Onyxia

[Dominian]

The old and classic way of killing Onyxia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtvIYRrgZ04

Old but still fun!

[Boylston]

This inspired me to run my guys over there and whack her. None of them had ever killed her, so I got to inundate my guild channel with achievement spam... Always fun!



Laughably easy as a 4xHunter+Druid team. Gorillas just went nuts on her, huntards plinked away, and 5 minutes after entering the instance she was dead. I had to use four casts of wild growth for the whole encounter, I think. (Just topped everyone off after a breath or two.)

Did have some mana issues with huntards, but thankfully I dropped into Viper for 15sec or so and we were back in business...

[BobGnarly]

I assume you have FR aura up? Also, have you tried out 4x (glyphed) healing stream totems? It's pretty amazing what that can heal through. If you can get it so that you can just group up everybody and let the FR aura + healing stream totems take care of her fireball aoe, then it would be easy-mode for you from there.

[beyond-tec]

FR Aura up, mana stream during phase 1, healing stream during phase 2.

whelps are a bit annoying but consecration + thunderstorm works.

my problem:
ony is flying around and always out of range or not in front of me so I can't cast any spells.
If I start moving, my toons follow my main and the next firebolt hits my whole group
(I loose ~15-20% Life with my shamans when a firebolt hits the group)

so this is more running and chainhealing the group than DPS on Onyxia.

I need about 5 Minutes to get her to 60% life so she starts flying in phase2.
After another 5 Minutes I'm dead and she still got 58% life. So I always wonder - what the hell
have you done the last 5 minutes? She only lost 2% life? wtf? Yeah, because I was 5 minutes busy
running around and healing my toons. Zooming out, looking for ony, running towards her, casting
a frostshock and chain-healing my toons again.

any ideas?

I'd love to try it again this evening but only if I've got a new idea how to get her down.
Otherwise I'll go to stratholme farming cloth, essences and dust (oh, and my mount ofc).
I've made 600 gold yesterday with two UBRS runs :-D

[nomenquis]

whelps are a bit annoying but consecration + thunderstorm works.

my problem:
ony is flying around and always out of range or not in front of me so I can't cast any spells.
If I start moving, my toons follow my main and the next firebolt hits my whole group
(I loose ~15-20% Life with my shamans when a firebolt hits the group)

so this is more running and chainhealing the group than DPS on Onyxia.

I try to always make sure that one or two whelps are hitting the healer, and preferably more toons. Water shield _really_ shines then

As for moving, as I suggested previously, try to run either just the 3 dd or simply move each dd on its own.

Bunching up at 70 can be rather dangerous in case you get a deep breath and fail to resist a lot of it's dmg.

[Kaynin]

1x fire resist, 2x healing stream, 1x mana spring.
When 4-boxing this with 80 shammies my biggest problem is running out of mana when she's at 60% hp..

Can't really die, but after OOM the fight goes slowly.

You probably are in PvP spec/PvP gear then, no?

If you go in PvE spec it's nearly impossible to go oom. And even when you do go oom, you an still do 75% of the dps. :P

[Zub]

1x fire resist, 2x healing stream, 1x mana spring.
When 4-boxing this with 80 shammies my biggest problem is running out of mana when she's at 60% hp..

Can't really die, but after OOM the fight goes slowly.

>.< 4x80 shamies should blast through Ony without any problem.



for those having problems with whelps, remember that the fire elementals can take them out easily, and since they are fire immune they dont care about Ony's fireballs/breaths.

I soloed her on my holy pally (to see if i could do it), really wasn't difficult i don't think i went below 70% hp or mana during the fight. It was just sloooooow (1h10 to kill her) . Even got a warden to joni in the fight (the one that spawns near the door)
Got 136g plus about 15-20g worth of epic and 2 bags. Not worth the time involved imho, but a fun encounter for sure.
Next time i'll bring a heavy DPS to speed things up

[Cash]

thought it would be a nice and fast way to get some extra gold because I'm currently trying to get
my flight mounts (non-epic) and so I haven't got bought the WOTLK extension yet so I get gold instead of exp.

Not so much on the Ony part here (duoing her with 80), but why exactly do you want to get your flying mount before hitting Northrend? You can't use it there until you get 77 anyways.

[beyond-tec]

1. price for WOTLK is falling =)
waiting saves you money so I'm trying to get my chars
complete (with mounts etc.) while I'm waiting.

2. I've reached the level-cap. So I get gold instead of EXP. It is currently easy to make money.

3. Ony would be a nice weekly farm run (150G for ~15 Mins work).

[Ghallo]

If you want fast gold - do the Sunwell Dailies. If you do the MBox friendly ones you can complete several in about an hour - which was 125g per toon for me. That's a lot better than Ony