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Couple of bugs with Anub'rhekan were fixed so took about 4 attempts.

Widow Faerlina is missing her important spell and so is far too easy, her loot will be reduced until it's fixed.

Maexnna was working well, got him 2nd attempt. Took one to get used to the idea.

The rest of Naxx is still got heroic only stats, I will get fixed it up as I get time.

This has given me a chance to experience a number of the quests in Storm Peaks and Icecrown and I have fixed a few of the easier ones (missing mobs spawned, some unattackables fixed etc).

As far as heroics go, so far I've been to Utgarde Keep and Azjol Nerub. The regular trash doesn't hit hard enough yet but this will be updated soon.

Utgarde had to be adjusted, Ingvar's timers weren't correct, since correcting we downed him on the 3rd attempt.

Azjol Nerub has some problems with Hadronox, his script doesn't let him move too far away and it's very confusing with him seeing you through the ceiling but constantly resetting. His Web pull spell is backwards (like every web spell in Azjol it seems) and has been disabled. We didn't beat him and I had to disable him for our first run through. Now that he has no 'send player into orbit' spell, hopefully it will be better now. Anub'arek was a challenge but we got him second go.

In general all boss loot drops are double. That means 2 on a normal boss and 4 on a final boss. There should be no duplicate item drops.

More good news, the Tabard championing system appears to be working. If you disconnect and reconnect mid-instance though, you may lose the buff, take the tabard off and put it back on again to restore.

As mentioned previously Naxxramas is open, but I'm not sure how well implemented it is. We will only discover this by testing so when we can muster 10 level 80's well head in and see how it goes.

While Utgarde Pinnacle is very close it's unlikely to be opened as only 2 of the 4 bosses are working well.
Ahn'kahet isn't properly enabled for heroics yet so it won't be available (you'll get a message that you need to be level 81 to enter).

That leaves the following 5 man heroics:

• Utgarde Keep
• Azjol Nerub
• The Nexus
• Drak'tharon Keep
• Halls of Stone
• Halls of Lightning

Naxxramas is close enough that I'm going to open it, the only real way to figure out what needs fixing is to go in there as a raid.

The Tabard championing system isn't implemented yet so unfortunately you will need to keep doing dailies to get faction rep.

This update includes a large number of core code changes, supposedly fixes, but experience has shown us there will be a large number of regressions as well. So now you're warned.

Similarly there are a number of database changes, including damages. So don't be surprised if some mobs start hitting too hard or soft.

Finally on a more philosophical note: a lot of things don't work right here, bugs are fixed as time permits, tickets are handled when possible. If you play here you should accept these problems, however if you find this unacceptable I suggest you will have more fun by paying your subscription to the real thing.

So we're going to skip them and open some of the 75-80's instead. I'm aiming for Halls of Lightning and Utgarde Pinnacle very soon.

Halls of Stone is a maybe as the Escort event isn't working.

I will bump the cap to 78 at least, that means a lot of things including flying and profession/rep items.

If I can check out Naxx 10 man and a couple heroics I'll just go straight for 80.

Drak'tharon Keep isn't as good as the real thing (what is around here) but at least it's not tank n spank.