World of Warcraft

Patch 3.2.2: Onyxia Revamped

The Brood Mother Returns

Quote from: Zarhym (Source)

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!

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  • hukilai said 
    Mon, Sep 21 2009 7:31 PM ()

    I dont like this thing.Blizz destroying raids for 40ppls this is bad=(Why nobody likes 40ppl raids?

  • Xyntress said 
    Tue, Sep 1 2009 8:23 AM ()

    There goes another instance for lower players to do.  But hey, nobody seems to care about the newly starting characters.  Guess all who is going to play will be playing by now?

    Really concerned for the beginning accounts/characters losing out than the old accounts/characters gaining since old accounts have VAST more content to do/enjoy than beginning accounts/characters.

  • Sun, Aug 23 2009 2:44 AM ()

    I was mistaken, partially. GC does have input on what goes into the game. With quite a few other people. GC alone does not single handedly put things into the game, he and X other people do. In fact, it could be the opposite. GC could say no, but be outnumbered in votes.

  • Sat, Aug 22 2009 10:32 PM ()

    ANGEL, if you skip the second paragraph due to how furious i am, at least read the two ending paragraphs. And yes, you may want to skip the second. It's basically all insults.

    Angel... you lost all credibilty to me when you said GC should be fired. You are a RETARD if you think GC is the one to be fired. Actually, you are more stupid than a retard.

    GC just tells us about changes. He has 0 input on what makes it to the game. All GC and other blues do is tell the devs what the community thinks. The devs make changes, not GC and his posse.

    Now my rage is partially over. Sure this content is old. But its good old. I loved Ony back in the day. I wanted to raid it every chance we had enough members on back in vanilla, and up until a few months ago i was running it weekly with a few buddies. You can complain about reused content all you want, but its better than no content at all. Not to mention there are still quite many players who have not even done Ony. Back in vanilla, wow had like 3-5 million players. That means at least 5 million of them have never fought Ony the way he was meant to be fought.

  • Satyria said 
    Sat, Aug 22 2009 5:29 AM ()

    Yawn.. A ....... MOUNT as reward? xD

  • Sat, Aug 22 2009 12:52 AM ()

    Macrule,

    Your getting more leftovers as you say because the new expansion pack will use a lot of the old world be revamped..Oh YEAH..:P

  • Thu, Aug 20 2009 2:57 PM ()

    Maybe the movie, Pulp Fiction, from 1994 should be remade too then. I don't think so! A year from now you will say, Ony, what a crappy instance. It will just a useless place where no one heads like Tempest Keep.

  • halstar9 said 
    Thu, Aug 20 2009 1:40 PM ()

    for all you people saying blizzard is lazy. its not even like a major content patch. its just a 5 year anniversary thing they are putting together to give the old vanilla players a reason to look back on the good old days. stop the hate!

  • Thu, Aug 20 2009 8:46 AM ()

    Siuchef, what you been smoking? Give blizzard a break for total laziness. Noway!!  Instance reruns are okay if done right. The right way would be to have Ony have a heroic level 80 run and the old one too. My personal view is GC should be fired for total incompetence and his staff give a mop and bucket job! Gear drops are not 3.2 level. The stuff is poor for a naxx run and some useless.

  • siuchef said 
    Thu, Aug 20 2009 7:00 AM ()

    Whoa, this is very cool!! Onyxia is a Bad Ass Bit.. and she has a rather sick sadistic outlook at the world. This along with the new Onyxia Raid Miniature is going to be fun.

    Give Blizz a break if you don't have the gear already go run some 5 mans!!

    Can't wait to get that mount :))

    Zephryus of Shadow Council

  • Wed, Aug 19 2009 8:01 PM ()

    this is 100% laziness by blizzard, same as with Nax this game is steadily declining

  • Wed, Aug 19 2009 1:32 PM ()

    The gear is so ugly even your mother would disown you for wearing it. Most is a downgrade to 3.1. Some stuff totally worthless. At least we will get badges...

  • Tue, Aug 18 2009 7:08 AM ()

    oopomopoo,

    Even better the ninja pirates that pop out have no set time, all you know is that they will pop out and cause issues. That would seperate the lateral thinking raiders, who can only raid, if they know what is going to happen at every cycle compared to creative thinking raider, who does not have to practise 20 times, what position to take, but can adapt to the situation.

    Random poppoing of mini bosses would be fun!

  • Tue, Aug 18 2009 6:43 AM ()

    want heroic versions of the old dungeons!!

  • Tue, Aug 18 2009 2:10 AM ()

    Gah you guys are wanting the wrong things. WE NEED NEW VC!

    Imagine! Going into a level 80 pirate cove, and at the end is a large ship that was built there and has no way to get out, so it is stationary. You go up the ship, 3 stories killing all the pirates and killer birds you see. At the top, a lone cabin. Vancleef stands before you.

    You charge in, and BAM! 2 ninja pirates pop out of nowhere to give you trouble! oh snap what do you do?!

    VC remake = 40 man imo. E.P.I.C.

  • Mon, Aug 17 2009 10:20 PM ()

    i think blizz is doing good to put some of the old content specially for me since ive been playing this game since 2004 :D miss old ony an those nie wipes also that will be like the new malygos only that maybe more tough... yah more tough i hope it is and they should bring back also old ragnaros and c'thun back with their respective raids that will just be awesome and of course leave it be to a 40man raid that will be all great :-D

  • Ashguard said 
    Mon, Aug 17 2009 12:12 PM ()

    I think it's great Bliz is revamping the old content. They should've been doing that for a long while now... Way to much quality areas and content not getting any love for past 2 yrs....

  • mmmm11 said 
    Sun, Aug 16 2009 10:01 PM ()

    personally if you were there preBC and say onyxia its not really all that it's cracked up to be i mean really tier 2 for a fight thats half assed i hope they make it much more difficult from what ive expereinced this is going to be a bad patch if all they do is increase onys level from 63 to 83 will be nothing special any questions whisper me Demothius , Feathermoon

  • Seluu said 
    Sun, Aug 16 2009 3:49 PM ()

    I've killed her on my shammy in resto spec, so yea, its doable. I just lept water shield up for mana regen, spammed lightening bolt and healed when needed. Magna totem and elementals worked well for the whelps. It took a while dps is low in resto spec, but never had any chance od dying.

  • Sun, Aug 16 2009 10:54 AM ()

    Well soul, imo basically every healing class can kill ony. My bros DK solos her once a week, and i dont know if he does it on his shammy. But i do believe a shammy could easily kill her, nice dps output and you can heal yourself. Try finding vids on youtube to look at how otheres do it.

    gl, and take onyxias head for me! :D

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