Of offspec healers and threat (Shadow Labs)

Well, after downing him once before last week, I haven't been able to kill Blackheart again. I just spent about an hour wiping to him over and over. I don't get it. I just have gotten really lucky the last time I killed him. I am so frustrated right now, I had to stop playing before I end up breaking something. I've tried every strat I can think of and have read of. Heroism, elementals (both types), stamina gear, resto spec, etc. Nothing has helped. I guess I'll be farming Setthek Halls now for Lower City rep.

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Originally Posted by 'sanix',index.php?page=Thread&postID=35915#post359 15

One trick I used on this fight is to use Major Dreamless Sleep Potion when he emote so my character slept for 12s and dont attack or waste mana.
Not sure if it can help for multiboxing (don't see why not) but it was very usefull for me on my priest when my gear was so so (bad regen + holy nova spam = oom very fast)

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I read that this doesn't work anymore.

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Originally Posted by 'Bollwerk',index.php?page=Thread&postID=36310#post 36310

Well, after downing him once before last week, I haven't been able to kill Blackheart again. I just spent about an hour wiping to him over and over. I don't get it. I just have gotten really lucky the last time I killed him. I am so frustrated right now, I had to stop playing before I end up breaking something. I've tried every strat I can think of and have read of. Heroism, elementals (both types), stamina gear, resto spec, etc. Nothing has helped. I guess I'll be farming Setthek Halls now for Lower City rep.

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For LC rep, it's very easy to do the 1st boss in Slabs and the trash in Blackheart's room, run out and reset. Rinse repeat. You don't have to kill all the bosses if you're just looking for rep :)

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Originally Posted by 'Bollwerk',index.php?page=Thread&postID=36310#post 36310

Well, after downing him once before last week, I haven't been able to kill Blackheart again. I just spent about an hour wiping to him over and over. I don't get it. I just have gotten really lucky the last time I killed him. I am so frustrated right now, I had to stop playing before I end up breaking something. I've tried every strat I can think of and have read of. Heroism, elementals (both types), stamina gear, resto spec, etc. Nothing has helped. I guess I'll be farming Setthek Halls now for Lower City rep.

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I've adopted a slightly different tactic for this boss which is very similar to what I did with my 5 x ele shammy team(except the bit with fire elementals - see a little later in the message). I'm using a prot pally, 1 resto shammy and 3 ele shammies. Rather than tank with the pally, send in the Earth elementals, giving the pally some healing gear and have him spam heal the boss's target (use a macro like this '/cast [target=targettarget] holy light'). The shammies (including resto) go full out DPS to down him. What you want to do is aim to drop the fire elementals after the 2nd MC and do your best to down him with the extra DPS they bring (this means waiting 20 seconds or so after you summon the earth elementals so the CD is up ready to summon the fire ele). Obviously, if you can't down him by the 3rd MC you're toast (pun intended! ;) ) but you'll probably won't be in great shape by that time anyway. It's worked about 75% of the time for me so far...could use some refinement and does tie you in to the elemental 20 min cooldown.

Looking at your setup you could do something similar with your druid although I have no idea how good feral is at healing in +heal gear plus you have one less elemental. I use this tactic for Murmur too which has worked everytime I've got to him. Obviously, do anything you can do to boost mana/mitigate damage and also use nature protection potions. There's probably an easier way to do this boss but this is working for me so far...good luck and I hope it works for you should you try.

EDIT: After some more practice I've used the above tactic four times today and downed him each time with minimal deaths (two at most). No idea if this will work in heroics but this tactic seems to keep things controllable and far less manic.

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Originally Posted by 'Vyndree',index.php?page=Thread&postID=36317#post3 6317

For LC rep, it's very easy to do the 1st boss in Slabs and the trash in Blackheart's room, run out and reset. Rinse repeat. You don't have to kill all the bosses if you're just looking for rep :)

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Not sure why I didn't think of this. Good idea. =)

Hi,

I think they nerfed the instance too much now, just cleared it at lvl 70 with normal blue gear on my 5 elemental shams > juste one loss at the first two bosses > vorpil didnt had the change to perform his teleportation move ether.

Grtz