Pijn

Okay, here are my thoughts on the Majordomo threat mechanics:

The eight adds simply have one aggro table each which they don't reset, just have your pet grab all eight adds and build aggro on them, while you dps one add at a time (AoE is bad idea here, in my experience). Majordomo has some interesting aggro mechanics; have your pet grab Majordomo as well, as if it was a ninth add, and after that order your pet to attack the add you were attacking again.

Now, every time Majordomo teleports you to the fire he focuses on you. However, he hasnt reset threat on your pet, your pet simply has to engage Majordomo for one second to force the boss to attack your pet again. A similar situation happens to me alot on Tiger boss in ZG; the rogue add stuns my pet, all 3 run to me and if FD is on cooldown i have to pop deterence while waiting for my pet to break out of the stun. Sometimes 2 adds will run back, but one stays behind hitting me. All it takes is for me to send my pet to that add to force him back on my pet (I don't have taunt in my spec, so pet didn't taunt the add)

Anyway, Majordomo can be soloed, just make sure your pet grabs the boss everytime you get ported (make a macro if needed).

Personally the only boss i haven't soloed yet in MC is Golemagg, but i know he is doable. Just make sure your pet is put on passive after he has 5-10 stacks of the debuff (which he gets from attacking Golemagg, not the other way around), after which you and pet need to wait 30 seconds before you attack him again. Thirty seconds is the duration of the debuff, so obviously if your pet attacks Golemagg in the meantime the stack gets refreshed. This also means threat on boss is pretty poor initially, so you will need to hold down on dps as well at start ( = zero healing through 2t5). Later on your pet will have huge amounts of threat and you can go fullout, just make sure to put pet on passive and stay whenever the stacks become too high (it deals heavy damage over time, and reduces armor by a fairly significant amount).

 

koala987

Thank you, I'll try that out.

 

Skhope

I managed to get my second Garr kill yesterday. The first kill was pretty messy where I used my Warp Stalker. The pet died a few times, but I was at 41yd range with 2/2 imp revive pet, so I had enough time to rez him. It took almost 15m to kill though since I was dry on mana pretty often as I wore some pieces of FR gear to reduce Immolate damage.

Yesterday, I went in with my turtle and it wasn't as much trouble. Took me a couple tries, but the kill was near flawless.

My spec: Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft
Pet's spec: Pet Calculator - Wowhead

I did not ping pong the adds. However, I managed my cooldowns to keep pet alive when all the adds were up. Mend pet should be up pretty much the whole fight to purge Immolate when adds are up and 2 piece T5 is probably a must for it.

- Put pet against a wall
- Mend pet, MD, send in pet, and pop Intimidation
- Multi Shot, pop Shell Shield and focus dps pet target
- When Shell Shield is down, pop TBW, RF, and trinkets
- Pop Last Stand when cooldowns wear off
- Rotate between TBW and Shell Shield rest of the fight

When an add is about to die, pull the pet back to avoid explosion damage. I did not use Volley and my pet had aggro the whole fight. I did have to FD and MD often though. I used my T7.5 with everything gemmed and enchanted for stam. My pet had about 22k hp with a stam scrolls on both of us and food buffs.

Tip: DO NOT LOOT THE CORE HOUNDS! I got respawns mid-attempt last week and it wasn't pretty

 

Shandara

One thing I've been doing lately is to kill Magmadar first just to stop the damn respawns. Most fights lasts fairly long solo and the core hounds are on a very short respawn timer even when not-looted.

WotLK Hunter DPS Spreadsheet

 

sneakysam

Just Soloed Golemagg, took me a few tries. This is what i did:

MD pet, sent him to one of the add. Start dpsing add, ignore golemagg, let pet build threat slightly on all 3 using thunderstomp. When MD is ready, both pet & you switch to golemagg, watch debuff till 5 stacks and switch back to the add. From there, your pet should have enough threat on golemagg, you can just start dpsing boss but leave pet attacking add, he'll no longer get any stacking debuffs, only you dps boss, and FD whenever you're about to pull aggro. Without debuff, this makes it alot easier to heal, but you must keep mend pet up at all times.

