When did you do the Headless Horseman? [Archive]

puppychow

10-19-2008, 05:15 PM

1) spread your shamans out a bit. He throws something at a random person and I think it will affect multiple people if they are on top of each other.

2) tank him a bit aways from your shamans, they should never get hit by his whirlwind this way

3) i drop 1 heal stream + 3 mana stream totems (5th is my prot pally)

4) when his head detaches, switch everyone to the head - I leave my pally by the hh but target the head so my shamans auto target it and DPS it down. Its especially important on the last phase since it ends when the head dies. I have enough DPS so he doesn't even spawn his little adds but you can consecrate near him/them so they all hit the pally anyways. I think this is the 3d head detach phase, this is when you want max DPS since you want to get him from 100-0% very fast, the adds spawn after a certain time but you can easily beat it. Just remember to DPS the head, especially the last phase. In the earlier phases if the head detaches and roams far away I just ignore it, and he merges by himself eventually, but on the last phase I follow the head (with everyone if needed) and kill it.

5) as someone mentioned above, he really doesn't hit hard and a decent geared tank should require no heals. I think I end the fight at 90% health without a single heal, all my shamans just DPS (heal totem helps obv, as does prot pally talents). You can toss an occasional lesser heal on the tank, I also have a button to self-heal lesser healing wave, I use it after one person gets "conflaged".

Nmagrig

10-19-2008, 09:21 PM

The moment it kicked off I did it with my 5 shaman squad. They have a few pieces of S2 and the rest blues and greens. Had no problem with him at all.

suprafro

10-19-2008, 11:56 PM

Has this guys loot table been updated or does he drop the same stuff that he did last year?

pixelimp

10-20-2008, 09:06 AM

I have big troubles with my shamans, they go oom :(

Siaea

10-20-2008, 09:16 AM

I have big troubles with my shamans, they go oom :(Same, I tried about 3 times this morning...I get about 3 phazes in (I think the second head or so) and go oom. I killed first phaze within about 5 seconds with trink/em, killed head pretty fast, but after that mana starts getting sketchy.

Dominian

10-20-2008, 01:49 PM

Isnt it possible with mana pots either?

valkry

10-20-2008, 02:37 PM

I did this with my 4 shammies (70) with druid tanking, killed him 15 times now losing only 30-40% mana each attempt. Remember mana totems stack now. If you cant cast, 2 rounds of shocks will get the head to the next phase. Just lightning bolt dps, dont bother with chain lightning to conserve mana.

I'm in s2 shoulders and shield, everything else is quest greens/blues from getting to 70. About 490 spell dmg, 7.5k hp, 8.5k mana, 8.5k armour.

Tasty

10-20-2008, 02:39 PM

So tempting to say 'last night' but that would be extremely inappropriate as that is not the kind of behaviour we wish to see on these wonderful forums.

valkry

10-20-2008, 02:41 PM

So tempting to say 'last night' but that would be extremely inappropriate as that is not the kind of behaviour we wish to see on these wonderful forums.
Either I missed something or what are you on about?

Tasty

10-20-2008, 02:45 PM

Fleecy

10-21-2008, 06:08 AM

I never bothered with it last year, my very first attempt at this was last night. First time out of the gate I use all my mana and wiped. At that point I was thinking I'd skip any further attempts and call it quits - lucky I didn't. I attempted him another 5 times and kicked his ass each time. Mana is still an issue if I don't keep any eye on it and act accordingly. The unfortunate thing is, the rings are an upgrade for most of my girls :) I still have 2 more rings to get and ofcause the mount (lol, yeah right).

Coltimar

10-21-2008, 01:23 PM

I went back today after dinging 69 and killed him 5 times :) Old 1 death.

Jaws5

10-22-2008, 03:50 AM

Some classes are much easier than others

on 4 locks (aff) easy at 65 ( life tap and drain for win)

voids (improved for tanking)

tried it on 69 hunters (4) and healer could not recover from aoe effects and pets did not do well on horesmans attack. tried 2 times at 69 on hunters.

Will lvl them to 70 and try again.

Locks are by far much eaiser

any standard 3 dps healer and tank are good if units are 70 or close

:)

Tidomann

10-22-2008, 04:19 AM

I've been killing him easily with my 4 shamans (in pvp blues and honor shield).. Don't reallly have a mana problem.. I use 1 earth elemental each time and just keep him tanked (or 4 fire elementals to burn him quick).. Spam lightning bolt, heal as appropriate and burn the head ASAP. This will force him to go through each phase relatively quickly.. Generally I can kill him before he either summons adds, or they before hatch.

