How to Completely Cheese the Celestial Challenge for the Legendary Cloak:
Parsifale, my paladin tank, got the cloak on Wednesday, and I so totally cheesed the final challenge in the Celestial temple that I wanted to share my "strategy", since I and others I talked to had thought Blizz had removed the chance to do what I did. This is what I did for the tanking challenge, at the Temple of Niuzao: basically, I brought my own raid team. I had tried it straight up the night before (well, I had one helper, the Shado Pan tank, but he was pretty useless) and almost got it before Wrathion gave up, the little whiner. So on Wednesday, I thought I would try it with all the help I could bring, just to get it done quickly. The tank challenge requires you to tank a spirit image of Deathwing (in human form) and keep him from attacking Wrathion who is dpsing him (similar to the healing challenge). You have to kill DW before Wrathion gets too low on health and gives up. DW has a number of attacks, including one (again similar to the healing challenge) where Wrathion goes to the center of the arena and you have to block the flame things that speed in from the four directions.
So I brought
(1) All 3 types of Pi'ju Brew ghosts you can get on Timeless Isle by farming the ghosts at the village - the brewmaster tank, the mistweaver healer and the windwalker dps
(2) A Shado Pan companion you can get by signing up for one of the daily quests but not doing it - this is only possible for the tank Celestial challenge, alas, since it's in Niuzao's place. As I said, the tank I took in the day before was useless, as I could tank Deathwing perfectly well myself (although I had trouble with interrupts, more on that below). What I needed was additional dps, so I brought the rogue who for some reason hadn't been available the day before.
(3) A mogu warrior that you can spawn using a trinket from a rare elite who lives over near the Nesingwary camp area in Valley of the Four Winds - Terracotta Fragment. The Terracotta warrior fights for you for 10 minutes, although I don't think he lasted the whole fight against DW.
So, I had a healer, an off tank and 3 dps - and boy, did it work! Deathwing was down before he ever had a chance to bring out the flame paths to attack Wrathion. I don't know how low Wrathion's health got because it was all over so fast, it wasn't an issue.
Do I feel bad or unworthy for using these helpers? NO! I did it straight up with Pamena and Senta, but for additional cloaks for alts, my feeling is that if Blizz considered it cheating or an exploit, they would prevent it, and I just wanted to get it over with. The only reason I might have kept trying it straight was to practice areas of tanking I am weak in (like getting interrupts off in time if DBM isn't shouting at me, which it wasn't in there - but Thanael told me about an add on Gnosis that makes customizable cast bars which should help me next time I have to do interrupts), but I can practice that in LFR or even in the proving grounds.
So, I think anyone now doing the cloak quest can also cheese the challenges with these helpers, except, of course, for the Shado Pan who are only available for the tank quest. That's the scoop, I hope it helps anyone who is having trouble with any of the challenges or who just wants to get past the blasted things.
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