With new content and class changes coming relatively soon, I’ve found myself without a lot of ideas regarding topics to write about. There’s no sense in writing about class roles or previous dungeons when the former will be inaccurate and the latter will be ignored soon enough. Instead, I bring to you today a list of common problems thrown at...

  Maybe you’ve heard of “hardcore” raiding and want to know more. Maybe you’re entirely ignorant of it and don’t want to know more. Either way, I’m going to tell you more. I’m an equal opportunity informer. I hope to outline here some of the basics and tell you what you might expect from such groups. So what is...

  Here we have my breakdown of The Fires of Smaug, the third and last raid in my series on the Erebor instances. This one is probably the most mechanically difficult, especially if you are going for the challenge quest. Again, in the interest of full disclosure, I have completed this on tier 1 & 2 many times on my lore-master and warden, but have not...

  If you’ve ever done or attempted the Survival Barrow Downs skirmish, then this fight is quite similar.  The raid is always timed (10 minutes) as it’s not about how far you get or which boss you defeat, it’s about surviving until the game says “Time’s Up!” Full disclosure: This is the Erebor raid I’ve done the...

  I’m going to start my explanation of the current end game raids with Battle for Erebor.  This is a “pick your poison” type battle.  Before you can actually start the fight with the two trolls, you must select a number of unfavorable terms, depending on how difficult you want the fight to be.  For tier 1, you only need to select two of...

Author Edit: This was written before the large-scale class revamps that accompanied Helm’s Deep.  The general principles should mostly be accurate, but the particulars, especially regarding traits, likely are not. I’m writing this for those people who have played in groups before, whether small or full fellowship, and want to get into raiding. ...