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Night two of HM Ragnaros. We are capable of downing 6/7 HM in one three hour night now, so we’ve been working on that the following night. The prospect of wiping on the same boss for six hours a week was a little daunting, so we’ve dropped down to two raid nights.
I’m honestly having a hard time seeing the point though. There are guilds who’ve had 6/7 HM for a lot longer than us, and are still working on him. The patch is coming in soon, and I feel like maybe we should just take a but of a break on this content before it hits.
Our best attempt has been around 53%, and that was three healing. We end up losing it somewhere around the seed phase. When we were two healing it, we’d weren’t even making it that far on some attempts. Our bear tank gets hit like a truck, I don’t think there’s much we can do about that. My plan was to three heal it until we started getting to the last phase, and possibly dropping down to two healers if we didn’t have enough DPS (Everyone pulls 23-26k usually). The drawback is getting used to having that extra healer, I guess as a “crutch”. And then there’s the chance that the patch will hit in a couple of weeks and no one will want to do this anyways, kinda making it wasted time. Maybe if we were getting closer to a kill, but its not even in sight at this point.
A ton of guilds are in the same boat. Only some 2% of guild have downed HM Rag.
However, realistically speaking, 6/7 HM is completed Firelands for most. If you are 6/7 HM Firelands you are still better than the majority of guilds out there; about 75% of the guilds.
Also, even the most hardcore guilds took weeks to months to down him, both pre-nerf and post-nerf. So that is a gear difference too. The guilds that have downed Rag had every attendee decked out in all available heroic gear because they had been farming everything else for months. If you have only a couple kills on the later hardmodes in Firelands, your total roster is just not going to have the gear advantage.
My guild is in a similar situation. But, we knew this fight was not going to be a cake walk compared to 6/7 HM. So we take it easy. We pace ourselves via milestones we set each week. When we hit the milestone we are done for our heroic Rag attempts for the week. I think spending 3+ hours a week on this guy is pushing it, unless you are close to a kill.
Heroic Rag is an incremental fight. You do it in stages, as if each stage is its own boss encounter. Take it easy I say. New content is coming out soon where you can use your Heoric Firelands gear advantage do a lot better in 4.3.
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