Dungeon & Raid hotfixes

Hour of Twilight

Archbishop Benedictus

• Thrall should no longer despawn when no players are near him after the gauntlet has been completed.

Throne of the Four Winds

Al'Akir

• Wind Burst should no longer knock players back too far.

Dragon Soul

Morchok

• Earthen Soldiers, Ancient Water Lords and Earthen Destroyers now move faster.
• Morchok's Resonating Crystals should now always target the closest players when they explode.

Yor'sahj the Unsleeping

• Damage done by Forgotten Ones, Void Bolt AOE, and Searing Blood has been reduced on 25-person, Heroic difficulty.
• Yor'sahj's health has been reduced by 10% on 25-person, Heroic difficulty.

Hagara the Stormbinder

• Hagara’s Frost Shield can no longer be broken by Shattering Throw to avoid her Frozen Tempest phase.

Warlord Zon'ozz

• Disrupting Shadows no longer deals AoE damage or knockbacks when the duration is reduced with Mage Armor on Heroic raid difficulties.

Warmaster Blackhorn

• Shockwave can now be broken by trinkets and other effects that cancel stuns.
• Blackhorn's Vengeance now accrues at a rate of 1% per 2% of missiong HP on Raid Finder difficulty.
• After Warmaster Blackhorn is killed, the deck fire on upper decks is no longer present on Heroic difficulty.
• Warmaster Blackhorn, the Twilight Elite Slayers, and the Twilight Elite Dreadblades are no longer able to attack players while mounted.

Spine of Deathwing

• Blood Corruption: Earth will no longer morph into Blood Corruption: Death when dispelled.
• Blood Corruption: Earth now applies two stacks of Blood of Neltharion when it expires on 25-player heroic difficulty.
• The health pools for Burning Tendon, Corrupted Blood, Corruption, and Hideous Amalgamation have been reduced by 6 to 11% for 25-person raids on both normal and Heroic difficulty.
• Hideous Amalgamations with the Superheated buff no longer pulse their AE damage after being thrown from Deathwing's back.

Madness of Deathwing

• Damage done by Elementium Blast, Corrupted Blood, and Blistering Heat have been lowered on Raid Finder difficulty.
• This encounter should now complete when all players die after Deathwing has been defeated.

Dungeon & Raid hotfixes

• End Time
  
  • The trash preceeding Echo of Baine should now hit for less Fire damage.
• Hour of Twilight
  
  • Flailing Tentacles now despawn shortly after they appear, and can no longer be attacked.
• Well of Eternity
  
  • Players should no longer lose the Shadowcloak buff when a group member leaves, joins, or zones in or out of the instance.
  • Mannoroth
    
    • Magistrike Arc should no longer be activated by pet attacks, and now has a 100% chance of being activated after a 3 second cooldown.
    • Rogue Stealth and mage Invisibility are no longer broken when Doomguard Devastators land and become valid targets, or when other Demons spawn from the Nether Tear portal.
• Dragon Soul
  
  • Accepting a Warlock summon while riding a drake taxi in Dragon Soul should now cancel the drake ride and port the player to the location of the summon.
  • Fall of Deathwing is now available via Raid Finder once you have completed Siege of Wyrmrest.
  • Players who have killed the final boss in one of the wings of Dragon soul via Raid Finder will be more likely to enter fresh instances on subsequent Raid Finder instances that week. This should make it easier to kill earlier bosses that they might have missed.
  • Yor'sahj the Unsleeping
    
    • The Aggro Radius has been properly adjusted for all difficulties of this encounter.
    • Slimes, Mana Voids, and Forgotten Ones have had their HP reduced by 20% on Raid Finder difficulty.
    • Pets cannot be summoned during the decent into this encounter.
  • Warlord Zon'ozz
    
    • Ball damage should now be splitting its total damage amongst all players nearby on Raid Finder difficulty.
    • Pets cannot be summoned during the decent into this encounter.
  • Ultraxion
    
    • Players should no longer find themselves in the Twilight Realm after Ultraxion has been defeated.
    • Essence of Dreams should strain CPUs less in 25-player raids. This buff will now activate once per second for each healer who has the buff, and the healing done by the effect will equal the amount of health healed by the healer within that one second window.
  • Spine of Deathwing
    
    • Corruption, Hideous Amalgamation, and Burning Tendons are now level 88, up from 87, and have had their health slightly increased.
  • Madness of Deathwing
    
    • Priests under the effect of Spirit of Redemption will now receive credit for defeating Deathwing as long as they were part of the encounter.
• Temple of Ahn'Qiraj
  
  • The Prophet Skeram, the Illusions of The Prophet Skeram, Princess Yauj, Lord Kri, and Vem no longer grant reputation when killed.
• Throne of the Tides
  
  • Lady Naz'jar
    
    • All of the creatures in the Lady Naz'jar gauntlet are now immune to mind control mechanics.
  
  
  • Zul'Gurub
    
    • High Priest Venoxis has been convinced to clean up after himself when his encounter is reset, and his venom puddles should disappear.

Cheers,
Gav

Patch 4.3 is live and with it comes many changes. Such as a new raid instance, three new dungeons, the "looking for raid" system, new Darkmoon Faire, Transmogrification, Void Storage and many many other tweaks and balance changes. Please make sure you take a look at the patch notes (here's also a complete preview of all new features)!

Notes for raiders:

• EPGP is not being resetted completely. Instead we're resetting EP by 90% and GP by 100%. This means that all those people who did put in extra time at the end of last tier see a little bit of priority in the beginning of our raiding in Dragon Soul but within a week or two, things will even out to be about equal.
  
  
• We're aiming for 25-man mode as long as we are staying in normal mode, when it's time to switch to heroic mode we'll have to reevaluate if we'll be able to do it in 25-man or not. This will most likely completely depend on sign-ups throughout the week (and of course this goes for normal mode as well).
  
  
• Looking for Raid (LFR) is of course puggable. Pug as much as you like! But it might be a good idea to bring some guildies along for the increased chances of success... :)
  
  
• We are progressing FAST through the new raid and we expect EVERYONE who joins to have prepared by watching strategy videos/read up on tactics, bringing their own consumables, etc.

That's all for now. Let's kick fatty in the face!

Cheers,
Gav

Last night (21st November), Xontroula put the last pieces together for Dragonwrath and proceeded to punch Ragnaros in the face for his heart. Using this he was able to complete the legendary staff; Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest.

Big gratz to Xont for completing the staff and to all of us for putting together yet another legendary!

Here follows a few pictures of this glorius event (click pictures to maximize);

Cheers,
Gav

We saw the opportunity to get a realm 1st... so we went and got it. Here it is!:



There'll be a video of some of the achievement raiding later on, but not tonight since I need much bedtimez. :)


Update (10/14):

Here's the video!


Cheers,
Gav

This last week we managed to get down 4 new heroic bosses in the space of 4 days, this has put us at 6/7 hc progression and for the moment we are sitting at #1 alliance progression on our realm. This makes us real pleased and also real eager to continue forwards!

Here's one of the recent kills; Baleroc.


Cheers,
Gav