The Fifth Attempt

By the time we started the fifth attempt, we were down to 34 people because of the lateness of the hour. (Again, I was having a funny sense of de ja vu). We decided to give Onyxia one last go for the evening.

By the time we started the fifth attempt, we were down to 34 people because of the lateness of the hour. (Again, I was having a funny sense of de ja vu). We decided to give Onyxia one last go for the evening.

Phase II started with no problems.

We got Onyxia down to less than half health, and we were still going strong. The dot's were being kept on her, the whelps were being dealt with, and we had only lost a couple of people.

At 42% health, we got ready for phase III. Things were looking good. We were spread out, dealing with whelps well, and keeping the dps on Onyxia up. Most importantly, we hadn't induced any Deep Breaths.

And then...

Right before she was about to land for Phase III, Onyxia decided to do a Deep Breath, which tore through an already shorthanded raid.

Onyxia landed shortly thereafter and the aoe fear and lava kicked in. Still, the remainder of the group showed excellent poise. Druids resurrected priests and those priests tried to resurrect others. People tried to kill the leftover whelps.

However, someone got feared or knocked into the egg pit at one point, spawning a couple dozen whelps. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. Wipe.

Still, we had to look back on what was a pretty amazing achievement. We were a shorthanded raid that absorbed a Deep Breath, yet and we still took Onyxia down to 23%. If we could get a full raid together and work out the leftover kinks in our system, we'd be golden. Just a few more attempts, I figured, and we'd have this thing. The finish line was just a sprint away.

As we were logging off for the evening, one of the raid members relayed the results of the Grim Vengeance/Basin/others Onyxia raid. They had taken her down to 11%.