Hogger, what the hell?!

#0 - Feb. 13, 2009, 3:27 p.m.
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You probably wont believe this but check it out for yourself.
Just the other day my paladin alt was questing in Elwynn when I read the following in general chat:
Lost to hogger again lol. Of course I shrugged it off as noobishness and continued to solo grind.
The guy was still having no luck an hour on however. Being the good sport that I am I offered to help.
Game mechanics must be broken though because I sure don't recall that hogger hit for 30k before.

It seems as if Blizzard have unintentionally UBER BUFFED Hogger to the level of a 25-man boss.

Faced with defeat on my alt I did the only sensible thing you could do. I rounded up all of my guilds mains and formed a raid to take down the big bad gnoll, just for laughs.

This is the end result:

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/853/wowscrnshot021209230031jz5.jpg

A 17% wipe after 4 minutes of combat, sadly it was getting late so many didn't want to stay for additional attempts. We shall be trying again tonight, i'll keep you updated.

Anyway go grab you fellow guildies, form up a raid and drag them with you down to Forests Edge today. See if you can put up a better fight than we did before this is swiftly hotfixed. It's extremely healer intensive so make sure you bring plenty. Be sure to get as many people involved as possible, even if like us you fail to down him, your guild will surely thank you for time well spent.
#3 - Feb. 13, 2009, 3:31 p.m.
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I've written a guide that may well help you in the future with such raids, be sure to take a look and see if it helps.

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=4552525297&sid=1&pageNo=7#136
#8 - Feb. 13, 2009, 3:38 p.m.
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Q u o t e:
Still is this a real bug or am i being had on?
We're just wanting to make it clear that yes we definitely have heard the feedback on the difficulty of the current PVE content. Consider this a small step. ;-)