World of Warcraft : hyjal

Black Temple/Hyjal JC patterns now on WOWDB

Zyuu — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:36:03 GMT

As previously posted, all patterns from Black Temple and Hyjal (including the Scales of Sand) that are listed below will be obtainable via the Shattered Sun Offensive. You can now check out all patterns at WOWDB for better clarity. By the way, gems for these patterns will drop in Sunwell Plateau.

World First Kill: Archimonde by Nihilum

Kody — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:58:29 GMT

Nihilum continues their domination of the PvE portion of the game by racking up another world first; this time it's the Archimonde encounter in Caverns of Time: Battle of Mt. Hyjal.

Black Temple and Hyjal Tuning

Kody — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:16:02 GMT

Well, it looks like some of the bosses may have been a bit too easy afterall. Daelo posted on the Raids & Dungeons Forum that there are some changes being made to the difficulty of certain bosses in Black Temple and Hyjal.

Daelo wrote:

Based upon further feedback from guilds in Black Temple and Hyjal, we've decided to make some difficulty adjustments to many of the later bosses. As a general rule, the changes increase the damage dealt by the encounter to the raid. Note that due to the timing and nature of the changes made, some of the tooltips for the retuned abilities will be incorrect.

The encounters changed include:

Gurtogg Bloodboil

Teron Gorefiend
Mother Shahraz
The Illidari Council
Illidan Stormrage
Archimonde

Our intent is not to make the encounters impossible. Even with the increased difficulty, I do expect some of them to be quickly beaten again after guilds experience the changes and adapt.

As a side note, the 2.1.1 patch did include the change to the Archimonde encounter that increases his leash distance and made the Well of Eternity a bad place for casters to be near.

Battle for Mount Hyjal Issues

Kody — Wed, 30 May 2007 21:15:12 GMT

Daelo - the Lead Encounter Designer - posted on the Raids & Dungeons forums last night about some known issues with the encounters in the Battle for Mount Hyjal(also known as Hyjal Past, etc.). The original post can be found by clicking here.

I wanted to give the community a heads up on some issues that are occurring within this zone, and let you all know what's being done to address the issues.

Archimonde's Leash

Archimonde currently has a very short leash distance to prevent players from bringing him near the World Tree. The waters of the Well of Eternity could be used to circumvent a great deal of the challenge of the encounter, so as a short term measure we implemented the rather aggressive leash. The leash makes fighting him more difficult than we intend, and this leash distance will be further expanded when we're able to add a new spell to the Well of Eternity in an upcoming patch.

NPCs killing Bosses

Hyjal is a zone that has you fighting along side Jaina, Thrall and their Alliance and Horde forces against the invading armies of the Burning Legion. The NPCs can be a big help when fighting the Legion. They provide the raid with a supplementary source of damage, and occasionally even tank a Ghoul or Abomination for you. This is great, except for one case. If your raid attacks one of the bosses, then damages the boss to a very low health amount, the NPCs can continue on with the fight and finish the boss even if the raid has wiped out. Thrall is particularly good at this, as he has an immense amount of health and summons Dire Wolves to help him. This is a problem because the raid can lose tap on the boss while they are all dead. This then means the raid can no longer loot the boss. The raid at this point can also not retry the encounter, as the death of the boss has moved the zone's progress further. The raid can continue on and fight another boss, and eventually even Archimonde, but that loot is no longer available for that week.

We have a very strong fix implemented for a future patch that should prevent death of the boss if only NPCs are fighting the boss. This particular change could not be hotfixed, however. To reduce the chance of the NPCs winning after the players are dead in the short term, we have greatly reduced the hit points and damage that Thrall and Jaina deal via a hotfix that is now live. Raids are advised to be more careful about letting Thrall or Jaina take damage, since the death of either results in a loss.

Burning Legion Waves

In the same patch we add the fix for NPCs being able to kill the boss, we're also going to be reducing the number of waves before each boss from 12 to 8. Some of the largest waves have also been reduced in number of creatures. In an even later patch, we'll also be adding loot (including epic drops) and faction to the creatures. This should hopefully take some of the sting out of losing to one of the bosses by making wave clearing a less time consuming and more rewarding experience.

