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Comment by Muspel

This is a fairly straightforward achievement: just make sure that people stack up where the barrage will land. If a barrage lands without anyone being there to soak it, then you'll fail the achievement.

You should only need a couple of people for each barrage. Two should do it on 10-man, although three is a lot safer. On 25-man, three is survivable, but four is safer.

Comment by GMChocolate

Twilight Barrage is the attack the Twilight Assault Drakes use during the fight. According to the Dungeon Journal the damage you recieve by the attack is 140000 shared by the people it hits in both 10 and 25 man so having 2 or 3 people soak the damage from the attack is enough. Getting this achievement should be a lot easier in 25 man simply because you have more people to spread on the ship than on 10 man.

After all the Twilight Assault Drakes are killed Warmaster Blackhorn boards the ship and you no longer have to worry about soaking Twilight Barrage for the rest of the fight.

Comment by 78194

Completed this Achievement tonight but was not awarded it.

There appears to be a bug in it. If anyone knows how to work around the bug, that would be great.

Here is the log of our failed attempt:
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/khusbc6ianeqlzmb/details/111/?s=4519&e=4744
As you can see, one Barrage did get through:
Twilight Assault Drake Twilight Barrage The Skyfire 210000

Here is the log of our Kill
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/khusbc6ianeqlzmb/details/111/?s=4957&e=5254
As you can see, no damage Twilight Barrage hit the ship.
No sappers hit the ship.
And all onslaughts were split among the raid.

Edit:
We split the Raid into 4 groups along the length of the ship. Marked out 4 groups using raid markers (3 ranged groups, 1 melee (with the melee in the middleish of the ship)). Each group had 1 Dedicated soaker and at least 1 healer, but even then each was responsible for Barrages in their area. This also helped to reduce charge damage. by spreading the raid around the adds so that their charges would not pwn face.

We had 3 players Soaking Barrage's, all Boomkin/Warlocks (with glyphe Soul Link). With their damage reduction talents, they were able to solo soak the Barrages. We even had them stay out for the Twilight onslaught (just in case a barrage came down then).

To make this easier, we had Everyone Focus down 1 Dragon (melee included) and range focus on burning the 2nd before it departs. Killing the Dragons ASAP allowed us to vastly reduce the amount of Barrages we had to soak. We also set our ranged to focus on DoTing the Dragons even when they were not in Impaled.

Hope this helps... and hopefully we'll get it again as easily this week on the first try (maybe that's why we weren't awarded it!)

Comment by 570163

Seems to be bugged.

Here is the log of our kill: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-5zg1ukzscpiud4d8/details/57/?s=1101&e=1407

As you can see, no barrage ever damaged the ship.

However, no achievement.

Comment by 501593

I guess you've got to..
*Puts on sunglasses*
Catch them all.
YEEEAAAAAAAHHHH!

Comment by 964277

We had done this achivement with my guild already few times on 25 man.

Few tips:
- every barrage has to hit at least one player (even on 25 man)
- split your raid on deck, and dont run too far away from your positions
- zerg drakes fast :)
- on normal you can even ignore few Sappers
- do not run all to Gorionas Twilight Onslaught, have some people ready to catch Barrages when others are in Onslaught.

Also, as a bonus, im adding video how we made it (first time):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHModPoGLiU

Comment by 347714

The Deck Defender achievement is earned by preventing any attacks from the Twilight Assault Drakes from hitting the deck of the ship. As long as at least one player soaks the barrage, the ship is not damaged and the achievement is preserved.

On 10-man, an individual can soak the Twilight Barrage and survive (especially as the Power of the Aspects raid nerf stacks). On 25-man, though, two players are required to soak the ; however, a solo player can survive with a significant personal cooldown, and may be able to survive without one as the Power of the Aspects raid nerf stacks higher.

The easiest way to succeed on this achievement is to divide the raid into four groups to cover each of the four quadrants of the ship deck (using the crossbeams of the ship as a guide), to ensure that a soaker is available (or several, in 25-man) to each area of the ship. The greatest risk of failure comes when the raid moves to soak Twilight Onslaught from Goriona, which risks having some players be out of position for a immediately before or after Twilight Onslaught hits. To manage this, at least 1 player (or 2 on 25-man) should be assigned to remain in each quadrant to soak , even during Twilight Onslaught; raid cooldowns can be used to ensure the rest of the raid survives, which should also be easier as the damage is reduced by Power of the Aspects nerfs.

