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title: 'Xaryu Reacts to TAUREN ONLY Molten Core'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=RdwTJI72CGQ'
video_id: 'RdwTJI72CGQ'
date: 2026-06-24
duration_sec: 1537
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# Xaryu Reacts to TAUREN ONLY Molten Core

> Source: [Xaryu Reacts to TAUREN ONLY Molten Core](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RdwTJI72CGQ)

## Summary

Xaryu reacts to a self-found Tauren-only raid in Molten Core, initially 37 players, ending with a near-kill on Ragnaros at 30%, praising the effort while noting the extreme difficulty and burnout.

### Key Points

- **Grace Raid Announcement** [0:00] — Xaryu starts reacting to the 'grace raid,' noting Herdcore will disband soon, with all Horde races merging into a new guild called Hordecore.
- **Self-Found Only Challenge** [0:30] — Every player is self-found at 60, meaning no trading or external help, making the raid much harder.
- **Instant Death on Pull** [1:03] — A player named Ash dies instantly at the start, highlighting the raid's difficulty.
- **Struggles with Race-Limited Raids** [2:10] — Both the Tauren and Gnome raids had difficulty filling 37 slots, and deaths cannot be replaced due to limited pool.
- **Multiboxing for Numbers** [2:46] — One player multiboxes two characters, meaning only 36 actual players, further reducing effective size.
- **No Dispel Classes** [3:25] — Tauren have no priests, so no dispels, severely hampering healing and debuff removal.
- **No Warlocks for Banishes** [4:22] — Lack of warlocks makes boss fights with banishing mechanics brutal.
- **TTS Spam Issues** [5:07] — Grace for days leaves Text-to-Speech on, spamming AoE taunt, which is disruptive but possibly intentional troll.
- **Extremely Low DPS** [6:18] — Top DPS is only ~500, with numbers dropping fast, making the submerge phase near impossible.
- **Geddon Fight Impressive** [7:00] — Despite no dispels for ignite mana burn, they manage zero deaths on Baron Geddon.
- **Major Domo Chaos** [9:14] — Multiple deaths and kiting failures reduce raid to 29 players before Major Domo.
- **Ragnaros with 29 Players** [16:35] — They attempt Ragnaros with only 29 self-found Tauren, a massive send.
- **Ragnaros Wipe at ~30%** [21:00] — Both off-tanks die, DPS too low, and they wipe near 30% health on Ragnaros, but still a legendary effort.
- **Burnout After Guild/Found Raids** [22:53] — Xaryu notes players often feel relief (freedom) when such hardcore projects end, citing similar burnout in Frontier and Gnome raids.

### Conclusion

The Tauren-only self-found raid was a legendary attempt, nearly killing Ragnaros with only 29 players, showcasing extreme effort and community burnout typical of such hardcore challenges.

## Transcript

Let's watch the grace raid. I actually
did um what's it called? I actually did
sneak peek a bit. He's live right now on
Herdcore. Seven guild members. Herdcore
will be disbanded in a few days. All the
Horde races are coming together in a
different guild called Hordecore. I was
actually just I just messaged craze for
days. What's next? And he went live with
the title, what's next? And the guild
message of the day saying they're going
to disband. I was actually curious if
the Torren were going to use world buffs
since what the Torren made very hard on
themselves is every player is
self-found. Let that sink in. Every
player is self-found at 60. That's what
the Torren did to make it very, very
tricky. So, big respect. But they do use
world buffs, I guess, is what I just
heard. I'm really curious for this first
pull here.
>> Okay. Okay. Okay. Right here. Right
here. Right here. further ado, let's do
this first pull, boys.
>> Yeah, so no world.
>> What the heck was that?
Okay,
>> Ash. Wait, Ash.
>> Ashes died instantly. Wait, what? Did I
miss that,
>> boys?
>> What happened,
>> dude? What is this? Okay,
Ashes just got one shot.
Oh, that sucks.
>> All right, good threats established. Oh,
yeah. Good threat. AoE AoE.
