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Last week, we spoke of the components that make up the fight atop Deathwing’s spine so now we’ll push onto how these elements come together to make up the fight.

At the start of the encounter, the group will want to kill off three of the four corruption tentacles, with the tanks temporarily holding onto the three hideous Amalgamations that spawn as a reaction to that.

Moving onto the big bad himself of the expansion, we come at last to some of the most interestingly designed encounters of the expansion and perhaps the game.

The fight with Deathwing will last through two entire boss encounters at the end of the Dragon Soul instance, the first of which we’ll be covering today which actually all takes place atop his back as he flies around, trying to shake you loose like a dog with fleas.

The majority of this fight doesn’t really have anything to do with Deathwing directly so much as it’s about dealing with the various adds that you’ll find atop the dragon.

Welcome to Warmaster Blackhorn!

Engaging with this encounter will remind you a lot of the airship battle from way back in Icecrown Citadel. Similar to that fight, one of the big things that you need to watch out for is that the ship that you’re on, the Skyfire, has it’s own HP bar and if it dies, so will you. So you’ll have to take as much care of the ship as you would your main tank.

The mightiest elemental and the servants of the Old Gods have kneeled to your power, and as you make your way through the final phases of the Cataclysm to ultimately stop Deathwing and his plot to extinguish all life in Azeroth, you will come across a foe that may look like a nobody at first, but that's until you witness its awesome ability to bend lightning and ice to its will. Better bring your fur coats and conductors, because Hagara the Stormbinder is out to chill and electrocute the raid down!

We come to Ultraxion, the fifth fight in the Dragon Soul raid instance.

This is a fight that follows a fairly stable formula throughout with only a few small quirks to mar the simplicity.

The fight swaps in and out between the Twilight realm and the regular realm, with the switching being handled by a context sensitive button in the middle of your screen called “Heroic Will” which will boot you out of the Twilight realm for a few seconds.

The main use of this is to deal with an ability called Hour of Twilight where the boss essentially kills everyone that remains in the Twilight Realm.

Heading into the fourth boss of the Dragon Soul raid encounter, we run into a fight that’s kind of fun if everyone’s on the same page but can be incredibly frustrating if that’s not the case.

The problem is that while she has a number of mechanics to watch out for during the course of the fight, they’re largely simple ones so if you’re one of those that can pretty quickly grasp the various mechanics of a fight within a few tries, oh boy, be prepared to tear out what’s left of your hair if the rest of your group isn’t quite there with you.

As the fight starts, Hagara starts in a neutral phase that she slips into in between her other phases.