Looks like there’s a new patch for WoW today…

Plenty of changes to dungeons and loot and classes and abilities…  But the interesting part is that they’ve revamped the Onyxia encounter.

After years of lurking in her lair, battling brave adventurers who travelled from afar, Onyxia has been reborn — and she’s stronger than ever before. To commemorate the upcoming fifth anniversary of World of Warcraft, the classic Onyxia raid encounter has been updated in the newly released patch 3.2.2. 

• Onyxia has been retuned to offer new challenges to level-80 players (in both 10- and 25-player modes) while keeping the fundamental experience of fighting her intact. Beware the Deep Breaths!
• Onyxia will now drop new level-80 gear featuring the aesthetics of loot from the original encounter.
• The luckiest adventurers will have a chance to receive the Brood of Onyxia, a very rare 310%-speed mount modeled after the Brood Mother herself.

I remember running through all the Onyxia attunement quests for the first time…  Unmasking her in the Stormwind throne room…  Finally getting the Drakefire Amulet and heading out to her lair…  How impressive she was…  How messy those first few attempts were…  And, finally, mounting her head back in Stormwind.

Very cool stuff.

I’m glad to see them revisiting some of the old content.  I’d rather not see these old areas become ghost towns like they have in so many other MMOGs.

Posted on September 22 at 3:37 PM