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Old 02/26/09, 2:44 AM   #2206
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Originally Posted by Spink View Post
Thorim Berserk spell could also be pointing towards a Vaelastrasz the Corrupt style encounter or something considering the 10m duration.

Edit: That's a little too vague.

Buffing the raid so that inflated damage/healing amounts can be done for some reason NOT exploding people and making tanks unavoidably die.
I'm guessing the Thorim Berserk will help eat-up the 20k shadow bolt from Yogg-Saron.

On the video I really liked the last area. Looks like a boss where you have to move in and out between the two rings.

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Old 02/26/09, 6:01 AM   #2207
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The sanity mechanic seems really interesting, giving me the urge to dig out my GC and play Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem again. In fact now I think of it the hidden (purple) boss on that kind of looks like an Old God

Mantorok the Corpse God, God of Order and Chaos


Wiki has a sum up of the sanity effects which I guess we'll be seeing:
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Old 02/26/09, 9:45 AM   #2208
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Originally Posted by Vaccine View Post
The sanity mechanic seems really interesting, giving me the urge to dig out my GC and play Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem again. In fact now I think of it the hidden (purple) boss on that kind of looks like an Old God

Mantorok the Corpse God, God of Order and Chaos


Wiki has a sum up of the sanity effects which I guess we'll be seeing:
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eternal Darkness is a fantastic game, I'll be both surprised and ridiculously impressed if they use similar sanity effects from that game (I remember the first time the game "changed channel" on me ).

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Old 02/26/09, 9:55 AM   #2209
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Well I don't think they'll break the fourth wall as it were and do effects like that, but they could easily do warped views, seeing mobs that aren't really there, walls start bleeding etc...

The insects crawling on the screen was the worst one. I was sat in the pitch black in summer with my windows open and had already killed a couple of real fly that had been attracted to the screen. I reached forward to squash a new one and suddenly there's a swam on the TV screen, almost died of shock myself before I realised what was happening.

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Old 02/26/09, 11:05 AM   #2210
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Originally Posted by Duilliath View Post
Well, one of the Ulduar Wings appears to be called Wyrmrest Wing...
Unless the name pops out in any player content files, this probably just means, that there will be a new Wyrmrest Wing at the Temple, that is developed and possibly deployed at the same time. We already know that Archavron will have a new Wing.. and there are a lot of unused portals down there....

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Old 02/26/09, 11:22 AM   #2211
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Originally Posted by macbeet View Post
Unless the name pops out in any player content files, this probably just means, that there will be a new Wyrmrest Wing at the Temple, that is developed and possibly deployed at the same time. We already know that Archavron will have a new Wing.. and there are a lot of unused portals down there....
Given that it's more precisely called UlduarRaid_WyrmrestWing, I rather doubt that.

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Old 02/26/09, 11:23 AM   #2212
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Originally Posted by macbeet View Post
Unless the name pops out in any player content files, this probably just means, that there will be a new Wyrmrest Wing at the Temple, that is developed and possibly deployed at the same time. We already know that Archavron will have a new Wing.. and there are a lot of unused portals down there....
Except the file in question is: base\Sound\Ambience\WMOAmbience\UlduarRaid_Wyrmrest_Temple.wav
Similarly, the Stormwind, Lich King, and Tram wings all have "UlduarRaid" stuck on the front of the filename.

[edit] Bah, beat again.

Stand back! I'm going to try SCIENCE!

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Old 02/26/09, 12:28 PM   #2213
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Originally Posted by Kumar View Post
Here's a nice WoWInsider Post on what has been datamined till nwo by them:
Datamined Ulduar boss information, with analysis - WoW Insider
This has me really excited to have my character's torso explode when I try to cast a spell, or to go into a room to find myself dead in a bathtub full of blood (I can dream).

I was wondering how they could make Yogg any more fun than C'thun, but this pretty much puts all worries to rest.

Uulwi ifis halahs gag erh'ongg w'ssh.

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Old 02/26/09, 4:59 PM   #2214
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Originally Posted by Kaejin View Post
This has me really excited to have my character's torso explode when I try to cast a spell, or to go into a room to find myself dead in a bathtub full of blood (I can dream).

I was wondering how they could make Yogg any more fun than C'thun, but this pretty much puts all worries to rest.
Essentially you'd like us all to look like your avatar by the end of the fight?

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Old 02/26/09, 6:29 PM   #2215
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Hey I could go for being Scharztwald. Wonder if tonight if we'll get some info about exactly whats going on with the watchers, or if we'll just get "<PH> Well this sucks!" yells again.

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Old 02/27/09, 10:42 AM   #2216
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Well, a few groups on the PTR are claiming they killed Hodir, so either his scripting isn't in yet or my prior speculation was wrong. The Shatter Chest spell appears to destroy extra loot the longer it takes to kill him, rather than being a loot mechanic after he's redeemed.

EDIT: And of course as soon as I post this I find this video which shows him going friendly and porting out.

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Old 02/27/09, 3:00 PM   #2217
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Originally Posted by Cranberry View Post
Well, a few groups on the PTR are claiming they killed Hodir, so either his scripting isn't in yet or my prior speculation was wrong. The Shatter Chest spell appears to destroy extra loot the longer it takes to kill him, rather than being a loot mechanic after he's redeemed.

EDIT: And of course as soon as I post this I find this video which shows him going friendly and porting out.
Guess we may redeem all the Watchers and get their aid against Yogg-Saron. The Shatter Chest spell probably just deals with destroying hard mode loot.

Course I still wonder where Watcher Tyr disappeared to.

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Old 02/27/09, 3:02 PM   #2218
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Judging from that video and some streaming video of people testing Thorim it seems to me that most of Ulduar's inside will be Yogg-Saron corrupts Watchers, we beat Watchers back to their senses to save them from the corruption. It appears also from watching Thorim testing that Loken is back and is the actual bad guy in that fight.

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Old 02/27/09, 3:06 PM   #2219
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Originally Posted by Meekee View Post
Judging from that video and some streaming video of people testing Thorim it seems to me that most of Ulduar's inside will be Yogg-Saron corrupts Watchers, we beat Watchers back to their senses to save them from the corruption. It appears also from watching Thorim testing that Loken is back and is the actual bad guy in that fight.
No they just didn't update Thorims model and he is using the generic Titan model that Loken used.

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Old 02/27/09, 3:10 PM   #2220
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I see, poor quality streams make it hard to see what's really going on.

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