You are probably just dieing.

Undocumented (that I have seen) changes to Malygos include the elimination of the ability of warlocks to teleport out of the Vortex using Demonic Circle, and the elimination of the ability of a warlock sacrificing him/herself at the beginning of phase 3 to apply Curse of Elements on Malygos.

While I can't complain about the latter, since it was clearly an unintended "exploit", the former had been a warlock tactic since Wrath was released, and it seems odd to fix it after the content has become, if not irrelevent, LESS relevent.

"Palatel said...

You are probably just dieing."

ROTFL!

No, he's actually right. Last week on the night before the instance reset, a couple of my guild members and I got a few PuG people and headed into 10-man. It was actually a really good group, getting him into phase 3 with 6 minutes to spare on the enrage timer. But as soon as phase 3 started and the platform broke and we landed on our drakes, they despawned, and the entire raid fell to their deaths, before Malygos was even engaged again. This happened three times in a row before we called it.

Now, cut to yesterday, after the instance reset, patches full of fixes, several server restarts, etc. I did a guild run while waiting on one of healers to log on so we could hit up Ulduar, got him into phase 3 with plenty of time to spare, and the drakes seemed to be working. We got Malygos down to about 10% when all the drakes yet again despawned. However, this time they picked us up again, but when we were back up, we were all in melee range of him, and he proceeded to kill us off pretty quickly before we could figure out what happened.

So no, he wasn't just dying. This is an actual bug, which as of yesterday (4-24-09) had not been fixed.

I prefer my answer, thanks.

Yeah, I don't understand why they took away the Warlocks ability to use Demonic Circle on vortex, it was one of the only few uses this had. Yet they still allow Rogues to get out using Killing Spree. Why pick on the locks?

I can also attest to the despawning of the drakes, while they didn't despawn dropping us to our deaths, they did at one point disappear and then we landed on more drakes below.