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Old 06/09/11, 9:37 AM   #796
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10-Man Lich King Raids

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The Arachnid Quarter

* Anub'Rekhan: Hunter vs Anub'Rekhan [solo] - YouTube
* Grand Widow Faerlina: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JV1L9MFQX4
* Maexxna: Hunter solo Maexxna (Naxxramas, The Arachnid Quarter) - YouTube

The Plague Quarter

* Noth the Plaguebringer: Going Solo 2: Hunter Solo Noth the Plaguebringer - YouTube
* Heigan the Unclean: Heigan hunter solo - YouTube
* Loatheb: Endriel (85 Hunter) VS Loatheb - YouTube

The Military Quarter

* Instructor Razuvious: Hunter solo: Instructor Razuvious (Naxxramas) - YouTube
* Gothik the Harvester: Durendil vs Gothik - YouTube
* The Four Horsemen: Durendil vs The 4 Horsemen - YouTube

The Construct Quarter

* Patchwerk: Hunter solo Patchwerk (hunter world first) - YouTube
* Grobbulus: Lithestalker vs. Grobbulus Hunter Solo - YouTube
* Gluth: Hunter vs Gluth [solo] - YouTube
* Thaddius: Hunter vs Thaddius [solo] - YouTube

Frostwyrm Lair

* Sapphiron: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBlEAzlVx3E
* Kel'Thuzad: (Bug used: add despawning): Hunter vs Kel'Thuzad [solo] 10ppl - YouTube

OBSIDIAN SANCTUM

* Sartharion: Hunter Solo Sartharion10 - YouTube
- with one drake: Hunter Solo #Sartharion + 1Drake (Vesperon)# - YouTube
- with three drakes: World first hunter solo: Caribald vs Sartharion HM: The Twilight Zone - YouTube

EYE OF ETERNITY

* Malygos: Hunter Solo #Malygos# 10 Man - YouTube

VAULT OF ARCHAVON

* Archavon the Stone Watcher: Hunter Solo's: Archavon 10 man (Cataclysm - Patch 4.0.3a) - YouTube
* Emalon the Storm Watcher: Hunter solo: Emalon the Storm Watcher (Vault of Archavon) - YouTube
* Koralon the Flame Watcher: Tropenheld vs Koralon the Flame Watcher (10) - Hunter soloing - ?Worldfirst? - YouTube
* Toravon the Ice Watcher: Toravon the Ice Watcher - Hunter Solo - YouTube

ULDUAR

The Siege of Ulduar

* Ignis the Furnace Master: Szalor vs Ignis: hunter soloing (hunter world first) - YouTube
* Razorscale: Hunter Solo #Razorscale# - YouTube
* XT-002 Deconstructor: Durendil vs Xt-002 Deconstructor - YouTube
- Heartbreaker: World first hunter solo: Caribald vs XT-002 Deconstructor hardmode: Heartbreaker - YouTube

The Antechamber of Ulduar

* Assembly of Iron:
- I Choose You, Stormcaller Brundir: Durendil vs Assembly of Iron - YouTube
- I Choose You, Runemaster Molgeim: Killed
- I Choose You, Steelbreaker: Durendil: I choose you, Steelbreaker (Iron Council Hardest mode) - YouTube

* Kologarn: Durendil vs Kologarn - YouTube
* Auriaya: Hunter solo: Caribald vs Auriaya (10 man) - YouTube

The Keepers of Ulduar

* Hodir: Hunter Solo #Hodir 10 Man# - YouTube
- I Could Say That This Cache Was Rare: Durendil vs Hodir Hard mode (hunter worldfirst) - YouTube

* Thorim:
- Lose Your Illusion: Szalor vs Thorim: hunter soloing (hunter world first) - YouTube

* Freya: Durendil vs Freya - YouTube
- Knock, Knock, Knock on Wood: World first hunter solo: Caribald vs Freya HM: Knock, Knock, Knock on Wood - YouTube

* Mimiron: Durendil vs mimiron - YouTube
- Firefighter: World first hunter solo: Caribald vs Mimiron HM: Firefighter - YouTube

The Descent into Madness

* General Vezax: Durendil vs Vezax - YouTube
- I Love the Smell of Saronite in the Morning: Durendil vs Vezax Hard Mode - YouTube

