With 2.0 out, a lot of guilds had their raid schedule collapse and now have a lot of time to die repeatedly trying to do stupid shit.

I am curious what kind of challenges people have pulled off with minimal numbers.

I am quite confident you could 10 man everything in molten core, if you took an optimal raid. Gurg showed that you could do Hakkar with all the aspects up. BWL I am not sure about, Vael with anything below 20 seems like a huge crapshot given the DPS required, barring massively stacking the raid. Onyxa has been 4 manned. AQ is not quite trivial enough to be done with low numbers, though I imagine emperors is doable with 30's, provided high enough physical DPS.

For group content instead, 2.0 has really upset the balance and allowed people to try out new things.

I'll start with a relatively modest achievement - Full Strat Baron clear with 2 players. (Holy Paladin + Shadow Priest) and no flasks used - we were not really prepared, but I suspect a bunch of very easy to obtain consumables like oils of immolation would make this very trivial, but using just mana pots this was really difficult and being shadow hurt a lot.

Any other fun tasks to do with overgeared characters before the expansion?

I believe a Paladin and Warrior duo'd that named Chimera in Feralas on Blackhand. I think they said it took like 40 minutes or something ridiculous though. Pretty sure that was before 2.0 even, but not positive. You could give that a try :)

10 manning mc is probably possible, but for all reasonable purposes, I would 10 man each type of trash pull once, and each boss, and use more people to clear the rest. It took a guild that did it with 15 10 hours to clear. Not exactly reasonable or fun sounding.

I've been thinking about the possibility of a warlock soloing his way through BRD (or at least the stealth emp run) but I don't think I've got quite enough FR to do Incendius. The lava hopping and elementals would be a breeze, the lycanteum would be a pain but I think with a naked imp pull, fast looting and a soulstone it might be possible. No idea on the fire elemental right past it though.

AQ40 the first 2 trash pulls were 5 manned by fratley and co the day it was released. Doing a 25 man huhu be fun though >_>

Two warlocks soloed dm west ages ago but that was using the enslavable deamons from dm north(they rock :) )

Try doing a 7-10 man hakkar with the priests dead. Including kiling all priests.

Nothing ground breaking, yet fun: 2 druid strat scarlet.
Little variation of the usual druid-warrior that i use to do orbs run with. We were curious if it would work, so i put on all my AQ feral gear and respecced, guildie was ToL specced. We did the whole thing without any problems, couple of HoTs was usually enough to keep me up and he basically spent the whole run at around 90% mana or so. The run was of course a bit slower than with a dps warrior but felt a lot safer and more controlled. Even managed to kill balnazar without any problems, usually you have to get lucky with the sleep and the MC to kill him, but having a regrowth and rejuv on me during those phases i was never even close to dying.

For a warlock its gotten a bit easier to solo instances, especially if you bring out the felguard. Incendius is very easy, FR doesn't help since he puts the -FR debuff on you. Greater FR pots make him trivial to solo for LBS's. I used to solo him pre-patch, although a few unlucky crits would mean a death.

You can solo a good deal of strat as well, an extremely fast run is simply running out to the first boss with a SS, rezzing, and soloing him. Have to do it naked to avoid the dura hit and you have to have the blood already on you. Of course you can kill everything on the way to him for items but it takes a lot longer and is harder.

I'd be curious if mages can solo strat now? Two mages can duo much of it easily, but can a mage now solo it?

For what its worth on beta a number of us have solo'd strat at 70 with no problems, its a cakewalk.

Yah I've 3 manned him once with a warrior/mage/shaman while farming chimera meat, our stupid warrior was just tab targetting on not paying attention to what he was charging. Took about 20 min or so. It's not "iron man" content at all though once you realize that you can run out of range of him and get out of combat to eat/drink.

A druid/warlock combo in my guild are trying to duo every one of the 5 mans, which I think they're pretty much done with now, and maybe UBRS.

I don't think there is a better way to pull mobs sir!

Kinda curious how that would work for Baron. Was the druid tanking while healing himself, or the warlock tanking with soul-link?

A couple of days ago, a Druid on Blizzard's forums reported soloing Sunken Temple o.o; I'm not sure if that included all trash but I suspect the upper limit of soloing is around there anyway.

Solo Scholomance doesn't seem that hard - the only real roadblock besides some of the pulls with Acolytes *grr manaburn* is Rattlegore - the other bosses are fairly easy. I've been trying it on and off (as shadow) lately, its mildly amusing.

^^ Sunken temple isn't really hard for a feral druid, I was poking down there for the broodlord head quest and killed the two flying dragons in bear without ever dropping under 90% health. Trash was super easy too.

Actually, imp LoTP is pretty ridiculous; it's easy to solo 3-4 packs of BRD non-elemental trash at once, quite a few bosses, demons in WS etc. By easy, I mean no shifting or cooldowns, just mash 5 buttons on cooldown.

Did you use oils of immolations for the skellies?

DM north has been soloed (pre 2.0) by a frost mage. Used a flask of supreme power for the end parts.

I've watched videos of a shadow priest soloing LBRS, and a warlock soloing Scholomance. Both movies can be found through www.warcraftmovies.com, so the limit to what you can solo is slightly higher than Sunken ;-). If you meant for a druid there's at least a movie or two out of a druid soloing Mother Smolderweb in LBRS, standard root nuke thing. Soloing Lord Incendius I've also seen reports of druids doing (though that might have been before they added the curse with -FR), my lock has soloed him both before and after that. All of mara has been soloed by a lock as well, Princess/tinkerer/Croco I've soloed myeself, not really that hard though, so perhaps not worth mentioning in this thread ^^.

You can find the rogue soloing BRD on the above poster's link, too. A step above sunken temple, I'd say.

I duo'd all of DM (spec'd prot) with a priest ages ago. Duoing DM isn't very difficult (though fairly time consuming).

Other stuff we've duo'd:
- Most of scholo
- Most of strath dead
- Most of the trash in ZG (not all at once in the one clear, and not the stuff around hakkar's temple)

If, as a priest/warrior you want a really big challenge, duo the ZG trash packs -- every pull is hard with only two people (hint: mind control owns).

Incendius is nearly trivial for a druid. the -resist debuff is a curse. he is also a very far from being the only soloable boss in BRD. Haven't tried most of them after 2.0 tough, should be possible to do more of them now..

I've been able to solo a good portion of scholomance -- it helps that the instance has several places just built for kiting. I've soloed LBRS up to Omokk, and UBRS up to Emberseer (and couldn't go any further due to needing 3 people to activate the altar.) A lot of it is quite time consuming and in LBRS/UBRS in particular needs mind control. A pair of shadow priests (my friend & I) cleared out the entirety of scholomance last weekend. One amusing thing about that, you get so many teleports from Gandling that sometimes he'll chase you into the locked rooms. Also, you get a good amount of drops from those 3 mobs that spawn in each room, yet are a cinch to kill. I half amusedly thought about just keeping Gandling alive as long as possible, and farming them.

In mostly pre-MC gear (check my ctprofile link) i can almost solo rattlegore pre 2.0, haven't tried since but i expect i would be able to. However i plan on upgrading to HWL wep and the rank 13 set before attempting again. I also plan on soloing wyrmthalak (got my pull and kite plan lined up now).

Also, with a bit of experimentation it seems that a druid/mage combo could kill the qiraji gladiators in AQ20 solo (50k hp, hit ~3k on cloth).

Baroness in strat is killable by a hunter solo, i might try that also.