Sarduci

10-24-2008, 05:36 PM

1 pally and 4xshaman

I run with 4 mana totems and never run out of mana. I get to about 50% by the time I kill him.

The key is to keep him away from your dps so you don't have to heal them. What I do is when the head flies off I take a few seconds to hit follow and run a few yards away from him. This makes sure anyone who ate a pumpkin is facing the correct way and i hit my head targeting macro:

/target Head of

Once I'm targeted, i shoot 2 rounds into the head which puts me at 68%, then pop elemental precision and put him down to about 55%. Second round is one round of bolt + avengers shield. Third round i pull him far away from my group, heal everyone up quick, blow him up, then pop trinkets and waste the head for the kill.

One shaman is specd resto for heroic so she only heals and does no dps, the dps stops when I heal since I really don't need to rush him. 5 kills takes about 20 minutes with looting, and with travel time it takes me about 35 minutes to do the whole thing.

saabik

10-25-2008, 08:15 AM

I tried to 5 man this with my setup (1dru 4lock) at 66. I ran out of mana on my druid from having to heal the pet so much, and the level difference caused a lot of damage reduction in the form of resists/crit rate.

I went back at 70 with the same setup and was able to down him with no issue at all. My druid only burned about 2k mana each attempt.

Ellette

10-26-2008, 01:10 PM

Kaynin

10-27-2008, 07:30 AM

I usually get the head to 1% the first time it falls.

I do him each day with 4 shamans. No fifth. No mount yet. :<

Hachoo

10-31-2008, 02:22 PM

I did this 10 times the other day with my 5 shaman team (5pc blue pvp and everything else is quest items). I beat him like 6 out of 10 times. The times I failed one of 2 things happened:

I didn't use an elemental at all
or
The head kept spawning BEHIND everyone which means I had to turn everyone around.

I found the best way to kill him is to use bloodlust at the very beginning, burn him down ASAP, then when he loses his head start burning that down and get ready to drop 1 EE - that way when he comes back the EE will tank him, from there its easy as long as you don't run out of mana. Also if he gets to the pumpkin spawn point it gets fun - just wait for all pumpkins to get near you then 5x thunderstorm, insta-gib :) (I use ele mastery with it also).

Anyway my biggest issue was running out of mana, having a toon turned the wrong way after being "confused", or having to turn my entire group around to DPS the head. Also he got some lucky crits on my main shaman a few times and killed him - if I had a better shield than the starting shield from HFP it would be much easier...trying to get S2 shields for everyone or exalted SSO shields.

Lidgy

10-31-2008, 03:05 PM

Hello everyone:

I don�t know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but if you get at your max range with your shamans, he will not throw the burning pumpkin heads and you don�t have to worry about getting disorientated.

I have done this fight everyday with my shamans, no mount yet though =(

Hope this helps! =)

heyaz

10-31-2008, 03:52 PM

When does this end? Tonight at midnight? Or will they extend it through the weekend?
I'd like to get my group to 68 or so and if necessary bring in a warlock to help (voidwalker has 15k hp buffed and holds aggro like a champ)

mphuie

10-31-2008, 04:15 PM

My boyfriend and I are looking into attempting this as soon as I get my 4 shammies to 66 so I have their wonderful Earth Elementals. :) Unfortunately, he's a 70 holy priest. Do you guys think it's possible for 1 70 holy priest and 4 lvl 66 shammies to take him down?

I'd say its doubtful. Unless you guys are stacking a lot of hit, you're going to resist at lot at 66. Even then, I don't think you have enough DPS.

Bloodcloud

09-25-2009, 07:43 AM

bump for the upcoming event :)

Multibocks

09-25-2009, 10:56 AM

Ya im wondering what he will drop this time. I really really want the flying horse =)

Bloodcloud

09-25-2009, 11:09 AM

The flying horse looks so UBER!! We have one in the guild with it and it is so cool riding on your flying horse to naxx :)

Ridere

09-25-2009, 11:43 AM

i'm hoping to get my druid team up to 80 before the event, so I can gear one of them up as a tank and tank my Warlock and Shaman teams through to give me 15 tries at the mount every day. Here's hoping *crosses fingers*

Coltimar

09-25-2009, 12:30 PM

My second team is only 71 so after the first day I am letting every trinket, or weapon go to waste :/ I hope to get my team to at least 76-77 by Halloween.

