That’s old school, yo

I started playing WoW just before the Zul’Aman patch went live so I’ve missed out on a lot of the vanilla endgame. I remember though, just after I started, a friend giving me the Brady Games World of Warcraft Dungeon Guide. I devoured it as I leveled my toons, dreaming of when I would be able to get into a raid and take down Onyxia or Baron Geddon. I drooled over the pics in the back of the armour sets that you could get and all I wanted for Christmas was a set of Judgement Plate.

Of course all of that content is obsolete now and you get better green gear going into Outlands that most of the epic drops in the vanilla raids. So the closest I had ever been to that stuff was a Molten Core raid after I was already 70. It was fun, but there was no sense of achievement.

Yesterday though, the guild got together for a raid on Blackwing Lair. They had been farming Onyxia for a while and had something like 40 Onyxia Scale Cloaks on hand. We hit the place Star Trek style – an attuned Warlock and two others going in first and then summoning the rest of the raid. Down go the bosses and then we hit Nefarion.

While the fights were pathetically easy, we know for a fact that not many guilds on our server have been able to pull it off. This is due to the Shadowflame (I think that’s the name) that can easily wipe even a raid of 80′s. Unless you have your Onyxia Scale Cloak equipped! So a little bit of planning has given us an achievement that still means something on our server.

Mad props to my guild for taking the effort to put that event together. It was all sorts of fun and I’m super glad I got to be a part of it. I won the roll on the head and was able to bask in the adulation of my peers in Orgrimmar. And I picked up the Judgement shoulders too!

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