Impressive.

But your health regen seems to be considerably better than just the Onyxia trinkets and Spirit Bond. So a little more info on what sort of gear and special tactics (beyond what is visible of course).

Here is the video: YouTube - Hunter solos: Gruul the dragonkiller

As said in the title I got Gruul the dragonkiller down this evening and frapsed the kill. He is a very easy boss (a one-shot) and the only reason why I haven’t seen solo kills of him by hunters before is because Maulgar isn’t doable I think. I just kept up mend pet all the time and did around 3000 dps. Then he went down before growth stacked too high (it was on 20 stacks when he died).

Hah, you could have done that as MM, perhaps even easier with the CS heal (and thus you could have used normal trinkets). Was quite surprised at how low the damage was to your pet. Didn't even see a Shell Shield go off. You are geared for these solo kills, but Gruul might be possible for people with a more conventional gear setup, or PvP gear.

I think Void Reaver would be worth your time. I took one swing at him after a recent Kael raun, and he seemed fairly doable. His trash is annoying but not too much of an obstacle. He tickles, and his knockback and tank threat reduction are not exactly a problem for us. You'll be constantly targetted by the Arcane Orbs, but they're 100% avoidable if you keep moving. The real challenge is beating the enrage timer. To do so, you'll have to average 5k dps, which is tricky when you can't stop moving to steady shot. I think with some practice and excellent execution this is killable now, and with Aspect of the Fox it will be much easier. There's another 250g every week.

Does anyone have any pointers on the Eagle boss in ZA? I read the earlier post here, and it helped, but I'm still having trouble. The other 3 early bosses are no trouble for me.

I've been sending the pet to the boss and then burning as fast as possible until the first gust, at which time I get out of its range and wait for the adds. They tend to take their time getting to me, which is trouble, because I can't move to them without getting in range of the boss for another gust. This may be just a positioning problem.

I also get hit by the Static Disruption on many of the attempts, which ends up hitting for way too much. I assumed this would not be an issue if I stayed at max range.

Does anyone have any suggestions on positioning...or anything else for this fight?

Thanks

I've seen a mage solo the trash and Winterchill recently (Video). I'm not sure if hunters can put out the same damage numbers while kiting, however that might be worth a shot.

Positioning is the key. The idea is too remain in the square part of the platform for the birds to spawn within your reach.
Before the pull walk over to the top right corner of the platform and put your pet there. Walk behind the boss and misdirect to pet. Make sure your pet is closer to you than the boss is to avoid your pet from accidently despawning and enabling easier aplying of Mend Pet on your pet and Spirit Mend on yourself. After the first Gust of Wind give your pet a Mend Pet and run towards the opposite corner down left. If you positioned the boss correctly you should be 80+ yards away from him and still be on the square part of the platform.

As for the Static Disruption you will just have to eat it. Aspect of the Wild the entire fight and some additional Nature Resistance help here. Bracer enchant (Leatherworking only), cloak enchant (stacks with Parachute!) and head enchant gives you an extra 115 Nature Resistance without gimping your gear too much.

I have never recorded anything in game but if someone could give me some pointers on how to record the kill I can upload it.

Did Romulo and Julianna earlier this week. Spirit Beast is a must for healing through Julianne's DoT.

Done as BM:
P1 - BW and burn her as fast as possible. As soon as she drops I Spirit Mend myself back to full (She should be lucky to get off one Blinding Passion and a single Spirit Mend should bring you back to full HP.)

P2 - Nothing special here. Just MD your pet and burn Romulo.

P3 - Once they pop up I get my MD off and start going at it. Your main goal is to minimize the healing done by Julianne and try to keep yourself topped off. Keep Widow Venom on both Romulo & Julianne for the entire fight and just juggle your DPS between the two. They have low HP pools (just over 100k) and go down fairly quick. I worked them both down to 15-20% HP and dropped Julianne first. Remember to give yourself a large enough window to kill them both so they don't resurrect.

Tips:
I was wearing 2pc T5 for this but it didn't seem that necessary. Corroded Skeleton Key is a great trinket to pick up if you have the Jpoints to spend and really helps out on this fight. Spirit Mend is enough to keep you alive, but it's nice to have the trinket for a little back up.

Pet healing was almost non-existent. The only time I ever threw up a Mend Pet was to get rid of Romulo's poisons, which aren't much of a threat anyway.

Hope this helps a little. I know it's not very detailed, but there's not a lot of detail to the fight. I didn't try any specific positioning and pretty much just go in and nuke the piss out of them.

Did Vaelastrasz the Corrupt yesterday and managed to get him down after a few tries. Patch 4.0.3 seems to have fixed the buff you get from him so focus isn't a problem anymore.

Trick is using a ferocity pet with Heart of the Phoenix, when your pet dies from BA activate deterrence > instant revive your pet and make sure it has hit Vael > feign death and resume dps. You'll need ~8,5k dps to get him down before your pet dies again.

Very fun to do and quite unforgiving at this point

Pretty sure hunters are the only class who can do him at 80, thanks to the change from mana to focus.

Thanks for the great info! I'll give it a try tonight.

One of the problems I was having before was just the damage I was taking. Each bird was hitting for 1k even as I was one shotting them. So if I can get in a better position, and take them out before they swoop, I'll be in better shape.

As for nature resist, I was using Aspect, LW wrist and elixer...think that comes to 250. Despite this, the Static Disruption stacks I was getting were hitting for up to 7500...with none resisted. Too much damage coming in too often for me to bandage. I'll try the better positioning. I expect once this is under control, the fight will be easier. The other 3 avatars were one or two shots with the info posted here.

A video would be great! Unfortunately, I've never posted on YouTube...so I can't help you.

Thanks again.

Threat should never be a problem if you have Glyph of Misdirect, your pet should be so far ahead of you because you won't be doing any threat with your direct damage at least - you just have to remember to keep it up.