Love is in the Air achievement guide
Lunar Festival achievement guide
Guide to the Darkmoon Faire
Blinded Iraq war vet raids with a little helpUlduar-10 hard mode weapons buffed
by Eliah Hecht 
May 14th 2009 at 9:00AM
Well, this is a good piece of news for 10-man raiding. Weapons that drop in hard-mode Ulduar-10 fights are being buffed from ilvl 226 to ilvl 232, a jump of half a tier. Players who have these weapons already will see them adjusted. This puts the Ulduar-10 hard-mode weapons on par with the Ulduar-25 normal-mode weapons, a situation that was already the case for armor rewards (Ulduar-25 normal-mode weapons have always been ilvl 232).
My own casual-ish guild is only four bosses into Ulduar at the moment, so this doesn't affect me personally, but it makes sense to see hard modes drop quality rewards. I wonder if this will increase the number of guilds attempting them. Now how about a shot at Val'anyr, eh? Or perhaps a Druid tanking idol somewhere in Wrath before Ulduar-25? Yeah, I didn't think so.
Filed under: Items, News items, Raiding
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Lycanthro May 14th 2009 9:11AM
I geared up 5 to 10 to 25's in 3.0 and in 3.1 I've done only 25 Ulduar until this past Monday where me and 9 others in my guild went in and ABSOLUTELY WRECKED the place. In 2 hours or so we got hodir down seconds away from Hard Mode and it turns out our shaman forgot to heroism so we absolutely would have gotten it. Then we went to Thorim and got him to 30% and then 20% in hard mode and he's going down this week for sure. This was without any special strategies or effort or anything it was a s&g monday night run.
I'm so grateful for this because that means it's actually doable in 10man gear, a group in mismatched 200's and 219's would absolutely be able to clear it to the end. Bravo Blizzard and bravo for putting in weapons that aren't useless compared to what you can pug from 25KT.
Drwatson May 14th 2009 2:25PM
Your shaman forgot to heroism? 10 ppl in the raid forgot that the most powerful buff in the game was on standby?
Fast May 14th 2009 9:37AM
Freya 10 man weapon buffed too http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45947#comments
Fast May 14th 2009 9:38AM
nvm thought the title was about General Vezax only..
Knob May 14th 2009 10:30AM
The Algalon achievement that had to be done with ilvl
Knob May 14th 2009 10:31AM
Hmm, no idea why the previous comment got cut off, but here it is again:
The Algalon achievement that had to be done with ilvl lesser than 226 has been bumped up as well to 232 with this change. This means that you can now use Ulduar-25 loot (excluding hard mode loot) in order to do it.
Let the QQ of 10m raiders commence. I'm going to stay by the sidelines and take a dip in the river of tears from time to time.
Tumleren May 14th 2009 11:03AM
@Knob
Yes, you'd think that weapons getting buffed was actually a good thing, and not something to QQ about, but alas, they always find -something-...
Karilyn May 14th 2009 11:23AM
"Hmm, no idea why the previous comment got cut off, but here it is again:"
Because of the "Less than" symbol. For whatever reason, Wowinsider's comment system freaks out if it sees a "Less than" symbol, but not a "Greater than" symbol.
This...
>
is fine
But this...
http://tinyurl.com/otqunc
Breaks the chat system, and everything after that symbol gets broken.
Gnosh May 14th 2009 11:35AM
It cuts off the less-than symbol and everything after, as far as I can tell, to prevent people from posting markup text (html, css, xml, etc). Not sure why, but that's all I can think of.
Roboticus May 14th 2009 11:37AM
It's because the code that parses your comments here interprets the less-than symbol as the start of an HTML tag. I wonder if you close the expression if the rest of your comment continues. Testing below:
1
2
< 3 >
4
5
Roboticus May 14th 2009 11:39AM
Success! Strangely, the tag itself still showed up. I was expecting the 3 to be gone. I'm guessing coding error, not actual html stripping.
BioHazard May 14th 2009 11:51AM
It's because they're running the text through an anti-HTML filter. ( like strip_tags() )
It can better be done with:
$text = str_replace( array("<",">"), array("<",">"), $text );
I think. That way all the tags are rendered harmless. Even better would be:
$text = htmlentities( $text, ENT_NOQUOTES );
but that would just be McAwesomesauce.
They even could precede it with something like: (Not entirely sure on the regex here, I'm still not good at remembering the exact syntax for that stuff. -_- )
$text = preg_replace( "|\<script (.*)\<\/script\>|i", "", $text );
to pull out XSS attacks if that is what they're trying to prevent, but the htmlentities() mentioned above would still neuter it.
This is all assuming this site runs on PHP though.
Anyway, geek attack over. I'll go back to Mom's basement and get back to playing WoW now... :)
Raogrimm May 14th 2009 12:13PM
@Knob
You already could use 25m ulduar loot as it's all ilvl 226. The hard mode loot from Ulduar 25m is ilvl 239 and still cannot be used.
Eisengel May 14th 2009 3:21PM
@Knob
Seeing as the time I can play and the geographic location I live in somehow combine into the perfect storm of spotty raids and no other guild anywhere on that planet over the past 3 years raiding when I can, I would like to invite you kindly to go directly to Hell and burn for as long as you care to while I try to heard enough cats together to at least set foot in Ulduar.
Gimia May 14th 2009 3:25PM
@ Raogrimm
The armor in 25 man Ulduar has an iLvl of 226, yes, but even on normal mode the weapons from it all have 232.
This is still strange imo with Blizzard talking about keep everything equal in iLvl for normal difficulty in a raid and then making all the weapon from hard mode in Ulduar 10 be obsolete to anything normal mode boss weapon in 25 man.
Knob May 14th 2009 5:18PM
@ Eisengel:
What are you on about? Stop frothing at your mouth while writing a reply and try to make some coherent post you sloth.
Drow May 14th 2009 2:06PM
Wow...it's a sad day when even WI is crying about Val'anyr. "Put it in 10-mans! But we can only down the first 4 bosses, so instead of givign us shards and making us do Yogg, just have Flame Levi drop the item!"
Hansbo May 14th 2009 5:38PM
Yeah, that was totally what they implied.
Gimia May 14th 2009 3:27PM
I'm fairly sure he meant have the hard mode in 10 man have a chance to drop a shard considering they also drop emblems of conquest if you do them hard mode.