* Yogg-Saron: (Bugs used: Sara ignores player + add despawn): Durendil vs Yogg-Saron (4 keepers) - YouTube
- One Light in the Darkness: (Bugs used: Sara ignores player + add despawn) Hunter Solo #Yogg-Saron : One Light in The Darkness# - YouTube
- Post bugfix: World first bugfree hunter solo: Caribald vs Yogg-Saron: One Light in the Darkness - YouTube

The Celestial Planetarium

* Algalon the Observer: World first solo (hunter): Caribald vs Algalon the Observer - YouTube

TRIAL OF THE CRUSADER

* Northrend Beasts: Durendil vs Northrend Beasts - YouTube
* Lord Jaraxxus: Killed
* Faction Champions: (Holy Paladin, Discipline Priest, Enhancement Shaman, Rogue, Mage, Balance Druid) World first hunter solo: Caribald vs Faction Champions - YouTube
* Twin Val'kyr (Fjola Lightbane & Eydis Darkbane): Durendil vs Twin Val'kyr - YouTube
* Anub'arak: Durendil vs Anub'Arak - YouTube

ONYXIA'S LAIR

* Onyxia: 85 hunter soloing onyxia10 - YouTube

ICECROWN CITADEL

The Lower Spire

* Lord Marrowgar: Hunter Solo Lord Marrowgar - YouTube
* Lady Deathwhisper: Hunter Vs. Lady Deathwhisper By Japskidin - World of Warcraft Movies
* Deathbringer Saurfang: Durendil vs Deathbringer Saurfang - YouTube

The Plagueworks

* Rotface: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXOVS3og02I
* Festergut: Hunters: Soloing old instances for fun and profit - hebergeur d'image - Casimages.com -
* Professor Putricide: Durendil vs Putricide - YouTube

The Crimson Hall

* Blood-Queen Lana'thel: World first hunter solo: CaribaLd vs Blood-Queen Lana'thel - YouTube

The Frostwing Halls

* Sindragosa: Durendil vs Sindragosa - YouTube

The Frozen Throne

* The Lich King: Durendil vs The Lich King (hunter worldfirst) By durendil - World of Warcraft Movies

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Old 06/09/11, 11:04 AM   #797
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10-Man Heroic lich king raids

*Trial of the Crusader
Northrend Beasts: World first hunter solo: Caribald vs Northrend beasts (heroic) - YouTube
Lord Jaraxxus: World first hunter solo: Caribald vs Lord Jaraxxus (heroic) - YouTube
Twin Val'kyr: Durendil vs Twin val'kyr - Heroic - YouTube
Anub'arak: Durendil vs Anub'arak heroic - YouTube

*Icecrown Citadel
Lord Marrowgar: YouTube - ‪World's First Lord Marrowgar ICC10 HEROIC Solo‬‏
Lady Deathwhisper: Durendil vs Deathwhisper heroic - YouTube

Festergut: World first solo (hunter): CaribaLd vs Festergut (10 man heroic) - YouTube
Rotface: YouTube - ‪World's First Rotface ICC10 HEROIC Solo‬‏

Sindragosa: World first hunter solo: CaribaLd vs Sindragosa (10 man heroic) - YouTube

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Old 06/09/11, 11:07 AM   #798
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25-Man lich king raids

NAXXRAMAS

The Arachnid Quarter

* Anub'Rekhan: Durendil vs Anub'Rekhan 25 - YouTube
- Bugfree: Hunter solo: Caribald vs Anub'rekhan (25 man) - YouTube

* Grand Widow Faerlina: World first solo (hunter): Caribald vs Grand Widow Faerlina (25 man) - YouTube
* Maexxna: World first solo (hunter): Caribald vs Maexxna (25 man) - YouTube

The Plague Quarter

* Noth the Plaguebringer: Going Solo 2: Hunter Solo Noth the Plaguebringer - YouTube
- Bugfree: Hunter solo: Caribald vs Noth the Plaguebringer (25 man, no add despawning) - YouTube

* Heigan the Unclean: Heigan 25 man solo - BM Hunter - YouTube
* Loatheb: Durendil vs Loatheb 25 - YouTube

The Military Quarter

* Instructor Razuvious: World first hunter solo: Caribald vs Instructor Razuvious (25 man) - YouTube
* The Four Horsemen: World first hunter solo: Caribald vs The Four Horsemen (25 man) - YouTube

