When the goblin's away…

The Blackrock Mountain. The impressive home of Nefarian and Ragnaros, as well as hundreds of their loyal servants, and even a heavy metal rock band. A place with the some of the longest instances WoW can offer, and a multitude of bosses. Exciting escort quests and deadly lava pools await inside for the curious adventurer.

Now availaible to you, the proud user of the newest LFG technology. Kind of loses the epic feeling a little bit, does it?

Tank, healer and dps - what else you need?

I was afraid that it’ll be really hard to find groups going for BRD, and I was surprised when it clearly wasn’t the case. There is just one little problem with the instance system – the instance is split into Lower and Upper city, similar as to how Maraudon is split into 3 parts in the interface. Most of the groups for Lower City just go straight to High Interrogator Gerstahn and break up after the kill, as he’s the end boss of Lower City. If your group does so, but then decides to continue and kill more bosses, you will be unable to add new players to your group, as technically you’ve already finished the dungeon you were in.

It was one of these runs where I’ve had the most fun in BRD. We killed the High Interrogator, continued with Ring of Law and Fineous Darkvine, lost one of the DPS just after that, made the Shadowforge keys for me and the tank, and lost the other DPS while getting back to the start. The LFG system made it quite clear that it won’t let us find new ones since we finished the instance, so all we had was a tank, healer and one melee dps. Rather than breaking up, we continued carefully towards the Grim Guzzler so me and the warrior could finish the two remaining quests.

It took a good while, and was definitely not easy, but we finally made it. On this run, I’ve managed to finish most of my quests for BRD, which in the end translated to one and a half of a level. All thanks to the tank, Moohnie from Doomhammer and the warrior, Nargarzhvog from Aszune. I wish I could run something again with both of you guys.

Another interesting adventure happened just today. I’ve queued for the random dungeon again, and it happened to be Lower Blackrock Spire. The tank asked if we want to see if we can do UBRS instead, and everyone agreed. Now, is it possible to clear the 10-man raid instance as a 5-man group? Definitely so, though being a good few levels below the mobs makes it a bit tricky.

We made it slowly to the last boss’ room, carefully pulling one pack at the time. The bosses weren’t really challenging, with the exception of The Beast, on which our healer got completely out of mana, so I’ve had to help with the healing a little bit.

The Beast. Or rather, its remains.

We managed to kill it, and wiped just before Drakkisath on some of the trash pulls in that room. After that the tank decided it’s getting too hard for our levels (remember that we were all 57-58, with the trash mobs mostly on level 60), so we had to disband the group. Too bad, as it was getting interesting and I was really curious if we could finish the last boss as well.