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Zul'Gurub is a fictional location set in Blizzard Entertainment's video game and book series, Warcraft. In the MMORPG World of Warcraft it is an instance dungeon in the virtual world. StrangleThorn Vale In the WarCraft Universe, this is a region with lush rainforests, located south of WestFall(ALliance owned territory) and DuskWood(formerly Alliance ruled region also, but now mostly infested by Undead beings, and lots of wild animals). ...
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Background
Zul'Gurub was the capital of the ancient Troll Gurubashi Empire and is located in the northeastern portion of Stranglethorn Vale within Azeroth. Two Jungle Trolls, as seen in World of Warcraft. ...
StrangleThorn Vale In the WarCraft Universe, this is a region with lush rainforests, located south of WestFall(ALliance owned territory) and DuskWood(formerly Alliance ruled region also, but now mostly infested by Undead beings, and lots of wild animals). ...
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The ancient Gurubashi trolls, driven to desperate measures during a civil war, sought the aid of the darkest god from the trolls' collective pantheon of primitive deities: Hakkar the Soulflayer. Hakkar was a vile and bloodthirsty spirit who exulted in blood sacrifice. Though he aided the Gurubashi trolls in greatly expanding their civilization throughout all of Stranglethorn and the islands of the South Seas, he demanded a great price. The bloodthirsty god demanded blood sacrifices every day. The trolls soon realized what a terrible mistake they had made by consorting with such an evil force.
The strongest tribes rose up against Hakkar and his followers, and a terrible war ensued. The budding empire was devastated by the magic unleashed by the angry god and his rebel children. However, the trolls succeeded in destroying Hakkar's physical manifestation and banishing his followers -- the Atal'ai -- from their kingdom. The Atal'ai were forced into the uncharted Swamp of Sorrows to the north. There, they built a great temple to their fallen god -- Atal'Hakkar -- where they could continue to do their master's work.
In the World of Warcraft the descendants of the Atal'ai led by the Prophet Jammal'an are attempting to resurrect the God at their temple in the swamps, even after it was sunken by the green dragonflight. But that is another story.
Hakkar IS back with the help of his bolder followers returning to their city, giving him form again in the world of Azeroth, and threatening the planet.
The wise yet somewhat fledgling tribe of jungle trolls, the Zandalar, have sounded the call to arms to the Horde and Alliance alike to return to Zul'Gurub for them and defeat the Blood God once and for all. They offer great rewards of all shapes and sizes to those that can serve their cause.
Nomenclature Zul'Gurub is commonly abbreviated to ZG.
Instance zone The Instance zone was released with patch 1.7 on September 13, 2005 and is a 20-player raid dungeon. September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ...
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Zul'Gurub is divided into 10 unique boss encounters including defeating the main boss at the end, Hakkar. Five of the bosses represent different animal aspects. Players can take the bosses in any order, but it's recommended that they defeat the five aspect bosses before taking on Hakkar because he loses power for each of those aspects you defeat.
Zul'Gurub doesn't quite have as many traditional drops as normal instances, in particular most of the set pieces are acquired through quests, and collecting quest items. Though the bosses still drop "Superior" and "Epic" quality armor and weapons that are positioned in relative power between the drops from the previous high-end instances (Blackrock Spire, Stratholme, et al), and Molten Core. Some players would argue that some of the epic quality items that drop in ZG, are the current best in certain character builds. Blackrock Spire from the World of Warcraft. ...
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Strategies Some argue that Zul'Gurub (ZG) is more difficult than Molten Core (MC) despite being a 20-man instance. This is mostly because the bosses of ZG and the random mobs in the zone demand more skill than MC, and any raid needs to use more complex strategies in order to beat them. It is recommended that the raid has the following build in order to clear the instance:
3-4 Warriors (for tanking, and occasionally DPS), 3-4 Paladins/Shaman (depending on faction), 2-3 Hunters (who make up a large portion of ranged DPS, and mana drain), 2 Druids (healing and crowd control), 2 Rogues (melee DPS), 2-3 Priests (healing), 1-2 Warlocks (mana draining and DPS), and 3-4 Mages (burst DPS, crowd control, and dispensing food/drink).
Polymorph must be used frequently. Always try to polymorph casters first and kill melee targets. Druids have the ability to put the snake mobs to sleep, in order to have better aggro control. Cure poison, Dispell, and spell canceling are needed for several boss fights as well.
Hakkar's Corrupted Blood Buffer Hakkar was the cause of a large-scale virtual plague dubbed Corrupted Blood. It is also known as the WoW Plague, Hakkar's SARS, and AIDS. A virtual plague or virtual virus is an infection that can be transferred between the characters of players in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). ...
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Quoted From Shack News:
"Heres the skinny: Blizzard adds in a new instance, Zul'Gurub. Inside is the god of blood, Hakkar. Well, when you fight him he has a debuff called Corrupted Blood. It does like 250-350 damage to players and affects nearby players. The amazing thing is SOME PLAYERS have brought this disease (and it is a disease) back to the towns, outside of the instance. It starts spreading amongst the general population including npcs, who can out generate the damage. Some servers have gotten so bad that you can't go into the major cities without getting the plague (anyone less than level 50 will quickly die)." Blizzard fixed this problem by restarting the servers that were affected.
References - Zul'Gurub preview at worldofwarcraft.com
See also The Warcraft Universe is the fictional universe in which the Warcraft series of computer games and announced movie are set. ...
This is a list of the major and minor Locations ordered by region (after the events of the Third Great War) in the Warcraft universe — a fictional universe in which a series of video games and books are set. ...
This is an alphabetical list of the major and minor groups and organizations in the Warcraft universe — a fictional universe in which a series of video games and books are set. ...
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