Running the Obsidian Sanctum death derby
by Mike Schramm 
Jan 9th 2009 at 2:00PM
There's no achievement for this (as far as we know, though if Blizzard is listening, maybe we'll see it in the next patch), but it's still awesome. A guild called You Are So Dead on Kael'thas decided to run the first annual Obsidian Sanctum Death Derby, in which they tried to make it around Obsidian Sanctum on mounts without dying. As you can see, it's quite a run -- they didn't aggro the middle boss until the very last lap, and the max run around without dying was about four laps (Paladins obviously had the speed and plate bonus, though a Warrior and a Mage also ended up among the winners, who all got 100g each).
Unfortunately, the video above was made with a cheap version of FRAPS, so as atomic645 says, you get all of the starts and almost none of the spectacular deaths. But they do plan to do the death race again (and maybe this is something you can try with your guild on the next OS run), so expect more video soon.
Filed under: Fan stuff, Guilds, Odds and ends, Instances, Humor, Raiding, Bosses, Mounts
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Llain Jan 9th 2009 2:05PM
reminds me of zf death derby's i used to do...
Screwblade Jan 9th 2009 2:09PM
Truly Epic
Dobmeister Jan 9th 2009 2:10PM
Nice concept, music choice left a lot to be desired, would've been nice to see some mounds of corpses.
Jethrothegreat Jan 9th 2009 2:12PM
What a great album.
Blackerthanu Jan 9th 2009 2:13PM
This looks like so much fun, I wish more guilds got creative and found stuff like this to do.
Our 8 man guild on Coilfang, attempts to do the same thing through South Shore, and Astranaar, (considering we are all between 30-37 it's quiet an accomplishment,
Also naked Orc and Tauren Dueling/Dancing in the Night Elf Moonwells is a popular past time.
Amirite Jan 9th 2009 2:29PM
this is stupid. the person in the lead will get agro and die first most likely.
h8rain Jan 9th 2009 2:41PM
But that is the fun of it. Trying to win the race, without "leading" the whole race.
Adonis Jan 9th 2009 2:32PM
fun idea, horrible video
Harmun Jan 9th 2009 2:38PM
I'm totally bankrolling this on our next sarth 25 pug :)
Dightkuz Jan 9th 2009 2:52PM
Good choice of music /rolleyes
Bootsanator Jan 9th 2009 3:24PM
terrible, terrible music. i stopped watching almost immediately b/c of that.
amazing idea though! Definitely gonna see if my guild's up for it.
Frank Jan 9th 2009 3:55PM
i found it was even better with the volume turned all the way down. : )
Ahoni Jan 9th 2009 3:57PM
You do realize YouTube videos have a volume control. Pretty sure your computer does too. L2Mute
Bootsanator Jan 9th 2009 4:51PM
wow, you can turn volume down? no way! thanks for the amazing tip Ahoni! I don't know what I would do without you.
Can you help me find Mankrik's wife?
/sarcasm
Tumleren Jan 9th 2009 9:22PM
"wow, you can turn volume down? no way! thanks for the amazing tip Ahoni! I don't know what I would do without you.
Can you help me find Mankrik's wife?
/sarcasm"
Wow, thank you for clearing up that you were using sarcasm - It just made that extremely good post even better!
And my god; you are just SO cool for asking if he can help you find Mankrik's Wife!!!11 XXXDDD (ITS FUN BCUZ EVRYBUDY NOWS ABOUT IT XD)
Also: I am extremely awesome
Irshalthra Jan 9th 2009 3:59PM
Very fun, the 100G prize even covered their repair bills...barely :)
john3103 Jan 9th 2009 4:12PM
Don't worry about the repair bills, we did it naked.
cep Jan 9th 2009 4:25PM
well some of us did - others didn't have bag space for gear ;)
cep Jan 9th 2009 4:05PM
it was fun, we'll do it again for sure. we've done things like this starting back in vanilla wow - gnome hogger raids, level 1 BE races to UC then to Light's Hope Chapel, etc. nothing spectacular, just a bunch of casuals having some fun together. as for the music, I didn't realize there was any until I saw this thread - lol
Molloch Jan 9th 2009 4:07PM
I find this hysterically funny, only augmented by having this set to Dethklok songs. Kind of reminds me of a Kara raid where all the melee DPS (three people, myself included) did the first series of pulls unarmed and naked.