>> Wait, AoE taunt. Why?
>> Can you circle of healing? Circle of
healing.
>> Wait, does does he know Ash has died?
>> Does he know? Is he laughing at him?
>> What? All right, it's on Graze.
>> It's on Glenn.
>> It's on Glenn.
>> Taunting. It's on Jaru.
>> That's good. All right. Nobody important
died.
>> Wow, that's savage. They lose a member
and Grace is laughing. Um, okay. So, at
the start of the raid, they they have
that one death insta on pull and then
there's
35. There's 37. Dude, they went in with
the same amount we did. We did 37
gnomes. They did 37 torren, guys. It
turns out to fill a raid with one race
is really hard. Like we struggle to get
to 37 gnomes. I think they probably
struggled to get to 37 torrens. And as
we're going to see here, as they lose
people and as we lost people, we
couldn't replace anyone. Like it just,
you know, you have a like finite amount
of people here, man. Like it's it's br
Yeah, it's brutal.
>> Wait, that was a troll, right?
>> The blood sacrifice for the minding.
Holy [ __ ]
>> He is He is multiboxing. Um
>> Oh, he's multiboxing.
>> Yeah, boys.
>> So, they don't even have 37 people. They
have 36 people and he's multiboxing.
He probably like Yeah, Ash and Ash. Car
has two two characters in the same raid.
Thank you, Ash, for your sacrifice.
We're going to go on this first fire
lord. Grau on it.
and kill both.
>> Okay. Um, so dude, this is just
>> kill the first lava.
>> The thing about the torrent is they have
no dispell either.
Like zero dispel.
>> Got to kill the second lava spawn.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah, we banned him in two. We got him.
>> All right. We've got another set of lava
spawns. We're just on X. Kill. So people
are saying skip to the second entry.
Okay. So then for a while they like
clear trash and then they leave. They
get buffs and then they enter again
later. Um okay. So I kind of want to
like see if there was any big moments
but a lot of this looks chill. Like very
very chill.
Um
okay. No deaths. Chill. Like the big
ones I want to watch are
Getdon Domo and Rag I think.
Looks like they had a maybe a death on
Gar. Let's watch Gar real quick.
>> We still have to kill these. Can
>> you do circle of healing? Circle of
healing.
>> I mean, this is pretty impressive. Like,
no warlocks for banishes
on this boss is brutal.
>> Dust.
>> Hey, Sterling, thanks so much for the
prime sub, man.
>> All right, if you I know we're running
out of mana. We're going to be dropping
intervates.
As soon as this boss dies, call out if
you need.
>> Wow, he doesn't even loot. Not that I
would have looted. Oh, someone looted. I
was just going to say healing, guys.
Lots of healing.
>> What? Why AoE?
>> Kill them one at a time. Do not blow
them up. Trying
>> ripper. Who's looting, man?
>> Don't kill Skull. Don't kill Skull.
Let's blow it up.
>> No deaths. No deaths.
It's his TTS.
No way. Okay, look.
Grace for days.
We got to turn off TTS if we're in a
raid raiding for content and it's
spamming AoE taunt. I mean, maybe that's
the idea. Maybe he wants to troll
everyone. That probably is the idea.
But as a viewer, that's really tough cuz
I'm like, why are they calling this?
Okay. Yeah, I guess I got trolled. Okay,
I guess I'm the idiot. Okay. All right.
He got me.
>> Watch X. X is going to blow.
>> X is going to blow.
>> Eight kills.
>> How did movie die right there?
>> Eight kills.
>> That sucks. After Car's dead, Movie just
dies to the ads.
>> I don't even think it was an explosion.
Oh, Jar. Big heals on Jar. Big one. Jar.
>> Watch the explosion.
>> Diamonds going down. Watch out.
>> Just no heals. I mean, bro, they're all
med. They're so
>> going down. Watch out. I'm about to die.
>> Guys, just to just to say this again,
this is torn only selfound. So, they
only have hunters, warriors, druids, and
shamans.
