Retro Ravens Raving Raiding

The Ravens never quit managed to complete Zul Aman in Burning Crusade so we decided to pay the trolls a visit last night. There were only 7 of us - a 70, a 74 a 79 and 4 80s  - but we tore through the first four bosses (narrowly missing the kill on the Lynx boss before the time expired) before being joined by two more characters - a 71 and another 80 - for the assault on Malacrass and Zul'Jin. Malacrass died like a victim, and Zul'jin followed soon after (despite two members of the party being stuck outside the platform due to the fire barrier). Andro died a couple of times during the raid (despite beng 80, she's still squishy) but netted a small trove of shards (and the Mantle of Ill Intent from the timed run which would, until a few weeks ago, have been a nice addition).

The whole thing (including a fair degree of faffing when we got the extra players in) was only 2 hours or so, so we decided to do something else fun. With our gross overpowering of Onyxia last autumn, we decided to try something we'd never been able to before: Molten Core. Not all of the volunteers (we lost one of the 80s) were attuned so a quick run through BRD was called for, but we were soon engaged in a vicious - and very one-sided - battle against the evil forces of the Core. Basically, the seven of us kicked butt and took names, tearing through the trash mobs and spanking Luciferon and Magmadar in short order (AOE tanking + level 80 AOE DPS = no problem with the packs). Gehennas faired little better, but at that point a couple of people opted to leave, so we 6-manned Garr and would possibly have gone further but our last remaining healer had to leave too. All in all, it was a fun experience and I'm glad to have seen some of the infamous Core at last (even if it was grossly overlevelled and geared ...)

As an aside, possibly the funniest moment of the evening came in Molten Core when, looking at damage meters, we realised that Leafshine (a resto druid for those who don't know) was out-damaging one of the mages. Said mage said he was "skilling up his daggers" but given who was involved I suspect a bottle of mead (or similar beverage) was involved.