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f eternity while we didn t get to obsidian sanctum this first week of my raiding participation the raid team did clear it the week before that means there ll be a third post on phase one wrath raiding when i visit obsidian sanctum so you have been warned after dealing with the uncanny valley effect in wrath naxx the two other raids were completely new to me i mean i knew of them back in the day but as i wasn t a raider back then i never actually saw them during mists i considered trying to go in and solo the malygos fight but i was vaguely aware that there were drakes involved and if i were required to use a drake s abilities for a decent portion of the fight then it would be impossible to solo but vault of archavon i really don t know why i didn t care about soloing that raid but it just wasn t something i was interested in seeing after we turned kel thuzad into a puddle of goo at the end of wrath naxxramas we ported out to dalaran and flew over to wintergrasp everybody should have the flight point someone in the raid said i don t the raid lead said nor i i added given that the only way to get to wintergrasp is via flying my purchase of cold weather flying the day before meant i didn t have that flight point i wasn t planning on short circuiting the storyline and grabbing all of the flight points available just because riding wasn t as fast as flying i tried flying over to wintergrasp and yes i got turned around on my navigation and initially went the wrong way but because i was also one of the few people without an epic flying mount the rest of the raid made it ahead of us and summoned us over don t ask me to navigate i grumbled to myself dismayed at how low my map reading skills had fallen from the days of being the family s navigator when we went on vacation maybe i should reread that book on orienteering that i bought back in high school we went inside and i followed the crowd to the raid entrance i d never been inside the building before so i was surprised to see another location where you could queue for battlegrounds as if there weren t enough of them already people call vault of archavon voa for short which gave me flashbacks to my shortwave radio days as voa is also short for voice of america the long running international broadcast of the us government in much the same way as the bbc world service or radio nederland or radio moscow were for their own countries or it reminded me of a few songs from the 1980s holy crap is this music video so campy and i thought i can t drive 55 was bad it wouldn t be an asia album without the roger dean cover art as for the raid itself there s not a lot of there there i knew absolutely nothing about the boss fight but neither did i die nor did i feel like i was in any sort of danger of dying it was pretty much a typical spank and tank fight with an aoe effect that you could move out of and that was that the gear dropped was well pvp epic gear no big deal but hey better than i was wearing at the time i won the pants so that was worth the fight i suppose then it was off to coldarra and the fight i really wanted to see malygos the spellweaver despite the very poorly written reasons as to why he began the nexus war in the first place was the collision course we d been on from practically the moment we arrived in northrend from the why doesn t anybody believe me initial quest on both factions through your first don t piss me off or i ll eat you interactions with the red flight the keristrasza tragedy and becoming the messenger of the kirin tor to the dragon queen everything led to this i made the entire nexus war personal for cardwyn with that short fictional piece but it also underscores the genocidal nature of malygos solution to the problem of overuse of arcane magic when you decide to control the overuse of magic by limiting the supply of arcane users one way or another you re essentially authorizing the slaughter of children with a talent for the arcane and entire families who may have one mage in the tree because talent is inherited my interpretation despite every valid reason to limit the overuse of the arcane malygos solution is far worse and blizz crappy reasoning for creating the conflict in the first place aside for a being supposedly as wise as a dragon aspect it feels incredibly small minded to have settled on kill them all as the solution the lich king couldn t have cooked up a better conflict if he d have tried when we arrived at coldarra i was nervous having only briefly skimmed the fight but ready to go except for me almost entering the oculus instance by mistake yeah yeah yeah the old i m invincible speech we wiped about 3 times on malygos before we got all of the mechanics down but this fight definitely does not play to my strengths the first phase does but the second phase has those adds all over the place and my tendency to strike the one closest to me ends up poorly with me as a dead mage lying around once i resisted the temptation to simply wail away at random adds i was able to survive that phase and enter into the drake phase where the ground crumbles beneath you and you re rescued by red dragonflight drakes who then turn and fight malygos with you riding them naturally it was an interesting fight but not that memorable what really made it less than epic was the voice acting itself i described listening to malygos in raid as being voiced by an accountant lecturing on tax law maybe it wasn t quite that bad but the voice actor was absolutely not what i expected the spellweaver to sound like maybe some reverb or other vocal manipulation would make malygos sound a bit better but for a gigantic dragon aspect the voice simply didn t fill the space like the spellweaver himself did compared to nefarian s and vaelastrasz s voices malygos voice is very uninspiring which by extension makes the raid encounter weaker for it it s not just a problem with the spellweaver alexstrasza and keristrasza both sound less than as well although to be fair i thought the acting of keristrasza in the nexus good enough but it just doesn t sound dragonlike if this were keristrasza fighting us in her polymorphed human form that s one thing but she s fighting us as a dragon maybe blizz is having difficulty making the vocals sound like they re coming from something as gigantic and epic as a dragon in their true form but my belief is that the difficulty lies in adjusting a woman s voice to make her sound like a woman and yet inhabit the full throated cavernous power of a dragon in their natural form now that i think about it this is not a problem confined to the dragonflights but those who are simply gigantic compared to us the keepers and watchers vocals in the storm peaks are pretty hit or miss although to be fair they tend to be closer to the mark than a lot of the dragons in their true forms sound but when you hear the petty shrillness of the hyldnir s vocals which are pretty much the opposite of what you d expect of those who remained loyal to thorim all these years it is nothing but grating to the ears it s a shame that the eye of eternity was so underwhelming to me because i d hoped for an epic battle to close out that chapter in wrath classic much like how i found wrath naxxramas to be close but not quite like the real thing the eye of eternity could have been great but just was pretty good it probably had something to do with that there was no real backstory behind that raid from my perspective