Do Not Underestimate the Trash
In the room with Baron Geddon and Shazzrah, you will encounter many groups consisting of several fire and stone elementals. You should not underestimate these trash enemies in Hardcore!
Flame Guardians significantly lower the armor of characters and shoot fireballs at random players. Firewalkers, in turn, reduce the fire resistance of the target. The flanking lava elementals can then stun their victims and deal high fire damage to them.
A raid that simply wants to pull and smash a group of 4 can quickly lose tanks or the unfortunate victims of the fire attacks. Especially if they do not protect themselves with equipment that has sufficient fire resistance – even though many good pieces can only be obtained in the Molten Core.
To minimize risk, the stone elementals are banished by warlocks. After tanking, the Flame Guardian suffers full focus damage from all damage dealers. The firewalker is handled next. Then the stone elementals. The tanks pull the enemies so that they face away from the raid.
Even better is if everyone in the raid is protected by a fire protection potion against these trash groups. You can get a bit more fire resistance in the entrance area of Blackrock Spire by mind controlling local enemies. However, the two raid leaders of Sauercrowd are already aware of this trick.
