Onyxia (10man) First time story

Сообщение от Koholint

Well I'm new to Wowhead, and I have no idea if this topic is supposed to go here or not..but I thought I'd like to share. TL:DR Its a story, there is no TLDR

I'm a warrior tank on the Norgannon server. Characters name is Koholint. I stepped into my first raid last night, with was Obsidian Sactum (10). Was pretty easy, I was offtank and didn't do much, and we didn't bring any extra drakes, but it was fun nonetheless. I walked out with a ring, which I sold at the Auction house. This evening however, my Friend, and guild master who had been trying to PuG Ony 10 since tuesday demanding that I tank it. I was worried at first, but people kept telling me I'll do fine. We form a group, its mainly random people from a few guilds, with about 4 people from our own. We stepped into the lair and I was given the run down of my job (Once again, I was offtank.) Extremely nervous, but determined to do good, we took out the trash adds with no problem...then we got to the brood mother herself.

We pulled, but immediately wiped. Wondering what happened, our Main tank told us his taunts weren't working. Wether he had taunted or not, the group just shrugged it off, and tried again. Second attempt, every one buffs up, Main tank runs in and pulls. He kept aggro, and we quickly started going all out on her, except for me who just used normal white attacks to build rage for whelp adds. Phase 2 started, she flew in the air, I watched as the main tank ran to one whelp cave, and I, following suit, ran to the second whelp cave and prepared to grab the whelps as they ran by. Everything was going smooth, we pulled the whelps to the center and started burning them down. Suddenly, she emotes "Onyxia takes a deep breath" I immediately panicked.... no one told me whaat I was supposed to do, so I started running away from her. Deep breath didn't kill me, but the whelps and elite adds did. The group quickly fell, and we found out no one was running out of deep breath.

Attempt three came, and we buffed, got ready, and the raid leader made a macro warning when deep breath comes, and to run to the side. The main tank suddenly decided he didn't want to be the main tank, and insisted I tank Onyxia. A little nervous, I agreed and we prepared to pull. I charged in, quickly used commanding shout, and pulled her to the wall. Phase 1 goes off without problems. Phase 2 starts, I run to my whelp cave and prepare for whelps. Burned down whelps, killed elites, and ranged slowly whittled away at Onyxia's health. Everyone gets out of deep breath just fine, and phase 3 is slowly coming, I'm watching my focus frame as her health slowly drops from 48-40%. As soon as 40% came, I quickly got into position, but something happened...one of the healers died (We had three, one main tank, one off tank, one for raid healing) I thought no biggy, two healers still up, we got this. As quickly as the first healer died, the second one fell too. Now with one healer, things are looking bleak, she's at 31%, off tank wasn't tanking adds, and I was trying to keep onyxia on me. Thinking we were going to wipe, I used all my trinkets and cool downs. My health is going down, thanks to my cooldowns, it was going slow, but I was getting worried. 10% of my health, I quickly used enraged regen. 3% of my health, I knew we were going to wipe, Onyxia was still at 23%. Suddenly, the off tank uses army of ghouls, pulls aggro off of me, and this allows the healer to quickly heal me back up to full. The ghouls died, and I taunted off the off tank, and continued to tank. 19%, 14% no one else has died, we're doing good. 12%, one DPS goes down. 7% 2 DPS down 6-5-4-3% healer was going oom, but my trinkets had come back up, Quickly using them, and started throwing out my big attacks. 3-2-1-Dead. I sat there stunned. My first time truly in a raid, and we won. My friend, the GM of our guild is happy, finally getting the 10 man onyxia achievement. The loot is passed out, of course nothing drops for me, but I was satisfied that I had tanked a raid.

Once again, I apologize if this is in the wrong forum, but I wanted to share my first raid experience with someone :D

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Сообщение от Koholint

Thank you :)

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Сообщение от Spinkert

Congratulations! It must have been so exciting to see her downed after all that.

Сообщение от Koholint

Yeah it was! I was about to give up because a friend was waiting to do the heroic daily...and I've been poor as of late, so the repair bill would take its toll on me..but I think quite a few of us were surprised, especially after losing most of our healers.

Сообщение от jrussell7289

So I read these forums a lot. Rarely do I post though. However I wanted to post on yours cause I actually enjoyed readying it. :) There are a lot of QQ threads on here so it was good to hear a story that was decently written and w/o QQ. Gratz on the kill!

Good luck in the future

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Сообщение от sporn1

Great story, I'm glad you shared.

Сообщение от mindthegap5

Gratz man, I remember @#$%ting myself the first time I had to tank too.

Сообщение от silo

Great story, I'm glad you shared.

^ this

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Сообщение от Kerli

Gratz on the kill!

Welcome to Wowhead. Good story. =)

Сообщение от etrin

did you determine what killed the healers?

Gratz on the kill and thanks on a fine description on what happened.

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Сообщение от Coaldog

Wow, no stupid posts yet.
Congrats on the kill, it must have been exciting! And welcome to Wowhead.

Сообщение от Koholint

Thanks for all the replies. As for what killed the healers, I think our Death knight off tank started neglecting to grather up any spare adds that were left. I also think one of the healers fell to Deep breath near the end of phase 2

Сообщение от Alunora

The loot is passed out, of course nothing drops for me, but I was satisfied that I had tanked a raid.

Made me smile :P

Good read

Onyxia (10man) First time story

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