outland dungeon hero, now with karazhan

[Aradar]

Shade can be pulled outside his room which makes the fight much easier but unfortunately much longer.

I've seen it done twice, once pulled by a holy/disc priest in the group and the other time pulled by my pally. You send the one toon in doing the pulling while everyone else waits outside the door. If the door shuts with that toon inside I'm not sure what happens so try to pull when he is closer to do the door so you can just run back out. The door will close and he will come through it.

Unfortunately, he will return to the center over and over and over so that you can only dps him when he decides to come outside the door. The flame wreath will still apply to your group but the blizzard will stay inside. On my first time doing this the elementals stayed inside but on my second try they came out and I'm not sure what causes the differance. Also when he pulls everyone to the middle, it just pulls you to the door so you don't have to worry about it. As for his polymorph/explosion, hope he does it on the inside of the door where it doesn't affect you. If he does it outside the door, you are probably done.

And last but not least, don't go to far from the door as I hear that will cause him to reset.

[Aradar]

I downed shade last night for the first time. The entire group just stood in the little opening by the doorway, and ran back there when he did the pull thing.

It was actually an easy fight. Just DPS like crazy. When the elementals pop up, just use avengers shield to grab them, and DPS them down. He didn't even do the sheep phase.

I'm going to assume you were boxing it so how did you handle the followers? With /follow as usual (some say this doesn't work) or key bindings, i.e., all move forward?

As for the sheep phase, this only occurs when he runs out of mana the first time which in a quick fight won't be an issue.

[Niley]

did Netherspite few days ago, took me few tries to get it right but finally did. Have to say that it was the most fun and at the same time most frustrating fight in kara. I dont think I could had managed it if my shaman wasnt all geared up in sunwell, Ive placed in first blue beam, while other shamies had macros set up to just spam heal her, when she was getting low, almost 10k dps just from that one shaman, Netherspite was dead before end of first portal transition.
edit..just did Hmgt, first time since 3.0....they nerfed that place so much, did kael without even seeing p2.

[ss2]

Shade can be pulled outside his room which makes the fight much easier but unfortunately much longer.

I've seen it done twice, once pulled by a holy/disc priest in the group and the other time pulled by my pally. You send the one toon in doing the pulling while everyone else waits outside the door. If the door shuts with that toon inside I'm not sure what happens so try to pull when he is closer to do the door so you can just run back out. The door will close and he will come through it.

Unfortunately, he will return to the center over and over and over so that you can only dps him when he decides to come outside the door. The flame wreath will still apply to your group but the blizzard will stay inside. On my first time doing this the elementals stayed inside but on my second try they came out and I'm not sure what causes the differance. Also when he pulls everyone to the middle, it just pulls you to the door so you don't have to worry about it. As for his polymorph/explosion, hope he does it on the inside of the door where it doesn't affect you. If he does it outside the door, you are probably done.

And last but not least, don't go to far from the door as I hear that will cause him to reset.

it's not my proudest victory, but I humped the door and killed shade

[sojolly]

Awesome accomplishment. What path did you take to accomplishing this?

Normals, Heroics, Kara? or some other path?

Did you do battlegrounds? With three days played there doesnt seem to be time to farm for gear.

Sojolly

[ss2]

I gained ~2 days between when I created this thread and the picture where I killed shade, but my path went something like

turn 70, do normal instances that have quests which lead to better gear (tanking helm from beating steamvaults, breaking into the arcatraz for tanking/caster dps belt ,etc)
The only normal instance I did more than once was steamvaults(tanking cloak and necklace)

and then battlegrounds for the merciless gladiator's shield (paladin) and the gavel (shamans). The shamans were using a talkbuk sticker until then..

and then do easier heroics(mechanar, slavepens, steamvaults, botanica, bloodfurnace(medium)) for badges and random drop upgrades

after some upgrades I moved onto the best time per badge heroics (shattered halls(the best), shadow labyrinth(really), magister's terrace), but I can do all of them in <30 minutes each so it hardly matters now.
Karazhan I randomly decided to do because I heard it was nerfed so hard in the last patch, and it was.

I'm an efficiency freak, so if I'm not battleground'ing or doing whatever heroic then I logoff. I'm also that tank you yell at because I pulled two bosses when you only have enough mana to heal once.

[sojolly]

Thanks for the reply. I will have to look at the gear versus event and map out a path.

I have been doing the normals for dungeon tactics experience, its been a learning experience. I was that tank in EQ as well, "pull big or go home".

Sojolly

[ss2]

in other news, my party did not recieve a bailout after the subprime shaman crisis causing me to lose a share of shaman stock, so I picked up a share of ugly ass owl beasts which were going for the low price of 1 day played


just for closure I found 5 strangers and killed nightbane


we killed netherspite too (and every other boss that I already posted about soloing) but they did most of the work, and the screenshot is much less impressive