Patch 3.3.3 PTR: Cull Stratholme faster than ever before

by Alex Ziebart Feb 19th 2010 at 7:00PM

The dungeon finder has really changed what players get excited about the most in the World of Warcraft. It's a strange world when one of the most anticipated updates to the game is the ability to tell Arthas to shut his yap. No, we don't mean kill him in Icecrown, we really do mean telling him to shut the hell up. Just in case you missed it in the patch notes we posted a little while ago, there's this waiting for us in patch 3.3.3:

Culling of Stratholme: Players may now skip the initial introduction dialog to this dungeon once they have completed it at least once.

The pre-Culling of Stratholme dialogue is really cool to experience the first few times, but after that it just starts to feel like a waste of time. The dungeon finder made it even worse, because as awesome as it is, it eliminated some of the social stigma of ditching a group early. Oculus and Culling of Stratholme are the two instances I can always expect some dip to drop from. Hopefully this change and the deserter debuff becoming 30 minutes will discourage that sort of behavior.

Tags: 3.3.3, arthas, caverns-of-time, culling-of-stratholme, dungeon-finder, lich-king, patch-3.3.3, patch-3.3.3-ptr, ptr, public-test-realm, shut-up-already-arthas, stratholme, wow-patch-3.3.3, wow-patch-3.3.3-ptr, wow-ptr

Filed under: Wrath of the Lich King

Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)

Kennebec Feb 21st 2010 4:32AM

But we will still have to: 1. Pick up the original quest from chromie. 2: 'talk' to arthas outside the town hall. And 3: wait for his butt to show up after we have cleared out everything ahead of him. Not to sound ungrateful. I just wish they would of stream-lined the entire instance. I guess I shouldn't complain.

flyineyeproject Mar 29th 2010 2:09PM

I got pretty lucky. I've wanted a drake forever. the first time I ran this I didn't get it and I was unaware of it anyways (is it possible it didn't drop?). The second time I ran it with a couple people from my guild and when it dropped, apparently everyone had because they all passed on it. That was one of the most exciting days I had playing WoW, I had finally got a Drake! And it was on New Years Day, so it was a great way to start out the year.

Ryan Mar 20th 2010 9:11AM

I'd like to see this for the Saurfang encounter! PLEASE, SKIP INTRO!

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