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What do you guys consider to be the most boxer-friendly heroic? The best place to farm badges, in other words.
I read through the PvE Progress thread, and that's useful for strategies, but couldn't immediately work out which of the heroics offers the best badges over time reward. I seem to remember reading somewhere that Setthek Halls was a good starting point, given a Pally tank, but that thread didn't come up in my search.
Any thoughts? Suggestions?
TIA :)
I went to mecha, first keyguy and first boss for two fast badges. First boss position your casters outside of the shiny area and tank him at the edge of it. That way you have no bombs in your casters and only a few on the tank (see video in my blog).
Bunny, any chance you're going to update your blog?
No,
i stopped playing for a few months and sold all my stuff.
Recently i became interested again but i am just playing a single char atm - maybe later i'll start boxing again.
Bunny
Hi there,
I consider slave pens to be the easiest heroic I've done. First boss, just kite in a circle around your dps. Second boss and third boss are easy tank and spanks.
My BOJ farming usually goes;
1: SP
2: Mech for first boss
3: Ramparts First boss = tank and spank, Second boss full out dps and out heal shadowbolts with no tank
4: Blood Furnace to first boss
Don't forget sethekk halls :P
So far I have only limited experience with heroics, but since my experience is not in dungeons that are already covered, I will post anyway. My setup is tankadin, 2xwarlock, mage, priest.
Botanica does not have any major headaches such as fear or bosses doing targetted damage at party members. First boss is just nuke, catch adds, nuke. Second is nuke, LOS and nuke the protectors, nuke. Third boss just needs a bit of careful handling so that he doesnt nuke the party. I put my party on the right of the boss, so that the PoH still catches party members that are being sacrificed. Fourth boss is a nuissance, but if you remember to salvo the adds down, all is fine. Fifth is even easier, just make sure the party is stood out of his stun range, hold off on heals and nukes when he spawns adds, SoC for the adds or just nuke through. Easy pie. I can not stress enough how much a carefully managed CC helps here. The falconers, stewards, chemists and gene-splicers are a real pain, but putting the mage so that she faces the pull path at a right angle and can therefore sheep incomming adds and fire at the nuke spot without being moved is the real winner here.
Ramparts While the MS warriors are annoying, one can skip several trash packs, similar to the slave pens. I just kill the adds of the first boss, on the second just nuke through. The third I have not managed yet.
Cheers, Steph.
Would also agree on Slave Pens being the easiest Heroic.
If your trying to accumilate BoJ's, would highly suggest Karazhan, even if you do the first 4 bosses that's 7 Badges.
Depends on what kinda team you're running I guess. For my shammy team (5xshammy) I ran a total of 8 badges pr day (10 if I hit the daily heroic) in about 2 hours (sometimes more if I had accidental wipes).
Started in Ramparts, did the first 2 bosses. Went to Steamvault and cleared up to first boss while earth elementals were on cooldown. Did the bosses here (about 20 minutes afk time in here due to earth elemental cooldowns). Then lastly went to Slave Pens and cleared it. Pretty fast & rewarding, and doable as freshly dinged 70's almost. Very easy and rewarding for a non-pve setup. Expect alot of repair bills until you get the hang of it though.
As a pve team, I would still say Slave Pens is maybe the easiest (although harder for a pve team than a shammy team ie). Sethekk Halls could be good if you're steady on the CC, but not very rewarding since it's only 2 badges. This instance was pretty hard and unrewarding for my shammy team, but I don't think my pve team would have much trouble (still untested). Steamvault on the other hand is pretty hard for a pve team. The first boss is the hardest challenge in here I feel. Doable of course, but kinda unforgiving, so you really need to be on top of things here. Mechanar is also fairly easy, but skipping the 2nd boss, it's not very rewarding as far as badges/hour is concerned.
If you can do them, Black Morass, Durnholde and Botanica are very rewarding. I'd say about 4 hours of work for 11 badges.
With 5x shaman you just do the first boss in sethekk halls. The pulls leading to him = cake and then 5x fire elementals + heroism = no more boss. (Drop stoneclaws and CL as adds spawn).