Major Domo and Ragnaros

[Sword_of_Doom]

In 6 weeks that In Aeternum has been in existence (started as a guild mid-March), i have been with them for 4. We have made great progress in that time (Onyxia downed 3 times, all the Molten Core bosses defeated with the exception of Major Domo and Ragnaros) but for the past 2 weeks we have been stumped by Major Domo. The objective of this battle is to defeat his 8 bodyguards (4 elites and 4 healers) and make him submit. Once he submits he spawns Ragnaros (the final boss in Molten Core). It is a big accomplishment to get to Major Domo (you must defeat 8 bosses and snuff out 5 flames to spawn Domo) but no matter what strategy we used we could not defeat Major Domo. This past Saturday we spent 8 hours, yes 8 hours, probably 12 attempts and for myself 25 gold later (for our tanks 50 gold in repairs) as well as 3 repair bots, but the closest we could get Domo to submit was killing 5/8 of his bodyguards.

Finally on Monday we did what i thought was impossible, we made Major Domo submit. Here is some screenshots of the encounter with Major Domo.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/Tutel...ilMajorDomo.jpg

The above screenshot is the set up of the encounter. After an epic battle, we defeated Major Domo and finally got the opportunity to spawn Ragnaros. This encounter is in another part of Molten Core and looks like this.

This picture is of Major Domo in the lair of Ragnaros.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/Tutel...domoanymore.jpg

To begin the encounter with Ragnaros, you have to talk to Major Domo.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/Tutel...edRagnaros4.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/Tutel...edRagnaros5.jpg

Here are some random shots of our battle with Ragnaros
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/Tutel...lowlydieing.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/Tutel...ytimewithus.jpg

I actually survived a surprisingly long time in this battle even though i was healing the main tanks (we used 2 to tank Ragnaros).
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/Tutel...nedeadbutme.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/Tutel...tofRagnaros.jpg

But the expected did happen and we all wiped (got Ragnaros down to 87%).

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/Tutel...roughtheair.jpg

IMHO, this is the best rendered and designed encounter. Ragnaros is awesome, just awesome! My screenshots did not do justice to what helooks like live. As with the Major Domo battle, we will figure him out and Ragnaros will die. For our first time we were all happy and excited to be there. Next time will go better.