Thursday, October 2, 2008

An interesting change found in 9014 that'll impact 3.0.2...

Reports coming in on MMO-Champion are indicating that all BC raid boss mobs are having their HP slashed by 30% come 3.0.2, assuming that what is in 9014 carries over to 3.0.2.

People are probably going to deride me for this, but I like this change. I know people I know won't (foremost of which are probably Neggles and Female Dwarf Hunter - remind me to put her on my blogroll), but I do. We are starting Hyjal this coming Tuesday (taking our last few stabs at Kael on Thursday and maybe Monday), and if we can get to Archimonde and down him and maybe get me my Bristleblitz before Wrath... meh. Let's just say I'd be happy. :) I don't wanna use a dead bird to 77-ish.

And if we can go back and bag Vashj and Kael... *drools at thoughts of having a Band of the Eternal Champion finally*

7 comments:

Neggles said...

Enjoy that 30% decrease in HP!

But, oh, also enjoy those lack of drums and pots ;).

We are getting in a slew of applicants that think we are going to down KJ because of this change. We just shake our head and sigh...

Rilgon Arcsinh said...

I very rarely, if ever, get drums. Thankfully, Knights of Valor is not a min/maxing guild. If they were, I probably would not have a raid spot.

I know why the changes are being made. They make sense. It's a bit clunky and unwieldy, but it works with minimal effort.

Meh, I can't articulate my thoughts for shit right now, I had a horrible day at work.

hospitaller said...

Heh, good luck with that BBS. Our guild's past Archimonde (we stopped doing Hyjal a month ago after we started having people not even roll on t6 helms for off sets), have Illi on farm (3 warglaives so far) and are about to kill brutallus. We have never seen either Archie or Illidan drop a bow.

That's right, we have 3 warglaives and no bows.

Hell, we've been in SWP for almost 2 months and we only have one felspine...

Eh, sorry for the non-productive comment. The yet-untainted hope in your post stirred up my Bitter. :(

Rilgon Arcsinh said...

The yet-untainted hope in your post stirred up my Bitter. :(

Oh, trust me, my hope is well tainted.

Fifty-eight weeks. No Ashjre'thul.

And no one will EVER mention that again, understood?

hospitaller said...

That's similar to our run on tsunami talismans; we have none in the guild. However, isn't there something WRONG with the mere fact that as PvE'ers, we can comment on YEAR long no-drop streaks, and yet, I can level a toon to 70 and go get it two level 133 weapons in ONE WEEKEND of battlegrounds? Battlegrounds and no-rating arena items have *trvialized* all PvE content up to t6. I could actually stand it if we end up being unimpressive in Wrath if Blizz changed their PvE loot system to not be RNG based, but sadly that doesn't seem to be in the cards. EVERYTHING in WoW is a reward-for-time system... except for non-tier PvE raid loot. And so we have people like you and your shall-not-be-mentioned, or me and the dragonspine trophy/TT... and we also have my warrior alt who got fully epic'd out in 2 weeks of battlegrounds. :(

Female Dwarf Hunter said...

Oh I have no problem with the bosses losing hit points. I understand the reasoning for it, its necessary with all the other retarded changes and dumbing down that they've done. There's no way we'd ever get another boss down otherwise.

Neggles said...

But you get my drift, Ril, just as FDH said it. The HP decrease is just something I get to roll my eyes at and feel bitter about, because I dislike changing out of my comfort zone :P.

The people that are applying to my guild don't realize that the HP decrease won't make the fight's any easier...