[PvE] - 5 Man Progression Thread - Auchenai Crypts clear - Updated 1.5.09

Updated - 1/5/09
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Auchindoun - Auchenai Crypts

I hate this place. The first boss took 3 tries but I got him. I pretty much moved in and out of range to catch heals when I needed them and that seemed to work well. Died a couple times to trash, I had no real recovery method if my tank or healer got possessed. I ended up making a macro on the tank that tried to target one of the possessors so I could find them quickly and shut them down.
Here is my team:
Nimmen - 80 Resto Druid
Lewlsfear - 65 Shadow Preist
Menage - 73 Elemental Shaman
Nymin - 64 Balance Druid
Fröstlust - 65 Unholy Death Knight
Screenshots:
[spoiler]
First boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-AC-1_sml.jpg
Second Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-AC-2_sml.jpg
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Auchindoun - Mana Tombs

Cleared Mana Tombs! No problems at all. I thought the last boss was going to be tough but turned out to be nothing major.
Here is my team:
Nimmen - 80 Resto Druid
Lewlsfear - 65 Shadow Preist
Menage - 73 Elemental Shaman
Nymin - 64 Balance Druid
Fröstlust - 65 Unholy Death Knight
Screenshots:
[spoiler]
First boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-MT-1_sml.jpg
Second Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-MT-2_sml.jpg
Third Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-MT-3_sml.jpg
Fourth Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-MT-4_sml.jpg
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Coilfang Reservoir - The Underbog
Cleared The Underbog! Only had 1 death due to not paying attention. I ended up aggroing The Black Stalker before I was ready so the preist didn't make it. I'm still swapping around spells. I'm not very good with a Shadow Priest. I also realized when I dinged on the 3 lowbies, and went to train, I hadn't trained Mind Flay at all. Oh well, should see a nice boost next instance. Planning on doing some questing in Zangarmarsh. The lowbies are just over their current levels so I want to get another level maybe before I head into Mana Tombs.
Here is my team:
Nimmen - 80 Resto Druid
Lewlsfear - 64 Shadow Preist
Menage - 73 Elemental Shaman
Nymin - 63 Balance Druid
Fröstlust - 64 Unholy Death Knight
Screenshots:
[spoiler]
First boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-UB-1_sml.jpg
Second Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-UB-2_sml.jpg
Third Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-UB-3_sml.jpg
Fourth Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-UB-4_sml.jpg
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Coilfang Reservoir - The Slave Pens
Cleared The Slave Pens with no deaths! ClickBoxer makes healing a non issue. I'm still not using a secondary targeting mechanism for heals. I'm just using a /tar party1. I need to make a macro so I can single target heal a party member.
Here is my team:
Nimmen - 80 Resto Druid
Lewlsfear - 63 Shadow Preist
Menage - 73 Elemental Shaman
Nymin - 62 Balance Druid
Fröstlust - 63 Unholy Death Knight
Screenshots:
[spoiler]
First boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-SP-1_sml.jpg
Second Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-SP-2_sml.jpg
Third Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-SP-3_sml.jpg
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Hellfire Citadel: The Blood Furnace
Did some questing and got a few levels on a few of the lowbies. Went back to give The Blood Furnace a shot.
Here is my team:
Nimmen - 80 Resto Druid
Lewlsfear - 63 Shadow Preist
Menage - 73 Elemental Shaman
Nymin - 62 Balance Druid
Fröstlust - 63 Unholy Death Knight

No real issues except with threat. Had a couple of bad pulls that led to wipes, but not terribly worried. I switched to using ClickBoxer to heal with, also to buff. It helped amazingly, it is much easier to click heal instead of worrying about targeting with F1-5 and then using F6-12 to heal. I just need to do some adjustments on my ClickBoxer UI and I'll post it here.
Screenshots:
[spoiler]
First boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-BF-1_sml.jpg
Second Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-BF-2_sml.jpg
Third Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-BF-3_sml.jpg
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Hellfire Citadel: Ramparts
My first time attempting to multibox an instance, my new boomkin just hit 60 and off to ramps we went.
Here is my team:
Nimmen - 80 Resto Druid
Lewlsfear - 61 Shadow Preist
Menage - 73 Elemental Shaman
Nymin - 60 Balance Druid
Fröstlust - 61 Unholy Death Knight

