It was possible before. He once punted me on top of one of the catapults, and next thing I knew I was a swiftly-dissipating red mist in front of him.

I didnt see it in the patch notes and a search in this thread didnt give any results. But it seems the debuff from herbing Nightmare Vines are now a 100% chance to get, instead of the 5-10% before the patch.

So i was scouting out the possibilty of doing the 5-man kazzak thing, and it turns out void bolts, his "no one is in melee and that pisses me off" move, is not resistable and hits for almost 5k. I never tried before the patch, so i can't swear it wasn't like this before, but i cannot imagine people were previously successfully 5 manning it while taking 4800 point hits and just shrugging them off with VE.

Shadow Resistance

Yeah, hence my words "not resistable." Granted, i could have just been ungodly unlucky, but i took about 6 full bolts without so much as a partial resist in 340 sr before deciding it was not worth further upping my body count to verify.

Yikes, well from what I remember pre2.4 I coulda swore I saw them wearing SR during the 5man attempt. Don't ask for the video, because it's been removed now from WoR and the internet it seems for a while. =\

All these mentions I see of walljumping to the flayer level confuse me. I walk up the slope and then through the gap in the fence to get to the flayer area. There's nothing difficult about it, and it hasn't changed a bit.

I think what it comes down to is “the old one doesn’t work any more”. I think it was probably a mistake for the developer to start work on the more powerfully featured Omen 2 and Threat-2.0 rather than first having a working replacement for Omen 1. However, I'm not the developer, and as I hear it, he expected to have more time to work on it before the patch was released. Given that porting Omen 1 to use the new system would probably be difficult at best, I can understand why he's trying to make Omen 2 work correctly before worrying about making it look like people want it to look.

(One might argue that porting Omen 1 to the new combat log should be pretty easy. This may be true—in which case, go ahead and do it, and people will love you. But for heaven's sake, stop complaining that the current Omen dev isn't doing that instead of making Omen 2 work. Having the right to vote with your feet and switch tools doesn't give you the right to waste our time by uselessly whining.)

We received an unusually high amount of epic drops from Hyjal trash as well. In total we received eight epic items, two patterns, and a handful of hearts of darkness. Unless this happens again next week, I'm just going to assume the random number generator was being kind to us.

Am I the only person who takes great joy in people bragging about how much Hyjal rep they're getting despite not being able to get the rings because they can't kill Kael?

They get all those snazzy gem patterns though.

To clarify: It seems a lot more akin to Mother tossing you up now. At first, I was just trying to intercept my normal way; watch for when the intercept button lit up then quickly tap it. It burned the cooldown on intercept, but I still went flying back, leaving me without my easy run back. This happened 3 times. After some frustration I mashed the crap out of the button making sure I didn't use a GCD anywhere close to being air-bursted, and I managed to successfully intercept every one after that, from a much lower height than I used to.

Perhaps his hitbox center was lowered, so we're probably less likely to get a successful intercept off from as high as we used to.

I can't believe they nerfed walljumping Was the only thing in WoW that required skill

Mmmm.. arguing with fanatics. So, let me get this straight. I'm not allowed by you to point at a flaw in a software, and god heavens forbid, say that it's not perfect, unless I am myself willing to fix it? That should cut down on the feedback thread quite a bit.

Relax a bit and get your head out of where it as and realise that Omen2 is not perfect, and obviously a lot of people liked the old looks more than the new. Sure Antiarc (sorry if I remember your name wrong) is busy and doesn't have time to fix all, all I said was that changing the way something looks and not allowing the old way is always tricky and leads to annoyed users.

There was a spot in DM-west where you could skip 2 (highly annoying) trash pulls after going up stairs by jumping to an "invisible ledge" in the corner of where the stairway meets the wall. Often it would have ended up being faster just o kill those trash pulls because of how long it took some people to get the jump. Is that the sort of thing that's been removed from the game? If so, how about the shortcut up to the quest NPC above the blue dragon cave in Winterspring? In that case, there's a spot on a bank of snow that you can stand on that you can only get to by jumping from your mount, but it's so non-obvious that it might be another of those invisible ledges that used to pseudo-exist next to walls.

That matches my experience also.

I think the fight is a little better tuned for where it is in progression now. I don't see a problem with T4 having a decent amount of carrying capacity, and that's the main thing they added to Mag. The channelers cast less often, hit softer, and have less health, and you really only need one clicking team plus a few backups.

And like you said, he's semi-puggable now. You only really need to have 5-8 people that know what they're doing, everyone else can just be told to "heal/dps/tank and don't stand in the fire/falling rocks".

For Magtheridon, it seems that you can also interrupt the shadow bolt volleys of the Warder trash now. Normally we stop after each group to res and rebuff (we've been doing Mag for all of 3 weeks); this week we just chain-pulled them all because it was so much easier. He does "feel" about as hard as Gruul now.

You always could interrupt them. It was actually mandatory back when all their spells hit twice as hard.

I found the most intense nerf to Magtheridon was the debuff, you can have one person do the cube now. Makes it even easier than that dragon beam switch boss in Karazhan mechanically

Can we please try to use this thread about talking about the changes Blizzard has incorporated into their game and presumably 3rd party discussion about developers or look and feel or god-knows-what can go in its own forum?

We cleared to Archimonde and didn't get a single trash epic except a Hellfire Encased Pendant. However we got a total of 6 Crimson Spinels for the run while previously we've only gotten 3 spinels total between BT and Hyjal. I spoke to a friend on another server who said they got more Spinels in one night than they had gotten for the previous two weeks. Anyone else noticing this or was it just a random coincidence?

Stolen from R&D and actually jives with our experience, and then confirmed when I went back and parsed our logs:

Sunwell Radiance - Spells - World of Warcraft (mouse over it)

This is only for Sunwell encounters obviously.

It's just anecdotal, but we've also seen roughly as many spinels as other gems combined. The drop rate on other gems seems the same, but spinels feel 5x as likely to drop.

As I haven't read the R&D forums, I'm just guessing all mobs/bosses have this invisible buff?