The Construct Quarter

* Grobbulus: Hunter Solo #Grobbulus 25 man# - YouTube

Frostwyrm Lair

* Sapphiron: Hunter Solo #Sapphiron 25 man# - YouTube

OBSIDIAN SANCTUM

* Sartharion: Durendil vs Sartharion 25 - YouTube
- with one drake: World first hunter solo: Caribald vs Sartharion: Twilight Assist (25 man) - YouTube

EYE OF ETERNITY

* Malygos: Durendil vs Malygos 25 - YouTube

VAULT OF ARCHAVON

* Koralon the Flame Watcher: Hunters: Soloing old instances for fun and profit

ONYXIA:
Hunter solo: CaribaLd vs Onyxia (25 man) - YouTube

ULDUAR

The Siege of Ulduar

* Kologarn: Durendil vs Kologarn 25 (hunter worldfirst) - YouTube

* Mimiron: Durendil : Hunter soloing: Mimiron 25 down!

ICECROWN CITADEL

The Lower Spire

* Lord Marrowgar: World first solo (hunter): Caribald vs Lord Marrowgar (25 man) - YouTube

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Old 06/09/11, 11:08 AM   #799
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25-Man Heroic lich king raids

nothing killed, please delete

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Old 06/09/11, 3:17 PM   #800
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Thanks

True, some trashes are hard, and obligatory: I'm thinking about the two guys in front of Auriaya, who will require pet switching and lots of CD^^

As for camouflage, it's great: You can skip a lot of trash that way (example: all trashes before the iron council), but on some trash it's not possible (the 2 death knights at the entrance of the military quarter) - You'll quickly learn which trash are skippable and wich ones must die. Practice makes perfect!

P.S: Where did the post I replied to go? It looks like I'm talking to myself

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Old 06/12/11, 12:44 PM   #801
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Expanding on my (much) earlier post on 5-man level 80 heroics:
Round 2: Fairly typical MM-DPS talent (no spirit bond - I picked that up later to beat Saphiron), Buffed with the kings-drums, alchemy permanent flask and random useful food. Averge Illvl just about 346.

Forge of Souls ends up not being so bad even on heroic - the trash is significantly harder than the bosses, but doable - or avoidable either with Camouflage or run sufficiently far past + feign. I can't see how to get Bronjahm's achievement. The devourer of souls achievement looks doable (his phantom blast appears to have a shortish range and not target the pet? Or at least he only attacked me with it a handful of times when I got *way* too close).
Utgarde Tower was unremarkable (forgot about it last time); Svala is the most annoying (pet+trap don't seem to get through the ghosts very fast). Not sure if her achievement will be doable - I was happy just to get her our of the way. The other achievements are easy.
Moragg in Violet Hold is actually not so hard, if you do what every melee character would probably do automatically: Stay behind him! His really nasty attack seems to only work in front of him. Evenso, his damage is respectable, but nothing that will overwhelm you. Xevozz is painful but doable - there's not much to say about him; probably much easier if you're good at micromanaging your pet's movement, which I'm not. Still managed it after a few attempts (dead pet though).
As I expected earlier, the Tribunal of Ages is very much doable as MM due to a nice amount of self-healing. The achievement is tricky; the number of adds running all over everywhere gets large in the last 15-30 seconds; it's easy to not get the attention of one. Be a little conservative with focus to always have a little to distract naughty adds from Brann.
Both Zombiefest and the timed run in strat are doable; for Zombiefest, I put my pet away (I don't think they have any non-damaging AOE aggro?), and made liberal use of Posthaste-buffed disengage when collecting zombies; 50+ zombies do end up hurting. Engineer is nice for the cardboard assassin The timed run boss is really nasty - I failed 3 times because of underestimating him; he again has a stackable %-life-lost-per-3-seconds debuff. Take a breath before engaging, get out a DPS pet and pre-buff with the pet +5% crit or whatever you chose, and nuke for all you're worth. MM with self healing and double rapid fire may be necessary (at least with my gear level - 346ish). On the succesful attempt I took almost exactly 20 seconds - so a double RF - and was still down to something like 25% life.
Oculus is easy until Eregos, but beating him seems a lost cause; red is the only viable dragon (bronze does next to nothing with no other DDs there, and green doesn't have enough GCDs to dispense enough DoTs to keep pace with spawning mini dragons), but he still handily outdamages me. On foot I couldn't get my pet to engage at all; maybe there's a cool positioning trick, but I couldn't find it.
ToC5 champions seems equally un-doable; on foot the trash is easy, but the champions themselves constantly push you and your pet over (pet tanking doesn't work since they ignore it when they've pushed it over). I can't imagine riding the horses solo will work, but I guess I should try.
Hadronox Denied is just a question of triggering her to despawn and setting up to nuke hard when she respawns. Just a race to kill her before her adds start healing her faster.
Anub'Rekhan is still fairly nasty; I did get his achievement this time around, but with all the adds it was still touch and go at times, even with MM healing.

