Spooncraft

We already know that Magtheridon is one of the more completely frustrating fights in the game right now. Blizzard nerfed the encounter once and is doing so again in the coming Patch 2.4 which is a good thing really. Blizzard has learned their lesson with so few people in the community experiencing end game raiding content before Burning Crusade and then even less if any of the pre-BC dungeons after release.

The current 2.4 patch notes are mentioning that Magtheridon’s encounter received some changes, but they omitted Mag is being turned into a TBC Onyxia because Blizzard included some goodies in his loot table such as a 20 slot epic bag (BoP, but not unique, so you can get several of them) and a green bag with 3 Black Temple quality gems in it, not to mention Badges of Justice and up to 25 gold per player on a single kill.

In other words Blizzard is making Mag more desirable as a target. In his current state, there really is no reason to fight the boss other than to say you did it or to complete the quest. His loot table is really small and limited, and the amount of work put into the fight for the rewards compared to all the new stuff Blizzard has released really doesn’t make sense.  Badges, more gold, another 20 slot bag, gems, and his original loot seem to make sense as rewards for the sheer stupidity of that fight.