To make it easier, killing Twilight Assault Drakes should be given top priority (over the melee adds); if the Twilight Assault Drakes are killed on their first pass each time, there will be fewer for the raid to soak.

Soaking is only necessary until all the Twilight Assault Drakes have been killed and Warmaster Blackhorn lands on the ship; once this second phase of the fight is engaged, no more can occur and the Deck Defender achievement will be earned when Warmaster Blackhorn is killed.

Comment by 615012

If you wish to do this achievement, install RaidAchievement addon. When you have it working, be careful on second phase. If AddOn tell you achievement failed - then it's really failed. So, achievement have 3 criteria:
1) Don't miss any Twilight Barrage
2) No one dies on entire fight
3) No random bug on second phase arrived.

That's all, there is stupid bug when sometimes on second phase achievement will fail with no reason.

Comment by 798034

2manned this achieve today on 10m ds. I agree it is worded wrong. I was on my lock and my dk friend helped, we killed the drakes before they could shoot off any barrrages, soaked the big twilight onslaught, and caught 2 other tiny pools. totalling around 4 soaks. the ship did take dmg, but that didnt seem to matter cause as long as ur in a pool and u dont miss one u will get it.

Comment by purrfecttofu

it's 6.0.2 release day and I just solo'd this achieve on my combat rogue and I'd imagine it's probably soloable by most classes. The dragons die very quickly now, especially if you're ranged, and I had no trouble getting into the one or two swirls that came up with the dragons. 2 of the 3 spawns I killed one dragon before he cast so I only had to soak one puddle per wave plus the big puddle.

If you've been banging your head on this one for months with groups of various sizes give it a try solo now.

Comment by Badgerrz

patch 6.0.2. I'm on my DK with warlock friend attempting this achievment. At a random point in the encounter ONE of us inexplicably dies. (?) The encounter then proceeds to reset despite there still being one of us alive. The death is as if you have jumped off the boat, impossible to combat ress'/accept your soulstone.

Maybe we are killing the mobs too fast? I don't know

Comment by Nyctalops

If you kill the drakes before they fly off, either when the adds are still riding them or just after they drop the adds off, they will never shoot Twilight Barrage, and you will get the achievement by default.
The only trick is that the adds have to land on the ship, whether you shoot the drake out from under them or wait for them to dismount. Otherwise, the encounter will bug out and you will die.

Comment by magnusXcaboose

I tried doing this with a friend, and I found two things.

1) Don't kill the Twilight Assault Drakes before they drop the Vrykul adds on to the ship. If you do, then someone will suddenly die, and a few moments later the fight will reset.

2) The achievement only needs you to block the Twilight Barrage from the Twilight Assault Drakes. You do not need to worry about Goronia or her Twilight Onslaught. If you kill the drakes before the have a chance to attack then the achievement will be done in no time.

I've heard people say that if the ship drops below 100%, you lose the achievement, and this is simply not true.
Twilight Onslaught can damage the ship, but Twilight Barrage can not.

Comment by ConstableGoody

Don't worry if you see the ship taking a tiny bit of damage, it might not have been caused by Twilight Barrages.
I was concerned because the ship was very slowly ticking down HP, 1% at a time.
I thought I had missed a few barrages and bailed off the side a few times to retry.
Then I was dang sure I hadn't missed any and proceeded thinking I'll just wait for the reset if I'm wrong.
I got the achievement just fine.
I think its just supports the "hey this ship is on fire" premise.

TL;DR
When the boss lands on the deck the ship has 90% HP, even if you block every attack.
If you see it go below that, jump and try again.

Comment by Albani

Easy how to do solo: Youtube

Comment by jenothefox

If you are in a team and someone died due to unknown reason(kill the dragon or adds to fast..etc), the whole raid will get bugged even if you reset it.

We fixed it by switching between normal and heroic mode.

Hope that helps :)

Comment by romansamurai

This achievement gave me trouble for years, ever since I used to raid DS as current tier. I guess we never bothered to really understand it.

1. You can let sappers through.
2. You don't have to soak Goriona's twilight onslaught.
3. There's only about 6 drakes total and you can kill one before it even flies away after drop.
4. Don't worry about the infiltrator drakes, they don't barrage.
4. After Blackhorn drops, dps him down, don't worry about any more barrages. Don't worry about Gariona.

Solo as a rogue is actually not that bad. Pick up Shuriken Toss as your 90 Talent, this will allow you to throw a shuriken at the drakes and then dps them at range for 10 seconds.
You can see the drakes as they're flying from the distance, so you can take this time to target one of them so you're ready as it's coming closer.

