Blizzard recently came out with an interview about the Icecrown Citadel with Lead Systems Designer Greg Street (aka Ghostcrawler) and Lead Content Designer Cory Stockton. The interview is entitled the “Heart and Souls of Icecrown Citadel”. While there really isn’t any totally new earth shattering information that was revealed in this interview, it’s still nice to get into the heads of the designers and get their insights about what they worked on. When everyone gets to see the Icecrown Citadel when patch 3.3 is live (some of us have already seen some of it in the PTR) it will be …read more

The more the PTR reveals about the upcoming patch 3.3, the more it feels like the patch is really getting closer. We still don’t know exactly when it’s coming out so we’ll have to settle for the latest bit of info that just popped up. MMO Champion was able to get hold of more details about things we already know are coming out but don’t know specifics of. We know that the Quel’delar is coming out, an epic weapon involving a en epic quest chain from 5 man dungeons. We know that we’ll be getting more loot from the next …read more

Lead Encounter Designer Daelo announced something earlier involving the Icecrown Citadel coming out in patch 3.3 that is causing a lot of debate and whining especially within the tank community. The developers are implementing a spell in the Icecrown Citadel raid dungeon called Chill of the Throne which will affect every creature inside the raid. Chill of the Throne will allow these creatures to ignore 20% of it’s melee target’s dodge chance. So if you normally have 30% chance to dodge, you’ll only have 10% inside the Icecrown Citadel.
Before going into the issue itself, I just find it quite interesting …read more

World of Warcraft’s Developers Tom Chilton and J. Allen Brack just took part in a chat on Blizzard’s Twitter page. They answered questions about the upcoming patch 3.3 and the upcoming Cataclysm. A lot of the stuff that was talked you probably already know but there was some information that was new or at least old info that was touched on a bit more to give a few more details. You can find the chat in Q&A form on the WoW website here. Below are the points I feel are worth mentioning.

The new cross server LFG system coming out in …read more

If you’ve seen the preview Blizzard recently put out for the Icecrown Citadel raid dungeon that’s coming out in patch 3.3, you probably were pretty impressed at how epic and interesting raiding that place is going to be. If you’re one of those guys who belongs to a guild ready to take it on when it comes out then you might want to try it out when testing begins in the PTR today.
Lead Encounter Designer Daelo announced in the WoW US forums that today October 15 will be the start of the Icecrown Citadel raid testing in the PTR. Testing …read more

If you’ve seen the previews of the two Icecrown Citadel dungeons (the 5 man dungeon and the raid dungeon) that’s coming out in patch 3.3, you’ll know that players won’t be raiding that place alone. One of the things that makes the encounters sound and probably will be epic is that players will be fighting alongside known heroes. This is the very thing that made the Battle for Undercity quest very special even if it’s something that can be soloed.
For some people, getting the gear and having fun with the boss encounters in dungeons are all they probably care about. …read more

Just the other day Blizzard released information about the Frozen Halls, which is the 5 man dungeon within the Icecrown Citadel grounds coming out in patch 3.3. Based on the descriptions, the whole thing looks pretty epic especially for a 5 man dungeon. Epic is something expected for the raid dungeon, which we now know will be called the Frozen Throne. but based on the information that was just released it seems like it could be even more interesting and epic even for raid standards – something befitting someone like the Lich King considering the player cap restrictions.
The Frozen …read more

Blizzard’s Dungeons and Raids panel for day two of Blizzcon ‘09 has shown that there are some cool stuff planned for us for the future of Dungeons and Raids. The coolest part about it is that while most of the announcements that came out in this year’s Blizzcon was to build up excitement for the coming expansion called Cataclysm, Blizzard has proven that more cool things are to come way before that. The announcement of the Onyxia comeback for patch 3.2.2 is just a step towards that direction. We’ll see more in patch 3.3 and then more cool stuff when …read more