Warlords of Draenor Zone Changes: Blackfathom Deeps, Razorfen Kraul and Downs, Orgrimmar

posted 2014/06/07 at 2:22 AM by perculia

Blackfathom DeepsRazorfen KraulRazorfen DownsOrgrimmar

They have been replaced by Troll and Tauren guards.

The troll area in Orgrimmar is now fully functional again, without any Kor'kron guards in sight.

The Valley of Wisdom once again has s instead of Kor'kron guards.

We've also got videos of Frostfire Ridge, Garrisons and new UI elements, information about Garrisons, NPCs and Quests, Rare Spawns, Exclusive Glyphs, New Spell Effects, Quest Rewards, Darkmoon Faire Race, Additional Storage, 3D Weapon Models and more!Blackfathom Deeps

is seen being tortured by the Twilight Cultists--in a burst of energy, he kills them all. Also seen behind him is , his son. Perhaps this is a way for hunters to still be able to access 's old unique model, as looks different in WoD.

After completing the initial jumping game, players can set up a rope bridge to avoid jumping across the ruins in the future.

The instance keeps its feel as an abandoned ancient temple while emphasizing the corrupted presence of the Twilight Hammer more. There are more cultists as trash, brainwashed prisoners, and neon tentacles springing from the wall.

Lady Sarevess is gone - she was sacrificed by to assist with her ritual. When is killed, players can click a shrine behind her with Sarevess' body on it for .

The old underwater boss, Old Serra'Kis, was replaced by the stronger sea creature who watches over thousands of eggs.

The old murloc Gelihast was killed by who didn't enjoy how Gelihast had earned his place in the temple by slaughtering Twilight Hammer cultists. His body remains on display to serve as a warning to the other murlocs. The remaining murlocs are now trained to hold onto the possessions of those who die in the dungeon. To me, they kind of resemble Diablo Treasure Goblins now.

Aku'maiRazorfen Kraul

The bottom section of Razorfen Kraul used to be covered in boars. In the new version, it's inaccessible and covered in tentacle vines that will pick you up and spit you back out if you jump down.

Roogug has grown up and become a real boss. He is now the overseer of all geomancers and is very powerful with crystals.

Agathelos the Raging, a ferocious boar that fed upon bat guano, is now a corpse. Blind Hunter, formerly a rare elite, now feeds upon Agathelos and is a proper boss.

Overlord Ramtusk has leveled up and become Warlord Ramtusk. His encounter includes two spirits that are old RFK bosses--Aggem Thorncurse and Death Speaker Jargba.

The general spirit of the instance remains the same, but the spell effects are greatly improved--you get a much better sense of the power of the Razorfen Mystics now.

Roogug

Bloodlust – Under 75% health, Roogug will periodically go into a blood frenzy, increasing all allies damage dealt by 100% and haste by 50%. This effect stacks.
Woven Elements – Creates a whirling torrent of Fire, Nature, and Frost magic that strikes a target for high Elemental damage.
Crystalfire Totem – Summons a totem of crystalline origin that periodically lobs gouts of energy at nearby locations, inflicting Firestorm damage to all enemies within 0 yards and knocks them back.
Solarshard Totem – Summons a totem of crystalline origin that periodically creates a pillar of blinding light at nearby locations, silencing all targets within 2 yards.
Razorfen Bladeguard
- Bleak Strike – Readies a massive attack that strikes the ground after a short delay, inflicting Physical damage.
Razorfen Huntmaster
- Poisoned Arrow Volley – Shoots poisoned arrows at enemies inflicting Nature damage, then additional Nature damage every 2 sec. for 8 sec.
Razorfen Beast Tracker
- Wing Clip – Inflicts Physical damage and slows movement speed by 40%. Costs $150859C Energy.
- Fan of Knives – Releases a spray of knives at all enemies within 5 yards, inflicting Physical damage.

Volley – Sets his sights on a player, then fires a volley of flaming arrows nearby. Being struck by an arrow inflicts Fire damage.
Barrage – Focuses his vision, rapidly firing a barrage of arrows at his target, inflicting Physical damage every half-second for 2 sec.
Stampede – Upon reaching half health, Hunter Blonetusk calls forth a stampede of boars, inflicting periodic Physical damage to all enemies for until cancelled.

Spirit Link Totem – Periodically, the Spirit Link Totem redistributes the health of all targets, such that each target ends up with the same percentage of their maximum health.This affects both players and enemies as separate pools of health.
Warlord Ramtusk
- Spirit Axe – Draws in power into one of his axes, throwing at a location. When the Spirit Axe lands, it inflicts high Arcane damage to anyone within 5 yards.
Death Speaker Jargba
- Broken Link – Breaks the linking of Spirits using Shadow magic, increasing healing taken by 50%, periodically inflicting Shadow damage, and preventing the target from benefitting from the Spirit Link Totem.
- Spirit Bolt – Forms an orb of spiritual energy that travels towards a random foe, blasting them for Spellshadow damage.
Aggem Thorncurse
- Arcane Shot – Fires a well-aimed Spell shot at a random enemy's head, inflicting high Arcane damage creating a zone of Arcane damage at their feet for 9 sec.

