When the news came out about the changes to the LFD system to include holiday world event boss encounters I was very pleased. It is at times difficult to find a group on your server, get to the location, and then have to replace someone when the need arises. With this added to the system it will actually eliminate many of the little problems that players encountered.There is some misunderstanding as to the changes since CM Zarhym stated:
Yes, the Dungeon Finder must be used. The interface will have a separate selection for special World Event bosses in dungeons. If players zone into the dungeon without using the Dungeon Finder, the bosses will not be there.
This also led me to have some misconceptions as to how this would operate. Would we no longer be able to get a group of friends or guild to run these limited encounters? Thankfully though there has been a little bit of clarification as to how this will work.
This will work just like the dungeons work now. You form a group or queue for a PUG group and you will be ported to the dungeon.
The ability to summon the boss for the encounter will no longer be needed.
This change will eliminate any issues with one member of the group leaving after the first four "summons" had been used. There is a lot more to this matter.
There was some important clarification how the boss encounters have changed thanks to this recent post!
Your group will zone in, fight the boss. Upon defeating the boss you will earn a "trove" that has a chance to contain a rare holiday item that most seek during these events. This will be exactly as how Oculus has a chance at awarding a drake mount to a player. There will be no rolling against other players. You just have a chance at being lucky. However you will only receive this ONCE per day, in the manner one obtains 2 frost emblems for their first random heroic of the day.
If a person has already had a boss kill for the day they are still able to participate in more encounters. Players will be able to roll other "normal" drops from these bosses thus making the holiday gear farmable.
Ever experience a wipe cause the group failed to understand the mechanics of the fight or you just got unlucky in some PUG? Well this is no longer a problem! No more wasted "summons"!!
There will be no limit as to how often you can farm for the gear on your characters with this change!
Some players have expressed frustration that their alts will not be permitted to participate with the "extra" summons they can provide however with no limitation to how often you can encounter the holiday bosses the need for alts is very much eliminated.
Some feel that this will directly affect the value of the Direbrew Remote that drops off Coren Direbrew, the Brewfest event boss located in Blackrock Depths (BRD).
The upcoming changes will remove the usefulness of the device to transport a group directly to the bar in BRD for the holiday boss. However this is not the only ability of the remote and it will still have an impact for the fight.
This device has the ability to summon TAFKA L80 ETC (The Artists Formally Know As Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftan. Summoning the band will provide a 5 min buff increasing your stats by 5% and this stacks with Blessing of Kings.
The remote will also help those seeking to do reputation turn in for Thorium Brotherhood or for a quick run to obtain some Dire Brew from the Dark Iron Brewer at the bar. Dark Iron Ale which is needed for the Dark Moon Faire pet frog Jubjub can be obtained from Pugger Spazzring very quickly as well. This can sell well to those who lack the device and don't want to take the time to acquire the BRD key and clear their way through in order to access the quest that awards the Jubling frog.
One other issue that many have overlooked was how the holiday boss events affected players who were trying to do the dungeons as intended. BRD was infamous for having hostile mobs at max level aggro instantly to players of the proper level for the dungeon (52 - 60) making it impossible to zone in unless they recruited a character at a much higher level. Now that these mobs and the bosses are no longer accessible outside of the LFD tool this will no longer be an issue.
I am very happy to have these changes come about. This past Love is in the Air holiday I was only able to rarely find a group to do the holiday boss. From what I have read I am not the only one that had difficulty finding a group. Given that my guild collapsed I am dependent on PUGS to try to get to attempt these bosses and the LFD addition really fixes many problems.
Sorry for how the font changed in this post. I am posting too early in the morn and by quoting with a cut and paste, the format of this post went haywire. I tried setting the text back to normal but it won't cooperate with me. Maybe I am just tired how the blog site is very limiting.
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