This week in WoW History: Emerald Nightmare, Onyxia's Lair, Lament of the Highborne

Live Posted 2017/09/20 at 3:03 PM by Neryssa

2016The Emerald NightmareXavius

Mythic Keystone Dungeons: Inspired by the Greater Rifts of Diablo III and the replacement of Challenge Mode dungeons from Mists of Pandaria and Warlords of Draenor, Mythic Keystones are a new mode of content that features an endless scaling challenge in 5-man dungeons.

World Bosses: World Bosses were also first released on this day. Every week, a World Boss spawns in Broken Isles, together with a World Quest that has it's defeat as a objective. Killing at least 8 Broken Isles World Bosses gives you the achievement Unleashed Monstrosities, which also unlocks a new appearance for your Artifact weapon.

Legion PvP Season 1: Players can finally put their Honor talents to good use, as the first PvP Season in Legion started on this day! You can check our Legion Season 1 PvP Guide for all the rewards that were and are still available, including mounts and transmogs.

Click here to check our Survival Guide for the Emerald Nightmare release, as well as all features that were implemented!2012Appear Offline Option to appear soon on the Battle.Net Client!Check here when we reported this!2011Dragon Soulinterview with Joystiq (now assumed by Engadget)

The first instance is called End Time, and it sends players into the future to see what Deathwing's victory means.End Time shows a grim future for Azeroth, where Deathwing isn't stopped by the Demon Soul. Going through the ruins of the dragonshrines in Dragonblight, players meet the future versions of famous lore characters that are struggling with Deathwing's victory.

The second instance is called Well of Eternity

In this instance, you travel back to the past, all the way to the end of the War of the Ancients, and meet lore characters such as Mannoroth and Queen Azshara herself.

The third and final instance is called Hour of Twilight

In the Hour of Twilight, you're back to the present, and your group helps Thrall escort the Demon Soul all the way to Wyrmrest Temple, where the assault on Deathwing can finally begin.

You can check out Tom Chilton's interview, as well as more details of the 4.3 dungeons and Dragon Soul itself, here!2009Onxyia returns!Onyxia's Lair

Her original loot has been updated for WotLK levels, and included replicas of Tier 2 helms, revamped weapons that were originally Vanilla drops, such as Singed Vis'kag the Bloodletter, and a new version of Quel'Serrar, Gleaming Quel'Serrar, that had it's original quest removed.

A new drop specially from this version is the rare mount Reins of the Onyxian Drake, a drake mount made to look just like Onyxia herself!

The vanilla meme Onyxia Wipe Animation got achievements referencing it: Many Whelps! Handle It! (10 player), and More Dots! (10 player).

Another very popular meme back in Vanilla, complaining that Onyxia is somehow using her Deep Breath ability more often, also got an achievement referencing it, She Deep Breaths More (10 player).

The original version of Onyxia's Lair was removed from the game. Players who did kill the original, level 60 version of Onyxia before it's removal obtained the Feat of Strength Onyxia's Lair (Level 60).

2008Pirates' DayInternational Talk Like a Pirate DayDread Captain DeMezaThe Captain's BootyOl' EarySlightly-Chewed Insult BookPeteyYarrrCheck our our Pirate's Day guide here!2007Lament of the Highborne gains a official trailer!Eversong WoodsThe Lady's Necklaceand witnessing Sylvanas sing the songLament of the HighborneSylvanas' Music BoxShadowmourneYou can watch the trailer here

Comment by kodora1316I love the Lament of the Highborne. I remember sitting in UC spellbound for the entire song the first time I heard it. I bought that toy just so I could have the song on demand.Comment by detraceyHere is the macro to play the lament in game. Still the most haunting song ever.

/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Music\\GlueScreenMusic\\BCCredits_Lament_of_the_Highborne.mp3")Comment by SciofSoAI don't get it, what makes that trailer official? It appears to be made by a third party. Did blizzard commission it?Comment by NeryssaYes, it's been commissioned by Blizzard. Youtube wasn't as popular back then, so Blizzard themselves didn't upload the trailer there, only on their official website.

You can check on the archived version of the WoW website for it, as well.Comment by GrabovskyIts been 5 years and we still dont have Appear Offline yet. Seriously blizz, thats just sad.Comment by lovelywazIt was Blizzard's Soon™