Hunters: Soloing old instances for fun and profit - Page 78

kronchev · 11/27/12, 4:06 PM

The patch notes have a few exciting changes for us:

Raid groups are no longer necessary to enter pre-Mists of Pandara raid dungeons. Some bosses that previously required more than one player to defeat are now more easily dealt with by players battling alone:
High Warlord Naj'entus in the Black Temple
Viscidus in the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj
Razorgore the Untamed in Blackwing Lair

Did anybody try these on the PTR? How are they changed?

Preach07 · 11/28/12, 12:39 PM

Originally Posted by kronchev

The patch notes have a few exciting changes for us:

Did anybody try these on the PTR? How are they changed?

For Naj'entus, the duration of Tidal Shield has been reduced. Not sure by how much, exactly.

For Viscidus, the amount of frozen hits required to freeze him, and the amount of regular hits required to shatter him, have been reduced. Again, not sure exactly by how much exactly.

For Razorgore, the cooldown for Destroy Eggs has been reduced from 7s to 1,5s.

I just attempted Razorgore and he died after I had destroyed about 2/3 of the eggs. I'm gonna try a few more times.

kronchev · 11/28/12, 7:32 PM

Originally Posted by Preach07

For Naj'entus, the duration of Tidal Shield has been reduced. Not sure by how much, exactly.

For Viscidus, the amount of frozen hits required to freeze him, and the amount of regular hits required to shatter him, have been reduced. Again, not sure exactly by how much exactly.

For Razorgore, the cooldown for Destroy Eggs has been reduced from 7s to 1,5s.

I just attempted Razorgore and he died after I had destroyed about 2/3 of the eggs. I'm gonna try a few more times.

I got it last night but it took 5 tries. You have to be really careful and either have Destroy Eggs on cooldown or being cast, so you have to sort of plan your route. I also found out that starting right next to the MC orb helps, because it will probably end when he's on the other side of the room, and you can blast everyone around you before he gets close and hit by the AOE. Killing everything and not hitting him seems to give him enough health to survive one more MC, but it was very close.

xytyne · 11/29/12, 4:35 AM

Razorgore is pretty straightfoward now if you rightclick and dismiss him regularly - the adds seem to retarget on you when you do that, I just dropped an explosive trap, multishotted, and clicked the orb again.

Sepultura · 11/29/12, 4:37 PM

Gunship batle in ICC can be done solo now and is very easy.

Durendil · 11/30/12, 4:48 PM

Deathbringer 10H and Princes 10H down. Who asked for a 1M5 hp pet (250K heals)?
Sindragosa 25 also done solo. Putricide 25 might be possible with top gear.

Jaraxxus 25 done solo too - I'll start uploading the videos soon.

Champions 25 seem doable, they made it easier with the patch.

Caribald · 12/01/12, 8:41 PM

Doing ICC at the moment. Killed Marrowgar 25 Heroic (goblin bug though), Deathwhisper 25 Heroic, Deathbringer Saurfang 25 normal, Rotface 25 Heroic, Festergut 25 normal, Putricide 25 normal, Blood Princes 25 normal.

Blood-Queen has too much hp

Valithria 10 man soloed as well. Couldn't try on heroic because I'm saved to heroic on 25 man, can try next reset I guess.

Aaand Sindragosa 25 Heroic down. Just Lich King left ^^ scrap that, necrotic plague ticks for 150k...

VoD for tonight's kills: aRRoSC2 - Hunter soloing Icecrown Citadel (various difficulties, currently 25 heroic)

lysharp · 12/04/12, 5:32 AM

25 heartbreaker down~ btw how to upload a picture here?

Fincher · 12/07/12, 12:59 PM

Any new Word on Alysrazor? I always die to Harsh Winds. Did someone try the suggested Spirit Beast stacking?

lysharp · 12/08/12, 11:12 AM

25 yogg-saron down next time will try 3 lights

Caribald · 12/08/12, 12:57 PM

Gunship 25 soloed. New bow helped a lot :P Could kill Riflemen rather easily with just Multi-Shot/Improved Serpent Sting/Serpent Sting (if you cast it through the correct riflemen you can dot every single one with 2 Multi-Shots), and Sorceror went down quickly enough so that I had time to nuke their ship for long enough to stay ahead. I will make a highlight on Twitch.tv later. If I EVER get to make videos again I will make one for Gunship as well but I have footage for 8 videos, not including anything from ICC...

VoD: World first solo (hunter): CaribaLd vs Gunship (25 man normal)

Durendil · 12/08/12, 5:39 PM

Beth'ilac 10 down. I'll upload that video in priority, althoug it was pretty simple, strategy mainly consisting of having 436K health or more and getting her to 9% before her third explosion.

Twins 25 Heroic down too, also got a wow crash during the compression of the video... this is getting old.

Caribald · 12/08/12, 10:46 PM

Festergut down on 25 heroic. Currently trying Blood Princes on 25 heroic. Just had 1 try and forgot you get a stacking dot from moving, saw it at 60 just before I died...

Edit: Blood Princes 25 heroic...... on 2%!!!!!

Blood Princes 25 heroic down now. Had to sleep, was too tired

foox · 12/09/12, 6:03 PM

How are you handling the pet's growl fix/bug (I've yet to find an official statement about the changes)?

While in 5.0.x growl generated an incredible amount of threat and could be set to autocast for most boss fights, in 5.1 the autocast doesn't work on boss mobs (noticed in Hyal, Black Temple, AQ40) and even if casted manually it generates little if any additional threat.

I haven't seen this behaviour on non-boss mobs, where it still generates ~300k threat per activation.

Another thing I noticed a while ago on Patcherk 25 and today on Ilidan during the "flames" phase is that Last Stand is pushing the pet's health to >800k (from 289k, noticed in SV and MM spec) sometimes. I'm not sure what's triggering this.

Caribald · 12/09/12, 6:40 PM

Originally Posted by foox

Another thing I noticed a while ago on Patcherk 25 and today on Ilidan during the "flames" phase is that Last Stand is pushing the pet's health to >800k (from 289k, noticed in SV and MM spec) sometimes. I'm not sure what's triggering this.

You probably had Tenacity pets with you and Stampede active. You can do a 5x Last Stand because the buff is on yourself now. It's hilarious in ICC, I think my pet goes to 1.6m hp or so.

As for Growl, I honestly haven't been noticing it. For soloing I just use Glyph of Misdirection and macro MD into every damage ability.