Awesome! Give more revamps!

Indeed, I can see this happening a bit more if it proves popular.

No, don’t give more revamps!

Blizz are already getting increasingly lazy with content - recycling bosses for 10/25man, recycling them for hardmode just with a couple of extra abilities. The latest instances they couldn’t even be bothered to design proper dungeons and just put all the heroic and raid bosses in the same arena.

As a one-off this is quite cool for the sake of nostalgia (I’ll concede the revamped naxx as ‘new content’ for a lot of people), but it does basically amount to a very cheap way to develop content when you have half the work already done.

great use of nostalgia.

This isn’t like Naxx, where they make a whole tier out of it.  This is a wonderful independent raid that can be run for fun.  No Tier gear, no pre-quest requirements, no “have to run this to run something else later”.

Just FUN!!

I don’t call this lazy at all. I call this being creative.

If this were a BRAND NEW dungeon and encounter we’d have to wait until some major content patch. But thanks to creative revamping we get “new” content w less wait.

I use the word new here because I, and I assume several people besides me, have never done the encounter. Mostly due to my precious few hours being spent on actually advancing my character. Thanks to “revamping” I actually killed Kel’Thuzad! And soon Onyxia will follow!

Now GIF 10/25 man L80 Gnomeregan!

I personally think this is awesome and i want more. I know you can say that Blizzard is being lazy re-using content but why leave what is already there just sit there when it can be useful? I want heroic RFC. I know it isnt gonna happen soon cause the alli’s would whine but i think they should use revamped raids like naxx and mc as the “starter” raid content and save the new stuff for the hardcore. I would like to see some new heroic 5 mans tho, sfk and zf would make neat heroics. They should make wc a 10 man raid tho as long as that place is

Ok, /rant on:

Blizzard increasingly lazy? I’ll point you back to pre TBC, where new content was much more sparse than it is now. Two weeks ago we had patch 3.2 where we got a new raid and a new 5 man with heroic version. Complain that it’s all in the same arena, fine, but it’s different. Not long before that was 3.1 with the massive Ulduar which most people, I’d guess at least 90% of players, still haven’t finished.

They’re already working on patch 3.3, and to call a re-vamped Onyxia lazy is a little bit ignorant IMO. They’re doing it to celebrate the 5 year anniversary. If Blizz tried to pass it off as a major new piece of content in one of the big patches, fair enough, but this is just a midway patch.

Seriously, think before QQing please.

/rant off

Well said, Maticus.

I honestly think this is more than just a celebratory thing; I think they are testing just how many people will do this for the purposes of doing something similar to other raids and five mans. Basically, increase the difficulty to match the level cap, and give some modest, decent items. Nothing major for hard core raiders, but great for casuals who will now have a reason to experience older content that they’ve never seen before. Maybe not every single instance ever made, but definitely the popular ones.

I could see Scarlet Monastery making a come back with an Heroic version.