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Monday, September 05, 2005
WoW Journal - 5-September-2005
Again I only played my lower level characters very little, and spent most of my time on Raslebol. He is already over 250 hours into level 60, and I always find something to do for him. Sometimes I help lower level guild members doing elite quests, sometimes I gather stuff, and often I go on some instance trip.
I did some more Dire Maul expeditions with Raslebol. One quick trip to DM east just to get the keys for somebody, a longer trip from start to finish in DM east, and one trip to DM north without bothering with the tribute, just killing all the named mobs. Which was kind of funny, because we got a tribute chest containing only a roasted chicken and some water. Some of the named ogres we killed only dropped very bad loot, but the captain dropped Kromcrush's Chestplate, which was much better than what I had previously. I also got a very nice warrior ring from the king. Next time we need to try a tribute run and see how it compares, and whether it is worth the added effort.
Another dungeon I visited twice with a 5-man group was Blackrock Depths. Both times we made it to the tavern, which enabled me to get a number of BRD quests done. My guild also helped me do the nasty prisoner escort quest in Searing Gorge, which is part of a BRD quest series. Now the only quest remaining is The Royal Rescue, which is much deeper in, and seems to be rather tough. Would be easy to get there in a raid, but I doubt the quest can be raided.
The weeks big finale was a guild raid to Molten Core. We had nearly 40 people, and we got until Lucifron. Unfortunately Luci beat us 3:0, and we gave up after the third wipe there. We also had a number of wipes on the way, one so bad that we needed to release and run back, and a nasty bug which at this point reset the dungeon and we found all the mobs respawned. So lots of time spent and no loot, but I think we learned a lot about what to do and what not to do. And it already went notably better than the first guild raid there. Maybe we should have watched the training video on how to kill Lucifron a bit closer. We split Luci from his guards okay, but once the guards were dead, everybody rushed him, and he killed us.
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Aye we did good in MC - the majority of peeps in that raid where at Lucifron for the first time. So we failed to kill him, but everyone got great experiance and will know what to expect next time. Next time I'm hoping that with the more experianced Lucifron raiders, our chances of sucess (and getting everyone to follow a winning strategy of course) will be much higher.
Just FYI there are weird things happening with raidID's right now. If you get in the situation where you clear some of MC, then wipe and come back in and find things respawned, you are actually in a different instance. Having the leader of the raid rezone usually will take you back to the instance you cleared some of.
Rezoning is also how you can make sure you get a new raidID if you have people who are bugged into some other guilds MC ID because they raided with them one time.
Don't get discourage on Luci, it took us more than a few attempts to get him the first time. Once you get him I bet you will sail thru to gehennas.
Rezoning is also how you can make sure you get a new raidID if you have people who are bugged into some other guilds MC ID because they raided with them one time.
Don't get discourage on Luci, it took us more than a few attempts to get him the first time. Once you get him I bet you will sail thru to gehennas.
# posted by 
: 6/9/05 01:32
: 6/9/05 01:32
DM Tribute Runs are generally worthwhile. You get two blue drops from the King and, if you do it correctly, 3 blue drops in the tribute. Hence, everyone can come out with a blue item. If you go with a guild group and everyone is cool about loot, it's possible to outfit people pretty well rather fast. The 2-hour post-tribute buffs don't hurt either.
It's funny - Lucifron is often very difficult at first but once you get the tactics down he's a snap. My biggest suggestion is to make sure your Paladins, Mages and Druids are all outfitted with a certain mod - decursive. This mod allows push-button cleansing and de-cursing of people in the raid. With the mod, a Paladin can cleanse 10 people in the 9-10 sec before Lucifron's bomb goes off. Quite simply, it makes the encounter very doable from a cleansing/decursing standpoint.
Just wait until Magmadar though. ;) Mags made us cry. (Now we're working on Majordomo Executus. Haven't taken him down yet though we're close.)
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It's funny - Lucifron is often very difficult at first but once you get the tactics down he's a snap. My biggest suggestion is to make sure your Paladins, Mages and Druids are all outfitted with a certain mod - decursive. This mod allows push-button cleansing and de-cursing of people in the raid. With the mod, a Paladin can cleanse 10 people in the 9-10 sec before Lucifron's bomb goes off. Quite simply, it makes the encounter very doable from a cleansing/decursing standpoint.
Just wait until Magmadar though. ;) Mags made us cry. (Now we're working on Majordomo Executus. Haven't taken him down yet though we're close.)
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