Did Ahn'Kahet on Heroic tonight for the first time

[puppychow]

Violet Hold is actually imo the easiest heroic, once you get it down its super simple. Three of the bosses are just tank n spank, the two bosses people have trouble with are the Ethereal guy and the Water globe lady. They both are however very simple. For the void zone guy, just burn him fast and ignore the adds, remember to purge his buff.

For water globe lady, simply back your team into a corner (any) and have one guy seperate and run to a red crystal switch. Tank'n'spank as normal, when she reaches 0 stacks have the guy by the crystal pop it. All the little ones are killed by it, and she reforms. Tank n spank again, have your runner go to another crystal, and pop again when she reaches 0 stacks. Rinse and repeat a third time, and she will be at 10% and not transform anymore and go down in a few seconds.

For ethereal guy, just have your team run up the stairs to the right at the back of the room. Burn him as fast as you can, lust magma etc. You simply cannot allow any of the globes to reach him, if they start coming close just run the whole team a bit aways and reburn. I can down him with a tank/heal/3dps team before a single globe gets to him, so I think a 4 dps team should have no problems at all.

Violet Hold is actually the only heroic I run daily, I am done in 20 minutes no matter what boss combo it is. Still need 1 more hit trinket, but the only damn things that drop are the pants and druid staff.

The heroics I really loathe are Utgarde Pinnacle, I manage to clear it every other day since last week (0 blue proto drakes sigh) but I usually wipe on skadi 3-7 times, one-shot every other boss. I also hate both spider kingdom instances, just random crap that leads to quick wipes. And Halls of Stone, haven't even tried tho since patch 3.08, I just hate that "Brann event" since if you don't move quickly the laser will kill your entire team. Haven't tried Oculus yet either, wanna try that one out soon.

[Hachoo]

Violet Hold is actually imo the easiest heroic, once you get it down its super simple. Three of the bosses are just tank n spank, the two bosses people have trouble with are the Ethereal guy and the Water globe lady. They both are however very simple. For the void zone guy, just burn him fast and ignore the adds, remember to purge his buff.

For water globe lady, simply back your team into a corner (any) and have one guy seperate and run to a red crystal switch. Tank'n'spank as normal, when she reaches 0 stacks have the guy by the crystal pop it. All the little ones are killed by it, and she reforms. Tank n spank again, have your runner go to another crystal, and pop again when she reaches 0 stacks. Rinse and repeat a third time, and she will be at 10% and not transform anymore and go down in a few seconds.

For ethereal guy, just have your team run up the stairs to the right at the back of the room. Burn him as fast as you can, lust magma etc. You simply cannot allow any of the globes to reach him, if they start coming close just run the whole team a bit aways and reburn. I can down him with a tank/heal/3dps team before a single globe gets to him, so I think a 4 dps team should have no problems at all.

Violet Hold is actually the only heroic I run daily, I am done in 20 minutes no matter what boss combo it is. Still need 1 more hit trinket, but the only damn things that drop are the pants and druid staff.

The heroics I really loathe are Utgarde Pinnacle, I manage to clear it every other day since last week (0 blue proto drakes sigh) but I usually wipe on skadi 3-7 times, one-shot every other boss. I also hate both spider kingdom instances, just random crap that leads to quick wipes. And Halls of Stone, haven't even tried tho since patch 3.08, I just hate that "Brann event" since if you don't move quickly the laser will kill your entire team. Haven't tried Oculus yet either, wanna try that one out soon.

Hmm this is good news - I hadn't seen any multibox strategies for these bosses that made sense - I will definitely try this now as I really want the tanking pants from Cyanigosa - that plus the bracers from herald will replace my last 2 blues

[puppychow]

I went in today to Old Kingdom for first time (OK, halls of stone past brann, and oculus are the only heroics I haven't cleared yet). I found the same things as hachoo, first boss is just simple tank'n'spank, for second boss keep team 20 yards away and the fireballs shouldn't hit them first pass, lust quickly and its not too bad.

For third boss I tried kiting her away to the doorway into the area, she resets however so they fixed that way of getting the achievement I was able to get the achievement (kill her w/o killing any adds) but it took a lot of spam healing on my tank, she was hitting him for 14k a melee swing. Not too bad though, just remember to move out of the thunderstorms - I keep my DPS near the waterfall area and just have them strafe left/right if a tstorm appears, otherwise just keep DPSing/healing. If you have a warrior tank you can disarm her and make her enrage a joke

For the "extra" boss, I wiped once trying to run around kiting between shrooms. Screw that. Second time I just consecrated a bunch of shrooms, lusted, and went all out on her. My guys had like 200% dmg buff so he went down in 30 secs or less, had to run once to a second shroom but other than that, I would just treat it as a burn fight and not focus on the shrooms too much.

I absolutely detest the last boss, I tried a few times to get the achievement (kill him in 3 minutes or less), just wasn't happening. I think I would have to respec my pally to ret and my resto shaman to elemental to get it. If you have high enough DPS (tank+4DPS) you may be able to do a quick burn, some comments I read say that you lust at start, put on slow/CoT on boss and keep burning when he is casting insanity, and if you get him to 25% before he finishes first cast he will start a second cast and you have 5-6 seconds to kill him (ie no insanity!). I wasn't even close to do this DPS-wise, I think he was at 60% and insanity went off, all my DPS eventually died and I took the boss from 50-0% just with my tank/healer through 2 insanitys (lol). It sucked, I doubt i will ever come back to this boss.

Gonna work on halls of stone and oculus before my accounts expire, so I can at least have full heroic clears.