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New Bosstiary for Icecrown Online

Sup my fellow lore-nerds. Blizzard went ahead and added in a little character bio section like they have in the past for some of the bosses you’ll encounter in the Icecrown dungeons coming up in Patch 3.3.

We saw this heavily used when Ulduar first came out which was kind of nice because few people knew jack shit about the instance or it’s many encounters.

Anyway here’s the link, go check it out if you’d like some more fodder for that fan-fiction you’re writing. So far it’s just the three 5-man dungeons but I’m pretty damn sure we’ll see the raid put in soon after I post this.

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PC load letter? WTF DOES THAT MEAN!? (Instance problems…)

Is this a problem on high-population servers? I can’t say I have ever run into this error. I mean yeah entering an instance too many times results in a lockout (like when they first introduced the Headless Horseman boss) and occasionally I’ve had the problem where it wouldn’t allow me to enter the instance because “Additional blah blah” I really wasn’t paying attention; bottom line, the problem kind of goes away after a few seconds but I can see how this has the potential to grow into a massive issue.

The limit on the number of instances has been around for awhile now. We feel this was needed to preserve the game play for those already in the instances as it would eventually deteriorate when too many instances were up.

That said, we do not feel feel this is a permanent fix and have been working on a more long term solution for quite awhile now.

There are no specifics I can provide at this time, but I can assure you we knew about this issue quite awhile ago when we had to start limiting the number of instances. This was never meant to be something we would put in and just ignore until players complained about it enough. I can assure you we are actively in the process of a more long term solution but these take a lot of time to plan out and implement so it won’t be done overnight.

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