Woodster1

10-05-2009, 09:21 AM

My second team is only 71 so after the first day I am letting every trinket, or weapon go to waste :/ I hope to get my team to at least 76-77 by Halloween.

Hallows end starts at october 18, making 9 lvls in 2 weeks is not impossible ^^

So gogo :-)

blast3r

10-05-2009, 10:39 AM

I have never done this before. What is the drop rate for the flying horse? Any chance of getting 5 of them?

Svpernova09

10-05-2009, 10:49 AM

I have never done this before. What is the drop rate for the flying horse? Any chance of getting 5 of them?

I did it last year everyday x4. Never saw 1 mount, but I did get a lot of the rings / brooms. Comparing last year's hallows end and not seeing the mount, to this past Brewfest, seeing 3 kodos and 1 ram, I'd say the drop rate is a lot lower than brewfest. Hopefully they change it and make it higher. But unless you're insanely lucky, 5 seems unlikely.

Rocky Rhode

10-05-2009, 11:19 AM

I did it last year everyday x4. Never saw 1 mount, but I did get a lot of the rings / brooms. Comparing last year's hallows end and not seeing the mount, to this past Brewfest, seeing 3 kodos and 1 ram, I'd say the drop rate is a lot lower than brewfest. Hopefully they change it and make it higher. But unless you're insanely lucky, 5 seems unlikely.

6(x) brewfest summons per day = 0 mounts...

I believe that random roll of the dice is still in effect - or my luck just plain SUCKS ....

blast3r

10-05-2009, 11:25 AM

Oh well, having one would be a priv I suppose! I got one kodo and one ram from brewfest. kodo is awesome looking!

Coltimar

10-05-2009, 11:28 AM

I got the kodo and the ram last night, lol. I will have 2 teams 75+ by Hallow's End!

Volch0k

10-05-2009, 11:30 AM

The droprate on mount was 'extremely' low last year. Did it each day with x5, didn't see any mount. The fact that almost everyone at 80 does this boss, and afaik i only saw 5-15 MAX of these a day in shattrah should tell you that its really low. Ofcourse everyone don't use that flying horse, but back at 70 i guess almost everyone who got one used it atleast during the event.

Ridere

10-05-2009, 11:31 AM

According to my last check on Wowhead, I believe the drop rate is around 0.3%, and I think the Kodo/Rams were around 1.3% - 1.5%, so it is drastically lower. I would not attempt to get five of them. Most likely pick your favorite toon and go from there.

heh, that's what I do. Anything that's easier to obtain, I do on all five, but for purely achievement purposes, or showing off, Arlassa gets all of the hard-to-find/get items and achievements.

I got my druid team to 77 yesterday. I'm going to get them up to 80 before Hallow's End, and hopefully get my Mages up to 75 before it, too. That'll be 20 summons a day.

Even with that amount of summons, who knows if the mount will drop. And for Brewfest, I ran with a guildy tank and healer to make the fights a bit easier for me, since I didn't have a tank class leveled up. And I just know that if I bring them along for Hallow's End, one of them will end up with the mount, if it does happen to drop.

It's going to be a close call, taking a crash course in bear tanking with purely AH bought tank gear and only a week's worth of time to proactice. And that's only if I decide to not work on the mages.

I'm not terribly optimistic about getting this mount, sadly.

Naysayer

10-05-2009, 11:49 AM

Nobody talks about the plate helm.

The Horseman's Helm

That helm was so badass.

Volch0k

10-05-2009, 11:50 AM

Nobody talks about the plate helm.

The Horseman's Helm

That helm was so badass.

Guess mostly because its a Plate DPS helm, wich doesnt affect many Mboxers :)

shaeman

10-05-2009, 12:44 PM

dual spec pally tanks!!!!!!

Multibocks

10-09-2009, 03:09 PM

What about the 2h Axe from the raid guy?! That thing was AWESOME. Air guitar solo!!!

Diwa

10-09-2009, 03:47 PM

Questions:
1) During the last event, did lvl 65 able to DPS headless horsemen well? That would somehow translates how a lvl 75 DPS would work
2) Do you think this boss can be dual boxed by lvl 80 tank and healer? (since some of us don't have 5 accounts); example DK Tank + Holy Pally

Ridere

10-09-2009, 04:49 PM

I'm really worried about this, too. I'll have my 3rd team of 80s by tomorrow. (Druids are like 79.3). I'm really hoping I can solo this, but I have no tanking experience beyond Deadmines. haha.

