Comments on: Full Kara clear say wut?

By: Xylarisa

Xylarisa — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:55:09 +0000

We went into kara on Wednesday with the view that lets have fun, we don’t know what the hell is happening with our new specs, add-ons have crap themselves so lets just have fun. Hit midnight flattened him and were looking for something else to kill it went so fast, didn’t even bother cc’ing moroes just bashed them down, two hours twenty later we were done and decided to take on za for laughs. I dont think one boss in kara went over two minutes and most were under one.

By: thrillah, protectorate (kil'jaeden)

thrillah, protectorate (kil'jaeden) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:47:18 +0000

This weekend, we went into kara with a pug. Friday night, my girlfriend and I hit 70 on our rerolls – prot pally and resto shaman. We’d been mostly instancing to level so our gear is decent and I was all blues, 490 def, and about 10.5k health unbuffed. The guy setting up the raid made leader when we got inside and when I looked at the list, I asked the two pallies – “prot?” and the reply was “ret”. I was the only tank. Solo tanking a kara less than 24 hours after hitting 70??!! I looked at everyone else in the raid… There’s no other healers besides my girlfriend??!! Solo healing I guess. And that’s how we rolled. We wiped a couple of times and some died throughout the night. It took us about 4 hours which seems to be an eternity today. But whatever. A few months ago, I’d tried solo healing a kara on my own resto shaman in t6 gear and was unable to because our tank got ripped apart whenever he knocked down. She did it though.

I can list these as some of my accomplishments: heroic sp, ub, bm at 69 and solo tanking kara. The game is really pretty easy right now but it’s so much damn fun now!!!

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:33:12 +0000

I really don’t want to do Kara anymore, but if we were able to clear in under three hours with nine people (my feral butt solo tanking) I almost want to go in just to see how quickly we can do it now.

I was doing Strat over the weekend to help a pally get water and it felt so awesome to swipe-destroy.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:01:46 +0000

My first time ever in Kara at the weekend: I had the free time (vital!) and I saw “LF OT Kara” in the lfg channel. Went in there in my S2/Heavy Clefthoof/Earthwarden set. Went out again about 3h later with pretty much everything down: Attumen, Moroes, Maiden, Curator, Chess, Prince, Netherspite, etc. I got a pile of loot out of it: Terestrian’s Staff, Moroes’ watch, the T4 head, a big purple caster staff, two lots of caster bracers.

Half the raid died on Netherspite but the rest got him down. Unfortunately I moved during flame wreath as well, resulting in a full wipe.

During Aran, Prince and Maiden I was asked to heal, which I did pretty ineptly (using the default raid UI and no healing addons probably makes this quite hard, and it feels like there have been some changes to the druid heal rotation).

Not sure of the gear level but a few people I did inspect had blues/heroics gear on. It was a full PUG, no two characters from the same guild, although some of the people there gave the impression of knowing one another.

While that was stupidly easy for the most part, I also did heroic blood furnace. We tried without CC to start with and I got one-shotted – having 16k armour seems to be a bad nerf. Made up for it by using my new indoor thorns :)

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:27:42 +0000

ZA should not take you more than 2 hours since you all know eachother. I found myself leading a pug ZA and people asked me tacs for malacrass and Zuljin. My answer: “kill all adds before malacrass in the designated order” and “mind the tornados and just nuke zul’jin”.

Not a nice thing to say about the final 2 Badass bosses of ZA which used to make us go to bed mad.

We were doing Kara with 2 healers and 2 tanks before (and made it once with 2 healers and 1 tank). Gonna try and tank it solo and have out best shammy as ONLY healer.

By: afoozle

afoozle — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:33:57 +0000

Yeah my guild just went in tonight, for the first time ever I offtanked with my bear rather than taking my geared hunter, my bear still has shitty green gloves and the MT was a guild alt warrior who has never set food in kara either.

One of the healers was an alt also and our usual MT was on his alt. I gotta say we spanked the living hell out of that place. We 8 manned prince ffs. no wipes, nothing really hard except nubbing romulo and julianne and having to kill them twice (didn’t kill her before she rezzed him).

Only boss we didn’t down was netherspite and thats because both healers had to log to get some sleep.

I had so much fun I spent the next hour happily dragging low guild alts through stocks laughing about how awesome swipe is now.

I love the new tanking mechanics.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:33:12 +0000

Well had the same experiance in Kara with my guild on the Llane server. We have ran Kara twice a week for about a year now. Netherspite didn’t get the second set of beams the past two nights. Someones was asking when second phase on prince was happening, heh its been over for a few seconds. we ran ZA and did a full clear in 2 hours 20 minutes. we just got to Keal’thas Sunstrider in TK and the instance server crashed so we will have to get him sunday or another day before reset. yeah it is crazy how nerfed things have become but it is nice to finish some of these places befroe the X-pack comes out and we all head off to level eighty.

By: Dirz

Dirz — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:30:27 +0000

EoG is having a similar experiance- 3 hour kara clear, than went into ZA tonight for the first time EVER- and cleared it with minimal hassle- took longer to read zul’jin’s abilities than to kill him:)

By: brian

brian — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:00:06 +0000

My Big Bear Butt is only up to 64 and I 3-manned BF with a 62 mage and a 61 priest last night. Not just Kara/Heroics nerfed, but apparently all the outland instances. Ridiculously easy. And I’m still in HFP quests from the xp nerf. YAY! =)

By: Morgain

Morgain — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:05:37 +0000

I couldn’t believe how easy it all became. We did a ZA run and were at the Eagle Boss within 5 minutes. We killed Lynx with 24 minutes to spare.
And then Kara… We had my bear tanking and a warrior in all greens offtanking. Not that the warrior needed to tank much. Netherspite went down in 59 seconds. He didn’t even MAKE it to a banish phase. Curator in 1 min 4 seconds, didn’t get an evocate. I was stunned. My little bear was spiking at 3k TPS on Curator. Prepatch I was sitting at about 1k TPS. I’m a little scared to see what happens when I next get into Hyjal.