Category: Groups, Horde, News, Restoration, Thoughts
Well, so it’s about time something useful came up.
This, however, is not it.
This is about Karazhan.
I had never been before last week. Oh, sure, I understood that there was sweet gear (Mother of murlocs, there’s EPICS in there!) but I’m in a very laid back, very casual guild.
Well, five of us found ourselves together running an instance.
It went well.
We ran another. It went very well.
We ended up doing the entire Karazhan keying chain. With no wipes. In two days.
We’ve since run several more instances in this five-man, and it’s fun every time. Karazhan, despite our keys, seemed an unattainable goal.
We said to our allied guild “hey, we have some people with Kara keys. If you do, too, you want to poke around in there sometime, wipe a few times, have some fun?”
I figured we’d have a chance to gear up a bit more first.
Then that lunatic Wildhermit got involved and started prodding. We ended up going that very week (four of us and six of them).
We dropped Attumen in one try. We dropped Shadikith in the basement with the same amount of trouble.
We went back the next day and turned Maiden of Virtue into Toasted Woman on Floor, one try. Moroes was a little trickier, but we got him on the fourth attempt.
Karazhan, as it turns out, is fun. Really, really fun. I am looking forward to next week and getting more epics.
I highly recommend Karazhan if you have a chance to go in a low-stress environment. If you can drop Attumen, you’re geared okay. If you can drop Moroes, you’re coordinated enough.
This week we’re going to try for Opera.
P.S. Mitts of the Tree-Mender!
January 17th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Woot! I am here.. I will “prod” you to progress here too my good man…. err… tree?
Me thinks you need links
January 31st, 2008 at 9:03 am
Nice job! Curator is the next gear check, with Shade of Aran being the next “coordination” check. If you can get those two down, the rest of the instance is definitely doable.
Next gear check after that is Gruul (possibly the longest delay time you’ll have in raiding is getting this guy down with the complicated transition to 25 man from 10 man) and next coordination check is Lurker. Get those two down and you’re good to go up to Vashj and Kael!
I like how WoW has built raiding into fairly well defined stepping stones.