Blind Hunter

Sonic Field – Sends out pulses of sonic energy which create a sonic field at several locations. These fields inflict Physical damage to any player standing in them.After several seconds, Blind Hunter charges one of the fields, releasing pulses of sonic energy. These pulses inflict Physical damage and stun any player who collides with them for 4 sec.
Drain Life – Periodically bites his target, inflicting Physical damage and leeching life over 12 sec.

Charlga Razorflank

Crystalline Command
Charlga's powers of crystal manipulation are unprecidented, giving her the ability to command powerful crystals, aiding her in combat. These crystals may not be attacked.This power allows her to command two crystals simultaneously.
- Venomous Discharge Crystal
  Venomous Discharge – Congeals and lobs viscous venom at a location for 2 min. This blob periodically fires venemous orbs nearby, inflicting Nature damage to any players struck.
- Tidal Tempest Crystal
  Tidal Tempest – Draws in players over 5 sec and periodically inflicts Frost damage to all players within 8 yards.
- Molten Inferno Crystal
  Molten Inferno – Creates several lines of elemental fury, inflicting high Fire damage to all players struck.
- Elemental Binding – Binds the target, rooting and tormenting them with Fire, Frost, and Nature damage every second for 6 sec.
Razorfen Downs

This zone also appeared to receive some changes on the Alpha--unfortunately the Tuten'kash was bugged and we couldn't explore further.
- The path leading to Amnennar is covered in toxic gas that kills even level 90s quickly. This is to force you to clear the northern part of the dungeon first.
- New quest:
- is back in the instance (now in dragon form) and explains the changes to the instance:
  I too thought Amnennar the Coldbringer had been defeated; a grave mistake indeed. How clouded my judgment must have been to forget the true power of a lich lies in the phylactery.
  
  A powerful necromancer such as Amnennar can store his soul in a physical vessel, allowing himself to be reborn if the proper rituals can be completed.
  
  I should have searched across Kalimdor for Amnennar's Phylactery, but I was too prideful in our previous victory. Now, all of that work may come undone.
  
  I know Death Speaker Blackthorn's newest creation, Mushlump, spews forth plague from every pore and he has reenlisted Modresh Fire Eye's help in rallying the undead.
  
  Even the Death's Head has been helping Blackthorn. Their Aranomancers have created a monstrosity of fang and plague, a spider of enormous size named Aarux.
  
  If you could defeat these enemies and clear the plague blocking my path we could climb the Spiral of Thorns to defeat Death Speaker Blackthorn and recapture Amnennar's phylactery before it is too late.

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Comment by Ty52I'd like to say the dungeon reworks are nice, but that'd be lying. Seriously, I like the new stuff, nice graphics and all but with the ridiculously high leveling rate AND heirloom items no one would care nor notice those changes. All low level dungeons are completely worthless for anything other than questless speed boost.

Those dungeons indeed were in the most need for an overhaul, each was quite labyrinthian (though I'm seeing few structural changes so far, except the trench in the Kraul)pointplease don't make murlocs have blank eye designs, it's their derpComment by Adamsm
Those dungeons indeed were in the most need for an overhaul, each was quite labyrinthian (though I'm seeing few structural changes so far, except the trench in the Kraul)pointComment by naduun85I cringe whenever I see that Blizzard is revamping an old dungeon. After what they did to Scholomance and Scarlet Monastery, I would be happier if they just left the old content untouched.Comment by HeavenlyOdysseyYou know it's bloody hard work to try and make so many players happy-there are going to be some who just aren't going to like new content-that's completely fair.
But if it really bothers you so much then stop your @#$%^ing and just stop playing WoW.
Simple solution really!

Making content is hard work, and a lot of effort goes into trying to make players enjoy old dungeons again, especially the classic ones.
Of course I think there are tons of players who are eagerly waiting for the new expansion to hit, and yes it takes time to come out but I would rather have a company delay the game and release it when they are happy with the standards rather than releasing something (where people probably like yourself) will ^&*!@ about how they skipped on things just to get it out!Comment by KanariyaI really, really hope they do not absolutely ruin these dungeons like they did with Scholomance, Scarlet Monestary, Shadowfang Keep and The Deadmines.

