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by Anne Stickney 
Feb 9th 2010 at 7:30AM
In other words, raiders attempting the final bosses of these wings on normal difficulty will still see the counter, it simply won't count down if they wipe. More importantly however is the news that players wishing to attempt bosses on Heroic difficulty will need to leave one attempt up if they want to clear the boss on normal mode.Q: If you extend your raid lockout this week, will you still lose attempts on Normal after the hotfix?
A: No.
Q: If you run completely out of attempts on Heroic, will the wing bosses and Lich King no longer respawn, even if the difficulty is switched to Normal?
A: YES. So leave an attempt left if you wish to kill them on Normal. We'll try and correct this in a future update.
Q: Why is the counter still visible in Normal?
A: The hotfix being applied just stops the counter decrementing, and nothing more.
Filed under: Raiding
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
tutti Feb 9th 2010 6:54PM
They thought of that. You can't challenge the Lich King on Heroic mode without having defeated the other three wing end bosses on Heroic mode in the same raid ID.