Obsidian Sanctuary achievements (guides/clarification)

[Camyu]

Basically there is a ton of achievements for Obsidian Sanctuary, aka Sartharion + X, in both normal and heroic mode:

- Besting the Black Dragonflight (just killing Sartharion)
- Less Is More (Normal: with less than 9, Heroic: with less than 21)
- Twilight Assist, Twilight Duo, The Twilight Zone (Sarth + 1, +2, +3)
- Gonna Go When The Volcano Blows Defeat Sartharion the Onyx Guardian without getting hit by Lava Strike.

On that last achievement, I read some sites and wowhead comments, and made me realize some misconception about what this achievement is about:
1) this is NOT a raid group achievement but rather an individual achievement,
2) this is NOT about avoid getting hit by the Lava Waves (lava churns) during boss fight, but rather, the Meteors (a targeted AOE of some kind) during the boss fight,
3) you don't have to stay alive until the end, as long as you have tagged Sartharion.

I think #2 was the biggest misconception here. Wowhead had some comments that are quite useful: http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2047#comments

There is also a page with some tips on how to cheat by dying: http://www.stratfu.com/strats/VolcanoBlows because when you're dead, you can't be hit by the meteors so you still get the achievement - that's the easy way - but you have to have at least tagged Sartharion before dying. The hard way is obviously to look for the stuff raining from the sky and avoiding it and surviving till the end.

As for The Twilight Zone (aka Sarth + 3), this site has a lengthy guide plus video to illustrate how to do it:
http://www.stratfu.com/strats/Sartharion3D

[Daewen]

omg. OMFG. And all this time I'm grinding my teeth going, "I never got hit with the lava wave! Where's my achievement?!"

[Camyu]

Yeah... I was surprised when I read it. Basically, I think during the boss fight, there are some AOEs coming from the sky - those need to be avoided. But the trickiest is also towards the end (maybe this is when Sarth is near 10% health? not sure), when things get super chaotic, there is a real meteor shower that comes down, and that is super hard to avoid.

[Texaporte]

Another option is to be main tank, there don't seem to be many meteors that come down for it...

[Pocky]

Another option is to be main tank, there don't seem to be many meteors that come down for it...

That doesn't always work. >.>;

[Camyu]

I also want to point out that, obviously by intentionally dying at the beginning, you have a great chance of getting that achievement, but the rest of the guild might also hate you very much for cheating for profit Unless, of course, if the guild has decided that's what we will be doing in order to get people their achievements, then we should coordinate our deaths

[Werehamster]

I would totally be in favor of coordinated dying for the achievement. More points! MORE!