Gotta get that gold

The Firelands Raid in the Mount Hyjal area near Ashenvale. The raid came out in 2011 and I spent many hours dying in this place back then.

It is crazy how easily I can just run in and kill everything in about 15 minutes compared to the hours and sometimes days it would take for us to finish this back in the day.

This place is a good area to farm gold while trying to get the mounts that have a very low chance of dropping. So once a week, I head over here, run through the raid killing everything and trying to get the mounts, which I have not gotten yet. You get two chances at the mount each week because you can run it on 10 man and then 25 man difficulty. Then you will have to wait until reset on Tuesdays before you can fight the bosses again.

The inside of the raid is pretty awesome. It is one of my favorite looking raids from back in the day and the loot is pretty sweet that it drops. One of the other reasons I farm this place is for transmog gear. That is when you can alter the appearance of your gear to look cool, so you aren't running around with mismatched looking gear. You can make your character look pretty cool with the stuff in here.

I normally just run around trying to aggro as many of the mobs as I can and then I just push an AOE attack that kills them all in one shot. I usually make about 1000 gold or so for each run that I do in here because I sell all of the gear that drops and you get a lot of gear whenever you are running it solo. There are even some cool BOE drops that you can sell into the auction house for others that are looking to transmog their gear.

One of the bosses that is often missed in this place is Shannox, who is a patrolling boss that spawns after a certain amount of the mobs are killed. So after you kill a bunch of them, you need to wander around trying to find him. He is large and wears a flag on his back so he can be easily spotted.

Alysrazor is a boss that drops a land mount. So after you defeat this one, make sure to check your bags and see if you were lucky enough to get the mount.

The bosses are super easy and usually take a couple hits to kill them, which is pretty funny because they still try and move to the different phases, so I usually try and defeat them before they can move to the next phase.

This spider boss is one of them that if you take a couple hits to kill it, it will move on to the next phases. It will climb up top of the web and then other spiders will drop down and you have to kill them and then climb up on their web to get to the top and kill the boss. This was such a fun fight back in the day.

After you defeat the bosses on the outer ring, you have to face the gatekeeper to get into the castle.

After you defeat the gatekeeper, you click an orb to create a bridge that extends and allows you to enter the castle. Outside of the castle there is a pretty weak boss that is easily killed. Then you head inside and face the final boss Ragnaros.

Man, this fight was so awesome back in the day. The raids nowadays are pretty boring compared to how these were. Naxxramas was another amazing raid back in the day. Now it seems raids are super short, which I really don't mind too much because I don't have the time to play like I used to.

If you are lucky, you will get this dope looking mount when you beat Ragnaros. I think this is one of the coolest mounts in the game and I hope that I can get it soon. I don't even know how many times I have tried to get this mount on this account. Whenever the mount would drop during the 25 man raids and one person would get it, it was the coolest thing ever. I think I was only in like 2 raids where someone won the mount.

At the entrance, there is a vendor you can use to repair and sell off the unwanted gear. Your bags will fill up pretty quick with stuff, so make sure that you have large bags and a lot of empty space in them.

This is such a cool raid and it is fun to go in here each week and relive some of my favorite memories of playing this game. Hopefully one of these weeks, I will get lucky and win the mount, but until then, this is one of my favorite places to farm for some quick gold.

Do you have any places that you enjoy farming gold, transmogs or mounts? If so, let me know. I am always looking for new stuff to do in this game. The end game of this latest expansion isn't the greatest. I am not a fan of grinding world quests nonstop. It is always fun to go back to the old days and visit the old zones.