Over the last seven years, there have been quite a few raids released and boy, the format of and entry into those raids has changed substantially. From crazy attunement chains to ones that were much simpler, from 40-man format, to 10-man format, to 25-man format, raids have changed a lot. We examine them in this episode!
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Episode 49 - Blessing of Frost - A Raid Retrospective:
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My Spoon is Too Big/I am a Banana video.
Scepter of the Shifting Sands quest chain.
On January 21, 2012, four-plus years AFTER the patch that removed the old quest, our buddy (and melee officer) Daey got the Hand of A’dal title on his paladin alt.
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The comments here are quite interesting.
An amusing tale of Kurn, Majik and Fog zerging Sarth 3D 10-man.
A similarly amusing tale of Kurn, Majik and Fog playing with Halion.
We asked Twitter what their favourite raid instance was. Thanks to everyone who responded and please do follow them!
@Technophobia: Karazhan. It’s just the most thematic raid zone, imo. With Ulduar a very close second.
@Jezi_Belle: Probably ICC, though mostly for non-design reasons. It was the first raid where I really felt like I was saving the world.
@SturgarHawkwind: @Technophobia @kurnmogh You’re going to hear this one [Ulduar] a lot. I second this notion.
@zomgAro: Black Temple. Tons of unique, interesting mechanics and environments and epic quest chains. Ulduar is a close second, for story.
@matticus: Sunwell.
@Restoisepic: karazhan, it’s the only thing that makes me wish I had played BC. I love that instance, the different bosses, rambling old house
@azerothapple: Ulduar! basically, it’s a mixture of lorelove for all of storm peaks, the utter beauty of it, and nostalgia for the run I did w/ apoth. 🙂
@WJRez: Kara. It was my first raid, which I did with my first guild, when we were in our prime. It always brings back nice memories.
@DSatt57: BWL for me, so many memories. Made great friends. Great fights at the time.
@Serrath_: Serpentshrine Cavern. It was amazing from the elevator all the way to Vashj.
@GottaHaveFaythe: Kara. No debate. I wish they would give us another haunted mansion raid!
@MathiasSchnell: Ulduar by far. It just seemed to have the best mix of difficulty, atmosphere, lore, and mechanics in it.
@35yards: Karazhan, hands down
@Jasyla_: Black Temple. Atmosphere and amazing boss fights.
@Sylaurian: To be honest Kurn, Molten Core, because it got me started on raiding and it was the one I had the most fun in.
@Kadomi: Ulduar. I loved the atmosphere and the lore, and Yogg-Saron was one of my absolute highlights. Beautiful raid.
@kenakabones: of all the raids.. its extremely close for me between Karazhan and Ulduar. Mainly because of the variety of the fights and for ulduar; the exponential growth of hard modes and the methods to unlock them. /wanders off looking at the shiny red button
@hestiahdruid: Kara and Ulduar, though I never saw either when it was current content, they were still fun as hell.
@HoneyTrap2: sunwell, and also BT
@MMOSprinks: Definitely SSC as my favorite raid instance. The bosses were both challenging and felt like fresh mechanics after MC, BWL & AQ40.
@sarlalian: Ulduar, and anyone who says differently is wrong.
Don’t forget to check out Jasyla’s blog, Cannot Be Tamed!
And of course, you can also follow us, @kurnmogh and @Majjity and even @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com! Recruiting a warlock, mage, enhancement shaman, resto shaman!). Please rate us up on iTunes and leave us a review for a shoutout!
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