Sepulcher of the First Ones Raid Unlock Schedule - Encounter Anduin Week One, Zovaal Starting Week Two

Posted 2021/11/11 at 2:10 PM by Archimtiros

regarding the Sepulcher of the First Ones raid

Narratively, the Eternity’s End raid tells two stories, one after the other. Our current plan for the release of the raid looks like this:

During the first week of the release of Eternity’s End, the raid will not be open.
Beginning with the second week, the raid will open for Normal and Heroic difficulties, and the first eight bosses will be available in those difficulties.
It will not be possible to fight the final bosses on any difficulty during week two.
This is intended to provide a moment to tell the story in a way that accounts for the passage of time between the events of the eighth encounter and the subsequent encounters.

Beginning with the weekly reset of week three, all bosses will be available on Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulties.

This will also be the opening of the first wing of the raid on Raid Finder difficulty.

interview with the French gaming website Millenium.org

Game Director Ion Hazzikostas, via Millenium

I would also like to mention an important element for guilds practicing Mythic Mode wishing to try to obtain World First: the raid will not be deployed in its entirety during the very first week of Normal and Heroic Mode unlike d 'habit. The first eight bosses, up to Anduin, will be available from the opening week of Normal and Heroic Modes. The second part of the raid, after Anduin therefore and during which you will face the Jailer in particular, will be accessible in all difficulty modes from the second week only. There will therefore be no way to train before the Mythic Mode in Normal and Heroic Mode on the last three bosses. This system is also implemented in part for narrative reasons.

It will probably be a very interesting race to follow. Everything is so ardently practiced and anticipated even before the raid officially rolls out that it should be interesting to see how the best guilds adjust to this new "rule". "

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Comment by rossyysThe one week timegate for the last 3 bosses is really hurting these normal raiders.Comment by psychokrusherThis makes sense and doesnt seem excessive.Comment by HaazeeyRIP race to world first then I guessComment by slemaireInteresting approach.Comment by Stormbringer4190The one week timegate for the last 3 bosses is really hurting these normal raiders.Comment by Stalker92They said that SL will be longer, like till patch 9.3. Now they want to end it in 9.2.
They plan something else for the game, or does it means end of WoW?Comment by Segano99% of guilds wont even make it to the last boss in first week anyway, so it's fineComment by Haazeeya lot of guilds will on normal?Comment by PeterPumpkinheadGuy who has "WotLK was peak" button on shirt: Ugh Blizz timegating again, f them!

*meanwhile, ICC only had 4 bosses at launch, then 4 whole ass weeks later added the next 3 bosses, then 2 weeks later added the next 2 bosses, then almost 3 weeks after that added the last 3 bosses*

Guy who has "WotLK was peak" button on shirt: ima choose to ignore thatComment by Haazeey99% of guilds wont even make it to the last boss in first week anyway, so it's fineComment by nantesfranso mythic releases week 3 thus mythic is not timegated for the world first race, contrary to previously reportedComment by TredainThey said that SL will be longer, like till patch 9.3. Now they want to end it in 9.2.
They plan something else for the game, or does it means end of WoW?Comment by DiabloThePyrorealistically people probably wont even make it too anduin until week 2 anyway so this is fine anyone who thinks this is bad doesnt raid that much OR does nothing but raid 5 days a week and needs a 12 step program to get off wow lol

Edit: at least for heroic, people will hit anduin week one on normal but 8 bosses is still a decent amount of raid to doComment by Stalker92They said that SL will be longer, like till patch 9.3. Now they want to end it in 9.2.
They plan something else for the game, or does it means end of WoW?Comment by BeedrillEUPlayers : Blizz do the same thing every tier it’s boring and predictable.

Blizzard : OK we will break it up so all boss cannot be practiced ahead of timegate

Players : That sucks. We don’t know what we want but we don’t want that.Comment by deathlavitzThe one week timegate for the last 3 bosses is really hurting these normal raiders.Comment by ZigrifidI just hope its antorus level of difficulty ! it was great for pugs ! as for the time gating......well people did say we loved TBC :P hahahahaha how is that sunwell timegating treating you x)Comment by EridianThey said that SL will be longer, like till patch 9.3. Now they want to end it in 9.2.
They plan something else for the game, or does it means end of WoW?Comment by XShujaXSeems alright, l'm ok with them approaching it from a story perspective, reminds me of the good old ICC wing unlocks, l like it.Comment by OxyiaLiterally designing the game around the 0.0001% of the playerbase who plays the game as their actual JOB. the remaining 99.99% just have to suffer through this nonsense.

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