4.3 rumours on MMO Champ

[Malthrax]

Council fight involving multiple elevators

[Amirya]

vortex sucking needs programmer time.

Not touching that one.

[Hrobertgar]

Deathwing is a monster, it will probably take the raid splitting up on multiple elevators to fight him, and then synchonize to jump on his back, with a special achievement: Death by Elevator if the entire raid falls to every elevator boss in a single raid lockout

[masterpoobaa]

Upon defeating deathwing, you find out that he was an illusion all along, controlled by a figure behind a curtain a-la wizard of OZ style... Who happens to be HOGGER!

[Skye1013]

Council fight involving multiple elevators

Last I checked, they try to make the encounters winnable...

[Passionario]

Council fight involving multiple elevators

Heroic mode involves aerial jousting (like in the 'Vigilance on Wings' daily, but against actually lethal enemies and hazards, and you'd need to do a proper DPS/healing/tanking rotation in addition to flapping wings).

Oh, and to compensate for the removal of Abyssal Maw, Deathwing's instance will feature a section that is entirely submerged under lava.

[Jheherrin]

The "smaller than Ulduar" comment is interestingly ambiguous.

Naxx - 15(?) encounters
Ulduar - 14 encounters
ICC - 12 encounters

If it was fewer than 12 encounters they would say "smaller than ICC"?
Does this imply a 12/13 encounter raid for Deathwing?

On the other hand, maybe each of Deathwings six limbs, his head and his tail are all encounters in their own right with some insane meta achievment to take him out in one piece.

[Malthrax]

On the other hand, maybe each of Deathwings six limbs, his head and his tail are all encounters in their own right with some insane meta achievment to take him out in one piece.

Since there's a 10-man version, Deathwing would have to have 10 damageable "parts"... so lets make him a Draco-lisk with 6 legs.

I wonder if Engineers will be able to un-bolt those elementium (adamantite??) plates attached to his body.

[KysenMurrin]

Interesting thought. Final phase of Deathwing involving the raw, uncontrollable destructive power his armor was built to contain? Deathwing torn apart by his own power after we damage his shell?

[Malthrax]

Interesting thought. Final phase of Deathwing involving the raw, uncontrollable destructive power his armor was built to contain? Deathwing torn apart by his own power after we damage his shell?

Deathwing explodes at 10%, killing the entire raid... the explosion frees Tyrion Fordring from the block of ice he's been imprisoned in, and he AOE rez's the entire raid a few minutes later. Raid then enters a "free beat-down" phase to end the fight.

I love it.. its new and exciting and never been done be... oh, wait.

[Nikachelle]

Don't forget to erect a fountain and release a hologram/video of the fight in the middle of each major city after it's been completed for the first time.

[KysenMurrin]

In Blizzard's brave new world of in-game cutscenes, the video will play for everyone in the realm the moment he dies. Every time.

[Nikachelle]

In Blizzard's brave new world of in-game cutscenes, the video will play for everyone in the realm the moment he dies. Every time.

LMFAO!

[Malthrax]

In Blizzard's brave new world of in-game cutscenes, the video will play for everyone in all realms the moment he dies. Every time.

fix't

[Chicken]

I am expecting the credits to start rolling and the game resetting to an entirely Classic state for everyone everywhere when Deathwing dies. After that new content unlocks as final bosses are killed, with first kills in each cycle being awarded with a permanent very fancy looking hat.