As the drakes are dropping the mobs off:

You can put a shuriken into the closest drake, dps it down, then wait for the second to get hooked and get closer, put another shuriken as soon as you can into the drake and dps it down at range
You will have to soak one or two barrages from this drake as it's getting closer. Might have to use sprint. Be prepared.
You can usually dps one down as it's flying away after dropping an attacker, and the second one you can get after it has been pulled in close.

Make sure you let them drop off their attackers.

I did it by accident on 25 man with 640 item level, it should be much easier on 10 man.

http://i.imgur.com/OhkuquY.jpg

Screenshot of solo.

Comment by tsudragon

Check out my video for Deck Defender (Solo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDSRyKOk-EI

Comment by jd234

Took a while to get the timing right, but following the solo strat given by others I soloed this as a kitty druid. Had to drink an intellect flask to buff moonfire a bit, and hit each drake at least 3 times before it got out of range. But I did it.

Comment by Dust

First thing's first:

Be sure to tick the box to 'track' this achievement.
If at any point in the encounter, the achievement text to the right of your screen turns red, then you have failed the achievement. Jump over the edge of the boat to die, and then come back and try again!

Now then, let's burn down some drakes. I repeat, let's burn down some DRAKES!

Kill the drakes, using whatever abilities you have.
As soon as any drake appears and is within range, kill it!
Do not wait until a drake drops its riders. Kill it IMMEDIATELY!
Kill the riders as a secondary priority, not a first priority.
Soak the puddles as you can (stand in the swirly things that occasionally appear).
When Blackhorn finally lands, engage him and burn him down.

In case I haven't stressed this enough somehow by this point, KILL THE DRAKES~!

Comment by nay7

If you are a Hunter activate Dragonkin Tracking is helpful

Comment by Thebill

I found this easiest on a balance druid, easier than MM hunter and frost mage, both of which I had failed on. Hitting each drake with Moonfire or Sunfire as it came into range was not a one-shot kill but meant that the drake dropped its rider before dying (so no bugging out), and then died on the second tick before it could drop a Twilight Barrage.

Comment by Hodros

Someone mentioned to me once that I probably couldn't solo this achievement as a rogue. Boy, were they wrong. I didn't even have to soak any barrages. Here's how I did it:

1: Spec "Shuriken Toss"

2. Create this macro:

/tar Twilight Assault Drake
/use Shuriken Toss (Link the skill into your macro line)

3. Spam your shuriken toss macro

4. Done.

PS: You don't have to soak Goronia's Barrage, only the ones from the drakes.

Hope this helps!

Comment by 1340264

As Ele Shaman:

Glyph of Frost Shock
Glyph of Shocks

Macro: /target Twilight Assault Drake

Spam the macro until it targets something, then hit it with Frost Shock. At level 100 with 690 gear FS one-shots them.

When the elites dropped, I just put down an Earthquake and ignored them. Drop an Earthbind Totem whenever the Sapper spawns, and Frost Shock him too.

Burn the boss. (took about 6 seconds with a fire elemental and Liquid Magma)

Comment by Sarlis

Video of this achievement

Comment by Blackbeardswe

Soloed as a Gladiator Warrior and with Empty Drinking Horn.
The horn provided a nice stacking (and ticking) debuff, so i just needed to Heroic Throw and wait for them to die.

Was done on 25man normal, wasnt sure how well it would perform on heroic.

Two attempts needed cause i missed 1 twilight attack, easily reset by jumping off the ship.

Comment by LilyBase

A quick guide in how to Solo this achievement can be found at:

LilyBase.net - How to Solo: 'Deck Defender' (World of Warcraft)

Good luck! =D

Comment by DownsyTV

Just did this as a feral druid by choosing "Lunar Inspiration" as a level 100 talent. It kills the drakes quickly enough that they never get a chance to bomb the deck.

Comment by Boxofbeer

Deck Defender >> https://youtu.be/5QP37Zuy5cQ

Comment by bandages7474

Just did this as a 680 geared Brewmaster.
I used Crackling Jade Lightning on each drake as soon as they were in range.
Took a few tries, as I had to learn which direction the drakes come from and one or two got away but got there in the end.

