I keep hearing that at some point Vael HPs was reduced by more than 100k. Can somebody confirm/deny this ?

I wouldn't doubt it. We burnt through him pretty bloody fast the other night.

Although I should note that it has been a very long time since I have fought Vaelestrasz, so my perception may be altered by that reality.

It's possible, also keep in mind that the gradual fixes and optimizations Blizzard's been doing makes a difference too, since the Vael fight is a big graphics/UI bottleneck. Reducing any sort of lag multiplied across all your casters and over every single one of their spells will make him go down that much quicker.

Would it really be imprudent for them to lower the difficulty of the second boss in an instance to make him *not* the hardest?

Maybe your DPS hits harder and faster (rogues in BWL farming guilds > *).

We used to have to go through like 5 tanks... now we race to see if he can die before the second tank gets BA =/

We have to be very careful with aggro still because with our sweet server lag that we've had in the past few weeks, our warriors can't get more than half of their swings as heroic strikes.

The new hardware can't come fast enough, and then we can bitch about how it isn't good enough to fix the problem

Rambar :wub:

My jboots are definitely slower this patch

Guys did they do something to Onyxia in this patch?!

J BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTS

I am 100% sure that I think they might have possibly changed the PRO CRATE of Sword Spec.

I hear they removed sword spec!

It'd still be better than Mace Spec! :o

You don't like to stun things?

Also I hear they're normalizing [thing people would be mad about]!