Mimiron Down

So he wasn’t that easy after all. Took us a lot of tries, but we somehow managed to get him on our last try – it was both the ending time for the raid, as well as the last raid before the weekly maintenance (and instance reset) – so it was just the Right Thing to kill him then.

I know it will sound like a conspiracy plot, but I am now pretty much sure that there is a contest running at Blizzard, and whomever designs a fight not annoying to melee classes loses and has to buy beer for the others. Well you know what? The guy that designed Mimiron is the unmatched winner for a while.

Seriously though, it’s not all about unfriendliness, though the boss has a lot of abilities that will spell doom if you get caught in them. It’s about situational awareness. Lots of it. The boss drops landmines around him, you have to find a gap in them, and why there are none because the mines go in a nice spiral around the whole center of the room? He will also shoot rockets at you for milions of damage – you have 3 seconds to spot a red circle under your feet and move. Too bad the circle is red on a gold floor, and for any melees, usually also hidden under the tank itself. He will also do a blast AoE that you have to run out of. And a laser barrage that you need to avoid by moving to his back. Each of these abilities alone can one-shot any player (well, okay, mines take up to 3 shots), if he’s not aware of his surroundings.

And on top of that, he will most likely do all these things at once.

/shakes fist

What I find a bit weird is that after a lot of wipes I still kinda like this boss. While he could receive some cosmetic fixes, it’s a good encounter. Maybe they could change the color of the rocket strike rune, make him not move while doing the laser barrage or enlarge his hitbox a little – it would not change the difficulty much, but would make it so less annoying.