CrazyCarl

Well, you won't get very much loot by doing it, but on my shadowpriest I can solo Blackheart the Inciter's chamber with Mind Control. Just take off all of your gear first, MC something, it dies, you die, run back (or get ressed), rinse, repeat. When it comes down to the last mob it can be kited or feared or dotted+MC'ed until it's almost dead.

 

Deris

Guildmates of mine recently 5 manned Doom Lord Kazzak, with 3 Shadowpriests, a Warlock and a Paladin. This will lead to amusing BOE selling when 2.4 comes out!

 

Nezralix

I imagine there will be more competition when 2.4 comes out, and competing groups might not have a lot of patience for a 5-man attempt!

 

Aker

Three manned Ony over the weekend. Prot Pally / Resto Shammy / Mage. Took awhile as Ony bugged out on Phase 1, but Phase 2 and 3 were fine. I guess the Phase 1 bug doesn't affect later phases.

 

Mode

According to the screenshot I saw, IIRC it took 5 minutes, 33 seconds. That's not 'fast', but if Kazzak came up at 3 AM? It'd do.

Speaking of Kazzak, in 2.4 all of his elite trash is gone and he has a daily quest hub on his mountain. Suffice it to say, killing Kazzak on PVP servers will be a lot harder. Alternatively, you could have a lot of fun kiting him into unsuspecting questers.

 

malthrin

I did Onyxia last night with myself (Resto) + Destruction lock + Combat Rogue. We first attempted it with just myself and the warlock, but we wiped on the initial phase 2 whelps. She behaved normally in the first phase 1, but bugged out on phase 1 of the second attempt. With some practice, I think the warlock and I could handle the whelps, but we'll probably continue doing it with 3 just to keep phases 1 and 3 fast.

 

Deris

Same Warlock who 5 manned Kazzak is trying to solo Onyxia, and said he only needs a few more pieces of gear to finish the job.

 

Alefica

We did Heroic Slave Pens with only 4 once, but I wouldn't really consider that a real challenge. However, a while back we almost did a whole clear of Arcatraz with no tank. Just 2 shaman (resto and elemental), lock, mage, and a rogue. We weren't able to clear it though; the infernals at the end were just too much for the healer to handle. So much fun though xD.

 

Anedris

Regards the 5-manning of Kazzak, was VE healing really enough to keep the tank up, even through enrages? (I assume the paladin was tanking?) I don't remember Kazzak hitting that weakly, although it's been a while since I was there...

 

◊ Penguin

I believe it had something to do with the fact that if there's no primary aggro target in melee range, Kazzak shadowbolts that target rather than move in and melee. Thus a 5man group with 4 healers and a warlock all in capped SR would trivialize the fight (but be realllly slow).

[edit] at least, that's how it was explained to me. It may require creative usage of terrain.

There's not some hidden "but he tries really hard" variable built into the game. -Slake

I always love the "it doesn't fit my style of play" line. There are only two styles of play; Correct, and Incorrect. The only people that ever use this line are people with the incorrect style of play. -Sebudai

 

Mideci

It's a bit of a terrain exploit to do Kazzak as far a I know.

[edited] Hrm, I thought it was a terrain exploit so he wouldn't chase the "tank" in your case. If it's that he just doesn't move, the term "terrain exploit" is obviously misused.

[edited again]Um so yeah, in at least one case it sure as heck is a terrain exploit.

 

Deris

No, no exploits were necessary - the warlock tanked, Paladin healed. Died in just around 5 minutes.

 

Anedris

Ah k, wasn't aware he would stand and nuke. Thanks.

 

Prinsesa

Covered before, but we managed to kill Azuregos with a Prot Warrior and 2 Holy Paladins the other night. It took over an hour (I had to Greater Blessing twice, and I already used two normal Blessings before that), but it was a good bit of gold - 34g for each of us.

We would've gotten more, but we brought a level 44 Warrior along to get his loot, most notably a [Typhoon].

