Guild Mum

Well, it had been quite a journey from the first time I went to Onyxia. I first went about 4 years ago, on my rogue, Lorienne. Back then it was a 40 person raid. You HAD to have fire resistance potions. You HAD to have your own bandages, healing portions and Whipper Root Tubers. It was a horrible experience as a rogue. There was a tiny spot where you could dps and you had to not get aggro at all ever. When she took off she was so hard to find and hit and keep out of the way the the whelps. Phase 3 was hideous. Continual fear into fire which really hurt, no heals at all because rogues were not worth healing so you had to chomp all your tubers, potions and bandage all the time and still be expected to do uber dps. And if (or most likely for me, when) you died the raid leader would shout at you for being useless. But the feeling of achievement on the rare occasion when I did help kill her without dying was enormous.

So - running down the corridor to meet the new, revised Onyxia was a strange feeling. Here I was as a healer. I didn’t have to worry about whether I was standing too close to her tail, or about running to the walls when she did her deep breath - I could hug the walls (apart from near the whelp caves). It was stange with only 10 of us there though. I mean, you need 10 for just the whelps don’t you?

We charged in. I must admit I was a bit nervous - we’d not discussed tactics or anything. People had said she was easy, but I had a nasty feeling that she wouldn’t be a complete pushover. We did OK until she got into the air. I think people forgot to carry on killing her and all went for the whelps instead. She did a deep breath. It hurt. Too many people died and we wiped.

We went through the tactics again. Now that people had actually seen what she did, things felt a bit better. Next time went really fast.

We got a server first I think because nobody got hit by the deep breath! I have absolutely no idea how we did it so quick and without a deep breath, but we did. Hurrah!

The loot was rubbish - I really wish Blizzard made it so that the loot that dropped didn’t give things for classes that you don’t have in your raid. I’m sure it wouldn’t be hard and would really add to the raiding experience. It was such a shame to see the rogue hood going when we had no rogues and so typical that I was there on my priest!