
The overall setup of the Obsidian Sanctum reminds me of the skill levels in Doom ranging from “I’m too young to die.” to “Hurt me plenty.” to “Nightmare!” Like most guilds, we did the “I’m too young to die.” level first with just Sartharion himself to get our feet wet. Seeing how easy it was, we ramped up to the “Nightmare!” level pretty quickly, which is Sartharion with three Twilight Drakes, the hardest encounter currently available in WotLK.
Prior to the recent changes in 3.0.9, the encounter could have been very difficult if you were not careful. Fissures were the same general color as the background and could easily be masked by AoE. Players coming out of the portals needed to be careful on their timing as to not get hit by a random fissure or a huge lava wall. The overall structure of the encounter is not too difficult. You need enough DPS to minimize the overlap between the Drakes, coordination to handle the Acolytes, and attentiveness to not standing on or in the path of some very bad things. There’s nothing really special here.
However, it caused us a bit more agony and consternation than we expected and we bickered like Sartharion and his siblings. Unlike them, we did not let our feuding get in the way and pulled it together to finish the encounter once and for all. We were not going to be defeated this. It isn’t even the most challenging encounter that Blizzard has created. I personally think that most of the final bosses in TBC were far more challenging and interesting.
Other than the achievements, we are now done with all the initial encounters in WotLK and eagerly await the arrival of Ulduar.
Congratulations to Pomato on the Twilight Drake mount. Pomato had a brief stare down with a Horde player who insisted on being in our screenshot.
