The Like/Hate thread (WoW)

[Belle Hibiki]

After the second phase, Malygos shatters the big platform everyone's been using to stand on, and Keristraza (an ally dragon you've done quests for) saves your bacon by sending her brood of dragons to pick you up in mid fall. The dragons count as 'vehicles' and thus you can't use your normal skill bar, relying instead on the dragon's stacking DoT and healing bursts to stay alive.

There is no 'tanking' in this phase. Each combo building move you do can be dumped into either your DoT, your Heal, or a Shield, and the latter is the first key to staying alive. When Malygos emits that he's focusing you (really obvious because the screen screams it at you), stop your damage, wait a second (or put up another combo point it you're low) and hit the shield. If you don't do this, your drake will take MASSIVE damage.

Other than that, just stay clumped, preferably around a pre-arranged, marked friendly, and move in a specified direction (right or left) when Maly shoots his other ability, a sparky death ball, at your location. After that, reform. The heal is a BURST around the dragon doing the healing, so staying closely stacked increases survivability a ton.

Like most fights in WoW, Malygos requires basic knowledge of the fight and the situational awareness to put that knowledge to use. People fail a lot on Malygos because of phase 3 and the fact that they have to suddenly pay attention a lot more.