WoW: I remember Maraudon now
Our first visit to Maraudon in over a year wasn’t as bad as I’d expected. Horde players don’t have as far to run to get to the entrance as Alliance players, that’s a good thing. Mark remembered how to get in, thank goodness, so we ran the entrance maze with little fuss. The experience gain wasn’t as bad as i remembered, though the four corpse runs took a little out of our play time. It was more fun than expected. Our main problem is time. We can only get so far in a two hour session.
We gave Noxxion a shot. We were never able to kill him before, but couldn’t remember why, so we tried again. Ah, now I remember. He spawns a bunch of little copies of himself and we all die, that’s right. We skipped him after that. We had worked out how to deal with three Constrictor Vine, but with those and a Barbed Lasher we had trouble. We mostly succeeded by killing one then coming back from the graveyard for the rest. The Barbed Lasher has an AE knock down with a huge range. As casters, Mike and I have to be at max range to avoid it. Some of our fights were in tight spaces not allowing max range. It plays hell with long casting heals when you get knocked down.
Razorlash was our last fight of the night. He certainly puts out damage, I was chain healing Mark. Luckily Razorlash went down before I ran out of mana. He dropped something leather which I disenchanted. We are all bound in the Horde village in Desolace so we can get back easily next time.
We were all a few bubbles from 49 and decided that was a good target to solo to for next time. Where does a 48 Priest go for exerpience? I headed to Thorium Point, Searing Gorge. The mobs around the Point were 47 to 50. I worked a bubble and a half experience there, but it takes so long for a Holy Priest to kill I thought it would be better to head somewhere with a little lower mobs. I headed off to Hinterlands. I was going to do the turtles, but they were 49-50 and figured they’d be as bad as Searing Gorge, plus a lot of people hunt turtles. I ended up on the cliffs hunting the invisible 47 level dogs. It still took a long time to kill one. I got the job done, dinged 49, and ended back in Orgrimmar