As part of Blizzard's celebration of World of Warcraft's 10 year anniversary, they re-did Molten Core. It's still a 40 man raid, but now the monsters are level 100+. As a reward for completing MC, you get a sweet looking mount, an epic hat (iLvl 640), and a tiny little fire elemental pet. Of course, to take part in the new MC, you need an iLvl of 615.
There are several ways to get there. Quest rewards from Nagrand that get upgraded are usually 615. Gear rewards from Garrison missions are usually 615 as well. In fact, once you get a follower's iLvl above 615, you'll start getting tougher missions that offer better rewards:
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iLvl 630 robes from a 615 mission |
The third option is doing heroic dungeons. This requires ilvl 610 which took a while, but on Friday I realized I had finally hit that mark! I already knew I wanted to do Upper Blackrock Spire first, since you get an epic follower for completing this heroic. Of course, when I went to queue, I was met with this:
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Woops! |
Turns out that you need to complete the Silver Proving grounds before you can enter a heroic. I was a little nervous about this because last time I had attempted
Bronze it was really tough. Turns out that it was mostly a gear problem:
I actually found the DPS one to be tougher than the Tank, mostly because I kept getting stunned by the floating globules. I beat the tank on the first try, but the DPS took me three tries. I was pretty nervous about my first Heroic being one that I had never even tried on Normal before, but it
went pretty well. I'm not sure whether if changed UBRS around a bunch compared to how it was in Vanilla, but I didn't remember
most of what we went through. Likewise,
the epic follower that you get for completing UBRS tugs at some memories in the back of my head, but I can't quite grasp them. I won a couple of items and hit the 615 mark. So Saturday I hopped into queue for MC. I thought it might take a long time, but after only about 5 minutes or so the queue popped. At first it was really exciting, just being back in MC brought back a lot of fun memories. I got a little crazy with the screenshots, you'll have to forgive me:
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Don't worry, eventually I hid the Raid parties |
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Poor Majordomo Executus. |
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Correction: poor Ragnaros! |
We did wipe several times though. A combination of a bunch of people who have never played before doing content they had never done and trying to rush as much as possible. It took about 2 hours overall. And because I know you were dying to see the new mount:
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Good puppy! |
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