There's no priests. There's no like
priest buff, right? They do have shaman
intrude healers, but like all they're
all just kind of like oomed out. It's
like it's just different, man.
>> Yeah, they have a lot of intervates.
Yeah.
>> So, they lost another there. RIP.
>> So, they I mean to be fair though, they
only lost two so far. One of the first
pull, one to car. Like, that's not bad.
Um I mean, it's not ideal either, but
like for a self-found torn only raid,
it's definitely not bad.
We're going to just keep skipping for a
bit. I wouldn't mind checking out
Geddon. Is this Gdon pull right here?
Here's Here's Gdon. All right, let's
watch Gdon real quick.
>> Yeah, if you're too close to the bot guy
with the bomb, you'll get blown up, too.
So, stay right.
>> Thanks for the stream. Thanks for
watching, man. Okay, Gdon,
>> someone resist. Yo, wait a wait a
moment. Wait a moment. And
okay, threat looks good now.
Everybody out.
>> Everybody out. Yep.
>> I don't see anyone with the bomb yet.
>> Jaru just got owned for a sec.
>> One boosty.
>> Booy.
>> Make sure boost is topped off.
>> Boosty. Boost.
>> Circle of healing. Circle of healing.
>> So the circle of healing. That's a sound
bite too.
>> All right. Threat looks pretty good.
>> Earth out. Earth out.
>> So they have no dispel for the ignite.
Ooh, that's actually tough.
>> Yo, everybody alone.
>> Oh my gosh. Earth, Earth, Earth.
>> Drop your innovates here.
>> Everybody.
>> Hey, we
>> dude. Dude, the the TTS is messing with
me.
>> Okay. Out. Na out.
>> Make sure N's top.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Top. Na.
>> Na. Almost died there. Holy crap.
Yeah, that the ignite mana burn with no
dispell's brutal. I I'm actually going
to be so impressed they do baron get in
with zero zero deaths.
Get
>> Oh, he needs to die. We're almost out of
mana.
>> Oh my gosh. So, zero deaths only torren.
They have only 35 people now.
>> That was pretty impressive, man. Pretty
good.
They can still kill.
>> You guys eat until you get your uh your
resto pop back up.
>> Um the ignite mana will keep burning as
you eat. So do be aware of that.
>> She's a 5 minute
>> spell. Okay.
>> I got a minute cool down till I can pop
the rest though.
>> I'm going to need on that.
>> Sheesh. All right. All right. So from
here, you know, I I would assume Shaw
goes pretty well. I would assume a lot
of the rest. So, I want to check out
Domo and Rag.
So, they leave for a bit. They're
getting buffs. Not too many people are
dying. They're getting more buffs.
And everything looks pretty chill. They
still have 35 members, which is
fantastic.
I would I really want to see this Domo
kill man.
Uh they do have another death or two.
Should we see these deaths? What
happened here?
Ender. What? What did he get killed by
the ender dragon or what?
How's Ender dead here?
Uh, everyone. Yeah, every single player
is selfound, man. Every single player is
selfound.
Okay, so Ender dies here
>> right now.
>> Now we kill X.
>> Oh yeah, the flame guard. Um,
>> okay. I mean, these pulls are crazy.
>> Yeah, it's fine. Kill kill X now.
>> Ender's chilling.
>> She get half HP. is selfing.
>> Is it here? Lava spawns up.
>> Okay, so it's probably this pole. The
fire walker probably just nukes him.
Let's see. Oh my gosh, he's here. Fire
walker.
>> Make sure you don't HAVE BLESSING. OH MY
>> JERGER, thanks for the sub, dude.
>> Dude, Ender got ended right there, man.
>> Brutal.
Let's
go,
>> man. That sucks.
>> Wait, did someone fall?
>> Falling in the lava, man. Couldn't be
us right?
>> Down and the carath with a dow.
>> I got to go.
>> He's got to go.
>> GG's.
>> Keep him up.
>> Oh, they don't have locks for summon.
