I think it would be worth adding a section about the pet talent intervene. In the current implementation (which is not explained clearly at all by the tooltip) pet intervene buffs you with a shield that will absorb only 1 attack, but up to a value of half your pet's max HP. This can be useful for all sorts of things, but specifically I've seen it used to great effect against kil'jaeden and his darkness of 1000 souls attack (it eats the entire thing).

Also, in that screenshot it's a little hard to see, but it looks like the achievement says 25 player malygos? With the timer at over 45 minutes you've definitely reached the berserk, so that means you were able to avoid it somehow. If you killed him VERY slowly, maybe not using engulfing in flames at all and just peppering him with the fireball while spamming heals to outheal the berserk I guess it could take that long, but even with 391 ilvl gear I don't think the drakes could survive, so there must be a way to avoid the berserk entirely.

I remember from that unhittable rogue killing Gruul that berserk buffs can eventually fall off, but you would have to survive for the duration, which (judging by your timer) is pretty long. Maybe if you can flip him to phase 2 and (assuming the adds also get the berserk damage) use the feign death trick to stop the adds attacking you, you can just wait out the berserk and then kill him in phase 3 as normal? The question is can you do the 10 million damage to flip him to phase 2 in the 10 minutes before the berserk and keep yourself alive that long with chimera shot and spirit bond outhealing the vortex and arcane storm damage? Unimpeded it would be a reasonably high 16,666 DPS, with the power sparks giving you a boost and the vortex shortening your clock. Sounds like fun.

You'd also have to be very careful with the adds in phase 2, as (if they get the berserk bonus too) poking them too early would quickly end your attempt. Whenever I've done it on 10 man, I've always had at least 1 of the nexus lord melee adds aggro me at the start, and feign death works on the other one. If the adds get the berserk and you are attacked by even 1 (out of 4 on 25 man I seem to remember) nexus lords, you better be able to kill that one before the berserk hits too, which would cut the timer down even more.

Thanks for the feedback.
I personally never use intervene, so I don't know for sure what it absorbs: DoT, AoE, direct spells, only physical damage attacks?

As for Malygos, guide here (video is getting uploaded): Durendil : Hunter soloing: Malygos 25 down
Basically, I made him berserk before the adds spawned and left a Nexus Lord alive for 30 minutes... My patience was put to the test.

My "rule" goes against half-resetting and making the boss not enrage by resetting its timer.
Besides, Malygos can't be half-reset.
Here I let him enrage, just survived it (mainly by going all-out on the first add to avoid the deep breath). Only bug used was the usual, avoiding the scions attacking me.

Example: you attack Patchwerk 25. 5 minutes 45 into the fight, you half-reset him, and so on every 5 min 45 => I won't accept that as a solo, sorry
Now, you attack Patchwerk 25 - man, he enrages, you snake trap, run, snake trap, run, snake trap, run... for the duration of the berserk timer (Though I doubt it's possible). Then you finish him => I congratulate you.


Update: video here: Durendil vs Malygos 25 - YouTube

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I am somewhat surprised you never used this talent for soloing before.
This pettalent can be a huge asset.
Whereas Roar of Sacrifice effectively only helps you to reduce physical critdamage (since NPCs can't crit with spells) and Glyph of Raptor Strike requires you to be in melee range, Intervene can help out more and on more occasions.
Think XT-002 Deconstructor's Tympanic Tantrum , Gravity Bomb and Searing Light for instance.

The latest patch has fixed the exploit which we used to kill Twin Emps (Vek'lor properly aggroes alongside Vek'nilash). We might want to double-check whether any of the other bugs/exploits have been fixed; Blizzard has ticked many bugs off the list in 4.3.


Edit: It seems all (?) glitches in Naxxramas and Blackwing Lair still work (including Gluth, the Razorgore bug, my tactics on Chromaggus, the heirloom bow on Nefarian, etc), so so far only the Twins bug seems fixed.

