40 man team... for the giggles

[Apatheist]

I'm pondering a 40 man team

I've seen this done on private servers with the old API that allows you to macro a significant amount of decision making and automate healing, decursing, etc. With the newer API and having to micro everything yourself I doubt it. Even a relatively simple raid like MC has a ton of movement required, spreading characters out or into stacks, decursing, taunt swapping, CC and add management, etc. Simple mechanics when dealt with alone but trying to manually manage everything by yourself or even with two people would be rough.

Also, casters deal pretty poor DPS in early tiers. Most of the fights in MC benefit a ton from having stacked warriors and rogues to cleave adds. Stacking mages would make things easier from a movement perspective but it would reduce your DPS considerably and make many fights a lot harder. According to DPS logs recorded in vanilla preraid BiS warrior in MC averages around 480DPS compared to 360DPS for mages. That's largely due to being able to cleave/WW adds.

Mages are brought in MC mostly for decurse and polymorph (which is also very difficult to track from multiple mages with no focus target.)

[fenerous]

Healing would for sure be a challenge, don't have much time to reply, will do so later. But for now;

Didn't decursing in vanilla work without a target? I swear it was a one button press up until 2.0 or something, which is a big factor on pulling off an MC run or not.

There's some light dancing that needs to happen (which should be doable with different /follow groups... In theory) and the hardest thing to figure out is things like the Baron's fire bombs, since I'd have to quickly switch and run away, or pre-plan by spreading WAY out and kiting him through the tunnel to my spaced out group. Hrm.

Either way, I'll try my best to detail each boss tonight and see if someone here can hopefully help me notice things I'm missing before I attempt such a silly feat.

Thanks for the reply!

[MiRai]

Didn't decursing in vanilla work without a target? I swear it was a one button press up until 2.0 or something, which is a big factor on pulling off an MC run or not.

The ability to do what you're referring to was changed during Vanilla, and has never returned (as would be expected). Regardless, Classic is using the modern API.

As for wanting to try 40-man raiding... I say go for it if you have the resources and time. Personally, I'm all for wacky-and-wild PvE gameplay, but I don't think this path is one that will be easy.

[fenerous]

The ability to do what you're referring to was changed during Vanilla, and has never returned (as would be expected). Regardless, Classic is using the modern API.

As for wanting to try 40-man raiding... I say go for it if you have the resources and time. Personally, I'm all for wacky-and-wild PvE gameplay, but I don't think this path is one that will be easy.

hrrrm, so that's something that will be updated? Damn, that makes it super hard for a few of the fights, lol.

And yeah, it's not going to be easy by any means. As long as people think it's plausible then I want to 100% try it. But it's it's not even possible to do MC, then there's no point and it's a giant waste of time.

Right now I'm trying to determine if it's even possible to pull off.

I'm only looking at MC because BWL is impossible for only two people controlling chars I think and anything beyond that is not even worth considering.

But hey, MC is fun and there's two legendaries in there, if there's a chance, I want to try!