Lead Encounter Designer Daelo recently got on the forums to make an announcement about Icecrown Citadel’s Raid Access Progression. If you’ve been following raids in the past, you would know that the concept of gating raid content is not new at all. For some raids, Blizzard doesn’t want players to have access to everything right from the start. We saw this done in Sunwell where players could gain access to further bosses only after a while when Blizzard unlocked them. We also saw this in Trial of the Crusader where new bosses were unlocked week after week.
The devs plan on …read more

We’ve seen some details on the upcoming new Dungeon System coming out in patch 3.3 from small announcements from them or from things we’ve seen from the PTR. Blizzard officially announced the new dungeon system earlier, which highlights the cross server LFG interface and a few more features we’ve heard of before and some that we haven’t yet.
So as you already know, we’ll be able to group with others players from other servers in your battlegroup to do dungeons using the the new dungeon system. Like Battlegrounds, you’ll be able to join solo or as a group making the a …read more

With the announcement of yesterday’s extended maintenance, it was certain that something was up and patch 3.2.2 was definitely on our minds as a possibility. Turns out that our suspicions were right as patch 3.2.2 was just released.
The retuning of Onyxia’s Lair for level 80 10/25 man raiding is the focus of this minor content patch. The loots drops resemble the original drops from the level 60 days including items that look like the tier 2 helms and even the Quel’serrar! There’s also a chance to get a non combat pet and even a flying mount that look like Onyxia …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

The patch 3.2.2 is already in the public test realm and the PTR notes are out already. Aside from announcing mostly some class changes, these notes also clarify a few things about the Onyxia raid comeback that was announced recently.
As was announced, Blizzard is bringing back the Onyxia raid dungeon and retuning it for 10/25 man raiding instead of the original 40 man one. It has been made 100% clear that this will be a level 80 raid and therefore, being a permanent update, the level 60 version will no longer exist when patch 3.2.2 is released. They will be …read more

I think Blizzard stunned the whole World of Warcraft community with their recent announcement involving a future minor content patch. Much like how Blizzard retuned and brought back Naxxramas for 10 and 25 man raiding for Wrath of the Lich King, they just announced that they will be bringing back the Onyxia raid for patch 3.2.2.
In honor of Blizzard’s 5 year anniversary, Blizzard decided to bring back one of the original and popular raiding dungeons. This will be a permanent update wherein there will be a 10 and 25 man version. There will also be updated versions of the gear …read more

With the recent release of patch 3.2 it’s now officially ok to talk about patch 3.3 and the Icecrown Citadel. Besides, there’s really something mind blowing that was released about the Citadel anyway. As you all know, the Icecrown Citadel is the lair of the Lich King and will be the venue for players to raid when patch 3.3 comes out. Based on what Blizzard has said before, the Citadel will have a raid dungeon and a 5 man dungeon (much like how Ulduar is composed of the raid that was released in patch 3.1 and the 5 man dungeons …read more

A while back the PTR gave us a hint of a new feature that would allow players to extend the lock out periods of their dungeon and raid runs. It’s definitely a useful feature since players won’t need to worry about the dungeon lockout timers resetting even if you don’t really want to. CM Eyonix came out in the forums today to officially announce this new feature to the community as well as give more details about this feature.
According to Eyonix, players will be able to extend their lock out period for an additional amount of time equal to …read more

The upcoming patch 3.2 is filled with a lot of cool content and features as it is and we’re finding out quite a bit more from the PTR. A few days ago we learned about the feature that will allow us to trade BoP items to other eligible players for a duration of time. Now we find out, again through MMO-Champion, that we’ll be able to extend the lockout period of our raids by one more week if needed.
As we all know, raids currently have a lockout period of one week where the raid timer resets every Tuesday. This means …read more

One of my guild’s officers decided to organize a night of raiding some old content just for fun the other day. I know that many guilds do this sometimes especially if they are bored and that night we were bored. It so happened that our guild cleared 10 man Naxx in one night and we didn’t have a 25 man run scheduled the other night so we decided to visit some old content.
We managed to clear Karazhan with 6 people, though we didn’t do Nightbane since no one who could summon him was on at the time. It was a …read more