With all the excitement about the 1.11 patch coming today, I thought I'd let you all know about my Adventures of Neriad: Anub'Rekhan journal that details a joint Tichondrius Horde raid on the first boss in the spider wing of Naxxramas. Hopefully, it'll whet your appetite for Naxxramas and give your raids a running start while tackling the instance. Enjoy!

(P.S. Yes, the raid used the test realm bug that despawned the initial two guards. I wish we hadn't done that, but I can't control what 39 other people want to do. Still, the journal shows what most of the fight is like at least as well as some of the new 1.11 UI improvements).

Great. I hope we don't get a bunch of posts like this in the near future.

I know this post was probably made in good faith, but we tested the Anub'rekhan encounter as well, we've got our strategy for killing him pretty much down. And coming to give us handout "strategies" obtained as a result of a PuG exploiting the encounter is...well, questionable at best.

Didn't any of you guys read Neriad's Scholo and Onyxia journals during beta? I didn't play beta, but those write-ups were part of the reason I bought the game at release.

Thanks for posting this, I've always liked your stories, and the one about Lord Lakmaeran was probably the one to really get me into this game.

:)

Edit: vvv you're dumb

I didn't read the Scholo one. The Onyxia one was fantastic though. So was the Chromaggus one from when BWL came out.

I'm sure you did. As I explained, I can't control what 39 other people want to do, especially in a raid made up of a mix of guilds. If you'd like to write up your experiences when you killed him without exploiting, please do. In the meantime, I hope that the journal helps those who haven't had a chance to experience Anub'Rekhan for themselves get an idea of what the encounter is like, despite the initial exploit.

They're actually quite good, and the Onyxia one is nothing short of classic. They remind me somewhat of the better-written Starcraft Battle Reports of yore, before the "instant replay" patch to that game.

Just wanted to say thanks for the great strat ideas for Anub, they helped our guild a lot.
We've had one problem though, the scarabs tend to go after our mt and/or the hunter giving him pack and daze them which basically wipes us.
Does anyone have any advice for how to control these scarabs better? We were thinking about having a mage camp each corpse and nova the second they spawn but haven't been able to put that to the test yet.

Yes, that's what we did on test. After the spider add dies, a mage stays there and frost novas the moment he or she sees the scarabs spawn out of the corpse. Then, the scarabs are aoe'd down. As far as scarabs going after the mt/hunter, that sounds like you're talking about scarabs who spawn after people die, which is the real problem. Nobody should be dying at all, and yeah if someone does die, you need to take care of the scarabs right away.

There's one vague reference on the R&D forum that Anub'Rekhan is a "more interesting" fight now. Have there been any changes made to the fight other than removing the obvious exploit to despawn the initial guards?

Impale is fun when you have 4080 hp with raid buffs. It might one-shot you or it might not, who really knows!