A short entry because CotF killed Al’ar last night after quite a few nights of angst in there. It was our second time to be successful on this WoW boss. The screenshots are the original ones from the end of January (was it really that long ago?) when we managed to take the female Phoenix down on our first night of attempts. 
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I think the breakthrough was when we decided that despite the temptation of being able to knock 3% of her health off with each Ember killed, it was distracting, and bunching up our dps too much and we just tanked all the Phase 2 embers and held them so the entire raid could dps the boss. We did it with 2 minutes to spare, so there was general relief all round. Sounds like there’s a good chance we can try attempting Solarian in a week or so. Should be fun looking at a new encounter.