World First Molten Core Heat Level 3 Guild Shares Insights - Season of Discovery

Less than 24 hours after the release of Season of Discovery's version of Molten Core, World First guild <none of the above> shared the secrets of their success with us. Together with raid leader Cope, we have reviewed their raid preparation and strategies, and discussed the difficulty of the newly introduced Heat Levels!

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Raid Preparation — Gear, Reputation, WeakAuras

We heavily focused on preparing Fire Resist gear as soon as the Phase 4 bluepost said that it was going to be needed and aimed for 210 Fire Resistance — buffed — for the whole raid. However, we had everyone adjust their sets to 226 Fire Resist last-minute after the Blue Post which explained Molten Core's Heat Levels. One of the most time-consuming parts of prepping Fire Resistance gear sets was acquiring Pattern: Devilcore Leggings and Pattern: Devilcore Gauntlets, which only drop from King Mosh, who has a very long respawn time. On Living Flame, this mob was extremely contested, with mass PvP happening in Un'goro, but we did manage to secure both pieces for our leather-wearing DPS players!

We also had 17 out of 20 players in the raid on Exalted with Hydraxian Waterlords. We prioritized completing daily quests from Day 1 and experimented with other reputation sources. We realized that the Firesworn elites in Burning Steppes during the event each gave 50 rep even at Revered, so it was a whole lot of grinding! We also had one raid person reach Exalted as quickly as possible, by around Day 4, to check if the Duke's Domain trinket would be available from the vendor to determine if it was worth everyone grinding to Exalted.

Regarding weakauras, we only made two custom ones before the raid. One was a Fire Resistance tracker that showed active Fire Resistance buffs and whether you have reached the 226 Fire Resistance threshold. The second weakaura managed the Duke's Domain rotation, which you probably saw on our streams. Ultimately, the trinket rotation aura was Read more on wowhead.com