If Jocy Can, So Will I

If Jocy Can, So Will I

Edit Update - This Naxx clear was done by Wildshard, not Jocy. How I mixed that up . . . well,  it sure stirred things up in the Wild family until it was straightened out.

Jocy recently soloed the Level 83 Elite raid dungeon, Naxxramas. Jocy, of course, is a Level 100 with raid level gear (i693) and waltzed through the place. Jocy had fun, but she also picked up enough frostweave for Wild to make four bags.

When Jezzibel (JB) announced that she, too, was going to solo Naxxramas, there were some scratching of heads and questioning looks. JB, at level 87, is five levels above Naxx, but she's 13 levels below Jocy. JB's gear is also significantly below Jocy's: i693 vs i421. Those facts didin't deter JB.

She began in the Arachnid wing, just as Jocy did. JB struggled with her weaponry and spell casting at the beginning. She is out of shape. Still, JB got through that wing and took out the three spider bosses found there. It was messy and JB had to heal herself at times, but she got it done.

JB moved on to the Military Wing and did a good job slaughtering all the hired help. JB wanted to try her hand at Instructor Razuvious, and the two other elites with him. When Wild was doing ten mans in Naxx it was hell getting him down, which we sometimes managed and on other night's we failed. Jocy so overwhelms this raid that she was able to kill Razuvious without resorting to the mind control trickery normally required from a raid group. JB found out the hard way that blunt force was not good enough against three boss level elites. JB killed one of the elites before dying. She reincarnated and the other two were on her immediately. Even with a surviving elite hanging on her, she managed to beat Razuvious down to 15% before she died a second time.

Finding her way through Naxx to the distant graveyard was too much trouble, so JB called it a night and hearthed home. There was some hope that running Naxx would help her leveling, but the gain was minimal. Entering Naxx, JB was level 87 +67% of the way to level 88. When she returned home she was still level 87 and +72% of the way to level 88, earning only 5% total toward the next level.

JB is not discouraged. Further forays might yet get her to level 88 - if she was determined to go back in there. The Plague Quarter and the Construct Quarter await her.