Preliminary Ulduar Info Leak

by Trouble on January 20, 2010 under Ulduar

Note: my post about these changes on MMO Champion were deleted. Perhaps they have a policy against posting leaked info, I don’t know. Send this to your friends if you find it interesting since apparently large WoW sites won’t be allowing it to be posted.

This is a very, very early Ulduar info leak and is completely unverified. This comes as third hand info and doesn’t come from any other sites so take it with a huge grain of salt. However with the price of unreliability, you get the benefit of super early info! Here it is:

Encounters: 12 + 1 optional (Viscidus like hard mode only boss) in Ulduar.
There will be multiple levels in Ulduar. The final “level” (underground) will be like Sapphiron + Kel’thuzad, separated from the rest. This section will likely never be seen or tested on the PTR (think Kil’jaeden).
The beginning is linear and then everything but the final two bosses is linear.
Arena style encounter. You fight 4 of 8 potential bosses. Two of these can be selected by the raid, at least two are random. Up to all 4 can be random. 6 of the 8 bosses can be chosen, 2 are only available from random picks. There is a Violet Hold type achievement for having killed all 8 bosses.

Sounds extremely interesting! People have been asking for an arena style raid encounter ever since the debut at the BRD arena. It’ll be cool to have to adapt strategies for each set of bosses. I’m sure many early kills will be based off selecting the two easiest bosses and then dealing with whatever two random ones you get. It’s also exciting to see there will be at least an encounter or two which won’t be tested at all on the PTR. Ulduar is already shaping up to be an exciting and new experience.

This info is also available on our partner site, StratFu - Ulduar. Tardfactor and Ulduar.com for all your Ulduar info!

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7 comments

Tumpys
01/21/2009
3:22 am

Oooh, this all sounds interesting. Can't wait to hear more. :)
Phoebus
01/21/2009
5:12 am

Thanks for the heads up.

It will be interesting to see how they balance the various "arena-bosses" to be both sufficiently unique to make it interesting and also generic enough not to require too narrow a raid makeup.

I'm excited :)
jedimax
01/21/2009
5:26 am

Sounds interessting and makes some anticipation. but these aren't information, which can be useful.

there was already a video of ulduar (empty on a private server).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7U2_bMF8W0

we keep going on straight to sarth+2 tomorrow. i hope the patch wont affect us to much.
Matt’s Thursday Morning Copout : World of Matticus
01/23/2009
2:11 pm

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world of warcraft raids
02/12/2009
10:45 pm

Sounds like a good zone. I really hope they make good use of lore within the instance. The hard mode only boss sounds interesting!
world of warcraft guilds
02/12/2009
10:46 pm

Well, this sounds cool! Finally hard mode only content? :P
Official Ulduar Preview Distilled - Tard Factor
02/17/2009
2:15 pm

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