Hunters: Soloing old instances for fun and profit - Page 38

kronchev · 10/22/10, 4:29 PM

I've been able to solo all of MC, all of ZG except for the MCing boss, all of AQ20, and Attuneman, all without T5. I'll jump into ZA later to see what I can do.

The only thing that is really miffing my efforts is AQ40. Prophet right at the beginning totally destroys me on the first split.

I pull and unload to my pet and then LOS so I don't get MCd. I just sit there and hit KC when it's up. I don't even need to jump out and MD my pet, he heals himself for enough by far.

But at the first split, I die every single time. I try Deterrence, FD, a combination, but it just hurts way too much and I get knocked over.

Is there a way to get it? It's not my pets fault, its me taking too much damage. The adds have tiny, tiny pools of health but I Earth Shocked to death before I can burn them.

/edit: This thread reminded me that I wanted to try the world bosses as well. The dragons are a joke but I want to smack Doomwalker.

Nimiks · 10/22/10, 5:49 PM

Like Bowbaq said, try to get a spirit beast and a healing or absorb trinket (skeleton key from badges).
I just tamed gondria last night, a critical spirit mend heals your for more than 10K hp and has only 28s cd, and the trinket absorbs 6400 dmg.
I did karazhan last week until Terestian/Aran without any soloing gear (regular 264/277 gear and random bear pet), but on these two i was taking too much damage to survive without a spirit beast and/or healing/tanking trinkets. The rest was really easy, except Curator, i had to feign death within mend pet castings until he evocates, the bolt he casts really hurts.

Krelle · 10/22/10, 5:55 PM

Originally Posted by kronchev

I've been able to solo all of MC, all of ZG except for the MCing boss, all of AQ20, and Attuneman, all without T5. I'll jump into ZA later to see what I can do.

The only thing that is really miffing my efforts is AQ40. Prophet right at the beginning totally destroys me on the first split.

I pull and unload to my pet and then LOS so I don't get MCd. I just sit there and hit KC when it's up. I don't even need to jump out and MD my pet, he heals himself for enough by far.

But at the first split, I die every single time. I try Deterrence, FD, a combination, but it just hurts way too much and I get knocked over.

Is there a way to get it? It's not my pets fault, its me taking too much damage. The adds have tiny, tiny pools of health but I Earth Shocked to death before I can burn them.

/edit: This thread reminded me that I wanted to try the world bosses as well. The dragons are a joke but I want to smack Doomwalker.

These videos show a couple of ways you can solo The prophet Skeram. There are some differences in the tactics in the videos but they still handle some of the basics in the encounter the same way.

YouTube - Krelleh vs Temple of Ahn'Qiraj 4/9 bosses WOTLK (First 2.30 minutes and my method).
YouTube - Hunter Solo Prophet Skeram AQ 40 WoW
YouTube - Hunter Solo Prophet Skeram AQ 40 WoW

What you are saying that you do right now is the same as I do on this boss, and it has worked for months for me, so I can’t see how you are dying. Are your feign dead’s being resisted or do they run out during Skerams split-phases? I always feign dead 30-60 seconds before he hits 75-50-25%. That way if he resist my first feign dead I can do it again before he splits.

kronchev · 10/22/10, 5:59 PM

Originally Posted by Krelle

These videos show a couple of ways you can solo The prophet Skeram. There are some differences in the tactics in the videos but they still handle some of the basics in the encounter the same way.

YouTube - Krelleh vs Temple of Ahn'Qiraj 4/9 bosses WOTLK (First 2.30 minutes and my method).
YouTube - Hunter Solo Prophet Skeram AQ 40 WoW
YouTube - Hunter Solo Prophet Skeram AQ 40 WoW

What you are saying that you do right now is the same as I do on this boss, and it has worked for months for me, so I can’t see how you are dying. Are your feign dead’s being resisted or does it run out during Skerams split-phases? I always feign dead 30-60 seconds before he hits 75-50-25%. That way if he resist my first feign dead I can do it again before he splits.

Thanks, I'll look at those, I perused a few videos but they all had the hunter using Volley so they didn't seem much help.

From what I remember (and it's been a few weeks and few cases of beer later, so bear with me), the split happens, and I can't even FD in time. My pet was doing massive damage and the split just happened way too quickly; I think I had FD'd right at the start after MD, then just hid back, and by the time the split came, FD was still on CD and I'd get wrecked. I think part of the problem is I'm at the back of the top platform and really can't see them as easily when they split, so I can't get my pet to run over and say hi as quickly, or he's running TOO quickly, and he's not in range so they just go out at me. A number of times he teleported and just shocked my face off before my pet could even get over to him.

Basically, I think I need to work on using FD smartly in this situation.

/edit: I just looked at your video, your method looks a LOT easier, I'll be trying that.

stateless · 10/22/10, 10:42 PM

Has anyone tried MC post-4.01?

The core hound packs are almost impossible without constant AE and multishot just doesn't let you AE enough to burn them all down at once.

sleepinboi · 10/23/10, 3:24 AM

Originally Posted by stateless

Has anyone tried MC post-4.01?

The core hound packs are almost impossible without constant AE and multishot just doesn't let you AE enough to burn them all down at once.

I was in MC not too long ago and along with my bear to tank along with the Misdirection glyph. As Survival, I started with Multi-Shot to spread my Serpent Sting first then Trap Launched my Explosive Trap and continued to Multi-Shot with Steady Shot fillers to get my focus back so I could Multi-Shot some more. I didn't have too much trouble with the Core Hound packs this way. Just make sure you have name plates on in case 1 or 2 of them still have a little bit of life left so you can single target those down.

Edit: The other thing you can do is skip the packs. I've moved between them to get to Magmadar before just as long as you're careful not to get feared into the packs while fighting him.

