Everytime Maly is the weakly, I cry a little bit, and then try to run it with at least five other people who know the vehicle mechanics because as much as I try to explain, nobody who's walking into Eye for the first time is going to survive phase three.

I actually had a lot of fun in that raid. Even now as a weekly with guildies is great.

However, I loathe PUGing this raid. ICC often is easier to PUG than EoE.

Actually, my first time through EoE, I was one of the LAST ones alive. You know why?

When it was relevant, none of my guild attempts or pugs ever assembled long enough to make it happen; nobody wanted to run the thing, at least with people who didn't have the achievement.

So I watched the tankspot video. And I practiced the mechanics with the daily (Aces high!). Over. And over. And over.

You know what? The fight wasn't terrible. Most people just didn't want to expend the effort to make it so. As much as we might say we want new and interesting things in the game, I think only a portion of us actually mean it.

Our server, Cenarion Circle, gets Malygos as the weekly often. 5 times was the last count, more than any other raid boss as weekly... The first time Malygos was our weekly, it was hell. It was a wipefest. It was pain. It was AGONY.

That was the second week of 3.3.

The third week? Malygos again. The server cried out in terror. But the pugs formed anyway, and strangely, the pain was just a little less.

Three weeks later (give or take), it was Malygos again. And again, the server was in uproar... but strangely... the Malygos pugs were going rather smoothly.

By the 4th time we got Malygos, no one really cared.

Why? Because nearly every person on the server has seen the fight now. Everyone's downed him, everyone's gotten used to the drake. When you pug Malygos on Cenarion Circle, you ask "Who knows how to fly their drake?" and are shocked if more than 1 person says "I don't."

So Malygos is easy on our server... and as a result you can't go out your front door without seeing a "Champion of the Frozen Wastes" anymore.

I don't hate the fight itself -- I hate the way players' IQ's instantly drop by 50% as soon as they zone in.

I love EoE and I cant understand why people hate it.

However, it's true. people hate the raid and it's difficult to get a group for it nowadays.


(the only part that I dislike is that we have to kill a blue dragon. I love dragons, especially blue dragons)