Small bit of background: the dungeon they’re in is called the Molten Core, which used to be the most hardcore raid dungeon until last week when they introduced Blackwing Lair. MC requires a full raid group (40 people) to do. The boss that they’re fighting in the video is named Lucifron, and is only the FIRST boss in MC, which has like 8 big bosses. Not only that, it takes a couple of hours to even GET to Luci (not to mention coordinate 40 competent people; if you’re not a hardcore raiding guild where that’s all you do, this is the most difficult part. haha). Luci has two cronies which are very hard to kill (the pickup groups I’ve gone with have managed to kill one of his servants that are part of the event, but not the other… and not even get 2% off of Luci. It was sad). Also, he has a bunch of curses he puts on everyone, including one that does a billion (or so) dmg to you after 15 (or so) seconds, and one that makes it so that every spell you cast 2x as much mana; you have to have like 20 people whose entire role is to cleanse everybody else in order to win. At the start of the video, 35 people are dead, leaving 3 pallies, a warlock, and a mage. Which is why there’s all that yelling… 35 people are dead and have nothing else to do. And bringing Luci down to 0% health (HAHAHA) is so frustrating… it probably took 4-5 hours to get to that point, and it’ll take another 15minutes to get everybody ressed and ready to go again.

Some info about the classes and why this video is particularly hilarious: Plate mail is the highest armor class in the game; only warriors and paladins can wear them. They are both melee classes, but warriors are a pure (and powerful) melee class, while paladins are build to survive: they have two invulnerability shields, an ability that lets them regain 100% of their health, and a bunch of healing/cleansing spells. But everybody who plays a paladin complains about their weakness and the sheer length of time it takes to kill anything (just ask Mike, who has a 60 paladin, or Ryan, who has a 57 pally). So it’s not surprising that in the end there were 37 dead other people and 3 pallies whacking pitifully away at Luci with their hammers, since the paladins were probably standing back during the rest of the fight and healing/cleansing the others. Pallies have an ability called “seal of the commander” which makes it so that every hit you land, there’s a chance that you will do 2x as much damage… this is one of the only ways a pally can deal big damage, but the problem is, it’s random. I don’t even know if they were using that seal (they probably had 0 mana left, anyway), but it’s hilarious that they weren’t able to take him from > 0.5% health to 0% health, hahaha.

In the beginning, everyone’s yelling “DOTS! DOTS!” at the warlock. “DoT” stands for “Damage over time”; warlocks have powerful ones, and they were probably yelling at the warlock to get some DoTs on him before getting squished to a pulp. You can see a little red icon with a slash through it appear under Luci’s health bar in the beginning of the video, that’s from the warlock. Umm.. then you can see a few frostbolts coming in from the right side, that’s coming from a mage. He seems to be doing ok, very far away from Luci… but then one of the pallies gets hit and throws one of his invulnerability bubbles on himself, causing him to lose aggro and so Luci runs over and turns the mage into mincemeat. “Consecrate” is a paladin AoE (area of effect) spell… it does a little damage. One of the pallies does it right after the mage dies (it’s the big yellow firey stuff that poofs on the ground) before the girl yells at the other pallies to also “consecrate! consecrate!” at the end.

Also, LOOK FOR THE MECHANICAL YETI. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… hahaha… hahahaha….