Molten Core & Onyxia's Lair

[TeaLeaf]

Originally posted by Gandalf-LordOfJelly@Sep 7 2005, 08:36 AM
Sounds like fun. I've not been playing my Mage much, been a Horde for quite a while now and am loving killing the filthy alliance pigs

Anyway, my mage is lev 57 now and with the free 1.5 levels of rest being credited today I should be 60 in a week or so, so I'll be up for a blast. I've just started playing the mage again this week and forgot how much fun it can be.

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Well if you would like to be in a Guild that raids MC and OL regularly........ :norty:

TL.

[Gandalf]

sounds interesting I'll contact you once I hit 60

[TeaLeaf]

Originally posted by Gandalf-LordOfJelly@Sep 7 2005, 03:24 PM
sounds interesting I'll contact you once I hit 60

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Whisper me before then as you'll need a while to complete the quest series for the key to OL and to do Attunement to the Core if you have not already done so.

TL.

[TeaLeaf]

We managed to kill Majordomo Executus on last night's Molten Core raid, on our third attempt.

Majordomo Executus is the ninth boss of the Molten Core and Ragnaros' main servant. He is also the last salamander boss. With eight adds and Majordomo unkillable, this unique fight sounded real difficult, but once we had the strategy sorted out and everyone remembered who to kill, who not to kill, who to kill a bit and in which order to attack each of the nine targets!

Majordomo has the ability to teleport someone to the middle of the room on a "magma plate" which deals insane damage per second.  His adds have a Blast Wave spell similar to the Mage version but much less damage.  After any four of the adds have been killed the Priest adds become immune to Polymorph effects.  Throughout the fight, the adds will "power up" and "power down." When "powered up" (a simple blue shield surrounds them) they will have a 50% chance to reflect either magical attacks or melee attacks based - it's quite funny watching a caster killing himself by casting onto the adds when they are shielded!

Anyway, the instance will have reset by the next run, so we'll be starting all over at the beginning again but at least we now know we can clear all the bosses up to and including Majordomo.  Hopefully the next time we'll attempt Ragnoros and for the first time complete a total clearance of MC

When we've mastered MC and everyone has picked a good enough selection of Tier 1 epic equipment then we'll expand our horizons and also start raiding Black Wing Lair and start picking up the Tier 2 Epic set items.

We're still looking for more L58+ players to get involved with our raid, so shout if you are interested in getting involved and picking up some Epic item boss drops.

TL.

[TeaLeaf]

Well, it had to happen and it did tonight - Onyxia was felled tonight by the SoG/Danu raid party on our first attempt of the night.

Please raise a glass.........:cheers:

TL.

[Gandalf]

:worship:  :worship:  :cheers:  :cheers:

[TeaLeaf]

Jas had his baptism of fire in Molten Core last night and saw his first Epic drops from kills of both Lucifron and Magmadar.  Jobok hopes to join us on Tuesday once he has finished the Attunement quest.

It was our first raid since the Danu/SoG alliance finished and it was great to see us down two bosses on our first run - albeit that a few of the tactics were somewhat less than textbook!

I'm looking forward to the Raid report form Jas to see how he felt it went from his perspective.

TL.

[JonnyAppleSeed]

In a nutshell very confusing  :blink:

For me tho it was not too difficult a job ...spam heal / innovate priest if needed.

I went in without knowing any tactics so i just kept my mouth shut and tried to pick up the stuff people were typing / saying

The first few encounters showed me how long these battles can last ...the first wipe i had spammed all my mana in the first 30 secs. the battle lasted alot longer and i was left with nothing to do but wade in and hope to get a crit hit for a free healing spell
 
I have a lot to learn .....  my first learnig point is take more mana pots in and get my first aid up to 300

Im not sure how it went as its my first 40 man raid ...but everyone seemed to think it went well
 
I loved the way after a few wipes people started to take notice of what was being asked of them

Very tense all the way thru ...great stuff

[Squonk]

Having built up some DKP I ended up getting these:

So whats this DKP all about?

[Gandalf]

Originally posted by squonk@Sep 14 2005, 06:07 AM
So whats this DKP all about?

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Dragon kill points. Basically you accumilate points for participating in the raid and completing certain objectives. Then if an item of 'phat lewt' drops that you want you can bid your DKP on it. It's a simple form of currency, and a system that most seem to be adopting now.

[TeaLeaf]

Our current system is fixed value DKP, so if the same item drops several times then the price is the same amount of DKP for each person who wants it.  First choice goes to the character from the appropriate class that currently has the most DKP.  When the raid first started (and everyone had zero DKP) then appropriate class members rolled for the Epic drop.  Having a system like this avoids the ridiculous bidding war that kicks off when raids first start out and a few people end up spending 400 (as yet unearned) DKP just so they have the *first* Epic drop instead of the usual 80DKP.

Now that we are established we are looking to change the system a little bit to avoid other problems and may well introduce a bidding system for unwanted items or lesser secondary items to avoid a 200 Gold item being disenchanted into a 4 Gold shard

TL.

[DuVeL]

TL: Go on your well deserved holiday....forget about WoW...

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Originally posted by DuVeL@Sep 14 2005, 01:10 PM
TL: Go on your well deserved holiday....forget about WoW...

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Scooby in disguise? Is this topical?

[TeaLeaf]

Jobok picked up his first Molten Core Epic drop on Friday night: Nightslayer Bracelets.

And last night Jas has picked up the Cenarion Spaulders, the 3rd Epic piece of his Epic armor set :clap:

Last night saw a new 'First' for the Silver Oak Guardians raid - with the Molten Core instance reset we cleared 6 bosses in one run: Lucifron, Magmadar, Gehennas, Garr, Baron Geddon and Shazzrah.  The great raid led to 14 Epic drops, but unfortunately we didn't get a single random epic drop the whole time we were there

Much fun was had....... :cheers:

With a bit of luck we will be restarting Onxyia Lair runs this coming Friday now that we have helped people through the difficult bits of the OL Key quest series.

TL.