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You know, yesterday was frustrating. Didn't even bother going into a heroic dungeon because the game crashed 12 times in a single hour in Tol Barad Peninsula. What should have been a roughly half-hour daily quest run turned into an hour of steadily building rage. Between there and Twilight Highlands, there's a bit of an issue with crashing when doing dailies.
Some searching on youtube has found that someone's managed to clear AQ40 solo (And by clear, I mean including C'Thun and the Twin Colossi) and someone else managed the Lich King solo.
A while ago, sadly.
Not sure if how much has been changed or nerfed since these achievements were done, but I always found it interesting that it can be done. Of course, with the health nerf, the Lich King is probably a lot harder....
<a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqN0VYQVvnA&feature=player_embedded' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>A Goblin Rogue solos AQ40</a>
How he managed it?
The Twin Colossi share a health bar. With good timing, one can keep one of the colossi outside of combat, hence he won't teleport to the other and start healing. Then it's just a matter of killing the colossi one chose to down (since one can only take damage from physical and the other only from magic, it should be obvious which one he picked)
With C'thun, he did a bit of a trick involving bringing Ouro to the Eye of C'thun. Once phase 2 starts, C'thun's tentacle yanks the player into C'thun's belly where solo-ers have 7 seconds to get out or die. Ouro, being greedy, will yank the player out of C'thun's belly, preventing you from dying to C'thun's "7 seconds to insta-kill" move.
There's more, but you can read it in the description. ;P
<a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkt0sn_BVcM&feature=related' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>A Draenei Death Knight solos Lich King</a>
As for how this person managed it, it's actually quite amazing. Most of the Lich King's abilities don't or CAN'T target the main tank. Hence, a solo-er doesn't have to worry about as much as they would in the full proper battle. They still have to survive the crap that DOES come their way, though. The person mentions they're in largely 391 gear, except for 372 Akirus.
A while ago, sadly.
Not sure if how much has been changed or nerfed since these achievements were done, but I always found it interesting that it can be done. Of course, with the health nerf, the Lich King is probably a lot harder....
<a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqN0VYQVvnA&feature=player_embedded' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>A Goblin Rogue solos AQ40</a>
How he managed it?
The Twin Colossi share a health bar. With good timing, one can keep one of the colossi outside of combat, hence he won't teleport to the other and start healing. Then it's just a matter of killing the colossi one chose to down (since one can only take damage from physical and the other only from magic, it should be obvious which one he picked)
With C'thun, he did a bit of a trick involving bringing Ouro to the Eye of C'thun. Once phase 2 starts, C'thun's tentacle yanks the player into C'thun's belly where solo-ers have 7 seconds to get out or die. Ouro, being greedy, will yank the player out of C'thun's belly, preventing you from dying to C'thun's "7 seconds to insta-kill" move.
There's more, but you can read it in the description. ;P
<a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkt0sn_BVcM&feature=related' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>A Draenei Death Knight solos Lich King</a>
As for how this person managed it, it's actually quite amazing. Most of the Lich King's abilities don't or CAN'T target the main tank. Hence, a solo-er doesn't have to worry about as much as they would in the full proper battle. They still have to survive the crap that DOES come their way, though. The person mentions they're in largely 391 gear, except for 372 Akirus.
Fun story: my char is a warrior who has a sulfuras and full ruthless. I held, mostly solo, the deathmatch arena for two hours. 4 deaths, over 500 kills.
Turns out that pve-geared scrubs like the deathmatch arena and I can kill them pretty fast. And as a warrior, every killing blow is a victory rush.
I'm glyphed for it, so every victory rush is a 70k heal. Add in my ability to RallyingCry/Enraged Regen, shieldwall, spell reflect the silly arcane mages (bwaahaha.) and the sheer amount of people, it's a fucking warrior paradise. Run from me? no problem, I'll spin and kill the other guy next to me, get a victory rush in my pocket, and wreck you next.
The most glorious part was going 11-1 (all 11 at once) and winning. Took every cd I had, but I won.
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Turns out that pve-geared scrubs like the deathmatch arena and I can kill them pretty fast. And as a warrior, every killing blow is a victory rush.
I'm glyphed for it, so every victory rush is a 70k heal. Add in my ability to RallyingCry/Enraged Regen, shieldwall, spell reflect the silly arcane mages (bwaahaha.) and the sheer amount of people, it's a fucking warrior paradise. Run from me? no problem, I'll spin and kill the other guy next to me, get a victory rush in my pocket, and wreck you next.
The most glorious part was going 11-1 (all 11 at once) and winning. Took every cd I had, but I won.
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Freaking hell.
I just died seven times to clear a single fucking quest.
And not even a dungeon quest.
Not even a quest with an elite mob.
What quest could it have been?
