World of Warcraft

I’ve mentioned before, in a previous World of Warcraft post, how I failed in numerous attempts to defeat Arazzius the Cruel, in Outland, with my orc hunter. Arazzius is a level 63 elite, and I couldn’t beat him even at level 70. I don’t feel so bad about those failures now.

Playing my human priest this week, I had the quest to kill him. I put out a call for a team on General and I immediately got invited to a party: my 62 priest, a 61 warlock, and a 70 paladin. First, we easily pulled and killed the two six-armed she-demons on his platform. Then after a brief refreshment pause, to regenerate mana, we went after the big A. The paladin tanked him, the warlock put in the DPS, and I kept everyone healed. As my priest is shadow specced, I threw in some Pain, too.

The fight was intense, although no one went below half their health, and it took a long time to drop that big demon. Plus, he summoned two big infernals to make the whole event complicated.

I thanked the party and we all went on our way. A few minutes later, another player contacted me, asking if I was still looking to do the quest. I told him I had just completed it. He asked if I’d help him. I said I was still in the vicinity, so I could help him, but we’d need at least 3 to take him on. “He’s very tough,” I warned.

Soon I was in a new party: my 62 priest, a 61 priest, and a 61 paladin. I directed us to pull the she-demons first, and we did that easily. Then we tried Arazzius. The paladin tanked him, and the other priest, in shadowform, put in the DPS, and I again tried to keep everyone healed. Unfortunately, the big A was dealing damage faster than I could heal, and the paladin died. So there was and his two infernals coming for the other priest and me. Sorry, buddy, I thought, there’s no way I can keep you alive. If A and his boys can pound a plate-armored paladin into paste like that, our cloth armor wouldn’t do us any good.

I started running for the exit a second before the other priest was killed. I ran right into one of those green demons that hang out around A’s platform, and so I had four big, bad, killer demons chasing me. I jumped in the water moat around the platform and swam for my life. Big A and the infernals gave up on me, but I had to fight the green demon to the death. I survived with no mana, and very little health.

I rested and drank and ate to recover mana and health before going back to the platform for a look-see. Arazzius was standing alone, and the corpses of my two comrades were laying on the floor before him. I rezzed the paladin from a distance, but the other priest had already released his spirit to run back from the graveyard.

The three of us stood on the ramp to A’s platform and discussed the situation. The paladin called in a buddy of his. When the buddy showed up, we had a stronger party: my 62 priest, a 61 priest, a 61 paladin, and a 70 paladin. Two priests and two paladins. It would take us a while to kill this bad guy.

The next round with big A ended much better for us. I managed to keep everyone alive, and they managed to take down the big demon and his infernals. After neither victory did I get any loot from Arazzius. But loot wasn’t necessary — I felt good for having beat him, finally. And I don’t feel so bad about my orc hunter, now, because even other level 70 characters need a team to take the demon down.

Bullgrit
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