As much as I fought with myself...sometimes violently...to NOT come back to WoW...
I'm back.
I'm a bear.
I'm not going to be anything but a bear unless I am bored enough to heal a 5 man instance now and again.
I'm not raiding, I like the freedom.
I'm addicted to mount farming.
I still religiously farm Ashes of Al'ar. It's still refusing to drop.
I'm not as much of an alt-o-holic anymore. Time is extremely limited.
Where did I go...well, like Thomas Rhett sings, "life changes." And it did. Drastically. It wasn't that I got mad at the expansion or a patch or a nerf or anything like that...my computer couldn't keep up and honestly, life was keeping me happy and busy enough that I just didn't have the time to play much.
I have even less time now, but I think everyone needs something they can do for stress relief. That's why I haven't unlocked flying in two out of the newest three expansions or worked on any Glory achievements. I just spend the time I can play farming mounts or exploring. I'm not interested in raiding or really dungeon grinding anymore. I come here to relieve stress, not cause more of it!
With that, I apologize if the blog transforms into a n00bfest of farming posts and other less-than-exciting adventures. One of the main reasons I keep the blog to begin with isn't necessarily to teach anyone about the game, though that used to be one of the reasons. The core reason I started this blog was because, well let's be honest - we all invest a lot of time and a lot of ourselves in our characters. They're a digital extension of us in this virtual world. I just wanted to keep a journal for my druid of things that happened (especially back when this game was my escape from life and it took up so much of my time) to look back on and enjoy. Isn't that why anyone keeps a journal? To capture moments, good and bad, for reflection?
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Dragon Soul: Solo
Hey, hello and hi! I'm back :)
I've been working on farming the blazing drake, as I previously mentioned, for the Awake the Drakes achievement and the reins of the emerald drake. That means I spend some quality time with the gang in Dragon Soul every week.
I have a few friends that struggle with one of the fights and asked me to help so I thought maybe I'd write down a few of my notes. I wanted to take a video to post here of myself in the Spine fight but I'm not sure I really want to download all of the stuff necessary to do so and I've never really edited video before. I'm not sure I'd be great at it. ANYWAY...
I believe there are three dragon mounts you can obtain from here:
Experiment 12-B
The Life-Binder's Handmaiden
Reins of the Blazing Drake
The Experiment drops from Ultraxion while the other two drop from Madness. Ideally, I'd like to obtain all three of these (one down, two to go!) but I'd settle for Blazing for the moment :)
I wanted to kind of touch on soloing this raid. Most of it is an absolute cake-walk on heroic, regular and it doesn't seem to matter if you're running 10 or 25 man...all but one of these fights are pretty straightforward. The only one that seems to get people frustrated is Spine of Deathwing.
I was taught by a friend to use a strafing method, but as I found out this morning, there is another way folks are accomplishing this fight. Interesting!
First, I'll explain the method I use because it's what I'm most familiar with...but I'm going to start with a disclaimer: It took me a few tries to "get it", so don't get frustrated if you have to try a few times. Once it clicks, you'll be a pro at the dance and you'll have your drakes in no time! (Right, loot gods?)
After you smash face through the first three bosses - you'll end up on the boat. There's not much special about the boat fight other than you should PROBABLY try to protect the Skyfire....you know, stand in a twilight onslaught or two? Yeah. I do that. Maybe it's an old raid habit that just won't die, I'm not sure. That's the only thing I do during the boat fight that isn't straightforward face-roll mode.
Once that's over, you get yourself dropped onto deathwing.
Now for the strafe method, you only kill one tentacle. The Amalgamation will spawn but don't touch him yet. What you're going to do is strafe or run back and forth from side to side on Deathwing's back as close to his shoulders/armor plate as possible.
Once your Amalgamation has spawned, you'll get a corrupted blood every few moments. Let him come to you and kill him near the armor plate you're strafing near. You can one-shot them. As a bear, I tab-target and hit them with a moonfire. Bam. Game over, little guy. The amalg will still be really mad at you, so run him over the smear from where you just killed the corrupted blood. He'll gain a stack of Absorbed Blood. Once the amalgamation has 9 stacks, take him as close to the armor plate as possible and kill him. Once he's dead, continue to strafe and kill the tendons.
Boom. Money. Oh...btw...when I say strafe, you don't have to run back and forth too far. You actually just need to move between either side of the ridge in Deathwing's back. There's no need to turn it into a distance event.
The other method suggests that when you kill the first corruption, you sit in the well left behind. If Deathwing should roll, you'll be held on his back back by grasping tendrils. One guide suggests you kill the first amalgamation, another one suggests you just let him beat on you until you get the stacks of absorbed blood you need.
