How was Old Naxx40

[Redcap]

My old guild on retail before burning crusade was able to clear the Arachnid wing after two weeks of trying with the raid zone first rolled out. We never completed any of the other wings before the expansion hit.

That shit was hard. It's like this. Molten Core is a raid where you can take 25 people who are flasked and paying attention and the last 15 can be doing stupid shit like standing in the fire or going afk. It really doesn't matter how much they contribute.

Naxx was not like that at all. Our guild felt that there was a leeway for error with 5 peeps in 40 making minor mistakes or having slow reactions, with the other 35 being forced to be on top of things. At least for Arachnid wing. This was using a mix of BWL and AQ20 + quest reward gear w/ Ony drops for the attempts, so not best in slot but not horrid either.

I felt really, really proud of our team getting that far. Like the OP said, the raid wasn't seen by many people for a reason.

[mrmr]

whut you talking about?

Naxx is WotLK.

[Guirssane]

Doesn't matter. When you can get easily one-shot as a non-tank because someone didn't notice you had a debuff, there will be pain. And salt.

everybody (or almost everybody) knows how to play his character.

[Cubeh]

It won't be that difficult if a full raid comes prepared with all possible consumables and world buffs. Guilds on other private realms are clearing BWL in half an hour and bosses are dying extremely fast. With the knowledge and preparation todays players give to high end private realm guilds, I don't see it being especially challenging.

[TheLockKing]

whut you talking about?

Naxx is WotLK.

Naxx wasn't in Wrath of the Lock King. You're probably thinking of Tomb of Sargeras. Simple mistake since it was constantly called the new Naxx due to bullshit damage and the ungodly amount of attunement needed.

[tosheybellamy]

Let me just start with something about the tanks on certain boss: 2 seconds late = you fail.

Extremely overcomplicated fights most of the time only 2 or 3 bosses that I'd consider "easy". With my guild back on Neptulon EU we had Anub/Widow + Razuvious on farm for like 6-7 weeks before we could progress any further.. Some bosses are extremely difficult and have insane gearcheck factor. Man all those wipes on freaking Loatheb Half of the fights are dps race tho, Patch being the biggest one

[Abacadab]

whut you talking about?

Naxx is WotLK.

Naxx wasn't in Wrath of the Lock King. You're probably thinking of Tomb of Sargeras. Simple mistake since it was constantly called the new Naxx due to bullshit damage and the ungodly amount of attunement needed.

lol Tomd of Sargeras was vanilla. seriously cant believe u could be so stupid to say such a thing

[Imbaslap]

It won't be that difficult if a full raid comes prepared with all possible consumables and world buffs. Guilds on other private realms are clearing BWL in half an hour and bosses are dying extremely fast. With the knowledge and preparation todays players give to high end private realm guilds, I don't see it being especially challenging.

that's because those servers don't have the instance working 100% like it was in retail.
broken suppression rooms, CC all mobs past vael and no immunities on bosses, as well as entire guilds being 8/8 t2 from farming BWL for 2-3 years.

you cant compare other private servers because it is not an actual reference or close to how vanilla retail wow was. when AQ hit, not every guild was full clearing BWL, let alone finishing MC. same with Naxx when it came out.

[Yams]

Naxx had some fights that were incredibly fun (Heigan, Gothik = best bosses) and other that were incredibly tedious (Loatheb = worst). However, now that we know what strats to use + general raid makeup, most of the non-gear check bosses should go down relatively quickly if people are full AQ40/BWL gear.

[Orkchop]

Curious, the people who are saying "it won't be so hard"... did you guys actually raid it pre-BC?