Black Temple & Sunwell launching June 6th.

[Henhouse]

So we have been working a little bit the past few days on the next content upgrade for Smolderforge TBC. We've been wanting to phase out ZA for a long, long time now because it was a terrible idea. So SC and ZA will be completely phased out and replaced by Black Temple and Sunwell.

I know these are long and tedious raids but players who enjoy PvE will probably enjoy the raids. You'll be obtaining gear while doing it. We also are going to go through the mall and increase the prices on BT gear to motivate players to actually raid them. Sunwell isn't working perfectly but I don't think it was every fully scripted perfectly -- the whole roleplaying elemental is unfinished on Kil'jaeden but other than that the gameplay of it is pretty good. Same with Black Temple, the Illidan encounter is working very well.

I also just for the fun of it opened Gruul's Lair... Figured why not if people want to go and just kill him, lol.


Hope you guys enjoy it when it comes out. There might be some elements that are still a wee bit buggy!

[Peekaboo]

Sounds totally awesome.

[Suchareq]

I want to see 25 man raid here, with "irani wisp me" etc
I wanted to go on Gruul before, but people go only where there is any eq in loot
could you do vendors with professional recipes? or something.
Henhouse you trying, thats good

[Torzei]

Hey there!

Are the BT/SWP bosses gonna be tuned as difficult/easy as on retail? I would love that, then again, I don't think they would ever be killed.

/Torzei

[Henhouse]

Hey there!

Are the BT/SWP bosses gonna be tuned as difficult/easy as on retail? I would love that, then again, I don't think they would ever be killed.

/Torzei

We're not modifying them, so they should be challenging.

[Money]

BRICKS WILL BE SHAT!

[Peekaboo]

Don't give in to the masses and make it less challenging though. =p
Currently most people cry over the difficulty, that's kinda awesome... lol

[Toosh]

I too think it's a good idea that the difficulty is higher now, you need to be more organized and progressing into the PvE content has a more rewarding feel to it. :)

[Abwyz]

I too think it's a good idea that the difficulty is higher now, you need to be more organized and progressing into the PvE content has a more rewarding feel to it. :)

The problem is that they are too hard. I've been playing on retail for 4 years in top 100 guild and we have spent exactly 3 months wiping on m'uru after we finally managed to kill it. If SWP bosses are scripted as on retail they won't die ever, that's what I am afraid of. Lets be honest, SWP was one of the hardest instances blizzard has ever released and even they decided on nerfing it by the end of TBC. However BT should be something which is possible but hard, that's well balanced instance.

[Toosh]

That the whole point of the content: To be challenging. Our intentions were not to have sunwell cleared within a week, a month or, who knows if ever? We'll see if there's enough capable people of pulling it off, but the whole point of it is being as close to retail as we can make it. Is it hard? Yes, of course it is. Too hard? Maybe, at least for some people it can be. Impossible? Definitely not.