Anetheron's Infernals hotfixed
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Jul 17th 2008 at 1:00PM
Quite a few raiders, including some of our own here at WoW Insider, noticed one more big change to a raid boss that that came in with patch 2.4.3: Anetheron, the second boss of Mount Hyjal, was not dropping Towering Infernals on random players as usual. This made the battle pretty trivial for most raids by making it more or less a run of the mill tank and spank. Unfortunately -- or fortunately, depending on how challenging you like your raids -- this was not an actual intended change. Vaneras and Bornakk are both reporting that Anetheron has been hotfixed and should start dropping infernals again. Sorry guys, no more free loot. Well, no more freer loot, at least.
Filed under: Bugs, News items, Instances, Raiding, Bosses
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Necrotica Jul 17th 2008 1:07PM
Yea, definitely wasn't hard to begin with, but it was funny as hell. After 2 infernals didn't spawn, we said screw it and go all out.
All it did was speed up our evening by a few minutes. Woot
Tychon Jul 17th 2008 1:09PM
On Illidan It looked like he was casting his sheer ability faster than usual? almost as if double casting it back to back. Before cooldown of sheildblock was back up.
Darias Jul 17th 2008 1:21PM
We actually attempted him after the hotfix was supposedly done, but he still did not drop infernals. I think he is still bugged.
Necrotica Jul 17th 2008 2:30PM
I won't be able to confirm or deny it personally till next Tuesday, I'd hope they'd fix it within a weeks time though.
Braundo Jul 17th 2008 2:33PM
I heard Onyxia deep breaths more after 2.4.3.
glorft Jul 17th 2008 1:31PM
That was awesome, finally benefitting from a glitch.
"GET THE INFERNAL!!!"
"Where...?"
Xin Jul 17th 2008 1:41PM
hotfixed or not, we already downed him haha
Kellhus Jul 17th 2008 1:48PM
That made the fight sooo easy, I was on the Infernal tanking, looking around and wondering what the hell is going on. Good thing I am a druid so going to the DPS was easy :), well i guess we are going to the way its suposed to be.
I think the bug was due to the new animation to the soalweals, where they are summoned and drop from the sky, like the infernal. I dont see any other thing that might have buged that, or were they tweaking the fight itself and broke it.
That would rase a question of what were they trying to change?
Expopp Jul 17th 2008 1:58PM
We read that it was hotfixed, but when we attempted him, it still hadn't been fixed. We downed him yesterday evening, around 6:30 server time.
By we, I mean of Spirestone Alliance.
Expopp Jul 17th 2008 2:01PM
I wrote Check Your Six, instead the angle brackets. . . . which doesn't appear to work here at WowInsider. Mike Schramm, Mr. Co-lead, l2escapeuserinput! ;-)
Tryst Jul 17th 2008 2:06PM
Noooooooo, no infernals made the night so much faster!
anonymoose Jul 17th 2008 3:27PM
We did Anetheron last night and infernals were definitely bugged.
Barish Jul 17th 2008 4:37PM
not fixed on my realm.
yes the drop, but then disappear.
Draenor-EU
Ishnu Jul 17th 2008 8:39PM
Killed tonight by on Chromaggus without any Infernals. Still bugged.
Caiginn Jul 17th 2008 10:47PM
We just killed Anetheron about 10 minutes ago. He *does* cast the spell, but no infernal spawns.
Hooray for easy(-ish) loot!
Aigarius Jul 18th 2008 12:22AM
Confirmed - still buggy. Blackhand, US.
Serio Jul 18th 2008 5:30AM
Did this a few hours ago and still had not been fixed. Easiest fight ever. thx for the free loot bliz