World of Raids Forums: Ulduar (raid) - World of Raids

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Hello sorry to bother you all but I have one question. Can anybody tell me if Ulduar is gonna be available on the ptr servers and what date approximately?


Thanks in advance, take care!

Ulduar will be available on PTR in the future, however we are planning on having several limitations in place so that we can control what can be tested at any given time. Ulduar will also not be available permanently like Naxxramas was in the WotLK Beta.

All this basically means that if there is something we want to test, then we will enable the zone and encounter so that it is available. If at some point there is something that we no longer want to test, then the zone will be disabled so that it is no longer available.

Keep in mind though, that there will be quite a few encounters to test in both the 10 and the 25 man versions, and there will also be a whole lot of "hard modes" and achievements to test.

We are quite pleased with how Sartharion and his drakes worked, so we would like to expand on that idea quite a bit in Ulduar and future raids. We are currently planning for most of the encounters to have "hard modes" that will allow for raids to increase the difficulty. Increasing the challenge will of course also mean an increase of reward level if successful.

We have received some additional information for you guys, which shall be posted below :-)

In my previous post I mentioned that there will be some "hard modes" available to increase difficulty, and if you do this and succeed, then your rewards will be increased as well. The increased rewards for completing the "hard modes" will not just be limited to achievement points, titles, or mounts. There will be additional improved item rewards as well.

Our estimate is that Ulduar will be somewhat more difficult overall than Naxxramas, even without the hard modes. Currently there is one optional encounter that is only tuned as a "hard mode" encounter.

Raiders that have done Naxxramas, Malygos, and Sartharion, who have acquired the gear from those encounters, should be geared up and ready for Ulduar.