Would love to hear some of the strats you guys have for heroic violet hold, specifically the water boss, the boss that is a giant void walker, and the ethereal boss. The bird boss is very simple, just burn the boss first then the adds - no significant damage to speak of. The dog boss is also simple tank'n'spank. The final boss is also very easy, just move out of blizzards and chain heal through the aoe damage. But man, just cannot handle at all the voidwalker, water, or ethereal guy.

In solo mode the ethereal guy is kited backwards along the top stairs slowly, this is a lot harder though as a solo player since your team is lagging behind you so sometimes the spawns will reach them. Haven't really found any sort of safe spot, I heard if you fight him in the water you are safe but that totally did not work for me. The water boss is similar, she just does crazy AoE dmg - i have tried to use the red crystals to blow up her adds but when I'm running to the next one usually people start dying. Maybe position everyone near a crystal or something (kinda too far though for boss then!) The shadow boss is also horrible, I do purge his buff but I can't realistically handle dpsing the adds on the single person who gets the buff. I've heard a warrior tank makes this crazy easy since they can spell reflect the bolts, and a DK tank I imagine may be able to put up their anti-magic bubble long enough for the boss to die. gg pally tank

This is all heroic mode btw, cleared regular violet hold no real problems, but at 80 you really outlevel the instance quite a bit.