Classic WoW Hardcore - Page 5

Lune · #1 09-09-2023, 02:50 PM

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So I was on my solo mage and I was lvl 17 at the time. I went down to the beach in Westfall to kill some murlocs for some eyes for a quest. I engage with one who seems solo and I get an add from behind a wood log. OK np I'll burn this one down and work on the add....

So I kill the mob I was fighting quick enough and switch to the add. I look up at my life and I'm at 40%! Wtf what is hitting me so hard! I turn to run and there is a Murloc who's behind me! Apparently has been hitting me this whole time and I hadn't noticed. So I run passed him and up off the beach and they're chasing me and casting on me and I finally disengaged their aggro with 4% life!!! My adrenaline was pumping so hard I had to hearthstone out just bc I was so shaken up from it lol.

That adrenaline rush lasted over 15 min it was such a thrill! I'll never be able to play wow not hardcore after this experience.

lol this happened in the Melenas cave with my hunter. I teamed up with another hunter to kill melenas and we were crawling through the cave. We get to a spot near some rocks where we have to jump down... he jumps down, I do not, because there were mobs down there and we would have been dead-zoned unless we created space, which would have agro'd more mobs. So he's meleeing them and I'm shooting from above. All clear, so I jump down. As soon as I land we get a hyperspawn, everything repops.

We manage to melee it all to death but he's at 15% HP and I tell him to eat "lmao I don't have any food". I go to hand him some of mine and Melenas is walking up, agro's him and brings another. He tries to run, frantically tries to jump onto a rock, and dies. Oh fuck, my only chance is to run. So I run up the tunnel and get a bunch of shit following me, almost die, drink a pot, almost dead again. Thought for sure it was over... luckily I'm still just lvl 8. I turn a corner and there's another hunter clearing down through the tunnel and some stuff is dead, but I'm still in peril. I turn another corner and there are a few more grell, but they are casters. I run by them and they start casting shadow bolts that surely would have killed my if I didn't make it out of the cave, turn a corner, and LOS them.

Got out of the cave with maybe 15% HP and got attacked by a nightsaber lol, but luckily it is green. We duke it out and I survive with basically no HP. One daze, a slightly higher level tiger, one additional shadow bolt, all would have killed my permanently. Had to go chill in the inn for a bit and change my pants. Hunter's last words were "Good luck man" before his soul left his body. Godspeed Survitor

Evia · #2 09-10-2023, 12:38 AM

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lol this happened in the Melenas cave with my hunter. I teamed up with another hunter to kill melenas and we were crawling through the cave. We get to a spot near some rocks where we have to jump down... he jumps down, I do not, because there were mobs down there and we would have been dead-zoned unless we created space, which would have agro'd more mobs. So he's meleeing them and I'm shooting from above. All clear, so I jump down. As soon as I land we get a hyperspawn, everything repops.

We manage to melee it all to death but he's at 15% HP and I tell him to eat "lmao I don't have any food". I go to hand him some of mine and Melenas is walking up, agro's him and brings another. He tries to run, frantically tries to jump onto a rock, and dies. Oh fuck, my only chance is to run. So I run up the tunnel and get a bunch of shit following me, almost die, drink a pot, almost dead again. Thought for sure it was over... luckily I'm still just lvl 8. I turn a corner and there's another hunter clearing down through the tunnel and some stuff is dead, but I'm still in peril. I turn another corner and there are a few more grell, but they are casters. I run by them and they start casting shadow bolts that surely would have killed my if I didn't make it out of the cave, turn a corner, and LOS them.

Got out of the cave with maybe 15% HP and got attacked by a nightsaber lol, but luckily it is green. We duke it out and I survive with basically no HP. One daze, a slightly higher level tiger, one additional shadow bolt, all would have killed my permanently. Had to go chill in the inn for a bit and change my pants. Hunter's last words were "Good luck man" before his soul left his body. Godspeed Survitor

the visuals you were creating with your story were top notch, I was on the seat of my chair reading it lol. its too bad the hunter pal didnt make it! but had he brought some food this story might be quite different. always be prepared boy scouts!!

