Solo 10-Boxing Siege of Orgrimmar

[Mercurio]

I've been having fun the last few months working on upgrading my PvE gear on some of my teams in WoW. Yesterday I figured I'd try SoO flex by myself and see what I could get done.

Happily, I downed the first four bosses. Protectors and Norushen were trivial, while Immerseus and Sha took more work. Blizzard continues to add to the complexity of raid encounters that make things harder for us boxers, but we are able to overcome.

Not sure if anyone else has been successful with this (or has even been crazy enough to try), but I thought I'd share my success. I hope you enjoy them!

Immerseus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ_UXDMSp1U


Fallen Protectors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkBkFvYDEfQ

Norushen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf9yr1ssq_E


Sha of Pride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnyDNy3Q5Jo

[MiRai]

'Bout time...







:)

[Lyonheart]

Insane! nice to know it is even possible.. i hope you are active in WoD..would love some inspiration. I miss being able to kill Raid bosses.

[Mercurio]

'Bout time... :)

Yeah, I took a long time off of WoW after doing a lot of the Dragon Soul content - only been messing about in Pandaland for a handful of months. So... yeah, I'm slow on downing stuff this expansion.

[Mercurio]

Insane! nice to know it is even possible.. i hope you are active in WoD..would love some inspiration. I miss being able to kill Raid bosses.

That's the reason I enjoy boxing WoW. It is a major challenge to figure out how to do ever more complex raid boss content. There will be some things we'll never be able to do as boxers on current content, but I've been continually pleased at how many "impossible" stuff we can conquer.

[ebony]

as always Mercurio (http://www.dual-boxing.com/members/5880-Mercurio) good stuff....

[JackBurton]

cool beans

[Xixillia]

Very nice! The next four should be a piece of cake for you!

[Mercurio]

Very nice! The next four should be a piece of cake for you!

Actually, here are the next two. Haven't tried anything further solo, though Fishbeak came on and we 2-manned Shaman.

Galakras

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpa_sGHl5VA

Iron Juggernaut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN1y0cXTd7E

[Xixillia]

Very cool

[Multibocks]

Nice! I'm waiting for WoD or I would join you with my accounts if you wanted to. I only single box now and mainly pvp.

[Mercurio]

Updated the 10 Boxer Video Compendium page with a few more videos.

I've now downed the first two wings (8 bosses) in Flex SoO and 2 bosses in Normal SoO solo. No videos = didn't happen? :p

Proof in this thread: http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/30583-10-Boxer-Video-Compendium

[dougie700]

Hey all watched a couple of vids on youtube where Mercurio 10 boxed SoO 10 man normals, was just wondering what ilvl the toons were and any special setups you had to do for it.

tried it last night on flex and wiped quite a few times, just was not getting the dps to move through the first phase. Awsome to watch btw.

here is the link in-case anyone has not seen them.

Thanks

Dougie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ_UXDMSp1U

[MiRai]

Hey all watched a couple of vids on youtube where Mercurio 10 boxed SoO 10 man normals, was just wondering what ilvl the toons were and any special setups you had to do for it.

tried it last night on flex and wiped quite a few times, just was not getting the dps to move through the first phase. Awsome to watch btw.
I've merged your thread into Mercurio's main video thread where he's already been answering questions. It helps if the information is all in one place and others may be interested in this iLVL as well.

[dougie700]

Thanks

[luxlunae]

Not sure when he'll see this but when I grouped with him a couple of weeks ago his ilevels were between 560 and 575. I think that really is the minimum for boxing content, I know some people expressed an interest in doing flex at 500 ish ilevel and I don't think that is going to work out at all.

[dougie700]

Thanks Luxlunae,

I think that it could be possible in flex, just think it would take a couple more players and smaller boxes, personnally I am not in a manned guild, its very rare that i can get in a flex group or a normal mode group, as i am below the asking ilvl or don't have the curve, think the highest ilvl i have is 535. So was taking these video's as a glimmer of hope that I could still do end game content, admittedly at the end of the expac.

but thanks again

[luxlunae]

You can get up to flex worthy ilevel but you'll have to get all the lfr gear and upgrade about half of it, by my reckoning. Not sure how the patch is going to affect things but there will be no limit on coins and upgrades then so getting ungeared characters up will be easier.

[Mercurio]

Dougie,

A couple of suggestions if you'd like to down some SoO content solo:

As Lux noted, OQueue or some other raid finding software should be able to get you some flex groups pretty easily once you gear score is above 535. Upgrading drops you get from flex gets you 556 gear. Once above 550 ilvl, you should be able to find some regular SoO groups, and upgrading those drops results in 569 (or 575 warforged) gear. Legendary cloaks help hugely with hitting those ilvls. Grinding out some 550 ilvl PvP gear is pretty easy, and doing the celestials on Timeless Isle can help with 550 PvP drops or 569 PvE legs/hands. After 6.0, you can do Ordos weekly even without legendary cloaks which are 559 (575 upgraded) too. So in other words, there are tons of ways to drive up your ilvl significantly.

