uruloki’s lair

I troll forums so you don’t have to, not because I hate work or anything like that. Anyways, here’s some nice vague information on the big thing for 1.9: The opening of the gates of An’Qiraj.

The opening of AQ involves two parts:

1. a serverwide materials gathering effort (ie turn this amount of this item in) that gains faction for the respective races when you turn stuff in.

2. A raid questline that begins with killing Broodlord in BWL and collecting his head (only one person can loot his head at a time). It’ll ultimately involve a raid guild running through a bunch of high end stuff and triggering some sweet world events. For example, one thing from Test has shown Eranikus, Tyrant of the Dream (remember his Shade from Sunken Temple?) spawning in the Moonglade. A raid group probably has to take him out so that he can be ‘cleansed’.

Anyway, it all ends with that raid group re-creating the big ol’ scepter and banging the gong outside the Scarab Wall, and then the gates open and both raid zones become available. In addition to this, the world as a whole is said to completely change, with new quests opening in places, etc.

The spawning of Eranikus on test can be seen in screenies as shown.

I am looking forward to this, although this really means that I will be that much farther behind everyone since MC will be dropped in favor of AQ. GG server changes.

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