The New Ragnaros

[MongoJerry]

I'm serious. The fight is hard, but it's far from undoable by a well geared group. He wasn't buffed btw, they fixed two bugged abilities and actually nerfed the splashes.

And I'm serious when I ask you not to troll. Nothing in what I said stated or implied what I personally thought of the changes to the encounter. I simply linked to a very funny post that I thought people here would enjoy. If you want my opinion on the encounter itself, I'll say that I'm happy that the changes were made, because the supposed highest boss currently in the game shouldn't have been the joke encounter that he was before. However, you're quite wrong. They did buff him significantly. First, the splashes weren't nerfed. Sure, an individual splah causes less damage, but they come a lot more frequently compared to the almost nonexistant splashes in the pre-patch Ragnaros encounter. However, our group was prepared for that. What we weren't prepared for on the first night of the patch was the new knockback attack on the main tank. That simple attack changes the encounter significantly. We tried a few ideas, but after a handful of attempts, people wanted to stop and go play the new battlegrounds some. Besides, we didn't really have our "A" team in the instance anyway, so we were having problems just from inexperienced members of the raid not doing what they were supposed to. We stopped, figuring we could start fresh the following week and bring the "A" team in to see what we can do.

I have some vague ideas of what to try and mentioned them in a post above. It sounds like, however, that you do have an idea of how to handle the main tank knockback attack (which is different from the grenade attack). If you would care to enlighten us on that and perhaps give some suggestions on where tanking and melee dps players should be placed, I would appreciate that. If, however, all you can do is insult me and the group I raid with, I ask that you refrain from doing that.