<a href='http://www.wowhead.com/quest=29235' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Defend Grom'Gol</a>.
Holy shit, this quest is NOT designed for Priests. Seriously, I aggroed stray mobs like shit attracts flies, I was pretty much ganked four times just trying to get to safety after rezzing so I could heal up and rebuff myself, and I ended up standing on one of the buildings to keep the auto-spawned mobs down to a manageable level.
STANDING ON A BUILDING. TO KEEP AUTO-SPAWNED MOBS TO A MANAGEABLE LEVEL.
Oh, I used Psychic Scream, I used Dispersion, I used Power Word: Shield, I used my Shadow Fiend. None of it stopped the mobs from aggroing and murdering me before the three minutes were up, 'causing me to fail.
At least not until I sat on that rooftop.
And in the end, I spent 44 gold total to repair my gear. Because after the fifth time I'd died, I'd chosen rez sickness as opposed to rezzing up, attracted a horde of mobs, and dying before I managed to get to safety AGAIN.
To whoever designed that quest, FUCK YOU WITH AN ENTIRE RUSTY BARBED WIRE FENCE THAT'S STILL INSTALLED.
I just died seven times to clear a single fucking quest.
And not even a dungeon quest.
Not even a quest with an elite mob.
What quest could it have been?
<a href='http://www.wowhead.com/quest=29235' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Defend Grom'Gol</a>.
Holy shit, this quest is NOT designed for Priests. Seriously, I aggroed stray mobs like shit attracts flies, I was pretty much ganked four times just trying to get to safety after rezzing so I could heal up and rebuff myself, and I ended up standing on one of the buildings to keep the auto-spawned mobs down to a manageable level.
STANDING ON A BUILDING. TO KEEP AUTO-SPAWNED MOBS TO A MANAGEABLE LEVEL.
Oh, I used Psychic Scream, I used Dispersion, I used Power Word: Shield, I used my Shadow Fiend. None of it stopped the mobs from aggroing and murdering me before the three minutes were up, 'causing me to fail.
At least not until I sat on that rooftop.
And in the end, I spent 44 gold total to repair my gear. Because after the fifth time I'd died, I'd chosen rez sickness as opposed to rezzing up, attracted a horde of mobs, and dying before I managed to get to safety AGAIN.
To whoever designed that quest, FUCK YOU WITH AN ENTIRE RUSTY BARBED WIRE FENCE THAT'S STILL INSTALLED.
akun, know its a little late, but if you run quests like that as a disc priest with evangalism/atonement, they are pretty much a walk in the park. slow kills delay respawns and your damage pretty much will heal you enough that pennance will cover the difference off cooldown. I did it without using any flasks/pots and no dispersion. If you want to kill fast, shadow is the way to go, but if you want to solo elites or do quests like this where kiting can be hard/cramped/dangerous of pulling adds, disc. is the best for soloing. It just takes awhile to make a kill, which in this instance wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing anyway.
Sorry for the double post, but since the last one was over a month ago, I think I'm in the clear.
So, I decided to see what my DK could handle. I'd been flummoxed by High King Maulgar and his council in Gruul's Lair before and even trying it with my friend playing a druid, we still ended up wiping and badly.
After watching a video of a DK soloing the entire council, I decided to make another attempt trying to use a similar strategy.
I failed, but luckily I'd stumbled across someone willing to help me with their Healadin and we tried again.
The second time I realized what I'd been going wrong and I feel really stupid that I hadn't noticed it before. Learning tanking during WotLK had taught me to basically run in, grab all the aggro, and then rip down casters.
You know, basically pulling a Leeroy Jenkins.
Those of you familiar with Gruul's Lair are probably shaking your heads in disgust.
I'll only list the strategy here in case someone else is interested in soloing or duo'ing the place:
Gruul himself is an absolute wuss compared to the council. His high HP and his stun is about all he's got going for him. And it's not even that good.
After thanking the Healadin, I decided to see if I could do anything else. I'd somehow gone most of my DK's life without even doing the Icecrown instances, so I decided to solo Forge of Souls.
After that, I was on a roll, so I solo'd Pit of Saron.
I died once thanks to a cheap move that the Ymirjar Skycaller has called "Glacial Strike" which keeps doing damage until you fully heal up. Since I was soloing and I didn't even notice this debuff until I was at half HP. I wasn't able to make it to any enemies that I could death strike in time.
But after that, I was more cautious engaging them and ended up clearing Pit of Saron easily.
Then I solo'd the Halls of Reflection.
The first section was amazingly boring. Only the casters offered any kind of threat. For those of you who have wiped on this due to a bad group, I feel for you. There's no reason that you should have to suffer a tank or DPS that can't handle this fight.
Then I got to the part where you had to flee from the Lich King.
