Wow, that's a prety epic ninja tale.

I ran H VH about 5 times last week with PUGs for the legs, they haven't dropped yet. Seems like the druid staff has dropped every time.

Some of the PUGs were decent, others pretty awful.

In contrast to the tanking legs not dropping, the blue +Hit trinket which I could use on my shammies for raiding did drop a number of times.

Anyways, I went through a bunch of wipes but finally got through it "solo" on my DK/4 shammies this weekend. Cyanigosa was pretty simple actually, what was killing me was that everytime I tried to run this alone I'd get the ethereal guy. Kiting him didn't work too well for me, although I was able to easily kite him in PUGs.

What worked best for me was to set up shammies on the stairs farthest from his cell, pop all cooldowns and pewpew him down. That gave me a little room to walk backwards when I needed space, PLUS I finally figured out that thunderstorm knocks back his adds and gives you some breathing room.

After I succesfully did this, I also /facepalmed when I realized my DK has a snare - chains of ice - that I've never used or keybound. That ought to make this fight pretty simple (would be super simple as a frost DK, but I'm unholy).

Most of the other minibosses seem pretty easy, though I haven't had the void guy solo yet. So, I expect to be running a lot of H VH now; it's close and fast.