Quote Originally Posted by 'Fleecy',index.php?page=Thread&postID=87713#post87 713
Thats the same strategy I use and it works exceptionally well. Though you should also drop Tremor totems as the dragon will do 1-2 fears during the fight. As soon as the dragon lands I drop all Earth Elementals to pickup the rider and they will also aggro the dragon.

Sometimes the rider will de-spawn and bug the fight. This happened to me a few times, and sometimes the 2 mobs that start the event will not respawn. When this happens you have to zone out, wait 35 minutes and zone back in. And ofcause the entire instance has repopped - with the exception of the bosses.
Hmm, it could have just been chance but he only seemed to fear when I did it the original way of running in an aggroing both the dragon and rider. When I killed him first he never feared. I'll chalk that up to luck though as it isn't hard to keep tremors up and could prevent a wipe.