She has lurked in her lair and done battle with the many brave adventurers who travelled to that familiar location over the years. Now, in honor of the World of Warcraft 5-year anniversary, the dreaded brood mother Onyxia is being revamped to make a return to the forefront of Azeroth, as part of our big plans for the upcoming 3.2.2 content patch.

This permanent update to Onyxia will convert the dungeon into 10- and 25-player modes. We will be adding new items to Onyxia’s loot table that have the same model as some of the classic loot from this dungeon, like Tier 2 helms, with stats updated to match the current level of content. There will be a special new item too: a normal drake-sized 310% speed flying mount modeled after Onyxia herself called an Onyxia Broodling. We will also be updating the encounter mechanics to be more fitting for modern raiding, but we can guarantee players will get to experience the frightening horror of deep breaths once again.

Then for a limited time, after the 5-year anniversary event officially begins in November, anybody who logs in will receive an Onyxia Brood Whelpling pet.

We’re very excited to bring this classic encounter back to provide a fun new experience for both new and veteran players. Further details will be available in the near future, and we will be setting up the Public Test Realms soon to help test out this fight along with all the new content we have planned for the patch. Keep an eye on the forums for updates!

http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=92074.0

means we cant solo her anymore =(

to be honest... I miss this biarch!

blizz wants ppl to experience back the good old vanilla-WoW gank fiesta that i heard my fren babbling about most of the time

what next? BRD?

I once joked with my friends who quitted WoW with me that Blizzard will bring black old bosses.

We've talked about undead Onyxia, undead Rend, undead General Drakkisath with AoE conflag. Any bosses can be revived or reanimated if they wish to do so

I guess its coming true, it will be fun to see Rend making a comeback and drops an improved version of that epic dagger (Felrazor? cant remember name)

felstriker iinm

OMG!!!

dun 4get another the infamous GANK WAR spot... outside MC!!!

there's 1 time, it became so hot...

my guild leader went to their vent and had a cease fire talk with them...

'cos it was affecting the raid time and economy...


WOW is a serious biznez!


nxt: UBRS! LBRS! Scholomance! Stratholme!

is blizzard running out of ideas?

it just small patch..no biggie..it good to add more boss into raiding schedule. it only 3.2.2

so that means is going to be along chain quest to to get the helm again?

lmao. this is something that a lot of players have asked for. They're merely listening to us.

I do snigger a bit at those guilds who decided to cap XP at 60 and do old world raids. The lack of Onyxia will be quite hard.

I am concerned, though, at the insane amount of people who are gonna imitate Divers in PUG vents.

moar DOTS!!!!

guess Blizz really desperate... Alot of ppl are quiting wow.. i got 10 friends that quit including me.. back in vanilla/BC it takes alot longer for a big major patches.. but now alot of guild havent even see algalon and they release 3.2(totc content) and coming soon 3.2.2(onyxia content) and also coming soon Next XPAX

guess they need to keep up the competition since SC2 is gonna be release soon..

they added new patch faster cause the 'top' guilds are progressing really fast...
thus ToC will release 1 boss per week to slow down these guilds...

I think it's more that they are putting content that will allow guilds to progress further through Ulduar without having to farm Naxx.

I.e. it solves part of the loot drop problems. Rather than increasing the number of loot drops per boss in existing raids, how about putting in a new raid so that people can see new fights? Even if those fights aren't as tough as the upper half of Ulduar.

Then with upgrades, more guilds can see Algalon.

Also, when Icecrown is released, that may be the last raid instance before the next expansion. It was a lot of bosses that GC hinted so chances are they are going to do time-released.

nah GC explained the 31bosses he stated was a sarcasm...
still i'm pretty happy with these changes to help gearing up...
of course the BiS are sitll from raids but it help bridges the gap...

though i dun think many would be seeing algalon since u need hardmodes...

