The guild was Elitist Jerks.

link: Is it possible to kill Hakkar without killing any priests pre-TBC?

That would be because that's not worth mentioning. Multiple classes can solo him with the priests down.

An 80 raid of any size would easily blow him up while ignoring the extra abilities. The nastiest ones - Jeklik's silence, Arlokk's aggro wipe - just don't matter to 80's because any 80 has the HP to tank him and, between tank classes being able to solo him and the large mechanic change to heals over time since Hakkar was originally designed, the silence just isn't dangerous to a tank.

The only real problem for the *60* project was Arlokk.

I've done it personally, although I seem to remember it was actually post-3.0 but before WotLK. We just brought 6 or 7 plate wearers and blew him up before he murdered everyone with his multiple aggro drops.

Level 60 Strat 45minute + Wintergrasp/Strand. Break into a keep/castle/fortress/whatever. Fight through the troops. Reach the boss(es). Defeat the boss(es). All before the boss could complete his wicked plan. If you want three drakes difficulties you can layer on guardian bosses - you can checkpoint them on way to master boss, or take alternate routes and main boss calls them in just like 3D.

If they plan to spring Neltharion from his Schroedinger's box (as far as the major NPCs are concerned, he's dead) then I expect we will see him featured in every content patch. I'd expect CoA quick raid each patch with Black Dragonflight involvement. Might I suggest CoA Bronze - attempting to whelpnap bronze eggs, I'm sure Deathwing would love to breed in time travel. I don't think it would be difficult to come up with one for each flight.

They could even go for Meta Achievements - defeat all CoA within a certain timeframe, gain all the 3D equivalent achievements, etc. Or make quests to do them in sequence. You know, backfill the missing motivation and story. Again it'd be a good opportunity to build towards some potential Deathwing raid, if that is their goal (which is still 100% supposition at this point).


Side topic: Where are the World Bosses? Is Blizzard starved for ideas? Just send a giant Thrym stomping down across the landscape.

I haven't a clue what's goin on with Thym, but Jotun might still have a purpose! Ulduar should be coming out within the next decade or so...

Eh, there's a quest to kill Thrym by riding along on that giant king's back.

I assume you mean Thrym? I doubt much will come of him since we deal with him already in The Storm King's Vengeance - Quest - World of Warcraft

Edit: Gah, I'm too slow.

Oh, that's right, we do kill Thrym in that quest. Again, we killed Rivendare in Stratholme, and then he took over for Morgraine in Naxxramas, so it doesn't mean we won't see him again.

But yeah, Ulduar is coming out soon, hopefully more things with the Wyrmrest Accord/Jotun come up.

I'm looking forward to the book as well. I'm more interested in the 2nd War than I am with the merging of Ner'zhul though.

My point wasn't "Let's kill Thrym", yes, you already kill Thrym. My point was "Where are the World Bosses?"

Since Thrym already exists as a model with animations, this is why it would be so easy to duplicate as a World Boss. Use the same model, blow it up 25% larger, give it a different name. Have it wander somewhere. It was a tossed off no-brainer suggestion for a World Boss. Surely Blizzard could actually come up with better.

Here are more tossed off ideas:
Put a sea monster south of Wyrmrest tower as a prelude to something Maelstrom.

Put a huge Titan Construct working to repair something up in Storm Peaks. Maybe one of those spare fly-in mountains (I remember there being more places than you need to go for questing). "Repairs interrupted. Engaging cleaning protocols to remove foreign substance."

Plop a blue dragon in Crystal Song battering at the outside of the Dalaran Teleport shield. "You will not defeat the master!" Nicely ambiguous, even - is it working for Malygos, Deathwing, Yogg-Saron? It's not like it would interfere with questing in that zone as long as it's possible to land-mount ride leveling characters in to reach Dalaran for the first time.


My point remains - Blizzard could easily have World Bosses. They suddenly don't. I don't recall any developer interviews regarding 'Yeah, world bosses never went over well so we've scrapped that idea.' - they're just suddenly not present this ex-pac. A new World Boss every patch would be just as nifty as the rest of staged releasing. I think World Bosses can add to the lore or storyline. Doomwalker trying to break into BT was always a cool idea.

Didn't Blizzard basically say that due to competition over spawns and due to PvP interference, they don't want to have these at all anymore? Archavon (a boss that isn't always up, and for whom getting access involves PvP) is the sort of thing we get instead now, no?

I always assumed the lower itemization on loot was the balance for competition/PvP/etc. Ideally nothing is best in slot on them, so they're just fun additional bosses people can choose to kill.

As suggested, making them achievements also would be fun.