Dragon hunt

Missed posting yesterday ...

We did go dragon hunting and it was both an excellent display of teamwork and a let down for me at the same time ... The dragon in question is called Onyxia and the fight to kill her comes in 3 phases.

Phase 1 - she's staying still and our job is to make sure she stays on the warrior. Which means our usual Hit As Hard As Possible technique gets watered down. In this phase, she's on the ground and can either breathe on an area or whip with her tail. Both can do lots of damage, so the thing to do is stay out of the way.
Phase 2 - she's up in the air. We need to keep her attention on the warrior but in this bit, she tends to do a "deep breath", which precedes her breathing Big Fire on the raid group. If there's no clusters of people, the deep breath doesn't happen.
Phase 3 - she's back on the ground again as per Phase 1. This time though, she fears people ... There's things you can do about fear but if you break the fear when the warrior isn't feared, Onyxia will turn around and eat half the raid group. There's also molten lava coming out of the floor, which people have a tendency to run over.

How did it go ? On a fight like this, with people who haven't done it before (me!), you would expect to get wiped out a few times and have to start again ... Amazingly, we actually did it on the first try ! Stunning hey ... Time to go back to Orgrimmar and annoy everyone by having a party in front of where Onyxia's head gets put on a big spiky pole.

So why was it a let down for me ? I died ! In phase 3, I strayed a little too far south. Add that to a badly timed fear that had me running a little more south. Stir in a little bit of Onyxia style Tail Baseball Home Run and you get a me going for a flying lesson into a pit ... Couldn't see a thing ! Better luck next time for me :-)