Let me take a moment to clarify something here. This thread is NOT the bragging "I just solo'd X" place. If you want to talk about something you solo'd that is new, be sure you are including substance. What you did, what pet, how you did it, etc.

Have you considered using a MM spec and healing yourself via Chimera shot heals? That has worked for me so far, and has made the fight a lot shorter than running around (about 4 minutes). My gear level is 338 so it might be a better idea for those with a too low gear level, who don't have the dps to kill him in time with a bm spec, since only mend pet is silenced in a MM spec.

A hunter solo'd kael thas (25man version) YouTube - KAEL'THAS SUNSTRIDER BATTLE - PART 1

After watching it, i tried it by myself. mind control seems to be affected by line of sight. Best try was 80% ;/

Do I still need 8% hit to solo old content and do I need some resil to make my pet crit immune or does the -6% pet talent solve that?

This thread was the sole reason for me rolling a hunter and after hitting 85 yesterday the first thing I did was clear MC, it was a lot of fun and netted over 1500g with the 30sp to wep enchant dropping. It was all downhill from there, I thought Magtheridon and void reaver seemed like the logical next step, mag was an overwhelming add fest and I could only pull <5k on void reaver with an enrage each try regardless of spec.

Do I need to focus on the hit cap and pet crit Immune or just L2play? I'm sitting at ilvl 325 and only like 4.5% hit should I try to reforge or pick up a ton of heroic gear? Thanks

Mag is something you just have to learn to handle in a way that works for you.

VR is a gear issue - run some heroics, maybe get the epic pvp bow and you should be fine.
P.S. you need ~6k dps to down VR before the enrage.


What does everyone think about t5 in this fight and using dmg on the fire adds/eggs to heal your pet. It seemed to me that he risked a MC several times either dmging KT or applying a mendpet.

He did in fact also take advantage of casts to run in and spot a cheeky mend as well.

Most youtube vids I've seen showed hunters MDing all the spawned adds to their pet, but there is a quicker and much easier way to kill Magtheridon - simply kite the spawned adds, don't shoot at them but run around the room dropping traps (entrapment can help) and disengaging. I use MM spec for the heals and never have any problems. If you do get caught up by too many you can deterence / FD, etc and continue.

The trick was said to be distracting shot when Kel is about to cast MC - Kel then should cancel it since he does not MC his main aggro target.

Quick question for anyone still solo'ing stonecore for the drake: When you pull the second group of 4 mobs (2x Warbringer, 1x Berserker, 1xEarthshaper) is the first group (the 5 pack with Millhouse Manastorm) pulling with it? I keep having this happen and its extremely frustrating having to kill one mob and feign death reset 4 times.

Does anyone know of a way to avoid having the first group pull with the second group?

Tried to solo Kael for almost 2hours before I got tired of it. 2weapons left as best before P3. A DK friend came and it was so much easier. He tanked him behind the pillar and had a Spirit Beast healing him and DPSing on Kael. Ashes of Alar dropped and the DK rolled 7 and I rolled 83.
Happiest moment in my WoW life Now I just need to farm the Phoenix Hatchling pet from MGT HC.

Will give Solarian a try next week.

To the poster above. When I did Stonecore I just sneaked to the pack closest to the first boss and cleared from there. Only had to fight Millhouse one time that way and everything went just smooth with a turtle pet. No additional groups.

Soloing stonecore has been nerfed. Engaging the second pack of mobs now aggros the first pack as well as well as all remaining mobs left before the second pack (flayers, rock elementals, etc.)

edit : sorry useless post