Druids walk into Onyxia's Lair ...

[Kevin]

The following thread in the English WoW forum reports that a Druid-only party has beaten Onyxia during the 2nd attempt!

Albeit the party seems to be very well equipped with MC/BWL gear, I think this a noteworthy accomplishment. Congratulations! :D

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I wonder if a similarly well equipped Shaman-only or Paladin-only party could do the same?
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That's very cool.

I don't think paladins could get through phase 2. Only attacks would be judging righteousness (or command but it would do less damage since she wouldn't be stunned) every 8 to 10 seconds depending on talents and holy shock every 30. They could muster maybe 1000 DPS in phase 2. That's what, 3-5 hunters worth of DPS? And the whelps would take forever to bring down as well which would just drop DPS on her more.

Phase 1 and Phase 3 wouldn't be too horribly bad if they all new to be smart and get to the tanking spot if they got aggro. But there would be no traditional tanking, even with wisdom up the mana pool would run down too quickly for even a high aggro paladin to keep it up I think. Sure the rest of the raid having salvation would help with that (just have the tank click it off and be the only one with righteous fury for a decent boost over the rest of the aggro generation) but I'm still not sure that would be enough.

I was in a all paladin MC raid on the test realms for 1.9 and it was not pretty with aggro control, of course we know more about paladin aggro now, but Ony would still be tough on the aggro side and the DPS in phase 2 would lead to a lot of deep breaths. If you could get her down to 19% so that the hammers could fly you could actually get some pretty solid phase 3 DPS.

Shaman would have similar issues with the mana pool for aggro and the physical damage she does would get somewhat harsh on the tank, though the healing would be stronger and if you had enough shaman with mana tide in the tanks group to keep the mana pool up (that and the trinket reward) you might be able to overcome that issue and keep that rockbiter, windfury totem tank monster with aggro. Phase 2 would be a lot simpler for the shaman.

I don't think the other "hybrids" could do it though. As mentioned sustainable aggro would be an issue and keeping mana levels high enough to

It would be interesting to see what 40 hunters could do with her too. Train pets with 120 FR and as much HP and armor as you can add the "tank" hunter just mends pet until OOM that pet dies and the next takes over. :) She is taunt immune, but is she growl immune (since growl just adds a set amount of threat)?

What about 40 warlocks? How well can you kite her and drain life? :) Sac the "tank" voidy (if suffering works on her, same question as growl) when you can't keep it up for the sheild so you can get yourself healed but wil another pet be able to take over? How long would the sucubus that were doing DPS last? Sure each party would have an imp out for the buff and there would be drain tanking galore but could you rotate it well enough so that all the debuff slots weren't filled with it?