Comment by Prinsalbert

SOLO-GUIDE:

You need to kill the Twilight Assault Drake, preferably before it lands, to make sure it doesn't cast its spell Twilight Barrage - thus the macro below is handy to quickly target them (as long as you have ranged spells). I believe there are 3 waves, with 2 of these drakes each time. I did it on Normal mode, which is probably recommended (though not required).

Preferred (though not required); some kind of ranged damage spell (I did it as a druid).
Macro;
/target Twilight Assault Drake
/cast <YOUR SPELL HERE>
(Go to spellbook and SHIFT-CLICK the spell while the macro-window is open, in my case simply "/cast Moonfire")

Simple and quick achievement, remember to track it (SHIFT-CLICK it in the Achievement tab) before starting the fight - if it changes color at any time during the fight, simply jump over the edge to die and reset.
Simply finish the boss to complete the achievement afterwards.

Good luck, have fun and happy hunting!

Comment by halies

easy guide : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrhDf_O82nA

Comment by Laarnso

For any other Blood DKs who are a bit dense - it's very hard in that spec as you have no ranged abilities, but you can just switch to frost spec and use this macro as soon as the drakes spawn;

/target Twilight Assault Drake
/cast Howling Blast

They'll die instantly so there's no chance of them doing damage to the deck.

Comment by gavinjohnsen

Myself and some others are having issues seeing the visual for Twilight Onslaught when attempting to complete this achievement, making it virtually impossible to do. If you are having the same issue, please head over to the official bug forum and confirm it there so it can get Blizzard's attention and get fixed.

Comment by JimboTCB

Should be an easy solo as of 7.3 for any class with ranged attacks. Just point your camera towards the back of the ship, and kill the Twilight Assault Drakes as soon as they get in range. Don't need to worry about sappers, or broadsides, or anything else, just kill the Assault Drakes immediately and you're all good.

Comment by pindelz

If you are a hunter, going marksman for the extra range really helps alot, i had 24% extra range when i did it.

Keep in mind, the dragons that drops units gets to 1 hp and then sometimes dont die untill when u hit them a sec or 2 later(dont apply to the dragon that drops goblin rogues).

Good luck.

Comment by youdontdeserveit

Using a macro to target the twilight drakes is immensely helpful here.

Comment by mistina

Just gonna explain how I personally solo'ed this one in case it might help someone.

As a hunter I switched to my Marksmanship spec. Then I set my pet to defensive so it would take car of riders. I then parked myself in front of the aspects, in the tiny nook below them, I zoomed the camera all the way out and looked up at the sky. I make sure that my serpent sting was keybound and kept my finger on the trigger which left my mouse free to click on the dragons as soon as they came into view. Finally, I shot them down just as they were dropping off the riders. I also noticed that I didn't need to shoot down the dragons dropping off saboteurs.

Comment by Byrp

Managed to complete this as a Protpally. All you gonna need is spec into Crusader's Judgment and stand near center of ship. Use macro
/target Twilight Assault Drake
and spam your Judgment button. There is 2 waves of 2 drakes each, drop a conc to catch stray sapper and you will do this.

Comment by juliaz

Make and spam this macro;

/tar Twilight Assault Drake

Comment by collyflower07

I solo'd this as a demon hunter on 1/23/2022 by using two main techniques.

1. Spam the following macro when the assault drakes fly overhead:
/tar Twilight Assault Drake
/use Throw Glaive

2. Make sure you kill at least one of the two of the drakes each of the three waves. If not, you won't be fast enough to soak (stand in) all the swirls they put on the deck. Ideally, kill both while they're up in the air, but if you only kill one each wave, you should be able to soak the swirls and complete the achievement.

Like others have said, track it. If it turns red, jump off and try encounter again. It took me three hours of trying, but I finally got better enough at it to complete it.

Comment by Starliv

I figured I'd throw this in: This is doable as an Evoker alone. Just gotta be quick on your feet with Hover.

Comment by xLunacyx

Occasionally 2 drakes come from the back, the right one (when facing back toward the cabin) dies first but they don't die until the riders get off so any DoT is fine.
And the boss will occasonally put down a huge purple swirly that you stand in.
Kill the saboteurs that drop in on another fast drake (this drake is inconsequential)

and should have it once the boss drops down.

Comment by Lorian

Ironically the class I had least problem doing this achievemnt with wasn't any caster, but a Demon Hunter. Glaive toss bounces to another target, has two charges and fairly low cooldown, just gotta keep rage building up with Vengeful Retreat (if speced into Tactical Retreat) and Immolation Aura, Fel Rush also gives a nice mobility.

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