Multibox team (1 pally 4 shaman) clear Bloodfurnace.

April 21st, 2009

I decided to dedicate a night to my multibox team last night, no raiding, no dailies, no heroics, just good old fashioned burning crusade fun.

After downing the last boss in ramparts it was time to move on from Ramparts and go to Blood furnace instead. It’s quite a fun instance,relatively short and I had a couple of quests to complete in there which required me to collect 10 vials of blood from the orcs (on 4 of my characters).

The second quest was to explore the furnace completely, which just required me to get to the end boss.
The first run was slow, as I had to loot separately on all my characters. (the last patch added an interact with target keybind and if I had set this up this would be easier). The trash can be a handful at times but my team coped with them wonderfully.

I got to the first boss (The Maker) and was able to take him down first try. He got a mind control off on one of my characters but it wasn’t an issue.

Lucky me - he dropped the Diamond Core Sledgemace. A wonderful spell caster mace, and a nice upgrade for one of my Shaman.

The second boss was the one I was dreading (Broggok). You clear the room of trash, then flip a switch. This opens a locked gate and 4 or 5 orcs come running at you. You kill them, then another cell opens and another 4 or 5 come out, then another gate opens and finally a 4^{th (so 4 waves of orcs)}

At this point the gate holding the boss back opens and this ugly floating head demon comes at you.

When I’ve played this solo before there were issues with mana, but my team breezed through.

I had one wobbly moment where I wasn’t quick enough to pick up a group of orcs and they got in amongst my casters but it didn’t cause any significant problems (shaman can take a few hits with their shields and chain armour). The second boss died very quickly, and I remembered to wait for his poison cloud to disappear from his corpse before looting. (I’ve killed characters before doing this).

I worked through the trash again and got to the last boss (Keli’dan the breaker). He’s a caster boss, with a bunch of spell casters round him. You kill them first then he comes at you. He’s not difficult, apart from one point where he goes immune and does this blast wave that does significant damage.

I got my alt’s positioning slightly wrong, and two of my shaman died, but I still took him down. Blood furnace was complete and it wasa piece of cake.

I decided to start farming the instance, no longer doing full clears, but just running up to the first boss and running out to reset. I wanted the diamond core sledgemace for my shaman dps’ers .

I ran the boss a few times. Got one Sledgemace drop, and a libram of the saints departed for my pally. My pally dinged 63 in there and is now 63 and a half, and 3 of my shaman dinged 64. (my 71 shaman healer wasn’t getting any XP).
I’m thinking I’ll get them to 66 in instances then start Nagrand. Do all the nesingwary quest chains, ring of blood, and elite kills and perhaps instance a little to get to 68, then it’ll be Northrend for super quick levelling to 70 and fun in Northrend instances.

But I’m getting ahead of myself - first I’ll run Bloodfurnace to get that last mace, then do underbog and slave pens.