PvE Progress

Underbog down this weekend (66 pally - hadn't trained yet, 4x 65 shaman)

The last boss was hell. If you're not careful, the black stalker will throw a shaman out of the room and evade bug. You have to move them back into the room ASAP. He evaded 5 times before I was finally able to kill him.

Hungarfen was interesting since shaman do not have spammable instant casts like dots. I put them on /follow with my paladin and kited while healing, dpsing, and laying totems. When he gets to 20% (i believe) he starts healing himself based on the aoe damage he does, so the shaman and paladin have to gtfo. Not sure if I'll be able to do it in a heroic setting as I understand he spawns mushrooms faster. Make alot of use of searing totem and flame shock, then lesser healing wave the pally in the middle of kiting.

Hit 30 on my hunters several days ago after many easy RFK clears. No more instances until I hit level 33/34. Will just do STV quests. Haven't played them much due to the holidays.

Current Level: 61 - 5 Shamans - 1 Enhancement (Main) & 4 Elemental

Instances:

VC: 20
SM Library: 33
SM Armory & Cathedral: 38
Ramparts (Naz not downed): 60
Blood Furnace(up to the prisoner release): 61

These are all frapsed, and I'll put em up soon.

Doing ramparts with all shamans was probably the most wow fun I've had in a long time. Each group of mobs takes around 20 seconds to kill and tanking melee bosses with a shaman is terrifying! I still haven't replaced all my pre-bc items so I'm a little squishier than I should be.

Just got Blade of Trapped Knowledge x 4 though, so now I can use my shield and hopefully survive a little longer!

Question:
Has anyone 5 boxing shamans killed Nazan and have any advice for me? I've gotten him to 30% but that's with my tank getting wtfpwnt at 90% and just getting some lucky nukes in before a wipe.


I'd really like to complete the quest and move onto the Blood Furnace this weekend.

Maraudon

Orange - Level 47
For the most part, easy as pie.

The only time I had any trouble was the first time I encountered the little green slimeballs that move so damn slow. Just nuke them as fast as possible, if they reach you, back up and nuke them some more. Stay out of their melee range.

Purple - Level 48
Also easy for the most part.

The only time I had trouble was the little worm nursery area. Didn't know that you could click on the worm-spewing tube to stop them from coming out.

Inner Section - Level 48
This section was a pain.

The crocs with their AOE silence. Just keep them away from your casters.

Pats, the elite rock with 3-5 little rocks following him. They seem to come at the worst time. It seems like if you are just clearing one room after another, you'll encounter them in a middle of a fight with a different set of mobs. Just be on a look out for them... I think there was a pat for each little area.

Princess... she sucks. Wiped the first time, the 2nd time I barely took her down with all 3 of my mages down at the end. She feared my tank, then went after one of my casters, hitting pretty hard. Even though I had a tremor totem up, still took a second or 2 to get out of fear to try to regain her agro.

Once you finish, you can click on the druid to get a quest to get to Moonglade. The easiest way to get to Moonglade seems to be to fly to Darkshore. Ride up all the way to the north-east. Then get in the water and head east until you get a message that you are in Moonglade. Drown and rez in Moonglade.

Cleared ramparts and blood furnace with my 5 shaman team at 62, so the answer to my own question is
Answer:
Be level 62 so the boss doesn't hit so hard and you have a ton more AC :P. Also, burn down the dragon in the air while a shaman tanks

Cleard this night 6times ramparts and 2times blood furnace
3x 62 shamans
and another multiboxer
1x 70 warri
1x 61 pala

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Originally Posted by Electrissy

Question:
Has anyone 5 boxing shamans killed Nazan and have any advice for me? I've gotten him to 30% but that's with my tank getting wtfpwnt at 90% and just getting some lucky nukes in before a wipe.

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Fire resist totem, grounding totem. Chain heal off your ranged dps, put GoTN (if you have it) on your tanking shaman. Keep the dragon facing away from the ranged dps.

You're right about armor, too. There are few enh upgrades in hellfire, and few ele upgrades in zangarmarsh, so your enh shammy might've needed some gear upgrades.

I finished ZF last night. The toughest boss (for me anyway) was Antu'Sul; I had a tough time micromanaging the voidwalkers to keep aggro off of the squishies. I also had a few bad pulls that resulted in wipes due to unfamiliarity with the instance - the only previous time I had been through, I was following a friend's 70 mage and not paying much attention.

