Monday, December 7, 2009

Retro WoW

So in the process of going for the Classic Dungeon Master achievement, I also joined my guild and a few others for a run of Blackwing Lair. It was quite the experience, and now I know that I would have never been able to raid in vanilla WoW.

The group itself wasn't bad. We had some well geared people who knew the instance, and the rest were just along for the ride. The first hickup we had was attunement. Sure you don't have to be attuned anymore, but without it you have to run through UBRS to get in. We decided to just become attuned.

Well we eventually did it, but only after I got stuck along with two others at one part behind a gate that apparently doesn't open after the boss is killed. So we had to get summoned back and run back through the instance. One player even fell into the lava in Blackrock Mountain and we pretty much left him to catch up with us.

So we're all attuned and make our way into BWL. This is quite the instance. Lots of different mechanics for the boss fights. With 11 level 80s we didn't really have much trouble with the fights, it was the other players we had problems with.

One of them pretty much singlehandedly held up the party for a good half hour or more as he had died in the instance, released (after we told him not to), and came back, only to be killed by respawns from the first boss' room. When we went back to rez him his body was nowhere to be found, and so he had to run back again.

This wouldn't be so bad, except that he didn't get attuned somehow, so the run back wasn't just to the beginning of BWL, but to UBRS, and then you have to run through that to the entrance to BWL. It was quite the ordeal, and all I could do was sit there and wish we hadn't waited for him.

It got me thinking about the 40-man raids people used to do at level 60, and the horror stories I heard about them. With all the troubles we had with just one person out of 11, I don't know how the 40-man groups ever made it. Sure if it was all in the guild you probably are all on the same page, but even then there are hold ups, and after this weekend I really don't think I'd have the patience for stuff like that.

In the end we got through it, but it took an hour and a half, and I went into it expecting to spend less than an hour. At least I can cross that off the list of old world content I want to see that I never got the chance to before.

Next up: finish the last few dungeons for the Classic Dungeonmaster achievement. I tried BRD with my friend this weekend as well, but we got lost, as neither of us has done it before, so I think we might have to use a walkthrough. We're n00bs...

4 comments:

bob said...

Blackwing Lair was among one of the toughest back in the old versions. Not too bad if you're with a group that knows what they are doing.

-Bob @http://www.hiddenstuff.com/ WoW Guides

chengnuo said...

Marriage–a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.If you often play WOW Items Gold,I think you will know a ot of way to get Tera Gold.But what is the fast and Safely way to make Tera Gold?Do you ever think of it?As we all know,WOW Gold is a very interesting online game

ambersbridal said...

Thank you for sharing this information. The information was very help and saved a lot of my time.What about an escape from mortal trifling and desire? For the heavenly pleasure, we recommend you the planning of a lace wedding dress exploration. Sensation is triggered, as we seek to blend the diversified local elements into the current practice of destination wedding dresses. Resembling a surprised bumping into the treasure chest of Amber’s cheap wedding dresses plus size, new continents in the lover’s world are ready to be discovered.

hou said...

In the end we got through it, but it took an hour and a half, and I went into it expecting to spend less than an hour
meizu pro 5
meizu mx5
xiaomi mi5