Soloing Onyxia
With all this new content to explore and explain, would I even think about making a new post about Vanilla WoW content? Well, yes indeed I am!
Today I logged in to do my Argent Crusade, Fishing, Cooking and Jewelcrafting dailies but somehow got sidetracked by an old friend…. Onyxia. I haven’t seen Onyxia in … well, years … so I thought I would pay the old broad a visit.
I had heard whisperings of all sorts of folks soloing Onyxia, so I started to ponder if a prot warrior could solo Onyxia. I knew that some sort of healing would be required, so I started tinkering with builds that included Bloodthirst.
I ended up going with this build. I slapped in a Glyph of Bloodthirst, threw on my old 4 piece epic Illidan Fire Resist gear and headed out to Onyxia’s Lair to give it a whirl. I had about 500 defense, 25k hp, and 200 fire resist.
Well, long story short, about 30ish minutes later, Onyxia lay dead at my feet, and I was clearing bag space for all the phat lewt. In the end, it was was not all that challenging. I never had any close calls, never got below 50% health, and only used enraged regeneration once during the transition from phase 2 to phase 3. Next time around, I’ll likely drop some of the FR gear in favor of more DPS gear to make the fight shorter, assuming I actually ever do go solo Onyxia again!
The hardest part of the encounter was chasing Onyxia around during Phase 2 and meleeing her down. For the most part, other than the intial group of whelps, I just ignored the whelps and let Thunder Clap kill them off when I had accumulated a few.
In the end, it was a bit of fun and an interesting diversion. I will admit, it is a bit saddening to be able to take down a once end game boss with such ease. Such is the way the game goes!
Onyxia Down!
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Posted: April 24th, 2009 under Tanking, Warriors.
By Bizzam
Comments
Comment from Shalandra
Time April 24, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Well done. I wanted to do that as well, but I stopped playing before 3.1. I’ll reactivate my account soon, just so that I can complete the Noblegarden achievements (and the following seasonal things). It’s impossible to do Onyxia without a bloodthirst spec (and I was pretty thick headed about it) and I didn’t feel like respeccing every week for it, preferring to keep myself at 5g respec costs (out of tradition). Now with dual spec it’s all that much easier.
Comment from Ebenthorin
Time April 30, 2009 at 7:35 pm
I gave this a try, same spec, in my block gear last night. Had a block value over 1500, the melee damage was non-existant, but the fire damage was a bit rough. enraged regen and blood thirst kept me fine through phase 1, but in phase 2 I couldn’t get enough regen to keep up through the fire damage.
-Eben
Comment from Hannibal
Time May 6, 2009 at 5:12 am
Well you can’t expect old content to be as hard as new content. Not to mention that the new players would not have the fun to kill her :) So with one sentence… You are to old for her :D
But… Grats :))
Comment from Bizzam
Time May 6, 2009 at 9:19 am
@Eben – Yeah, I wore roughly 200 fire resist to mitigate the fire damage =)
Comment from Jackie45
Time April 24, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Well grats! I heard it was hard for warriors, compared to ferals, ele shamans and even resto druids (lol) who were soloing her for a long time before their nerfed her gold output :(