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r 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 to scientist packs leading up to patchwerk wiping on spider packs leading to anub rekhan and having my innards splattered all over the walls by the cultist packs leading up to faerlina but now nothing i almost felt sad about that almost the size of wrath naxx was the same but with the reduced number of trash packs it became almost cavernously empty some of the packs changed such as replacing the mobs between gluth and thaddius with single oversized giants instead of a group of 4 5 normal sized scourge and far more mobs were skippable than ever the first boss i encountered anub rekhan highlighted the changes between classic naxx and wrath naxx original naxx had that fight beginning with a boss and two adds and the fight strategy was to kill the adds then have a pair of the raid tank and a mage me typically babysit the adds as they will spawn scarabs from their dead bodies at some point adds will periodically spawn during the fight and they too have to be tanked and downed and babysat just like that initial bunch if anybody dies in the raid they will also spawn scarabs too so the point of the mage is to freeze the scarabs in place before they escape and start munching on the raid and then the tank will round them up so the raid can kill the scarabs fast forward to wrath naxx 10 style and you begin the fight with just anub rekhan no adds in sight a pair of adds spawn during the fight and the off tank can grab those so that the raid can kill them just like in the original naxx fight but no scarabs spawn off of them the only time scarabs will spawn is off of the body of a dead raider which makes the anub rekhan very much a tank and spank style fight most of the other naxxramas fights are like that there s a shell of the original fight in place but mechanics have been removed or reduced to accommodate the smaller raid size well and also the expectation that you could potentially finish the entire 14 boss raid in one night what do i think of discount naxx for those of us who ran it in classic it feels like almost the real thing i referenced the uncanny valley effect where you get that uneasy feeling when you see a robot or video of someone very close to human but not quite human and that is a pretty apt description it s not the naxx i knew it s a reduced version of naxx and there s a shell there but it s not the same thing i mentioned to a few people in raid at the end of sunday that it felt that the original tbc classic version of karazhan was harder than the wrath version of naxxramas oh yeah one person replied remember trying to clear that ballroom right before moroes or nightbane came another or netherspite yeah wrath naxx is much easier the sunday portion of the raid concluded with us needing only gluth thaddius sapphiron and kel thuzad to finish up we d wiped a few times since we needed to work out the kinks with a raid composition that included two mages the previous week s raid not having any mages but in general it didn t feel like anything was out of our league but of course naxxramas isn t the only raid in wrath classic phase one and i ll continue these thoughts on those raids later of our wow classic raid team only one person actually had completed naxx back in the day he was a member of the sixth raid team to finish naxx and his raid team pioneered the use of bringing world buffs to naxx on a pvp server no less with 10 person raids karazhan and zul aman replacing the 20 person catch up raids in vanilla the hardcore early players of vanilla will also point out that blackrock spire upper and lower were designed as one whole instance but upper blackrock spire being gated behind a door you had to quest to get a key to unlock was originally a 20 person raid at launch it was downscaled to a 10 person raid later in vanilla which was something i didn t know about for all i knew ubrs was a 10 person raid from the start but that wasn t the case and tailoring versions of the same called spellthread for applying to leg armor and cloaks as an enchanter i can even enchant the rings i wear for a bit of an extra boost the only people who can enchant rings or tailors sewing spellthread on their own cloaks are the people who actually own the skill for their own rings i can t sew spellthread onto other people s cloaks unfortunately i know it was a feature of vanilla classic naxx but i suspect that it was an oversight due to the original design for naxx calling for the entrance to be located inside the stratholme dungeon itself so you d have to run stratholme the side commonly known as the undead side to get to the naxxramas entrance you can or could still see the entrance to naxx sitting unused inside stratholme in classic wow that was azshandra and i think it took her until l47 or l48 before she had enough gold to afford the riding skill and the mount hence gruber s oh shit moment when as the raid puller he pulled a trash mob instead of coming right for us one of the mob ran backwards in a small circle aggroing a second mob nearby and they all rushed in gruber was famous for cursing up a blue streak all the time so you knew things were bad when he very quietly said oh shit this is very much a thing as i ve seen it numerous times already insert mark zuckerberg jokes here eta the comment about gruber got chopped off fixed eta fixed flight with riding sheesh posted by redbeard at 11 25 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels naxxramas raid wrath classic newer posts older posts home subscribe to comments atom pages home about parallel 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