First Heroic

[accretion]

Still haven't even looked at normal ToC. Dunno why. We always forget it's there I guess.

Jousting is evil, imo. Several folks here have made good guides to handling the encounter, but I just haven't pulled it off yet. I probably need to spend an evening or two getting my rear end kicked to see whether or not I can farm this.

[Day]

Congrats on your first heroic great work!

I remember my first H i completed i was so happy : ) I ran a prot warrior and 5x elemental shaman team when i first started my heroics with many attemps, wipes and big repair bills i got to just started farming only the bosses i could kill maybe first one or the first 2 in each heroic i could till i was able to buy gear with emblems. yeah i started out with as many crafted peaces of gear i could make and just went at it. Dont give up the more gear you get the easyer the runs get.
Now my team is well geared I changed my warrior for a prot pally with only green drops and some blue boe gear that i had picked up along the way 512D and 24k hp and the 1h axe from the zul drak group quest i was able to clear all heroics i was already clearing with my warrior only thing was i just had to heal more and dps a little slower.

First Heroic Team: Deviteman (prot warrior) 4x Elemental Shamans Xpepsi, Xcoke, Xdrpepper and Xsprite ( US Bomechewer)
Second Heroic Team: Zuzana (prot Pally) 4x Elemental Shamans Xpepsi, Xcoke, Xdrpepper and Xsprite ( US Bomechewer)

Now that i can farm heroics pretty easy I sub in one of my alts and just keep them on follow or I bring in a guild mate.

Reg ToC farming tips:
I farm and run guild mates with my 5box team all the time through reg ToC. Simple rule with the jousting in have everyone stack and use a assist party1 macro made this way every toon attacks the same target 3 thrusts 50k hp and the mob is dead next target. same for next 2 groups and 3 mains now the trick is to refresh mounts on alts when they get low hp dont let anyone get dismounted in your group.. before last patch I use to kite the last mob to the door and run out. YOU DONT have to do this anymore they auto reset to the gate once the last one is downed. I would have a chanter in your group at all times cause its a abyss farming if you cant use the gear.

Macro used:
/assist party1
/cast Shield-Breaker

ps: if you use the ? icon to make your macro it will change to the shield breaker icon automaticly when you mount up.

Once you use the macro all alts target your target and then just use default attack key 1 = thrust
your defense shield can be casted at the same time as when you thrust because they do not share the same globle CD so keep your shields up and take less dmg. I hope this post helps and happy farming : )

[echo]

Jousting is evil, imo. Several folks here have made good guides to handling the encounter, but I just haven't pulled it off yet. I probably need to spend an evening or two getting my rear end kicked to see whether or not I can farm this.

jousting is super easy once you know the trick. it's actually the easiest part of the event next to the pally 2nd boss IMO.

trick is as follows

for the initial waves of 3x3. just shield up, and assist main and thrust em down. stay in one spot and pull them to you with shield breaker. dont get fancy. you should kill all 9 with maybe 5% health lost on one toon.

for the 3 jousting bosses. all assist on one. shield breaker when they run, thrust when they get close. dont get fancy. slow and steady WILL win every time. the key that made this part trivial for me is knowing that you can jump from horse to horse when you want without being knocked down first. fight the bosses near some of the fresh horses near the side of the wall, and when you notice one of your team members starting to dip below say.... around 33% health or so, just run them over to the fresh horse and right click on it. instant full heal. horses seem to respawn though the joust never lasted long enough for me to confirm. but just keep doing this, and have this macro

/follow party1
/assist party1

set and bound on alts so they can follow your main while you are all mounted up. the rest is all trivial, just time consuming. it usually takes me around 7 min max to get through the opening speech to when the 2nd boss spawns. havent really tried farming this place again ever since they offered the option to skip the opening intro so i dont know how fast i can do it now. but now that the bosses run away after you dismount them, it's stupid easy as you have all the time you need to setup for the actual toe to toe fight.

[Ridere]

How geared do you need to be (mainly tank) for regular ToC vs other Heroics? Like should I gear up my new bear tank and try to tackle the easier heroics, or should I just go straight to normal ToC?

[Lazyassguy1776]

Well... my 2 cents:

Team: Paly tank, Holy Priest, DPS hunter mage and boomkin all hit 80 about 2 weeks ago.

I geared up just doing the first 2 bosses of TOC for about a week (skipped black knight as I just cant seem to get straffing right yet). Sure... i could have wiped a ton and kept at it, but figured I should gear up first.

After a week of that (about 20 runs), i decided to give Heroic Gundrak a shot. Breezed though the entire zone. Then UK and Nexus were all a breeze. Think I will farm them for a while before moving on. I find those heroics to be a TON easier than I thought they would be.

[Rocky Rhode]

I ran ToC (normal) from the get go, we did 3-champs loot box; reset/repeat.

Once my Tank got closer to Crit immune we began to learn the Pally boss…I now call him Edric the Panzy….Paletress is and always will be a Pita…Black Knight just took getting my healer geared up enough to survive phase II.

Once we cleared ToC (normal) several times it was off to (H) Gundrak.

Last night my team began (H) ToC; wiped a few times getting use to the added damage in (H) jousting; reset once as we got the Hunter & Rogue….ended up with Warrior, Mage, Shaman. Paletress came in next....

Current plan is to run (H) Gundrak, (H) ToC Champs and Eadric, (H) DrakTh Keep nightly for gear and badges. Fitting all this in along with the mandatory dailies for rep is time consuming.

Since the last time I posted in this thread...my Pally has gone from 28k to 36k HP buffed; now crit immune to an 83 level. Gear comes fast ....as I stated above...just need patience

[Queshank]

We decided to try TOC (normal) for the first time last night. It was pretty darn easy, especially using Jimbo's SMASH 12&4 technique.

5 abyss crystals.

Ran it again today to see if we could remember it (we weren't sober last night).

5 abyss crystals.

I think I'm going to be more frustrated by the crappy leather drops than I am excited by the upgrades in ToC. Maybe we'll try heroic sometime later this week.