Molten Core, Lurker Style!

[mjdoom]

Now that this is getting closer I just want to try to confirm some numbers of at least high interest people.  Some people responded before I posted the 4-8 plan so I just want to see where current interest is.  The Carpe Aurum list I will assume is complete and correct but any Lurkers who are interested I would appreciate you replying again just so I can be sure.  Thanks.

- mjdoom
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I wasn't sure where best to put this response so here it goes.

First off I am glad everyone (that I have heard from anyway) enjoyed themselves. A fun learning experience was what I was looking for and it looks like many others as well. The postmortem discussion here is also an excellent outlet after the fact. Only so much can be efficiently communicated during the run and it's easier to look at things after the fact, pick them apart, and come up with a better approach. It was mentally taxing on me to try to keep everyone together but in the end I feel that it was well worth it.

In response to some of the ideas presented here: First I think the idea of parking the two firelords together and blizzarding when spawns are out is a real winner. We were a bit short on mage power on our run which certainly didn't help. Hopefully we can get at least 6 mages next time blizzarding on a well defined schedule and that will take care of the spawns. The firelords will then die in due time. Having a warlock calling the blizzards is also probably a good idea as their aoe isn't as useful in that case so they can probably divert a little bit of attention to just calling shots for the mages (reducing how much they have to think about). Sometimes specific roles have to be played by people. I know that the healers had both a healing rotation and some people designated to dispel/cleanse and not heal as much. If we identify the proper roles and fill them it will help to be successful.

If for some reason we are still short on mages (and high on hunters :)) we might want to consider the "wipe for the sake of progress" approach and just try to kill one of the firelords. Even in this case I would still advocate the use of blizzard though to try to slow down the damage that the spawns are doing.

I've said this elsewhere but in general I think that will be one of the hardest non-boss pulls in the entire instance. Bliz seems to have a penchant for putting some of the hardest pulls early in instances to test your mettle and allow passage further along. We were making progress even as numbers dropped last time and we will get it in due time. As we get better at certain fights they become easier and progress is made. In due time and with the effort we can move through the instance more efficiently like some of the high-end raiding guilds. It will just take us a longer period of time but I enjoy the process.

For the future I'd like to continue to run these runs in roughly 4 hour chunks. There are a couple of reasons for this: 1) (selfish, personal reason) I won't be able to block off entire days on weekends really at all. 2) It generally allows more people to participate. Just like my selfish personal reason other people have similar commitments. Smaller chunks of time will allow more people to participate. As we make progress we will be able to accomplish more in less time. With any luck we might progress to the point where we can go in and clear some areas for fun and loot on weeknights even.

That said, keep your eyes open for the next assault on the Molten Core. There are some ideas afoot on how to better organize guild activities in the future and I'd like to somehow mesh this in with that. Weekend afternoons/nights will probably be the most common times. If you have any questions or concerns about these times please don't hesitate to contact me through PM and or in game means. Hopefully in the future there will be others coordinating this along with me so that you have other people to talk to about this as well.

So once again, thank you all for coming and we'll do it again soon.

- mjdoom