I got my Dreadsteed yesterday (yay!) and I've got to say the questline was quite fun. At least - having an excuse to take a peek at Scholo, which I hadn't seen before, was enjoyable. For my group I had a tanking pally (one of those blessed souls who'll help anyone with anything), a 70 lock with the mats, a 69 lock also on the quest, me at 62, and a 60 holy priest with a serious case of nostalgia.
Scholo was pretty chaotic. The pally would gather half a room's worth of mobs at a time, while the healer was tanking UB on her other account. The 70 lock was a bit cranky because he didn't need to be there for that run. The 69 lock wanted to complete quests that had to be gray for her. And the 60 priest, despite tanking at the same time, wanted to approach the instance as a serious run for "old time's sake".
The DM run went a good deal more smoothly. But when we got to the summoning ritual, it proved to actually be difficult! Trying to get everything down as fast as possible while keeping all the demons off the 70 lock and the healer had us really hopping. I died, though I was still able to complete the quest.
If it was challenging to a somewhat overconfident and seriously over-leveled group, what was it like when the whole party was level 60?
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I've actually done the event with a level 60 group! ... on my warrior, tanking it.
Well, close enough, anyway, as I believe I was the highest level at 62 (bosses and most mobs were yellow to all of us - I think we even had one person that was 58 in there). Oddly, we managed to do it with only 4 people. It is nuts when you have a group at or close to the level requirement for the quest, and requires a lot of coordination with your DPS.
Well, close enough, anyway, as I believe I was the highest level at 62 (bosses and most mobs were yellow to all of us - I think we even had one person that was 58 in there). Oddly, we managed to do it with only 4 people. It is nuts when you have a group at or close to the level requirement for the quest, and requires a lot of coordination with your DPS.
Well... Kinda like doing the Druid epic flight form quest. Unless you were overgeared for it, you had to have the right group makeup, and people who had an idea of what they were doing.
Why did you have such a hard time with the ritual, though? You had a pally to AoE tank and a 70 Warlock for AoE damage.
I did the ritual on my lock at 60 with a 70 Rogue and Resto Shaman. The rogue and I got through DM alone, and then asked the Shaman to come after we realized we couldn't do the ritual with just the two of us. The rogue single-targeted as much stuff as he could and hit Blade Flury when it was up, the Shaman spammed Chain Lightning because he hardly had to heal, and I just hit Howl of Terror when I had to click on one of the pieces. It was long and annoying, but far from difficult.
Why did you have such a hard time with the ritual, though? You had a pally to AoE tank and a 70 Warlock for AoE damage.
I did the ritual on my lock at 60 with a 70 Rogue and Resto Shaman. The rogue and I got through DM alone, and then asked the Shaman to come after we realized we couldn't do the ritual with just the two of us. The rogue single-targeted as much stuff as he could and hit Blade Flury when it was up, the Shaman spammed Chain Lightning because he hardly had to heal, and I just hit Howl of Terror when I had to click on one of the pieces. It was long and annoying, but far from difficult.
generally, it was expensive (though cheaper than just buying 150 riding), so most locks didn't bother with getting the items, they just paid another lock (i bought them, force of habit ^^) and the actual encounter was fairly hard. required quite a bit of healing and a decent amount of tactics to make sure you'd survive
Edited, Sep 20th 2008 3:07pm by Jenovaomega
Edited, Sep 20th 2008 3:07pm by Jenovaomega
It was tough. When I did it, we had a warrior tank, a mage, a priest, and 2 'locks, all 60-64ish. The hardest part was getting *to* the event, since it essentially requires a full clear of DM West. The sheer length of the fight was incredibly taxing on the tank/healer. Us 'locks were busy recharging/repairing and enslaving. The mage basically just went all out on whatever the tank was holding. Somehow we made it through by the skin of our teeth.
I have to admit, after helping a pally friend through the BE version of their mount quest, 'locks both have it much tougher, as well as having a much more satisfying quest. The event felt *epic*. The BE Pally mount quest was over far too quickly, IMHO.
I have to admit, after helping a pally friend through the BE version of their mount quest, 'locks both have it much tougher, as well as having a much more satisfying quest. The event felt *epic*. The BE Pally mount quest was over far too quickly, IMHO.