My stream of thought was "FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE!"
I cleared it, but the last wave gave me no small amount of stress and I think I'll be looking for some DPS gear before I try to solo that again.
So, I decided to see what my DK could handle. I'd been flummoxed by High King Maulgar and his council in Gruul's Lair before and even trying it with my friend playing a druid, we still ended up wiping and badly.
After watching a video of a DK soloing the entire council, I decided to make another attempt trying to use a similar strategy.
I failed, but luckily I'd stumbled across someone willing to help me with their Healadin and we tried again.
The second time I realized what I'd been going wrong and I feel really stupid that I hadn't noticed it before. Learning tanking during WotLK had taught me to basically run in, grab all the aggro, and then rip down casters.
You know, basically pulling a Leeroy Jenkins.
Those of you familiar with Gruul's Lair are probably shaking your heads in disgust.
I'll only list the strategy here in case someone else is interested in soloing or duo'ing the place:
Gruul himself is an absolute wuss compared to the council. His high HP and his stun is about all he's got going for him. And it's not even that good.
After thanking the Healadin, I decided to see if I could do anything else. I'd somehow gone most of my DK's life without even doing the Icecrown instances, so I decided to solo Forge of Souls.
After that, I was on a roll, so I solo'd Pit of Saron.
I died once thanks to a cheap move that the Ymirjar Skycaller has called "Glacial Strike" which keeps doing damage until you fully heal up. Since I was soloing and I didn't even notice this debuff until I was at half HP. I wasn't able to make it to any enemies that I could death strike in time.
But after that, I was more cautious engaging them and ended up clearing Pit of Saron easily.
Then I solo'd the Halls of Reflection.
The first section was amazingly boring. Only the casters offered any kind of threat. For those of you who have wiped on this due to a bad group, I feel for you. There's no reason that you should have to suffer a tank or DPS that can't handle this fight.
Then I got to the part where you had to flee from the Lich King.
My stream of thought was "FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE!"
I cleared it, but the last wave gave me no small amount of stress and I think I'll be looking for some DPS gear before I try to solo that again.
Since it's been a while, I don't feel bad about double-posting.
A friend of mine got into the WoW Beta and while there's going to be a shitton of Beta stuff coming out from bigger names, he wanted to post his own view. So, here's some <a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhJ3iaEatnk&feature=g-u-u' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Beta footage</a>.
He's still trying to get a handle on how to better narrate, so if you feel like it, feel free give him some comments or criticisms.
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EDIT: BTW, finally found the Alliance version of the Horde quest for the Venomsaur Raptor mount: <a href='http://www.wowhead.com/quest=29032' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>It's for a Winterspring Frostsaber Mount</a>.
A friend of mine got into the WoW Beta and while there's going to be a shitton of Beta stuff coming out from bigger names, he wanted to post his own view. So, here's some <a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhJ3iaEatnk&feature=g-u-u' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Beta footage</a>.
He's still trying to get a handle on how to better narrate, so if you feel like it, feel free give him some comments or criticisms.
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EDIT: BTW, finally found the Alliance version of the Horde quest for the Venomsaur Raptor mount: <a href='http://www.wowhead.com/quest=29032' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>It's for a Winterspring Frostsaber Mount</a>.
That mount has been in the game for ages. I don't know when it was introduced, but it was available in BC.
The old rep grind for the mount was horrendous. You start off with a single repeatable quest, where you have to collect meat from chimaeras and bears, with a droprate of about 20%. After hitting friendly (or honored?), you get a another quest where you have to kill two types of Winterfall furbolg in the village close to Everlook. When you hit revered, you get a third quest to kill Frostgiants near Frostwhisper Gorge, which were elites at the time. Each quest gave 250 rep when I did it (during WotLK), but earlier is was a lot less.
I only grinded it out for my main, and said never again. With the new system, it's a lot easier to get the mount.
Interestingly, it was a 100% speed mount, but only required apprentice riding, which was for 60% speed mounts. It was also unarmored, where the other 100% speed mounts are armored.
The old rep grind for the mount was horrendous. You start off with a single repeatable quest, where you have to collect meat from chimaeras and bears, with a droprate of about 20%. After hitting friendly (or honored?), you get a another quest where you have to kill two types of Winterfall furbolg in the village close to Everlook. When you hit revered, you get a third quest to kill Frostgiants near Frostwhisper Gorge, which were elites at the time. Each quest gave 250 rep when I did it (during WotLK), but earlier is was a lot less.
I only grinded it out for my main, and said never again. With the new system, it's a lot easier to get the mount.
Interestingly, it was a 100% speed mount, but only required apprentice riding, which was for 60% speed mounts. It was also unarmored, where the other 100% speed mounts are armored.