03-07-2006, 06:30 AM
My Beast master hunter solo farms the dragons, in the early mouth of the cave all the time. I'm doing it mainly to get scales to make the bluedragon scale sets but I know the spawns and the paths very well. I don't know if would solo them with anything other than a hunter though because I hate down time. I just gimp sting (scorpid) them which knocks the damage they do down by a good 50 to 60 per swing and drops their crit rate and then aimed shot them down on the big melee guys (my aimed only crits in the 1400-1500 range I'm still in blues, so it's just the gorewood bow). I mostly autoshot on the casters to regen mana, pop bestial wrath whenever it's available mostly to help speed the fights, intimidate if I get a few crits in a row as long as the pet is healthy, if not I'll plunk a few more times and then disengage to get more damage in.
Whelp packs I send the pet in, get it to growl twice per dragonkin and then multi shot them down. I sometimes have to mend pet depending on where I'm at just so I can move my little cirle without dealing with pats. I sometimes bandage the pet after a fight or mend it after a fight depending . Of course since I'm generally leveling a pet in there (after it hits 57 I can level it while grinding in there I uses the furbies to get it there and I've now got a cat, wolf and turtle).
If I take the turtle in, 6500 armor on the little bugger, I just don't have to worry. Sure he's about 15 - 20 DPS lower than my cat, but well that is still the same DPS as not beast master cats do so he does fine. I've changed my cat over to my PvP pet. The turtle is when we don't have a warrior and I'm MT for an instance and the wolf will likely be the raid pet for furious howl, though if the pet is being used as an offtank (and it has in ZG) I'll use the cat because the cat is still my best aggro pet with the higher DPS and the added aggro that claw can give, so bite + manual claws (and with the focus talent I can use claw) I can hold aggro in a 20 man raid of ZG with it and I don't need the healing on it since the focus target dies so fast.
But anyway hunters can solo the dragonkin, in blue gear (though I am up to 4/8 beastalker, I still haven't been in DM West, and Tribute has only netted me a barbarous, which I don't use a lot and a tarnished elven ring so far, my chest is still a green) in the cave too.
If I really want to farm fast and Treesh is in the mood she brings her shaman and we tear it up. Add a thrid in and we can take everything but Scryer in that cave and actually we might be able to but since he is for the Onyxia key chain for the horde his drops sucks.
Taranna has also successfully solo farmed those dragons (my druid) as both feral and resto build but it was too taxing and slow. My hunter just doesn't worry about it.
Whelp packs I send the pet in, get it to growl twice per dragonkin and then multi shot them down. I sometimes have to mend pet depending on where I'm at just so I can move my little cirle without dealing with pats. I sometimes bandage the pet after a fight or mend it after a fight depending . Of course since I'm generally leveling a pet in there (after it hits 57 I can level it while grinding in there I uses the furbies to get it there and I've now got a cat, wolf and turtle).
If I take the turtle in, 6500 armor on the little bugger, I just don't have to worry. Sure he's about 15 - 20 DPS lower than my cat, but well that is still the same DPS as not beast master cats do so he does fine. I've changed my cat over to my PvP pet. The turtle is when we don't have a warrior and I'm MT for an instance and the wolf will likely be the raid pet for furious howl, though if the pet is being used as an offtank (and it has in ZG) I'll use the cat because the cat is still my best aggro pet with the higher DPS and the added aggro that claw can give, so bite + manual claws (and with the focus talent I can use claw) I can hold aggro in a 20 man raid of ZG with it and I don't need the healing on it since the focus target dies so fast.
But anyway hunters can solo the dragonkin, in blue gear (though I am up to 4/8 beastalker, I still haven't been in DM West, and Tribute has only netted me a barbarous, which I don't use a lot and a tarnished elven ring so far, my chest is still a green) in the cave too.
If I really want to farm fast and Treesh is in the mood she brings her shaman and we tear it up. Add a thrid in and we can take everything but Scryer in that cave and actually we might be able to but since he is for the Onyxia key chain for the horde his drops sucks.
Taranna has also successfully solo farmed those dragons (my druid) as both feral and resto build but it was too taxing and slow. My hunter just doesn't worry about it.
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