A Future for Alcaz Island?
I was poking at the Patch 4.2 game files during the week end and it looks like Blizzard has a couple of plans for Alcaz Island, a new map "Scenario, Alcaz Island" seems to be in the game files.

Map.dbc


WorldSafeLocs.dbc

It looks like the zone will be instanced at some point, and available as a "Scenario". I couldn't find anything else on "scenario" in the game files but it's very unusual to have an additional information such as this one in the name of the Map. The only exception is "Transport:" maps and we could potentially be looking at a new type of instance here.

The "Expansion" field of the Map.dbc is set to "3" and seems to point to Cataclysm content but there's also the slight possibility that it's early data from the next expansion that got mislabeled.


Firelands / Molten Front Daily Quests - Progression Breakdown
A few days ago, Spl4sh3r posted a fairly useful list on the forums to try to explain how much time it will take you to unlock the different phases of the Firelands / Molten Front Daily Quests.

Phases Description
Phase 1 - Beginning
Phase 2 - Molten Front
Phase 3 - Choose between Druids of the Talon and Shadow Wardens
Phase 4 - Choosing the other option from Phase 3
Phase 5 - Choosing "Additional Armaments" (See Firelands Daily Quests Rewards)
Phase 6 - Choosing "Filling the Moonwell" (See Firelands Daily Quests Rewards)

Time to unlock the Flameward Hippogryph Mount - 30 Days

Amount of Marks Earned Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5 Phase 6
One time Quests 16 x 15 x 5 x 5 x 4 x 15 x
Beginning Daily Quests 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 x
Molten Front Daily Quests N/A 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x
Faction 1 Daily Quests N/A N/A 9 x 9* x 9* x 9* x
Faction 2 Daily Quests N/A N/A N/A 9* x 9* x 9* x
Armaments Daily Quests N/A N/A N/A 5 x 4 x 4 x
Total Marks Needed 20 x 150 x 150 x 125 x 125 x 125 x
Time to Complete 1 Day 10 Days 7 Days 7 Days 5 Days 5 Days
(*) You can only complete quests from the Phase 3 or Phase 4 on a given day, not both phases, resulting in a total of 9 Marks for that day.


Reminder - RaidComp up to date for Patch 4.2!
There wasn't any major change to raiding mechanics in 4.2, which means that RaidComp still works for Patch 4.2! Check it out if you're wondering how to optimize your raid composition!



Firelands Raid Trash - Who wants to be a millionaire?
This video from Mione shows why Blizzard had to hotfix the trash of the Firelands raid instance earlier this week.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Scenario: Alcaz Island, Firelands Dailies Progression, Raidcomp, Firelands Raid Solo started by Boubouille View original post
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  1. Tilie's Avatar
    I remember somthing from last Blizzcon during WoW Q+A. Someone asked about the Kul'tiras and why they aren't in the game. I can't be certain but either Chris Metzen or somebody at the Panel said that they are "saving" the Kul'tiras for future stories or something like that. Maybe there is some lore around Alcaz Island and them that they are creating. It has me excited! I always loved the nostalgia of Alcaz Island and Kul'tiras
  1. mmoc9a48be24dc's Avatar
    Am i the only one who instantly thinks this might be a shifting sands 2.0 (aka AQ) thing, like a huge quest telling us about Cho'gal and his attempt at resurrecting C'thun?
  1. mmocedbf46d113's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Tilie View Post
    I remember somthing from last Blizzcon during WoW Q+A. Someone asked about the Kul'tiras and why they aren't in the game. I can't be certain but either Chris Metzen or somebody at the Panel said that they are "saving" the Kul'tiras for future stories or something like that. Maybe there is some lore around Alcaz Island and them that they are creating. It has me excited! I always loved the nostalgia of Alcaz Island and Kul'tiras
    Yeah they said they wanted to deal with it in the future, but didn't specify, obviously.
  1. mmoc3b4a01e7e2's Avatar
    Alcaz Island .... hmm made me think where it was, but it's the island near Dustwallow Marsh (on the map: top right corner) just for the ones who don't know, also i don't see a connection between cata and that island..
  1. bobo333's Avatar
    scenario. another bloody cutscene. boo
  1. Dakho's Avatar
    Alcaz Island... if we get Abyssal Maw next patch, I could see them Alcaz Isle being a dungeon. Maybe the Naga's staging point for a land invasion. I don't know though, here's hoping it's something entirely new (but it almost definitely won't be, knowing Blizzard).
  1. pateuvasiliu's Avatar
    Alcaz Island was inhabited by Naga and Black Dragons so it makes sense for it to be featured in this expansion. I am very excited of the potential revival of this zone.
  1. Arrowstormen's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Horizon4 View Post
    Who knew that all i had to do was TAKE A CUP OF FLOWER AND ADD IT TO THE MIX.
    Pinkie Pie did!
  1. Bombkirby's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dakho View Post
    Alcaz Island... if we get Abyssal Maw next patch, I could see them Alcaz Isle being a dungeon. Maybe the Naga's staging point for a land invasion. I don't know though, here's hoping it's something entirely new (but it almost definitely won't be, knowing Blizzard).
    Wow a lot of you guys are really mean to Blizz for no reason. : / Even going so far as to blaming them for your own boredom cause by yourselves.
  1. Rhywolver's Avatar
    Wasn't there a 'Tied-to-a-X-old-model-Varian'? I believe I saw that on Wowhead some weeks ago, and there was speculation about a COT: Varianstuffwhatever there.
  1. Black Rider's Avatar
    Well well well!Quite interesting about Alcaz Island!It's a cool place!We can have a new type of BG there
  1. Contego's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Algore View Post
    Whatever Alcaz Island might be, a tip would be to not overestimate it yet . Who knows, it might just be some minor thing.

