Mission: Molten Core

Hi guys! I thought I'd stop by and visit. I don't see anyone...weird...

Anyway, I got my Molten Core & Classic Raider achievement last night. Almost all thanks to Shadow. He brought his pally in because I had mentioned wanting to try and solo it...but not having even the faintest clue on how to do so...See, I get lost really easy. I had this vision of being lost in Molten Core and having everything in the raid come and attack me all at once...Shadow came to save the day. I could go on for hours singing his praises...but I'll spare you...hehehe!

Anyway, before I go blabbering about other random nonsense, let's get down to the nitty gritty here. Molten Core. Yum! I had never even set FOOT inside this raid, so I didn't even have the faintest clue on what I was doing. I'm sure I could have compiled a bunch of research and gone in, notebook in hand, but it's not much fun doing everything alone...

There are 10 bosses in Molten Core:
1. Lucifron
2. Magmadar
3. Gehennas
4. Garr
5. Shazzrah
6. Baron Geddon
7. Golemagg the Incinerator
8. Sulfuron Harbinger
9. Majordomo Executus
10. Ragnaros

You only really need to defeat Ragnaros for the achievement, but in order to gain access to him, you have to kill the other bosses. Fun, right?

After seeing these fights, I'm not 100% sure I could solo them. I'm sure there are a few, but I'm not convinced that I could solo all of these fights. Some of them just deal an incredible amount of damage, even at level 80. There were 3 of us: myself (bouncing back and forth between feral and restoration), a mage, and Shadow (a pally). Even with the three of us being 20 levels higher than the instance...some of the fights still gave us a bit of a challenge. It was a lot of fun, and I have to say I'm happy that I got to see this raid before Cataclysm comes.

I'm not going to go into detail about the fights, since with only three of them we didn't really have much of a strategy aside from "NUKE IT". With an overpowered mage, that's about the best strategy you can have though, right?

The big "issues" that are faced on most of these fights are curses and silences...lots of magic damage in here. The melee damage dealt by these bosses is laughable at level 80, but the magic damage isn't something that's so easy to mitigate. Couple that with curses and other debuffs and you've got yourself a mini-nightmare. That's why I'm not sure if I could solo these bosses. But you know me...I'll try it. I'll try anything!

I keep re-reading this post thinking about how pointless it is...but I'm going to keep it here to sort of mark the date of my Molten Core achievement. I'm a happy druid today!