Your vote for a new CoT instance/raid

[formy]

i'd say 25man raid COT:northend

we are helping the arthas and he's human army to hunt down mal'ganis and claiming the frostmourne make it long raid but not that long with tons of endless adds but lots of bosses:

it start by landing in northend

we help arthas to destroy the ships
and we meet the dwarfs

then there's a fight where arthas ask us to defend the base while he go find the frostmourne with the dwarfs then he come back alone ofc :P

and it end up 25ppl arthas and the human fighting mal'ganis in hes base and hes army lots of undead adds to aid him and you need like 4-5 tanks to tank adds and
kiting and brains or whatever somthing like vashj fight ;p

[Knight Gil]

CoT: Opening of Ahn'Qiraj.

[Spl4sh3r]

CoT: Opening of Ahn'Qiraj.

This

And CoT: The Last Guardian Medivh (Sargeras)

[Merander]

CoT: Closing of the Stormwind Instance Portal

Help the people of Stormwind to Close the Portal with a Gate 1 Boss A Crazed Guy called "WoWTard" Who yells: DONT CLZE DAT PORTAL ITS FULL OF EPICS AND PLAYERS HOUZING!!11

[Deleted]

Power of the Frostmourne
You with 4 other characters are turned into Undead. You are in Northrend, around the landing of southern Dragonblight. You make your way with some undead forces and dwarves with Arthas and Muradin. On your path you encounter many scourge and burning legion forces. They you fight an abomination as the first boss. You hold them off for now and make a stop at the frostmourne, when Arthas touches it, a small cinematic comes forth, like the one in wc3. After, you fight 4 dwarves and after killing Arthas does the whole stab Muradin thing. An infinite dragonflight member is a few steps away and you have to kill him. His objective was to get the frostmourne before Arthas and some unknown leader was going to call in more forces if related to Burning Legion... some unexplained reason. After killing him you get phat loots. The last boss is Malganis and his forces. They come for you in your enclosed area but you take over the waves and kill Mal'ganis.

But...but...but...

Nevermind, I doubt you see what is wrong with this

[Smashalot]

One that 5 scrubs in greys can't do with they eyes closed would be awesome.

[Gracin]

I want to see more CoT instances, but within it, I would like to see a rip in the time itself. Causing you and your party to assist your future selves in the defeating of "BadGuyTBNamedL8r". Similar to the wyrmrest quests from Chromie. How at first you are helped by you future self and then later you return to help your past self. I dunno I just like the idea of two time lines running together.

[RestoRiven]

I like the whole CoT idea of revisiting.

But I'm beginning to hate the whole portal dragons everywhere thing. Just getting old. I was interested in this idea, was going to post an idea, then the OP said

Then we make our way.......fight that infinite guy

BORING!

New Twist to make "revisiting" more cool: Have Brann Bronzebeard find a time machine in ulduar. No more infinite dragons, just helping our ancestors.

[Raistlin Majare]

War of the Ancients:
How about the war of the ancients as a raid isntance,where the infintes are trying to make sure the portal gets opened for the Burning Legion or something like that. Idd say it all starts with you fighting your way towards the Well of eternity, perhaps a random boss along the way. Then at the temple you fight Azshara alongside Tyrande. After taht you must kill some of the magicians opening the portal within a set amount of time. Ater this you take to the sky to protect Broxigar from Infinite Dragonflight that are trying to prevent him from making it through the portal where he hold of the Burning Legion. After that you are too protect Illidan from waves of infinite dragonflight to make sure he can channel his counterspell. Perhaps make the last part so that you also have to send some players through the portal to help Broxigar hold of the demons.

Oh and i think the infinite dragonflight is one of the most interesting new parts of wow as we dont know what there goal is or who their leader is.

[Bearnaked]

But...but...but...

Nevermind, I doubt you see what is wrong with this

Whats wrong? Correct me please, its been 3 years since I played wc3 and playing as undead has already been cleared for me.



