When Wrath of the Lich King came out, and I created my Death Knight (oh the millions of DK’s running all over the place) – and eventually took him to Northrend it was COOL. I had waited, since I was working on my Hunter – SELKHET, so I was familiar with Borean Tundra.
I saw a player on a Dragon mount, while I was working on Last Rites quest chain at Temple of En’kilah and when I saw another player mounted on a Dragon – and I don’t mean nether drake I got real curious. I mean a cool dragon like the ones we rode at Coldarra. Some players are ignorant and when they have something unique or first, they don’t like to share the information (once I saw a player on a rainbow colored mount in Shatt…we all asked about it, and she ignored – but we knew she was there because she dismounted – mounted flew around us – showing off, etc., – need to research that). But the player I saw in Borean Tundra was real nice, and gladly shared the information regarding the dragon mount. He said he had worked real hard and obtained it from Wyrmrest Accord Reputation.
I was familiar with this since I had just entered Dragonblight and did some quests at the Wyrmrest Temple. Seeing those dragons killing each other, little did I know that was a Daily quest – to earn reputation.
The mount really is a drake, it is:
Reins of the Red Drake
Binds when picked up
Unique
Requires Level 70
Requires Riding 300
Requires The Wyrmrest Accord - Exalted
Use: Teaches you how to summon this mount. Can only be summoned in Outland or Northrend. This is a very fast mount.
Cool Death Knight named Seduce posed for me on her mount! LOL She is looking MIGHTY PROUD!!!!
I wanted this mount on site. 1900g + Cold Weather Flight Training (1000g) – I was planning.
The way to get reputation is:
- Dungeon Runs
- Questing
- Daily Quests
Dungeon Runs
My guild, as indicated in a prior posting is quite small – 5 people now. But close and no standard guild drama. The cost is I don’t get to go on runs thru a lot of the cool new dungeons when I am the only level 80 – but I am patient and will help my mates level and we can do things when we can. Meanwhile, I have other friends I can run with. But this option is for the most part out of the picture…/sigh
Questing
In progress. Working on completing the achievement for Dragonblight. Seems I missed quite a few of them since I am still trying to locate the quests I missed (only have 99/115 for DRAGONBLIGHT achievement).
Daily Quests (DAILIES)
The post Dragon Daily..THIS IS SO COOL!!! identified the only daily I knew of to earn reputation. But there are two others, one you get when entering Coldarra and the latter becomes available at level 80. Below lists all the dailies and my notes.
Daily Name Notes Drake Hunt Hunting a drake and taking it to Coldarra. Is even more fun once you have a flying mount!! Defending Wyrmrest Temple As indicated in the other post, my favorite daily. Hunting evil dragons and killing them on the back of a cool dragon! DRAGON WARS!!! Aces High! This was the hardest of them for me to do - it was on the level of Reclamation!
First you do the quest Aces High! Then it becomes a daily. It took me over an hour to kill 5 dragons, must have died 10,000 times!!!
I tried the advice at wowhead.com, and thottbot.com – but it turned out for me that the Thottbot advice plus my own combination of 2 STARBUCKS ESPRESSOS did the trick!!
The Thottbot poster was quite helpful:
- DO NOT get aggro of more than one dragon, they can occasionally hit you for over 50% of your hp. I have found that the best place to avoid such conflict is by kiting them higher in the sky than the rest of the dragons (not too high though, they will evade).
- When entering combat with these elites, make sure you already have the regen (ability #3)stacked on yourself 5X.
- While fighting the elites, get 5 combo points, then use the dot (ability #2), then use the big heal+hot (ability #4) for all 5 point combos after that until the dot needs to be reapplied. Then stack on another 5 regen after each heal+hot or dot and you will not die.
- Watch out for the Arcane Surge (this is the attack that does over 50% of you hp's damage), it has a cast bar that charges it, then a cast bar while casting it. If you can manage to have the Flame Shield (ability #5)up before or during the cast of it, then you will take little to no damage. This is the only time you really need to use Flame Shield, so using it any other time is pretty useless.
- Do this, and the fights may take a bit of time, but you won't lose your dragon. This leads to a daily, and today was my first time attempting it, feel free to correct me if you find a better strategy :)
This was great advice, and there was a following post about the actual sequence - but I found that the combos and hammering with key 1 and key 2 did the trick. The Spell he warned about ARCANE SURGE - even with the shield I still took major Damage. But like a friend said, this is the type of daily that doing it over and over makes it easier.
UPDATE:
I was working on the daily version tonight – seemed I forgot what I learned in making the quest successful. But I met a cool dude named SLAIN. He rocked on this daily, and we grouped. He took the aggro and all I did was spam the 1 and the 4. Which is the Fire attack and the Major Heal based on Combo Points. I learned that I was getting combo from him. Afterwards we talked he said that basically he broke it down as:
The way to do it is hit 3-five times on yourself before you grab the dragon (Rejuvenation – lasts 8 secs), then hit 1 – five times, then 5 – one time, then 3 – one time then repeat.
He made it look easy. I will wait till the maintenance day is over and try again!!Each of these dailies earns 250 reputation for Wyrmrest Accord. Doing all three will get me to Exalted in no time and BA-DA BING BABY!!! New Mount!!!
Asta La Vista!!!
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