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I finally managed to get Kael'thas to phase 5 aka the 'easy' phase. Unfortunately when he picks me up in the air, I don't get to fly/swim around like I used to (when it was current content), instead I fall & take full falling damage, killing me after 2 falls...

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? Has anyone else experienced this?

Edit: I was also "fortunate" enough to encounter his 102k flame strike which is another bug apparently. Very frustrating for me as I've been working towards this for some time now! Is there anything that can be done to prevent this?

Starting last week, it seems like, Kael'thas started getting a little pissed that more and more people were coming to pick on him every week. So he decided to do things a little differently in Phase 5.

From what I can tell he's doing 2 things:

1. Might cast a Mind Control to start P5

2. Not granting you the levitate ability


Adjusting the commonly used strat shouldn't be too difficult:

1. LoS him behind a pillar to begin P5, usually I'm seeing him use one of his 2 MC emotes as soon as the phase starts, then I'll just start attacking like usual.

2. When you start to fall back down from being lifted up, when you're at about his head level, hit disengage. I've tried it a few ways to see what's going on and if I cast Disengage on the way up I won't take much damage when I land, but I do not gain the levitate ability. If I hit disengage on the way down, again take no damage, but I do gain Levitate ability.

You definitely want to start avoiding getting hit by his flamestrike. The difficult part about Avoiding the Flamestrike is it can push you further away from Kael'thas to the point that your pet will lose the buff from the Staff and get disoriented, I've started DPS'ing Kael'thas as close as I can to he and my pet while waiting for him to cast Flamestrike on me. So that when he does the area he hits is close to him and I have plenty of room to back up and still be within range to grant the Staff buff to my pet. Keep me posted on the attempts, hope it goes well!

Kael'thas kill from last week and a few other solo's

I killed it today and noticed that while he does fling you way up in the air, if you don't do anything you don't take damage. You'll stop right above the ground and you can 'swim' out before you get any stacks of the HP reduction debuff.

It's pretty similar to solarian's bomb in this regard.

For Kael'thas, his flamestrike always dis 100K damage (at least, it did about a year ago) if you stood in it's middle.
For phase 5, seems to me that to fly you must move. Disengage always worked for me.

Nice video for lich king, and I saw something veeeery interesting: do you actually, to get rid of an infest, unequip your weapons? Or do you also unequip something else?

P.S: For those looking for easy money, I finally understood razorgore and made up a 100% working strategy:
Durendil: Hunter solo: Razorgore perfect strategy - YouTube

Yeah, in phase 2 I used Distracting Shot to taunt him when he had the haste buff, and either because my FD was badly timed or him just having a ridiculous attack speed, I took a total of 3 hits (first one absorbed). I didn't have enough % hp to remove Infest, so I used my Equipment Manager "0" to remove weapons (you can't remove anything other than weapons in combat). Since you don't lose health but only maximum health by doing that, your health percentage goes up, and in that case it was enough to get over 90% and remove the Infest. Since there isn't really any other damage in phase 2, I had more than enough time to get full hp before having to taunt again.

I'm going to watch your Razorgore video now, I've never actually bothered trying to solo BWL so that should be helpful!

Oh, and just an explanation for my phase 1 method on Lich King. I eat the first tick of the disease using Raptor Strike and Intervene the next two. One of the Infests lands before the third tick of the disease (sometimes timed so you actually can't stay above 90% as there is a slight delay on Infest removal), and for that I do a second Raptor Strike and Deterrence to get a 44% damage reduction (28k tick). That leaves enough time to get healed up before next Infest.

Edit: That worked surprisingly well, just cleared Blackwing Lair with no issues at all. Thanks for the video guide!

Made a kill of Faction Champions, new combination.
Durendil vs Faction champions - YouTube

Because of the high damage, I actually had to kill 2 dps asap, then kite the 3rd while the 2 healers (that resto druid is Dynamite) tried to outheal my dps. Thank god there was a hunter that forgot mend pet.

Kind of forgot. Wasn't very woken up that day, attacking Thorim HM with only 2 pets, one of them with 11 stacks of frostbite, calling my turtle with impale on Icehowl, not bringing health potions for champions... some days are like that

The levitation bug goes back longer at least it never worked for me ever when I started soloing since November last year.
so I always use disengage near the ground.

