Onyxia lolore.

[Ksandra]

That's why those quests ARE NOT REPEATABLE with their heads. Any item you gain from a boss you kill and has a quest turn in, is a non repeatable quest. If it be, Algalon, Ony, Nef or anything.

why hello there Daily Heroics....

Head of Cyanigosa - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft

cyanigosa must have regrowable heads.

[Jodwahh]

But but it's a time traveling dragon so it keeps on traveling forward in time from the past from before it had it's head cut off so that make's perfect sense!

[Correction]

why hello there Daily Heroics....

Head of Cyanigosa - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft

cyanigosa must have regrowable heads.

Having my head cut off was merely a setback!

[Arvin]

why am i fighting the same bosses in 10man as in 25man i thought i already killed dem????

[Arvin]

why is my gear making my character good wouldnt it be better if i had less gear i can move more swiftly and why isnt everything dying in 1 hit like irl

[Ksandra]

Having my head cut off was merely a setback!

funny thing is, I've been doing H Vh so much I read that in her voice. :/

[Galkaeater]

its an anniversary celebration thing they probably wont come up with a canon story behind it if one at all they don't need to
its just a simple balance around lvl 80 players and thats it

[Tricen]

Oh god lol, they didn't zoom in on the raid configuration during the raid panel from the DTV stream...

File:Onyxia deep breath details.jpg - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft

Can you explain, I r WoWtarded

[Norellicus]

People have insisted since near-on day one of fighting Onyxia that there is a specific trigger (and ergo, things you should NOT do in the raid) to cause Deep Breath to occur, because it can happen never, once, or repeatedly, with no rhyme or reason why. It's technically her most deadly ability, albeit the most obvious to avoid, so obviously people are going to try to completely avoid it, rather than have to deal with teaching noobs (Onyxia was one of your first raids at 60, after Molten Core) how to avoid the breath constantly.

Tigole always insisted the ability was strictly random, and nothing the players did or didn't do had any effect on it. That table shows the raid editor; the panel was talking about what goes into creating raids, monsters, encounters, etc etc. They loaded up Onyxia both for giggles and to provide a more applicable look at something "current" since they're updating her for Lv80. What you can see there is every other ability she uses and the parameters of it -- she won't use tail swipe any earlier than 15sec into the fight, or any later than 20 sec in -- and she'll attempt to use it again at some random time (with equal probability to all her other attacks) between every 15-20 seconds after.

Deep Breath's parameters are obfuscated. It has no time window, and shares no specific probability with any other abilities. It is truly random, and not even blizzard knows what causes it. (in reality, it probably does have these sort of things set, but it's more just Blizzard's continual attempt to be lighthearted about it and quite probably also to say "No, we're not giving up this secret, this makes the encounter unique, deal with it")

[Blarg]

So didn't people go back and test the breaths when they were 80 and able to spend a bunch of time on each fight?

[Boyiee]

@Arvin

Can you please stop double posting in like every wow thread lol, ilu dude but come on.

[Correction]

So didn't people go back and test the breaths when they were 80 and able to spend a bunch of time on each fight?

There was a shitton of testing done at level 60, every theory about 'triggering' deep breaths proved false, giving credence to the 'it's just random' nature of the ability. Better guilds would sneer at any theory and say 'just burn her down so she can't breath more than once in P2.'

The fear of Deep Breaths is overblown, as it comes from a time when raids were 40 man, of whom maybe 20 were competent and could do things like not stand in the path of the fiery death. 'OH MY GOD HALF THE RAID IS DEAD FUCK DEEP BREATH' is a relic of an era where your typical raid was carrying around a lot of dead, useless weight.

[Ksandra]

this thread requires us to remember more dots:



Makes me wonder if this was the OP!

[Norellicus]

Nobody nerdrages like Dives does, it's awesome.

Should hear him at ragnaros lol

[Correction]

All of the Onyxia80 Achievements seem to be named after that rant.

[Ksandra]

All of the Onyxia80 Achievements seem to be named after that rant.

hence why I posted "ok more dots, more dots, more dots, come on guys more dots....now stop dots"

[Sonomaa]

I distinctly remember killing deathwing in WarCraft2 Beyond the Dark Portal.

I JUST NEGATED YOUR ENTIRE NEW EXPANSION GUYZ. HOW YOU LIEK ME NAO.

[Quicklet]

It was only a setback?

[Correction]

http://i26.tinypic.com/10nf98g.jpg

[Arvin]

i actually never have seen the alliance ony head up before, interesting. having her head up on a pike is better!