In our special From the start, full throttle - the tricks of the Classic speedrunners, we explained that every month there is a phase in WoW Classic in which the best of the best achieve particularly impressive times in the raid instances. We mean, of course, the time when you can get an extra World Buff in the Darkmoon Faire

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November's "DMJ Week" is almost over and this time it wasn't SALAD BAKERS from the EU server Gehennas that dominated the action, but the alliance guild none of the above from the EU server Firemaw. Right at the beginning of the DMJ week they were able to beat last month's record in the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj

by a whopping 36 seconds (from 29 minutes and 37 seconds to 29 minutes and 01 seconds). But that was not NOTA's masterpiece.

With the experience gained from the first run, the second run on November 12 went almost perfectly and ended up with the impressive time of 27 minutes and 15 seconds on the clock (via Warcraftlogs). The guild of the author of these lines is usually only at Viscidus at this point. With which new tricks NOTA was able to achieve this record, Sarthe has analyzed in detail on his Youtube account:

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In addition to the tricks mentioned in the special linked at the beginning, the following tricks were particularly noteworthy:

  • After Skeram, NOTA splits up the raid. While most of the raid takes care of the beetle trio, a tank, three paladins, a priest and three mages gather all the trash up to Sartura to bomb them away. The mages wait until the tank has built up aggro on all targets before they start bombing. Thanks to Blade of Eternal Darkness from Maraudon, they don't run out of mana. When the warrior bugs burst and small adds pop up everywhere, the Paladins activate their God Shield, plus they give Blessing of Protection to the mages present.
  • While the raid takes care of Viscidus, a rogue already positions himself with the trash groups in front of Huhuran. Using Vials of Petrification, this one prevents him from being ported to Viscidus. Once the boss is defeated, the rogue pulls as many trash groups together as possible, swallows another Vial of Petrification, and then waits for the raid to bomb away the creatures standing in one spot.
  • Just the fact that NOTA was able to execute these two pulls very cleanly bought them a lot of time. Many other guilds that tried similar pulls later suffered losses.
  • Again, only one Warlock tanked with the Twins in this run. A Holy Paladin takes over refueling on one side. Thanks to the repeated use of Great Blessing of Kings, he is able to build up enough aggro. Survival is helped by some armor pieces with shadow resistance.
  • With C'Thun, again all paladins are sacrificed in phase 1. All other non-warriors throw in a vial of petrification to avoid ending up in the stomach.

How fast does your guild currently get through the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj? Tell us in the comments!

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