PvE Progress

[Carnage]

Just cleared ZF, was level 44 when i started and dinged 45 half way through - Had to run get the phone half way through the stairs, came back with 2 chars dead but i managed to res 1 - managed to scrape the last part with low mana.

Gift of the naaru ftw

[SKushon]

Hi Guys,

I am running:

Paladin - Protection or Warrior - Prot
Druid - Resto Tree
Priest - Shadow
Warlock - Demonology - Or Shaman - Elemental or Mage - Frost
Hunter - Beast

Everyone is currently 66-67, the group composition is normally, Pally, Druid, Priest, Hunter, Warlock.

All pre 60 5-mans were no problem at around the level to run them, but with outlands greens on past 57.

Ramparts - on Farm - Key for this is spreading out on Omok, and Fire Resistance and moving on fire bombs for Dragon, gotta spread out while clearing the first two guys. First Full Clear 60. This is the only instance that I didn't nail on the first try, Omok was a block. Need Shadow Resistance and he was tough because if you lose melee aggro he does tons of damage and you may not know he switched targets because he doesn't move.

Blood Furnace - on Farm - No tips, super easy instance at 61

Slave Pens - on Farm - 2nd Boss tough fight, until you learn to keep the tank full. Third Boss no problem with Nature Aspect of Wild and Nature Resist Buff. Fear Ward and Divine Shield are quite useful on some fights against group fears. Mind Control sucks. First Clear at 62.

Underbog- on Farm - Hungarfen sucks, but it's like the dragon from ramparts. Set frames on so you can see the shrooms growing and move. Black Stalker sucked until I used mushrooms to not fly up, and really get good aggro before firing. Otherwise spread out and tank and spank. Sometimes he aggros in preparation and will kill a guy or two, but once you set up its a walk in the park. First Clear at 64.

Mana Tombs - is next.

I believe that most if not all 5 man content can be done 5 boxing. There are very very few limitations.

[d0z3rr]

Hi Guys,

I am running:

Paladin - Protection or Warrior - Prot
Druid - Resto Tree
Priest - Shadow
Warlock - Demonology - Or Shaman - Elemental or Mage - Frost
Hunter - Beast

Wow that is one diverse group. Good job man.

[SKushon]

OK,

Well, in terms of my operation it is probably no different than what anyone else might run. I have a lot of cast sequences that I spam and they are different for each toon, but with a similar theme on each button. It just required a good bit of setup time. One interesting thing to note is that when I am DPSing I am watching the hunters global, and activating everything on that because most of his stuff is 1.5 second cast, with blank spaces in the Mind Flay cast sequence on the preist to prevent interruption and maximize DPS. Other than that, it's probably about the same as everyone else.

Mana Tombs was on Farm at 66-67 - My goodness. . . The first two bosses were cake. However, Nexus-Prince was no joke. In order to kill him I had to resort to the following: Frost Resistance Gear on the tank, Fire Resistance Potion on Tank (just basic potion, not greater). Then, I needed to make a targeting Macro for the Beacons because otherwise it just could not happen. Wow, dropped him 3x and got stupid ethereal longbow each time.

Auchindoun Crypts - Again, My goodness. Shirrak the Dead Watcher sucks. Killed me ~ 15 times before I got him the first time. Basically, I send the pets to tank early and DPS until they die. Then, I switch off to the paladin (this helps with bite stacking). When the big nuke comes I strafe left or right depending on position. When my toons get pulled in I charge them forward and follow the main healer to reorient their position and continue to DPS/heal. Quickly Resummon pets (I'm specced for it), and send em to die to bite again. It's a big positioning game, and it's really ridiculous. I'm going to go do it for the second time right now . I really wonder how other multiboxers do this guy. I had to make A LOT of adjustments to do him. It makes my brain explode to just think about what I just pulled off. So much micromanagement. Exarch whatever his name is is a tank and spank with periodic adds. First time no problems. - Update, Shirrak is on Farm, I just did him with no deaths. I think there might be some situations where it gets out of control, but for the most part this method works great.


