My first Molten Core raid

We got our guild and an allied guild together and did a raid on Molten Core on Sunday night, my first time there. Man, is that place tough. We were "only" 31 people, and the place really needs 40 level 60 players. We got as far as the imps, but couldn't get past them and the surgers, they repeatedly killed us. So after 3 and a half hours, we abandoned. What took so long was getting wiped out so often. :)

The mobs in Molten Core are all on different respawn timers, and some of them repop rather quickly. So if you get one bad fight and you get wiped, you might have to do a good part of the dungeon again. Well, we got one epic ("purple") item for one of our hunters, and one green drop, and that was all.

This was also the first raid on the new guild raid point system my guild introduced. You get 10 points for every raid you do (less if you come late or leave early, more if it is a particularly long raid), managed by the officers of the guild. Then when in a raid something drops that you absolutely want, you can use your raid points to buy a +50 bonus on the /random 100 roll. If you win that way, you lose all your raid points. The system is designed to reward people who go on raids often, without making it impossible for casual players to gain anything.
- posted by Tobold @ 12:32 AM Permanent Link