No more Big Hurrah on killing Nalatos (in normal mode)? Is this now considered easy peasy and not worthy of a pat on the back?

Aside from pouting though, there's now nothing to hint what next (for a noob) - no "and now, Nightmare!" or portal or anything...... just sayin.... seems a bit sad

Agree, just killed Nalatos in Normal HC and the end was definetely anti-climatic. Something is missing
Is this change due to the possibility of spawing mobs after defeating him? If so, I prefer the old way...

I probably broke it.

He's supposed to mega explode the first time you kill him for the quest. Did that happen? If you're killing him for the repeatable quest he shouldn't explode.

This just happened to me today on my Shaman in nightmare. I figured it was because there were two skeleton pets up when I killed him, so I had to finish those off.

I happened to be recording it. I can upload it if you want.

edit: I noticed the patch version changed to 1.0.8, so maybe this was fixed already? I double checked the video creation time and it was 2 hours~ ago.

Nah, pretty sure I broke the ending, but at least you can chain the zone

Yes was first time through (for that char) and no mega explodey fireworks

This should be fixed now. Another micro-update (1-0-9).