Ulduar Load Screen

One aspect of World of Warcraft that draws many players to strive to improve their skills and characters is the teamwork that comes in raiding.  Players work together to fight mobs and work their way to bosses in dungeons, known as raids or instances.  This offers players at higher levels an alternative to player vs. player experiences, such as battlegrounds or arenas.

When Blizzard released The Burning Crusade expansion, raiding was given added depth with Heroic Modes in dungeons.  This meant a harder difficulty of bosses within the raid and higher rewards in the loot.  This was the first step in making raiding more interesting for players.

In the release of The Wrath of the Lich King expansion, raiding was taken further with the introduction of parallel raiding experiences.  Each raid dungeon is available as a 10 or 25-man raid.  This allowed smaller guilds to experience more raid content without the difficult jump from 10 man raids to 25 man raids.

In patch 3.1.0, the first content patch of The Wrath of the Lich King expansion, the currently unnamed Ulduar raid will be released.  This raid takes the first steps of deepening the raid experience to a new level, and incorporates other experiences of The Wrath of the Lich King for a raid instance unlike any other in World of Warcraft.

On the basic level, the Ulduar raid will have fourteen encounters split into two wings.  One of these wings will only be open to the raid group once the first wing has been completed.

Eleven of the bosses will have “hard mode” (different from normal or heroic modes).  One will only have a hard mode.  As with heroic mode, the hard mode encounters will result in higher rewards in the form of loot and achievements for players.

The Ulduar raid will also incorporate vehicles, not unlike those used in Wintergrasp, a zone devoted entirely to player vs. player experience.  Players must use Choppers, Demolishers, and Siege Engines to fight an iron army that guards the entrance to the raid.  Each vehicle offers special benefits to the pilot and passenger as players try to defeat the army.  Once inside the raid, players will have to use all their skills and teamwork to defeat the bosses that wait for them.

The Ulduar raid puts together everything that Blizzard has been working on to improve the raiding experience for World of Warcraft players.  This raid is said to appeal to a wide variety of play styles, making it a great raid for anyone.  And because of the eleven encounters that make use of the hard mode, each time a player steps into the raid, it can be a whole new experience from the last, giving the Ulduar raid high replay ability for any player.  The Ulduar raid has recently become available on the public test realms, and players hope to see it go live very soon.

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