2/6/2006
Elessedil, Cornpo, Kariku, and I ran through Scholomance a weekend or two ago. I won’t pretend Scholomance is this hard instance it used to be before it was toned down, but it’s still a somewhat fun challenge for four players. Especially when one of them is Cornpo who loves to pull with no mana. Hogit and Elessedil were there completing quests we had never gotten around to and Kariku was there for loot. Cornpo was just trying to make the runs as exciting as possible (see pulling multiple groups with no mana).
We actually cleared the whole place and got a lot done. I think some of the best parts were clearing the six rooms above Darkmaster Gandling. Cornpo would run in and aggro the entire room and kite them out and up and down the stairs while I used piercing howl. Kariku picked them off one by one and Elessedil kept everyone healed. Our Razorgore experience definitely helped here as I had never seen the rooms cleared this way but it was a lot of fun. The only boss we skipped was Kirtonos the Herald. Elessedil and I had tried to duo him unsuccessfully, so last night we invited Cornpo and Saikurupt to help. No deaths except for Cornpo’s two… no comment. 
Elessedil and I both received our Spectral Essence finally.
2/4/2006
The rooms directly after Ebonroc and Flamegor are pretty creepy. Large meat grinders line the walls filled with bones and unrecognizable other giblets while a trench filled with blood lines the perimeter. In the farthest room dead dragonkin are chained to the ceilings hanging just above your head. It’s in this room that you meet Chromaggus who lies just behind a gate waiting for unprepared adventures to open the lever.
Chromaggus is the seventh boss in Blackwing Lair and could be called Magmadar’s big brother in terms of difficulty. One of the themes throughout Blackwing Lair is a little bit of randomness because when the instance is created some encounters are generated with different abilities. Chromaggus is the same way and will spawn with two special abilities chosen at random. Fortunately we have only encountered Chromaggus “light” and have avoided his Time Lapse ability thus far. Yes, Arsenal Team took Chromaggus down and I won Pauldrons of Wrath!