I too think fighting infinite dragonflight is annoying and boring, but so far its the only reason we have need to travel back in time because "some flight and some unknown leader" is trying to change the timeline by making themselves gain from it or otherwise.

[Deleted]

CoT: The Razing of Dalaran would be kinda cool.

[Admuntour]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet.

Caverns of Time: The War of the Ancients
This would be a raid, your objective would be to secure the time line by battling some agents of the infinite dragonflight as well as participating in some of the most world shaping battles ever to have occured.

1st You would witness the invasion as the legion steps foot into the world and starts to ravage the continent, somewhere around here you and your raid could be dropped of, your first objective is to help the Kaldorei fight back the demons until Malfurion takes up arms against them.

2nd You would help Illidan kill the demon Azzinoth, and thus help Illidan secure his trademark warglaives, this would probably be a favorite with the lore junkies.

3rd You would need to help Malfurion get to Hyjal and secure the help of Cenarius, at this point a boss from the Infinite Dragonflight could pop up to prevent you from doing this, and you have to fight him.

4th All out battle ensues and the 5 dragonflights, the animal gods and Malfurion join the fight against the burning legion.

5th You would have a battle against Archimonde, the first phase would be the players alone vs Archi, you need to survive for a bit till Malorne arrives, phase 2 is when Malorne enters the fight, his presence adds some interesting twists, he brings buffs to the players and Archi also gains some new abilities, P3 is after Malorne is slain and Malfurion joins the fight and almost destroyes Archi. Again this would probably be a favorite with lore junkies, and old TBCers as we get the chance to meet our favorite demon lord.

6th Would come the corruption of Neltharion, at this critical stage in the fight the players find out for sure and beyond the shadow of a doubt how the mighty Earthwarder is corrupted and becomes the nefarious Deathwing, at some point another agent of the Infinites arrives and tries to spoil it, you have to defeat him and allow Deathwing to be corrupted.

7th A confrontation between Malfurion and Azshara. This would be a 5 stage grand fight, to spice this up a bit, you need to complete it in a certain amount of time, say 15 minutes, otherwise Sargeras will enter Azeroth trough the Well of Eternity and its all over.

P1 would be the direct assault, the raid along with Malfurion, Tyrande and their war party rushes into the palace, Azshara thanks to Illidan's betraying, already knows of the assault and has prepared well. P1 is basically a gauntlet you fight to get to the queen.
P2 Azshara so far has been focused more on the ritual, when the raid bursts in to her chambers she quickly kills of the rest of the war party, leaving the raid only with Malfurion and Tyrande left. In this phase you need to help Malfurion, Tyrande and Shandris Feathermoon fight of Azshara and unbalance the summoning ritual.
This will work a bit like the Lady Vashj fight, Azshara has a magic shield up and she, from time to time, bombards the raid, she is still fairly focused on trying to maintain the spell and sends more of her Highborn to help, which have been transformed into Satyrs.
The raid must kill the Satyrs and survive the spell onslaught, everyone will have specific roles here, the objective is to survive and kill the magic barrier the queen has up.
P3 The shield is finally down, Azshara now desperate to keep the spell in focus sends Xavius to enter the fight, Xavius acts like a mini boss for this fight with his own set of abilities. In the lore Shandris shot a magic arrow into Xavius, and Malfurion used this arrow to grow a tree that absorbed his body, this is how he died, this part of the fight should again be tactical. The raid DPSes Xavius, while Shandris shoots arrows into him, around the fight zone there will be jars or vials of magic water that the raid needs to pick up and trow on to Xavius, this water will weaken him, making him vulnerable to Malfurions spell, this will stun Xavius make him take more damage and the raid will need to burn him quickly in this state, time is running out. When Xavius health reaches 0 Malfurion completes the spell and transforms him into a tree that is then plunged into the Well of Eternity. However Tyrande is wounded during the frantic battle and this drives Malfurion into a rage.
P4 Azshara is forced to finally enter the fight, this part now gets very interesting, time is running out, the ritual is nearing completion and the raid need to burn trough her in 3-5 minutes, depending how fast the other phases where done. Azshara will be a caster with no melee, also she will have a multitude of aoe and direct damage abilities that make the fight very hectic and requires some movement. This phase lasts till she reaches 50%.
P5 At 50% Azshara is now very worried that the summoning spell will become unstable and she enters a soft enrage mode. This can work in three ways, either like Lady Vashj, where Azshara would just start to cover the raid area in unstable energy that does heavy aoe damage and forces the raid to move a lot and survive, or it works like a Gruul/Thorim effect where she gains buffs that increase her damage over time, or she just gains a new aoe ability that she starts spaming more and more often, making this a DPS and healing race.

