Glory of the Hero - tips'n'tricks

[Alemi]

Herald Volazj seems to remain targetable if you have a DK in party, its some kind of bug. I could not make this happen with m y prot paladin so I got a DPS dk in my guild to come help (replaced prot pal with him)and we burned him to like 19% on the first insanity, he poofed to me but the DK could still hit him and he basically solo'd the liast 15% or so and killed it while I was fighting my images. Had I known he could target it I i magine I could have just assisted him and helped to finish the boss but I didnt even realize it till he died because I can actually kill 1 insanity phase in the timer... but didn't have to lol. Just 3 occulus achievements left and I'm all done on my alts! ( make it count, amber void, exp drake rider ).

I can assure you this is totally false, as I just did this last night with a prot warrior and destro lock + 3 shamans.

No DK there. 21 second kill.

[Hachoo]

I officially can NOT get this trick with Herald to work.

I've tried everything (wiped about 6 times now trying it). I can get him down to way less than 35% before the first insanity, and then he starts casting number two and all 5 of my guys can see him, but he is 100% untargettable, and then of course I wipe immediately as I'm fighting 8 shamans and 2 DKs x 5.

Not sure what the trick is. I even tried adding /target Herald to all of my macros so that my shamans will keep trying to attack him, nothing seems to work.

Edit: I was also doing retarded amounts of DPS - when the second insanity started the DPS on my shamans was over 5000.

[Kaynin]

I officially can NOT get this trick with Herald to work.

I've tried everything (wiped about 6 times now trying it). I can get him down to way less than 35% before the first insanity, and then he starts casting number two and all 5 of my guys can see him, but he is 100% untargettable, and then of course I wipe immediately as I'm fighting 8 shamans and 2 DKs x 5.

Not sure what the trick is. I even tried adding /target Herald to all of my macros so that my shamans will keep trying to attack him, nothing seems to work.

Edit: I was also doing retarded amounts of DPS - when the second insanity started the DPS on my shamans was over 5000.

I'm having the same problem to be honest.

My fastest kill by doing both insanities normally is 2 minute 4 seconds now tho, so the achievement will be done soon enough the normal way.

[genocyde]

I went and did this achievement on my main toon last night with some guild friends.

Group Comp: Ele Shaman (this is probably impossible without heroism), Magex2, Moonkin, Ret Paladin.

Strategy: Pop heroism b4 pull, Ret pally runs in and aggros, Lay on Hands after first hit or 2, Bubble + Taunt, collect achievement.

Total group DPS on final boss: 25.2K

This guy died so fast it was insane. 2X arcane mages just spamming one spell + mirror image + icy veins + heroism + arcane power = OP, they did 9K DPS and 7.9K DPS

He still got his first insanity off on us but it was glitchy and he was already dead before it cast. We had to kill our clones and zone out to be able to see eachother again and the mages died to their clones due to beeing OOM after the 12 second fight.

I would either bring 5x DPS or work on being able to kill the clones within the time limit.

[mrmcgee21]

Well, I will have this x5 once I get the stupid water boss in H VH ( been looking for him for over 2 weeks now ), but I have all the other achievements complete now. Finally got Make it Count today, did a practice run in normal before trying it on heroic which helped me kind of get warmed up. Took 4 trys to finally get it right, its really surprising how easy occulus really is once you setup those stupid macro's. One thing I stumbled upon while setting this up that I think is a big improvement in my setup overall is this ...

