Molten Core - Worth the time?

[Apps]

..update. and the answer is. Definitely not worth the time for the legendary, definitely not worth the time for experience. Only if youre interested in obtaining the T1 gear for nostalgic reasons...

I do need to go back to outlands and get anohter piece of Quest gear and see if I immediately replace it. I seem to recall when BC first came out, I replaced my T2 gear straight away with a green from killing a hellfire boar.

[Tonuss]

It's a decent cash farm, although with Cata dailies x4 or x5 even that isn't so good anymore. The gold drops from bosses were nerfed but they still drop around 40-50 gold each and you can run right past most of the trash (or, if it aggros, you can flatten them very quickly). I did it the other day in around 50 minutes or so and I could probably cut that down by a good 10 minutes or more.

But I agree that it's not worthwhile for the legendary weapon (go farm Illidan/Kil'Jaeden, IMO) or for gearing up alts. The item level of MC drops is 66-78. The item level of quest rewards in Hellfire Peninsula is 81-93. It's been a while, but I can still remember how crazy it was when I got into the BC beta and saw how fast gear was made obsolete.

[lans83]

Tho if you want to go after the achievement, I'd imagine later grinding all the old raid bosses each week would make this faster to get. Just wish they'd add a title or some reward to getting that one, or add another after that one that requires double the loot that gives the award. Couldn't find a way to link directly to this guy's post, so here is a recent one that might still work and reward the amounts he's listed:

By borbes (6·21) 6 days ago (Patch 4.2.0)As a Hunter, here is the list of raids I currently farm since 4.1 solo. These can all be done with low to medium difficulty.

Classic:

• Molten Core (10/10) 320g
• Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj (6/6) 180g
• Temple of Ahn'Qiraj (4/9 clearing up to Twins, skipping optional bosses) 260g

TBC:

• Serpentshrine Cavern (5/6) 1250g
• The Eye (3/4) 750g
• Magtheridon's Lair (1/1) 50g

WotLK:

• Naxxramas (4/15 clearing Sapphiron and The Plague Quarter) 650g

Total Gold: 3460g

All excluded bosses are generally not worth the effort. AQ20 Can be done 2x a week for an additional 180g. BWL is skipped because while Razorgore is soloable it is difficult to do and is cheating.
Last edited by borbes 5 days ago (Patch 4.2.0) – edited 5 times

Might be worth grinding out for gold atleast. Chance for rare mounts is also a plus for AQ and TE.

[Acidburning]

I tried BT last weekend. I was able just to power through it with 4 DK 1 Paladin. I think the bosses were dropping 250g each. Plus a chance at some glavies

[Apps]

I did BWL some months ago with a PUG group of 60s. It was Horrible... HORRIBLE! So many new players cant follow instructions or want to do any strategy, and seem to EXPECT to just roll shit anymore. So, I kicked everyone, and got 4 of my 60s and one 85 priest, that was "meh", geared.

I sruggled with how to do this boss for a while, till I finally closed one ISBoxer Client window, and simply opened WoW from the desktop. Since it was not "unlinked", I could window swap and not have the group run to the new leader every time. Worked great. One 60 did the MC, and more or less just melee'd the eggs, while the 85 and the rest, kept the adds off.

I have to say though, I wont be going back, simply because of the damn trap room. Jesus that was a friggin mess to deal with.

[valkry]

Every time I get home from work up north, I do most of the old school raids (Funwell, BT, MH, MC, BWL, OS, Maly). Mainly for mounts, legendaries and gearing up twinks. Takes me about 4 hours total on my Pally+4sham team.

Got 3 eyes, 2x TF for my mate, 3 bows from funwell and 1 set of glaives.

Just checked my shammy and Rag kills is 52, other raids are much less though.

[Sajuuk]

It makes me a sad panda that blizzard DOESN'T FUCKING UPGRADE OLD DUNGEONS AND CONTENT! SUNWELL IS FUCKING AWESOME AND SHOULD BE RESPECTED, NOT BULLDOZED THROUGH!


/sad panda.

[Tonuss]

Heh, they get ripped either way. When they updated Naxx for level 80 people were ripping them for removing the old dungeon.

I don't know how well it would work (and I know that they would be ripped for "rehashing content") but it'd be nice to see an heroic version of MC some day. Or to really think crazy, imagine heroic MC where the bosses and abilities are the same but just scaled for new levels, and "super-extra heroic with chili on top" MC where the bosses had new abilities and maybe new adds.

They certainly don't make them like MC anymore, though. MC was, for the most part, a pretty small and pretty open dungeon with a high trash density. Now they're much more compartmentalized and linear. Same with dungeons.

[valkry]

It makes me a sad panda that blizzard DOESN'T FUCKING UPGRADE OLD DUNGEONS AND CONTENT! SUNWELL IS FUCKING AWESOME AND SHOULD BE RESPECTED, NOT BULLDOZED THROUGH!


/sad panda.

Have you not seen ZA/ZG/Rag in cata? Naxx at 80?

[Apps]

It makes me a sad panda that blizzard DOESN'T FUCKING UPGRADE OLD DUNGEONS AND CONTENT! SUNWELL IS FUCKING AWESOME AND SHOULD BE RESPECTED, NOT BULLDOZED THROUGH!


/sad panda.

I agree. I fail to understand how they can make a Regular dungeon, and a Heroic mode... 10 man mode, 10 man Heroic, 25 man, and 25 man Heroic mode, and NOT make a level 60 dungeon mode, and a level 80-85 dungeon mode. Its rediculous of how much time is spent designing the content... just to let it sit until some paladin decides to steam roll everything for 400g. lame.