World of Warcraft : The Watercooler: Raiding Azeroth Part 1 Released

The latest World of Warcraft Watercooler has been released and is the first in a three part series that will take a look back at the evolution of raiding in the game. The series is intended to give readers and inside look at the development process and how it changed over the past decade. At the launch of WoW, there were two formal raid zones: Onyxia is Lair and the 10-boss Molten Core, the latter of which was originally only accessible by traversing Blackrock Depths. Buy cheap wow gold. During the first few months after the game is release, instances in general didnot have any cap on the number of players that could enter at once, as long they were all in the same group (15-player Stratholme and Scholomance ""raids"" were not uncommon back then). With the upper limit on group size set at 40, 40-player raiding became the de facto standard for the early raid zones, since bringing more players generally made things easier (with a few exceptions). When the world of Azeroth was brand new, and the overall pace of leveling was significantly slower than the norm today, such that the primary occupation for a majority of players was simply striving to reach max level. And even for the most cutting-edge players, many of whom were familiar with the leveling experience from the beta, it took two months from release for the first group to defeat Lucifron, the first boss in Molten Core.