Solo Stormwind Vision - Cloak 6 to 7

So I am going to get my cloak to level 7 this week. I do not mind running it twice if it means it’ll be far easier to do solo. With that, should I go Dwarven or Trade district? Any other tips?

To me the trade district was easier. The dwarven was still easy but you have to go around and click bombs and thats annoying IMO.

Make sure you have upgraded your titanic research. I usually run solo so the defibrillation trait could potentially be a life saver.

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Did you only clear the one corruption area?

I did this yesterday, I did ther trade distract and then the main boss, I recieved no pages.

I did Trade District for rank 5-6 and it wasn’t bad.

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no, I did two areas. Rank 7 requires 2 pages, you get one page per section. You will get it in the chests at the end of the run.

It does require 2 pages, you’re right. But you can either get them both in 1 run, or get 1 page in 2 separate runs, right?

That I do not know… I did both in one run.

I would assume so, but I would hate for you to miss out by following my advice.

I’m pretty sure if you clear a zone, you still get the chest even if you die.

Did you use anything extra on your run - drums, invis pots or anything?

But you also have to go around and click stuff in trade district… on top of killing more stuff, stuff with worse effects, in a bigger area and you can’t even click things are you get in you have to kill 2 bosses first and you still have stuff to kill after AND there’s back tracking AND there’s no portal to get back to the beginning.

Dwarf district is by far easier.

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Invisibility pots can help, but there are areas where there are mobs where the bombs are located so clicking is mandatory. Same for the trade districts.
Drums are not mandatory, but they are nice for helping with alleria since she gets more HP per sub area you clear.

You cand o it on two runs by clearing a tainted area each.

OR

You canc lear both tainted areas, then wipe it at ALleria. You’ll get pages either way.

Is it tainted areas for 6 - 7? I thought it was corrupted, but I could totally be wrong.

Pardon I keep mixing terms bud.

Its corrupted areas.

Lost areas kick in I think around rank…12.

No worries! I appreciate the help, regardless :slight_smile:

I did rank 7 in two runs just to be safe. I did the dwarven district and then alleria. Both runs I was able to get single pages from doing the dwarven district on both runs in the side chests you get from doing them.

I actually ended up doing both Corrupted areas on my 5-6 run, wasn’t too hard. I feel like the Stormwind areas are a bit more annoying than the Org ones, but w/e.

'Course, I have failed two of them so far, both due to dumb mistakes*, so I’m only at rank 6, but even clearing both of the Corrupted zones didn’t seem too difficult. I still had over half of my last sanity bar left when I killed Alleria, and still had my console cheat death in the bank. My console so far has Orb, the left side of tier 2 (Singular Sanitation and Defibrillation), and 1 point in Clear Sight, so not really super far progressed (the Elite one will really help, I think).

* First one, apparently if you chuck a glaive and enter combat as the cast of the orb is finishing, the orb does not spawn. RIP run. Second one, I wasn’t watching the objective window and didn’t realize there was another dude to kill after the bombs in the dwarven area, and he drags you into combat with no range limit, which interrupted my orb cast. Again, RIP run. >.>.

But ya, the TL;DR is that, at least on my HDH, clearing both Corrupted and still killing Alleria wasn’t that tough.

Just unlocked it on my monk, on the other hand, and died the first time I tried to kill Alleria. Like, ok, he’s around 20 itemlevels behind my DH, but man was it a night and day difference. I never have to worry about dying on my DH, only sanity loss. My monk was ridiculously fragile in comparison (I tried to do it as brewmaster, too, and while I was never in danger of dying, I also couldn’t do enough DPS to kill Alleria before my sanity bar went from 90% to 0 >.>).

Ever more reminders why I main my DH.

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Just did my 6-7 run last night, thanks to the essences from the 2nd Vale assault, and cleaned up my run even more. I had to pop my last sanity orb before engaging Alleria, because I was too low to be fully confident I could kill her without it expiring (and I’m not sure how the cheat death works, does she reset and heal back up? That would suck). Anyway, I had maybe a quarter to a third left on my 3rd sanity bar, and then of course had like 2/3rds to 3/4ths left on my last bar when I killed Alleria (and still had the cheat death).

Again, I was reminded quite pointedly how different the focus is in there on my DH compared to the couple of other toons I’ve done these visions on. With my DH, I literally never even think about my health. Taking damage isn’t even slightly a risk on him, I’m never at risk of dying, or even close to it. The only thing I need concern myself with is avoiding things that drain my sanity, because that’s something that’s still a precious commodity, and something my class can’t make irrelevant.

When and if I finally get and upgrade Essence of the Focusing Iris (I really need to go do that, tbh), I have a feeling that, at least for some of the zones (the ones that lack sanity-draining spells, like those stupid casters in the Trade District), I’ll be doing the aforementioned strategy of pulling the entire zone, finding a nice LOS point to gather them up, and then burning them down using Focusing Iris and Fel Barrage.

I did Dwarven and Trade district in one run. I also tried to beat the boss in the same run and got him down to 20% but I didn’t get behind a pillar and it killed me. I’m not sure if I would have beaten him before I ran out of sanity anyway but it was gonna be super close. I had no trouble beating the Dwarven and Trade district’s as i studied the strats for both before going in and watched some videos. With a couple more upgrades I’ll be clearing out those 2 plus the boss with plenty of time left.

Someone asked about cheat death and I did use that. I was fighting the 2 guards near the main bosses door when my sanity was getting low and I let it drop all the way to zero to see how cheat death works. It literally just filled up my sanity bar back to 500 and my health went to full without missing a beat. I was still fighting and it didn’t reset anything.

At the end I got 3 chests, 2 small and one big one. I got both pages and one of those things you need 45 of to combine for an upgrade. If I’d of killed the main boss at the end I think I would also of got a piece of gear but I was just thankful to get the 2 pages and upgrade to 7 on cloak.

are you all running havoc or vengeance? so far I’ve been havoc but thinking about switching over since I have much better stuff as vengeance

This is good information, thanks man! I did only 1 of the corrupted areas going for the rank 7 and only got 1/2 pages. I wasn’t sure what the hell was going on until just now. Looks like i’ll need to go in again and re-clear for the 2nd page.

Wish i would’ve known that. I had plenty of time, probably could’ve cleared the 2nd zone in a single run…GG.

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