Or: Hey, Look, I Still Have a Blog!
First off, apologies to anyone who happened to be following this blog over the last month or so. I really haven’t had anything worth commenting on happen to me as far as WoW goes. However, last night I once again ventured into Blackrock Spire in an attempt to claim my Elements vest. Not only did it drop, but we also killed Lord Valthalak, and got a guildie his Ony attunement (I’m pretty sure he had been holding on to the quest since before the Burning Crusade came out, meaning that took somewhere around two years to find a UBRS group for him.)
With the topic of Onyxia fresh on our minds, we agreed to head out to Dustwallow Marsh and take on the Dragon Lady herself. Unfortunately, the warlock in our group was not attuned, so we were left with four people–the aforementioned Hunter, a Mage, a prot Paladin, and myself. I can’t speak for my guildies, but I certainly wasn’t expecting great things from the attempt; we only had four people, two who had never set foot in Onyxia’s Lair before while the other two hadn’t in two years, it was too late for multiple attempts–meaning an unlucky deep breath or some funky agro issues could ruin our fun, and none of us had any fire resistance gear.
Nonetheless, the four of us ported the Theramore, and set out into the swamp (having leveled after the revamp there, I was the only one in the group who could fly to Mudsprocket, leaving everyone else to swim across the bay). We zoned in and made quick work of the trash, then swapped half-remembered tactics for the fight.
The actual fight was almost anticlimactic. We did loose our mage in the first deep breath–he said that he’s going to wear his tanking gear if we go back, but it was otherwise a fairly uneventful, albeit rather long, fight. Having killed Ony several times before the expansion, I was actually rather surprised at how simple the fight was with only four people. I think a lot of extra stress comes from dealing with healing 40 people worth of splash damage.
As luck would have it, two druid helms dropped, so none of us is sporting any fashionable tier 2 gear today. I did win the roll for the Onyxia Hide Backpack, though, making the third one I’ve gotten–the other two being on my priest. And the Hunter, who’s a leatherworker, got to turn in her head, meaning that he can now make Onyxia Scale Cloaks. Does this mean BWL is next?
