And here’s the proof for it:
There’s an explanation for this, I promise! Here it comes:
One of my guild mates needed the Ruby Void achievement as the very last thing to getting the meta-achievement Glory to the Hero. So, as the very kind tree that I am, I offered to help out and since we were all feeling kinda bored and crazy, we decided to get two achievements done at the same time: Ruby Void and Emerald Void.
With this in mind we mounted up on five Amber Drakes and after a bit of tacticizing, we went for it – naked of course, since we knew it was going to take a few tries and let’s face it, we’re all cheap bastards.
We downed the boss on our fifth try, my guild mate got his meta-achievement done and I got this pretty little screenshot.
*update* This comment over on wowhead was the basis for the tactic we used to get this done. It requires your team to work together – work out beforehand who will use time rift when and in what order you want to use the time stops. The last three tries, after we got the general feel for the encounter, we managed to time the time stops so that we did not have any kind of adds until after the boss came out of phase 2 the first time. This was of great help, since there are no healing dragons involved. (Thank you vlad for pointing out that I should add this part to the post!)
I’ve had a go at this, too. We managed it with 2 out of the 3 drakes, but from what I remember (it was a while ago), we failed to do it without the healer dragon, simply because we got overwhelmed with Whelps.
I’m not sure if we had the time stop wrong, but I suppose if you only tried 5 times and did it, that we messed up somehow.
@vlad: we got the tactics off of wowhead, there was a very good, very clear suggestion there that we used. We also worked out a rotation for everything beforehand – if you time the timestops well (we used 3 before phase 2 and then 3 more after phase 2) you won’t have any adds until after you come out of phase 2 the first time. That helps a lot, since you have no healer.
Thanks for the comment! I’ve edited the link to the strategy on wowhead into the post in case anyone else wonders how we did it.
Maiara, beautiful screenshot. I always enjoy your lovely pictures and creative captions. Congratulations on the achievement.