Hyjal World Firsts - Forte and Curse Rack 'Em Up

Kody — Mon, 28 May 2007 04:03:43 GMT

Last night the EU-Kazzak guild Forte took a trip to Hyjal and gained a world first kill on Anetheron. Then today, on the 27th of May, the EU-Magtheridon guild Nihilum and EU-Vek'nilash guild Curse also went into Hyjal, killing Anetheron, and Kaz'rogal. The Kaz'rogal kills were very close to each other, but Curse was first with the world first kill. You can check out screenshots of the kills below - including Nihilum's loot from Anetheron, and Curse's loot from Kaz'rogal. Head over to their respective websites to find out more on their kills.

2.1 PTR: Forte defeats Archimonde... sort of

Kody — Fri, 18 May 2007 03:03:53 GMT

I'm not one to advocate exploiting encounters, but at least it was done on the PTR so that Blizzard can fix this before the patch goes live.

The EU-Kazzak guild Forte defeated Archimonde last night, during a trip to the PTR to test out Hyjal. There was apparently an exploit that's possible to avoid certain parts of the encounter, and Forte used this to their advantage to check out the loot Archimonde would drop. It's also important to note that there WAS a scripted event that took place that brought about Archimonde's death; this wasn't a "let's spit on lore to give raiders something to do" situation.

You can check out the loot below-

2 Tier 6 Helm Tokens
Cloth Healing Legs
Leather Melee DPS Chestpiece

2.1 PTR: Curse guild visits Hyjal - Tier 6 token found!

Kody — Fri, 11 May 2007 21:13:56 GMT

The Curse guild, on the EU realm Vek'nilash, visited the EU Test Realm today to explore the content in the Battle of Mount Hyjal.

They were able to down the first four bosses so far - Rage Winterchill, Anetheron, Kaz'rogal, and Azgalor - without the bosses being death touched. Azgalor dropped the Tier 6 token for gloves, as you can see in the screenshot below. Head over to the Curse guild's website to read more.

Impervious takes a trip to Hyjal

Kody — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:44:15 GMT

Last night, Impervious took a break from their raiding grind on the live realms to check out Hyjal. They had a developer on hand, no doubt to work on fine-tuning the bosses as Impervious attempted them.

They went through a total of four bosses - two at each camp location - so it's safe to assume that there are at least six bosses in the instance -- that is if the format continues at the night elf camp as well.

The bosses in order of appearance were: Rage Winterchill, Anetheron, Kaz'rogal, and Azgalor. Check out the images below - including loot for Rage Winterchill(death touched) and Kaz'rogal(killed) - and be sure to check out the Impervious website for more info on their trip to the PTR.

2.1 PTR Hyjal Information and Items

Kody — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:16:28 GMT

With yesterday's patch, Caverns of Time: Hyjal Past was open for testing. The McWeaksauce brothers - Jimmy to be exact - are on the case, looking to flag any hearty adventurer willing to take the risk and return to the days of Archimonde's reign of chaos.

Upon zoning into Hyjal Past, you enter an area called "Hyjal Summit" - a place inside the instance that has two vendors: one that sells epic gem recipes, and the tier 6 armor set vendor! So does this mean tier 6 comes from Hyjal, rather than the expected location of the Black Temple? Only time will tell - right now it's anyone's guess.

You'll also notice three portals within Hyjal Summit - one is wide open - this is where you'll go to start the initial event. There are two others that have locked gates, one that presumably teleports you to a Horde base, and another that teleports you to the Night Elf base near the World Tree - just like in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.

So with that said, it looks like Hyjal Past is going to have at least three event areas, which will no doubt ultimately lead to either a battle with Archimonde, or watching the WC3 event unfold.

And what kind of update is without images? We have images of every design recipe available on the vendor so you can see the reputation requirements, as well as screenshots of the opening event in Hyjal Past.

And of course, if you want to check out the tier 6 stats for every single piece in each armor set, head over to our item database!

Forum Posts

Elitist Jerks - discussing lore and possible encounters in Hyjal.
Hyjal First Thoughts - PTR forum, initial thoughts of the zone

Scale of the Sands Reputation Information Available!

Kody — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:42:23 GMT

The Official World of Warcraft website updated their reputation section with information on the Scale of the Sands - the reputation required for, and raised through Caverns of Time: The Battle of My. Hyjal.

You can see the rings you receive by raising your reputation, for every level from Friendly to Exalted.

Check it out over at the Scale of the Sands reputation page.