Onyxia's back!

World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.2.2 (09-22-2009)

General

* The Brood Mother Returns
o After years of lurking in her lair battling the many brave adventurers who travelled from afar to challenge her, Onyxia returns stronger than before to commemorate World of Warcraft's five-year anniversary.
+ Onyxia has been scaled to offer new challenges to level 80 players in 10- and 25-player modes.
+ Adjusted for modern raiding, but with the fundamental experience of fighting the Brood Mother still in effect, including the horrors of her Deep Breaths!
+ Onyxia will now drop level 80 item versions of some classic loot items from the level 60 encounter.
+ Brood of Onyxia, a very rare 310%-speed mount modeled after Onyxia herself will be available for the luckiest of challengers.

And the rest of the notes are here.

"We can't think of anything new to add to our repetitive MMO, so we'll rehash old content and palm it off as something exciting!"

Though I'm sure plenty of players actually are excited to do something they've already done before. That's what WoW is all about, right?

If it wasn't about grinding the same s***, it'd be dead by now.

It's more a case of them bringing her back as part of WoW's 5th anniversary, especially since for a lot of players Onyxia was their first taste of raiding. Given how little effort would be required to update the encounter for current level players, it's a nice little timesink with some rather cool rewards to keep people busy until patch 3.3 hits with Icecrown & the new 5 man etc.

My bad for not including the "WoW haters kindly gtfo" tag. oops!

I played WoW since beta and raided through all the content and even I gotta say this is balls just going back and rehasing one encounter. If they went back and rehashed all vanilla dungeons and made heroics versions that would at least be entertaining for a while.

Strath UD run in heroic mode!

AusGamers patch link here for those that don't like the built in downloader.

Also, do want ony mount! but in other games.