Dragons

Dragons are quite common in raids and instances, and many of them share a number of abilities. These shared abilities make it easy to know how to begin to approach a fight with any dragon. In the image above the safe zones are indicated in green. Standing in the orange areas may not cause you damage but you want to move from them ASAP. No one (with the exception of the tank) should be in the red zones.

In front of the boss you must contend with three abilities typically:

• Cleave
  
• Wing Buffet
• Magical Breath Damage (eg Fire Breath)

In addition to that the rear of a dragon boss will usually mean Tail Swipe.

Because of these abilities, the best place to stand when fighting a dragon is between the front and back legs on the side of the dragon.

Rogues and feral druids can still stand far enough back to be considered as "behind" the enemy without passing the back leg.