Onyxia attunement to be lifted

by Adam Holisky Sep 16th 2008 at 8:00PM

Valnoth announced today that with the return of King Wrynn in Wrath of the Lich King, Blizzard will be removing the attunement necessary for Onyxia. In vanilla WoW, Ony was an achievement and many peoples first introduction to raiding in Warcraft. In Burning Crusade it was often ran as a quick way to make a buck or get a nice helmet for an alt.

Ony was one of the last, great old school attunements required in the game. With it gone, only Black Wing Lair and Molten Core remain as attunement required raids. This is a sad day for those of us that enjoyed the quest chain. A friend of mine and I were going to run this through on his Shaman and my up-and-coming Mage. Apparently we'll have to actually kick ourselves into gear and do it soon.

There is no indication if this change will come with WotLK or with patch 3.0.2. However the King returns in 3.0.2, so I would have to assume the attunement will be lifted then. It should be noted however, that Valnoth did say they would attempt to return the chain some day in the future. But we all know how that can go...

Thanks to Jarred for the tip!

Tags: attunement, BWL, chain, katrana-prestor, lady-onyxia, MC, ony, onyxia, quest, quest-chain, valnoth

Filed under: News items, Quests, Raiding, Wrath of the Lich King

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TurboGFF Sep 16th 2008 8:12PM

Dude what the hell.. The first time I watched Marshal Windsor stroll through Stormwind knowing he's about to face a dragon was the best moment in my WoW career. I always looked forward to that event because of the attention it brought to stormwind post-BC. People would wonder wtf was going on and tag along. It was awesome, and I'm sad to see it go

lightning4 Sep 16th 2008 8:24PM

With any hope, the questchain will remain for those who wish to complete it. So far, this is the case with all the removed attunements.

kabshiel Sep 16th 2008 8:40PM

Well, at the moment they're completely removing the quest chain. We can only hope that with that fancy new phasing technology they might be able to add it back in someday.

I'm also curious as to how the King's return affects the Missing Diplomat quest chain.

Saiforune Sep 16th 2008 8:42PM

I agree.

*cough*GIVE-A-TITLE-BLIZZARD-U-WHOARZ*cough*

Cowbane Sep 16th 2008 9:01PM

That actually drove me to get to 60. I saw it and was like, wow, that is what I want to do. It's one of the big motivators for me and really helped.

jimmy Oct 3rd 2008 12:41AM

FINDING REXXAR

**Begins cutting wrists**

NOT AGAIN!

dan Sep 16th 2008 8:23PM

Most. Irritating. Chain. In. History.

PeeWee Sep 16th 2008 8:45PM

It didn't become irritating until the bots started farming the Burning Steppes. Before then it was a walk in the mark.

dan Sep 17th 2008 12:44AM

I'm a tank. My girlfriend is a healer. We ran that whole chain for about a month and a half attuning our guildmates. My irritation has nothing to do with bots.

Illirien Sep 17th 2008 11:09AM

Then your irritation has little to do with the chain itself, and more to do with doing something over and over and over. Anything is irritating in that case :)

dan Sep 17th 2008 11:15AM

I think the chain itself is too long and involves too much pogoing around. The repetition only exacerbated that.

Veras Gunn Sep 16th 2008 8:28PM

Oh great, I just get attuned for it, and they remove the requirement for it.

Jaisin Sep 16th 2008 10:13PM

I hear you, I just went through the pain of getting my amulet. Through Emberstrife bugging out TWO TIMES and making me have to do the Mind Control part of the chain again, it was horrible.

jon Sep 16th 2008 8:30PM

/cry This was (is) my favorite quest chain in the game.

Raaj Sep 16th 2008 8:32PM

You guys are talking like they're removing the chain. With past attunement removals, the quests still exist, you just don't have to do them. Is there any indication that this one will be any different?

Raaj Sep 16th 2008 8:33PM

Note to self: Read source.

Seamus Sep 16th 2008 8:34PM

Truly one of the best quest chains in the game. It really gave WoW an epic feeling. Imagine that one of the NPCs that you had been interacting with and around for _sixty_ levels turns out to be one of the most powerful and evil beings in Azeroth. Definitely sent chills down my spine the first time I did it.

VSUReaper Sep 16th 2008 8:37PM

Everyone always talks about how great this attunement was, and all of those people play Alliance characters. What was it like for the Horde? Was this attunement fun for the Horde or just annoying? I'm trying to decide if I should pull myself away from the beta for the afternoon and do this attunement before it becomes meaningless.