Heroic Old Kingdom DOWN!

[Kalros]

So OK was the Heroic Daily yesterday, so I figured I'd give it another shot.

Most of the instance is cake. The hardest parts are some of the trash pulls. High aggro radius and you get some casters who just do some nasty spell damage.

I tried Volazj once before and quit after about 4 wipes. Last night, I finally got him on my 5th attempt.

I cant say I did anything special this time around, but the new Shaman totem drop system really helps. I kept my primary totem setup to start. Once you start the first dementia phase, I dropped my secondary totem setup which consisted of the Magma Totem, Earth Elemental totem, Healing stream totem and grounding totem. I kept my window on my Paladin, but I would be spamming LB on the shamen (hoping they had a legitimate target and good LOS) and would spam LHW whenever I saw one of them getting low.

For the 2nd dementia phase I did the same thing but popped earthbind totems in place of elemental and fire elemental totem in place of magma.

So 5th try, I survived with the Paladin and 2 Shamen still standing. Here's hoping that is NEVER THE DAILY EVER AGAIN!!!!

And now I'm down to 1 Heroic remaining, and I think we all know what that one is ...........................

[Meathead]

Grats man are one of your shamans Resto cuase that helps alot i found out that a dedicated healer is great help just spam chain heal do about 12k crits on main tank n about 6k on 2nd targets. also with the new riptide.

[Kalros]

Nah, I've always been 4x Elemental. Though I dual-spec'd them all with a PvP spec which I have not used since 3.2 (and probably wont use until I have everything I want from the Emblem of Conquest/Valor/Triumph vendors). Maybe I'll change one of their secondary specs to Resto and give it a roll. Could be fun.

But now I'm focused on Occulus. I've done everything up to the last fight. Gotta start doing my research. Maybe I can give it a go this weekend!

[Lyonheart]

Nah, I've always been 4x Elemental. Though I dual-spec'd them all with a PvP spec which I have not used since 3.2 (and probably wont use until I have everything I want from the Emblem of Conquest/Valor/Triumph vendors). Maybe I'll change one of their secondary specs to Resto and give it a roll. Could be fun.

But now I'm focused on Occulus. I've done everything up to the last fight. Gotta start doing my research. Maybe I can give it a go this weekend!

I just got this daily and about cried! Like you this and Oculus are all that stand between me and having completed all heroics with my team. I don't want to miss any more Emblems of Triumph!

[Kalros]

I just got this daily and about cried! Like you this and Oculus are all that stand between me and having completed all heroics with my team. I don't want to miss any more Emblems of Triumph!

Damn straight! I'm gonna start searching the forums for strats and videos. I know someone here has done it. The best part is, once I do it, my guild is gonna get crazy-spammed!

I actually just joined a real raiding guild a couple weeks ago (my wife's sister's guild, got in as a "friend & family" recruit) and I always get a good chuckle in guild chat whenever I get a 5x Achievement.

The best is going to be when I finally get Occulus:

5x Occulus
5x Heroic Occulus
5x Northrend Dungeon Master
5x Northrend Heroic Dungeon Master

You better believe I'll be doing crazy screenshots. Hell I may even attempt to make a video (something which I know ZERO about).

[Lyonheart]

I just beat OK! BUT i could not target anyone to heal during the copy phase? can you only heal yourself? healbot did not work.

[Meathead]

hachoo has some great vid's but he dont have OK but he does have occulus here's the thread http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=19189

[Kalros]

I just beat OK! BUT i could not target anyone to heal during the copy phase? can you only heal yourself? healbot did not work.

Yeah, unfortunately you can only heal yourself in the copy phase. So I just had LHW queued up on each shaman and spammed it anytime someone got low.

[Lyonheart]

Yeah, unfortunately you can only heal yourself in the copy phase. So I just had LHW queued up on each shaman and spammed it anytime someone got low.

ahh ok.. well next time i will know that lol.. I made it to the second copy phase and had to self rez everyone.. finished him off with the tank and one sham. if i had known about healing I would have one shotted him easy enough

[kadaan]

Old Kingdom was the daily last week for me, and like you I just had that and Occulus left. I went though with a good 2h window where I could practice, but I ended up 1-shotting the last boss. I skipped the enrage chick and the mushroom guy, and wiped twice on the fire guy.

