[Kody]

Well this is very big news going into a new raid ID. With tomorrow's maintenance, Blizzard will be removing the limited attempts system from normal mode in Icecrown Citadel. Daelo popped by the forums to announce the change earlier, but you can check it out below as well.

Many players have been disappointed in the way the system has worked, so this should be a welcome change for sure!

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Quote from: Daelo (Source)
After each region's maintenance this week, raids will no longer lose attempts on wipes in Normal mode for Professor Putricide, Blood-Queen Lana'thel, Sindragosa, and the Lich King. There will still be limited attempts in Heroic mode.

We will continue to monitor developments in Icecrown Citadel in the future, especially since the Heroic difficulty has been unlocked by a significant number of raids.

[rhorle]

Nice Change but kinda sucks as well. I liked the feel of limited attempt bosses even on normal. But yeah it will be nice to not have to worry about such things and open heroic modes up to a lot more people. Though still a while since if people were being held up on limited attempts they likely had other issues holding them back.

[MarshallAVT]

How many is the cap for hardmodes on first week? are they for all bosses or only those 4 bosses?

[darkthunder]

If it's like it was for normal mode bosses, it should be:

10 attempts at Professor Putricide
5 additional attempts at Blood Queen Lanathel
5 additional attempts at The Lich King

All in all 20 attempts at The Lich King, provided you manage to kill both the Professor and the Blood Queen on your first attempts.

[Deployed]

I wonder if removing the attempts on normal after your guild defeated Arthas would've been better. Ah well. Most of us always said gating AND attempts together was a bad idea. Now we have neither :/

[Kody]

darkthunder, on 08 February 2010 - 10:18 PM, said:

If it's like it was for normal mode bosses, it should be:

10 attempts at Professor Putricide
5 additional attempts at Blood Queen Lanathel
5 additional attempts at The Lich King

All in all 20 attempts at The Lich King, provided you manage to kill both the Professor and the Blood Queen on your first attempts.

I will be very impressed if people kill them on their first attempts, since you have to kill them on heroic difficulty to engage the heroic difficulty version of The Lich King.

[Chimina]

An interesting developement to say the least, not that many of the more casual guilds actually get to 20 tries on the bosses, it still feels good.

This does mean that 10 man gets a better chance of clearing as everything seems to go faster there

[Nicarras]

Limited attempts are a stupid gimmick.

Great guilds just end up having an extra toon or two, geared up as the same class and gear so they can learn it. Then they go in and one shot things on their mains.

How is that any different than when those same guilds would just work on a boss for 5 hours one night on their mains?