Onyxia To Terrorise World of Warcraft Once Again
by Alice O'Connor, Aug 13, 2009 10:26am PDTOnce-dreaded World of Warcraft raid boss Onyxia will return in revamped form as part of celebrations for the MMORPG's upcoming fifth anniversary, Blizzard has revealed.
Having lain near-dormant since WoW's two expansions made it a cakewalk, Onyxia's dungeon will be permanently converted to a 10-player normal raid and 25-player Heroic, scaled up and revamped to present a challenge to today's tricked-out level 80 heroes.
"We will also be updating the encounter mechanics to be more fitting for modern raiding," says Blizzard, "but we can guarantee players will get to experience the frightening horror of deep breaths once again."
New items will be added using the same models as vintage Onyxia loot for that classic 2005 look, as well as a 310% speed Onyxia Broodling flying mount.
As a bonus, all players who login during "a limited time" after the anniversary event begins in November will receive a special Onyxia Brood Whelping pet.
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"New items will be added using the same models as vintage Onyxia loot for that classic 2005 look, as well as a 310% speed Onyxia Broodling flying mount. "
Reads to me as "aka design team is too lazy to build new models for the loot." :\
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All of the old raid dungeons redone with the new raid mechanics. Imagine MC being FUN?! That would be amazing if they do this.
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Either way, this is definitely a build up to it. I was wondering how long it would take since I first got Quel Serrar many years ago, and thought it would come with Outlands...but I was wrong :P But now the aspects are all in game, and they are bringing Onyxia back for "Big plans" in patch 3.2.2, then it seems the most likely thing.
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THANKS WOMAN
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World of Warcrft: v4.2 Cataclysm, Return to the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj
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Lain near-dormant my arse, I kill her every week on my death knight, by myself
Here's to hoping they do more then just the t2 helms
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