EDIT after Haero91 pointed out what Master's Call actually does (I had previously completely misunderstood the ability description):
Dual Master's Call with and Rapid Fire (via Readiness) was enough for Intense Cold, even with my equipment. As Haero91 notes, PvP trinket can get you another escape, and/or I believe the living action potion will get you out of yet another.
On the Rocks: Nuke as hard as possible until the first ice cube (stand so that the skeletons come to you); when the ice cube ticks off naturally (Master's Call doesn't get you out - "Can't do that while stunned") mend pet, cobra shot, feign (skeletons leave/despawn), and let your pet knaw on him for a while. My pet (turtle) easily got him into the kill shot zone before its health began to look even remotely threatening. I got up with master's call (not sure if the 4 second immunity actually helps here, but it was worth a try) and nuked him the rest of the way. Got another ice cube just as he died.

I think I'm running out of soloable achievements. The open ones:
Less-Rabi may be doable with some serious nuking, silencing shot + pet interrupt + readiness-silencing shot, but I've so far failed to get the timing right - it'll be very close certainly. I'm an engineer and so would have the bolt gun interrupt, but I think pulling off the three more readily available interrupts right should be enough.
Share the Love may be doable if swapping pets (or just re-summing one?) counts - but that means we need to tank him ourselves a fair bit, and he hurts even at 85, particularly if we're going to be seriously extending the length of the fight. I'm skeptical.
Watch him Die *MIGHT* be doable with really hard nuking, but the damage on your pet is high - I think I'll need some serious equipment upgrading before I stand a reasonable chance.

Random aside: The Lurker Below can be fished with a skill of 1. I got him on my first cast with the standard line, no lure, nor any other buff.

Last edited by Maranora : 06/13/11 at 12:34 AM. Reason: Add link to my previous post for context + spelling + Intense Cold (thanks to Haero91)

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Old 06/12/11, 2:35 PM   #802
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About the Intense Cold achievement - it should be doable since you can remove the roots with Master's Call, and you can use the PvP trinket aswell. If you don't have enough dps to kill her before you get the third roots, MM spec and readiness for one more Master's Call should do the job.

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Old 06/13/11, 1:41 PM   #803
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Originally Posted by Maranora View Post
ToC5 champions seems equally un-doable; on foot the trash is easy, but the champions themselves constantly push you and your pet over (pet tanking doesn't work since they ignore it when they've pushed it over). I can't imagine riding the horses solo will work, but I guess I should try.
I was actually poking around in there yesterday and it seemed equally impossible mounted. With all three of them focusing on you, your horse will last about 5-10 seconds before you have to get a new one. I burned through a half dozen of them and only managed to get one of the champions down to around 90%.

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Old 06/16/11, 2:44 AM   #804
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Actually, the mounted part of ToC is soloable, just takes time. The goal is to dps the champions without being in melee range.

Video that helped me a lot: YouTube - ‪Death Knight solo: Trial of the Champion (incl. dismounting) #part 1#‬‏

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Old 06/16/11, 9:00 AM   #805
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Originally Posted by Durendil View Post
Actually, the mounted part of ToC is soloable, just takes time. The goal is to dps the champions without being in melee range.

Video that helped me a lot: YouTube - ‪Death Knight solo: Trial of the Champion (incl. dismounting) #part 1#‬‏
Except the fact that this video above shows a normal mode solo. In Heroic mode with "no gear scaling"-horses, your mount will be obliterated in seconds in the champions fight, and the spawn of new horses takes the roughly 2x more time to spawn again.

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Old 06/19/11, 2:41 PM   #806
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Hodir down

Solo'ed hodir today, but seems I was beaten for the world first (YouTube - ‪Hunter Solo #Hodir 10 Man#‬‏).
No matter, I will post my strategy when I will have the time to put my video online.

His strategy was to dps physically, since he had a great gear (level 369 gear and 372 bow while I have 359 gear - Zhinq @ Area 52 - Jeu - World of Warcraft). Mine was to dps magically - more soon.

