So, back in the PTR. Found a few more things and added them to my previous post.
\nAnyway, I decided to try soloing Culling of Strat regular (did Heroic by mistake) to get a feel for the new setup.<\/p>\n
I’m flying to the Caverns of Time. The second I move into Thousand Needles, I get a surprised yet unwelcome present; a PvP flag. I check my Player vs Player info. Still set to Disable. I look down. Not flying over a Horde City\/Town. So what the FUCK is going on?! I thought.
\nSo I do my best to ignore it, staying in the air, knowing Horde can’t shoot at me up here.
\nI head into the Caverns of Time. No Horde. Manage to get into the Culling of Strat portal no problem, and the flag is gone.<\/p>\n
Doing the run, wow. Lynx Bash makes my pet kick ass! He manages to stop several enemies coming after me, pulling the aggro off me and onto him. And using my gun as a shotgun is cool. I actually do a bit more DPS than I would melee.
\nSo with the dungeon run completed, I head out, not knowing I’m PvP flagged again. Getting ready to leave when I see a Horde on a War Mammoth. This immediately hits me as I’m in serious trouble.
\nSo I quickly pop Aspect of the Cheetah and run, with him staring at me, back to the portal. The guy begins to approach me, then I get the idea (which I should had done in the first place) to go Dragon and fly away. And I did as he’s running down the hall towards me, avoiding humiliation (and death) by his hand.<\/p>\n
As I left the scene, I wanted to ask… WHY. WHY is this happening. So I did on the PTR Discussion section of the forum. I knew what I would get myself into by doing that (the immature replies). But I got one that did help shed some light on what was going on. It’s the cross-server zoning thing. Except this is not<\/strong> how it’s going to work when the patch goes live this Tuesday. Therefore, it makes sense why I went PvP when I should not. Also, the Blizzard rep explained that even when the patch goes live, it’s going to be a few weeks ’till all servers get the cross-realm zoning treatment (if this leads to longer server maintenance times, I have no idea). And when it happens for mine, Alexstrasza will be pared with other PvE (or “Normal”) servers. So I won’t have to worry about this ever again.<\/p>\n You can read more about this feature here<\/a>, if you wish.<\/p>\n I also solo’d a few more dungeons. The two “new” dungeons of the Pre-MoP patch; SM and Scholo. They’ve both been redesigned, and have new bosses. There’s also a brand new one that combines SM Armory and SM Library into one dungeon, named “Scarlet Halls”. The “new” SM combines SM Graveyard and SM Cath into one dungeon. I haven’t tried Scarlet Halls yet. Doing SM and Scholo was hilarious. Most of the time, the boss drops dead the second my pet gets ahold of them. I’ve became that powerful. \ud83d\ude42 I don’t even give them a chance to attack! In SM, monks actually preform new Monk abilities in MoP. I can see them being problematic for low levels. But here I see a group of three sitting peacefully by the fountain edge. One Multi-Shot drops them, in perfect sync. Like they never had time to turn around. I just busted out laughing there.<\/p>\n The final boss fight hasn’t changed since the original. You still have to clear out everything<\/em> before you engage the boss. But in one corner, there’s a pile of dead bodies. If they actually managed to preserve them since I owned SM years ago @ Level 70, is beyond me. If that wasn’t bad enough, we also had to get out of that dungeon ASAP. Blizzard was planning to “blow up” the instance with me inside of it (almost as if Blizzard said “This is your final solo of our low level dungeons, Benie! Die now!!”)! AKA, a [SERVER] Restart. But there was a new “[SERVER] Instance restart” message that concerned me greatly. Seriously, though, it would had just kicked me out of the dungeon and resetted it to let me run it again. And that’s where I met Lilian Voss, the same Undead female Death Knight NPC I met in Scholo. She mentions how she’s going to Scholo. So apparently there’s a Horde quest line somewhere around here. Why she pops up in Scholo, when WPL is in Alliance territory, I dunno.<\/p>\n So with time quickly ticking down, I run at all due speed towards the exit, praying a Horde group isn’t there waiting for me. When exiting, I pick up no Horde on radar. Then see a new “[SERVER] Cross realm restart” message. Then when finally outside, I go Dragon and fly away from SM, with only two minutes to spare. Then I land in Chillwind Point and log out as the server shuts down. But now, I pretty much have nothing else that can’t wait ’till the patch goes live this Tuesday. I do want to try the new Scarlet Halls dungeon, but due to the fact of the PvP thing, it can wait. If the server didn’t go down that night (for god knows why Blizzard brought them down for, and for five minutes), I would had done it there.<\/p>\n I’m going to make another blog post in my “PTR Closing”, of what else I’ve noticed that’s changed with the incoming patch, the day after tomorrow (Tuesday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, back in the PTR. Found a few more things and added them to my previous post. Anyway, I decided to try soloing Culling of Strat regular (did Heroic by mistake) to get a feel for the new setup. I’m … Continue reading
\nIt’s due to the fact, only two servers are setup to this thing. Unfortunately, the one I go to is one of those servers. And it’s linked to a PvP server.<\/p>\n
\nI actually think this is a good idea to combine two dungeons into one. Makes it less confusing.<\/p>\n
\nAs for Scholo, I actually DIED on the first boss! Protip, attack from the stairs, not the back room. Her ice wave will one-hit kill you. Blizzard may need to nerf that.
\nAnd the last boss. Lol. “Class is in session!” *pet bites boss* “Class… dismissed!”. Too funny.
\nOh, not to mention that they kept Scholo as intact as they could from the original (unlike when they dumbed down Sunken Temple in Cata), with a few rooms being changed here and there. But at the final boss, they kept the mini-boss rooms intact.<\/p>\n
\nWhitemane has a new trick under her sleeve, though. Before dying, she attempts to raise everyone inside the room back to life to kill you. That seems really nasty for low levels. The only way is to interrupt her resurrection. I don’t know how in the fuck I managed to drop her, when every shot I did bounced off of her.<\/p>\n
\nSo I’m running out, and then forget the quest I’m supposed to do, which is ram these two magical swords into the corpse of Whitemane so she doesn’t come back to life. New quest, by the way.<\/p>\n
\nThat was pretty intense.<\/p>\n