Blackrock Foundry - Blackhand fight is a mess - Scale of old content

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Just last night I soloed BRF Mythic solo on my Blood DK, won’t say how much time I spent on this with low level and i level but lets just say the Furnace, Iron Maiden fights took me a “while” and a “few tries” :smiley:

After I thought the “fun” was over oh my, the mess that is the Blackhand Fight. Tanking np, slow damage but all good, avoided most issues, then he knocks me back with an unavoidable attack and launches me to mars and back, only to land outside the fight area behind the entrance gate but the fight continues…I try to kill him through the bars, it works…until he drops to second floor in phase 2 and the fight resets…

So I managed to bypass that bug and get to phase 2 only for the same attack to keep knocking back up to the phase 1 room and resetting the entire fight…many tries later and after killing the machine thinking that would help I managed to bypass that second bug by keeping my back to the wall and just face tank him and spank…

Then we get to phase 3…, knocks me off up in the air again…off the platform only to be teleported back to the fight everytime, I was like ok atleast I dont have to reset over and over, only for the teleport to bug out on me and kill me on the 5th knock…putting me right back at the start of the raid.

Maybe I am missing the mechanics or something but 3 bugs in 3 phases maybe it is just me.

I won’t even start you on the bugs I found on the Iron Maiden fight lol

I enjoyed the challenge doing it at a silly low i level and level, soloing everything but then having to go grab my heart of azeroth and some i level 200+ gear to come back and finish the Iron Maiden fights with the dps check. Although the Iron Maiden fight barely gives you any time to actually do the mechanics of the fight before your spammed to death and can not even sabotage the ship lol. That fight kinda needs better scaling and longer fight so you can actually do the mechanics instead of bypassing everything with just DEEPS!!!11!

Would be cool if Blizzard instead of removing portals to make the game bigger maybe just make old content more relevant and scale to 120 so all zones in the game and all content feels up to date. That would make wow universe seem very big and when you go back to old zones you didn’t visit during leveling, it’s like playing a whole new game again.

Rather than one shotting everything and speeding through old content? Not sure how that would work with solo farming or farming mogs, gear or mounts etc but maybe there is another solution to that, increase drop rates for tougher challenge of scaling?

Anyway just noobs two cents.

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I don’t think you’re supposed to be soloing BrF before 120 level, to begin with.

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Wooooops :smiley:

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Totally doable as 110, since I killed him multiple times on my DK. Problem is that your gear is very bad (no legendaries and just some leveling stuff) and the fact that you’re trying to do it as blood. I always did it as frost back in Legion because of the damage requirement.

As to getting knocked back, the first phase knockback should not even happen if you have enough dps for this fight. If it does, simply face your character so you don’t get knocked out of the bossroom. In p3 you do the same, move to the edge and when he knocks you you’ll land on the other side.

Obviously it would be simpler just to level to 120 since I don’t think your character has what it takes anyway because of the gear issues.

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I completed every boss fine once figured out how to get around the issues, lvl 111 at the time with ilvl 225 gear / hoa, on Mythic. Just took a few tried on Blackhand, Blast Furnace and Iron Maidens.

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That’s good, and honesty thinking about it 225 is enough especially with hoa etc. Doubt they’d still do what you’re suggesting though, as I don’t see the majority of community using a scaling feature and if it nerfed the normal droprates, they would be even more angry. Most people hate it when old content has even some capability of killing them, and thus demand nerfs until it’s easily soloable for tmog/mounts/titles etc.

If you like mechanics that much I recommend getting to max level and trying raids while they’re current content. Old content is usually either always broken or very easy and usually is just a dps check. Obviously if group content isn’t for you, then it might not be the best idea, but I think they’ll add some challenging solo content for max level later this expansion similar to what the mage tower was back in Legion (a solo challenge that rewards you unique transmog).

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I guess and they do have timewalking dungeons content to do old stuff properly etc.

Just seems like a crap ton of unused content just sitting there. I am sure loads of new players would love to play older content as if it had just come out etc, would be cool to experience it like the vet players have.

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