Also sad at the lack of thorns covering the sky in Razorfen dungeons. Hope they put it back in. Gave it a very creepy vibe.Comment by TheDarenusWe need to know how Orgrimmar's throne room looks like now... and for the Blackfathom Deeps I think it's first clue about N'zoth the Old God. Maybe little prequel to next expansion after WoD?Comment by TagholbinnIt takes quite a lot more time to revamp a whole three zones (Eversong Woods, The Ghostlands, and the Isle of Quel'danas all make up the kingdom of Quel'thalas) than it takes to revamp a whole three dungeons. While I would love to see them revamp the areas added by TBC, like Quel'thalas and the Exodar, it would take a whole lot more time to do so than three dungeons.Comment by Gunstrong907Thanks Blizzard,

You have successfully wasted over 50 hours of programming to "revamp" dungeons absolutely no one cares about. How about you spend that 50 hours of programming on actually giving us an expac before the 1 year mark of SOO being current content. #disappointment #worstexpacduration #longerthanWOTLK #evenlongerthanCataComment by Nathan56798A spelling mistake? MY OH MY! Yes yes, I to "haev" forgotten the true power of a lich. ;PComment by Wombat62What I want to know is did that poor troll get his snakes backComment by AdamsmWe need to know how Orgrimmar's throne room looks like now... and for the Blackfathom Deeps I think it's first clue about N'zoth the Old God. Maybe little prequel to next expansion after WoD?Comment by Lupin3rdJust one thing...
WHY there are Amani/Zandalari trolls in Orgri?Comment by RankkorGreat coverage perc, but what about the most important change in orgrimmar? The throne room. Is that filth still sitting on the throne room? or is Vol'jin finally there? What about the warlock NPCs? during the siege of orgrimmar all of the warlock trainers were hanged in the cleft of shadows and set on fire (Auch) so who are the new warlock NPCs? Who are the replacements for the NPCs that sided with garrosh?

For example, Overlord Runthak the guy we turn Nefarian's head and Onyxia's Head. He replaced the mighty High Overlord Saurfang for that task during Wrath, when Saurfang was deployed to Northrend, and then in MoP he sided with garrosh and we kill him as a mini-boss in Siege of Orgrimmar. Who's his replacement?

I would love some extra coverage of orgrimmar changes. The snake selling troll has his snakes back? Please say yes =(

Those dungeons indeed were in the most need for an overhaul, each was quite labyrinthian (though I'm seeing few structural changes so far, except the trench in the Kraul)Interesting changes. I suppose these will have level 100 heroic versions. They revamp these old stupid dungeons but not Quel'thalas... =[[[[[[[[Comment by Power200Really hope we won't see those as lvl 100 instances they sucked back then and will most likely still suck after the revampComment by zotheghostOh! These all look so good! I can't wait to hear more!Comment by Adamsmwhile I mostly agree, gnomeregan is the one that most badly needs an overhaul as its the most labyrinthine of the whole bunch.Comment by MellroI like these changes. Despite what people say, it's GOOD that they update the story. These dungeons are part of the world which, as has been demonstrated several times before, is always changing; always evolving. They did good in updating and improving the story, bosses, and layout of the dungeons. Azeroth should not be frozen in time just for the nostalgia trips of veteran players.

While you could have it so that people can talk to an NPC or something to change the DG to the original (sort of like that bronze dragon outside of Theramore), the old dungeons and quests are literally 10 years old, and with that in mind, the changes and updates are good. It creates new lore, and makes it feel like our previous actions in the dungeon have actually left an impact in the world. The Cata and MoP revamps did just that, and i suspect since Blizzard has done alot of these, the WoD ones will be just as good, if not better.

Also, this did not, in any way, take away WoD development, Blizzard did this shortly after 5.4. downtime and it's not our place to tell Blizzard what is a waste of their time and what isn't. THEY are making the game, we just play it. People take Blizzard for children and assume they don't actually make game plans before doing things. Geez people, if Blizzard didn't have enough resources, they wouldn't have planned for this. Simple logic folks.

FYI, typo on Hunter Boretusk's description, and 5th line of Razorfen Downs description. Should be "trophies", not "trophys" and "Arachnomancer", not "Aranomancer" respectively.Comment by AdamsmI like this changes. Despite what people say, it's GOOD that they update the story, these dungeons are part of the world which as has been demonstrated several times before, is always changes; always evolving. They did good in updating and improving the story, bosses, and layout of the dungeons. They shouldn't be frozen in time just for some veteran players nostalgia trips.

Also, this did not in any way take away WoD development, Blizzard did this shortly after 5.4. downtime andit'd not our place to tell Blizzard what is a waste of their time and what isn't. THEY are making the game, we just play it. If they didn't have enough resources then they wouldn't have planned this out. Simple logic.Comment by BalgairI'm in two minds, on one hand, I appreciate the updating of the story, on the other, I liked the original dungeons and will miss them (RFK in particular was a staple part of my levelling in the old days). What I'd love to see is a bronze dragon NPC in Caverns of Time, who will teleport you to the original versions of all the changed dungeons - just as they were originally, no changes. Can't imagine that'd be a huge task developmentally, as the old files must still be around somewhere, and being instanced, it won't affect the outside world at all. That'd make everyone happy!Comment by RPGRaiderAre the Kor'kron out of the Undercity to?

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