So, what what's the strat here? You
leave group.
Oh,
>> I already do. So, you guys still got I
got
healing.
>> Yeah, kick him from the group so he gets
ported right?
>> Yeah. What is going on?
>> We used his down.
>> Oh, he wanted to die so he suicided his
character. What?
>> Huh?
>> Yeah, I was on the time. That's all I
got. I don't know why other people are
jumping but
uh
>> nobody else is jumping.
>> Uh this is
>> awkward.
>> Oh no.
>> Yes, my old jump.
>> What the [ __ ] is going on, man?
>> Wait, why are they jumping in the lava?
What? This is what?
>> Do not loos us.
>> You don't have to die.
>> I could have kept your character alive.
>> I mean, you got to leave the raid if you
don't want to die. Keep moodling up.
>> What is this?
>> Modell, leave the group and we'll heal
you
>> and you just run back into the instance.
>> What?
Dude. All right. Torrens are different,
man. I didn't know they
>> What did I just watch?
>> Oh my god.
>> So, okay.
>> Oh my god. I almost
>> one or two of their deaths, they kind of
just jumped into the lava. I I don't
know the context here, but let's just
keep keep moving on. All right. So then
after they jump into the lava, they have
now two less people. So they started at
37, now they're closer to 32 at this
point.
Um, they clear more trash. I want to see
Domo and Rag.
Okay, they're reclearing a lot of this.
Okay nice.
Okay, here we go.
>> We're going to have Major Domo
Executives volleyably.
>> So before this poll, how many people are
still alive? We have 1 2 3 4 5 six
groups.
If you replace fog with power, they're
at 30. They're at 30.
They've lost seven to either people
having to go or deaths.
>> 30 man self torn only got one. Okay, so
Robin's going to do moon is going to do
square. It may not work.
>> Oh, pause alive. Okay, so 31
>> or maybe twisting is alive still.
Okay, let's go back. Here it is. Here it
is. Here it is. Yeah. So, it's 30 31. It
looks like 31 players.
>> Reckless mortals.
>> We're on Skull.
>> Tanks. Pick up.
>> Yep.
>> I'm going to kiting next to X.
>> It's not Milk. Got dazed as the Hunter.
Oh no,
>> the Hunter kite didn't work.
>> We lost the Hunter. We're going to have
one come back.
>> Oh crap. I'm going to grab both of the
healers. Raise will grab the elite.
>> I might be able to pick it up.
>> I got it.
>> Nice. Nice. That was clutch.
>> Pulled out of the raid.
>> Okay.
>> I wonder what happened to that Hunter.
>> Put Moon and Square together and cleave
them.
Hunters keep kiting.
You can probably send back pretty soon.
>> Okay, so they're going healer, healer,
healer, healer. If you can drop an
intervate. Drop an intervate.
>> Utter.
>> Uh, utter's down. What's coming back?
>> I'm I'm going to try to get it.
>> Wait, was udder was a hunter? Why? Okay.
Why are two of the hunter kiters just
dying?
I wonder what happened cuz don't you
just cheetah and book it? They don't
like they're s they're sacrificial
hunters. What happened here, man?
They've just never done it. I mean, I've
never done it on a hunter. I would
assume you just, you know, you pull, you
get aggro, and you book it until you
faint death.
>> You probably send back pretty soon.
>> Oh, you don't che on pull.
>> Druids, if you can drop an intervate,
drop an intervate.
>> So, two two ads are coming back now.
Okay, they kill this one, then they kill
that one.
>> Don't major demo. We got to just
>> There's three more ads coming back.
>> Bro, this is so brutal. So, there's 29
people still alive right now, it looks
like.
>> I mean, this is this is a raid, dude.
They're full sending this.
>> We can't Yeah, we need to move these
apart. Squares first. Move it out of the
healers. Get off the healers, please.
>> Yeah. Yeah, that's good.
>> Moon's coming in.
>> Yeah. Full moon near the middle of the
moon.
>> Moon.