Wouldn't use multishot at the start, only when pet has good threat. But its perfect for healing pet since there's 3 of them. One tricky thing is staying maximum range to avoid pyro blast shooting from boss (or add?), i had to keep running in to heal pet, because my warp stalker was warping in & out of mend pet range.

if you find yourself low health from pyro thing, make sure your pet is pretty full, mend pet & run out of max range to bandage, be ready to pop cooldown (last stand etc) when you run back in, your pet will need it after 8 seconds of bandage.

I had 2T5 (impossible without), warp stalker and glyph of mending. Used the spec from previous poster.

 

Pijn

Ah yes, the solution can be so simple, at the top of this page i already thought it was possible to solo Golemagg by putting pet on passive after 5-10 stacks, but never thought of the simple solution of letting pet and you attacking adds while waiting for debuffs to fall off..and while still using 2t5.

 

truetry

Has anyone soloed any of the emerald dream dragons yet?
I tryed ysondre yesterday and if i get some pots and buffs i believe it can be soloed easily but how about the others?

 

tjorni

With help of information in this thread, I have been able to succesfully solo all of MC Thanks all!
I used a 57/11/3 spec; for me 3/3Hawkeye made all the difference.
My pet was a Turtle, and I did use 2-piece-T5. The rest of my gear was regular pre-Ulduar raiding gear, not pvp-gear and not gemmed for stamina.

The two problem fights and solutions for me:

Garr
Turned out the easiest way to kill him was to just send the pet in and go absolutely all out on single-target DPS on the adds. With a bit of luck Shell Shield and fulltime Mend Pet (with Glyph of Mending) pulls the pet through without need for any special positioning and moving around. And if not, well, easy enough to just Feign Death and try again. Once 3 or 4 adds are down it's easy going.

Golemagg
This used to be the real showstopper for my MC-tour, until I saw Sneakysam's advice. Just let your pet build op some aggro on Golemagg, and keep him on an add for the rest of the fight. With FD every 30 seconds (and some Misdirects early in the fight) you won't pull aggro of him. However, I still found the Pyroblasts and having to bandage myself troublesome, as keeping up my pet was pretty tough without the 2pcT5 healing (mend pet was already up constantly). On one of my tries though, I found out that it is quite easy to position Golemagg and my pet in such a way that I was out of range of the Pyroblast, while still within healing range (hurray to Hawkeye!). This makes the fight a lot easier.

 

DreamScaper

sorry for this late response. Lost internet since my last post.

For trash i typically use my croc. They usually aren't a problem. For bosses i use my turtle. A turtle is probably fine for everything, but the croc just makes it faster. I also tend to dps spec him to make things faster, but will respec him whenever is needed. Obviously always keeping the healing bonus talent. I also tend to take greater resistances on him. And on my turtle also. I find I can outheal physical dps so thats usually not as big of a problem for me, but the casters always give my pets problems.

 

Iroared

For magic damage you might want to try out Petrified Scarab trinket from AQ40, it increases resistances by 100 and reduces them by 10 each time you take magic damage, but as your pet is taking all the hits the full bonus should be up the entire minute.

 

Faster

Has anyone tried soloing Ahune as a hunter? Personally I'd like to farm him for the scorchling pet but all my attempts so far have been unsuccessful.
The small adds in p1 have a frostbolt attack which they cast instantly when they spawn, and the problem is that they cast it on the hunter instead of our pet. Even though the frostbolts don't hit for much, they will eventually kill me as I have no selfheals bar pots and bandages, which is not enough.

I've tried to get aggro onto the pet instead of me by placing him closer to the adds' spawn point and also not using Mend, but generally they still shoot the first frostbolts on me and obviously with no heals the pet will die rather quickly. Thunderstomp has a slightly too long cd to be able to reliably grab all adds and the cd of MD is obviously also too long.

