Zul'Aman will be launched with the patch 2.3 (Source).

Zul'Aman is a 10 man raid dungeon located in the Ghostlands, it will require no attunement. The loot will be superior to Karazhan, also bosses will drop heroic badges which can be used to buy the new heroic rewards in 2.3.

Loot:

2 new Zul'Aman weapons have been revelaed at BlizzCon 07, so we pretty much know several things about ZA loot (item level, weapons dps..).



Jin'rohk, The Great Apocalypse: 2h sword, 128.4 dps, 3.70 speed, 49 stamina, 45 haste rating and 120 atp.
Dagger of Bad Mojo: 1h dagger, 98.6 dps, 1.80 speed, 21 agility, 40 atp and ignores ~154 armor.


Bosses:

You will be facing 6 bosses, 4 avatars of the forest troll gods (bear, dragonhawk, lynx and eagle), then the witch doctor (Hexxlord Jin'Zakk) that called out the gods and Zul'jin.

- Nalorakk (Bear avatar)

He is visible right from the entranceway. As soon as you approach him he'll start sending out waves of troops to keep you busy. Once you eventually engage him, you'll have to fend off a troop of bear-riding Trolls and deal with the bear form he shapeshifts into. According to Blizzard, Nalorakk will on rare occasions drop a bear mount for your own use.

- Akilzon (Eagle avatar)


- Halazzi (Lynx avatar)


- Jan'Alai (Dragonhawk avatar)

He has a fire breath attack as well as multiple fire bombs. The bombs stick in the ground after he spews them out, and they explode after a short amount of time, which should keep your party on its toes. He's also surrounded by grouping of eggs, which a hatcher Troll will run around and break open to spawn dragonhawk mobs. You can kill the hatcher if you like, but if you do the boss will eventually break all the eggs simultaneously when he's low on health, resulting in a mob inundation.

- Hexxlord Jin'Zakk (Witch Doctor)

- Zul'jin (Warlord of the Amani forest trolls)
This battle seems like it'd be pretty tough, as he calls on the spirits of the fallen avatars from earlier in the dungeon to alter his powers, making the fight more dynamic.


What else do we know?

- Zul'Aman is a winged instance similar to Naxxramas, where you can choose the killing order.
- The last two bosses, the Witch Doctor and Zul'Jin, have to be done at once.
- Zul'aman is a non-faction dungeon, in fact its a timed dungeon, the faster a group can kill each boss and rescue his hostages, the better the loot is.
- It should not take more than 45 min for each boss (clearing area + boss).

From Tigole (Source):

--Zul'Aman will be a 10-person raid zone
--Zul'Aman will be on a quicker reset than 7 days (some might call this "casual")
--Zul'Aman will be MORE difficult than Karazhan and drop better loot (some might call this hardcore)
--Zul'Aman will feature 6 bosses and it's our goal that you can kill them all in one night -- perhaps 2-3 hour clear times (some might call this casual)
--Zul'Aman will not have a key requirement. Nor will it have an attunement quest\ (some might call this casual)
--Zul'Aman will have a VERY challenging timed quest for those who choose to participate in it. This *will be* hardcore and will be very rewarding. Players do not have to engage in the timed run (very similar to the Baron run in Stratholme)
--We're tuning the first boss in Zul'Aman to require less raid coordination than some other raid bosses. He will still hit very hard so you'll need to be geared properly but it won't take 15 minutes to explain the fight. It will be a simple yet challenging fight. The other boss fights get more complex and challenging from there. If players want a basis of comparison, imagine the tuning of ZA started around Nightbane/Prince difficulty and ramped up from there.


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Teza
WoR reporter

The lynx avatar looks exactly like the panther fight from zul'gurub imo. another cat fight in the bottom of a building from the looks of it

Cute

12/f/Cali

I want the bear mount. Any pics of Zul'jin?

x

Would be cool if the 4 timed quests gave a peice of another quest reward. When you collect all 4, we get new class trinket. WTB rentaki 2.0!

my question is - do alliance have to run to EPL - ride to the bottleneck portal to ghostlands and run through hundreds of lvl 70 unpvp flaged horde to get to the instance ?

id hate to zone through to Ghostlands and have a group of horde waiting to engage be4 people even load.

Ah just like the good old days of ZG. Those were fun times.

x

Yeah are there any shortcuts for alliance possibly?

And i like the look of the lynx one~

Indeed it was. ZG still stands as my favourite instance.

Quote (Nessie, 12 August 2007, 21:14)

Yeah are there any shortcuts for alliance possibly?

I'm expecting a teleport.

Well Naxx is my favorite.

x

Wow! 45 minutes? No wonder they will be adding a new five man or whatever they said before WotLK hits. Im betting guilds past Kara wil fly past this.

How f'ing retarded is it to put Haste rating on a weapon? Why not just lower the speed on the weapon... so this is like an easy way to get the equivalent to S2 Arena weapons it looks like.

Don't get me wrong it seems pretty badass... not trying to sound complaining

any info on the new heroic rewards? also, is it new type of heroic badges or using the old ones?