I had some issues with healing, this was the first time I've even tried 5 boxing, let alone with a dedicated healer. My past instance history has been with Nimmen as feral bear tanking with the 3 shaman DPSing/Healing. My DK died a few times because I wasn't watching his health, and I had some aggro issues that I'll call inexperience with DK tanking for now.

[spoiler]First boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5bo...amps-1_sml.jpg
Second Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5bo...amps-2_sml.jpg
Third Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5bo...amps-3_sml.jpg
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Gratz on beating what I found to be the most annoying instance in all of TBC. :thumbsup: Cheers

I think the hardest part wasn't the instance, but coordinating everything. As I level up the lowbies there i'll go into harder instances of course. but so far everything looks good.

Updated - 12/29/08
Hellfire Citadel: The Blood Furnace
Did some questing and got a few levels on a few of the lowbies. Went back to give The Blood Furnace a shot.
Here is my team:
Nimmen - 80 Resto Druid
Lewlsfear - 63 Shadow Preist
Menage - 73 Elemental Shaman
Nymin - 62 Balance Druid
Fröstlust - 63 Unholy Death Knight

No real issues except with threat. Had a couple of bad pulls that led to wipes, but not terribly worried. I switched to using ClickBoxer to heal with, also to buff. It helped amazingly, it is much easier to click heal instead of worrying about targeting with F1-5 and then using F6-12 to heal. I just need to do some adjustments on my ClickBoxer UI and I'll post it here.
First boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-BF-1_sml.jpg
Second Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-BF-2_sml.jpg
Third Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-BF-3_sml.jpg

Grats. It's tough to PVE with more than 2 classes.

I currently 5-box PVE with a survival hunter, BM hunter, arcane mage, holy priest, and feral druid. I find it to be quite a challenge, but AOE heals are key. I think that your use of a shadow priest is very good, but I suspect that you will eventually have problems with a resto druid. You might consider switching the DK to dps, switch your resto druid to a tank, and have your shadow priest switch to holy (or switch your shaman).

Coilfang Reservoir - The Slave Pens
Cleared The Slave Pens with no deaths! ClickBoxer makes healing a non issue. I'm still not using a secondary targeting mechanism for heals. I'm just using a /tar party1. I need to make a macro so I can single target heal a party member.
Here is my team:
Nimmen - 80 Resto Druid
Lewlsfear - 63 Shadow Preist
Menage - 73 Elemental Shaman
Nymin - 62 Balance Druid
Fröstlust - 63 Unholy Death Knight
Screenshots:
[spoiler]
First boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-SP-1_sml.jpg
Second Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-SP-2_sml.jpg
Third Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-SP-3_sml.jpg
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Coilfang Reservoir - The Underbog
Cleared The Underbog! Only had 1 death due to not paying attention. I ended up aggroing The Black Stalker before I was ready so the preist didn't make it. I'm still swapping around spells. I'm not very good with a Shadow Priest. I also realized when I dinged on the 3 lowbies, and went to train, I hadn't trained Mind Flay at all. Oh well, should see a nice boost next instance. Planning on doing some questing in Zangarmarsh. The lowbies are just over their current levels so I want to get another level maybe before I head into Mana Tombs.
Here is my team:
Nimmen - 80 Resto Druid
Lewlsfear - 64 Shadow Preist
Menage - 73 Elemental Shaman
Nymin - 63 Balance Druid
Fröstlust - 64 Unholy Death Knight
Screenshots:
[spoiler]
First boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-UB-1_sml.jpg
Second Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-UB-2_sml.jpg
Third Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-UB-3_sml.jpg
Fourth Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-UB-4_sml.jpg
[/spoiler]

when you get to crypts I'm curious about your experience there - I tried 2x and failed with my 4 shammies and 1 Dk - the first boss with anti magic zone and some big pull and aoe is just too hard for me

