06-06-2006, 10:57 PM
Quote:My bet is that the early boss fights in Naxx will probably end up somewhere on the order of Nef/Huhu in difficulty with slide heading up to something more difficult than C'Thun and Ouro for Kel'Thezad himself, but that will be many bosses inbetween that will slowly ramp up the difficulty.
Their stated intention is that the first fights of Naxxramas would be about the difficulty of the Twin Emps and then ramp up quickly to be beyond the difficulty of C'Thun and Ouro. So far, that's about what I'm seeing. As I say in my writeup about Anub'Rekhan, he's a little easier than the Twin Emps but definitely harder than Huhuran in terms of the coordination needed to defeat him. Mind you, when I'm saying that the bosses are at about Twin Emps difficulty, I'm not describing a level that's impossible for an average raiding guild. The Twin Emps are definitely a ramp up in difficulty from the previous bosses, but once you "get" the fight, the fight with the Twin Emps turns out to be easy. It's just that it takes a dozen or more wipes to get everyone to "get" the fight, because it only takes a few mistakes by a few people to cause things to go very wrong.
The three fights I've experienced so far in Naxxramas -- the first bosses in the spider, plague, and deathknight wings -- all seem to share a common theme of requiring nearly all 40 players (nearly 40 = about 35ish) to know where to stand, where to move to, and exactly what their roles are. If a few people mess up, the fights end up cascading very badly very quickly. On the other hand, if your group collectively knows what to do, the fights turn out to be easy. In both these senses, they are a lot like the Twin Emps. I would say that if you're in a consistent raid group and want to be able to adventure into Naxxramas but haven't beaten the Twin Emps yet, then I suggest that your raiding party should try to make its goal over the next few weeks to kill the Twin Emps. The skills and coordination your raid group learns during that fight will pay off handsomely in Naxxramas.