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I haven't talked about WoW progress much (I haven't even unpacked my consoles since I've moved.)

We're at the "double dungeon" portion of the endgame. There are two dungeons you must clear before you can move onto the next tier of the game. We've cleared out one of them, and have one boss to go on the other. This might be the hardest fight I've seen so far on WoW. (In fact, I hear the next several fights in the upcoming dungeons are jokes, comparatively.) It's easily a 20 minute fight at minimum, more than doubling the usual boss fight length. There are 5 phases to make it through. After about 3 weeks (I estimate about 30 attempts total), we've made it to phase 5, so we're almost there. It's one of those "pay attention to 9 things at once" fights that Blizzard likes to throw at people every now and then.

You fight Kael (boss) and his 4 cronies.

In Phase 1, you fight the cronies, one at a time. This is pretty much a gimmie. Not timed, so you can take as long as you want.

In Phase 2, Kael spawns the 7 weapons the advisors were holding, and you fight all 7 at once. When each weapon dies, you can pick it up and use it for the rest of the fight. Each weapon gives you special abilities that you need to use in the last phases.This phase was tricky. It's timed (2 min), so if you fall behind the next phase will start, ready or not. But we've pretty much got it now.

Phase 3 is where it gets hard. Kael resurrects all 4 cronies and you have to fight them simultaneously. They haven't gotten any stronger, but there's a lot going on, and it's easy not to notice things like the guy with the giant axe moving towards you while you're trying to heal someone else. There's a lot of communication going on in this phase. This phase last 3 min.

At the end of the 3 min, Phase 4 starts, and Kael joins the fray. At this point, if things are going well, we're finishing off the last one or two of the cronies when he becomes active. I have to tank Kael. Yet again, there's even more crap to pay attention to. He spawns phonexes around the room, and drops area-instant kill spells that you have about 3 seconds to move out of. Three seconds is plenty of time to react, but it's easy to get distracted by everything else going on. He's possessing people and we need to break them out of it. My (and my healers') big challenge is surviving his move of shooting three 50k (base damage) damage fireblasts at me, when I only have about 20k health.

When he hits 50% health, phase 5 begins. He loses some old moves (the possessions and fireblasts) and gains some new ones. He periodically makes the room 0 gravity and you have to float around for a bit, avoid some of his blasts, and stay away from other people (who will chain his blasts). Supposedly it's a very easy phase. We didn't do so hot our first time seeing it, but we got a feel for it and I think next time we see him he's going down.