The Great Onyxia Race

[MongoJerry]

The Third Attempt



It was clear that our main problem was the transition from Phase II into Phase III, so several people made macros to use for when Onyxia was got close to 40% health that would remind people to move away from the southern part of the chamber.

Phase I went smoothly, as usual.



Phase II started. Looking good.



Whelps? Handled.



Dps on Onyxia? Check.



Everyone spread out? Check.



Phase II was starting to feel easy now. The Blizzard developers should make Onyxia do at least one Deep Breath on each run just to shake things up.



At 40%, Vince sent out the call, "She's landing soon. Follow your side leaders... COME TO US OR DIE." We cleared away from the southern part of the room to get away from where Onyxia would land and where the egg pits were. Not a single person had died in all of Phases I or II.



In their haste to move north, it looks like the anti-whelp groups left a couple whelps unkilled. Oh, well, I dispatched this whelp myself.

And still Onyxia didn't land. When Onyxia hadn't landed at 35% health, we started wondering if we were in a bugged instance. We had had to kill seven warders on the way in, remember, so it wouldn't have surprised us to see Onyxia bug up. Several people wondered nervously if Onyxia would Deep Breath us.



But she finally did land and this time the raid was ready for her. Venom got aggro and pulled her to the north wall, and the raid party was split up on the northwest and northeast sides of the chamber, waiting for her.