Characters: 1 holy priest, 4 demo warlocks
Level: 42 at start of first run, 44 when I cleared the entire instance. Dinged to 45 when I turned in the quests.

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Originally Posted by Fursphere

Somebody mentioned stalling on killing the Orc Rider, and DPS'ing the dragon in the air before it lands. I've never tried this, but it sounds like a pretty good strat.

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If you do that, Nazan doesn't land until he hits about 20%. The downside to this strat is that his random fireballs will keep hitting random people, whereas if you turn the dragon away from your guys and can keep your tanky type healed OK, it requires a lot less shuffling to get out of the pools of fire. I kinda doubt this strat would work on heroic mode but I could be wrong.

Dinged 31 last night and getting close to 32 (oh chain lightning will you mary me). So anyways now for the instances.

RFC (13-17) it was very hard at 13 and I was not able to kill the first boss (the demon with the knockback) until 14, otherwise full clear. Just a pewpew fest on that.

WC (17-21) This was also a pewpew fest. I was not able to full clear till 20 at which point this instance became completely trivial thanks to healing stream totems. I could clear up to everliving but could not beat him and since it was such a big instance I often gave up after 1-2 wipes due to respawns and just reset and go again. For all the bosses it was a tank and spank except for everliving. On everliving I would use my main to "tank" meaning starting off with as many spells as I can to build hate then burning him down, throwing out 5x lesser healing waves when I got below 50% because he hits really hard.

SFK(21-24) I came to this instance late and stayed longer than I should have because there was so much lovely caster loot in here (yes cloth gear but there is no spell damage leather gear pre TBC hardly at all, anyways) This instance was instantly trivial upon entering thanks to healing stream and a new rank of lightning bolt and only got easier. Got to a point where I could pull multiple groups at once and just melee them down rather than trying to burst down 1-2 mobs at once. Arugal was annoying because his spells really hurt and could not be interuppted but never died.

BFD (24-28 ) The instance was also very easy due to the level I went there at, like I said I didnt stay because I couldnt advance I just wanted the gear lol. Every boss was a pewpew fest except aku'mai (he hits really hard on leather/cloth heh) so I used the everliving method here as well. This one was flakey though and my main would still die about 20% of the time due to unlucky crits. (I do have a FRAPs of one of these fights)

SM:GY (27 lol) I made an attempt at this at 27, it went pretty bad due to the first boss (the interogator guy) he hits really hard and has lots of hp so usually involved a wipe to kill him. Full cleared the rest and then decided Id come back later on.

RFK (28-30) I had forgotten how much I hated this place but it really did suck, not to mention 70% of the loot there didnt help me any so what I did was did 2 full clears for quests and such and to get a feel for things then I would only clear to death speaker jargoth or w/e his name was, kill him for his robes/shoulders and hope for a mace (only ever got one) and then reset. It went very fast, usually 15min per run and net myself around 4-5k exp each time. Given the quick clears this also netted me a lot of enchanting mats (I had 113 small glimmering shards before I ever did anything other than DE lol, and many other mats)

SM:GY (30+) I went back here after 30 and getting all I wanted from RFK and it was a very easy at this point, sadly this instance is just lame and annoying with only 1 good drop from the end boss (shoulders with 10spell crit, which at this level is almost a full 1%) So I intend to get out of here ASAP and move on to library when I get chain lightning at 32.

My plan is to burn through the SM instances for as long as possible due to convenience, nice gear (since I can wear mail at 40 after all) and having a strong familiarity with the instance. From there Im thinking uldamon for a little bit which im not lookimg very forward to because Ive always hated that instance. I may just try and skip that and go straight to the weaker side of mara. Id do ZF but I did that a lot on my war to level and I dont really like the place so I will see when I get there. Depending on exp gain and loot drops I may just live in SM for even longer (41, 42 maybe) and jump straight into mara after.

*edit* dinged 32 in graveyard last night and moved onto library after training. Only had a couple wipes due to runners but was able to full clear* and kill the last boss (archmage Doan) * - I did not kill the houndmaster, I tried twice and got rolled, the really bad LOS in that room made it impossible to get the first shot which is the clinching factor in not having a real tank. But he drops nothing I need/want so it doesnt bother me much. Will be doing this for a couple levels maybe since it has some nice gear. For the boss it was just a burn fest with grounding totems. I did forget that he did that fire nova too until it was too late but a few quick lesser heals took care of that (hit all my characters and took them to half health lol) I freaking love caster bosses haha, they are free blues!