For a "hardcore server", this isn't very hardcore when you do not need to minmax, respect mechanics, or play well to kill the boss. Currently, Blood quarter trash is harder than BQL. Professor and Sindra still remain formidable endwing bosses on Lordareon because no changes were made to what made those specific encounters difficult, whereas BQL has been made easier than Festergut as a result of bug fixes & nerfs. When BQL HC's health pool was reduced by 8 million a year and some change ago, several guilds secured their first kill on BQL, an indicator that the nerf was too much. It should be a hellish healing fight with a tight DPS requirement, instead of Festergut with Wings.
In a similar fashion, LOD's enrage timer used to be 13:38 instead of the retail (current) 15:00 minutes. This made it so you had to play max 6 or 7 valk waves in phase 2 to be able to kill it before Enrage. To be able to do this, players had to learn how to minmax their damage on not only Valkyries, but throughout the entire encounter. Now, assuming you play 7 valk waves, you can easily play 4 & 1/2 rooms and kill before Enrage. For a hardcore server, it seems a bit lackluster to not force players to play to the best of their ability in order to kill the final raid encounter of this expansion. With only (maybe?) tank damage being increased on Lordareon compared to Icecrown, this fight no longer demands a hardcore mindset to overcome, arguably being easier than Professor or Sindragosa.
For BQL HC, I am suggesting a couple changes in order to bring her back up to being a formidable end-wing boss:
- Revert the bug fix to Twilight Bloodbolt, having her cast four Bloodbolts per wave throughout the entirety of the encounter, instead of just in flight phase. This would be effectively a custom change to the boss that isn't just an arbitrary number increase, a good difficulty-increasing change.
- Increase her health pool. I suggest returning it to prenerf 79.6m, but any sizable buff would be nice (5m+)
For LOD, I am suggesting the following changes in order to return LOD to a fight where players really need to try:
- Reduce Enrage timer back to 13:38.