Three's A Crowd

There are several different "levels" of monsters in World of Warcraft. That being, how difficult they are to kill. For example, the majority of the creatures in WoW are non-elite monsters. This means that a single person, regardless of what class they are, or how they choose to play that class, can kill them easily. After this things get a bit trickier. Many quests feature 2-man monsters, most of them elite. They're rough for one person to fight alone, but it isn't impossible for certain classes, such as hunters or druids. Once we enter the 3-man monsters however, it gets very difficult. Many people opt to bring along a healer at the very least to keep them alive while they chip away the elite monster's health.

Levels like this continue on, from 5-man dungeon elites to 25-man raid bosses. But my concern was with three, 3-man elite monsters roaming the Bone Wastes of Terokkar Forest. Kallindra, my now level 66 draenei hunter, and her loyal frostsaber, Cheshire, first set out to slay a deadly frostwyrm called Teribus the Cursed.

Quite, erm...quite easy for a supposed 3-man monster.

The next target on my list was a gargantuan bone worm named Hai'shulud, the Bone Emperor. Upon summoning him my screen was immediately filled by one of his stomach-plates...he was immense! I fought him down to 20% health, before he killed me. Damn, I thought. Well, I got him that far down! I'll just try again!

I made my way back to my body, and as I healed up, I noticed the bones on the ground churning wildly. I called Cheshire to my side, edged closer, and Hai'shulud burst from the ground again. I frantically sent my pet in to attack, and fired a few arrows into his stomach. Just as Cheshire was about to fall, the Bone Emperor keeled over dead...at 80%. I'm still not entirely sure what happened there, but hey, I'm not going to complain!

Two down, one to go. The final target on my list was the matriarch Terokkarantula, who ruled over a vast swarm of terokkar widows. I fought my way through her drones, peered over a hill, and was greeted by the sight of quite possibly the biggest spider I've ever seen in this game. I readied a flaming trap, called Cheshire to my side, and the fight was on.


At the end of the day, three 3-man monsters were dead at my feet.

Hunters aren't overpowered or anything. ^_~