Zul’Aman, Baby!
BRK is really excited about the next Public Test Realm deployment as Zul’Aman should be introduced.
What’s Zul’Aman? Well, according to the blues on the Forums and World of Raids, Zul’Aman:
Will be a 10-person raid.
Will be on a quicker reset than 7 days.
Will be more difficult than Karazhan and drop better loot.
Will feature six bosses and it’s the goal that it can be cleared in three hours.
Will not have a key requirement nor will it have an attunement quest.
Will have a very challenging timed quest for those who choose to participate in it. This will be hardcore and will be very rewarding. Players do not have to engage in the timed run, very similar to the Baron run in Stratholme
The first boss in Zul’Aman will require less raid coordination than some other raid bosses. He will still hit very hard so you’ll need to be geared properly but it won’t take 15 minutes to explain the fight. It will be a simple yet challenging fight. The other boss fights get more complex and challenging from there. If players want a basis of comparison, imagine the tuning of Zul’Aman started around Nightbane/Prince difficulty and ramped up from there.
BRK enjoys Gruul’s Lair but really loves the 10-man instances. We can easily see our guild skipping SSC and going straight for Zul’Aman when it comes out. Since we run two Kara groups, we could run two Zul’Aman groups, too.
Maybe something like Legacy drops there…
Tuscansalami on 30 Sep 2007 at 3:49 pm #
Or alternatively if arenas are your thing, there’s the following 1000 point arena axe in 2.3 to be earnt as posted by a blue:
Vengeful Gladiator’s Waraxe
62 Stam
46 Crit
33 Resil
15 Hit
92 AP
98 Armor Penetration
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1762876473&sid=1&pageNo=3#49
Sure, there’s no agility, but it makes up for that artificially with hit/crit/sta - and the armor penetration looks mighty interesting. Though as you’ve not said anything about attempting to nab the gladiator crossbow, what’s your opinion of it for us BM hunters anyhow?
Lleu on 30 Sep 2007 at 7:27 pm #
I think the more important issue that you’ve missed here is that bear/troll hybrid in the picture. Will it tame?
Grumpy on 30 Sep 2007 at 11:11 pm #
BRK
You know you want to get the supposed Bear mount from there. C’mon, a Dwarf on a bear? You know you want it.
Wisp on 01 Oct 2007 at 12:26 pm #
The most Important item that will be available from Zul’Aman is a ranged weapon!
But this one is not some normal Rare weapon, or even Epic! No it is the long awaited Legendary ranged (read: HUNTER) weapon!
Rakhman on 01 Oct 2007 at 3:30 pm #
Ranged Legendary weapon = lovely
Faileas on 01 Oct 2007 at 6:39 pm #
Arrr… At the Blizzcon panel (Items or Raid and Dungeon, I don’t remember), they definitely said that there will be a Legendary Ranged Weapon from Zul’Aman.
Legendary Ranged Weapon > Legacy IMHO.
WoWRadio posted Youtubes of most of the panels, so if you dig through the videos, you might find the proof of the statement.
Tom on 01 Oct 2007 at 10:06 pm #
That could mean a legendary wand.
Or even a throwing weap. GOOD THING IM A TROLL!
TrojanGuy on 02 Oct 2007 at 11:46 pm #
So no attunement quest, better loot, and a shorter reset timer. Is this gonna kinda make Kara pointless?