I've tried standing out of LoS behind some objects to avoid the frostbolts, which does work to an extent. The adds can't cast at you at first, but they still go for you as soon as they come round the corner into LoS, at that point both frostbolting and meleeing you.

I thought about using a pet with the self-heal talent to possibly enable it to gain first aggro on fresh spawns, has anyone tried this? I also thought about trying to find a safe spot on some elevated object where the frost spikes can't spawn beneath you, but haven't found one yet. However, one time I got knockbacked up onto the big green plateau next to Ahune and it seems he teleports you to him if you ever happen to stand on an "evade spot" anyways.

Anyone have any tips?

 

Skhope

Ahune was pretty easy in normal mode. I went in with my turtle, 2 piece T5, specced BM and killed him after three phase changes.

In heroic mode, I failed horribly with my wolf on a couple attempts. I put on one piece of frost resist gear I had that I created for Thorim a while back. I used my warp stalker specced as such: Pet Calculator - Wowhead

I used 2 piece T5 and rest stam/PVP gear and he went down after three phase changes. I let my pet take care of the big elemental, while I focused on the little adds. It gets a little annoying once you start getting the three packs since one of them has a spell like Deathgrip, but easily manageable with FD and Disengage.

 

Pijn

I actually find Ahune easier in heroic than on normal difficulty; the adds frostbolts hit for more on normal (though be it slightly more). I use a bear/warpstalker pet (either will work), 2xt5 and BM specced with tank talents.

I simply send the pet to attack the big rock elemental that spawns at first, and focus all my attacks on the small adds. Multishot > Aimed Shot here naturally. Use RoS whenever you can, and simply nuke down the ice and air elementals (they should go down with 1-2 shots each). The last thing you want is to have the small adds reach you, since their melee hits can and will hurt, especially when they are in groups.

Both on normal and heroic i need 3 phases to get Ahune down. Once from 100-60, once again from 60-20, and one last phase.

Spirit Bond coupled with RoS should be enough to keep you alive, and if sh*t hits the fan i use a pot/bandage.
For some reason you can kill Ahune as many times as you like, just go outside and reset the instance (of course you are bound to the 5 instance a hour limit, so that leaves a maximum of 120 Ahune attempts a day)

 

livercat

Can't get past second wave of adds on Ahune heroic. Damage is just too severe, and frost rez set doesn't seem to help since all the damage from little adds is physical.
I'm using Gorilla and BM tanking spec. I'm geared mostly from Ulduar25 with several PvP pieces. I don't have 2xT5, but pet's health not an issue here, my health is.
Maybe i'm doing something wrong :\

Edit: Strange thing. Tried frost rez in Ahune normal and it did work. Maybe heroic was bugged somehow or it's intentionally.
Either way, i don't think i'll be able to last much longer even with partial resistance :\

 

Pijn

Well, it is very easy to get overrun on Ahune yeah, i just died 10 minutes ago, but killed him once again just now. As i said before, key thing is to simply nuke the small elementals. They hurt alot more in melee than when they throw frostbolts at you (bolts only hit for 300 on heroic, 500 on normal, but their melee hits alot more and faster).

Perhaps it would be easier to do Ahune as MM/surv specced (more instants), but i prefer to have the small Spirit Bond heal and BM spec works just fine.

 

Skhope

Here's a little video I put together. It may help if you are still having trouble. YouTube - Hunter: Solo Ahune, the Frost Lord - Heroic Mode (Slave Pens)

 

Krez

When soloing Ahune, I find it best to spec your normal raiding spec (I prefer 0/15/56) with a regular ferocity pet to tank the elemental and no 2-piece tier 5 bonus (I have it, but I don't use it for this fight).

At the start of the fight, MD the rock dude to your pet with growl on. Ignore the spawns and just focus dps on the earth elemental. He should die pretty quickly, and you can clean up the little spawns. After this, it's pretty easy. The spawns don't do much damage.

