Retro Aunans #3 – Onyxia First Kill Video – My personal failure! :F

As promised

The Aunans, first kill of Onyxia @ Onyxia’s Lair

22/12/2005

(thx again Noir for the video!)

Before i start my usual bshits and bla bla i will quote Sirdalord’s (Sevenshots at tbc) story @ pre-tbc Aunans forums. It is a RP story kinda, but really well made and i am not up to let it get lost in the oblivion!

Sirdalord’s story :

“At 22-12-2005 a brave group of wankers went to Dustwallow Marsh to face Onyxia, sister of Nefarian, daughter of Blackwing. They went here to revenge the terror Onyxia has put on the alliance for quite a while.

Full of confidence the group, who called themselves The Aunans, entered the Lair. They slayed without any trouble the finest guardians Onyxia gathered and went without any trouble to her hide-out.

Facing the impressive dragon, the once so confident Aunans, became insecure and a bit frightened. But reminded by the promise they made to Highlord Boldovar, they choose to fight instead to run.

The Aunans had appointed a warrior to get her attention while the rest would try to kill her. This tactic seemed to work and onyxia became weaker by the minute. Aunans confidence was rising again and they begin to think they would actually get her on her knees.

But after a while, onyxia noticed that she had underestimated her opponents and she decided to attack the aunans from the air. She called up on her children to help her fight the noble alliance. Scared by this sudden move, the aunans gathered up into a group, trying to find the safety that company of more people can offer. However, when Onyxia saw this happen, she took a deep breath and fill the cave with fire. The aunans where supprised and many were heavily injured. They retreated…

But they were not defeated. The aunans treated the casualties and gathered once more to attack her. Meanwhile, onyxia has called new wardens to protect her from the alliance. But even they where no match for the might of the Aunans and after a couple of minutes, they were facing onyxia again. But they made the same mistakes as the first attack and where forced to retreat again.

Aunans did not gave up and tried again, but they failed once more. But at the 4th try, they seemed to survive onyxia while she was flying in the air and weakened her with magic spells, bullets and arrows. Onyxia became fed up and landed to face the alliance. She let the ground shake, lava came out of the floor. Her attacks became stronger. And just when she was about to fall on her knees, the aunans where forcred to retreat again.

If you want to find out what happened next and ofc my own bshits click to continue!

But this time, they knew she could be defeated. So the Aunans entered the cave once more, more confident than before, more certain of their abilities. They slayed the new wardens again and faced onyxia. And this time, everything went according to plan. onyxia tried and tried, but she couldn’t defeat the alliance wall. And after a a while, she couldn’t bare the alliance attacks and fell down, dead.

The Aunans where excited and proud. But the biggest suprise was yet to come: in the stomach of onyxia, they found 2 magical helms, a book wich probally belonged to a warlock and through wich they can summon a skeleton and a bag, wich at first sight never ended.

The aunans took the head of onyxia and traveled back to stormwind city. The highlord was pleased and proud and rewarded the alliance with a tremendous award. But the most unbelievable thing was about to happen. When the head of onyxia was raised, every alliance in the neighborhood of the head, was hit by lightning and became stronger than before. And the aunans looked up on each other and they knew: it is time to kill some more bad guys.”

As you can understand from Sirdalord’s story the feeling from killing Onyxia for first time is awesome. Not that it is the hardest fight ever, but mostly cuz the fight itself is too random, specially the deep breath part and back then it was a topic of discussions and questions for a lot time in forums.  The Aunans were really lucky that had Sirdalord in their ranks, since he had experience from tanking and killing Onyxia from his ‘Epic’ times and he was actually the Raid Leader for the first 2-3 kills.

Personally Onyxia was always my big failure considering the tanking part. Dunno why but i always had a weird feeling in my stomach, while having to tank Onyxia. Specially after her landing from p2 to p3, till i manage to get the aggro back i was killing 4-5 people minimum :F. Prolly it helped a lot to my incompetence the fact that i failed in our first kill to make Quel’Serrar one of the 2 best epic 1-hand tanking weapons and an awesome quest series. If you check the video careful, you will notice my best friend (and our RL) Foris teasing me big time both in raid chat and in real life (since we were at the same net cafe) about me failing to make the sword! But i made it next reset anyway!

For the record the 35 people that were in this first Onyxia kill! Grats to all that were there!

(Note :  with * will be those that still have active account and are in server)

Druids : Foris*,Mantorax, Akaras*

Hunters : Tarantoulas, Nikolaos*

Mages : Drzis*, Elmindreda, Knutleif*, Mpaliz, Fizban, Jezabel*, Xxacexy*

Paladins : Holyfighter, Gkaylababe,  Maverikki*, Kosmine*,  Devillilus, Morgorth*, Madkow

Priests : Iereia*, Ekati, Kaisaras, Sevensnakes,  Eona

Rogues : Hypnos, Meveran*,  Koukos , Timanoridas, Qyn*, Poseidonas

Warlocks : Noir

Warriors : Kounamouta*, Killkarabill, Sirdalord* (Raid Leader), Ffanddb*

Loots from our first kill were :

Helm of Wrath x 2, grats to me (Kounamouta) and Killkarabill

Mature Black Dragon Sinew, grats to Tarantoulas (he had the Ancient Petrified Leaf already so he made the Rhok’delar, Longbow of the Ancient Keepers)

Ancient Cornerstone Grimoire, grats to Noir and

Head of Onyxia, grats to Sirdalord

Thanks all for a great evening!