Cataclysm: Part 4 of the elemental invasion is live

by Mathew McCurley Nov 15th 2010 at 3:21PM

Cities are under attack. Elementals are invading the capital cities of Orgrimmar and Thunderbluff for the horde and Stormwind and Ironforge for the alliance. It's madness in the streets and it is awesome. Defend the cities by closing rifts and freeing trapped and scared citizens. We do not know if the bosses are up yet, and it looks like it is not live on all servers yet.

More as it develops.

Gallery: Cataclysm Elemental Invasion

Update: New dungeon finder bosses are active after you stop the invasions.

Update 2: Random dungeon finder bosses are dropping 251 loot, and securing each city opens up two bosses.

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Reader Comments (Page 5 of 7)

(cutaia) Nov 15th 2010 5:26PM

Hih,

You can only queue for bosses as long as their portals are up in the cities. So, that means one of the cities had been done with the event long enough and its portals despawned...but the other city still had its portals up.

mrRaist Nov 15th 2010 4:13PM

Do you need to do all the previous quests/event stuff in order to kill the new bosses?

xvkarbear Nov 15th 2010 4:44PM

Nope.

shadowhowl1900 Nov 15th 2010 4:13PM

btw, you guys can still get the FoS achievement

Hank Nov 15th 2010 4:19PM

Is there another achievement associated with this, or was Tripping the Rifts it?

Task Nov 15th 2010 4:25PM

Any word on if this phase repeats itself once a day or per hour?

VioletArrows Nov 15th 2010 4:53PM

Not once an hour. The whole event is timed for an hour, and that would disable the cities non-stop for weeks. It IS more than once a day, though.

Wild Colors Nov 15th 2010 5:15PM

I believe I read on MMO-Champion that it occurs every 2-3 hours. That may be per faction, though, not per city (i.e. Hour 1, Stormwind is under attack; Hours 2 and 3 are peaceful; Hour 4, Ironforge is under attack; Hours 5 and 6 are peaceful; Hour 7, Stormwind is under attack again, etc.)

I don't know for certain, however, so take this with a grain of salt. Or two.

Contra Nov 15th 2010 4:26PM

Is there a FoS connected to this? Thanks.

Carune Nov 15th 2010 5:24PM

Just the Tripping the rifts one. It is easier to get during the invasion.

biggjudicem Nov 15th 2010 4:28PM

Partial Timeline for the Event as just seen seen on PTRs in SW:

00 Minutes: Sky darkens/ yells to evacuate the city
05 Minutes: Sandbags become available to place/ non-elite elementals spawn
10 Minutes: Rifts open/Elite Elementals/trapped citizens
60 Minutes: Elementals despawn- Failure

Austin Nov 15th 2010 4:29PM

Was really hoping for some vanity gear to come from this event. Not looking that way.

Possum Nov 16th 2010 2:25AM

I dunno, my new cloak really matches my gloves!

Crusader Liannin Nov 15th 2010 4:32PM

This looks extremely awesome -- quite makes up for the previous three stages. :)

Can't wait to go home!

Wyattbw09 Nov 15th 2010 4:41PM

I think it will be awsome the first five times you do in the first 48 hours.

Hopefully stage four is multi staged buecase after a day or so having the capital cities shut down every hour is going get to old for 2-3 weeks.

Crusader Liannin Nov 15th 2010 4:49PM

Oh, I'm sure it will get old fast -- but it is still more interesting than the first three stages. :)

Luis Alluren Nov 15th 2010 4:33PM

i just did a screenshot and sent it to around azeroth - see if i can put it up here too

http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/3691/azjolnerub.jpg

actually, there was a few more points of interest on the way - besides the wyrmrest i never seen that area like that

exciting times :D

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