Written by TJM

Ok, so last night was a fun time. Molten core, followed by blackwing lair.

Erin got a group together for some raids, so I of course joined in. I think we had about 12 people total before we started out for MC (Molten Core). It used to be a 40 man raid for level 60’s, but most of us being lvl 80’s are close to, it was pretty easy.  You basically just go from area to area clearing out the bosses. The hardest part about this raid was trying to figure out where to go next. But luckily my buddy who has been playing WoW for a while knew the place pretty well. So we blew through it without trouble.

Now having covered MC, let’s move on to BWL (Blackwing Lair). This place is very difficult! We lose some of the people we had from MC and had about 6 or 7 for BWL. I knew how to get here, but did not know the boss fights at all. It starts out the very first confrontation is a boss fight. So you come to a room with a bunch of eggs scattered about, and to stages on either side. One stage has a dragonkin on it (the boss), the other has about 4 enemies using some kind of controlling orb. One person in your group has to use this orb and controll the dragon. While under controll, you have to use the dragon to destroy the eggs. All the while this is going on, enemies are coming out of the woodwork trying to stop it.

Being 80 this wasn’t too bad, but I can see how being lvl 60’s only would be extremely hard. So after all the eggs are destroyed, you kill the dragon you were controlling. Then after he dies, the enemies flow like water at you! I believe Erin said there were 40 orcs, 12 dragonkin, and a number of goblins. We fought for a bit, then decided to go on to the next room with all these enemies at our heels. BAD IDEA! What’s in the next room? A huge dragon with 1 million health, that’s stacks all kinds of debuffs and hits very hard. So, we wipe yet again.

When we all respawned all the adds were gone, thank goodness. There’s was just this dragon left to deal with. Basically you had to have everyone spread far apart, and casters and ranged damage as far back as possible. Because this dragon has flame breath that goes in a cone in front of it. So the tank points it away from everyone, and no one can be within 10 yards of the tank because of a cleave that does massive damage and chains to boot! So this battle with the dragon alone was very tough. Alot of us died, including myself tanking the dragon. Good thing we had a spare tank with us.

So that dragon down we move on. Had to fight a small group of 4 enemies, who were pretty tough for non bosses. One guy had 242k health, the others about 120k. So we get them easily enough, and move on. The next part was absolutley crazy! It’s a dragon hatchery, with some kind of sprayers coming out of the floor that put a crazy debuff on you. It slows movement speed by like 70% or something and slows casting speed! So we start fighting all these dragon whelps and the occasional elite dude in the mix. Crazy part is, the whelps respawn like it’s going out of style! So the whole time you’re slowly moving towards the next boss, you’re fighting whelps and elites non stop! So we go on to the boss. Some big dragonkin dude, forget the name. Basically a tank and spank. Kicks you like 50 yards away everyone and a while. When he kicks you, you go into the quickly respawning whelps. So we waste this dude and a door opens to the next room.

This is where we found out it prolly would be best to have more than 7 people. The boss’s in here completely eff your world up! The have a debuff that increases fire damage taken, and use shadowflame. The debuff stacks like 20 times and on anyone in his line of sight. So the tanks have to be rotated because the buff is so strong. This is where we had to call it quits, because it was getting late (or early) in the day. So we never got to finish this raid, but it will be done another day! We will get you Nefarion!

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