Instanced Raids Unveiled! (06/20/2011)

[Kensaki]

As has been previously announced, 1.18 will usher in new battle content in the form of instanced raid areas—forsaken domains wherein parties attempt to cut a path through hoards of fell foes.
The Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak
Named for the thousand-mawed beast of Padjali legend—and in turn lending its dreaded moniker to a bygone warden of exceptional infamy—the endless cells of this notorious dungeon once held such heinous criminals as poachers and arsonists. Deemed barbaric and unworthy of Gridanians, Toto-Rak was abandoned and sealed three decades ago, its labyrinthine network of tunnels and shafts now given over to feral beasts.


The Dzemael Darkhold
Formerly an expansive system of natural caverns, the Darkhold was established when Count Dzemael of Ishgard recognized its potential as a subterranean fortress in the war against dragonkind. Work has since been ongoing to prime its vaulted chambers and rocky passageways for military purposes. Recently, however, word has arrived by way of leaked intel that troops of foreign origin have seized occupation of the Darkhold for an as-yet unknown end.

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[Arximiro]

Tight, re-installing. o.-

[Zettofaia]

I don't see any boss pictures in there... here's to hoping it's not a reskinned mob, lol.;

[Kaiyoko]

Lack of info, disappoint, etc. etc.

Also, incoming linear path of re-skined mobs. No bosses : D

[Kensaki]

Instances with drops where stuff lands in a random loot pool. I hope you guys have people you trust to do this with.

[Hyan]

No mention of randomization, otherwise sounds good. Please randomize.

[sceptre]

the pic and info isnt a lot to go off and the time limit concerns me this seems like a easy run threw and not challenging.

especially if it will have a CD which im sure it will maybe like Leve cd.

[Hyan]

Kinda like how Nyzul and Salvage are "easy", I hope.

[Hiroishime]

no mention of re-enter time or maybe spam-able

also yay new scepter for THMs

[Foxer]

So a LV25, 4 man dungeon, and LV45, 8 man dungeon with a 60 minute time limit. Why do these not sound like real dungeons? Here's hoping it's not a 1hr EXP session, because those dungeons look rather... normal.

Edit: What's the party/alliance limit at now BTW?

[Arximiro]

So a LV25, 4 man dungeon, and LV45, 8 man dungeon with a 60 minute time limit. Why do these not sound like real dungeons? Here's hoping it's not a 1hr EXP session, because those dungeons look rather... normal.

Edit: What's the party/alliance limit at now BTW?

I'm pretty sure the max for a party is 8 now and there aren't alliances. I'm quite sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong.

[Egon]

Light party = 4
Full party = 8

[vadre]

No idea how this is going to play out, hope they draw on their experiences from FFXI as others have said. Sorta disheartening that it's taken them so long to create 2 dungeons out of pre-existing ingame caves, but hopefully that's because of the fact they're doing so much work on their server technology and developing the instancing tech further.

[Gokulo]

Pretty meh, but it's not like it's the main thing I'm anticipating.

[Kurokikaze]

Sounds like disappointment incoming.

Reskinned zones (sorry but that looks like Tam-tara which also looks like Mun-tuy) and mobs. No mention of bosses. 60 minute time limit.

You know what... This sounds a lot like Dynamis.

Where the fuck is the raid we were promised?

[Meko]

I'm hopeful with this but having a time limit..makes it feel like dynamis. Maybe there is one end boss that has a loot table and other (trash) mobs that can drop loot. Wait a tick, that's kind of like dynamis but in any event, it's new content. It could be something they can build on.

[Toth]

They look like fun but like everything in 14, we'll see how it works lol

How long do raids in WoW last?

[Meko]

In WoW, there is no set time limit outside of the week long lockout upon killing a boss or going into an already 'active' raid.

EDIT: Not sure if I answered your "how long do they last" question correctly. They typically can last from 2 hours to whenever depending on the group and AFK's etc.

[Draylo]

At least they are adding something new.

[Ropeydonkey]

The post shouldn't be in any way 'disappointing' - looks exactly like I imagined it would. Surely nobody was expecting anything omgwtf new and outrageous at this stage... they're only putting this in to stop people crying MOAR CONTENT while they fix the stuff that really matters. As always, lets see how it works out, but its a start and should tide people over while they fix the rest of the underlying system before going all-out on new content

I'd love to know how many devs are working on this game, something doesn't add up. If they keep going at the rate they are there must be a core team of... 20-30 devs (of the type that matter) which for a game of this size and a company this big is just far too small.