Onyxia is back!

Splinter

So It was announced that they are rereleasing onyxia as a ten and 25man instance in patch 3.2.2 (source on mmo champ and worldofraids). and that its gona drop some cool loot,

so my question to you is, what boss/instance would you love to see brought back into the game for raiding fun? personally i'd love to see an epic version of the steps in Zul farrack for 25people, reckon that would be plenty of fun, or else an updated Diremaul.

super_furry

Meh, seems that article about Blizzard's B-Team being left to work on WoW has some merit. After the huge letdown that was Trial of the Champion we get this. Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for old content being made relevent again but it's a cheap and easy move that involves no work or effort on their behalf. Same with Naxxaramas, they're just recycling old stuff in place of new content.

Kyri

I'd love to see the Maws fight and the Dr Wevil Fight in somewhere as encounters. The aq opening quest line was so much fun its a shame not many got to experience it.

For those that dont know Maws is a Jaws type shark that u had to kill in the water. The night we did it back in the level 60 cap days we had 30 people with us and omg the laugh us all floating out in the water waiting not having a clue what was coming

The Dr Wevil part of the chain was great craic to just something different which made it fun.

And updated Diremaul would be cool to used to love that place and the tribute run was great fun and a challange to do when raiding went stale.

BadCharlie

Will this patch be getting to us before the end of the year ?

af666x

I thought this was a joke for a second - it's bad enough that one of the new bosses has an ability that summons old bosses!!!!

I like being able to solo onyxia on my prot warrior, so hopefully it'll be in a different place + folks that want to re-visit the old version still can...

What's next? Magtheridon? Gruul? :rolleyes:

Kiith

Heroic Deadmines ftw!

af666x

Kiith wrote: »

Heroic Deadmines ftw!

Actually, this I approve of :D

elexes

should be hc versions of every instance imo.

id like to see bwl / mc again . i like it as it is but would love to get into it . i also think that nax needs more work. joining


aq10 would be nice

Berns

Would love to see some 40 man raids tbh. Dunno where would get the people but would be good craic i think. The heroic versions would be class if they applied it to all old raids but left the option for the normal old school ones.

Joined when BC was in full swing so never done many origional ones, missed old ones at 60.

DarthWraak

There have been vanilla wow guilds popping up across the servers since the "Experience Eliminator"s were added (even before then but moreso now). Was thinking of leveling up a mage and stopping @ Level60 to raid old skool, I really hope Blizzard don't **** up this change by making the new Onyxia level80 only

Kiith

I dont see why they wouldnt just make it like a normal/heroic instance, but with lvl60/lvl80 instance for this.

Psycopat

Thought this was a joke till i saw it on mmo-champ. Onyxia's lair was meerly a setback...

WellyJ

Another nail tbh. Shocking the way we are being shafted while they spend our subs on new game development.

Next they will let us do all the quests again from level 1 to 80 - with the reward being Tier 10.333 recurring.

Bzztard Entertainment.

dyl10

Heroic Deadmines would be great

][cEMAN**

I thought Obsidian Sanctum was the WotLK version of Onyxia...

Anyway, i'd like to see Raggy brought back as a WotLK boss

me-skywalker

I sense the beginning of the end.. anyoen recommend any other MMORPGS? LOTR any good? Warhammer? never tried it! used to play Everquest might give that a bash again!

magicianz

Ever wonder why there are 3 gateways for raids but only OS one is usable? I bet they plan for another dragonflight clan thingy whatever to be put in after onyxia.

Dubhthamlacht

in the months leading up to Wolk, the whole idea of recycling Naxx just smacked of laziness and a cop out. What I wanted for Wolk was to be in awe of the new expansion (like TBC was), instead it was literally more of the same, with a new class. This was one of reason i never bought Wolk. Rehashing Onyxia...... seriously, to hear they are gonna do this reinforces that this game is going down hill.

TheDoc

Talk about ****ing over reactions.

Its the five year anniversary, and they are brining out a special remake of a classic encounter.

This is something as a bonus, special. Its not like they wanted to bring out ANOTHER instance, a week after their b ig content patch. And they ran out of ideas and threw this in.

Its a bonus, they could have done nothing, instead they gave us another little something.

Total over reaction saying " its the end of the game" Get a grip please seriously.

If the new expansion came out with updated old instances, then yeah id be sceptical, but its just bonus content.

I for one think this will spark a great revival for the old stuff, and maybe become so popular that they might consider making heroic modes of all the old instances, which would be brilliant.

