Onyxia, Broodmother of the Black Dragonflight. If you’re a veteran World Of Warcraft participant, that title will instantly conjure long-buried emotions of dread – from the precision play wanted to take her down, to the hours spent grinding quests to even enter her lair. But Azeroth’s scariest dragon appears to have misplaced her contact, as a band of 40 World Of Warcraft: Classic adventurers labored out tips on how to fell Onyxia in nought however their lingerie earlier this week.
As reported by the oldsters over at PC Gamer, the bare act of lizard matricide befell earlier this month on the European Zandalar Tribe server. Players allegedly got here from a smattering of guilds, to strip off and work out simply tips on how to take down one in all Warcraft’s most infamous bosses.
It’s not that Onyxia isn’t numerically much less intimidating than earlier than, thoughts. From a stats perspective, she must be simply as powerful a struggle as she was 16 years in the past. Instead, fan repository Wowhead revealed that a great deal of theorycrafting went into the struggle. For a begin, the raid consisted of a hell of a lotta frost mages. Casters aren’t almost as affected by dropping their weapons as melee fighters, the pondering goes – and it helps for a later part that appears Onyxia take flight.
A number of melee fighters (principally Paladins) soar in to supply buffs, with one poor bare sod tasked with tanking the Dragon’s aggression with out their common swimsuit of plate. There’s a staggering precision to the way in which buffs are distributed, potions consumed, and spells paced out to make sure that no one unintentionally nicks aggro off the principle tank – although there’s an awfully shut name early on within the struggle.
It’s been a very long time since Onyxia was a threatening presence in WoW correct. Hell, I’ve even popped in to bop her with a fireball on my grossly overlevelled important a couple of times. But if WoW Classic seemed that she would possibly as soon as extra convey concern to adventurer’s hearts, it’s been heartily crushed by a nudist homicide brigade.
What’s subsequent, then? Will our bare heroes now brave Blackwing Lair to punch Nefarian in nude? Or will Blizzard finally give WoW Classic players a whole new world to courageous within the buff? For the time being… put yer trousers again on, people, you’ll catch a chilly.
