Magmaw will most likely be one of the first bosses you attempt in this instance and while it seems there is a lot happening once you have the strat down pat it can be a relatively easy kill.
The fight can be basically broken down into 2 phases
Phase 1
This can be essentially labelled as the ‘stay alive till phase 2 phase’
Things to look out for:
Pillar of flame – Magmaw will summon a lava patch under someone in the raid after a few seconds this will explode and anyone still on the patch will get chucked into the air doing considerable damage + fall damage when they land. We had someone call this over mumble but odds on if you hadn’t started moving by the time the call was made it’s going to be too late. Once the pillar goes off it will also spawn lava parasites which need to be AOE’d down asap and it’s very important not to let them hit you. We had an OT tank them but you can also use frost traps and earthbind totems if your AOE is good enough.
Mangle – The boss will put this on the current tank and once it’s duration runs out the boss will gobble the tank up and do massive damage to the tank. The tank will need heavy healing as well as CD’s being used.
Ignition – About half the room will get covered in steam when this happens everyone need to get out of that half because the boss is about to slam himself there and most likely kill you.
The boss also does a heavy raid aoe as well as random lavaspits, both are unavoidable.
Dealing with this Phase is relatively easy if you execute the strat properly. We had the range dps stack on one side of the room every time a pillar spawned under us we would move to the opposite side, staying stacked up. By the time we had made it to the other side our OT had picked all the parasites and we go ballistic on the adds. This just repeats until phase 2.
At the end of phase 1 the boss will become mountable by 2 people, we picked 2 melee to do this. Once on the boss you gain an ability called constricting chains which you have to throw onto the spike to impale the boss which will induce phase 2.
Phase 2
Phase 2 is very much like the heart phase in ulduar for the XT-002 deconstructer’s heart phase. Once the boss is impaled the exposed head of magmaw will become targetable and the boss will take extra damage, this is what you want to save lust/time warp for. Eventually the boss will pull himself off the spike and phase 1 will start over.
Essentially this fight becomes a lot easier the better you control phase 1.