With Season 1, the first raid in WoW Dragonflight started, the Vault of the Incarnations. MeinMMO editor Benedict Grothaus looked at the raid and played through it directly – well, almost at least. Because some parts are really tough.

Before the release of Dragonflight, I had predicted that WoW would get everything right again after 12 years of dying. Now the new expansion has been out for just over 2 weeks.

In my first review, I checked if Blizzard is back on the right track with Dragonflight. My conclusion was: yes, if they polish a few things. Now I am pretty sure that I am right.

Because now Season 1 of Dragonflight is here along with Mythic+ dungeons, new events, and finally the first raid, the Vault of the Incarnations. I, of course, checked it all out immediately and am thrilled, even though my guild and I had a hard time. Or rather: precisely because we had a hard time.

In our special, you will find all the information about Dragonflight. The trailer showcases the most important features at a glance:

The new raid is harder than any in years

As a progress guild, we have three raid nights per week: Wednesday, Thursday, and Monday. Right after the first night, I had the impression that the Vault is indeed a good bit harder than the raids of the last expansions.

Most of my guildmates had the same impression. We got just as far this time as in Shadowlands: all bosses except the final boss on the first night, most of them on the first attempt.

Nevertheless, the bosses offer a completely different challenge. We joked around less, were very focused, simply because we had to be. A prominent example: Sennarth, the frozen spider.

Not only does the boss constantly run away and we chase him around the arena, but there are also stairs (the final boss of every healer) and especially ice patches. These don’t just slow you down, but impose new physics on movements.

That means: acceleration is slow, but once you get going, it’s hard to brake. You have to deal with that, because:

• dodging abilities on the fly doesn’t work
• catching up with the group when you fall behind gets tricky
• at the same time, you can cast while moving with enough momentum, while automatically dodging other things

The mechanic is quite difficult but really cool when you master it. Something similar exists with most bosses. However, they weren’t the only reason we felt the raid was harder than usual.

Want to know what happens after Raszageth is defeated? Here’s the cinematic – with spoiler warning!

We die too often – ‘I’ll heal too’

Healers are currently struggling with healing, especially because the gear is lacking. Not helpful is that many DPS players – myself included – still trust that the healers will catch errors.

But they can’t.

Moreover, healers generally have a harder time in Dragonflight. This is intentional and planned, but until the raid, none of us really realized how crucial this is.

Everyone has an enormous amount of health points, but healing spells do not absorb as much anymore. So more healing is required. So much that we had to increase the number of healers, quite significantly.

With 30 people in the raid, we first tried the 2nd boss with five healers. After two attempts, I even respecced – after all, I’m playing the new Evokers, for the first time in 12 years as a caster. And I wanted to try healing anyway.

Even that wasn’t enough. Our raid leader, a shaman, also had to chip in. Then it finally worked out. It’s a running gag for us that the boss has to heal to make it work. Many first kills we only managed that way.

This time, however, the healing requirements were simply enormous. Whether it will stay that way, we will see. I would think it’s really cool if we had to mix more often in Dragonflight. By the way: in the kill try, I actually put out the most healing. The Evoker is just amazing!

In my guide, you will find builds for DPS and healing Evokers. Here’s gameplay:

With 8 bosses, the raid is relatively small, which further suggests that the Vault is a bit tougher than its predecessors. By the way, we haven’t been able to defeat Raszageth in 2 raid nights, but we have managed to defeat the first bosses on heroic.

By the way, I have to agree with Cortyn: Raszageth is already a better opponent than the Jailer was in 2 years.

I have to get used to Mythic+ all over again

As preparation for the kill, our new task is: farm M+. With Season 1 also came the Keystone dungeons, including 4 of the new dungeons and 4 from the expansions of the last years. You can get really good loot there again.

I should actually be used to this, after all, Mythic+ is an activity that you grind as an active PvE player until the end. However, Dragonflight has also significantly increased in difficulty here.

Currently, I’m still struggling with 10 keys, which also has to do with my bad luck in looting. And tanks apparently have considerable difficulties doing their job – which may be due to them being heavily nerfed.

Still, I am really convinced of Season 1 so far and have a renewed desire for WoW. The new dungeons are fun, even though I haven’t seen all of them yet, and I can already see opportunities for crazy tactics and skips that will arise soon.

Shadowlands had a good conclusion with Season 4. Even big critics like Bellular see it that way. And Dragonflight builds right on that. 2 weeks after the release, I have tons of things to do, can improve in all areas, and I don’t feel like I have to pursue boring activities. I can do what I want and will always get better in some way.

There are some exceptions. For example, I need to hunt for a pretty rare recipe as a jeweler that everyone in my guild needs. And it simply won’t drop… but that’s complaining on a high level. So far, I find: from a raider’s perspective, Dragonflight is a huge success.