One guide suggested you wait for 9 bloods then AOE them down while the other suggests that you kill them as they spawn. Once you know you've killed 9, you kill one of the other corruptions - grab your amalgamation and walk him over the blood "spots" then drag him by the armor plate and kill him.
My only real concern with the second method is that, well...anything not attached to Deathwing's back by the grasping tendrils is going to fall when he rolls...bad guys included. I could just picture it being painfully frustrating. That's all.
Now, that's exactly how you do the achievement though! Just have to kill one corruption on each side - then sit in the left one, tell him to roll over, move to the right one, ask him to roll over again, and repeat! Free nerdpoints.
Again, I apologize for not making a video...I'll try if I have some free time that doesn't involve being mauled by my own cubs :) but hopefully this sheds some light on how to do this. Feel free to comment or message me with questions/suggestions always!
I've been working on farming the blazing drake, as I previously mentioned, for the Awake the Drakes achievement and the reins of the emerald drake. That means I spend some quality time with the gang in Dragon Soul every week.
I have a few friends that struggle with one of the fights and asked me to help so I thought maybe I'd write down a few of my notes. I wanted to take a video to post here of myself in the Spine fight but I'm not sure I really want to download all of the stuff necessary to do so and I've never really edited video before. I'm not sure I'd be great at it. ANYWAY...
I believe there are three dragon mounts you can obtain from here:
Experiment 12-B
The Life-Binder's Handmaiden
Reins of the Blazing Drake
The Experiment drops from Ultraxion while the other two drop from Madness. Ideally, I'd like to obtain all three of these (one down, two to go!) but I'd settle for Blazing for the moment :)
I wanted to kind of touch on soloing this raid. Most of it is an absolute cake-walk on heroic, regular and it doesn't seem to matter if you're running 10 or 25 man...all but one of these fights are pretty straightforward. The only one that seems to get people frustrated is Spine of Deathwing.
I was taught by a friend to use a strafing method, but as I found out this morning, there is another way folks are accomplishing this fight. Interesting!
First, I'll explain the method I use because it's what I'm most familiar with...but I'm going to start with a disclaimer: It took me a few tries to "get it", so don't get frustrated if you have to try a few times. Once it clicks, you'll be a pro at the dance and you'll have your drakes in no time! (Right, loot gods?)
After you smash face through the first three bosses - you'll end up on the boat. There's not much special about the boat fight other than you should PROBABLY try to protect the Skyfire....you know, stand in a twilight onslaught or two? Yeah. I do that. Maybe it's an old raid habit that just won't die, I'm not sure. That's the only thing I do during the boat fight that isn't straightforward face-roll mode.
Once that's over, you get yourself dropped onto deathwing.
Now for the strafe method, you only kill one tentacle. The Amalgamation will spawn but don't touch him yet. What you're going to do is strafe or run back and forth from side to side on Deathwing's back as close to his shoulders/armor plate as possible.
Once your Amalgamation has spawned, you'll get a corrupted blood every few moments. Let him come to you and kill him near the armor plate you're strafing near. You can one-shot them. As a bear, I tab-target and hit them with a moonfire. Bam. Game over, little guy. The amalg will still be really mad at you, so run him over the smear from where you just killed the corrupted blood. He'll gain a stack of Absorbed Blood. Once the amalgamation has 9 stacks, take him as close to the armor plate as possible and kill him. Once he's dead, continue to strafe and kill the tendons.
Boom. Money. Oh...btw...when I say strafe, you don't have to run back and forth too far. You actually just need to move between either side of the ridge in Deathwing's back. There's no need to turn it into a distance event.
The other method suggests that when you kill the first corruption, you sit in the well left behind. If Deathwing should roll, you'll be held on his back back by grasping tendrils. One guide suggests you kill the first amalgamation, another one suggests you just let him beat on you until you get the stacks of absorbed blood you need.
One guide suggested you wait for 9 bloods then AOE them down while the other suggests that you kill them as they spawn. Once you know you've killed 9, you kill one of the other corruptions - grab your amalgamation and walk him over the blood "spots" then drag him by the armor plate and kill him.
My only real concern with the second method is that, well...anything not attached to Deathwing's back by the grasping tendrils is going to fall when he rolls...bad guys included. I could just picture it being painfully frustrating. That's all.
Now, that's exactly how you do the achievement though! Just have to kill one corruption on each side - then sit in the left one, tell him to roll over, move to the right one, ask him to roll over again, and repeat! Free nerdpoints.
Again, I apologize for not making a video...I'll try if I have some free time that doesn't involve being mauled by my own cubs :) but hopefully this sheds some light on how to do this. Feel free to comment or message me with questions/suggestions always!
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