Brightlol · 10/23/10, 3:27 AM

Originally Posted by stateless

Has anyone tried MC post-4.01?

The core hound packs are almost impossible without constant AE and multishot just doesn't let you AE enough to burn them all down at once.

Turn on nameplates and just DPS them down evenly. Be sure to keep an eye on your pet though, they do a lot more damage now and can chew through the core hounds health quite fast.
The new Misdirection glyph works wonders, i managed to clear the whole place with a Spirit Beast.

holyfist · 10/23/10, 9:29 AM

Originally Posted by stateless

Has anyone tried MC post-4.01?

The core hound packs are almost impossible without constant AE and multishot just doesn't let you AE enough to burn them all down at once.

For this fight (and Garr too) use Worm pet.
Pet charge and use burrow attack.
Don't attack hounds, just keep mend pet up and make pet bring all adds to about 50% then use second Burrow Attack and with Bestial Wrath finish off with multishot spam.
Took about 2-3 minutes for pack but can be faster if you shoot them instead letting pet do all work.

Fluflis · 10/24/10, 1:35 AM

Originally Posted by kronchev

I've been able to solo all of MC, all of ZG except for the MCing boss, all of AQ20, and Attuneman, all without T5. I'll jump into ZA later to see what I can do.

The only thing that is really miffing my efforts is AQ40. Prophet right at the beginning totally destroys me on the first split.

I pull and unload to my pet and then LOS so I don't get MCd. I just sit there and hit KC when it's up. I don't even need to jump out and MD my pet, he heals himself for enough by far.

But at the first split, I die every single time. I try Deterrence, FD, a combination, but it just hurts way too much and I get knocked over.

Is there a way to get it? It's not my pets fault, its me taking too much damage. The adds have tiny, tiny pools of health but I Earth Shocked to death before I can burn them.

/edit: This thread reminded me that I wanted to try the world bosses as well. The dragons are a joke but I want to smack Doomwalker.

Skeram is more or less pretty simple fight. Just let the pet do everything. I did it with 277 pve gear, except stamina badge trinket. No nature resistance. I specced like a normal BM specc except i took stamina instead of less arcane shot focus cost. And pet specced normal tank specc, with Boar's Speed (+30% movements) and Charge, which i find too essential and Silverback. I used a turtle.

The MC ability has 45 yards range (same as mend pet) so i just stayed away from that range and just pressed kill command. When the boss teleports and the pet is not in melee range, it does that AoE so boar's speed and charge will minimize that. When there are mirrors be sure your pet is at high health, bob bestial wrath and feign death. As long as u are feigned, u will not get any damage from AoE. When the pet kills the 2 mirrors, stand up again, bandage/health pot if needed. Rinse and repeat. To be honest Silverback did the whole job for healing the pet. Mend pet was just to help in getting at full health quick.

You may need to put pet on passive and the defensive again in order to adjust its position so it is in LoS of you. At these moments, u will get some of the aoe damage but u can use the stam trinket use shield for that. The key is to never be at 45 yards of Skeram.

Nimiks · 10/24/10, 1:40 PM

Took me 2 tries to kill skeram with a spirit beast, just letting the pet do everything (healing via bloodthirsty and spirit mend).
However i was getting earth shocked every time i tried to place my pet in los. That's why i used a spirit beast that could heal itself, staying out of range and fding when the boss splits as Fluflis said. I don't understand why he shocks you sometimes, and sometimes not. It seems that he does it whenever the pet is not attacking him, but he also sometimes cast earth shock during the splits, while the other time he does not.

The big fail was when i tried to loot the boss and i can't, because i never damaged it.
Remember to kill shot or something if you try it yourself

Doncabesa · 10/24/10, 3:30 PM

I was able to easily solo all of kara except for netherspite (for obvious reasons) thanks to spirit mend using a normal dps BM spec. Trickiest fight was the chess event because of Medivh cheating with the fire on the king.

Lennethh · 10/24/10, 4:25 PM

Anyone have any tips on soloing Baron? Having a rough time... need my other binding!

Nyth_ · 10/24/10, 5:34 PM

Originally Posted by Lennethh

Anyone have any tips on soloing Baron? Having a rough time... need my other binding!

What exactly seems to be the thing that's hurting you ?

Pre-4.0.1 i would imagine the mana burn was pretty annoying, but since we use focus that shouldn't be a problem anymore. So the only thing i can think of is the bomb, which you stop by either disengaging before you land or standing in the tunnel.

Krelle · 10/24/10, 5:35 PM

Originally Posted by Lennethh

Anyone have any tips on soloing Baron? Having a rough time... need my other binding!

I'm not completely sure now after patch 4.01, but Geddon used to be a very easy boss because you could outrange most of his abilities with Hawk eye (2,4,6 range). Since hawk eye is gone now it might not be possible to do that anymore, but there are other ways to solo him. I've done it without hawk eye before, and I used some fire resistance gear. You probably want around 250 if not more with a resistance flask, and then something to heal yourself with. Try getting the emblem of frost trinket that absorbs damage, or tame a spirit beast together with spirit bond. That should be enough to keep yourself alive.

You can also just use 3 pieces of tier 1 and just always stay more than 50 yards away from Geddon and just heal your pet, and with 4.01 it might also be possible for your pet to keep itself up with talented growls for tenacity pets or the talent ferocity pets can get that heals them when they deal damage.

All in all there are lots of ways to do this boss. Just try a few things and he will go down.

Hirgux · 10/24/10, 8:51 PM

Geddon is even simpler now.
Hawk eye is gone but you got the range now without talents.

So simply stand on max range and put mend pet on your pet; you don't even need T5.
Hardest part is to get into proper range after his aoe when the pet runs around - but even this isn't that bad anymore, because if you get the debuff you cannot run out of mana anymore.