I can spend my last week doing one of two things. Level up my mages to 75, and run the HH 22 times a day, bringing in a guildy healer and tank, or I can spend my last week gearing up my druid tank and summoning HH 15 times a day.

I'm really not sure which I should do at this point. I have about 20K just sitting around to handle the costs of Dual Speccing my druid tank and buying AH stuff, but still. I wish the drop rate on the mount was like half the droprate it was on the brew fest mounts and not like 1/4th the rate.

I'd prefer getting the two guildies and I all mounts, but I don't see that happening. And I even passed on a drop of it last year, to let this one guildy get it, but some other punk we brought along (without having any summons) decided he was going to roll on it, too. So I'm not going two years without it!

Coltimar

10-09-2009, 05:41 PM

My second team is 75/76. I should be 80 by Oct. 18 and I have tons of craftable gear + honor gear + brewfest trinkets/weps so I should be set. If not I will just mix my current team in. I am so pumped about this event!

Multibocks

10-09-2009, 06:49 PM

Velassra

10-09-2009, 08:48 PM

I'll be pushing it to be 80 by the 18th. I just got my PC back up and running. I'm just shy of 72 on my paladin, priest and lock trio. It's a 2 week event so I may not get him everytime, but I'm sure I'll manage some.

I mainly want the acheievement of killing him (I want the purple drakes), so I only "need" to kill him 1x. Everything else is bonus.

alcattle

10-10-2009, 07:26 AM

I am sure they will do the same upgrade as they did to Direbrew. Tough if not a good group at 80, but if ready is a cake walk.

Volch0k

10-10-2009, 08:42 AM

I'm kinda glad I'm playing as Horde during this years event. Alliance spend great deal of time just to travel there, but when you get all the loot, x5 each day, its just stupid not to :)

bartholomeo

10-11-2009, 11:02 AM

I'll place 2 lvl 55 warlocks there with a good amount of shards.

i'll invite them to the party, summon 3/5 partymembers, kick the warlocks and summon the remaining 2. Will take 5 mins max.

Volch0k

10-11-2009, 11:20 AM

Yes ofcourse, but it's not like everyone got that option available.

Lyonheart

10-11-2009, 11:30 AM

I'll place 2 lvl 55 warlocks there with a good amount of shards.

i'll invite them to the party, summon 3/5 partymembers, kick the warlocks and summon the remaining 2. Will take 5 mins max.

SAME!! my locks will be there for summoning! i cant wait to NOT get my Mount again!!! 8(

Schwarz

10-11-2009, 12:12 PM

I love this event. If you play horde on a pvp server it is so awesome. Pretty much every level 80 Alliance comes here and it turns into a huge pvp fight. Bodies will be lined up everywhere it is so much fun. Definitely check it out if you are horde. Fun time and easy honor.

Ridere

10-12-2009, 11:36 AM

Well!

Busy weekend for me. I dinged 80 on my druids, trained, but still have a some AH buyable gear to invest in. Also got my mages up from 70 to 72. They should be 75 by the start of Hallow's End and will continue to level up throughout the event.

I'm going to park my Warlock team and Druid team at scarlet monastery, so summoning will make the travel trivial. Just need to load up on shards, like someone else mentioned.

I'm hoping that with 22 summons a day, I'll be able to get the stupid mount :P My main competition for the HH mount recently got his Baron's mount, so I'm hoping he'll have pity on me and let me get dibs on the HH mount. I am providing 20 of the 22 summons, afterall :P

Coltimar

10-16-2009, 12:47 PM

Anyone seen an updated loot chart yet? I know it's the same stuff I just want to see the upgrades. I can't find a sniff of it anywhere.

puppychow

10-17-2009, 12:59 PM

word is btw the event will take place in scholo this year, not SM

bartholomeo

10-17-2009, 06:44 PM

No, no updates on the loot yet. I wonder if a spelldmg wep will drop.

Coltimar

10-17-2009, 07:25 PM

I don't get how we know nothing. What time will it start? 5:00 a.m. CST tomorrow?

Naysayer

10-17-2009, 07:27 PM

I don't get how we know nothing. What time will it start? 5:00 a.m. CST tomorrow?

How would people know ahead of time unless Blizz gave them a list of the drops?

Velassra

10-17-2009, 08:28 PM

I don't get how we know nothing. What time will it start? 5:00 a.m. CST tomorrow?

In-game calender says 1am.

But damn, I'm not going to make it. 74 atm and I hate PvP so I wanna avoid AV. Too many collection quests taking 5 times as long lol.
Mostl I want the title, working towards the Violet drake for next year, so I have 2 weeks for the next 6 levels to at least get the HH kill in there.

