#0 - Feb. 24, 2009, 12:02 p.m.
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/3p1/ulduar.xml
So, you’ve shown Kel'Thuzad a trick or two. You’ve bullied Malygos and taken his lunch money. Even Sartharion and his friends are crying in the corner..
Fear not, Ulduar is coming...
..and it is going to be Epic!
• Ulduar’s challenges
We see Ulduar being considerably more challenging than Naxxramas and that is without taking into account the hard modes that will be available, so get gearing up! Hard modes will of course reward those brave and skilled enough to tackle them with bonus loot as well as the possibility of titles and mounts.
For those who seek some challenging content – Ulduar welcomes you with open arms.
• Ulduar on the PTRs
Ulduar is our exciting new development that is due to hit the PTRs in the near future. For testing purposes, we will enable and disable certain areas and/or encounters depending on what we wish to see tested. There are copious amounts of encounters within both the 10 and 25 man versions of the instance, and various hard modes and achievements in need of testing and we hope you look forward to this as much as we do. =)
Be sure to keep an eye on the PTR forums for information about how Ulduar is being tested, and for further details and updates on the availability of this instance.
http://forums.wow-europe.com/board.html?sid=1&forumId=11095
• Attunements
There are no plans at present to introduce any kind of attunement for players to enter Ulduar. A player will soon know if they’re ready to be inside the instance. ;)
There are plenty of lore driven quest lines throughout Northrend, and we’d rather give people the option to dive into those, as opposed to making them mandatory for all who wish to raid. Ideally we would love for everyone to enjoy both the lore based quest chains as well as experiencing new raid content, but we’d rather not force it.
• Progression
Those whom seek progression from the current content, such as Naxxramas, Obsidian Sanctum and the Eye of Eternity and have collected gear from these raids should find the transition to Ulduar a very natural one. As said above, you will soon know if you’re prepared enough to be there or not!
• Vehicles
Ulduar will also bring you exciting new vehicular encounters. Just entering Ulduar itself will require you and your raid to take control of choppers, demolishers and siege engines in order to plough your way through a vast iron army in order to reach the Flame Leviathan and bring it down. In order to gear check the raid, vehicles also use player items in order to define its own stats, so the better the gear of the driver, the better the stats of the vehicle.
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