Which patch nerfed ZF?

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I remember way back in Vanilla when the staircase in ZF was brutal, endless mobs spawned for ages and drained your group down to nothing - people wiped all the time and arguments broke out constantly. Triggering the event was genuinely scary.

Then one day back in 2006, goodness knows why, a patch was released which made the whole thing stupidly easy (the patch notes referenced this also). I believe they wanted people to level to 60 faster to sell more of the expansion?

Are we playing on the patch with the ZF nerf (among others), or the real experience? Genuinely asking as I can’t remember which it was: either 1.12 or just before TBC if memory serves.

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Only change both wowwiki and wowpedia lists for Zul’Farrak during vanilla is
Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07): New load screen added.

Perhaps people just weren’t as good back then, or something. I don’t remember having any issues myself with the staircase event.

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People got better is all. I remember struggling at those stairs even in TBC. And now in Classic I can’t even imaging wiping there.

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It was changed yes - can’t remember exactly when; might even have been during tbc. Either way they made the stairs event loads easier.

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Wrong, patch 1.12 notes mention nerfs to ZF, Maraudon and Uldaman

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Patch 1.12.0

Zul’Farrak

  • The respawn of the 2 Troll/1 Basilisk patrollers should now be 2 hours.
  • Reduced the damage dealt by the Sul’lithuz Abomination and Sul’lithuz Sandcrawler.
  • Zul’Farrak Dead Heroes are no longer elites.
  • Theka the Martyr will now only remain immune to physical damage for 30 seconds before reverting to normal.
  • Antu’sul’s Sul’lithuz Broodlings now only hatch 4 at a time and are significantly weaker.
  • Witch Doctor Zum’rah will no longer call as many Zul’Farrak Zombies to his aid when aggroed.
  • Weegli Blastfuse now has slightly more hit points.
  • Antu’sul’s Warden no longer attempts to knock adventurers into Antu’sul’s lair.
  • Sandfury Cretins who engage the party during the pyramid event are no longer able to cast shadow bolt.

Dunno how much of a difference that made. The biggest difference should be reworked classes.

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Yep that’s a massive nerf.

I think we need to stop suggesting people remembered things differently. The difference between Wow Classic and an earlier Vanilla patch is huge in terms of difficulty.

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Wasnt this patch

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I can’t remember that stair fight being particularly difficult. But then again, I can’t remember much about the first time I did it either on account of being rather drunk. None of the party died though. That would have been sometime during 1.9.

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Nah it was, read up

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