Quote:

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Originally Posted by 'Moorea',index.php?page=Thread&postID=163276#post1 63276

when you get to crypts I'm curious about your experience there - I tried 2x and failed with my 4 shammies and 1 Dk - the first boss with anti magic zone and some big pull and aoe is just too hard for me

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I'm curious about crypts as well. I've only done it a couple times (on heroic @ 70 as a feral tank non-boxing group). I think I'll be able to heal through just about anything. My biggest advantage is using my main (80 Resto druid) to heal. He affords me a large margin of error.

Auchindoun - Mana Tombs

Cleared Mana Tombs! No problems at all. I thought the last boss was going to be tough but turned out to be nothing major.
Here is my team:
Nimmen - 80 Resto Druid
Lewlsfear - 65 Shadow Preist
Menage - 73 Elemental Shaman
Nymin - 64 Balance Druid
Fröstlust - 65 Unholy Death Knight
Screenshots:
[spoiler]
First boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-MT-1_sml.jpg
Second Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-MT-2_sml.jpg
Third Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-MT-3_sml.jpg
Fourth Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-MT-4_sml.jpg
[/spoiler]

can't wait to hear about crypts - though with a 80 and a 73 it's somewhat cheating ;-)

Quote:

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Originally Posted by 'Moorea',index.php?page=Thread&postID=164126#post1 64126

can't wait to hear about crypts - though with a 80 and a 73 it's somewhat cheating ;-)

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yeah, well :_X

Thats what I get for not starting 5 boxing off the bat. Crypts tonight if I don't peeveepee on the main! Otherwise, tomorrow, I'd like to get in there before the raid week starts (Main raids wed->fri). I went into Sethikk Halls by accident (cause I'm retarded) and I actually killed the first hall and second room before going "jeez, this looks a lot like SH and nothing like MT). I should have kept going but the mobs were beating on me pretty hard. I'm also gemming with northrend gems where I can. So I definetely have another advantage there.

Auchindoun - Auchenai Crypts

I hate this place. The first boss took 3 tries but I got him. I pretty much moved in and out of range to catch heals when I needed them and that seemed to work well. Died a couple times to trash, I had no real recovery method if my tank or healer got possessed. I ended up making a macro on the tank that tried to target one of the possessors so I could find them quickly and shut them down.
Here is my team:
Nimmen - 80 Resto Druid
Lewlsfear - 65 Shadow Preist
Menage - 73 Elemental Shaman
Nymin - 64 Balance Druid
Fröstlust - 65 Unholy Death Knight
Screenshots:
[spoiler]
First boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-AC-1_sml.jpg
Second Boss
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/5box/5box-AC-2_sml.jpg
[/spoiler]

trash wasn't a problem to me - I've had enough burst + pally-stun to kick down the mind-control mobs.

but the first boss was awful. I've quit the instance after 3 wipes cuz this wasn't just wiping in the common way
with a learning effect where you can see you're getting better - that was like the boss turned on the "instagib-mode"

very frustrating ...

Quote:

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Originally Posted by 'beyond-tec',index.php?page=Thread&postID=164402#post16440 2

trash wasn't a problem to me - I've had enough burst + pally-stun to kick down the mind-control mobs.

but the first boss was awful. I've quit the instance after 3 wipes cuz this wasn't just wiping in the common way
with a learning effect where you can see you're getting better - that was like the boss turned on the "instagib-mode"

very frustrating ...

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Definetely, this was my first *real* test. Everything up to know was a cakewalk in comparison. When I dropped the first boss my 3 DPS were dead since 40% and I essentially had to brute force heal my way through it. The boss would pull the healer to us, and I would drag the boss away and get out of range to get some big heals running and then just dance back and forth.

The second boss was pretty LOL. I only got 2 shadow spawns and when he split I already had him to 5% so I ended up dropping him before the 2 shadows and the split version.