So, Mana Tombs and Auchindoun Crypsts are down at 67-68, my toons are in guild Team Wanders on Stormscale. Persieval, Drood, Doord, Zeu, Tid, Uth, Viviane, Vainne if you care.

UPDATE - Old Hillsbrad Foothills down. - Once I understood the scripting there were many fewer problems. I still haven't made it through without a wipe, but I've cleared it twice. 2nd time only had one wipe, and 1 dump to thrall death of the fights before epoch hunter. Hmmmm. I really like this instance. First clear all toons were 68.

UPDATE - Sethek Halls down - My Goodness, Talon King Ikiss is the most challenging boss that I have tried up until this point. I blew 3 hours on him trying to learn him, and then finally dropped him with only 3 toons alive. Interestingly I took him from 35% to 0% with only 3 toons, twice. The primary issue is healing through the arcane bolts. The priest needed to use prayer of mending/healing through most of the fight just to get through the damage. I did this at 69, and it was very challenging with no arcane resistance. I've seen some examples of people multiboxing this guy on heroic, and I'll tell you a simple fact: You won't kill him without a lot of arcane resistance. Get the arcanoweave, enchanted adamantite, whatever it takes to mitigate his arcane volley damage. Avoiding the Arcane blast with LOS isn't hard. It's the volley that ignores LOS that is the problem.

UPDATE - All toons are 70, time to hit the Arenas, and PVP for the "I can lose every single game and still get awesome purples" gear.

UPDATE - Steam Vaults on Farm now - Kalithresh is such a pushover if the tanks are destroyed, but such a monster if they are not. I wonder if the designers considered lag when they made an encounter with 4-5x 8 second windows that cause a wipe if you blow them.

[Dhamage]

My team consists of 1x BE Paladin (Tankadin) and 4x BE Warlocks (Affliction).

1) Wailing Cavern, lvl 20, no big deal. 4x Voidwalkers, Paladin pretty much just healed or did nothing. Even with some bad pulls I didn't wipe but this is the place to learn some basic pulling strategy. It was so easy I didn't even bother clearing the whole instance. Nothing in there I really needed.

2) Shadowfang Keep, lvl 25/24, very easy. 3x Voidwalkers, 1x Imp because of the shadow immunity of some of the mobs. Most of the early stuff was grey to me and even Arugal himself was green. I play at work and someone came into my office just as I sent the VWs at arugal... talked for about 1 minute, came back, ran to where he had jumped to and killed him. Only lost 1 VW while being AFK. I chose devotion aura. This is where I really practiced keeping my casters back, sending in the VWs, run my DoT macros, then charging in with SoC, etc., then drain life from the locks. Mobs dropped quick. Learned what kind of beating I could take and still live. No wipes at all and even at lvl 25 all the quests in here were still yellow so I got max experience from them. If you like to grind instances this would be good for anyone at about 20-22 for best experience.

3) Blackfathom Deeps... lvl 25 all around... by the time I left my main was 27 and my alts were 26. I only wiped once. If you are smart you'll never really pull more than 2 mobs per pull. Even if you do at lvl 25 its was a cake walk as long as you keep the Twilight Reavers with their cleave away from you, or drop them fast. I didn't even realize I had pulled them and then noticed my health was dropping fast because I wasn't spread out... and I forgot to SS me. Fortunately there were no respawns and I completed all 4 quests. I'm going to wrap up some quests in S Barrens and then RFK...

