Mythic Magery - Wipefiend!

OH.
MY.
GOD.

Where the hell did this guy come from??

You hear the stories, you read the QQ posts on MMO-C, you watch all the guides,
NOTHING prepares you for this!

We watched all the videos and read all the guides. 
We discussed target priorities, sorted out positions and assigned roles.

What then followed can only be described as a disaster which slowly turned into a farce.

Sixty (60!!!) consecutive wipes at 91%, roughly 90 seconds into the fight!
We would pull, hit the boss for a bit, some mechanics would start happening then it would all fall apart... over and over and over again!

It was a nightmare!

All of the focus in the build-up was on the main change from Heroic. 

When you go into the stomach, no longer can you run into the middle to go back to the normal realm.  Instead, you leave behind a 'Soul' which must be killed to bring you back.

It changes EVERYTHING!

Or perhaps that is where we went wrong...
The focus shifted almost completely to making sure people were broken out of the stomach at the right time and it let us down in other areas.

People were dying to the Heroic mechanics that we have dealt with so many times.
The basics... Doomwells at the edge, stack on the rooted person, slow and kite the construct, etc. 

And, once people start dying, the fight rapidly spirals out of control.

Each extra person inside the stomach can help stem the flow of constructs but they can do nothing about the ones already unleashed.
Those remaining outside the stomach now have to deal with all of the mechanics plus kill the extra souls.

More deaths very quickly follow until there are actually more people inside the stomach than outside!
The last few people die completely and the boss resets.

60 times in a row that happened.

In the beginning it honestly felt like we weren't making any progress, and couldn't even see where progress was actually going to come from.
The deaths and wipes would just keep coming, different people affected each time before the downwards spiral began.

We made some changes... Not to our tactics but to our attitude and approach.

Our two assigned people (DK and Warrior) for killing Souls were left to do the job completely on their own. 
It was bound to cause even more wipes but we needed to know if they could handle it, and under what circumstances they needed a bit of help.

DPS on the boss was stopped completely!  Opening burst was allowed but 10-15 seconds into the fight all dps stopped on the boss.
There was a deliberate break between stopping on the boss and the first adds spawning so all the DPS had itchy trigger fingers by the time they arrived and picked them off almost instantly.

What it really allowed us though, was the breathing space to think about the basics again.  We had been caught up in the new mechanics too much but, with them taken away from us, survivability increased dramatically.

We had people alive, taking out the adds quickly and only the right people in the stomach. 

The next step was to give our assigned DK/Warrior combo the help they needed to stay on top of the Souls. 
It turns out, they rarely need help at all!
Only if they were targeted by something that took them out of range did they fall behind, so we had them call out for help as they ran to drop a Doomwell or stack for Shared Fate.

The progress now was almost tangible but there were still silly mistakes forcing the 91% wipes quite frequently. 
The good attempts though, were pushing into the second Feast of Souls phase.

Handling the Feasts of Souls themselves was just a exercise in rotating healer cooldown.  We are blessed with fantastic healers and they always seemed to be in control... although our best attempt (at the time) was cut short at 32% when our Resto Shaman missed his Healing Tide.
Healer issues are few and far between for us though, on this or any other fight.

And so it went until last night...
We were in confident mood as we cleared the trash.

Two or three quick wipes to blow away the cobwebs then we were in! 
Our best attempt yet at 22%... Not even at the third Feast phase so we knew we definitely had the DPS if we could get there.

A couple more quick wipes... Don't worry, get back in there!  We could sense it was close and didn't want to lose the momentum.

Feast 2 wipe
Feast 2 wipe
Feast 2 wipe

Consistency at last, we are definitely closing in!

A couple more silly wipes... Why is there always someone that releases??

Approaching Feast 2 and everyone is alive
Shaman goes down as we lose focus for a moment trying to reposition for the Feast.  No Ankh, Res him up!

Smoothly through the Feast of Souls, Gorefiend at 20%
Stay calm, get through the normal phase.
Warlock dies to some fire on the ground, save the Res.

We're closing in though, 19 still alive.
Feast 3 starts...
Kill the Constructs!
Break everyone out!
Ignore the Big add!
Tanks on the Sparks, everyone else just hit the boss!

Execute power from our two Warriors pushing us towards glory until finally...

after 117 wipes...

Mythic Gorefiend dies!