Comments on: Retro Raids… just because!

By: Tatko

Tatko — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:54:43 +0000

And yes, that is my Spirit Beast, Moonlight, at level 79, getting a taste of Archimonde.

Turns out he tastes a lot like chicken. Who knew?

Yeah, they say human flesh tastes like chicken. What they fail to mention is that this means chicken tastes like human flesh.

By: Morgaine

Morgaine — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:55:27 +0000

Gah, and I still haven’t had a chance to go back and kill Archie for my achievement. I still suffer horrible nightmares of doing that place back at 70. Oh please run from the fire, little priests. Please don’t silence all the healers by dancing in the hot hot flames.

On the other hand, retro raids are a lot of fun. My rogue partner and I (disc priest) have been happily two manning as much old content as we can. We’ve cleared Zul’Gurub, Molten Core, AQ20… Last night we did Kara… We had a bunch of fun with the beams on Netherspite, and getting to play half the pieces on the chessboard was great. The entire night I found myself saying things like “Do you remember the first time we did this and someone moved during flame wreath? Do you remember when we wiped on Prince at 1% because I ran into an Infernal by accident?” It was such a blast.

We also spent a happy couple of hours killing the first few trash packs in AQ40, just so we could ride around on those red Qiraji battle tanks. Unfortunately we couldn’t two man the Prophet, on account of I would get mind controlled and smite my poor rogue for 10k. However, we make a spiffy looking couple with our Red Bugmountthings, even if we have to go to AQ40 to ride them.

By: Xerxes3rd

Xerxes3rd — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:52:37 +0000

A couple weeks ago, 6 of us ran through ZG and AQ20 for fun. After breezing through it, I said, “Hey, let’s try BWL, just to see if we can get past Razorgore.” So we did try it, and we did kill him (quite easily, in fact). And then came Vael. Surprisingly enough, one warrior, one feral druid, one resto druid, and three hunters killed Vael. And it was GLORIOUS. The same group went on to clear the dungeon. We had to all go fetch our Onyxia Scale Cloaks (the feral druid had to fetch his rogue for a bit… anyone who’s ever been past Vael knows why), and we had to read up on a few strategies (apparently getting all 5 types of debuffs from Chromaggus permanently mind controls you), but we did it. It was one of the most fun raids I’ve ever been on (even more fun than soloing Garr in MC).

After reading your post about Hyjal, we’ll definitely go give SSC, TK, and Hyjal a shot if we can muster up a dozen people!

By: Adriamarie

Adriamarie — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:55:39 +0000

So much of what I have read here could be from our guild. We are a good size and love to play the game. Enjoying questing beyond 80, achievements galore and role play events, along with casual fun raiding, we have a good time. This article has provided a nice boost to the idea of BC and Classic raiding. It has been discussed a bit over the last few months and now I hope it shows up on our calendar! Good Hunt!

By: tarth

tarth — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:21:48 +0000

ahhh the good old days of Hyjal/bt, i remember wiping all the damn time on archi due to people not understanding how to use tears of the goddess, also having lag issues on crappy computer all through t6 content, o well i was a shadowbolt spamming lock, and loving it!

By: Dahc

Dahc — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:14:39 +0000

Do you do this on Kael’thas?

I would love to go back and do some of the old raids. If you will take non-guildies, let me know (Dahc), and I can melt some faces or heal with my lazers :D

Oh and grats on Swift Flight Form! You should try and get Anzu. That is the coolest mount in the game in my opinion. I run Seth. Halls every so often with a guildie for that mount.

By: Sinnara

Sinnara — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:48:39 +0000

Congratulations! I’m a fan of retro raiding as well. My tank got her Hyjal achievement the night before you guys, albeit cheaply. I came in to just the final boss, my friend was in the group and they lost a couple people right before Archimond (imagine that). Anyway, by the time the boss was down to 12% or so there weren’t but about six people left alive, and from 5% on, I watched my friend (a tree druid) heal the MT (a bear) until Archimonde fell and everybody got their achievement. I love seeing an ending that epic. :)

Anyway, I’m also a member of a guild that’s too small to run 25man content, but near the end of the TBC cycle, I spent a lot of time on my priest with another guild’s weekly 25man runs and got to see a good deal of the BC 25man stuff. I’ll go out on a limb and tell you that if you like Hyjal, you’re gonna love Black Temple. :) Enjoy, and keep up the good work!

By: Darling

Darling — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:13:05 +0000

I wish I was on your server and in your guild. I desperately want to do stuff like this but everyone I know is so burned out from raiding that they never want to do anything fun OR they are still obsessed with raiding and… never want to do anything fun. Color me green with envy.

By: Ryiana

Ryiana — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:14:58 +0000

Salute from a fellow drood :)
I am an officer in a social guild, never more than 4-6 of us on at any time and the usual group activity is crafting gear for each other (woohoo!). We’ve lost some older members’ mains to progressive guilds, but still keep their alts in house and stay in touch. With my GM’s ok, I recently started “Alt’s Night Out”
We had a BLAST!
Posted invites, got responses from some folks we haven’t seen in a long time and ran Strath with alts we never play. Fumbles, miscasts and frivolity abounded, rez’s were plentiful and a good time was had by all. Next one will probably be a LOW level night, bust out your bank alts and run Deadmines or something similar. Brought us back to why we love the game.

By: sweet

sweet — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:28:59 +0000

Hey Bear! Wonderful post. Archi was one hell of a fight back in the day and it really was epic.

You gotta get in there and at least try some Sunwell now. I remember when clearing the trash in there alone was a huge deal. And Kalecgos is definitely going to be a challenge. Its not even the gear so much as coordinating the phasing. Good luck, and definitely post some Sunwell pics if you ever get around to doing it.