I also just did XT-002 for the first time and he's really really easy if you use Intervene on Tantrums. You only lose about 50% HP, which you Bandage up before the next Tantrum. No risk of dying whatsoever.

Razorscale somehow seems impossible. In phase 2 she'll stun my pet, drop all aggro off him, and if I feign death she instantly despawns. No idea why, or how to get around that :/

Well, I can't help you for Gothik, fight is so chaotic I sometimes need multiple tries to down him. Usually, I try to stay near the upper left wing, so some ghosts don't aggro me and stay on the dead side, but he stays the 3rd hardest boss in Naxxramas from my point of view.

As for Malygos 10, my strategy to maximise dps is:
Dps.
When he does a vortex, summon your pet before it ends (so it doesn't get one-shooted).
Kill the spark that is nearing Malygos, it should be far away from him.
Go in the spark.
Mend pet only if he goes under 50% (usually 1 or 2 mends pets are enough between two vortexes).
Ignore the second spark, just keep dps (unless it stacks with the other). The first spark lasts until the next vortex, so the buff won't go away.

When he nears 50%:
-put him at 51%
-wait for a vortex, then give him hell (no need to call a pet)
-kill the spark that is nearing him
-regive him hell

My best try put him at 36% when entering phase 3, without using consummables.
For phase 2, Kill a Nexus lord, board the disk, kill everything.
Then 1-1-2-3 until Malygos dies.

With this strategy I got him in 8 minutes 30 seconds.


For KT, I can't help you neither, sorry.

With current gear levels Gothik is very easy for me. Most adds die in a few shots, so getting overwhelmed doesn't really happen to me. The only hint I can give is to make your pet Stay in the center of the room and just keep Misdirect on all fight long, so that you're never caught in melee range.


The way sparks work is that they spawn in one of the 4 corners, then steadily move towards Malygos, except for during a Vortex, when they stand still waiting for it to end. If they touch Malygos's model, he eats them. If you kill them just outside of Malygos's model, then you'll sadly be in melee range of his hitbox so you won't be allowed to shoot at him. So you just gotta find and kill the sparks faster.
Don't forget Phase 2 also add to the berserk timer so try to do that as fast as possible as well.


Do you mean Kael'thas, or Kel'thuzad?

First time I tried Razorscale I was with T11, damage was to much, I just quited after 2 or 3 tries.

I decided to go there now and all looks very easy in p1 but I have a problem when p2 comes. As soon as I send my pet atack him and I FD, the fights resets.
Is there any trick here? I saw the video posted here and he FD to but I just cant do it, resets everytime.

Tks

That only works until she stacks Melt Armor on your pet, at which point she'll stun him and drop all aggro off him.

If you're a Night Elf you can potentially Shadowmeld until your pet has aggro again, but it's incredibly unreliable. There has to be a way to make Feign Death work properly, otherwise she's unkillable.

Which is why you kite the boss untill the stun has worn off.
Use Disengage and Deterrence to prolong your kiting time and Feign Death when the stun on your pet is over.

Alternatively you could use Distraction Shot before Melt Armor reaches 5 stacks to avoid the stun completely or you can dismiss your stunned pet and call a fresh one from the stables.

Don't assume something is unkillable too fast, the beauty of soloing these kind of things is thinking outside the box!

At which point she despawns, which is the whole problem. Lack of feign death also prevents pet switching.

Distracting Shot might help, but really we're just wondering why the posted video clearly has Feign Death working, and we can't replicate that.

Azgalor solo'd by Szalor.

Szalor vs Azgalor: hunter soloing (world first) - YouTube

You will need a spirit beast
Easy strat, just put the boss between you and your pet, and go 99 yards away from your pet. That way, the boss will be at 99+3 to 99+5 yards away from you, and won't cast doom on you.

FD doesn't work because it makes Azgalor hit ten times harder.

The guide is built-in with the video.