We go together for a Father’s Day run at Zul’Farrak, though we were time constrained with a hard stop time, so when we got online we made a plan as to what we would do in the instance.
ZF is an odd instance in that you have path choices and can bypass some of the bosses.
We met up in Gadgetzan and got lined up.
The stable master there has the same staff as Ula
Our lineup for the run was:
- Moronae – level 49 night elf druid
- Viniki – level 49 gnome warrior
- Skronk – level 48 dwarf priest
- Ula – level 48 gnome mage
We grouped up and rode on out to the instance where we got ourselves buffed up and ready to go.
Inside the instance
Since we last met up, Moronae had made the run to Feralas and finished up the Screecher Spirits quest, so our first goal was to get him the two tablets needed for the follow on quest. That meant turning right at the fountain to take that path to Theka the Martyr who holds the first of the two tablets.
While there is some mandatory trash to clear all the way to the fountain, once you get past that you can bypass quite a bit of the mobs. There is a little set of huts through the first doorway in the wall past the fountain that we have cleared on past runs, but this time we just walked on by. There were three walkers in the corridor to Theka, but after that there is just him and the scarabs.
Theka and his friends
Theka isn’t particularly difficult, you just have to make sure you don’t do any AOE or the nearby scarabs will join in, so we had the first tablet in no time.
After that we bypassed Antu’sul and Witch Doctor Zum’rah, with all his zombie fun, heading straight for the stairway.
Those stairs again
Finishing the stairs event was our second goal for the run. We learned last time that we really ought to clear out everything in the area, lest they become complications for us later. Having a few extra elites pile on us is likely what made us wipe.
Once that was done it was up to the top of the stairs to get Bly and his companions out of their cages.
Bly and friends uncaged
From there we followed pretty much the same plan as last time. Bly and his crew are pretty strong and the non-elites don’t really do much to them, so we focused on the elites coming up the steps, pausing to drink or bandage at need. That went well and we cleared the lot and started down to the bottom again.
All done on the steps
Down at the bottom we were able to dispatch the two named trolls and their non-elite helpers without much problem, thanks to Bly and his companions.
And then we got distracted for a bit.
Both Moronae and I announced that we had gotten Nekrum’s medallion, which updated a quest we had. Neither Ula nor Skronk got the medallion. As it turned out, they did not have the quest.
Only two of us had the quest
So there was some discussion as to where the quest came from, was it shareable, and then some research online as to where to get it. And while that was going on Sergeant Bly and his companions all went into a crouch and started the animation that one associates with a player using their hearthstone to recall. And then they disappeared.
They’re gone now
Which left us with the event incomplete.
We still had to kill Bly in order to get the Divino-matic Rod for the other quest… which we all had… and, I believe, to unlock the gates to the final boss. But the quest remained unfinished and the gates remained firmly locked.
A gnome should be able to get under that!
Had we done this right and killed Bly, we could have closed out Zul’Farrak and been ready to move on. The final boss, to my recollection, is pretty quick, so we had the time. But now we will have a return trip.
We then went up the side path to the area around Gahz’rilla and grabbed the mob that dropped the other tablet that Moronae needed. Then, seeing we had some time left and that Moronae was very close to level 50, we cleared out the area around the pool, getting him his level.
Then, since we were there, we summoned Gahz’rilla again just to kill him again.
You rang?
After that we mounted up and rode on out of the instance… successfully this time… and headed back to Gadgetzan. Moronae and I both had the Nekrum’s Medallion quest to turn in while Skronk and Ula had to go figure out what they needed to do to pick it up.
In the course of things Viniki was also very close to level 50, so I ground out some mobs until he leveled up as well.
So we will be back for at least one more run at ZF. We’ll see if we can get it right this time.
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