More instances, makes more diversity and less repition.

I for one will be trying to get guys to go do all the old instances, for the achievement but the craic, like many i missed alot of old content because i was a ****ter.

Karl Hungus

What TheDoc said.

It's a bonus for the anniversary, and a damn good one. Would you rather some silly pet instead? Honestly, this is excellent. It's not like "Oh, instead of Icecrown, here's Kara v2" so please, get a grip.

c0rk3r

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-0qUTkyXv0

TheDoc

Instead of putting time into ****ty pets and the useless **** we sometimes get, I'd much much MUCH prefer a visit to older content , actually make me want to go back to older stuff.

Anti

If i wanted to go back to onyxia i would, and i'd solo it on my dk. Yes it is a bonus feature, but common its incredibely lazy. Even using the same armor/wep models from back then too... All they had to do was increase the ammount of HP ony has, and the ammount of damage it does, same with the trash. The 4th year one was pretty lazy too, ohh a little baby bear.

IMHO if they are going to keep bring back the old BC content then they need to bring it all back in one go.

I dont think this is the end of wow, but.... well something just isn't the same anymore. Maybe its me !

][cEMAN**

Karl, I want this AND some new pet to drop from her!

I want a mini onyxia pet

Ivan

There is a mini-broodling pet for logging in, no? Like the bear, a boa mailed to you if you login during the aniversary.

And a mount that drops from Onyxia.

On the whole, I'm somewhat of the opinion of, why did they bother? But I've done the content; many, many times so I think that makes me biased.

Think that back then there was no concept of puging a raid. You were either part of the 6% that got to raid, or you spent 90% of your time in UBRS hoping for those rare bastarding mats to drop from the beast so you could do your epic quest chain. Which was one item, the end

I will say that I dont buy the idea that "it's just bonus content" because lets face it, if they werent redoing the Onyxia encounter, then they'd be working on something new for people to experience as part of the Aniversary.

But still, it should be good in any case and hopefully we'll get a hardmode or heroic version and if nothing else, it should be interesting to see how they manage to rebalance the encounter as most of what was there wont work. The fear mechanic was a huge part of Onyxia of old but with shamans on all sides, fear ward available to all (along with an overwhelming desire to not force a raid to stack priests) and the intention from Blizzard to let non-warriors tank, they will really have to spice things up considerably, to make it interesting.

Xyo

Deep breaths for 20k! can't wait

TheDoc

If they are infact releasing a new expansion, then there is a team working on that. There is obviously a team working on the arthas encounter.

There is not just one development team, perhaps a team finished way ahead of schedule, maybe someone had this idea and grabbed some ideal hands and got it done.

I do not for one second believe, that working on this project is somehow hampering other attempts to complete new fresh content.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Kiith wrote: »

Heroic Deadmines ftw!

That's what I said today to the lads in the guild :P

elexes

Scott Broad Memorandum wrote: »

That's what I said today to the lads in the guild :P

wc ftw ive been waiting on it since tbc .

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Karl Hungus wrote: »

What TheDoc said.

It's a bonus for the anniversary, and a damn good one. Would you rather some silly pet instead? Honestly, this is excellent. It's not like "Oh, instead of Icecrown, here's Kara v2" so please, get a grip.

You can't say it's a damn good one yet, lets see how exactly they handle it. It could be a complete joke.

DRakE

Xyo wrote: »

Deep breaths for 20k! can't wait

no one would die

Kiith

I might actually tey and go to Onyxia this time around. Never been a raider, but it would be cool to see it as it was meant to be seen (i.e. not soloing it with a pally).

DRakE wrote: »

no one would die

I would

(with my Rogue anyway)

Kiith

Bah!

Psycopat

Onyxia's being re-released tomorow for anyone interested.

Anti

And its stupidly easy, beyond faceroll infact.

TheDoc

Did the 10 man last night on outland with the irish boys.

Had one whipe due to an error on the tanks part, but we got it on the second attempt comfortably, was fun to do the encounter, considering I'd only ever done it before with higher level characters, not the original, I also got a **** hot spellpower dagger out of it.

A fun quick instance, with some nice loot, and an old skool encounter.

I'm glad they did it, rather then them doing nothing, and me continuing my time waiting on groups for ToC,Naxx or Uld, now I've something else to do during the week.

Although soon it will be repetitive, its another variant into what can be a very stale rotation between 3-4 instances/raids.

af666x

Did it during the week and picked up an ilvl 245 hat - better than t8.5 and for next to no effort.

GG!