At the end you are presented a special threat, a in game cinematic (though I'd prefer a Blizzard cinematic), that shows the sundering of the world, the survival of the naga and their transformation, and perhaps it could also hit to the existence of a new Old God.

[Bearnaked]

^^^ that would be epic.

That long of a fight taking over pretty much all of kalimdor+ that is pretty sweet.


Id like to see that happen

[Raistlin Majare]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet.

Caverns of Time: The War of the Ancients
This would be a raid, your objective would be to secure the time line by battling some agents of the infinite dragonflight as well as participating in some of the most world shaping battles ever to have occured.

I mentioned it last page. I however thought of focusing it more around what happened at the Well Of Eternity, with Broxicar and all taht. Read my post to find a deeper exsplanation.

[abradon]

CoT : Fall of Lordaeron .

Help Arthas , with burning most importent places of Lordearon to the ground .

Lay siege to the Andorhal , kill Uther , Then destroy Quel'thalas , and Turn Sylvanas into banshee , and at the end , lay siege to Dalaran , and claim Loarderon as your own !

Woulde be epic .

[Xanthiras]

Considering blizz has the overall story planned for several expansions in the future, it would be nice to go a few years the future to fight whatever enemy is relevant then, and then when WoW actually reaches that phase have the NPCs representing us appear and participate in the instance/world event involved.

Of course knowing blizz and lore they may end up retconning that because some designer simply forgot the details of that instance by then.

Also if blizzard plans to revisit some content from WC1-3 I'd like to have some RTS element involved, even if it's old AV-style reinforcements

[Sanguissa]

CoT arthas vs Sunwell would be really cool. But i dont think they will ever implement it, because..we were in sunwell already.

[Bearnaked]

If they were to bring that, Arthas and the sunwell, or even the whole Fall of Loredaeron, it should be more of a mission instance. Like someone said, bring the RTS aspect back. Make it so we have to do tiny objectives to get to a boss instead of clearing trash endlessley. I mean keep it in but say we should be corrupting the crops, make our way to 4 of them and then a boss comes or something.

In Quel'Thelas, take down 4 of the gaurd things to get across to the Isle of Misspelled words. It would be fun to have objectives in it as well as mobs.

Sunwell should look different from what it looked like in SP, just because it was before it was destroyed, maybe add to it?

I just think anything dealing with previous warcraft games playing in WoW is really awesome.

[Tablemaker]

As much as I would love to go back in time and escort the King of the Gnomes to Ironforge from the Trogg invasion... there's another storyline that could also be amazing... and setup the next expansion nicely.

Going back in time and meet with Queen Azshara. Yes... a CoT Instance filled with Sageras, War of the Ancients... and Well of Eternity; oh and the Old Gods.

The instance would easily be setup with this; and three heroes from far into the future: (Korialstrasz) a dragonmage in elf form, (Rhonin) a skilled human wizard, and (Broxigar) a seasoned orc warrior. You would also be from the future

"There is a way...there is a way...you will become more than you ever were...more than you ever were...we can help...we can help...You will be more than you have ever been...and when the time comes, for what we grant you...you will serve us well..."

Which old god do you think that was that spoke to Azshara?

EDIT: Damn you Admuntour! I didn't read your post until after I posted mine.

[chisuji]

I want a Day of the Dragon caverns of time where you help Deathwing attack Alextraza's caravan at Grim Batol, as Black drakes/dragons, and then witness him get his ass rocked when it all backfires on him.