The Great Onyxia Race

[MongoJerry]

However, the remainder of the raid did a great job of stabilizing the situation. Sabik came over, drew aggro onto himself, and pulled Onyxia to the north wall. The surviving healers did a great job of picking up the slack and keeping Sabik alive.



The remaining healers picked up the slack, but there was still a major problem. There weren't enough of them. The healing corps was down to four priests, four shamans, and one druid, and their mana bars were draining quickly. The remaining druid had already used his combat resurrection and all the other rezers were in combat, so we didn't have an immediate way of getting the rest of the raid back up. After some discussion, it was decided that Nerrad, one of our shamans, would suicide and then self-resurrect himself ("ankh") to get himself out of combat, which would allow him to start resurrecting the rest of the raid. He resurrected some priests who then resurrected other priests and druids who then resurrected other players.



I was resurrected when Onyxia's life was at 20%, and by 15% the entire healing battery was up and at full mana. Most of the healers and ranged dps characters got up on the ledges on either side of the room, where they wouldn't run into lava spurts when Onyxia feared them. Now that we had recovered from the near disaster of the transition period from Phase II to Phase III, things were working like clockwork.



Go go go!



When Onyxia had a sliver of life left, we were told to pour on the dps. Onyxia continued to put up a major fight.



But it wasn't enough to overcome this group of heros, and after 17 minutes and 11 seconds, the great dragon fell. (New contest: See who can kill Onyxia the fastest? Just kidding!)



This was a great accomplishment for this group. They didn't win the original race, but they could at least console themselves with the fact that once they got their full regular raiding party together, they were able to take Onyxia down on their first attempt. (In contrast, it took the GV/Basin group three tries to take her down again the day before). Onyxia dropped the following loot:



The Offenders uses a modified DKP point system to distribute loot among guildmates and those who raid with them regularly. At this point, I still had negative DKP points after winning my Belt of Transcendence on a previous run, so I didn't have an opportunity to roll on loot this time. However, due to this run, I'm back in positive point territory, so I will be able to roll on loot we find in the future.