With our recent acquisition of The Immortal title, we’ve been looking to polish off our heroic raid achievements and be one of the first guilds to get Heroic: Glory of the Raider. That goal got pushed back a week last night after succeeding so hard that we failed.

In order to kill Malygos in five minutes to get the Heroic: You Don’t Have an Eternity achievement you have to stack your raid with at least four Druids and two Deathknights (hurray for raid stacking). During our initial three attempts while figuring it out I managed to yell at the GM due his criticism of my Entangling Roots skills. From this point on he dejectedly stopped using Ventrilo and used in game chat to communicate.  Despite this, we had exceedingly low Tard Factor and we mastered the strategy by the fourth attempt. Our night came to an end shortly after.

The downside to being on the forefront of World of Warcraft raid progression is that we rarely have any guides to follow or even any tidbits of information to work with. We learn things the hard way most of the time. We learned the hard way with Malygos that you can’t easily get a do-over once you’re past the point of no return. The main part of the strategy involves burning Malygos down to 1 health prior to phase 2 (he can’t be killed in the air). Upon arriving in phase 3, if you anyone does any damage to him he dies and the fight is over. If you’ve gone past the five minute mark then you lose your chance for the week to get the achievement. We did not realize what was happening, and the killing blow of a serpent sting tick came at 5:13 into the fight.

Now we know, and knowing is half the battle.