[10] Ragnaros

[Tebin]

Thanks fuzzy, but how do you stay in melee range without being in the fire ring? Can you avoid it if you're right up against him?

[Forgrim]

you can be in melee range from right outside the fire ring, just make sure you don't touch it.

[fuzzygeek]

you can be in melee range from right outside the fire ring, just make sure you don't touch it.

This. If you see yourself suddenly taking 50k damage a second or so, you're standing too close

Also make sure all your melee is quick on the bounce to get out, or Rag will follow rooted mob AI and punch them.

[Juugimus]

you can be in melee range from right outside the fire ring, just make sure you don't touch it.

This. If you see yourself suddenly taking 50k damage a second or so, you're standing too close

Also make sure all your melee is quick on the bounce to get out, or Rag will follow rooted mob AI and punch them.

THIS.

We were losing a couple people in that phase to melee swing until we realized people were late getting out.

[Herrbjorn]

I highly recommend the addon GTFO, it audibly notifies you when taking damage from the fire ring.

[Fetzie]

The fire ring also deals damage until it has COMPLETELY despawned.

[Arincia]

Does anyone have any suggestions for a easy way to handle phase 3? Having some 15%-19% wipes today and last weekend on him due to someone getting the meteor and having it path through someone (mainly tanks and melee).

For reference group comp is:
Tanks: Paladin/Warrior
Melee: DK/Shaman
Range: mage/lock/hunter
Healer: Paladin/priest/druid

(and yes we have tried to 2 healing but looking for execution tips to simplify the chaos during that phase)

[fuzzygeek]

In general, would recommend splitting to the sides and keep the middle clear; kite the meteors from one extreme edge to the other, and always knock the meteors backwards, away from Rag and your raid.

There isn't much you can do to reduce the chaos, but you can keep calm and controlled. This phase requires everyone to keep their eyes open and be aware of what is going on, and try not to behave in a fashion that gets themselves or other people killed.

Ideally you will have rag down around the time the third meteor spawns.

[Arincia]

Yeah DPS seems spot on (3rd meteor spawned on a 15% wipe with 1-2 dps dead from 20% or so) and was debating keeping the raid in the center as we were doing or spreading out to the sides to take advantage of more space. The only worry about moving to a side or spreading everyone to both sides is a meteor spawning on them so if there's a method to where the meteors can spawn from (vrs completely rng) would be much appreciated.

[Ardrhyst]

For healing phase one, do you have just one healer working on tanks? We have two healers on the raid and one on tanks, and the one on tanks is blowing a gasket because he's blowing mana so quickly. It doesn't seem like that should be right. He seems intent on doing it that way, so he must have seen it advised somewhere... Just wondering what the experience is from people on here that have killed him.

[Nikachelle]

We have two healers on the tanks and one on the raid, but I'm sure there's plenty of crossover.

[Daenerys]

We have two healers on the tanks and one on the raid, but I'm sure there's plenty of crossover.

This is what we do. I raid heal, which is a fairly boring job for the most part, and refresh riptide/earth shield on tanks when i can get in range of them real quick (annoying to do when your melee are across the room to be "behind" ragnaros). but there is definitely way more tank damage to heal than raid.. just position most of your ranged dps in range of the tank healers and the tank healers can toss heals on them after a trap, there is no other damage to heal unless someone is stupid enough to get hit by lava waves.

ETA: if i were able to be in range of the melee and tanks at all times i'd spend more time healing tanks for sure. it's just the range issue that makes the fight annoying as a raid healer.

[Arincia]

Ended up successfully downing it with 2 healing (druid and paladin healers). You have to realize that 95% the raid damage taken is predicable or avoidable. Lava waves (avoidable/timer) flame orbs/explosions (predictable), bombs (predictable), adds exploding on hammer (avoidable), Lava lines (avoidable/timer) that's about 90-95% the raid damage going out so as you can see it is highly manageable. Also if you go that route tanks need to be very lenient with using CD's. 9 minutes to kill means you can cycle through the 3 minute cds 3 times easily. Anyways hope this is was helpful.

[Ezelyn]

For healing phase one, do you have just one healer working on tanks? We have two healers on the raid and one on tanks, and the one on tanks is blowing a gasket because he's blowing mana so quickly. It doesn't seem like that should be right. He seems intent on doing it that way, so he must have seen it advised somewhere... Just wondering what the experience is from people on here that have killed him.

A holy-pally can solo-heal tank in p1. Your active tank has to use his magic resist (trinket, cd) when your mage/priest soaks a trap (and not fail the 3-4 stacks swap).
But in fact, there isn't any reason to solo-heal this, because raid doesn't take damage except traps.
In our 2 healing way, we don't have any assignation except i take right side and he takes left side (but it's only to be sure everybody is in range from one of us).
Even when i fail my p1 (bad healing choice, bad spell choice) i'm about 60% mana. Divine Plea in transition and that's ok.

The hard healing part is in p2 when the whole raid is moving from one side to another.
After this, p3 can be solohealed (only tank damage).

[Andover]

A holy-pally can solo-heal tank in p1. Your active tank has to use his magic resist (trinket, cd) when your mage/priest soaks a trap (and not fail the 3-4 stacks swap).
But in fact, there isn't any reason to solo-heal this, because raid doesn't take damage except traps.

You're wrong, they take more than just traps. Look up Hand of Ragnaros and Wrath of Ragnaros. They will both deal damage to the raid.

In our 2 healing way, we don't have any assignation except i take right side and he takes left side (but it's only to be sure everybody is in range from one of us).
Even when i fail my p1 (bad healing choice, bad spell choice) i'm about 60% mana. Divine Plea in transition and that's ok.

The hard healing part is in p2 when the whole raid is moving from one side to another.
After this, p3 can be solohealed (only tank damage).

Either you extremly out gear this content or you have a VERY good raid healer (guessing it's a druid) that you can end P1 with 60% mana.