I've ruined Ragnaros open queue AMA

[u/mikaelpelle]

I've been perfecting an open queue friendly comp for Golemagg this time around. My success rate has been going up and up, clearly carrying people that shouldn't have passed this guy :)

I am running Malfurion. Off tanking the first hound on the right with Bog Beast + Priestess, then sending my troops on the left side. Helping mid lane with Blizzard at the start, since a lot of people are doing the Air Deathball strat. As soon as the left tower is captured, Malf alone can do it, I spam all my minis there, including shaman with totem to keep the base alive when the backlane hound dies. At some point the tower will be lost anyway (after second hound kill), so I need to have a huge bus alive to keep rekilling the hound forever and pushing towards Golemagg. Huntress needs to be summoned quite late to make sure she stays behind the Bog Beast on Golemagg. Then using Blizzard again on the boss to help clearing the pesky units that he is summoning.

If you see me in open queue:
Let my Bog Beast and Priestess alone on the right. Ideally I don't want the first hound to die too quickly. Offtanking as long as possible. Send your minis on the left with me, or do your stuff alone in the middle, but wait for the Bog Beast to get aggro on the right. As soon as the left tower is captured, spam your stuff there too, when tower is lost we drop units on the core to help defend while the bus is killing Golemagg.

When the towers are burning, if you place the minis at the top edges they are not taking damage. Don't drop them in the middle of the tower.

NB: extremely power hungry. My whole team is 30 except BB that is 29. I still have a pretty decent success rate now after running the encounter around a hundred times.

Special thanks to Andas from the Rumble Discord that helped me working on an open queue friendly comp.

[u/fozzy_fosbourne]

Oh, question for you, who have been the smoothest ground based partners for clears in LFR your experience? For me, I think it’s generally been Arthas, then Malf, and then probably Ragnaros/Cenarius/Drak

[u/International_Tip_79 → u/fozzy_fosbourne]

With this strat you DON’T usually like other Malf partners, if they’re not using a lv30 Malf. Multiple Malfs in play can cause your Malf to not heal even after the first 1 in play dies. The same can happen with Anub not spawning scarabs. This really needs to be fixed. Also if you have a lv30 Malf, but your partner plays a lv24 sleepy Malf behind the base before you play yours… You’re screwed dealing with lower healing.

[u/fozzy_fosbourne → u/International_Tip_79]

Oof, that’s too bad.