Evia · #3 09-10-2023, 12:41 PM

I ran DM/VC last night (god those arguments are dumb) and it was a great time! I thought I should stay away from grouping or dungeons due to risk, but these guys were all playing like pros! we had no risk of death the whole time, ever. even when they insisted on breaking my sheep which forced me to just bliz the whole room down.

I found out that if you die you get to server xfer the character which has made me play with just a bit more bravery.
whats the dungeon after this one? Gnomer?

Lune · #4 09-10-2023, 03:11 PM

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I ran DM/VC last night (god those arguments are dumb) and it was a great time! I thought I should stay away from grouping or dungeons due to risk, but these guys were all playing like pros! we had no risk of death the whole time, ever. even when they insisted on breaking my sheep which forced me to just bliz the whole room down.

I found out that if you die you get to server xfer the character which has made me play with just a bit more bravery.
whats the dungeon after this one? Gnomer?

Yea I've pretty much accepted if I die it's going to be in a dungeon, but spending 100% of your time grinding quests out in the world is no way to live either. But I will nope out and quit the group at the first sign of incompetence.

The server transfers are limited to the classic era servers if that means anything.

For strictly alliance, Blackfathom Deeps comes after Deadmines. People are also running Wailing Caverns which is roughly equivalent to DM in level but quite the excursion.

DM/WC > SFK > BFD/Stockades > Gnomer > RFK > SM etc

unsunghero · #5 09-10-2023, 05:12 PM

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I ran DM/VC last night (god those arguments are dumb) and it was a great time! I thought I should stay away from grouping or dungeons due to risk, but these guys were all playing like pros! we had no risk of death the whole time, ever. even when they insisted on breaking my sheep which forced me to just bliz the whole room down.

I found out that if you die you get to server xfer the character which has made me play with just a bit more bravery.
whats the dungeon after this one? Gnomer?

Careful, Gnomer can be a killer. The elevator in the beginning kills the impatient and Gnomer has a wide level range, the mobs at the end are I think like almost 10 higher than at the begginning

The other 2 biggest killers are there are casting into the robots that put up a magic reflect shield (they glow green, don't cast into those or you will kill yourself with your own frostbolts like other mages have on HC), and the dark iron dwarves who put down mines with deceptively large hitboxes. Those mines blow up many people

There's multiple ways to go down, don't ever go down the middle, it's possible to accidentally body pull the mobs up on the ledges who will run all the way down pulling a small army and wiping you. It's better I hear to go through the ledge paths rather than down the middle

Swish · #6 09-10-2023, 04:38 PM

Just takes one bad healer in a group to wipe everyone, watch them healers or be the healer to make sure it can't happen to you [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

unsunghero · #7 09-10-2023, 05:09 PM

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Just takes one bad healer in a group to wipe everyone, watch them healers or be the healer to make sure it can't happen to you [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It seems to suck to be a tank in classic hardcore

You're usually the first, and sometimes only, to die for other people's mistakes in groups

Evia · #8 09-13-2023, 02:15 PM

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Just takes one bad healer in a group to wipe everyone, watch them healers or be the healer to make sure it can't happen to you [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i kinda want to make a resto druid alt but am afraid of this lol. i dont wanna be the dude who lets some guy die. seems like too heavy a responsibility.

unsunghero · #9 09-10-2023, 06:09 PM

Oh speaking of the magic reflect mobs it is very helpful to know what mob types do. Certain types called like pather or tracker or something related to movement can dash like rogues and outrun you

Vulture mobs can execute like warriors. Hydra mobs can thrash which is the most dangerous mob attack, like 3 swings in one. Some of the satyr mobs can put nasty curses up that stun every few seconds. Boars can charge which does extra damage, big damage. Basically every mob type has certain things it can do

unsunghero · #10 09-10-2023, 09:44 PM

It seems like the only real mechanic that matters in classic raiding is threat. Streamer JokerD got bonereaver’s edge (https://www.wowhead.com/classic/item...nereavers-edge) off rag because of course he did, assuming streamer privilege is why

And Karma comes round and he dies with it in ZG. Lol, way to give that awesome weap to a streamer

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=