Thursday, March 20, 2008

Zul'Gurub and the Soulflayer

Last night was Retro-Raid Night in Zul'Gurub, an instance I haven't stepped foot in since before the Burning Crusade expansion came out. And to think that this was uch an insanely hard instance back in the day when I was level 60, now, with 10 decently geared people the mobs are cake.

We had 4 or 5 goals in ZG last night, the most important being me going after a Soulflayer for my new Wind Serpent pet. The consensus is that for a Survival Hunter with a crit rating of over 30%, the Lightning Breath attack of a Wind Serpent does the most overall dps, more than the Ravager, but only slightly.

So I organized a raid, with the condition that after getting the Soulflayer, we would take shots at the Raptor and Tiger bosses to see if they would drop either the Swift Razzashi Raptor or the Swift Zulian Tiger. The drop rates for both are insanely low, but higher than the Baron's mount. We also wanted to kill the Fish boss to see if he would drop the Tome of Polymorph: Turtle so that Josh (Solinterrus) could finally get that for his mage.

In the end, I gathered 12 people, tamed the Soulflayer, killed all three bosses, and got no intended drops. We did have a heck of a lot of fun, laughing and remembering how great some of the loot was back when we were 60. Our Guild Bank is now full of bijous and other ZG tokens.

The talk is that we need to do this stuff more often, and I agree.

Finally, a picture of my new, and still un-named, pet: