[WoRBot]

Update (10:00AM PDT): Ensidia just beat The Assembly of Iron, completing Heroic: I Choose You, Steelbreaker (world first Hard Mode)

Update (8:50AM PDT): Memento Mori killed XT-002 Deconstructor.

Update (8:30AM PDT): For teh Horde just killed Ignis the Furnace Master. Don't forget to post your kills on the Guild Progress section and join us on IRC.

Hard Mode Flame Leviathan - Insomnia

It looks like we have our first Hard Mode completion, as Insomnia of US-Tichondrius defeated Flame Leviathan at 12:30AM PDT on April 15th, 2009, to complete Heroic: Orbit-uary. Congratulations to Insomnia! (Achievement screenshot)

Their loot-

• Golden Saronite Dragon. (MH Phys. DPS Fist)
  
• Titanguard (1h Tank Sword)
  
• Embrace of the Leviathan (Cloth Spell Belt)
  
• Strength of the Automaton (Strength DPS Ring)

Ulduar Raid Guides

• Ulduar Main Page
  
• Tier 8 Armor Set Guide
  
• Flame Leviathan
  
• Ignis the Furnace Master
  
• Razorscale
  
• XT-002 Deconstructor
  
• The Assembly of Iron
  
• Auriaya
  
• Kologarn
  
• Freya
  
• Hodir
  
• Mimiron
  
• Thorim
  
• General Vezax

More 3.1 Content

• 3.1 Patch Notes
  
• Noblegarden Enhancements
  
• New Profession Recipes
  
• New Mounts
  
• New Fishing Daily Quests & Rewards

Ulduar Hall of Fame

The Ulduar Hall of Fame isn't quite ready yet, but I wanted to publish the list of what will be tracked.  While many of these will be tracked automatically based on guild-earned achievements, if you'd like to share more information on your kills, please do so in the Raids & Dungeons forum.

How this list will differ from the "Speed Run Hall of Fame" is that each will be a static top-10 list, listing the first 10 guilds in the world to complete each achievement / defeat each encounter under the specific requirements.  If you want to suggest more achievements be tracked, let me know.

Hall of Fame List

• Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings
  
• Heroic: Glory of the Ulduar Raider
  
• Conqueror of Ulduar
  
• All Progression Bosses - Heroic: The Secrets of Ulduar
  
• Algalon - Heroic: Observed
  
• Algalon - Heroic: He Feeds On Your Tears
  
• Yogg-Saron - Heroic: Alone in the Darkness
  
• General Vezax - Heroic: I Love the Smell of Saronite in the Morning
  
• Auriaya - Heroic: Crazy Cat Lady
  
• Freya - Heroic: Knock, Knock, Knock on Wood
  
• Freya - Heroic: Con-speed-atory
  
• Hodir - Heroic: I Could Say That Cache Was Rare
  
• Mimiron - Heroic: Firefighter
  
• Thorim - Heroic: Lose Your Illusion
  
• Kologarn - Heroic: With Open Arms
  
• Assembly of Iron - Heroic: I Choose You, Steelbreaker
  
• XT-002 Deconstructor - Heroic: Heartbreaker
  
• Razorscale - Heroic: A Quick Shave
  
• Ignis the Furnace Master - Heroic: Stokin' the Furnace
  
• Flame Leviathan - Heroic: Orbit-uary

Site Update - Guide Section

The Guides tab should now link to the new guide section.  The old guides should begin appearing today as I get them formatted and ensure all of the data integrity is intact after today's website issues.  One of the major changes with this new section is a new guide navigation, which you can access in a dropdown format at the top, rather than the clunky Ajax navigation the old system used.

Patch Day Advice and Rituals

A fairly useful thread by Nethaera on the official forums for patch day!

Quote from: Nethaera (Source)

Everyone has certain things they do on a patch day to get them ready for the changes and new content they'll get to experience. Some people wear a lucky pair of socks, or stock up on their favorite drinks and foods. What sort of things do you do and what advice do you have for other players?

Some things to remember:

• Respec your talents and visit a trainer to learn any new spells.
  
  • Don't forget that you can turn on the preview option as a part of a new additions to the interface. You can place your points before actually spending them.
    
  • If you're dual speccing, be sure to make sure you match up your spec to your primary glyphs first unless you are changing them all out completely. You will not be able to copy or move glyphs over to your secondary spec.
    
  • Don't forget to get any Glyphs that you might need for your secondary spec if you are dual speccing. You will no longer need to visit a Lexicon of Power in order to apply them, however.
  
  
• Activate any additional interface options you'd like to use. We released a User Interface update a little while ago and there are some new features that you may want to take advantage of such as the additional Objectives tracking. (Equipment Manager as noted in the above stickies will not be released with this patch.) - http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/ui.html
  
• Be sure to take a listen to the great new music in the Argent Tournament and Ulduar!