>> Yeah. Mel, get it away from the healers.
>> All right. X next. Everybody get on X.
Watch all of us here, boys.
>> Okay, so it looks I mean this looks
pretty chill now. It looks like they
have two more dead.
>> Doing good.
>> So they're at 29 players right now. 29
self found torins, I should say.
>> Just send it, brother. Just healing.
>> N needs an intervate.
>> Not n
>> bro. Oh, that's so savage. Oh my gosh.
>> I got an intervate. If you can grab
major do
>> that's fine.
>> So at this point they have 29 alive for
rag.
>> We got 11 minutes on Songflower. So we
got to go.
>> Yeah, they have to go.
>> Really sorry milk and I'm really sorry
man.
>> I wonder what happened.
>> Leaf
lava treasure. If you don't feel like
you can do that leaf quest,
>> should you seek an audience with him?
>> I'm going to need on that.
>> Okay. So then let's skip to
>> before the first threat. Wipe.
>> Okay. I dude I've just got to say this
is absolutely savage to just send rag
with 29 people selfound. I mean I
respect it.
There is 29 cows right here trying to
take on rags self found and they're just
full sending. They have what?
29 torin self found. All right, let's
see it, bro.
>> They're doing it. They're doing it.
>> They're doing it. Let's watch this
thing, dude. Let's see it.
>> I don't see my DBM. If somebody can call
the wrath of Ragnar and seek
>> do something.
>> Okay, here it is.
>> A couple globals melee. I'm going to
open with taunt
>> now for you in sex.
>> Oh my gosh. DBM installation corrupt.
What the heck is that? Mid fight. It
pops up.
>> Okay, Grace has aggro.
>> It's on Graze.
All right, that looks good.
>> Okay, this looks chill.
>> Call it if you're in the lab.
Yo, Mike, thanks for the sub, brother.
>> Okay, this looks chill.
>> Come run down. Come on. Come up here,
buddy.
>> So, I'm just looking at the damage meter
real quick. Number one in the damage
meter is 500. My camera's kind of
covering it. Number two, 400 400 300 300
300 300 300 300 300. And then it drops
to 200 and then it falls off a cliff.
They're not beating submerged with these
numbers,
right? Like they're they're not beating
submerged with these numbers. They're
going to see us submerge, right?
>> Get knocked. Just get back. Nea fire
melee hit. It already went up.
>> Okay. No deaths yet is pretty big.
>> Um
All right, it's a threat drop. It still
looks fine.
Woo! Saul, saw. Saul. Okay.
>> Yeah, it did.
>> I mean, everything looks kind of chill
for 29 torren so far, man. I'm not going
to lie. This looks This looks all right.
>> Fire beck.
Just tell me when the thread drops.
>> Tech. Oh my gosh. Tech almost just died.
>> So, here's the issue, dude. Look at the
shaman's mana. Oo, omo.
I mean, Moo has mighty and mumbo and Mu
has some mana, but like a lot of these
shamans are are bosses at 60% DPS is
looking iffy.
>> Here we go.
>> All right.
>> Black dude died. Yeah. All right, I
think that's a threat wipe. It's on
tech. Tech's tanking. Brace is tanking.
>> 40%. Oh my. 60. Oh,
dude. The nerves right now must be crazy
maintain tanking this.
>> Got it.
>> Out of mana.
>> Come on, guys.
>> Yo, bears.
>> O, just died. O, they're down to 27
players. Tech, tech, tech, tech.
>> Yo, tech, drop your innovate.
>> Already dead.
>> Okay.
>> Oh, he already did. Jaru's almost dead.
>> Melee out.
Oh,
>> he gets knocked.
>> Oh my gosh.
>> About 40%.
Oh, 12%. Dude, this is hard to watch.
>> Any warriors with demoar.
>> O, they have three dead. Three dead.
Tech tech's dead. Off tank is dead. Four
dead. Oh, wait. Don't. Okay, there's one
off tank still, I guess. Jaru,
>> I have the lag. DPS out.
