@Lolbroek: I'm not sure I understand... How do you avoid just getting stunlocked by Spirit Shock?

@Dragoran: If Master's Call is on cooldown, you can Intervene and use Kill Command. If you get rooted outside a mushroom while the big add is up, you're dead :P I don't know though, I haven't tried soloing Lumberjacked, simply because I already have those achievements back from level 80, but if you try Freya with Ironbranch up, that works at least.

Congrats to everyone on the recent kills. Its a moderately old encounter but it seemed to be an issue coming up on the youtube videos I found on the matter. Has Azgalor been fixed in some manner? Anyone done him recently? My pet keeps despawning as soon as im out of range for hunters mark (ie, 100 yards). Does the nature of the pet matter? Do bears stand further away from a boss than owls or wolves?

Thank you very much

For Yogg-Saron I use a macro to quickly target tentacles. Deterrence is able to deflect the spells from Corruptor Tentacles, so if you're out of range of it and it casts Black Plague or Apathy, you'll want to Deterrence, or in case you aren't gripped, Feign Death. When you get used to phase 2 until brain portal, you should roughly know when you get gripped, and have your pet close for those times to instantly Kill Command the Constrictor Tentacle. The macro I use is:

/cleartarget
/target Constrictor
/petattack [exists, nodead]
/cast [exists, nodead] Kill Command
/target Corruptor
/stopmacro [exists, nodead]
/target Crusher

I'm not sure if the macro could be improved or if it works 100% of the time, but basically it does this: Clears your target and then targets Constrictor tentacle. If you have a target (if a Constrictor Tentacle exists), your pet will /petattacka and Kill Command it. Then the macro targets the nearest Corruptor Tentacle (there should only be 1). If there are no Corruptor Tentacles, the macro continues to target the Crusher Tentacle; otherwise it stops and you'll have the Corruptor Tentacle targeted. Then you can decide if you want to Deterrence, FD if you are ungripped or Silencing Shot if in range.

When you enter the brain room you should have killed one Crusher Tentacle and all Corruptor Tentacles (except maybe one if it spawns just as you have to enter and it isn't in range). If you don't have Black Plague or Apathy in the brain room and your hp isn't low, killing the tentacles in there is super fast and you can probably kill the brain without even popping Rapid Fire; or at least you only have to pop one of them. Often I even have time to bandage in there before getting the brain down. You also want to dismiss your cat (you should use tenacity pet in phase 1 for intervene and switch to cat for phase 2), and only once you've left the brain summon your tenacity pet. Spam the macro to instantly silence any Corruptor Tentacle or Deterrence/FD it (if you used Readiness it's 100% ready, otherwise might not be if you used it in phase 2). Never put your pet on Yogg, have it Moved To some place you can shoot adds that it's tanking while having your back to Yogg. Basically in phase 3 you'll want to instantly kill the remaining Corruptor Tentacle, then prioritize Immortal Guardians over the Crusher Tentacle, slowly getting the Crusher Tentacle down. Then you can start DPSing Yogg when he isn't doing Lunatic Gaze, but sometimes you'll need to dps Immortal Guardians even when Yogg isn't doing the gaze, just take your time since the enrage is pretty long.


Edit: Just did Koralon and Archavon on 25 man. 2 attempts for Koralon, he doesn't have a hard enrage even though it seems so on DBM, and he's very slow so some pet kiting near the end makes it super easy. Archavon probably would have enraged if I didn't evade reset him, although that wasn't intentional... Basically I feigned after he dropped my turtle after a grip, but my turtle hadn't gotten on his aggro table again, so he reset... Except he kept his hp since he didn't get all the way back to his normal spawn point. It was a oneshot so I didn't bother resetting him and seeing if I could do it normally, especially since the battle was beginning (so I haven't tried Emalon and Toravon, but I don't really see them being possible on 25-man anyway).

Edit2: Uploaded some videos. Maexxna on 25-man should be world first I think, I could at least not find anyone else who did it. I'm making a Youtube playlist of the bosses I've soloed in Naxx 25, but some of them had some mic audio on so I'm gonna rerecord and upload those. Hopefully Gothik the Harvester should die this reset, I'm taking a break on Lich King until I get better gear or just have nothing else to do, because it's really boring doing many attempts on him... I don't know why I could keep going on Algalon but not Lich King, could be the longer RP intro I guess :p

Link to Maexxna 25 video: World first solo (hunter): Caribald vs Maexxna (25 man) - YouTube

Edit3: Uploaded a few more Naxx 25 videos. Faerlina (world first?) and Noth without despawning adds most notably... I mentioned 25 man Koralon and Archavon earlier; I streamed it to own3d.tv but I don't think there are vods, so I can't highlight and upload.... I will record and upload next reset to prove it

Hmm, I managed phase 1 by just Raptor Striking 1st tick with the glyph and intervening tick 2 and 3 every time, but indeed, sometimes he'd infest and even being above 90% for a second before a plague tick would sometimes not clear Infest... To elaborate, if he cast Infest with about 1 second or less to a plague tick, even when being on full hp, a small delay causes the Infest to not get cleared in time, and the tick will put one below the 90%.

I'm watching the video now to be able to comment further. Sadly, your audio track has been removed by Youtube

Edit: I never thought of tanking him like that in phase 1 to effectively cut the possible spawn point of adds in half. My Lich King dps-time should definitely increase by doing that, as well as feigning every time to clear healing aggro from the adds. Also, having Charge on the turtle is brilliant, I used Boar's Speed for Algalon so it could run faster from him following an Intervene / Master's Call, in case I needed to "pet kite"... and I just never thought of respeccing it.

It's kinda funny, your phase 1 tactic seems to be about finding a way to have Infest hit at a perfect time, where instead I had thought the damage was unavoidable and solved it by using Raptor Strike glyph on first tick, intervene on the next 2... Which was enough to be above 90% hp the one time where Infest would hit before the third tick, and I'd usually have enough time to heal up before the next round (bandage could be used here).

Interesting, the Vile Spirits who went away at about 12:41 seemed to behave exactly like the Living Constellations on Algalon, except they also despawn in the Algalon encounter. It's a good thing their explosions are aoe and don't count as direct hits lol... otherwise that damage seemed a bit too high to tank every time

I have a few questions: In phase 1, you have your pet set on Stay and then Attack once LK reaches him. Once you Intervene, what do you do to place it again? I couldn't see you doing another Move To out to the edge, did you just let it attack again by itself and hope it danced around to that spot? :p
And Valkyr grabs, how exactly do they function? I seem to remember from your Sindragosa kill that the timer to not get hit by Ice Tombs was 30 seconds after being hit, but since Intervene is also on 30 seconds I doubt that was the case here :P Also, what makes already spawned Val'kyrs grab you (phase 2.5)? Are they still on the "Sindragosa timer"? And if so, how come just one tried to grab you?

I'll try to attempt him again with the information I have now and possibly figure some of those things out myself, but I have to do other stuff today so I don't know how much time I will have for it. Once again, congratulations on your kill, I'm very impressed