Hunters: Soloing old instances for fun and profit - Page 73

Caribald · 08/24/12, 10:01 AM

Tomorrow at 2pm CET I'm going to stream a speedrun where I clear tier 1-10, minus a few bosses. I'm going to use a microphone this time and commentate and answer questions from the chat (using laptop to read them so no alt-tabbing). Other than the 5 impossible ones I won't do Faction Champions and Deathbringer Saurfang (I don't have a 3/12 ICC save). It's a total of 119 raid bosses and 9 minibosses. I think it will be interesting to see how long it takes to clear everything, not to mention how much gold is made in the process.

I'm doing this since it's the last reset before the pre-MoP patch, so it's the last chance to get good gold from it and I've kinda made it a habit to stream soloing every week now. Also, some bosses might become harder or even impossible after the patch, so it's the last chance for that as well.

If you choose to tune in I hope you'll enjoy it, feel free to ask questions! Stream can be found here, starting 22 hours from now.

Also, much more info can be found here

lysharp · 08/25/12, 4:36 AM

Originally Posted by Caribald

Tomorrow at 2pm CET I'm going to stream a speedrun where I clear tier 1-10, minus a few bosses. I'm going to use a microphone this time and commentate and answer questions from the chat (using laptop to read them so no alt-tabbing). Other than the 5 impossible ones I won't do Faction Champions and Deathbringer Saurfang (I don't have a 3/12 ICC save). It's a total of 119 raid bosses and 9 minibosses. I think it will be interesting to see how long it takes to clear everything, not to mention how much gold is made in the process.

I'm doing this since it's the last reset before the pre-MoP patch, so it's the last chance to get good gold from it and I've kinda made it a habit to stream soloing every week now. Also, some bosses might become harder or even impossible after the patch, so it's the last chance for that as well.

If you choose to tune in I hope you'll enjoy it, feel free to ask questions! Stream can be found here, starting 22 hours from now.

Also, much more info can be found here

I've seen your video, and could you tell me how to kill vashj with only 5 stacks in p2 like you, i've tried many times, the best is 25 stacks lol... And can you kill flame leviathan 10 with 4 defense towers all active?

Caribald · 08/25/12, 2:30 PM

Vashj is very possible with 25+ stacks, pretty sure my first kill was with almost 40 or something like that. Anyway, you'll want to stay in the middle, kill any elemental that comes up from the stairs to the platform, then when you see a poison bolt, disengage in its direction, kill and loot asap, and get back right away. Only once have I managed to reach phase 3 with 0 stacks solo, usually I get around 3-5.

As for Flame Leviathan, I tried a few times but my vehicles kept exploding, since then I just never bothered. I think it's possible though, I've seen youtube videos of it, so try and watch them.

lysharp · 08/25/12, 5:34 PM

but every time when tainted elemental spawns, there is a stalker spawns with it, and maybe beside the tainted elemental, how you deal with the stalker?

Caribald · 08/25/12, 11:31 PM

Cast Misdirection when standing at the top of the stairs, shoot the stalker once, then when you have looted the tainted elemental, you can go up and slow it, take aggro and kite it.

Natural20 · 08/27/12, 7:36 AM

Originally Posted by lysharp

I've seen your video, and could you tell me how to kill vashj with only 5 stacks in p2 like you, i've tried many times, the best is 25 stacks lol... And can you kill flame leviathan 10 with 4 defense towers all active?

If you're not flasking on Vashj then elemental resist potions end up being really helpful if you can't keep the stacks low. The majority of the damage you're taking is from forked lightning, a nature based attack, so those probably give you leeway for an extra five stacks or so.

Caribald · 08/27/12, 9:41 AM

A few more tips I just thought of: Use Aspect of the Cheetah when you can, when just running. The damage from Forked Lightning is delayed a little bit compared to the animation, and sometimes she'll cast it on your pet, so depending on the angle your pet is at, you might not get hit. Use this to your advantage and stay in Cheetah until you see the Forked Lightning hitting you, then turn Cheetah off until the damage shows up on your screen, and then turn it on again.

Additionally, if she has gotten a lot of stacks and you need healing, keep in mind auto shot has a faster travel time than the other hunter shots, so you'll want to auto shot one elemental, then Chimera Shot another before auto shot is ready again. If you target an elemental without rightclicking and then cast Chimera Shot, it will automatically start autoshooting, and the CS will never connect, which means you don't get the heal.

lysharp · 08/28/12, 5:09 AM

yeah, i just want to limit the stacks, to improve my skill. Actually, with less than 50 stacks vashj is easily doable. I'm just curious about these guys who kill her with less than 10 stacks lol.

