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Edit: This is now trivial for everyone at level 100, and if you've got decent gear (650-ish ilvl) then you can even do it without much trouble on 25 heroic. Nothing changes at 100, except that you must take care not to kill Halfus by accident, and can just ignore the weekly set of buffs.
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Pretty easy to solo on 10 player normal at level 90 with reasonable gear (I did it on my 565 ret Paladin). For those unfamiliar with this fight, here's the basics:
The fight consists of the boss, [npc=44600], and a random set of 3 out of 5 possible dragon adds. The dragons all start out friendly and chained to the platform, with 3 active (full health) and 2 inactive (low health and the [spell=86003] debuff (sad :( )). The active dragons are applying buffs to the boss and can be released during the fight, at which point they become hostile and start applying a helpful effect for the raid (a buff or boss debuff).
See this great comment on the Halfus page for details about the dragons and the effect they have since, depending on your spec and gear, some combinations may be easier than others.
To get this achievement, you must:
0) Choose which two of the three active dragons you're going to free.
1) Start the fight by pulling Halfus.
2) Run over to one of the dragons you will free and release it by clicking it when the mouse cursor changes to a padlock. It's a 1.5 second cast.
3) Repeat for the second dragon.
4) Once both dragons have been released, kill them within 10 seconds of each other.
5) Kill Halfus.Good luck :)
Achievements › Dungeons & Raids › Cataclysm Raid
Achievement
The Only Escape
Defeat Halfus Wyrmbreaker after defeating two drakes within 10 seconds of each other. The Emerald Whelp pack counts as one drake for this purpose.
The Only Escape is a 10 point achievement in Cataclysm Raid. Its criteria ask you to defeat 1 creature in The Bastion of Twilight.
How to Earn
How to Complete
1 criterion from the current game data.
Defeat these creatures (1)
Kill each creature listed.
- Halfus Wyrmbreaker
Details
- Category
- Dungeons & Raids › Cataclysm Raid
- Points
- 10
- Faction
- Both factions
- Requirements
- 1 criteria line
- Instance
- The Bastion of Twilight
- Instance type
- Raid
- Expansion
- Cataclysm
About The Bastion of Twilight
The Bastion of Twilight stands as a dark symbol of the Old Gods' burgeoning power on Azeroth. Various branches of the Twilight's Hammer dwell deep beneath the towering form--considered the cult's foremost command center--along with their twisted leader, Cho'gall. There, he and his servants conspire to bring the Old Gods' apocalyptic visions to fruition by bleeding Azeroth of all sanity, hope, and life.
From the in-game Adventure Guide.
Where to Earn It
The Only Escape is earned inside The Bastion of Twilight, a raid. The entrance is marked below.
The entrance to The Bastion of Twilight is in The Twilight Citadel, Twilight Highlands at 33.9, 78.1.
Entrance 33.9, 78.1Twilight Highlands, from the game’s own world map art. The framed marker is the Adventure Guide entrance.
Part of
Meta achievements that count this one among their criteria.
- Glory of the Cataclysm Raider 25 points
More like this
Other achievements in Cataclysm Raid.
The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.
Very easy at 100.
1) Start fight. Don't hurt boss too much.
2) Free a dragon.
3) Free another dragon.
4) Make sure they're close together and kill both dragons.
5) Kill boss.
6) ?
7) Profit.
> The Emerald Whelp pack counts as one drake
after killing the first whelp or last?
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