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The BE Pally mount quest was over far too quickly, IMHO.
Oddly enough, I kinda agree on the Alliance pally mount quest. =\
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Got mine on Sunday. What a blast and am so chuffed!Thank goodness I had made awesome mates during my first ever 60 levels, saved the money from day 1.
Was incredibly hard at least the Dire Maul part was as a level 60. Scholo was easy, I was lucky enough to have a 70 resto druid who had done the bit before on his lock and a 70 pally run me through and a hunter mate plus another mate joined us for his quests.
Dire Maul on the other hand was a nightmare but good fun. None of us knew what was potting as 4 of us had never been so we decided last minute, lets give it a bash and go with no healer. So me 60, level 58 rogue, 2 tanks one 70,one 67 and mage 67. In theory could have been okay if we were experienced but we were so disorgnised and such noobs (apart from 70 who I'm surprised didn't ditch us) we were having more of a laugh than actually getting down to business, wiped even before ritual, got lost so many times. Then had dinner breaks. Mage volunteered to give up her place, 70 tank bought in his very experienced super raiding healer wife got the job done in no time. The ritual was heavy but no-one died. I was so nervous my hands were shaking so much, I never thought it was going to stop! Finally it ended and I got my bad *** demon pony! Will do it again at 60 when I am in the mood to reroll a lock on horde. Best thing ever
Was incredibly hard at least the Dire Maul part was as a level 60. Scholo was easy, I was lucky enough to have a 70 resto druid who had done the bit before on his lock and a 70 pally run me through and a hunter mate plus another mate joined us for his quests.
Dire Maul on the other hand was a nightmare but good fun. None of us knew what was potting as 4 of us had never been so we decided last minute, lets give it a bash and go with no healer. So me 60, level 58 rogue, 2 tanks one 70,one 67 and mage 67. In theory could have been okay if we were experienced but we were so disorgnised and such noobs (apart from 70 who I'm surprised didn't ditch us) we were having more of a laugh than actually getting down to business, wiped even before ritual, got lost so many times. Then had dinner breaks. Mage volunteered to give up her place, 70 tank bought in his very experienced super raiding healer wife got the job done in no time. The ritual was heavy but no-one died. I was so nervous my hands were shaking so much, I never thought it was going to stop! Finally it ended and I got my bad *** demon pony! Will do it again at 60 when I am in the mood to reroll a lock on horde. Best thing ever
I have to say, doing the dreadsteed quest prior to BC with a group of 5 level 60's was very, very tough. I did all the parts of the quest over a long period of time, scrimping and saving my gold to buy the pieces as they came available. Still, in the end it wound up being cheaper than just buying an epic steed. Plus, I am a quest hound, so doing epic quests like this are what I live for hehe.
The toughest part of the whole thing was trying to fight through the waves of demons during the summoning ritual with a group where no one had ever seen the encounter before. I (the warlock) was running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to keep the 3 items going while getting beat on by imps that were overwhelming us. At the same time, I was trying to banish and/or enslave the big demons as I could. Our group wiped right before the ritual completed, but we just ran back down, regrouped, and were able to summon the steed and complete the event. I was thrilled. It truly was an epic encounter.
Recently I helped a guildie's alt do the event. We did it with 4 of us (myself being the only 70) and it was much, much easier. :)
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The toughest part of the whole thing was trying to fight through the waves of demons during the summoning ritual with a group where no one had ever seen the encounter before. I (the warlock) was running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to keep the 3 items going while getting beat on by imps that were overwhelming us. At the same time, I was trying to banish and/or enslave the big demons as I could. Our group wiped right before the ritual completed, but we just ran back down, regrouped, and were able to summon the steed and complete the event. I was thrilled. It truly was an epic encounter.
Recently I helped a guildie's alt do the event. We did it with 4 of us (myself being the only 70) and it was much, much easier. :)
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It was awesome. One of the best class quests for warlocks. Back then it was a little bit too expensive but it was cool to do it. I earned some nice money from it also by helping other warlocks. You needed a good party tho.
Doomguard summoning quest it was cool at 60 also ;) and as far as i know you cant solo the last part not even at 70.
Doomguard summoning quest it was cool at 60 also ;) and as far as i know you cant solo the last part not even at 70.
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