Sunday, October 04, 2009 @ 6:58 AM
One must say that Onyxia is one lucky bitch since Naxxramas to be upgraded to lvl 80. Shes been kinda lonely since BC came out and must has missed adventurers crying more dots on her. What more can be said about this daughter of Deathwing, who had carved out an epic storyline on her own through her amazing skills of manipulation and disguise. She was once known as Lady Katrana Prestor, the lady npc standing next to our beloved child king in Stormwind. Plotting to manipulate the Alliance through politics by kidnapping the King of Stormwind, she succeeded in gaining power over state affairs until we exposed her evil deeds and banished her from Stormwind.
Ever since then, she had been quiet in her lair until Blizzard decided to bring her back to glory in celebration of the 5 year anniversary. New adventurers are lucky to meet this old broodmother from pre-bc and helped themselves to her epic loots. Im happy I did the chain quests of her story when I was in alliance years ago, I get to know more about her and eventually chased her out of Stormwind (It was a grand event where you need to walk through streets of Stormwind to get to her).
And recently I have joined in the adventure to meet her again, good thing its puggable now, rather than LF39M. The group consists of 3 mages and another ranged which i forgot, so theres plenty of ranged DPS there. Someone then proposed a fast way of doing the fight, considering the DPS was good from the trash mobs. The ranged DPS will be positioned in the center of the room and Bloodlust will be popped upon Onyxia reaching 65% and walking south to take flight. DPS will then pop all their CDs and burn her while shes walking.
Well, at first I wasnt sure of this tactic but it seems workable after looking at the DPS meter, so lets try this out, after all I m a tank and who doesnt want to skip P2 fast. So the fight began and the tactic was carried out, and when Onyxia starts to take flight, she was already passed 50%, which was quite awesome. The ranged continued DPSing her while we 2 tanks picked up the whelps. I think 1 mage or 2 helped to take the whelps down through AOE then went back to DPSing Onyxia. A few secs after the whelps died, Onyxia was already approaching 40% and the first guard spawned. OT picked the guard up and Onyxia was down with me picking her up. The raid then proceeded to kill the guard and some more random whelps and all was well and easy til Onyxia was dead.
I was impressed by the DPS output and theres another achievement in store for us - [She Deep Breaths More], because she didnt get a chance to do that lol. Overall it was a new and fun experience with Onyxia again and I hope Blizzard can bring back more.. I seriously need some screenshots.. Tanks are bad screenshoters damn..
Labels: Adventures, Blizzard, Deathwing, DPS, Lady Katrana Prestor, Onyxia, Raid, Stormwind, Strategy, WoW