Shakula

10-17-2009, 08:52 PM

Loot:

http://www.mmo-champion.com/general-discussions-22/hallow%27s-end-headless-horseman-loot-topic/

bartholomeo

10-17-2009, 09:35 PM

Just killed him 5x.
I'd say he's easier then Coren from brewfest.

loot : http://db.mmo-champion.com/i/49123/the-horsemans-seal/ and http://db.mmo-champion.com/i/49124/wicked-witchs-band/

The items we got from direbrew are alot better imo. The tankard made some nice cash on ah this week, i'd hoped something like that dropped again from the HH. ahwell ... now the mount-farming can begin

Damageinc333

10-18-2009, 04:13 PM

Ok, so if your a noob like me and you fail at killing him, you lose your attempt for that character? The daily quest is to summon him. it doesn't matter if you kill him or not, it appears you don't get to summons him again if you wipe. Is this correct? or is there something I am missing? This really stinks, Ive already blown 2 attempts trying to get my healing lined out, I am a little gunshy to use my last 2 attempts.

Quadboxing with
L80 DK
L80 Priest
L80 Mage
L80 Lock

Mooni

10-18-2009, 04:22 PM

Ok, so if your a noob like me and you fail at killing him, you lose your attempt for that character?

Exactly.
I went through this last year because I was undergeared, and this year with Coren because of server stability issues (hiLARious when your tank and 2 DPS disconnect, leaving 1 ranged DPS and a healer)

Diwa

10-18-2009, 04:25 PM

Yup it's easier than Coren. We had a guild run last night and after 40+ tries we saw all the loots. 1 Mount, 1 Helmet, 1 Sword and tons of rings.

Velassra

10-18-2009, 04:36 PM

Hows it look for a group of lvl 75's? Wipefest or doable?

(Paladin, priest and 3 locks)

Mooni

10-18-2009, 05:00 PM

I'm going to go ahead and say wipefest, Vel.
Unless you bring an 80 to handle the tankin'. But even one Conflag can kill you all at 75 if you're bunched up.

Marious

10-18-2009, 05:04 PM

Bah he was so easy... did not see the blade drop or the mount, 12 summons no mount :*( tomorrow I only get 8 summons :(

Got all the rings to drop and the helm for the achievement, 1 squashling, main already had it from last year, so just hoping I can get mount drop in the whole time I am doing it.

Siaea

10-18-2009, 05:12 PM

Anyone done it with a 5 shammy group? I could never down him last year with just my shammies. They were also pretty poorly geared at 70, and badge geared now.

Mooni

10-18-2009, 05:25 PM

One or two runs last night were with no healer, but that was still 4 80s (1-2 tanks depending)
But the opposite of no-healer, no-tank? I'm not sure. His body-with-head versions only have 126k, but his whirlwind could be a beeyotch to deal with.
If I were doing it I'd probably spread out in an X (like we do with Black Knight) and make sure to have healy macros that cover each and every shaman, by name.

Edit: But even better, just exploit some tank for labor and summons, then swap your one shaman out. 6 summinz is better than your own summon limit.

Zal

10-18-2009, 05:56 PM

Why are we posting a thread that was started a year ago? Instead of... making a new thread thats current.

Holmeser

10-18-2009, 06:21 PM

at 75 I would think no chance to kill HH. Just too many resists +misses and heavy healing on tank and group. I imagine your bear tank will be fine if you get him some crap off the AH. It's meant to be a reward for doing it and not really a challenge to anyone 80.

Actually today i went solo to this with my 75 rogue; our group was 80 prot pala, 75 Rogue, 75 Ret pala, 75 Resto Druid.
Cleared easy every time, the paladin did have 40k hp and very nice gear so..

Coltimar

10-18-2009, 06:21 PM

People complain either way. Had I started a new thread this one would have been linked with "there is already a thread, use the search nub!".

David

10-18-2009, 06:22 PM

Last year I went there daily with a lvl70 druid in resto gear tanking and my shamans started doing it at lvl63. I had to do some heals back then tho. Resto gear wasn`t the best in there rofl

Slats

10-19-2009, 11:45 PM

Hello David! i hope your all levelled up now. :)

I remember our encounter in AV.

I've been doing this every day and I find it more annoying than Direbrew simple because I have to retarget the head 3 times. Other than that its very easy and just frustrating you cant de the rings or anything. :(