Malygos- Maximize your drake dps

[Ginchy]

Tips for Damage Dealers on Drakes
First thing you need to know. You only focus on 3 spells:

Flame Spike (Button 1): Damaging fire attack causing 943-1057 fire damage and awarding 1 combo point at the cost of 10 energy.

Engulf in Flames (Button 2): Finishing move which launches a blast of flame igniting target for 1500 fire damage every 3 seconds. The effect can stack and will last longer per combo point up to 22 seconds. Costs 50 energy.

Flame Shield (Button 5): Finishing move to protect your drake. Shield surrounds you reducing all damage taken by 80% and lasting up to 6 seconds for max combo points. Costs 25 energy with a 30 second cooldown.

High DPS Rotation

Always start off with a 2 point Engulf in Flames, after that always do 2 Flame Spikes, WAIT until you have 85 Energy, then cast Engulf in Flames. This should mean that you are casting a new Engulf every 7 seconds or so, letting it stack and doing 1500 damage per stack every 3 seconds. By the end of the fight, you should be able to reach a ~20 stack of Engulf, meaning that you will be doing between 45 000-75 000 damage every 3 seconds.

Now, if Malygos focuses on you during the fight and you have less than 78,000 hp, you should have 2 combo points available, waiting for your drake to reach 85 energy. Wait for Malygos to finish casting the "Surge of Power" spell and immediately use Flame Shield to mitigate the damage. With 2 combo points, you can block the entire Surge of Power if you use the ability correctly. Then immediately build up 2 combo points again and return to your normal rotation. If you have more than 78,000 hp, don't bother w/ the shield since it wont kill you, keep doing your rotation... be smart about this though.

If he does Surge of Power on you consecutively (2-3), make sure you get that shield up. You only really need a 1 point shield to survive, theres a huge chance your stacks will drop but its better than dying.

[Half Jackal]

Ahh the 1-1-2 rotation. Amazingly my guild didnt know about this (And neither did I) until our first Maly25 downing 3 days ago, with advice from 1 random pug we had in. Before we were using a 1-1-1-1-2 rotation and failing epically.

So I can confirm, this is the way to do it

[Detzett40]

... months behind, useless "guide", everyone knows 1-1-2 is the best

[ojopojo]

to make it easier you can follow few steps
1. choose healer who will only heal in phase 3. 10man - 1 healer, 25man - dont know, never done that
2. remember his name
3. create a macro :

/follow <healer's name>
/tar mal
/castsequence reset=target Flame Spike, Flame Spike, Engulf in Flames

4. put macro on action bar, you can bind a key.
WARNING: your primary action bar will be replaced by the drake action bar, so you have to use an additional actionbar. I use addon called Dominos.

5. when phase3 begins, and your healer is alive, position yourself to be in range of Malygos and your healer, then spam macro. You will always follow your healer ( and be in range of your healer ) and dps malygos.

5a) your healer has to move sometimes to avoid spheres ( but all ppl should know about this )


5b) spam macro for healer:

/tar pet
/castsequence [target=pet] Revivify, Revivify, Life Burst

[phreec]

I always use 1-1-1-2-3

[Ylts]

to make it easier you can follow few steps
1. choose healer who will only heal in phase 3. 10man - 1 healer, 25man - dont know, never done that
2. remember his name
3. create a macro :

4. put macro on action bar, you can bind a key.
WARNING: your primary action bar will be replaced by the drake action bar, so you have to use an additional actionbar. I use addon called Dominos.

5. when phase3 begins, and your healer is alive, position yourself to be in range of Malygos and your healer, then spam macro. You will always follow your healer ( and be in range of your healer ) and dps malygos.

5a) your healer has to move sometimes to avoid spheres ( but all ppl should know about this )


5b) spam macro for healer:

/follow doesnt put you to healers aoe heal range ? or am i wrong?

[geraine]

Our guild began stacking all of the drakes in one position in Phase 3. We all stack on top of each other, and we have 5 dedicated healers using the AoE heal. If a static charge is sent at us we all move to the right and continue to damage Maly. Even if you get focused twice the AoE heals are healing for 22500 each, so you are almost always instantly topped off.

By the end a 16 stack was the highest anyone had. Everyone was at between 13-16 stacks, so Malygos went down very quickly. No deaths.

[AngryLlama]

Decent guide but why wait for 85 energy?

I can get about 17 stacks on maly with using engulf @ 50 energy.

[explode13]

I can get about 17 stacks on maly with using engulf @ 50 energy.

Only 17? I average 25-27 stacks by the time he is dead.

[killlah4]

Only 17? I average 25-27 stacks by the time he is dead.

Probably because the rest of your guild fails at stacking them.