Along with taking your character to the barber shop for a shave and a trim or re-visting old parts of Azeroth collecting the newly added achievements, more casual players who were previously unable to reach the end-game raids in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade are now able to do so -- with ease.Guilds that cleared end-game raids such as Black Temple, Mount Hyjal and Sunwell Plateau were once among the few elite on their respective servers. The latest patch, dubbed "Echoes of Doom," released last Tuesday to lay the framework for the upcoming expansion, reduced all raid bosses' health by 30% and even lowered the amount of damage they put out. This significant change now allows lesser-geared players to walk into these previously challenging raids and complete them quickly and easily.
Along with lowering the difficulty of the bosses, the new patch added new talent trees and abilities that signifcantly boosted healing and damage done for all casses. This means that not only are the bosses now easier -- three and a half weeks before the new expansion, Wrath of the Lich King releases -- but players are more effective during these encounters.
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So, what does this all mean? Right now, nothing but a little humor for the raiders who saw end game months ago. Guilds with players in green-level items can easily down four, possibly seven out of the nine bosses in Black Temple with a bit of coordination -- previously unthinkable. And just last night on the server I play on, I witnessed a guild down the first boss in Sunwell, even though they only downed four bosses in Black Temple prior to the patch.
Blizzard is certainly opening the doors before Wrath of the Lich King launches November 13 to let casual players experience content they never thought they'd see. It's only a matter of time until these guilds who couldn't down a single boss in Black Temple pre-patch down all six bosses in Sunwell. Let's not even start talking about Lady Vashj and Kael'Thas...
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