Phase 4 is starting on Blackhand, there's a new questgiver named Argent Scout sending people to Light's Hope.

EDIT: All old Scourge Invasion stuff is back.

The quest for the new Boss in Karazhan, Tenris Mirkblood, is now activated on our server. We strive to get a PuG started to take a look at him.

No more argent healer at the AH or bank in org. Someones claiming plague is down to 2 mins.

On european realms (at least mine), Death Head icons have popped on the maps: Undead attack is in progress (clone of Naxx opening event). Necrotic shards with lots of zombies around, and flying Necropolises.

I got a mail from Argent Dawn requesting my help in east plaguelands (presumably for the raid).

Confirmed, the incubation period is now 2 minutes.

Argent Healers now say "Do not lose hope, my son. With faith, we will march through this darkness and once again see the dawn."

Stormrage is confirmed. The Plague is a 2 minute timer and the quest for the new boss is being given.

Epic Undead Cleansing sets, with four pieces.

The Blessed Trousers of Undead Cleansing have 30 stam, 25 int, 29 spirit, 44 spell power, 30 haste rating.

There is also a hands, shoulders, and chestpiece for the set. 2-4 piece bonus is 1-3% increased damage against undead.

I wasn't able to experience the old Naxx event. However, I will show some of my observations on site of the Necropolis.

It appears there are a number of undead standing still surrounding some channelling thing device. They drop Necrotic Runes for the quest given in EPL. Droprate seems 50% or around that number.

The undead are level 69 and 70



Also, I stumbled upon another creature, called Spirit of the Damned, level 71 rare mob, but dropped:
This mob wasnt hard to kill.

Karazhan boss drops:
Vampiric Batling (vanity pet)
Arcanite Ripper ImageShack - Hosting :: axebz5.jpg (Looks like Arcanite Reaper with a green glow over it.)
And Badge of justice

The pet is also raid wide, so everyone can loot it

Seems a little silly to unlock the karazhan event in the "middle" of its reset period, after many people have done their quick pug of it anytime between tuesday-friday. Is there any chance this possibly reset the instance/cleared your raid ID so that you can get a group together for it before tuesday? I'm not at a computer capable of logging into WoW at the moment, so I thought I would check.

It doesnt matter, as the boss is still there if you haven't killed it with the group. I intent to go back tomorrow to kill the boss, even though I'm saved to a cleared ID.

On a sidenote, the mail version of the leggings:

I could see how it could be a problem. If someone else in your group sets something up today and kills him, you will be unable to kill him tomorrow.

Hopefully he will stay after Tuesday at least.

LB is still running behind on the invasion apparently. Has anyone tried interacting with the new Invasion people as a ghoul? The new boss or the Scourge at the necropolisis?

It being there isn't the problem, its convincing unsaved people to go into an instance with only mirkblood up. And hoping whatever random person from the pug I did on tuesday hasn't already done the same.

How hard is he? Is it possible to just bring a few people to possibly five man it?

edit: I am glad they put some foresight into the cute drops and made the bat pet lootable to the whole raid within the same instance of kara.

The new boss seem's to share damage abilities with random raid members, the red spirits blow up when you touch them, so if you can't power through it, kite him around the ring outside his room.

Pic of the bat and the thing you have to loot for the quest:

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It appears that the horde / alliance trading of stuff in zombie form has been removed. You now get a message saying the target is unfriendly if you try.

Any idea on approximate repop of Necropolises once they've been sent away?

Just killed the event boss. Definitly zerg-able with the right equiment. Killed him where he spawned.
Dropped as confirmend Arcanite Ripper + Bat for everyone.
Ripper has a hidden use effect btw. Not telling what it is.

That just happened to my group... we got the ID from someone who did Kara yesterday, just to find out the boss was already dead. Now we're waiting for the instance to soft-reset, though I don't really think he'll respawn

The trinket you can buy from Necrotic Runes (Argent War Horn) is really fun... Paladins and clichees