Once again I had sort of an aimless night with my hunter. Didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get any raid invites and nobody from my guild was on for a while. So I went and did the Argent Tournament dailies to gain some extra gold. I then noticed that I seemed to be killing scourge even faster than before. Well, it made sense once I realized that the last time I did the dailies was before my string of recent gear upgrades. Hmm, maybe I should try and solo those quests now…<\/p>\n
You know the quests I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m talking about. The ones that explicitly call for a group of 3 or 5 to accomplish. The ones that when you read up on them, the comments are usually a string of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153oh it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so easy, I soloed it as a 80 DK.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d What they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say is that they exploited a bug or that they are dual-wielding legendary weapons and are so geared that Ulduar bosses just hand over their loot rather than get killed by them again.<\/p>\n
Okay, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m exaggerating. Generally they just say that they did it at a certain level with a certain class, but they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say how they did it, what gear or buffs they had on, stuff that might let someone else figure out how to defeat them. After all, if you grabbed all the level 80 hunters, set them against some elite mob, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get various results depending on build, gear, and skill levels. Some hunter are just better at trapping things. Others have perfected their jump shots. Yet others have their shot rotation or priority tweaks within an inch of it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life.<\/p>\n
Why is this a problem? Well, mainly in that as soon as I read that someone soloed a group quest, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m arrogant enough to think I can naturally do it myself. Why don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t I just get a group? Well, in general I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play well with others and while my guildmates are more than willing to help out, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not always in the same \u00e2\u20ac\u0153phase\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as I am for the quests and can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help.<\/p>\n
So which quests am I talking about? The trinity of The Rider of Blood<\/a>, The Rider of Frost<\/a>, and The Rider of the Unholy<\/a>. I had tried months ago with some guildmates helping except, as I mentioned, they weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t in the same \u00e2\u20ac\u0153phase\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as myself and as such, I was on my idiotically own.<\/p>\n But I figured, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m better geared, so I figure I tried. And I did get rather beat up. Nothing like being beat down from around 18K hp down to 300 hp to remind you that maybe you still need help. Oddly enough, the rider of the unholy, Rokir, I found the fight with him was rather easy although almost everyone else said he was the hardest of the three. Maybe it was the cold medicine…<\/p>\n Anyway, I did succeed. And then I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite remember where to turn the quests in, which took up another 10 minutes. And then, I just wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sure what to do with myself. A briefly wandered over to Borean Tundra and farmed some Chunk o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Mammoth<\/a> and Rhino Meat<\/a> for the heck of it.<\/p>\n Then I read about the subsequent quest from the rider one and people were saying they could solo that one! Fortunately, guildmates started logging in and wanted to run something so I was distracted enough to not remember about it until this morning. Hopefully by the time I log on tonight I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll forget or get too drunk to care. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m easy to please.<\/p>\n