Skipping to Kael'thas

[Aleriya]

In 2.4 the patch notes, it said that you can now go directly to Kael'thas and skip the other bosses. Has anyone seen how this works yet? It seems like an awful lot of trash to clear if you skip Al'ar and Solarian, and you'd have frequent respawns.

Is the trash in the hallway on the way to Kael gone now? If not, it could make the hallway pulls pretty interesting.

[guillex]

You may now fight Prince Kael’thas and Lady Vashj without first killing all the other bosses in their respective dungeons.

It doesn't say "skip".

In each instance, you had to kill the other bosses to get the doors to Vashj and Kael open. You probably no longer have to do this, and can instead clear right to that boss.

[Holyfuri]

We will be heading into TK tomorrow so I will find out then.

I understand what you are asking though. Before after the first three bosses are killed a large group and a pat show up in the hallway, blocking your way out even. If those groups are still there from the beginning along with the existing trash from VR/Solarian those hallways would be exceptionally crowded...

Guess I'll find out tomorrow, lol.

[Aleriya]

Well we went to TK tonight - killed Al'ar and went straight to Kael.

The first pull into Kael's hallway is gone. The patrol paths about halfway down the hall now and turns around, so you shouldn't need to kill them to get to VR or Solarian. Pretty nice

Also, it seems like Kael doesn't mind control as often in P4-5 anymore.

[Rasmfrackn]

You may now fight Prince Kael’thas and Lady Vashj without first killing all the other bosses in their respective dungeons.

It doesn't say "skip".

In each instance, you had to kill the other bosses to get the doors to Vashj and Kael open. You probably no longer have to do this, and can instead clear right to that boss.

To me it seems like you can limit yourself to al'ar only for learning Kael now, and you're only left re-clearing one devastator and 2 um... the other ones from VR's wing, plus Kael's stuff. That's minimal compared to re-clearing all the way from the zone line.

Same with Vashj... kill lurker to let you swim past hydross and to the bridge and you're golden.

[NarfJones]

Vashj's bridge animation is bitchin.