Durendil · 08/28/12, 3:30 PM

So, I've finished my soloing adventures for patch 4.something. Now, with the patch, I'm sure a lot of bosses will be down before pandaria.
Just wanted to say that after many tries on atramedes 25 (best one: 9 minutes-90%) I'm sure he is possible. But when the trash respawned... I hoped they didn't.

But I am uploading the video of my soloing of trash packs before him, in 25-man of course

Maimgor (a joke), right dwarfs (easy) and dragonspawns (very Hard, but becomes easy once the 2 drakeadons are dead)

And now, new patch, so gogo soloing!

Arcane36 · 08/29/12, 11:29 AM

So with the new patch, I am wondering what is the best soloing spec? Is it still MM because of his healing from chimera, even though that has the lowest damage? what do you think? I am going to try onyxia in BM

edit: OK killed her as a BM even though it was a really pain in the ass without the healing. The 30% insta heal did not help as much as I thought it would, my pet was dying pretty rapidly if I forgot to heal him and so did I. I dont know if it is bug because of my addons or what, but when there was so many dragons, the name plates were scattered all over the place and I could not find out If I killed them or not.

Rawbb · 08/29/12, 6:28 PM

Kael'thas was the first thing I tried today.. found to be annoying since we can't equip the staff any more. Need to kill the darkener at the back of the room and start the phase transition with only him around so you can burn him down ASAP.. or the rends get you while you're conflagged/feared/stunned. Didn't have much of an issue after that, other than leaving the fear guy up instead of the engineer last to clear out my remote toy.

Onyxia was a pain as BM, as Kill Command can't hit her when she's in the air. I've been finding quite a few fights that aren't working with kill command as well as I'd like to believe.

Caribald · 08/29/12, 7:47 PM

The no healing part of BM should be no problem with Spirit Bond or doesn't it work properly? 2% passive healing (2.2% with Animal Bond Glyph) every 2 seconds should be more than enough for Onyxia, but of course with Exhilaration it would be a different story.

Tydas · 08/29/12, 8:43 PM

I tried Kilnara today with 90% HM gear and stamina spec and the pet just tank less than before.
With practice i think i'll be able to manage it but it's gonna be a lot harder than it was before.

I noticed theses nerf that make the pet tank less :
-15%HP ( survival talent deleted ) so -15% heal too
-Silverback pet talent removed

From now on i can go to P2 if i take the risk of getting a dash. As we have no more intervention it make a very hight amount of damages and the nerf of chimera shot ( -2% if you don't glyph it, as we have 3 slot for 4 usefull glyph ) it's realy dangerous to do that.
Also strange thing, as i began P2, the FD trick didn't made the add " despawn " ( go back to sleep ).
Didn't figured out if it was a change on FD or just bad luck.

Durendil · 08/30/12, 5:00 AM

I did lower citadel + plageworks yesterday, and noticed 3 things:
-spirit bond bugs. It just keeps going on and off my hunter if I am attacking something. I have no idea if it's working correctly on my pet. I've used exhilaration on the plagueworks bosses, and it works fine.
-when I summon my pet, he respawns with the health he had when he despawned. I actually found it easier on festergut to let him kill my pet, then rez him and cast taunt.
-I'm currently doing in marksmanship the same dps on complex boss fights than I did on brutallus with flask and everything, and I'm still focus capping, losing steady focus and forgetting to use some cooldowns. Funnily, I don't do more dps in survival but maybe it's because I never really used it for soloing.
-Resistance is still working. So don't throw away your prismatic elixirs.

Either way, my pet did have trouble surviving.

EDIT: Mac movie compression not working for me (or rather, it works, and I end up with a video full of nice colored rectangles but not wow graphics)! Anyone else has the same problem?

Caribald · 08/30/12, 3:07 PM

I messed around in Zul'gurub (never tried soloing it before) and noticed Spirit Bond being bugged as well. what a surprise >.< i really miss intervene lol

Durendil, I suppose that's if you keep summoning the same pet? You could try using 3 different turtles instead of letting it die.

Anyway, I'm not soloing raids until the weekend and I'm going out tomorrow, so I'll probably solo stuff Saturday afternoon.