"We do want Sanctuary to be the tanking seal"

- Ghostcrawler

 

Cirocco

Killed Azuregos with myself on my warrior tanking wearing some of the resist kit I use for Hydross and our guilds healing lead resto shaman friend. This was a few month's ago, it was fun, but the amount of time it took we certainly wouldn't repeat it. Nice thing as a one off just to do it, but the amount of gold gained certainly couldn't be a competitive source of revenue compared to most anything else you could do in the time.

 

◊ Penguin

There's active competition for Azzy spawns on my server right now, since it's excellent gold for the people that 2 or 3 man him regularly. It's trivial for my alt shaman in partial T4 to keep a blues/early-KZ warrior tank up indefinitely. The fight takes an hour or longer with that setup, or about 20min if we bring a dps class to speed things up.

There's not some hidden "but he tries really hard" variable built into the game. -Slake

I always love the "it doesn't fit my style of play" line. There are only two styles of play; Correct, and Incorrect. The only people that ever use this line are people with the incorrect style of play. -Sebudai

 

Redcape

Given that he can't equip the typhoon until 60 I don't see the benefit. He will walk into outlands and equip a random green that is equivalent almost immediately anyway. Old world loot with level req 60 is pretty much useless at this point aside from the 'pretty' factor.

 

Redcape

Given that he drops 155 gold you could do much better. Considering the time it takes to get over there even with a 20 min kill you aren't likely to make more than 100g/hour which you could easily do just camping almost any decent mob in outlands.

I farm right around 200g/hour on my priest alt in half blue half green gear in legion hold, so 100g / hour from a mob that respawns only occasionally just isn't good money.

 

Mizerok

If you don't call standing on a mountain so that Kazzak will not melee you a terrain exploit, I don't know what is. I saw a video of this done, you might have done it differently, but we will let you and teh video decide when I find it.

Five Man Doom Lord Kazzak By Verdy

Hahahaha, seems like someone took the video down! I wonder.

 

Deris

That was to prevent trash from owning them mid kill. They wiped more than a few times due to Kazzak running up and meleeing. You can test this yourself.

The Video was taken down because Stage6.com doesn't exist anymore.

 

danny26

You can 2 man azuregos with a hunter and any healing class. Ive done it with all of them, fastest time is with a shaman but normally it takes about 20 mins to down him. I use a boar with max frost resist trained and my normal gear. The healer and my self stand at max range so we dont get teleported and 15-20 mins later its 75-95 gold + the other stuff.

 

Chirality

With a decidedly non-optimal group I did most of the Nightmare Green Dragons with about five people (Feral, Arms, Tree, RestoShaman, Mage). Could easily have cut it to three or perhaps even two, I think, if we had a really well geared tank wearing max NR instead of a blue-geared feral druid...and If I had DBM or CTRA for the timer for the Noxious Breath to taunt off the tank---that thing is *really* annoying.

 

Xav

Noxious Breath is every 10 seconds, perfectly lines up for Spell Reflect

 

Chirality

Argh you can reflect that?!

Wow that makes it easy to duo, then

 

Elerion

In the spirit of this thread and our old MC speed runs, we tried our hand at a speedrun of Karazhan today. Ended up at 1 hour 13 minutes from first pull to Prince dead, all encounters down. We sucked though. We wiped once (!) on a botched double table + waiters pull, had a handful of other random deaths, had our warglaive rogue wear pvp gear for the first two bosses, mistimed cooldown usage from everyone, and a number of minor mess ups. With further optimization and better play, I am pretty sure the 1 hour run is within reach.

Setup was Prot War, FDruid, Rogue, Rogue, Enh, Mage, Mage, RDruid, HPala, Spriest. Pala would tank AoE packs while I healed. I turned out to be a waste of space though, with maybe 3 non-boss mobs lasting long enough for T6 enhanced SWP to fully tick. Next run we'll probably replace me with an elemental shaman and possibly a mage with a lock.