Seems he also solo'd Sartharion with 1 drake (YouTube - ‪B3stDk's Channel‬‏)

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Old 06/20/11, 7:40 AM   #807
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Noth the Plaguebringer:Not killed
Heigan the Unclean: Killed YouTube - ‪Heigan 25 man solo - BM Hunter‬‏

managed to kill noth on 25, highly doubt its any where near a world first as its not that hard,but just thought id update the list.

YouTube - ‪noth25 hunter solo‬‏

only the last 2mins in clip because its a long fight.

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Old 06/20/11, 8:14 AM   #808
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On the contrary, I think it is a hunter world first. I had tried him a while ago, but couldn't give the dps required: after 18 minutes or so (not sure, but it was veeeeery long), he summoned skeletons, I FD, Then he teleported and summoned other skeleton before I could FD: you might have noticed that his "floor phases" are smaller and smaller: as such, there is a mechanical enrage.
So it's "not that hard", but it requires dpsing enough to beat the soft enrage (like Koralon). So it's totaly possible the world first came to you. I saw the video, you have a flask, you spend the least time possible on the floor while FDing, and you have a ferocity pet: as such, you dps as much as you are able, and you win!

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Old 06/20/11, 9:19 AM   #809
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Hodir

Video: YouTube - ‪Durendil vs Hodir‬‏

So, I solo'd Hodir. I used magical dps strategy, since physical dps strategy requires much better gear (the guy used like every buff and potion possible, and stayed in aspect of the hawk for all the fight).

My strategy, even if it will probably become obsolete in a few gear levels, was to dps magically, by spamming cobra and arcane shots.

THE FD ISSUE: if you FD, Hodir despawns immediately. However, if he is casting Flash Freeze, he will despawn later. So if you want to reset your aggro and go all-out dps, FD while he is casting it, then attack him before he finishes his cast.

THE NPCS
All NPCs have like 1K5 dps.

Mage: - frees other NPCs from flash freeze
- puts down fires: for the magical dps strategy, they are the heart of the fight.

Druid: -puts light columns: big haste boost while inside.

Priest: keeps NPCs alive, unless you spend too much time making them eat icicles and freezes. Sometimes frees you from a freeze.

Shaman: puts a cloud that doesn't buff you but buffes nearby players (bad shamy)

SINGED: when you hit with cobra shot, arcane shot or chimera shots (since it reapplies serpent sting), and you stand near a fire, you have a chance to apply singed, dealing extra fire damage (3K to 4K5, depending on stacks). Singed increases magical damage dealt by 2% per stack, up to 25 stacks! To down Hodir, he must destack as least as possible.

HODIR:
IMPORTANT: Flash freeze not the same thing as Freeze (root).

Icicles: avoid those. They always lock on your current position. They bump, so it's possible to move NPCs around with them.

Biting cold: debuff that gains in stacks when you don't move, and loses stacks when you move. Does not affect people near fires.

Freeze: roots you in place. Use Master's call or eat a lot of icicles. Does not affect people near fires.

Frozen blows: Hits your pet hard. Use CD and heal him.

Flash Freeze: the heart of the fight. He will make a big icicle fall. Avoid it. If you are bumped, don't bother running: jump-disengage or be frozen. You must get on the snow to avoid being frozen.
The bad thing is that it flash freezes the mage, and extinguishes the fires: his stacks might disappear... To avoid him losing his stacks, there are two methods.
-If you are lucky, and you stand near the mage, but not too near, but not too far, then he won't get bumped but will stand on the snowdrift (very rare). Then he will put down a fire, and Hodir won't destack. However, Hodir will freeze you: use Master's call, then go near the fire, and spamclick you magical abilities.

-The usual way is for the mage to get Flash freezed.
Go all-out on magical attacks before he casts flash freeze, as to reset the debuff. Then build up focus
Once the mage is freezed, go all-out dps to free him. Hodir will freeze you : use master's call. Use cobra shot to build up focus. Watch the mage closely: as soon as he puts down a fire, run near it, and go all-out with magical attacks before the debuff expires. If all goes well, you should reset the debuff. There is a bit of randomness associated with this strategy.

Continue to dps until he hits 100K: use rapid fire at the start, as to build stacks quickly and use 6 rapid fires in the fight.

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Old 06/21/11, 7:24 AM   #810
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Shade of Akama has been slained: YouTube - ‪Lithestalker vs. Shade of Akama Hunter Solo‬‏

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