The Secrets of Foror's Compendium of Dragonslaying

[TheDragoon]

At this point, the avarice alliance on Stormrage had only downed Onyxia once. Similarly, Skybreak was not keyed for Onyxia. Therefore, there was quite a few things that had to go right in order to do this part of the quest. I went through the whole questline to get her a key for Onyxia. Also, at this time a number of things prevented me from attending the Onyxia raids that we had scheduled so I had to wait a while. On a positive note, this gave me time to find some better gear for Skybreak so that when she eventually did find her way into an Onyxia raid, she was fully decked out in +defense gear, had some good weapons, and a decent amount of fire resistance.

Once I finally got into a raid, the actual execution of this quest isn't much more difficult than what you normally do for Onyxia. I waited until Onyxia was at 10% life (when we were almost assured of taking her out since you would have to run back to Dire Maul to get another sword in order to try it a second time if you had already thrown the sword down and then wipe), ran up to the main tank and dropped the sword. Onyxia breathed on the sword, I picked it up out of the ground and plunged it into her corpse when she died.



This gave me the Treated Ancient Blade.





With this done, I had completed the quest and once again set out toward Dire Maul to turn in the sword.



Once I got there, I sneaked in through Dire Maul to the northern entrance and ran down to the Library. Once there, I turned in the quest...







...and got my reward!



Quel'Serrar is one heck of a sword for tanking. First off, it has +12 stamina on it which beats out most one-handed weapons. Secondly, it is a fast attacking weapon with a high dps. It has a comparable damage to the slow blue end-game weapons but is a faster attacking sword so it evens out rage generation very nicely. Finally, the sword has an awesome ability called "Sanctuary" which increases defense and armor for 15 seconds. This ability procs very, very often so I generally notice that I have more armor and defense about half the time that I use the sword or so. Definitely nice.

But above all else, it's one of the coolest-looking weapons I've seen with its awesome green glow and gigantic blade. It's very distinctive which is as it should be, in my opinion, for a weapon of such epic proportions. :)