>> Dude, this is real. Don't come back in
till we tell you to.
>> Don't come in.
>> Five dead.
>> Neva.
>> Um, you can come in now.
>> Do something.
>> Oh my gosh. 30%. They're going to hit.
They're going to hit submerge though.
>> And the healers are on.
>> Oh, is Jaru dead? No. Jaru's still
Jaru's dead. Jaru just died. So, both
off tanks are dead. And Grace can't solo
tank this, right? So,
>> is that it lava?
>> Keep going.
No way.
>> Yo, much respect to the torren for full
sending, man. That is a full send. Holy
crap.
>> That is a full send.
>> Dude, dude, we're going to get out.
We're going to get out.
>> Yo, legendary.
>> Oh my
>> legendary, man.
>> [ __ ]
>> GG.
>> That's it. That's it.
Oh there.
>> Does anyone make it out?
>> Jesus. GG's.
>> Did anyone make it out? Looks like that
guy got the hearth off. Whoever that was
got the hearth, I think.
>> GG's.
>> No, it was
>> that was some GG's. Wow.
>> Do something.
>> Torren went out with a bang.
>> That is m That is a rag wipe, man.
>> Honestly, pretty glorious. Yeah.
>> God damn.
Oh, that was so tough.
>> Oh, dude. I I died first of all. I feel
like [ __ ] idiot. I didn't
>> Guys, we're free.
>> We're free.
>> We're free.
>> So, this is what happens every time
these crazy projects go on. So, if you
guys remember in Frontier, um it was
like Ampy's Guild. They tried to clear
hardcore first. Uh and they did and they
killed Keelazad. Um, but when they did
it, all the raiders were like, "Oh,
thank goodness that's over. We're free."
Frontier 2, same thing. They tried to do
it without world buffs. And right when
they did it, they're like, "Oh, thank
goodness we're free." Only things one,
only things two, all the streamers, same
thing. They're like, "Okay, we're done
raiding. Finally, we're free."
Um, this happens every time. Like,
people get burnt out when it's guild
found or self-found. Like, every every
time. It's really fun when you're
playing guild founder, self-found. It's
great.
But then eventually it becomes like,
"Holy crap, we're free." Cuz like, dude,
this is just so much work and grinding.
It's brutal. So yeah, I think a lot of
these people are probably relieved.
They're like, "Okay, like with our gnome
raid, same kind of a thing. A lot of our
players after that molten core were
like, "All right, we're taking a break."
You know, taking a break, you know,
cheese. Someone in the chat says, "We
could have 100% cleared, but
coordinating a day and time for 40 60s
was hard." So, the gnomes ran into the
same problem.
We had a really hard time getting a day
at a time for 40 level 60 guild found
gnomes. We ended up with 37. We were in
the same boat as you guys. We ended up
with 37 by the time we had all of our
deaths. I think we ended with like 30 or
29, something like that. And uh yeah, we
were in the same ex same exact boat as
you guys, man. Like uh it was it was,
you know, it was scrappy.
>> Great. I I hope I speak for everyone
when you say thank you for being the guy
doing this for us, dude.
>> Go in the bear. Go in the bear. Go in
the bear,
>> dude. Thank you.
>> Thank you very much. Shout out to her.
>> Well, there it is.
>> Well, guys, W to the Torren. I mean I
mean it didn't end how they wanted it.
They got ragged like 30% or whatever.
That was close. But I have to say, shout
out to Graze for just like this whole
like we wouldn't have started the gnomes
if Grace didn't start the torren. So W
Graze, that was a sick raid. They full
sent, man. They pulled a rag with 29
people. That is crazy. I mean, they full
sent
absolutely nuts. And they were all
selfound, too. Um it sounds like uh
going back to the start of this
grace for days guild message of the day
in hercore is we will be disbanded in a
few days and all the horde races are
coming together in a different guild
called Hordecore. So they're they're
calling cheat sheets on on the torren
which makes sense. Totally understand
it. Totally get it. Um, wow.