Please clarify: 3.3.3 World Event Bosses

Yes, the Dungeon Finder must be used. The interface will have a separate selection for special World Event bosses in dungeons. If players zone into the dungeon without using the Dungeon Finder, the bosses will not be there.

Edit: For those just tuning in, I've added some clarification about the new functionality later in the thread: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=23329143450&postId=233908343351&sid=1#209

Just to clarify some misconceptions about this new functionality, the summoning of holiday bosses is going away. Players can queue for these bosses via the Dungeon Finder or special holiday NPCs found in the world. Once the party is finalized, the group will be ported directly to the area where the holiday boss resides. Players can kill the holiday bosses as often as they want for standard loot (epic rings, trinkets, etc.), however, they will only drop one holiday-themed loot trove per player per day. These loot troves will have a chance of containing rare holiday items such as The Horseman's Reins.

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Why? I have nothing more to add except to ask the question because there has to be some good reason for this. Otherwise it should just be dropped because it's unnecessary...

The way players were grandfathering in alt characters, scamming others by not having a summon available, and continually soft-resetting dungeons -- creating a major load on instance capacity -- was never intended.

The change has some positive and some negative consequences, however, we feel it's the best way to make this a better system and more in-line with our original plans for World Event bosses.

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so at what point do we switch over from an "outside" world to a system like guildwars where everything is your own private instanced version?

The cliff you're standing on lends itself to quite a deep ravine of hyperbole. There's no need to jump in tonight.

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Just vote kick the person.


NO COOLDOWN IN NEXT PATCH YAYAYA

I know you're probably just responding to the original post, but I figure I'll clarify an additional point about the new functionality.

Having less people in your party isn't going to affect your chances of obtaining special rewards by any means. If three people are in the party and kill the boss, one holiday-themed loot trove will drop for each person, a total of three. Those three players will not be able to get another trove until the next day.

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so essentially you can pull and fight it like a regular boss and everyone gets a bag like the bonus bag at the end of oculus. If your group wipes the boss resets and you can try again until you kill it.

Correct.

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Just to be further clear....

Let's say my 5 man group consists of me, player a, b,c and d.

4 of us have not killed the boss yet today but player d has. When the boss dies the 1st time, my understanding is that the 4 of us who havent yet killed him will receive a "trove" which might contain a mount, while player d will NOT receive a trove. All 5 of us can roll on the trinket/ring/regular loot from the boss??

Correct. It works exactly like the Random Daily reward, except in this case it's a bag which has a chance to drop the rare holiday items. :)