    But I do hope it is something...new.

    My prediction is that; Alcaz Island is what Boub said, something from the next expansion - Hopefully.
    Alcaz island has been in the game forever. It just never had any real purpose, other than being the place where stormwind's king (Wrynn?) was being held captured.
  1. Sting's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Contego View Post
    Alcaz island has been in the game forever. It just never had any real purpose, other than being the place where stormwind's king (Wrynn?) was being held captured.
    Not entirely true, you visited it once in the dungeon tier 0,5 questline and once more for Dr Weavil. It also still has nagas who drop some blacksmithing plans, but they're pretty useless.
  1. Shrouded's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Contego View Post
    Alcaz island has been in the game forever. It just never had any real purpose, other than being the place where stormwind's king (Wrynn?) was being held captured.
    It did have purpose, for several quests. Some based out of Theramore, others involved with the AQ opening questline.
  1. Exoticazz's Avatar
    What i don't understand is why they make trashloot boe, if they made it bop who would care how much they drop, and make them more for everybody instead of for a few, i mean hunters get 3 items from trash, rogues none, plate carriers can get 5 including offspec, casters can choose 1 of 2 weapons, it seems a pretty strange way of deviding items. First you get bwd with so few trash that we still not have seen any wand drop in there, and now people complaint about to many trashdrops. Some might think items should not be obtained from trash, but otherwise do not complaint of droprates. Everyone can see they got it from trashruns instead of raiding. Just don't make it boe so people think they need to squeeze others out of 60k gold, which is about 3000 daily's...

    Imo they should lower goldcap and use max amounts on ah, because prices are going crazy, and everywhere ninja's are being born because of the amount of gold they can make, and goldsellers are laughing in their hands. Would be nice if noone could have more than 5k gold and people would start share stuff again instead of trying to become rich on the back of others, but that's just me. Make craftables easier to obtain and for less mats, but itemlevel always like 5 levels lower than boss drops so those still keep their value etc. I don't mind a grind for a special item , i did griond 2 years for thunderfury myself, but the prices on ah are just getting insane, and imo that should be stopped instead of people who are happy they got an epic after spending an evening in firelands. If some classes can solo stuff , than you should better look into those classes and see what you did wrong that they can solo a big pile of highlevel creatures.
  1. Algore's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Contego View Post
    Alcaz island has been in the game forever. It just never had any real purpose, other than being the place where stormwind's king (Wrynn?) was being held captured.
    I'm aware of that, I was refering to the scenario "thing".
  1. nnelson54's Avatar
    Why does everyone who has ever made a WoW video hate good music? It's like they go out of their way to find the worst possible song to put to their video.

    ---------- Post added 2011-07-03 at 09:48 PM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by Contego View Post
    Alcaz island has been in the game forever. It just never had any real purpose, other than being the place where stormwind's king (Wrynn?) was being held captured.
    Alcaz Island has been in the game forever and there were multiple quests that sent you there in Vanilla, but a dungeon labeled as Alcaz Island has only been in the game files since 4.1 and this Scenario thing is new with 4.2.

    Sometimes I wonder if people even read what's going on.
  1. Granyala's Avatar
    Wow, whoever thought that music was ok deserves to be stabbed in the face with a flaming, rusty spork.
    This 100.000 times.
  1. Rashataur2's Avatar
    Alcaz Island has been in the game forever and there were multiple quests that sent you there in Vanilla, but a dungeon labeled as Alcaz Island has only been in the game files since 4.1 and this Scenario thing is new with 4.2.
    If Dr. Weavil isn't there, I'll be terribly sad! Baaaad memories of getting the Scepter of the Shifting Sands...lol!
  1. Pumps's Avatar
    What is the difference between Druids of the Talon and Shadow Wardens??

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