As for my group's ilvl when I started soloing flex, it was around 547 or so for Fallen Protectors, which is by FAR the easiest SoO boss in flex or normal. I routinely kill Protectors and Norushen in regular SoO with a couple groups averaging 560 now. As Lux mentioned, I have one or two toons around 575, but about half the toons in the groups I bring into regular are about 553 or so. If you can get one toon into a flex group and get Immerseus down, drop out and bring your whole crew to Fallen Protectors using them as the leader when you queue for Flex.

Tips for Protectors: With the tank who is on Rook, pull Rook forward slightly, then move past him and turn your tank around so Rook's back is to the rest of your team. Then ignore that tank entirely. The other tank should pull and tank He, turning around on Gouge and moving out of poison. The He tank needs to pick up Misery during Rook's aid phase. Target through another toon (I use a priest) for all your healers and DPS. Use a macro on that toon that automatically switches to the most dangerous mobs that are up, like this one (which just modifies my Divine Star macro):


/tar Embodied Misery
/tar Embodied Gloom
/tar Embodied Sorrow
/tar Embodied Anguish
/script SetRaidTarget("target",8)
/stopmacro [channeling][mod:shift]
/cast [combat] Divine Star

Hope that helps. Post a video of your success when you down them :)

[dougie700]

Thanks, i managed to 11 box the celestials today, but out of 11 toons getting getting a chest, all of them got gold, no loot (thanks rng), and saying 10 boxed, once i engaged then other dps'ers joined in, but it was a step forward :P

Are your tanks both palladins? trying to work out how you were healing them, especally on the first boss as it looked like your healers where out of range or where you smite healing?

thanks again as I said earlier having seen somone do it then It can only be a matter of time and gear before I should start seeing results myself.

[Mercurio]

Dougie,

Yep, Celestials are a good first step. You'll want to ensure that you always have a ton of Warforged Seals for all your guys, then use them every opportunity you have a chance to get significant upgrades (like Celestials). Both my tanks are pallies - easier to macro them than other tanks imho and if properly macroed they do significant self healing. However, the majority of my healing is from my two disc priests. It is amazing what they can do with simple smite healing, causing me to have to spot heal infrequently. I believe that maximizing the ilvl of your priests is the most important thing to your team.

Optimizing rotations/macros for all your classes is also vital. For example, here are four macros I rotate through for my priests:


/stopmacro [channeling][mod:shift]
/castsequence [@Cheetarah,exists,nodead][@Zavier,exists,nodead][@Astonia,exists,nodead][@raid1target,help,nodead][@focus,exists,nodead][@raid1,exists,nodead][@party1,exists,nodead] Power Word: Shield, Prayer of Mending


/stopmacro [channeling][mod:shift]
/castsequence [target=target,harm,nodead][target=focustarget,harm,nodead][target=raid1target,harm,nodead][target=party1,harm,nodead] Penance, Smite, Smite, Smite, Smite, Smite, Smite


/stopmacro [channeling][mod:shift]
/castsequence [target=target,harm,nodead][target=focustarget,harm,nodead][target=raid1target,harm,nodead][target=party1,harm,nodead] Holy Fire
/use 13
/use 14
/cast inner focus
/cast archangel


/tar Embodied Misery
/tar Embodied Gloom
/tar Embodied Sorrow
/tar Embodied Anguish
/script SetRaidTarget("target",8)
/stopmacro [channeling][mod:shift]
/cast [combat] Divine Star



Hope that helps!

[dougie700]

Yeah that looks good, will have to level a priest up lol

I have atm

Tanks - DK & Druid
Healers - 2 x druids & Shammy
Melee dps - Pally, enh shammy & Rogue*
Ranged - Lock, mage & hunter

rogue is only used because i have access to an 11th account, so if i try flex i would take along, the tank and pally have completed cape quests and the others are on various stages, 5 of them not long started as they are boosted 90's, ilvl ranges from 500 - 540, but working on that :P

so do you run from 3 macro's then? for simplicity's sake say on keys 1,2,3

still have a couple of accounts to upgrade so a couple more boosted 90's are avail, not really played a lot with priests to be honest, but maybe boost a couple and replace druid and shammy with them.

but thanks again, any information is all usefull :P

[Andreauk]

The toaster machine looks a lot of fun in wod - be impressed to see that boxed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW4zMMtiXsw