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Dragon Soul Difficulty Change

by Blizzard Entertainment 21 Mar 2012 16:00 GMT
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Dragon Soul Difficulty Change

During the scheduled server maintenance on the week of March 26, the “Power of the Aspects” spell will grow more powerful, reducing the health and damage dealt of all enemies in the Dragon Soul raid by 15%. This spell will grow progressively stronger over time to reduce the difficulty and make the encounters more accessible. The spell will affect both normal and Heroic difficulties, but it will not affect the Raid Finder difficulty.

Don’t need the help of the Dragon Aspects? The spell can be disabled by talking to Lord Afrasastrasz at the beginning of Dragon Soul.

We hope you continue to enjoy Dragon Soul, and that these changes encourage you to attempt a higher difficulty, or just keep pushing to down that next boss.

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Sanctuáry
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Sanctuáry
28/04/2012
might aswell just give the gear for free
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Bodyslam
Stormscale
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Bodyslam
21/04/2012
Go go blizzzard! more more nerfs!
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Rubellite
Skullcrusher
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Rubellite
15/04/2012
If you complain about it being too easy just take off the buff at the start at the raid
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Pandorized
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Pandorized
15/04/2012
next nerf???
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Abduluaebob
Wildhammer
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Abduluaebob
08/04/2012
LOL
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Fóxxie
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Fóxxie
04/04/2012
People who complain about how easy it is normal. then just do heroic? - Yes it is also being nerfed but yes it will provide more of a challenge (( and better gear )) than normals. Also.... stop complaining if you haven't downed DW on normal at LEAST.. sheesh.
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Duamle
Shattered Halls
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Duamle
04/04/2012
And now u have downed 3 bosses on HC, 1 afther the nerf :)
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Arianex
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Arianex
03/04/2012
fun XD and my hunter can get gear TY BLIZZ
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Araron
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Araron
02/04/2012
I like it.Simply allows people to beat the raid easier,and if you dont want it,disable it.
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Fluidz
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Fluidz
02/04/2012
Lmao
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Kousetsu
Ragnaros
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Kousetsu
02/04/2012
hahahaha
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Rubellite
Skullcrusher
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Rubellite
02/04/2012
LOL yesterday when i played DS the Elementium bolt that came from madness of deathwing turned into a female pandaren... true story
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Ricoshet
Draenor
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Ricoshet
02/04/2012
Finally DS can be a challenge :D
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Teslacannon
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Teslacannon
01/04/2012
My guild got 4/8 (or was it 6/8) on the day DS was released. And now we can blitz 10 man normal in just over an hour and a half.. with no wipes or deaths. :/
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Eldranor
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Eldranor
31/03/2012
Its piss annoying in pugs when someone decides to disable it
We couldnt re-enable it
VERY annoying
We still got up to the normal point though, so meh.
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Meeshh
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Meeshh
31/03/2012
Isn't DS painfully easy as it is?
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Aldarìs
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Aldarìs
31/03/2012
It is one of the worst ideas.
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Segoki
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Segoki
31/03/2012
hi
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Hellíos
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Hellíos
30/03/2012
enjoy the nerf for quicker farming, jesus. if someone happens it happens and QQ or moaning wont change blizzards opinion. there is so much hate going around but why dont you just turn off the buff then ?, people below are moaning about nerf but when it comes to DS they use the buff xD
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Iwogalot
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Iwogalot
30/03/2012
mmmmm WHY NERF JUST GIVE US THE LOOT SAVE URSELF SOME TIME!!
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Rommeth
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Rommeth
29/03/2012
Although nerfing shouldn't take place at all, none, no nerf what-so-ever. This is a more appropriate time to nerf content, at the end of or approaching an expacs shelf life...imo i lvl 359 & 378 should only just start getting nerfed now too...
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Trihealer
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Trihealer
29/03/2012
So....10 DKs vs Dragon Soul next week? :p
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Exarineth
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Exarineth
29/03/2012
Wohoooo, faster farm!
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Boxerake
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Boxerake
28/03/2012
@Pessimism, i'm not agree with nerfs, because some players worked hard to get thos HCs modes.And blizz comes and sais : you are worked for nothings !@#$%....we dont give a ^-*! on you...same thing in every expansion ,same @#$% are sold to us "help the players to progress"....why you didnt think of that at the begining of every expansion?
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Dieselion
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Dieselion
29/03/2012
@Boxerake: Your first language isnt english i assume?
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Bobzon
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Bobzon
29/03/2012
@Boxerake: you complain over the HC modes nerfs? And you havent killed a single hc boss? GG
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Fincherr
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Fincherr
30/03/2012
@Boxerake:
Yes Some Srvers have a Guild or Two who has cleared Dragon Soul HC, but the Majority of Players still hasn't even seen the second Heroic Boss of Dragon Soul.
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Jaxyrl
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Jaxyrl
01/04/2012
@Bobzon: what makes you think that this is his one character? he could have up to 49 others. Epic fail muppet!
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Ophei
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Ophei
03/04/2012
@Boxerake: You're baaaaad. So why do you refer to us?
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Pessimism
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Pessimism
28/03/2012
While i agree with the nerfs to help the lesser players progress, and being able to witness and defeat the end game content, i cant help but wish Blizz would reward the hardcore players aswell - yes they gave the option to cancel the nerf by speaking with an NPC. But there is no incentive to do so, if a raid does infact cancel the nerf, and down every boss on heroic, nobody would know if it was with or without the nerf. Its a shame there isn't a separate achievement, or maybe a signature on the loot to not only feel the satisfaction but to prove you have done it without the help of a huge nerf.
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Burgenpils
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Burgenpils
30/03/2012
I agree with you completly we where stuck on hc warmaster for a while and was slowing getting closer and closer to killing him but last night with the 15% nerf we got him down easily there just wasn't a point anymore not using the nerf
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Puresilverr
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Puresilverr
11/05/2012
@Pessimism: This is why in-game screenshots exists. If people refuses to believe that a raid has done it without the buffs, then that is their problem, it can't be Blizzard's problem that people of this age has no belief in others till evidence is shown. Besides, the heroic modes still isn't exactly faceroll.

