Comments on: Lunar Festival Starts!

By: Chetala

Chetala — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:18:08 +0000

Kited on the 3rd day of the festival as a L80 superior hunter, survival spec.

here’s what you do;
1. cheetah aspect is a MUST
2. either dismiss pet or put him on passive, he will drag aggro off you and die in 2 shots
3. move around that weird circle shrine thing near where omen is summoned
4. main aggro-holding is to jump, turn 180 degrees and fire off either arcane or explosive, either is fine. then turn back another 180 degrees so you don’t lose speed
5. if you’re going oom, run up onto the platform and switch to viper, wait till he gets close and jump down a ledge. repeat for the second ledge.
6. rinse and repeat from stage 3

p.s. provided you never stop moving starfall shouldn’t hit you, pathfinding may help but is not needed

By: DeathknightLarry

DeathknightLarry — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:46:34 +0000

still you want to be at least a lv 80 to barlly kill him

By: DeathknightLarry

DeathknightLarry — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:44:40 +0000

I solo’ed omen.. im a lv 80 maxed out deathknight… any death knight can solo him if they summon army of dead and have alot of good armor and wepons :)

By: Urdui

Urdui — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:38:38 +0000

From what I’ve seen his health doesn’t regenerate. So really ANY class can solo him so long as they’re VERY VERY VERY VERY patient, willing to eat a TON of deaths and don’t mind the LONG respawn timer. Oh and fight nekkid to avoid the durability loss. Hehe….

By: scott

scott — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:44:13 +0000

Haven’t heard of this but I suppose if any class could still solo Omen it would have to be the DK…

By: Glassdragon

Glassdragon — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:30:43 +0000

The only class that can solo Omen now is a well geared DK. They don’t take much dmg and can heal themselves.
Watched a guildie solo him, took about 23 mins. or so.

By: scott

scott — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:11:13 +0000

The elders apparently still only give rep with Old World factions, so it’s only really relevant if you are one of the deranged few who A) want a cross faction mount and B) are prepared to put in the insane amount of rep grinding needed for it.

I’ve actually done that on a couple of my alts, and got partway there on a 3rd, but finally ran out of steam – at this point I’d rather just focus on checking out the new content and leveling up alts as quickly as possible.

By: Tsani

Tsani — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:45:16 +0000

The game should remember which elders you have visited for the achievement, but the elder runs themselves are repeatable every year.

Lots of people love Lunar Festival because of the mana/hp candy (8 per elder coin, stacks to 20) and a chance to work on Town reps without wagon loads of runecloth. 75 rep for all your racial towns per elder is worth the world tour for many people with characters from before the rep gain changes. I have even seen a lot of Deathknights on my realm going after the elders just to get their rep up to or above honored. With 75 elders, you could snag (75×75=)5625 rep for all your side’s towns.

By: Wain

Wain — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:20:08 +0000

That’s a shame. It’s definitely supposed to remember all the Elders you visited in 2008, because it did for me, which meant I only had the Northrend ones to do. You might want to to report your issue to a GM.

By: scott

scott — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:49:20 +0000

In re: the general event, I’ll likely be skipping it – did it last year with several characters and noted they weren’t given credit for any of the elders they visited, or anything else besides putting on the Lunar Festival costume, so afaic until they add in some decent (as in materially useful/not chievement related) rewards, I don’t see any point to repeating my efforts just so I can get the related achievement checkboxes to register.

Seems stupid too, since the game would’ve had to log my festival completions if only to know when to stop offering a given quest to me – sounds like those records got wiped after the event ended. o.O