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by Alex Ziebart 
Feb 17th 2009 at 1:30PM
Awesome? I would say so. The preview also drives the point home that Blizzard is really loving the hard mode options of encounters. 11 out of 14 encounters will have a hard mode (or modes), so your raid can determine what they can handle. I don't want to get too excited about the preview, I'd like to see the zone in person before I get giddy, but it does sound damn cool and the pictures they supply are very pretty. Go forth and devour their bandwidth, my friends.
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Reader Comments (Page 5 of 5)
Herm Feb 17th 2009 7:27PM
When you're dealing with a fantasy world, real world science doesn't always apply. A stag and an eyeball got it on to make Cenarius and we're all ok with that, but Thorium can't be C'Thun blood. That's just crazy talk :)
To me it makes an interesting idea. All of the common metals of Azeroth are remnents/excretions/droppings of old gods and rare ore nodes are blood shed from titans while fighting them. You got saronite from Yogg-Saron who's in Ulduar which makes thorium from C'Thun who's in Uldum not too far fetched. I bet during the War of the Ancients Yig, Nug and Yeb were secretly sneaking up to the Well of Eternity and blammo!!! The sundering sends pieces of them all over Azeroth thus supplying the world with copper, tin and iron.
Just a thought.
Ras Gonzo Feb 17th 2009 4:51PM
F**!$^g Vehicles! There is nothing worse than vehicles in WoW! I'd rater get ganked all day long by some rogue or DK than stuggle with those vehicles. Why o why, can I not target anything?! Tab does nothing, F1 does nothing, I have to manually click the screen to target other vehicles or myself, F That. Even clicking on a persons raid portrait on the screen does not even target them, WTF.
Remove all vehicles from WoW. They are nothing but a GIMMICK, and one that doesn't work either.
computermachina Feb 17th 2009 5:38PM
I love and am disappointed by vehicles. In wintergrasp there fun and they work for what there trying to accomplish which I think is a very very casual pvp. But if you've been promoting that the next new instance will provide a challenge for end game guilds im sure this isnt what they envisioned. I dont doubt difficulty but take myself, I recently got my origin of nightmares staff and getting tier'd out and by introducing vehicles I feel abit... gimped. But you know what, we dont know the full story perhaps the entrance is the only vehicles and the rest of the dungeon is all on foot. heres hoping.
AAron Feb 18th 2009 2:19AM
I love all this QQing about stuff that isn't even implemented. How about we leave game development to the Pros and just enjoy the damn game. When did it turn into Us vs. Blizzard. Its not like Vehicles are that hard, so how about we just sit back, smoke a J and enjoy our freetime.
Quartza Feb 19th 2009 9:43AM
"its not like Vehicles are that hard, so how about we just sit back, smoke a J and enjoy our freetime."
---word
Crimson Feb 23rd 2009 6:28PM
"I love all this QQing about stuff that isn't even implemented."
QFT
I believe implementing some encounters based on vehicular combat won´t harm anybody. It´s a future patch. It might be possible for Blizzard to tune the encounters or the vehicular combat, might it be UI optimization or else.
Furthermore....no gear check=more chances for the players with suboptimal itemisation to get some needed upgrades.
Just my 2 cents.
Varteras Feb 18th 2009 3:46AM
I really hope this raid is something special. I love the big raids with a ton of bosses that take hours to do. It was how I envisioned them before I ever raided.
Naxxramas is just a retuned rehash of a raid done years ago and Vault, OS, and Malygos are essentially all one boss/one room raids with little to no trash. I have been rather disappointed with the available raids thus far.
I hope it's a bit more difficult than the current raids too. Vault and Naxx are a joke. OS is only difficult if you leave drakes up and even then it takes all 3 drakes to make it a good challenge. Malygos is not hard if you just pay a little bit of attention.
Please Blizz. This raid already looks like it's going to be lengthy but please also make it definitely harder than current raids.