Posts with tag heroic-attunement

There are a lot of questions out there about how gating in Icecrown Citadel will work, and how attunement to the 5-man instances will function.

We've collected some of the most common questions and put them in an F.A.Q. format for you to look at. After the break we'll answer them, or you can click on the links to be immediately taken to the answer.

• How do you define gated content?
• What content is gated in patch 3.3?
• Can I do heroic Icecrown right away?
• How long until Icecrown Citadel is completely open? When will I be able to fight Arthas?
• What content requires attunement in patch 3.3?
• I'm still confused about the 5-man attunement, can you phrase it another way?
• Will the Dungeon Finder let me ignore attunement (or other requirements)?
• What quest chains do I need to do to get access to the heroic version of the Icecrown Citadel raids?
• What quest chains do I need to do to get access to the normal or heroic version of the 5-man Frozen Halls dungeons?

Another interesting thing to note from the Dungeons and Raids panel of the WWI earlier today is the topic of Heroic attunements. We've known for some time that Blizzard has wanted to move away from reputation requirements for Heroic keys, and we saw an example of that in Magisters' Terrace. This was reinforced early on in the panel when Cory Stockton stated that there will be no faction and reputation requirements whatsoever for any of the Heroics.

This doesn't particularly surprise me, because Heroic keys at Honored is little more than a formality and way to waste a little gold. You hit Honored with most places just through leveling up, so by the time you're top level you can probably already go into those Heroics. Requiring Honored might as well be no requirement at all.

However, the possibility of a Magisters' Terrace style attunement was something I assumed they would do. Run the Normal at least once before the Heroic, or by completing some other type of task successfully. That, too, was shot down later in the Q&A. A question about attunements was answered with the fact that none of the Dungeons or Heroics will have any attunement at all, and neither will the first raid zone, Naxxramas. I don't mind this too much, it leaves it up to the player to judge whether they're ready for Heroics or not. I still would have liked to have seen some attunement quests for Heroics, because I think the added flavor or added challenges those quests could provide would add some depth to things. It seems we're not getting those, and I'll cope with it I'm sure, it just feels like a lost opportunity.