it was the pvp raid yes i m one of those people who would have used the pity mount in storm peaks rather than purchase cold weather flying i remember being able to navigate a lot of the storm peaks the norse mythos inspired thorim questline notwithstanding via a riding mount back in the day and i realize now that a lot of that is due to what faction i played more on that in an upcoming post and yes growing up in the 70s and 80s meant we drove everywhere for vacation in a station wagon no not one with the gun turrets in the back but a mid sized 1980 chevrolet malibu this is very similar to the one we had the paint is the same the interior as well only difference is this had the v6 engine while ours was a 267cc v8 from smclassiccars com that wagon became my second car when the old 1976 plymouth volare finally kicked the bucket before you ask yes i have both albums from back in the day sammy hagar s voa i have on cassette and asia s astra on cd the latter was one of the first cds i d ever bought and i bought it from a secondhand record store near ud called second time around no i hadn t been to the oculus at the time of that raid it appears to not be everybody s favorite instance and i tend to go with the flow in that regard posted by redbeard at 10 33 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels raid wrath classic wednesday november 2 2022 wrath classic phase one raids part 1 welcome to the uncanny valley the past two nights of raiding were well weird as in fever dream kind of weird have you ever had a dream where you were performing some action and everything felt off to you as if you were talking to someone in the dream and had a sudden uncanny valley effect or that you were performing an action in a dream which is impossible in real life such as flapping your arms and flying around but everybody in said dream just assumed it was a normal thing yeah that s what raiding in wrath s version of naxxramas felt like to me the original vanilla wow version of naxxramas intended for 40 people had both that epic feel to it and a lethality that was legendary very few raid teams back in vanilla ever finished naxxramas which likely contributed to blizzard reusing naxx as one of the intro raids for wrath of the lich king but with that recycling of existing content came well compromises blizzard had already committed to 25 person raiding in burning crusade as the main raid and they doubled down on it by deciding to create separate 10 and 25 person raids for each raid instance in wrath i presume the idea was to allow more people to see the raid content as it was easier to get 10 people together than 25 or 40 but scaling down 25 person content to accommodate a raid 40 of the original size was going to be a challenge in the case of naxxramas there were already challenges lowering the scope of the raid from 40 down to 25 people much less a raid with only 1 4 of the original raid size i knew all this in the back of my head and i d quickly reviewed some of the fights beforehand but i really didn t internalize just how much had to be lopped off in naxxramas until i zoned in or attempted to zone in okay i should back up a minute i spent some of the last hour before sunday s raid trying to make sure i had all that i needed you know things like flasks mana and health potions stuff like that or enchants to the gear i had deuce just like og cardwyn had taken tailoring and enchanting as professions and i d diligently been raising the skill level up to at least reasonable proportions when i say reasonable i don t mean i went broke in game buying mats in the auction house so i could level up my skills but something i could achieve that would get me some enchants i could actually use so out of a wrath classic maximum of 450 i hit 430 on both enchanting and tailoring i had access to the enchants i needed and i spent those last minutes making sure that was done so i hopped on a flightpoint over to wintergarde keep where naxxramas was hovering nearby and when i arrived i began riding around looking for the portal spot on the ground just like classic naxx had the only thing was that i couldn t find it it s gotta be around here somewhere i muttered dodging scourge in the killing fields underneath naxx in classic it was a one way trip you got in and if you didn t have a mage the only way out was to hearth there was no exit which is one of the famous things about naxx and unlike just about any other raid instance there wasn t a here it is identifying stone right outside the entrance to vanilla classic naxx either i finally broke down and hopped on google and queried where the entrance to naxxramas in wrath classic was oh to quote gruber when he accidentally pulled two trash packs at once in classic naxx oh shit you see i still hadn t picked up cold weather flying which is required for flying of any sort in northrend i hadn t needed it because the zones i ve been questing in have been accessible via riding and i d been summoned to the few 5 person instances that i couldn t get to via riding halls of stone and halls of lightning i could deal with just riding around since i took forever to get a mount on my first toon in wow classic and i was perfectly fine with riding in outland or not having an epic fast mount out there either the cost in gold was also a deterrent because while i originally thought it was going to cost 5000 gold for cold weather flying or that i had to get epic flying first neither were the case still the cost was 1000 gold and i wasn t going to rush to accumulate a lot of gold just to get cold weather flying dailies were simply out of the question i ve been there bought the t shirt and after doing dailies in wrath and cataclysm and trying to do dailies in mists i simply burned out on it there is no joy in mudville for mighty casey had struck out burned out on dailies casey at the bat mmo version besides my life has enough work without me creating another part time job for myself so i hadn t gotten cold weather flying but i was gonna need it to get to naxx and suddenly my gold that i d felt comfortable with while leveling my skills suddenly wasn t that comfortable fun fact you don t have to go to dalaran to pick up cold weather flying this was obviously a post naxx pic if you notice the gear deuce has on but this screen cap was merely for demonstration i quickly pooled all my gold together and managed to purchase cold weather flying barely just enough for repairs i think and yes i still have the spectracles from tbc classic in my bags don t judge me i flew back to wintergarde keep got in the raid and i got summoned to naxx facepalm yes you fly up into the underbelly of naxxramas which is where the summoning stone actually is and from there you can walk right into the instance will wonders never cease the interior of wrath s version of naxxramas is as it was in vanilla green slimy glowing and depressing what it wasn t was what struck me naxx was devoid of tons of trash mobs if there was one truism about naxxramas it s that the trash mobs would kill you if you weren t on your game it typically took only two of the wrong sort of trash mobs to doom the raid especially if you were just entering naxx for the first few times and hadn t received any gear upgrades yet but in the new 10 person wrath classic version of naxxramas the mobs are few and far between paper thin was how one commenter in reddit described them and he s not wrong i remember dying 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