Just wanted to expand on this as I have played sub for the last couple of weeks on this boss, and it is EXTREMELY useful for killing the adds in the twilight realm, far more so than any other class.

The spec I personally use is Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft. I have aimed for a mixture of survival and DPS talents. Enveloping shadows is mandatory, as it makes the damage we take in the twilight realm laughable.

I skipped serrated blades as it is more of a sustained DPS talent, and the emphasis of the encounter is on bursting down the adds asap. Imp recup and quickening are not necessarily essential, but I find it adds a nice chunk of survivability when your healers inevitably bail on you when their stacks start building up.

I feint just before entering the realm as you often spawn in straight onto a bomb, it also helps to have a full recup refresh just before entering. Shadowstep to the most viable add and blow shadowdance etc to nuke it down, using feint on every CD and keeping recup up 100% (both for survivability and DPS). With 30% reduction from enveloping shadows, plus 6% from imp recup and 50% from feint being up 90% of the time, we can stay in the realm often nearing 2 minutes, while the rest have to leave after 40 seconds or so.

Kill as many adds as you can and simply use cloak to exit the realm when either all the adds are dead, or cheat death procs due to having an insane amount of stacks or an unlucky bomb spawn.

At the end of the fight myself and our other rogue (hi Nosfe) usually have around four times more damage done on the adds than the next highest. It has also rapidly become my favourite encounter so far due to being able to bounce around adds with shadowstep, which makes a nice change from the monotony of assassination!

Edit: Just thought I'd throw in a vid of our first kill, as although it's from the PoV of someone who doesn't enter the shadow realm, you can see just how long the rogues stay in for: YouTube - Method vs Valiona and Theralion 25man Heroic
I may fraps my own PoV next reset if anyone is interested in seeing it.

P.s - sorry if this is posted in the wrong thread.

I've done Halfus 3 times. Each time my kicks are missing about 10% of the time. I am definitely behind the boss when missing and he is definitely casting during the kicks (i'm not missing due to a cast bar timer delay). I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed that and if Kick has been moved to a nomal hit table (I am spell hit capped). Never had similar misses in LK.

Once upon time there was an addon called Deadened (made for Black Temple, Reliquary of Souls encounter) which can announce interrupts AND also announce all kind of misses and reasons (dodge/parry/block/immune etc).

I have slightly modified older wow 3.0 version of this addon still working, it helps to identify problems with missed interrupts.

There is sure dozens of other similar addons, also you can dig into combat log, log parser interrupts section etc but immediate feedback after kick comes handy regardless, helps to set interrupt rotations too.
Deadened - Addons - Curse

The level 85 combat ratings post should help


You are more-or-less correct.

1% spell hit = 102.446 hit rating. So each 1 point taken out of precision is 205 more hit rating you'll need to compensate to reach the spell cap.