 

[koenigsegg]

Yay! First new raid dungeon since Sunwell (25 March 2008, over a YEAR)!!!! (EoE and OS are single encounter dungeons so I do not count them).

To bad they could not have it ready when LK launched already.

Ah well...guess we get tuned (and working) bosses at least.

[torchill]

11 am!!!!
Servers still down

[lora]

they have been delayed for 2 more hours at least so that must be like 4 hours to go in blizzard time

[Lorki]

would this be possible,

We have all these servers that are live, so would it be possible for Blizzard to make a ptr that is just like a normal realm, except just have it closed when there is no testing going on. Wouldn't something like this make it easier to roll out patch's and test? you basically have a realm that is strictly testing and would have the exact same structure as a normal realm, all content working. Developers would be able to patch this realm with ptr builds, get them working on this said realm, know that it works with all the kinks fixed here on this realm, and just roll them out to the actual realms?

So in short a working realm that is active all the time to developers, but not the public, one that is tied into the infrastructure as realm Aegwynn through Zuluhed are. If it works on the developers realm it should work on the actual live realms.

Just wondering, I have no clue how this works, I just know when I played Everquest the test realm was up all the time, people actually leveled and had guilds on these servers. when patches rolled out it went pretty smooth as I can recall.

[slayme]

If it would be so simple they would do so

[Kn0w1edge]

i think they need to add a few more "ed"'s to the title

[Arkham]

Lorki said:

would this be possible,

We have all these servers that are live, so would it be possible for Blizzard to make a ptr that is just like a normal realm, except just have it closed when there is no testing going on. Wouldn't something like this make it easier to roll out patch's and test? you basically have a realm that is strictly testing and would have the exact same structure as a normal realm, all content working. Developers would be able to patch this realm with ptr builds, get them working on this said realm, know that it works with all the kinks fixed here on this realm, and just roll them out to the actual realms?

So in short a working realm that is active all the time to developers, but not the public, one that is tied into the infrastructure as realm Aegwynn through Zuluhed are. If it works on the developers realm it should work on the actual live realms.

It's hard to say because we don't know how the PTR realms might be different from the live ones. Maybe there's some infrastructural difference that works for a testing realm but necessitates making PTRs a totally separate thing. I don't know, but I basically agree with slayme, if it really were that simple it seems like they'd do it that way rather than the way it's done now.

Kn0w1edge said:

i think they need to add a few more "ed"'s to the title

hahaha, I didn't even notice that

[wesser]

the adds to the left and right when you enter the room are the adds for the fight, you do not need to pull them. once you aggro xt-002 the adds will come at 75% 50% and 25% and are killable

[Kody]

wesser said:

the adds to the left and right when you enter the room are the adds for the fight, you do not need to pull them. once you aggro xt-002 the adds will come at 75% 50% and 25% and are killable

When the heart phase begins they add in addition to the heart phase adds. Unless you're telling me your guild killed him -- which if so congrats -- and it looks like a lot of guilds are missing something.

[wesser]

we got him to 50%, and went through 2 adds phases successfully.

[damaniac82]

Rapidshare mirror of the patch:

http://rapidshare.com/users/L0Y0HQ

Those who already have the preloader part only need to download the "finalPart" package, which is ~30 Mb.

Have a nice day!

(EDIT: Hope that posting this mirror doesnt break any site policy... If so, please kindly excuse me and feel free to remove my link!)

[Kody]

wesser said:

we got him to 50%, and went through 2 adds phases successfully.

You pretty much have to get lucky with where the bots spawn. If they spawn too closely they'll aggro the trash.

That said, a hotfix should be coming soon for the trash. Hopefully.

[Burgah]

You posted about vodka getting a good/fast kill on Razorscale ... yet downed Razorscale almost an hour earlier and got the same achivement ...

[Squishypants]

Burgah said:

You posted about vodka getting a good/fast kill on Razorscale ... yet downed Razorscale almost an hour earlier and got the same achivement ...

Secretfist also got the same achievement tonight. =)

[Marianis]

Situational Awareness on Sargeras also killed Razorscale with the achievement before Vodka. It's bugged and the boss isnt hard. Kinda stupid Vodka gets front page credit for something bugged and easy when they didnt even do it first.

[Immoovabull]

Dark Pact (H) Bloodhoof downed Razorscale with a Quick Shave at 8:04 Pacific Time

[gravyboat]

Dear Marianis,






... well come here.

[googol]

Yep, we killed Razorscale at 8:19 pm PT with "A Quick Shave" achievement. Please add us to the list. You can look up Googol or fallen on armory for verification.

Fallen of US Trollbane

www.wowfallen.net

[Icexero]

Forlorn Legacy of Windrunner-US downed Razorscale with the achievement Heroic: A Quick Shave also. At around 8:17 PST