Yeah, it’s possible to do. Yeah, I’ve done it myself a few times with pugs. I’m on the fence on this fight though. On one hand:
I like the fight, really I do. The group needs to focus down dangerous targets, adhere to mechanics (Lava explosions, imps, blood marks, etc.), and support each other to succeed. I think these are qualities of a good fight. To be honest, a part of me think this encounter is in a good place and shouldn’t be changed.
On the other hand, 98% of pugs can’t seem to do this encounter. When I’m in a group and things are going smoothly and things are dying in a reasonable time frame, I usually urge my group to try to just kill the mobs. However, even in some groups that I thought were actually performing well, they seem to just fall apart on the encounter. It turns into suicide graveyard zerging which I loathe, and once the group falls apart and begins this method, there’s no coming back from it because people are dying at uneven intervals and once the mobs start piling up, there really isn’t a choice anymore other than to suicide run it.
I hate that it’s become the common method among pugs to just suicide run it which makes me think it’s bad, but at the same time, if the encounter is done right, I think it’s a good encounter, it’s reasonably challenging and makes groups work together to succeed and punishes mistakes.
I’m sure there’s been tons of threads about this already but I wanted to put in my 2 cents here since I haven’t seen anything about this encounter in a while.
Thoughts?