They don't need signature or achievements to prove their skills, it's already enough with the immature "I AM BETTER THAN YOU ALL FULL HC GEAR LOLOLOL NOOB" bullbuckets that fill my server's trade channel.

Satisfaction should be to know yourself you've done it really.
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Seralian
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Seralian
28/03/2012
if you dont like this nerf buff just talk to Lord Afrasastrasz and i think that people who want progress to their raid, this buff is more than welcome.
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Archeuz
Outland
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Archeuz
28/03/2012
To all those people who really dont understand. They wanna make the game for everyone, Not all can sit for hours and play. Kinda funny that the most people who qq about nerfs dont even got morchok HC down, i mean?? Anyway, like 60-70 % off the people who play wow is under 13 years old, So ofcourse are the making the game more easy for kids, since so many off the WoW players are actually kids.
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Thanius
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Thanius
29/03/2012
@Archaus: And where are you getting this magical 60-70% figure from? You do know that over 75% of statistics are made up.
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Leifbloom
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Leifbloom
30/03/2012
@Thanius: I see what u did there :>
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Voima
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Voima
02/04/2012
@Archaus: 60-70% haha. You done some calculation yourself ?
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Sarína
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Sarína
02/04/2012
@Voima: Omfg who cares about the %. He just wanna make a point. There are many kids that plays this game to. And DS is to hard for them so thats why blizz nerf. WoW is a game for every1. And you can remove that buff so it becomes harder. So stop whine about it...
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Puresilverr
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Puresilverr
11/05/2012
@Archaus: I agree completely in what you say, and i can't understand this whine about difficulty either. Turn buff off, take screenshot, show you've done it = win. Simple.

But please, don't use percentage counts that is completely wrong, that won't work.
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Zeinax
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Zeinax
28/03/2012
Tbh U should be able 2 choose how hard u want it and u should be able 2 add/take buffs on last boss from other bosses and u get achi if u don't use certain buffs
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