Surprisingly, even Cortyn has a similar opinion, though we often disagree. Our lore demon, however, has a different approach:

I played every quest in WoW Dragonflight – This is how good the expansion really is

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MeinMMO demon Cortyn is even excited about fishing in WoW: Dragonflight. Because Blizzard has really come up with many things.

Fishing is not exactly one of the most exciting activities in World of Warcraft – but it shouldn’t be. It is often a bit meditative and quite slows down the “rushing from dungeon to dungeon”. Many players fish for hours for various reasons. To find a little peace, to level up their fishing skill, to collect cooking materials, or to hope for particularly rare drops.

But in World of Warcraft Dragonflight, fishing has become many times better. Because there are numerous little things that you don’t see at first glance and for which you need to engage more intensely with the system. We would like to introduce you to some of the “hidden highlights”.

It is important to know that most of the new fishing features are related to the Tuskarr from Iskaara in one way or another. When you reach glory levels there, you often unlock new fishing features that primarily come into play in Dragonflight. These include:

• New fishing opportunities (ice fishing, highland fishing, lava fishing)
• A harpoon to catch “Oschis”
• Fishing nets that catch fish automatically for you
• Fish that replace materials like ores or herbs
• Bonus chests that contain fish and a lot of gold

Additionally, there is a handful of recipes that you can only obtain through the fishing system, as you can sometimes find bottles with recipes. If you don’t need them yourself, you can gift them or make gold in the auction house.

Fish that replace other professions

One of the coolest, somewhat lesser-known features of Dragonflight fishing is that you can replace other gathering professions to some extent with fishing. For example, my priestess is a tailor and jewel crafter (and that’s why she always has a very full inventory). This means that she normally depends on getting ores from other players for jewel crafting – which I would have to buy in the auction house.

But with Dragonflight, that is not necessary, because I can fish a certain type of fish (magma crusher) that can be panned just like ores. From that, you then get gemstones and other materials, even of quite high quality. This allowed me to raise my profession to skill level 90 without having to buy ores even once.

The downside is, of course, that you only get a fish approximately every 15 seconds while fishing, whereas you get significantly more from ore deposits. An experienced miner will earn significantly more ores in the same time.

However, the benefits should not be underestimated either. At the fishing events at lava lakes, I can stay in the same spot permanently and empty the repeatedly appearing schools of fish, so I don’t have to move at all. If you want to watch a series in the meantime, you can do that while fishing (especially thanks to the new “interact” button) much more relaxed than when flying through the world. The corresponding fish also tend to be of rarer (“blue”) quality, giving me relatively good gemstones quite often.

Tuskarr from Iskaara – Cool rewards and big gold gain

If you want to fish, you can’t get past the Tuskarr from Iskaara in Dragonflight. Therefore, it is worth participating regularly in soup cooking to gain reputation with the Tuskarr.

However, you can also simply fish for reputation with the faction – thus gaining a significant advantage.

As you increase the glory levels of the Tuskarr, you not only unlock nets and harpoons but can also upgrade these so that more fish are contained in the nets or that these nets fill faster.

The twist is that you can fish the necessary upgrade items from special fishing points – this is revealed in the description of the item.

You will indeed have to use the first items for upgrades, but all subsequent ones can be immediately exchanged for reputation!

Glory Level 27 – Wealth without end

It gets really interesting with the Tuskarr from glory level 27. From then on, you can find “Tuskarr Tackleboxes” in the game world. These are usually distributed in large quantities at a few places, so you find 10-15 boxes close together.

The boxes contain not only numerous fish and shells but also a lot of gray “vendor items”. Depending on the box, this has a value from 3 gold to 500 gold. On average, it’s about 220 gold.

If you are looking for a nice gain, you can simply farm these boxes at night and thus easily find several tens of thousands of gold in a short time while also reaping plenty of fish.

Oschis – Big fish and rare spawns

Last but not least, there are also the “Oschis” in Dragonflight. These are particularly fat fish that appear as actual mobs in the game world. Instead of simply fighting them, you should pull them ashore with a special harpoon (a kind of mini-game) to gain a chance at some bonus loot. This is also an interesting community project, as other players can assist with their harpoons.

Oschis always appear whenever you have looted an “ominous shell” – which usually happens while fishing. If you have received such a shell, you should not immediately continue fishing. If you wait, your character automatically uses the ability “Watch for Oschis”. If you are nearby deep water, an Oschi will appear that you can pull ashore with the harpoon.

For each 5 of the shells, you can then use them at certain fishing spots to summon a particularly large Oschi, for which several players with harpoons are required. Sometimes this particularly large Oschi is also a rare mob that not only drops really strong loot but also drops upgrade items for your harpoon.

Since Oschis can also drop “ominous shells”, such an infinite cycle of summonable rare mobs and large Oschis can occur with several players present, attracting more and more players.

I generally enjoy fishing in WoW while waiting for something else – but in Dragonflight, I also often go out for an hour just because it’s worth it and surprisingly fun. You should give it a try.

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