Aww no more soloing Onyxia...this sucks.

oh yeah !! frankly speaking, im kinda excited of she coming back!! never really got to raid her before BC... but.. certainly a great comeback.!

i love ony man esp screaming at new members when they stand at wrong place and get feared into the little spawning cave

i afraid ONY...Noooooo.......

down onyx.. its easier than i remember... blizz buff onyx pls.. hohoho

ah...I haven't solo her enough leh.... btw, will she give the buff rally cry of dragon slaying?

i think i might get a shot of Ony...

kanye west: YO NOODLEZ!! I'M REALLY HAPPY FOR YA. I'M GONNA LET YA FINISH, BUT BRD IS THE BEST AND LARGEST DUNGEON OF ALL TIME!!! THE BEST AND LARGEST DUNGEON OF ALL TIME!!! (btw, can i has the looooooooooooong and winding prerequisite quest for Onyxia too?)

I can still remember back in 60, BRD is a nightmare , the size of the instance, the number of bosses... , but the chain quest is EPIC!! i do hope blizz put the quest back...

This post has been edited by cheebc: Sep 24 2009, 02:35 AM

Manage to kill her (10m) a few times yesterday - until Blizzard hotfix the dungeon (YES, you could reset the instance)

Same as the old Ony - 3 phases
1) Ground - tank and spank at the north part of the room, everyone should be at her sides, away from the frontal breath and tail lash
2) Fly - whelps many whelps, this is where the MT and OT gather them pesky whelps from the sides and bring them to the middle to be AOE. There is a new twist, an Onyxia Guardian will come from the south (where the raid runned in). All melee dps should kill it with the OT, note dont stand infront of the OG as it has a nasty cleave.
3) Grounded - MT takes the landed beast back to the north spot of the cave. If the OG is about, OT need to bring it to the north (not so near the raid) to be killed. Same skills as before, with additional Fear and Lava. Kill all the adds and keep the MT topped up. Same as phase 1, tank and spank for epic loots.

my big question: HAS THE MOUNT BEING DROPPED??

a pet drop - core hound

i did an attempt with a pug raid yesterday, got her to phase3 and around 15% then we wiped and the raid called.

the whelps had like 189k hp... quite hard to die unless all brought to the middle for massive AOE... I played my mage (arcane spec), thruout the first phase my manabar was still good, once the whelps came out, damn i blizzard till OOM because the OT didnt bring the whelps to the centre area.

the fight is pretty much the same, except for the below:
1) guardians join the fight and OT got to tank it, if not killed another one joins in and you will accumulate a lot later
2) whelps had like 189k hp, u cannot split them and aoe them outside their cave. the OT have to bring them to middle where everyone focus their AOE on the whelps. The sooner you down the whelps, the sooner the range can DPS ony in the air and the rest of melee handle the guardians
3) once p3 just a tank and spank and avoiding being feared into caves.

some of my guildies have pugged the 10m and 25m and got the achievement for downing ony in under 5mins...

Yeah... it is hard if people havent done the fight before and the LACK of raid/situation awareness

when the whelps mass spawn during p2 i dc-ed lol...
turns out some1 changed my ip fro 60.48 to 115.133...
in that dc, i died to the damn breath...

after changing to my usual ip, manage to stay online (except 1 dc when housemate open a blog win tonnes of pic!)

@evofantasy: want to join my guild? 95% Malaysians... mostly KL/PJ.

Friendly ppl.

penman - S/S/GN (Server/Side/Guild Name)

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Added on September 24, 2009, 4:25 pmpenman - S/S/GN (Server/Side/Guild Name)

This post has been edited by Ignoramus: Sep 24 2009, 04:25 PM

i've jz changed guild 2 days ago lol...
so i'll pass...

that video was awesome


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtvIYRrgZ04

This post has been edited by ysc: Sep 26 2009, 12:22 AM

downing onyxia in both 25 and 10 men...in 25 at phase 3 just only 5 person alive 1 tank 2 healer and 2 dpser....in also same in 10 men..luckily ony doesnt hit hard in phase 3