April Blog Posts

4/29/09

* Fixed an issue where Mimiron could randomly change targets while casting P3Wx2 Laser Barrage in phase 4. It is still possible for it to appear that he is turning quickly for an instant to shoot another direction, but this is just a visual bug that will be resolved in a future patch.
* The Auriaya encounter has received the following changes: the damage of Strength of the Pack has been increased, the duration of Terrifying Screech has been reduced, the damage of Sonic Screech has been reduced, and the damage from Seeping Feral Essence has been reduced.

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4/28/09

* Pure Saronite mining nodes have temporarily been disable in Ulduar and will return in the future.
* The effectiveness of the Priest spell Divine Hymn has been reduced.
* The Priest ability Soul Warding now only reduces the mana cost of Power Word: Shield by 15% instead of 30%. The tooltip for this spell will be updated at a later date.
* Glyph of Mass dispel will now reduce the cost of the spell by only 35%.

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Daelo at http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=16473764809&sid=1:

We're currently in the process of making further difficulty adjustments via hotfix to the following encounters:

Ignis the Furnace Master
Razorscale
XT-002 Deconstructor
The Assembly of Iron
Kologarn
Auriaya

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Bibi over at MMO-Champion spent some quality time digging and got a list of most of the hard-mode loot in the game.

So if you've been waiting to build your dream-set of gear, wait no longer!

Ulduar - Hard Mode Gear List

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Sorry for the delay, I was out for the latter half of the week.

4/22/09

* General Vezax’s Shadow Crash ability will no longer benefit non-caster classes.
* Mother Shahraz’s Fatal Attraction ability will once again hit only 3 people at a time.
* Players can no longer use the Fetch Ball or Rope Leash on the Argent Gruntling.
* Players who are exalted with the Argent Crusade will no longer be able to complete the quest “Contributin' To The Cause” in the Argent Pavillion.

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Continuation of the ones posted last night:

• Glyph of Polymorph will no longer limit the number of recipes learned through Northrend Inscription Research.
• The Iron Council encounter has received the following changes: the amount healed through Electric Charge has been increased, the timer to Berserk has been increased, the range of Overload has been decreased, the Lightning Elementals are no longer immune to nature damage, Stormcaller Brundir's melee damage has been decreased (in normal mode), and increased Runemaster Molgeim's damage.
  

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From Bornakk:

• The Saronite Animus in the heroic General Vezax encounter has had its health increased.
• The Mimiron hard mode has received the following changes: increased damage from Flames, increased damage from Frost Bomb (in heroic), increased damage from Water Spray, and increased the health bonus he receives from Emergency Mode.
• The damage bonus of the Frozen Power talent should no longer affect boss creatures.
  

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Got these via the rumor mill:

• On Kologarn, putting all the melee right in front of Kologarn's face will prevent them from ever being targeted by Eye Beams.

• On Hodir, sometimes you can be frozen when in a snowdrift because the game decided you moved "into" the snowdrift rather than "onto" it. Do a quick jump when you get on a snowdrift and it should make you less likely to be frozen.

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Well we didn't raid Friday and Saturday like a lot of guilds: we decided to stick with our "we respect real life" rules. We did bend, however, due to how terrible Tuesday/Wednesday were, and started raiding several hours early on Sunday.

It's a good instance -- the bugs aside, it's challenging and fun. I'm very glad there's hardmodes though -- too many of the bosses we one-shot without ever seeing them before, and we went through Mimiron, General, and Yogg-Saron today and they're supposedly the hardest there.

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