Finally found an old thread talking about it. So I also was wanting to ask these questions for a long time. Although I'm not sure why I didn't. Anyways, it has always confused me as to why they removed the Claw's wings from getting blown off during the second phase of the fight. I can't even seem to find out exactly when they changed this either. But more importantly, I've done this fight hundreds of times since launch, and the one other problem I've noticed was that Arenanet also made the Claw's screeching and roaring way less audible then it used to be. Most noticeably again, during the second phase when it blows players back. I just want to finally get some closure on this.