Molten Core - Worth the time?

[Apps]

Ive got several 85s with 360+ gear. Im contemplating taking a Paladin (85) and the level 60 toons, and go bust down MC for the T1 epic gear... rep and a shot at Legendary's.

Rumored that you can no longer gain experience from raids. True?

BC quest gear better than T1? (Its been so long, but I seem to think this IS the case)

[RSM72]

Unless you intend to keep the 60s at that level or are somehow limited to classic content on that accounts its not worth it. BC quest gear is better especially if you take the time to unlock the hellfire dungeon quests.

That being said I did it for fun with my bear + 4 ele shams team back when they hit 85 and were still in cata greens and I had a blast. Accidently pulled the first boss while still fiddling with the last group of corehounds and he died long before I managed to kill the hounds quick enough to not resurrect each other (all 5 basically out of mana and just meleeing). It was like wtf - 360k life patrol? Cant be the boss just whack it...

[Yahtzee]

Ive got several 85s with 360+ gear. Im contemplating taking a Paladin (85) and the level 60 toons, and go bust down MC for the T1 epic gear... rep and a shot at Legendary's.

Rumored that you can no longer gain experience from raids. True?

BC quest gear better than T1? (Its been so long, but I seem to think this IS the case)

I've done Molten Core 39 weeks in a row now, sometimes several times a week, and I have yet to complete a single legendary.

I've gotten the Garr binding 3 times on the same character, Geddon binding on a different character, and have never in my WoW experience (since vanilla) seen Ragnaros drop the Eye of Sulfuras.

I'm about ready to give up on it.

Also, at worst, you could just turn off your XP while doing it.

[Apps]

YA, im not too concerned about the gear really, nor the legendary's... i mean i wont ignore that I got a chance at them, but thats not the point.... its more of, the exp. Is it worth it? or should I just continue to burn through quests in outlands and do the outlands dungeons?

[Tonuss]

Raid exp used to be very low, and I think you don't get any at all anymore. I know that while leveling in BGs, I would often see a message like "NPC dies, you gain 25 experience (-25 raid penalty)." That said, MC can be cleared pretty fast by a group of 85s. I used to do it in under an hour with my shaman/4 hunters, and I never particularly rushed it. They nerfed the gold drop from bosses but it's still a decent haul for the time spent.

[MiRai]

Rumored that you can no longer gain experience from raids. True?

its more of, the exp. Is it worth it?

Just as Tonuss said, raids were never a viable place to level... ever. Since the beginning of the game raid
parties have given greatly reduced XP as in like... single digits.

[d0z3rr]

I ran MC all the time and will continue once I start 10boxing again (not that you need 10 to box it, just goes faster).

I so far have one legendary ingredient (not sure what it's for) and a couple t1 sets complete. Looking to collect full t1 for all my classes.

I find it fun and refreshing to run that instance every week.

[Apps]

Hmmm... I cant believe how terribly I missed this issue about low exp in Raids. Granted its been since MC that I have actually NOT had a max level toon raiding in something.. but im astounded that a more difficult heroic dungeon, aka Raid, wouldnt yield more exp. Anyone else think this is a fail formula?

We grind out dungeon after dungeon after dungeon to earn points, in an effort to buy gear. What if we just grind in the low level raid, and get the gear and exp to help propell us faster to end game content. Hell they preach they want more players experience... BLAH!!! im preaching.

Tl;dr = that sucks.

[David]

I had some luck one day, one binding and the eye dropped in one run. Few weeks later I got the second binding. Completed both weapons within a few seconds of eachother. Real nice eyecandy :-)

[lans83]

Right now, I'm soloing WoW and in the process of leveling up my Rogue, DK, and Warrior and turning off xp at lvl 80 on all of them. I'm there now on my Rogue and getting him the best possible gear available to him to be a twinked 80 for random LK heroics/raids, about halfway there now on gear, just need to hit up the ICC 25 heroics for the rest. When I'm done with my Warrior doing this, I'll be taking him through MC to farm for the Hammer of Rag and Shadowmourne so I can Dual-wield them with Titan Grip. It'll take me a very long time, but it's just one goal I've set my sights on. Even if at 80-85 the two will do no good, the sight of walking around SW with both will be something I'm looking forward to. Even if the xp will do no good in there, the drops will net you a good size of money on the AH from the Ingots and Blood of the Mountain, which is worth more since they have a lower drop rate. Just be sure to bring a miner in there as well because there and BRD are the only two places to farm or mine for Dark Iron Ore now and they are pricey on Earthen Ring server and are needed for the Hammer.

My server, Ingots will get you roughly 1k each, BotM 1500 each, DI ore about 10-30g each, the essence of fire, less than 1g each, and cores, fiery and lava both, less than one gold each also since they drop in abundance. Takes time to grind out the rep tho, but still worth it imo, but not for the xp.