I didn't make any macros, I just spammed my "dps" button. Since the assist target wasn't in the vision, it auto-targetted the closest enemy. I hit auto-run on the priest and pointed it towards the hallway, then kept going through my windows to ensure they were all facing the target, spamming "dps" the whole time. When the priest got to the hallway, I turned her around and ran back towards the boss corner. By the time she got to the middle, my mage and better geared shaman had killed their adds. I stopped the priest in the middle there, spammed Prayer of Healing, and dps'd the rest of the adds down. I was pretty disappointed at how easy it was compared to the Brann event in HoS (the third fight I'd been dreading, that was the daily a couple days prior.)

I didn't go back and kill the 2 bosses I skipped, and now I just need those 2 for the northrend heroic dungeonmaster achievement :(.

[Raskaz]

For Old Kingdom there is an easy strat though a bit lame. Kill 3 of your toons before you engage the boss and just leave your healer and tank. Takes a while to get him down but makes the fight rather trival.

[Malekyth]

I killed the Herald the same way, suicided one warlock and went to town. It came down to a fight between him, my tank and my priest for the last 20% or so, and I was extremely surprised I came through ... but the more I thought about it, no, that was EXACTLY right. The Insanity phases are the hard part, and the fewer toons that have to go through it, the better. Next time I do it, I'll hit him with only three toons. Weird encounter.

The hard part of heroic OK for me is Nadox. I had a hell of a time keeping the priest alive when the focused swarmers start targeting him. The solution I hit upon was to remove /petattack from all my DPS macros, then park the felguards at the door to Nadox while the party pulls back toward the stairs. Made a macro, 'targetexact Ahn'kahet Guardian; /petattack' and hit it when the first Guardian hatch was announced. The felguards are pretty resilient and were able to keep the first two Guardians occupied at the end of the hall so I could concentrate on the boss and swarmers. Dropped the bastard, finally. I haven't gone back to try it again, so maybe I just got lucky, but I think tying up the Guardians as long as possible is the way to go.

Now I still need Azjol-Nerub and Occulus. Argh, Occulus.

[heffner]

This was the daily for me today. I have never been there so I figured I would give it a shot.

I managed to kill three bosses (skipped the mushroom guy) but wiped on Volazj. I don't know if I am coordinated enough to do it :P

I had a hell of a time trying to kill my priest during the insanity phase. All my other toons didn't seem to stay alive for very long either, although my paladin lived through the first phase but never managed to kill anyone.

My second attempt I simply put a DPS spell (Wrath for Boomkin, LB for Shammy, Arcane Blast for Mage) on a key and spammed it after I /target Priest. Didn't work very well.

I thought I would go back and try to simply heal through the three minutes, but crap started to respawn so I left...wish they would make the respawn longer.

Ah well, I will be back another day....

[Niley]

So today i decided to try new tactic...or wipe, I did wipe at the end becuse I couldnt belive i actually pulled it off, but here:

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/74/volzjbeforeinsane.jpg


I managed to kill him before first insanity, you can see in chat that it took right around 16 seconds...weirdly enough even thought he died while he was casting it, the cast did finish and he did spawn the adds(which i didn't notice since i was arleady typing stuff in db irc :P)

[Multibocks]

Hmm I wonder if you get achieve when you do it that way.

edit: reason I say that is if you read wowhead comments some said that they didnt get achiev if the clones spawned. You had to kill them first.

[Niley]

Hmm I wonder if you get achieve when you do it that way.
I already had it from previous kills so no clue.

[Malekyth]

I just got this daily and about cried! Like you this and Oculus are all that stand between me and having completed all heroics with my team. I don't want to miss any more Emblems of Triumph!

You know what's sad ... I've been missing Emblems of Triumph because twice now I've forgotten to share the daily with my party until AFTER the boss dies. Silly Malekyth.

[heffner]

Ya, I can't quite kill him before the first Insanity :P I wish I could. I think I got him to about 37% though. I probably could load up on DPS with potions etc. and have another go and hope that whoever survives the first insanity with my tank finishes him off.

[Multibocks]

I can confirm that he does give achievement if you kill him before second insanity finishes. Only my tank and one shaman lived through the insanity though. I got achievement as soon as he died and then finished off my dopplegangers.