Blizzard details WoW’s final deathwing instance

Blizzard’s Tom Chilton has detailed the final stage of the Deathwing instance in World of Warcraft.

Speaking to Eurogamer, Chilton explained it is set to be a very long encounter.

“You start off at Wyrmrest Temple defeating various minions of Deathwing. There are basically six bosses that lead up to the Deathwing encounter itself.

“Once you get to the Deathwing encounter it takes place, at first, at Wyrmrest Temple, where Thrall uses the Demon Soul to essentially take a shot at Deathwing and wound him. At that point you get onto a gunship and you para-drop from the gunship onto Deathwing and you fight Deathwing on his back, essentially peeling off his armour plates trying to expose him and make him weaker.

“Once you’ve weakened him enough to where you’ve got him essentially wrestled to the ground – he’s flying towards The Maelstrom, trying to get away, a lot like he did much earlier when he escaped and tried to gather his strength once again. You wrestle him down and then you fight the final, corrupted version of him, where all the horrible corruption that has affected Deathwing is all coming out, and it all comes to an end there in The Maelstrom.”

Additionally he states a number of major NPCs from Warcraft’s lore will be fighting at your side.

“There are a lot of the different major NPCs in Warcraft lore helping out. Obviously Thrall plays a huge part in this. He also plays a huge part in the dungeon encounters that lead into the raid. You’re also interacting with Alexstrasza and a lot of the different Aspects.”

World of Warcraft’s next major patch, patch 4.3, will be available on the Public Test Realm within “a couple of weeks”.

World of Warcraft’s subscription-base has been dropping since it hit a post Cataclysm high of over 12 million.