[Deceax]

From mmo-champion.

Icecrown Citadel Zone-Buff is here
The optional zone buff in the Icecrown Citadel is now available and will make the instance easier for whoever wants to use it. The buff currently increases total health, healing done and damage dealt by 5% but higher versions are in-game and will probably be activated later.

[Sobeyet]

Deceax, on 02 March 2010 - 12:45 PM, said:

From mmo-champion.

Icecrown Citadel Zone-Buff is here
The optional zone buff in the Icecrown Citadel is now available and will make the instance easier for whoever wants to use it. The buff currently increases total health, healing done and damage dealt by 5% but higher versions are in-game and will probably be activated later.

WHOOOO NERFSSSSSSSSSS. LET ME AT BQL.

[Wrathblood]

Why is there suddenly a patch to download?

[Shardik]

The buff was put in with the last patch. Just wasn't activated.

[Voodie]

Wrath, I didn't have a patch.

Make sure you scan your computer for viruses.

[Guinthel]

Wrathblood, on 02 March 2010 - 01:30 PM, said:

Why is there suddenly a patch to download?

I had a patch too.

[Sobeyet]

So clear through Plague Wing tonight imo.

[Charlagain]

Did you guys see this will go up month-by-month, not weekly?

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The Icecrown Citadel buff to make the instance easier over time has now been activated as of the rolling restarts today, so it should be active on EU realms tomorrow. As mentioned in Blizzcast 13, it came about a month after The Lich King first became killable, so we can probably expect it to "rank up" to higher versions about once a month as well.

x% of more health, healing and damage dealt

5% (March 2nd, 2010)
10% (April 6th, 2010)
15% (May 4th, 2010)
20% (June 1st, 2010)
25% (July 6th, 2010)
30% (August 3rd, 2010)

oh wait that's speculation from worldofraids I think. Maybe that's not right. But I like padding my post count so I'll leave it.

[Wrathblood]

I wasn't around for all of last night, but as the buff stacks ICC is going to get crazy-easy. ICC was fairly well tuned, and adding the buffs skews things pretty substantially. 5% more health is a lot of extra safety margin and 5% more healing makes up that lost health quicker and 5% more damage means the mob dies in less time. Compared with normal, Fester felt like he was hitting like a little girl. When it gets to 30%, I think a lock in pvp gear or a shaman could probably tank Fester with 0 or possibly even 1 inhale. Long enough to get a few stacks of bloat.

[Sobeyet]

Wrathblood, on 03 March 2010 - 10:15 AM, said:

I wasn't around for all of last night, but as the buff stacks ICC is going to get crazy-easy. ICC was fairly well tuned, and adding the buffs skews things pretty substantially. 5% more health is a lot of extra safety margin and 5% more healing makes up that lost health quicker and 5% more damage means the mob dies in less time. Compared with normal, Fester felt like he was hitting like a little girl. When it gets to 30%, I think a lock in pvp gear or a shaman could probably tank Fester with 0 or possibly even 1 inhale. Long enough to get a few stacks of bloat.

I don't think we could kill hard mode Arthas without a 30% boost. With it? Shrug, we'll see when we get there. But if it is 6 months off then we're fairly close to the expansion, BT was a joke after 3.0.

[Shardik]

I dont remember BT being all that bad, even when we were clearing it. Then again, our raid roster back then was solid so could just have been the people.

[Sobeyet]

Dornak, on 03 March 2010 - 02:16 PM, said:

I dont remember BT being all that bad, even when we were clearing it. Then again, our raid roster back then was solid so could just have been the people.

Hyjal on the other hand... :X

[Shardik]

Sobeyet, on 03 March 2010 - 02:20 PM, said:

Dornak, on 03 March 2010 - 02:16 PM, said:

I dont remember BT being all that bad, even when we were clearing it. Then again, our raid roster back then was solid so could just have been the people.

Hyjal on the other hand... :X

We were not prepared....

[Charlagain]

Up to 10% now.

I'm looking for the part where it makes us smarter on Sindragosa, but I don't see it.

[Wrathblood]

So, +5% every 4 weeks, eh? That puts +30% as arriving somewhere in July. MMO-champion reports that the Cataclysm beta is very likely to start in April, suggesting a Sept/Oct launch date. If they're going for an early Sept start date, that'd be 6 weeks which seems about right.

Still, I'll be really disappointed if they don't introduce an instance that deals with that damn huge snake tail.