Dragon Soul PTR Testing - Madness of Deathwing
Exordium and Pillow Fort managed to unlock the Madness of Deathwing encounter on test realms and actually went through most of it! Obviously it's pretty spoilery and you shouldn't watch it if you don't want to (almost) see how the last fight of the expansion ends.

Keep in mind that this fight was not supposed to be tested and is still incredibly bugged and possibly very undertuned.


Description from Youtube (Spoilers)
Blizzard decided not to open this fight to testing because the jumping from platform to platform was extremely buggy, as you'll see at the end of the video. Basically what you have to do is kill the appendage that's on each platform after killing a big tentacle. Each aspect has their own platform, and when you destroy the appendage on that aspect's platform, you lose the buff they give you. This makes the fight harder as you destroy each platform.

Due to the bugs with jumping, we were forced to destroy the best platforms first, which made the fight harder (though it's still incredibly undertuned). Once we finally cleared all 4 platforms, deathwing slams his head on the middle platform with only 10 mil health, you get all the buffs back, and I assume it's just supposed to be like the last 10% of the Lich King, as it would have been a ridiculously easy burn if we could get over there.



Blizzcon 2011 Goody Bag
s1fizik on Squidoo seems to have gotten his hands on a Blizzcon Goody bag a little bit early, check the full post for pictures of all of the items. It contains the regular promo items and ads, as well as:


  • Diablo 3 Tyrael Collector's Statue
  • Limited Edition Diablo 3 Battle.net Authenticator
  • Loot Card
  • Promo Deck for World of Warcraft Card Game
  • Diablo 3 bookmark with Brady Games Quest






Patch 4.3: Fangs of the Father
Killars from vodka spent some of his free time on test realms going through the legendary quest and came back with a few fun pictures! The stats for the first epic version of the daggers are now known, and it also seems that you will need to spend 10,000 gold at some point during the questline.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Madness of Deathwing Video Preview, Blizzcon 2011 Goodies Bag, Fangs of the Father started by Boubouille View original post
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  1. darkmisfit's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ragnar0 View Post
    I think its Funny that they are 397 and no one has noticed.... seeing how the current Relic is 404 when done (or over 400) so those are prob only the 1st tier of them or maybe 2nd Those Dagger will cap out prob around 410 or 415.
    They are just the first tier of the daggers. I have a vid up of the quest line after up on my youtube. wwwDOTyoutubeDOTcom/watch?v=D58NfkUKAY8
  1. tilgare's Avatar
    Watching them bounce around with that platform bug made me giggle. Looks like a really cool fight, I'll look forward to seeing it when all the kinks are worked out and such.
  1. lordlight's Avatar
    those daggers are icky as is. I with no agi, crit, or any 2nd stat they would be a downgrade to most rogues. As for the deathwing video, I give it 1 month after release till it is nurfed to the ground.
  1. MrKnubbles's Avatar
    Omfg that Tyrael is epic. I've got to get my hands on one of those...
  1. StixRam's Avatar
    i like how it says for the quest, "i'll kill you while you sleep!"
  1. TheRevenantHero's Avatar
    Lol I love the Benny Hill music playing at the end of the Deathwing video.
  1. Guuggel's Avatar
    So... Do you have to do any raidcontent or are those just daggers for 10k? Without stats now though.
  1. mackenzie's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zombikilla View Post
    10,000 gold....... jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez man, thats intense
    You're right, the cost to just make phase 1 of the legendary staff was $3.50.
  1. Sarvas's Avatar
    The end of that video is priceless.
  1. vass23's Avatar
    The picture with the exclusive gifts, where it says Classified.... i have this strange feeling its a panda in a space suit... just saying...

    edit... actually might be a baby murloc in a space suit. lol..m
  1. manos1234's Avatar
    oh noes the creepy little gnome will kill me in my sleep
  1. Salculd's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by lordlight View Post
    those daggers are icky as is. I with no agi, crit, or any 2nd stat they would be a downgrade to most rogues.
    Because I'm sure they're in exactly the same state as they will be on live.
  1. KaNNis's Avatar


    The Exclusive starcraft 2 pet is a Panda. Look closely... or more like look a bit far away for a clearer image Well that pretty much confirms it, Pandas are in 1 day.
    Look closely, the white haired face with the black around eyes and the pointy nose on the right edge.
    + The armor is green.
  1. Frumpy Frumpy Frak's Avatar
    Lol at that statue. I'm glad I'm not missing out on anything by not going to Blizzcon.
  1. Yotei's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Rhiz View Post
    "The stats for the first epic version of the daggers are now known"? Really? I'm thinking these aren't the stats, being that there is no agi/stam/crit/etc.. on them..
    It still shows some stats, which they could be referring to.. I doubt they believe that there won't be any other stats added on. x_x
  1. mmocf06effc4be's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by KaNNis View Post


    The Exclusive starcraft 2 pet is a Panda. Look closely... or more like look a bit far away for a clearer image Well that pretty much confirms it, Pandas are in 1 day.
    Look closely, the white haired face with the black around eyes and the pointy nose on the right edge.
    + The armor is green.
    Seems legit. Kinda. But yeah it kinda does resemble a panda.
    The big question remains what this means, IF its a panda. Will they become playable?
  1. WingsofLiberty's Avatar
    having to pay gold for crafting legendaries is downright stupid. wonder who gave them this awfully bad idea
  1. mmoc203ddbaca2's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by WingsofLiberty View Post
    having to pay gold for crafting legendaries is downright stupid. wonder who gave them this awfully bad idea
    I don't know what's worth complaining about. It's a guild effort so just get the guild to pitch in. Shouldn't be that hard to collect that amount of money and it's definitively a nice twist.
  1. Danin232's Avatar
    Looks like an intense fight, cant wait to see the raid content for myself on release.
  1. Gemini Soul's Avatar
    They will give a more in-depth look at the daggers with stats and probably a video of the proc at Bliz con.

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