The 2 last bosses have a fair bit of mechanics that took us 7-8 wipes to figure out before we beat them.
Loving this level of difficulty. It’s still very casual friendly but a fun challenge.
Bfd was just a tank and spank. Required no communication or tactics of any kinds.
Awesome stuff!
I’m looking forward to running it after the nerfs.
“I’m looking forward to running it after the nerfs”
Agreed. Let me help the devs.
First Boss: Remove the poison clouds.
Second Boss: Challenging but fine as is
Third Boss: There should be a visual indicator on the ground telling me to move.
Fourth Boss: Instead of two stacks = 1 shot, make it 4 or 5.
Fifth boss: Remove the sheep and dragon
Sixth boss: Remove the one shot ability and halve all damage.
You disgust me.
Why even have a raid if you dont want any mechanics?
Let’s just put a pinata in the middle of the room that u auto attack for free loot. thats what youre looking for.
D I S G U S T I N G
Would a hug help, friend?
Going by parses, I’m a better than average raider in SoD, and I’m perfectly happy to have a raid that we can knock out in an hour while half-drunk.
If I wanted raiding to be srs bznz, i could go be a gray parser in Retail.
If you want SoD raids to be difficult, run them naked, with no world buffs, and no consumes.
Or, you know, you could always go raid Mythic in Retail.
I just want more mechanics than “tank and spank”
Gnomer is still stupidly easy. But it has a couple mechanics and requires voice communication. But you can beat the whole raid with 2 toes and no arms.
Anyone who seriously want gnomer nerfed need to sell their PC and go do something else with their time. Gaming aint it for them.
Good. The players of SOD are seemingly afraid of anything that makes you think. It makes the game more boring than it should be.
No true Scotsman fallacies are adorable.
If the raids in SoD aren’t this, I’m no longer interested to be honest. If Gnomer takes 2-3 hours as people say, I won’t even bother.
A 2-3 hour raid every 3 days in a 20 year old game is the pinnacle of stupidity.
After seeing Kelris destroy a countless number of guilds over the holiday break, I understand why they’ll want to make the next raid easier.
How to make the raid easy,
Don’t have apes for DPS
Bring 3 Healers.
What one shot ability from the 6th boss? I tanked it and there was no one shot.
Phase 2, get 10 stacks of the ice debuff on any one player and he just instant wipes the raid.
Modern Classic player mindset.
“My raid has 2 simple mechanics!!! BLIZZARD NERF!!! I ONLY HAVE 4 MONTHS TO FIGURE IT OUT”
The fact that they nerfed Tempest Keep in TBC, even though all the information on it was out for 15 years proves that the Classic community cannot be helped.
First boss: drag the trigger into the gas cloud it disappears
Third boss: look where the bosses feet are facing when he starts the big wind up and move
Fourth boss: coordinate two ranged groups of three to soak
Fifth boss: ranged focus hard on sheep then dragon when you can’t attack the sheep. Melee deals with the other two.
Sixth boss: kite it
There are easy solutions to everything mentioned.
And for p2 on the 6th boss the ice block is dispellable but don’t touch the bomb ground effects. Or have a mage do it and they can blink out of it.
We finished it last night. Last boss took us like 3-5 pulls.
Last boss honestly felt way overtuned but it was very satisfying to kill it first reset and before the inevitable incoming nerfs.
Super fun raid. Its nice having bosses not fall over in 20 seconds
1st week clear though? Is that really hard with SM gear? IDK I think they nerfed it too hard imo. I love a challenge.
Hahahaha
Too much for the modern Classic player.
Following the SOD beta test is just too entertaining.
Void Reaver?
Right? Like most of us in my raid just hit 40 an hour before raid, no extra runes, still in bad gear or random items we picked up. It will be much easier next lockout too after we farmed better gear and runes and such. It’s not that bad.