Quote Originally Posted by 'Starbuck_Jones',index.php?page=Thread&postID=1857 26#post185726
You can just blast the dragon out of the sky before killing the two guards, then all you have to do is kill the rider, when the dragon lands he will have no hp's and you should be able to finish it off in one hit. hardest boss is the first in that zone. The daemon guy wont engage in melee so its a strait up mage fight, Just spread out so only one guy gets hit with the shadow debuff, but with your firepower, you can prolly kill him before he gets it off.
That has been my method of doing it. Rather than trying to run back, and not aggro the rider, and deal with the first 2 guards respawning, I just pew pew the dragon as he passes overhead until he is at 1% (he wont die, so dont bother holding back) then start the fight as normal, rider lands, and just nuke him. When the dragon lands, one shot takes him out, then finish off the rider. With my 4x shaman and DK group, it was trivially easy. Engaging him normally sucks balls due to all the fireballs, and if you dont spread the toons out, they all get hit (he randomly targets toons to drop fireballs on...)

Before I knew of this trick, I would just skip this boss... Now its an easy farm