4) First time into RFK I made a very bad pull and ran all my toons out while the demons kept their attention. After that it was smooth sailing. I didn't bother doing the escort quest, just hearthed out after the final boss. I really didn't have any problem even if I pulled 4 mobs at once. 2x VWs tanked, 2x imps added to dps, warlocks dotted and drained life, paladin would heal whatever VW was taking the most damage with Flash of Light and sometimes offtanked if the mobs got close enough for if some broke away from the VW taunts and got to close to the casters. Toughest fight actually was Overlord Ramtusk, who hit the VWs hard, and whose companions had a multishot attack that really hurt. I focused fired the boss, and then when he dropped the other two dropped quickly. If I did it over again I may drop the two others first because of their multishots. Charlga Razorflank had significantly more health than the rest, had to DoT her almost a third time, but the VWs handled it well. I'm going to run this place a couple more times because the money was good, got some wool and silk cloth, and the experience at lvl 26-27 was very good. Everyone leveled once here, so pally is half way through 28, warlocks are halfway through 27 and the mobs are still mostly yellow to them. As an added bonus I had my first few PvP kills when I stumbled onto some alliance making a run for the instance. Dropped them 3 times before they ever got to the portal.

Now... do I dare do Gnomeragon, or quest until I can get SM? We shall see... I do find it interesting that with SM in friendly territory I could make it to lvl 45 without ever going into PvP area (aside from ashenvale I guess)

[-silencer-]

8. The first boss in Auchenai Crypts, Shirrak the Dead Watcher, is probably the hardest boss in the entire game, for the level at which you're supposed to do him. Absolutely ridiculous fight. It is virtually impossible to do as a pally + 4 shammy team. I managed to get him, but only after many, many, many wipes.

I wasn't ready for this. Half a dozen wipes and I'm going to skip it until I'm majorly outgeared. The lowest I got him to was 38%, and that included popping all skills possible. The combination of melee AoE bleed debuff, focus fires, and teleports ruining my heals just destroys me.
This fight is ridiculous.

Actually.. my next thought. Run the entire group past him as far as possible, but not quite to the next group of mobs. Die. Reincarnate. Rez party. Continue instance..

[Souca]

Souca - 1 Prot Pally, 4 Elemental Shaman

Deadmines @ 21(ish)
SM Library @39-40

I'm likely hitting these a little late, but I'm not worrying about any gear on the Shammies. I think I still had a white from level 1 on them until 38. In fact, I just checked and two of them still have the Staff of Westfall, white bracers, and a grey cloak at 40

Souca

[Drakil]

Prot Pally and 4 Elemental Shamans
My paladin was 70 when I leveled up my shammys, so Im not gonna post the pre lvl 70
Cleared all on normal.
Cleared Heroic AC(1st boss is pain), MT, Seth, SP, SV, UB, Ramp, BF, Bota, Mech and MgT. Rest I havent tried yet. Had enough problems doing them on normal .
5 man Karazhan, Attumen the Huntsman and Maiden of Virtue.
5 man Zul'Gurub, All but Hakkar

[Flight]

5 x Elem Shaman

Sethekk Halls cleared at lvl 67. First half of the instance is comfortable; second half is a pain - all groups of 4 mobs, with a series of nasty abilities (add damage curse, mind control, AE fear).

I burnt down Talon King Ikiss easily. Stand right next to one of the pillars when you pull him, soon as he blinks you know he is going to do his AE, so the instant he blinks do a 180 around the pillar to block it and take the chance to do a 5 x chain heal to top up and recast your grounding totems. Purge took care of the damage absorption spell he cast at lowish life.

[Ruodhaid]

My Progress

4 Shamans

soloing
Normal mode SH
Normal mode SH
Normal mode SL
Normal mode BM
Normal mode Bota
Normal mode Mech
Heroic Mgt 3 bosses
Heroic Mt First and last boss

Whit Pala Or Druid healer

All Normal mode instances
Heroic Sp
Heroic Ramparts <- Doing this dayli and doing it in less then 30 mins
Heroic Bota
Heroic Bf First boss only

Raids done
Kara First i did guild runs 3 times but now i can just find pugs
Black Tempel Supremus only
Onyx 4 shamans and a pala