However I have indeed noticed the sneaky MC more often during the phase 5 start.

and after the patch i have also noticed something else that threw me off.

the last reset i tried last week is that my pet seemed to be extremely buggy during phase 3 all of a sudden. the constant stuns even with the staff equipped and in 10 y range of the pet even when refreshing the buff.

and a strange MD issue (or it looked like it) I have been soling this boss for over 3-4 months and I never ever had any trouble with phase 3 (all advisors at once) normally I put the pet on capernian while mding Telonius and sanquinar to my pet. and I usually get trough it with near full health or around 80% full while keeping my pet up.

however last week I have been wiping on phase 3 for oven an hour and when I did finally got to phase 4, I was at a abnormal low health while my pet was full health.

What happened was this: I put the pet on capernian, I activate md and shoot sanquinar, sanqiunar starts running to my pet but the moment my auto shot left my bow sanqunar did a 180 degree turn and came charging right back at me.
At that point I got feared and I had 3 advisors wailing on my back and in some tries even all 4 of them. This pretty much persisted for over an hour. before I finally managed to get to phase 4 with about 40-50k health left. It was like the treat transfer wasn't working properly and they where acting like the "pvp" boss in MGT.

This was an extremely weird situation and I am wondering if someone else noticed something similar.

I also noticed some similar behavior during the trash mobs in TK as well.

Just for extra info my pet was a beetle and had growl and thunderclap activated.

Remember threat transfer from Misdirection fades after 30 seconds, so if your pet has only been hitting one of the advisors the others will eventually attack you instead.

From your description it sounds like your pet is getting disoriented from Capernian which will make the advisors go after you. Make sure the staff aura is up on your pet before they revive, and stay in range of your pet so it stays up. If you get feared more than 30 yards away from the pet, get in range ASAP with a Disengage and reapply it, but ideally you would stand close enough to your pet that you won't outrange it even if feared in opposite directions.

If your pet gets disoriented, try putting up a Mend Pet on it and Feign Death. I'm almost certain that Feigning will make them go back on the pet even when it's still disoriented. Reapplying the staff aura will not break any existing disorients, only prevent new ones, so Feigning is your safest bet if that happens. Just make sure to get back and reapply staff aura when the disorient is gone.

About the fear, I'm not entirely sure of the range of it, but I'm pretty sure it's big enough to make the aura disappear from your pet if you outrange it. The safest tactic is to simply periodically misdirect the other advisors to your pet so your pet always has SOME threat on all advisors, while never letting the aura drop off the pet.

If you have the apm (actions per minute) to do it you could also switch your pet's target after a few Growls to make sure it has permanent threat on them all. Also, if you stay close enough to not get feared too far away, you will also have Disengage ready for when you get knocked away by Thaladred. Remember, once he gazes you, he resets any threat and gives you 10k threat, so it's pretty easy to get him off you and back on the pet with a misdirect and one global, but he might still knock you away.

I prefer killing Capernian first, which will remove any problems with disorients on the pet. Basically at the start of phase 3 I will misdirect her, as well as Sanguinar and Telonicus to the pet. I will send the pet on either Sanguinar or Telonicus while I burn Capernian with chain Misdirects until Thaladred comes in range, at which point I'll Misdirect him as well. Every time Thaladred switches to me, I MD to get him off me ASAP.
When Capernian dies, I re-misdirect Sanguinar and Telonicus, perhaps feign to clear healing threat at some point as well. Then I just burn Thaladred with a finger ready to misdirect as soon as he changes targets to me. Sending the pet on the other target of Sanguinar and Telonicus means neither of those guys will target you again, as long as you Misdirect once you start killing them.
With Capernian and Thaladred down, I kill Sanguinar to get rid of the fear. Remote Toy from Telonicus doesn't matter with the staff aura, so it's easier to get in position for phase 4.

I might do a narrated guide on this next reset, it really seems like a lot of people are having trouble.

I've noticed a few videos for these two but information is pretty scarce, so just in case someone was interested in a little more of the particulars of these encounters I've put up How-To videos for High Priestess Kilnara for the Swift Zulian Panther and Toravon from Vault of Archavon for the Grand Black War Mammoth.

High Priestess Kilnara

Toravon