Comments on: Onyxia vs The Argent Coliseum

By: Delany

Delany — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:15:01 +0000

We met the faction champions for the first time last night in 10m. Although its a fun fight, its a terrible game design decision to put that encounter in.
It took us three hours, but we did it.

By: Simon Jones who is blogless

Simon Jones who is blogless — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:44:11 +0000

Onyxia’s lore actually made me slightly bitter as a young hordie back in the day. There was actually so little in the way of epic horde centric storylines in Vanilla with a lot of the dungeons seeming to consist of, from the horde end ‘And then we burst in, killed a bunch of guys and took their stuff’ compared to things like Deadmines and then the alliance gets this big event where Lady Wozzerface is revealed to be Onyxia? I still feel a little gypped.

By: Angry Raider

Angry Raider — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:20:44 +0000

I think Rend Blackhand in UBRS was the first boss with phases that I ever fought. You start the event, kill the waves of mobs, then Rend comes out on his mount. You fight him until he’s off his mount, then kill them separately.

Some people might argue that the big tauren in Deadmines has two phases (he warstomps and switches weapons).

I will agree though that Ony’s phases were the most epic. I remember the sense of dread I’d feel when she would alight in phase 2.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:58:38 +0000

Don’t forget she dropped the first non-craftable 18 slot bag!

By: Klepsacovic

Klepsacovic — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:49:14 +0000

The second is the biggest one for me: You know exactly why you are fighting her. The Horde and Alliance have slightly different reasons, but we use the same lore, so it’s consistent.

Her cave is more interesting as well, with flames shooting up, lava flowing, and the ceiling looks ready to cave in on us… The Coliseum is a bit dull, with the spectators being more of a distraction out o the corner of your eye. Also I don’t like the pacing of it very much. However I don’t hate it, I did it finally and found it to be pretty fun, though I’m glad I don’t have interest in farming it.

By: Kring

Kring — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:06:00 +0000

And she’s a dragon!

In addition to that, she was incredible difficult (for the MC raids) but didn’t block a whole tier because she was in her own instance.

Also, the event in the Stormwind keep was, in my opinion, the best WoW ever offered. Nothing was ever and will ever be able to be as atmospheric as this event. It was phasing before the stupid, bad done wrathgate event, in some way. You changed the keep for hours. There were dragons everywhere. Mighty NPC which never even bothered to talk to you, were finally protecting you. Endangering themselves to save your life.

And before I forget, the most important reason: She is a dragon! Not only that, but a flying dragon!