Karazhan Chess Boss

#1 - Jan. 10, 2014, 1:50 p.m.
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I know there has been many threads about this before, but anyway.

So, everybody seems to like Karazhan so much, but in my opinion, its the worst raid in the game - yes thats right, i'd rather do Heart of Fear, or Dark Shaman trash 10x to get the loot. This is all because of 1 reason: Chess Event. Now im sure this was a great boss back when you had a full raid team, or you needed at least 3 or 4 people to go through it.

But now you don't, and i feel as though after making a pet drop off last boss, Blizzard would know that people would be rolling through easily to solo it for the pet and then you hit the Chess Event and its just like, well here is this annoying boss you HAVE to do.

How about changing it to maybe:
• Alot easier to solo
Skippable (as far as im aware, nothing too good for transmog drops off it, although thats my opinion)
• Take away the debuff of changing pieces if you are the only person in the group
• Take away the debuff of changing directions

Any of those changes would make it so much easier to solo.

I know how to play Chess, but it is absolutely nothing like this. I have read several different strategies and none of them seem to work because he does something different each time.

And i know that alot of you are just going to say that im moaning, but when you want to solo a raid that is 3 expansions old, you don't want to have to sit there through wipe after wipe because of RNG.

I mainly think, to make everyone happy, make this boss SKIPPABLE. It's not going to hurt anyone, if they love it so much, they dont't have to skip it, simple as that.

Thoughts?
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#45 - Jan. 10, 2014, 5:08 p.m.
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If you're that determined (much like I am) and you search hard enough for advice, you'll find a strategy that works very well.