Monolith

May 26, 2005

Following another successful day in the Core with Entropic Order, we drilled our way through the first four bosses with little trouble. Lucifron and Magmadar were dead near the two hour mark, Gehennas fell without a fight, and only Garr put up a small fuss, insisting he be pulled twice...and demanding a reach around. (Supplied by Kinn, that sick bastard, who also picked up the legendary quest piece. Who knew there was orange shit in this game?)

Which puts us right back to the good Baron Geddon.

Our first two pulls resembled something close to a little league soccer game, only less organized. Tanks out of range of healers, suicide bombers blowing up packs of people, warriors trying to tank the AE, and a general chaotic pall settling around the whole raid. The third pull put him dead at our feet though, and Vargas clocked in something like 4.3 miles running back and forth while tanking. Ending on a high note, we came back Monday to try on Shazzrah.

Well, Shazzrah died in two pulls, but it should be noted that the developer who thought a blinking, arcane explosion casting boss would be fun, can run his ass around for five miles holding ice on his balls, just so we can say we've had similar experiences. After Shazzrah, we battled through the elemental packs so that we could get a first class ass spanking by Sulfuron.

It's no secret that I bitch about the alliance and how easy this place must be with paladins. Having a secondary healing class who can take care of dispels, allowing priests to actually focus on healing, must make a few of these encounters almost trivial.

Sulfuron is a lot like that. The four adds that come with his pull, that they call "priests", cast shadow word: pain and immolate like millionaires handing out cash to a room full of strippers. It seemed like everyone had a few of these dots shoved in their g-strings, and with these dots hitting upwards of 800 a tick, people dropped like dominos.

On our first two tries on this guy our priests were able to do nothing but dispel. We were left with a discount ticket to Disneyland, and a stale fruit salad on heals. Needless to say, we wiped in glorious fashion.

So glorious in fact we decided to hit Golemagg instead and kill him. Hell, even the "learning" pull got him to 19%. Despite being the largest boss we've seen so far in Molten Core, he was definitely the easiest. Killing him was like getting free candy on halloween.