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Patch 1.1 issues (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-customer-service&t=57482&p=1&tmp=1#post57482)

Very ouch.  For those that don't know, this is part of the Onyxia key quest.  That thing is already painful enough.

By not always they mean absolutely never. As soon as you leave Caer Darrow on your minimap label you lose the buff. This makes it impossible to start the Ras Frostwhisper quest.

Have you tried the Horde version of this quest? Oh my god horrible long pain in the ass quest.

Alliance is easy mode.

Psssttt Patch 1.11

I haven't tried the Horde version but the Alliance one is enough of a long and horrible pain.  What's Horde?

Alliance is (I might have forgotten something or gone out of sequence, this is from memory):
Dragonkin Menace (burning steppes - kill x dragons)
(after spamming for group 1,000 times) Go to BRD
get cell key
talk to dude, he cries and gives up
Kill angerforge and argelmach
Talk to dude in BRD again
Grind for Crumpled Note
Get note
Take it to Morgan's vigil?
Spam/beg for group again
go back to dude in BRD
break him out (clear entire ring of law + part of the arena ring + the open area in front of instance entrance in BRD)
meet him in stormwind
walk with him to the throne room
probably die
he gives you an item to bring to blue dragon cave in winterspring
give it to haleh
she sends you on an UBRS run
Get Drak's blood (maybe)
bring back to Haleh
profit

Run LBRS, kill all bosses, get random spawn letter (means usually only one person per run can finish the quest step)
Talk to Thrall
Kill Rend in UBRS
Talk to Thrall
Talk to Rexar
Talk to gnome in alliance teritory in Sorrow hill
Run UBRS for dragon eyes.
Talk to gnome in Sorrow Hill
Talk to Rexar
Talk to dragon in Dustwallow
Kill dragon in Winterspring
Kill dragon in Tanaris
Kill dragon in Swam of Sorrows
Talk to dragon in Dustwallow
Kill dragon in Wetlands
Talk to dragon in Dustwallow
Talk to Rexar
Kill Drakasath in UBRS
Talk to Rexar

Rexar is the champion of the horde, and he wanders ALL of Desolace. Finding him can be a HUGE pain in the ass some times. Usually takes 15 to 45 minutes.

He wanders northern Feralas, too.  Just ran past him a few days ago while puttering with mining.

He's on a set path.

It's easy to find him, tho it is time consuming.

Worst nerf in the patch: Male troll 'I kill two dwarves...' /silly is gone.

Really? I never heard that one.

Because it was a subliminal reference to "Smoke Two Joints" by The Toyes/Sublime. And drug references are bad, m'kay? Perhaps somebody should remind them that The Arcanist's Cookbook alludes to a book that teaches people how to make banned substances. Zzzzzz.

Actually, the Horde version is at least a bit easier then it used to be.  Back when I did it, on my main, the doccuments were still random spawn, 1 use only.  They fixed that so that now it still randomly spawns in 1 of 4 (i think) locations in all of LBRS, but the whole party can now loot the doccuments if they have the quest.  The kicker was the world dragons though.  Origionally you had to do the Tanaris, winterspring and Swamp of Sorrows dragons ONE AT A TIME.  Ie, kill one, go back to Dustwallow, then go out and kill another and go back to dustwallow, etc.  4 fucking trips from dustwallow to the ends of the earth and back.  At least now you get the first 3 all at once, and can do them in any order you want before going back to Dustwallow.

Another funny bit with that one, we had someone on their Ony Key Quest in one of our BWL raids, and Black dragon Eyes drop off the Dragonkin in BWL also :P

Did I play a completely different quest with my druid? I walked through Stormwind with the guy, the dragonkin spawns, and the human leader commences to tank and kill them all without a single heal, all I had to do was stand and watch.

Found a new fuck-up last night.   In addition to Solenor (A demon for the hunter epic bow quest) being perma-enraged and fucking you up if you get in melee range, Simone's corpse poofs when you exit combat after she dies.   Glee.

That is how it's supposed to go. If you draw aggro in any way, though, you are toast.  I am pretty sure I have done it by just being nearby before (both on the quest and the first time I followed Windsor ("dude"'s name that I finally remembered) out of curiousity.

I've found the main way ppl seem to die in this is by underestimating the range on the dragonkin's cleave. Edging up to watch the fight will sometimes get you killed if Bolvar has his back to the wall by the hallway because all the dragonkin facing him will cleave at mostly the same time.

At least that's how I managed to die the first time I did it.

edit: Bah I screwed up the quoting.

Cleave spam.  If nobody warns you, you are up on that dias with the action.  Then you get hit with dozens of 1200-2000 point cleaves from the massed dragonkin.  Simultaneously.

Yep, I spent that fight cowering in the corner stealthed.

That part really annoyed me a bunch. NPCs should not show up PCs at all.

High Overlord Saurfang dissagrees.

Well, it is marked as a raid quest (at least the last time I did it). Not sure if it's still marked as such post-1.10. I'm sure it could be done with a decent sized raid (at least after Onyxia drops Winsor like a sack of bricks), but... we're all really lazy when it comes to it.