For a follow FTL setup I am now just binding 4 seperate macros to direct follow keys, for example:

ToonA Follow key is bound to Alt Shift [ accross all chars the macro is simple

/follow toona

more over you can add alts in below the main char, so if you have another setup of chars you use sometimes mixed in with your main setup, just add addition follow commands blow the original

ToonB Follow key is bound to Ctrl Alt [ accross all chars

/follow toonb

So you end up with 4 Keys total ( theres 5 keys really but the char your following obviously doesnt need a key to follow himself so you can save some space ) and the advantage of this is no retargeting junk everytime you hit follow. Which was insanely annoying if say you have a healer healing your Main you hit follow and suddenly your healer loses the main's target because that crafty /targetlasttarget command in everyones follow macros causes him to target his last target which wasnt the main char because he was already on him. Moreover I was able to simply add in /cast sock lance ect ect ect commands into my already existing FTL macros just had to make sure that command was above my normal /cast commands or it did not work. You can EVEN add in multiple drake actions ... like /dream funnel /searing wrath .. all into the same key and it will still w ork perfectly depending on what darke you ride, or dont ride .. so I just leave that stuff in my keys at all times now. I'll post an example real fast because too

/assist [nomod:ctrl,mod:shift,mod:alt]sanza;[mod:ctrl,nomod:alt,mod:shift]sanzb;[mod:alt,mod:shift,mod:ctrl]sanzc;[mod:ctrl,mod:alt,nomod:shift]sanzd;[mod:ctrl,nomod:alt,nomod:shift]oxan;
/assist [nomod:ctrl,mod:shift,mod:alt]oxaz;[mod:ctrl,nomod:alt,mod:shift]oxay;[mod:alt,mod:shift,mod:ctrl]oxax;[mod:ctrl,mod:alt,nomod:shift]oxaw;[mod:ctrl,nomod:alt,nomod:shift]onez;
/cast flame spike
/cast shock lance
/cast leeching poison
/cast searing wrath
/cast [harm] lightning bolt

This is my main dps key the 2nd assist command is for my other team of shamans ... so I can just save it in macaroon and load it directly to them should I ever play them in occulus =) very time saving. When I'm not on the drakes my lightning bolt still works perfectly, no error spam either. So this same design can be carried into any vehicle in the game ( think uldaur ) and it gives you a seemless transition from pewpew elemental shaman to boomboom tank/drake whatever ...

[mrmcgee21]

Finally!!! Got the water boss in VH tonight and I achieved 5 glory of the hero's so that's 4 shamans, 1 prot paladin completed Glory of the Hero ... I suppose I'll have to get an SS of all 5 of my red proto's but I'm going to go show them off in Dalaran first =D

[Dorffo]

congrats!

Still working on finishing this one up - haven't completed Occulus yet, so obviously missing those.

HoS Brann event and Gundrak Les-Rabi are proving to be somewhat aggravating (reset Moorabi for close to an hour over the weekend and kept missing the last interupt... sigh), aside from that I've had pretty good luck just working through the list.

Thanks for all the comments folks!

[Dorffo]

Managed to get Less-rabi out of the way last night - took a good 3 nights and many deaths (resetting him). Finally settled on a slightly staggered shock rotation, with 3/5 reverb talented. saved bloodlust till he hit 50% and the transforms start coming at every 5 sec. Trick for me was getting the interface stopwatch out and timing the transforms that way (they come at 10sec intervals until he hits 50% health, then they come every 5 secs). I wasn't running my paladin for this, friend had his on and caught the transform right before moorabi hit 50% which I was consistently missing.

macro setup was simple -
Normal roundrobin shock macro (no hardware/software roundrobbin - jsut commas); pretty much spammed it 2-3 times for each interupt but tried to keep one available.
Took flameshock out of my normal rotation so I wouldn't accidantly hit it.

[Hachoo]

My biggest problem with this achievement is that when I'm ready to use one of my round robin shocks, all 4 of my shamans are still on the global cooldown *sigh*. I only ever miss that last .5s cast - I would have gotten it once but apparently the DK strangulate ability does NOT prevent the cast or interrupt it.

[Dorffo]

Yeah - prior to getting the achievement we killed him once or twice on accident as he did the very last (3rd) transform after hitting 50%.

For GCD issue (which is what got me most often) - that's where the stopwatch came in handy so i could stop casts 1 sec or so before each interrupt.