One thing I encountered during my Loremaster-ing and which I hadn't taken notice of in a while were the elemental invasions. Have you ever seen one? According to WoWWiki they are quite an old feature (added in patch 1.4) but personally I didn't actually take note of them until my fourth alt or so noticed an odd yell in Winterspring one day.
Basically what happens is that every couple of days or so, a named level 58-60 elite elemental spawns in one of four zones on Kalimdor (earth in Azshara, water in Winterspring, fire in Un'goro and air in Silithus), surrounded by a lot of non-elite mobs of the same type (called invaders), and then patrols the area while yelling the occasional taunt at the zone in general. They are pretty tough at level, but if you outlevel them by a significant margin they quickly become trivial, just like normal mobs.
Nonetheless I still love looking for them whenever I see the familiar signs: It's like finding an exceptionally rare spawn. The loot is pretty damn good as well, they all tend to drop five or six items at once, usually a bunch of crafting materials of their respective element (elemental/essence of earth/water/fire/air) and some BoE gear, which still adds up to a couple of gold. Talk about loot pinatas.
I've killed Princess Tempestria multiple times by now, Avalanchion and the Windreaver once each, but I don't recall ever catching Baron Charr even though I've seen his invaders around - I guess someone just beat me to the punch each time. There may not be an achievement for collecting elemental kills like this, but it still feels like one to me.
With the upcoming expansion paying more attention to the elemental plane, I wonder if these elemental lords will make a comeback as serious challengers at the level cap? It would certainly fit with the overall theme, and if they were hard enough so people would actually have to team up to kill them... ahh, the possibilities. I'll try not to get my hopes up though, as I wouldn't be surprised if even Blizzard themselves had kind of forgot about these guys at this point.
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The BoEs are great to DE, since late vanilla mats seem to be uncommon. The patterns are even better, not to DE of course, since some completionists will pay 50-150g each depending on your luck.
ReplyDeleteBack in vanilla, you had to team up to kill them. It was impossible without a healer. (Yes, there are surely people who did it. But mere mortals needed a group of 3-5 people to take them down.)
ReplyDeleteI thought they spawned only once a month? And all 4 at the same time?
They were the only source for the darkmoon elemental ace card which was really valuable back then as the trinket was really good.
I was only going by what WoWWiki says on the subject, which is that they spawn every couple of days. I don't know if that's true, but it matches my recent experience of finding Avalanchion in Azshara and then seeing the Windreaver spawn in Silithus a few days later.
ReplyDeleteThe only one I knew was Baron Charr in Un'Goro, but I think I've also seen the Windreaver at least once. The baron was usually killed fast so you only saw the invaders around, but I managed to catch him two times and get the nice blue mace.
ReplyDeleteIt's a pity there aren't more events like this, with a random time for the happening. Even in Wrath the rare mobs are too rare to find and they don't last much alive.
I need to find those. I was unaware that they existed, so I guess I'll need to start hanging around more often.
ReplyDeleteI find it ironic that when I'm no longer hunting for rares I now come across them.