Project Lore

There's a few well-known lucky rollers in my guild, and let's just say I'm not one of them. Sure, I get my fair share of loot, but oftentimes it's by default (that is, no one else wants said loot). When it comes to my guild's 10-man groups, we don't use an intricate loot system -- we're all pretty fair people. Roll if you want something. If it's a bigger upgrade for someone else in the group, take that into consideration. And if you've already won several pieces of loot in a night, consider sitting out a roll. It's not a system that works for PUGs or guilds that don't share a sense of camaraderie, but it's great for my guild.

When it comes to 25-man loot, we usually use Suicide Kings (more on that in a later post). But this past weekend we were just having fun running some random stuff. I asked who wanted to run Onyxia since we hadn't done much dragon-slaying in awhile, and off we went. We wiped once when we tried it out with a 20-man group, then we filled the rest of those slots with friends of friends, and decided to just go with straight-up rolls for gear.

We got her down right away, and none of us were expecting the drop of all drops -- Reins of the Onyxian Drake. It was the first time that any of us had seen it drop. And thank goodness the raid leader had set it to master looter, because it's definitely one of those items that someone might deem worthy of a ninja.

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That has to be a record.  For as long as I have been following WoW, over five years, I have never seen Blizzard go from announcement to PTR that fast.  It took two days, less than 48 hours, for Onyxia's retuning to go from a blue post to actual content on the PTR.  Thanks to the data mining fiend known as Boubouille we've already have a first look inside level 80 Onyxia's succulent loot table. Check out Boubouille's finds here.  He'll have more as the day moves on, most likely. The mount is what excites most people, and at 310% flying speed, it should.  The current model is exactly what I would expect a Disney-ed Onyxia to look like.  She's almost friendly!  Unfortunately it appears that scoring one of these mounts is going to be incredibly difficult.  Zarhym articulates it best, "The drop rate will be extremely low. One day I will have it, though as soon as I loot it I'll probably be struck by lightning on a sunny day and attacked by a shark, all while in the presumed comfort of my living quarters."  Sounds like Winterstrike and Juggynaut will be kept busy for quite some time. Boubouille also had me scratching my head at some new spells he discovered.  Mohawk related spells that are appropriately title after Mr. T's most famous saying.  The PTR patch notes make no mention to the spells, so one can only assume that they are...I have no idea.  I am truly and utterly stumped as to what use they could be other than some sort of crazy joke.  Perhaps Mr. T is making an appearance alongside Ozzy? The current patch notes for Patch 3.2.2 stick with the general rule of thumb for incremental patches, short and sweet.  Solidsamm is pissed though, a 30% reduction to Fan of Knives is going to drastically lower his overall DPS on numerous trash mobs.  Hopefully the mass of raiders being indoctrinated to fear Deep Breath and grinding away at a purple dragon will cause him to forget the nerf. When do you expect the patch to be out?

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