes I guess

I finally got a quest worth doing(hunter epic) so I'm gonna be fiddling with that for a week or 2

[Tacks]

GL with the guy in Silithus (the melee only dude) unless they changed it. I had to solo the guy for a hunter in our guild a few months ago for it and he was a bitch at the time.

[Tikker]

yeah, no shit


I took my 1st test runs at all 4 last night

all 4, with no prep, and no spoiler reading seemed like 3/4 were very doable

the guy in slithius is just an open can of whoop ass atm, but I saw a couple things in the combat log that might be worth playing with

[Arlos]

Ragnaros is hardly a "luck" fight. It's all about getting people, especially MTs, in good FR gear, and having a good plan for dealing with the Sons of Flame. We just did him the other night with I think only 2-3 deaths, and pretty soon we'll be back to beating him without using any potions. If you're having problems, use a ton of potions. (Troll's blood, Fortitude, *Greater Fire Protection*, etc. Hell, if you can keep the MT alive, use the flask that gives +2000 max HP on him)

He's not that bad, honestly. I think he's a pretty interesting and fun encounter, once you get him down.

-Arlos

[Tae-Bo]

yeah, it's definitely not a luck encounter anymore

your tank/melee just need to not suck

(hint: shazzrah is good prep for your MT)

[Mudcrush Durtfeet]

Last few raids we've taken him first try (though only one raid since BWL came out). I wouldn't say it's a luck fight.

[Tae-Bo]

it's a luck fight if you don't know how it works

[Mudcrush Durtfeet]

Flame deleted, if you wanna flame me Taxx, you know where. Do it again and risk another suspension / banning or whatever you call it.

We beat him tonight, but it took us two tries. I still don't think luck has much to do with it.

[Skrum]

do your non-melee raiders deck themselves out in FR gear? The best we have done since change was something like 42% as we usually lose 5 to 10 in phase 1 for some reason then sons bend us over.

[Tae-Bo]

only people we had in FR gear were our warriors

[Jazendar]

Best we've done is 14%. Hopefully get him tomarrow. We require everyone to have FR pots, 10 per night (of attempts), if not more. We pop a pot at the 2 min warning, then when that wears off we do another. Most of the time it's just the melee and the healers end up using Major Mana pots, but atleast 1 2 mins before the fight. It seems random to me though...We have all our melee spread out so we don't all get flung if he tosses a fireball. Warrior on his own side, etc etc...We usually have 6-7 frost mages too, so we've found AE'ing the sons is the best thing. I've also heard of a guild getting 8 warlocks on one of their raids, Banishing all of the sons, then rags instantly repops and they killed him. Then wiped on sons, rez'd up, looted...Lollers

[belfior]

The more you fight him the easier it gets. The FR question is kinda personal preference; I prefer wearing it because i hate having to heal myself. I know a lot of priests in my guild don't; don't know about mages and others though.

FR pots are the #1 win maker!

[Mondinga]

All about people knowing how to personally avoid damage and knockbacks.