Guide to Aces High! daily

aka Practice for Malygos dragon phase!

How to unlock the daily:

1. Go to Librarian Serrah (33.5 , 34.4) in Coldarra
2. Obtain the quest [Corastrasza]
3. Deliver it to Corastrasza (29.5 , 24.8), she is on top of a platform -you need to fly
4. Get the daily quest [Aces High!] (first time you even get a blue item) and repeat it until you only dream about flying around doing this daily when you sleep!

Basically, you get a red drake with the exact same abilities as the drakes you ride in the Malygos encounter. The basic strategy to completing this daily is to HoT yourself up with Revivify, and then engage a blue drake. (Scalesworn Elite) When your health gets knocked down a bit, target yourself (this is important) and use Life Burst.


Here's some handy macros:
/target Scalesworn Elite
/castsequence reset=target Flame Spike, Flame Spike, Engulf in Flames
For the Malygos fight, just change /target Scalesworn Elite to /target Malygos.

The damage part of this is fairly straightfoward. You can spam that macro to victory (much like a hunter would be used to... but I digress) and just focus on healing yourself periodically.

Although the tooltips for the abilities say that they require combo points, they aren't really "combo points" as such. They're more like stacks of the ability. So 5 stacks of Revivify is the same as 5 combo points on yourself. 5 stacks of Flame Spike is the same as 5 combo points on the target.


The blue drakes also do a burst move called Arcane Surge which you have to shield yourself from. As long as you have one or more stacks of Flame Spike, and 25 energy, you can put up a Flame Shield. I've found that you can actually survive that without putting up the shield (it all came down to me being sloppy, but whatever) just make sure you HoT yourself up after you've taken the spike damage. Typically, it deals about 60-70% of your total health, so watch your drake's health closely.

Before you start, make sure you can see your pet bar. This is no problem if you use WoW's default interface, but if you have Pitbull or any other unitframe mod, make sure to double check. It is especially important that you are able to keep an eye on your energy.

For hunters and warlocks (classes which already have pets), dismiss your pets to prevent any sort of weird bugging which might happen. You may also want to have a separate unitframe mod to display the pet bar, because if you're anything like me, having to change Pitbull around is a pain in the ass. For example, I use Pitbull for my usual frames, and turn on ag unit frames for this daily/raid.

The raid encounter will pretty much be the same, perhaps with the exception that you don't need to watch your health as much, due to the presence of healer assignments. However, since you can heal yourself, it is always a good idea to keep an eye on the health bar anyway.

Another general tip for healers in this raid is to turn on pet frames for this fight. The dragons everyone gets are considered pets and it might be hard to heal the raid without this turned on.

Also, if your target's debuffs/auras are filtered, make sure you turn them off so you can see how many stacks of Flame Spike is on the target as there is no traditional "combo point" display as such. This might be a bit hard to identify in a raid situation, but you can always play guess! Anyway, I think Pitbull often places your debuffs first.

I know it might seem like a pain, but a few goes at this daily and it might actually be fun!