The key to the fight is killing it in one wave. Save all of your cooldowns for the core phase. With a raiding spec, dps pet, and all cooldowns, this should be a piece of cake. Another tip is to dps Ahune between add spawns in P1. He only takes 25% damage, but any less damage you have to do to him in P2 is a good thing.

I should also mention that I do this on normal mode. Is there any reason to do this on Heroic? It shouldn't be much different at all, so why waste the time?

 

Madscorl

Yeah, I worked on MC quite a bit today and got all the way up to Golemagg. Sulfuron was done with Black Bow of the Betrayer and Black Grasp of the Destroyer, plus 2T5. None of the priests died until they were all oom. Afterwards it was just tank and spank. I tied Golemagg a few times but couldn't make much progress even with the advice I've heard here about only building a bit of threat on Golemagg with the pet and feigning at each agro pull. It still seems to be too much for my pet to handle.

I started my MC clear with a gorilla but when it didn't work on Garr I went out and tamed a warpstalker. Turned out to be really effective even while it was 75. I'll have to go back to Golemagg when I level that pet. Or try with a Turtle like Tjorni did.

 

nagastolemycar

hi there,

I'd read that thread with quite much interest and I think, that I did understand what you are talking about. I've now tryed some of the dungeons mentioned here. ZG was actually no problem, just had to try Mandokir a few times.

But there's one thing I do not understand: Why are you guys allways using a gorilla-pet? Is there a difference between bears according to surviveability? (I know gorillas do have some kind of cast-interrupt, but who cares?)

'd be nice if someone could explain that to me.


Misuka

 

Pijn

You have to look at the dates when these posts were made; they were made before last patch, when only the gorilla had the Thunderstomp ability. With the latest patch though, all Tenacity pets got Thunderstomp, hence your question is valid now.

 

Bromide

I just thought I would share my success. I'm only after the mounts, so I went to ZG and went for Mandokir first. He is a very very easy fight.

I then proceeded to Thekal and downed her on the first try. No mounts, but at least now I can do it.

Thank you for all the tips from all the posters.

I will be attempting Sethekk Halls next for the bird mount, although have to take a druid with, wish me luck.

 

Bromide

I was hoping I can get some feedback from everyone. I would like to try and obtain two Tier 5 pieces. What bosses would you suggest would be the easiest, as well ass how many people? So far it is me and a Holy/Disc priest.

Any suggestion will be highly appreciated.

 

Pijn

Shoulders from Void Reaver, Gloves from Leotheras. A group of 5-10 people is enough (to compare: i start a raid group to Kael'thas 25 man each week for his mount, and i never take more than 15 people for him, and he is considerably harder than Void Reaver and Leotheras - even at lvl 80, phase 3 can dish out alot of raid damage). Make sure you don't bring other hunters/mages/locks of course, and 2xT5 should be yours soon enough.

 

muul

Anyone having any troubles finding the Emerald Dragons?
Are they known for being easy to solo, I saw a video some time ago by a hunter taking one of them down and I want to try it aswell, but either im am shit out of luck and someone is faster than me with spawns or they all have gone in hibernation.

I made this flick while trying out all the old TBCHeroics, you can find it here

*Tiny Tip*
Requires :
Dual Spec (One that doesnt have Beast Mastery)
Beast Mastery (51p in BM)

Havent really looked but havent seen anyone mentioning that you can respecc your pet if you want different specs for different encounters. Have your pet up (I use Warp Stalker) switch to Primary/Secondary depending on what you are in, poff your pet unlearns everything, switch back and put out with whatever you need for that encounter. Probably common knowledge but maybe someone missed it.

 

Nolyn

Ok well I'm at a loss on Golemagg.

I've read how to do it on here from others, and followed the steps. My problem isnt that i cant keep my pet alive, i can do that.

My problem is that i cant keep me alive. Pyroblast (the random fireball he shoots at you), is wat kills me. If it wasnt for that i could do him. but idk how to cause i tried to out-range it. but the furthest i could get (max range to him), still wasnt far enough

and i have 3/3 Hawk Eye

if anyone actually has killed him, do u have a video ? or suggestions