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I’ve always loved dragons. The idea of slaying them, the idea of fighting them, the idea of befriending them and riding them… all amazing things. Onyxia was the classic raid I wanted to do most because HEY! It’s killing a big freaking dragon!!<\/p>\n

Granted, I could probably do without Malygos for the rest of my days, but I genuinely like most dragon encounters in World of Warcraft.<\/p>\n

So the idea of Deathwing flying around Azeroth roasting things and people is amazing to me. I LOVE this idea. I also decided I wanted the achievement.<\/p>\n

First, I found this thread on the WoW forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Second, I found this video<\/a> that shows you where in the Wetlands the guy is standing.<\/p>\n

At about 7:30pm on Saturday, I started hanging out at the hills by the Gnoll camp to the southwest of the windmill. (Northeast of the area in the video.) I was joined by a number of guildies. I took some breaks, slept, logged back in aaaaaaaand nothing. A variety of guildies amused me on Mumble and such or even chilled out with me.<\/p>\n

I took time out to fill in an ICC10 heroic raid with the guild on my hunter (my paladin is saving last week’s lockout for next week, since we did 11\/12 and want to down LK as a guild this last week pre-Cata), which got me the 49<\/em> rep I needed in order to get Exalted with the Ashen Verdict. After the run ended, I cut myself a couple of gems and sent them to my hunter and as I was doing so, BAM, one of my newest guildies got roasted in Andorhal in the Western Plaguelands!<\/p>\n

I did a quick MC run with some of the guild, on my shaman, then returned to the Wetlands by about 12:45am ET (server time).<\/p>\n

And I waited.<\/p>\n

Tia waited with me too and I told her to park Tia there and hop on to another toon, if she wanted, and I would tell her if the sky went red.<\/p>\n

So Tia, Darista<\/a> and myself were chatting amiably in Mumble when… the sky goes red.<\/p>\n

I had been in the process of taking a sip of Coke, which I nearly spewed in my excitement.<\/p>\n

“TIA!” I managed to choke out.<\/p>\n

“OH MY GOD!” she said, realizing my tone could only mean one thing.<\/p>\n

I slammed on my Fraps record button (which, sadly, did not record my own voice!). Elapsed time from the sky going red to recording is about five seconds.<\/p>\n

Here’s the video. You can watch it in HD on YouTube.<\/p>\n

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So, let’s see. Exalted with Ashen Verdict. Roasted by Deathwing. It’s been a productive night. :D Thanks to all the members of Apotheosis who kept me company!<\/p>\n

Oh, and my achievement shot, which I think is hilariously appropriate…<\/p>\n

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