I am the GM of a casual guild. We have good players, but we’re not decked in existing raid gear. Our players are wearing primarily a mix of pre-bis, tier 0, and crafted epics-- how difficult should we expect ZG to be when we go in later this week?
I have read/heard that it’s easy, but I imagine that’s primarily because the folks who ran it on the PTR were wearing MC/BWL gear.
Thank you!
Not very. It’s a catch up raid.
Don’t over-pull trash.
You will most likely have troubles. But should have fun learning the zone.
Oh, I just read this.
You gonna die.
Oh, well, dear.
You can always do what the slugs do on most servers. Bring 5 of your members and just reserve some of the good drops and get 15 others to carry you.
That’s ZA, that’s a joke by the way referencing Zul’jin’s ‘‘we gona bury you here’’ figure i should explain my jokes and references now so as to not confuse everybody.
It’s about MC-level difficulty, from what I remember. Just half the people required.
Easier than MC.
Depends
To do it it’s ok difficulty about normal if you come from retail and last boss can ramp up.
That’s optional with all his abilities he has never been defeated. So goes from mythic to normal difficulty. It could be slightly harder than normal difficulty on retail. Reason I say that is normal difficulty you can ignore some mechanics. Depending on your gear well you will not be able to ignore mechanics.
So, zg is in the middle of normal- heroic. Is it hard? No. Just follow mechanics and bam easy.
If you play retail and think normal is hard then you may find it difficult. In time you will clear it.
Yeah, my question mainly stems from gear. Because our players are not currently decked in raid gear (we do not have enough people for 40 mans, but we do have enough for 20), I was curious how big of a problem that will be.
It sounds like, though, we should still hopefully be able to make progress and (eventually) clear it?
Yes, you will make progress and clear it. You can watch videos on boss mechanics to give you an idea.
Just follow those mechanics and you will be fine.
Thank you! I appreciate your replies.
Zg was created in an attempt to allow newer players catch up, and smaller guilds catch up, to other raiding guilds. It’s difficulty is low, nearly on par with MC. It’s gear is intended to get you in position to enter BWL.
Considering raiding in classic has been abysmally easy I would expect ZG to be more of the same.
How is that possible?
ZG was never difficult. Some strange mechanics on a few fights, but never difficult.
Any caliber player will clear ZG with time. Don’t sweat it when ya wipe a few times. That is going to happen.
Positive attitudes across the whole raid team will ensure raid victories.
Just research the fights and make sure to explain them to your raid properly. The raid is really a joke outside of Hakkar, and just as easy as MC is.
Super casual guilds will struggle mightily with ZG. I was in one that did just that.