This thread is a collection of my Heroic PvE videos

[David]

By the way if anyone has any advice for me regarding my videos (quality, angles, different things you wish I'd show, certain trash fights, etc) please speak up. I have no issue re-recording videos in a "better way" if possible

Would be cool if you would turn your camera towards your shamans if they are far behind you. Sometimes feels like I`m missing action there :-), But it`s just a small thing, no big deal really.


I watched all your movies and it felt strange that you were tanking with unholy aura on, especially with no dedicated healer. At the last movie a noticed that it seems to be a buffbar error because your stance bar shows frost.

I`m also wondering how you handle healing? Do you run a dedicated healer or do you have healing macro`s for all shammies and just let them take turns depending on mana?
Seemed unreal that you would do heroics without a real healer but that isn`t to much of a problem with a 30k DK and when you have enough dps to burn bosses in 30seconds.

PS, I really liked your tactics in HOL. Just heal, heal and heal.

Anyway nice movies and they are going to help me out in the future with my shamans/dk team. Atleast I know that I won`t need a resto shaman.

[Hachoo]

By the way if anyone has any advice for me regarding my videos (quality, angles, different things you wish I'd show, certain trash fights, etc) please speak up. I have no issue re-recording videos in a "better way" if possible

Would be cool if you would turn your camera towards your shamans if they are far behind you. Sometimes feels like I`m missing action there :-), But it`s just a small thing, no big deal really.


I watched all your movies and it felt strange that you were tanking with unholy aura on, especially with no dedicated healer. At the last movie a noticed that it seems to be a buffbar error because your stance bar shows frost.

I`m also wondering how you handle healing? Do you run a dedicated healer or do you have healing macro`s for all shammies and just let them take turns depending on mana?
Seemed unreal that you would do heroics without a real healer but that isn`t to much of a problem with a 30k DK and when you have enough dps to burn bosses in 30seconds.

PS, I really liked your tactics in HOL. Just heal, heal and heal.

Anyway nice movies and they are going to help me out in the future with my shamans/dk team. Atleast I know that I won`t need a resto shaman.

I'll try to focus on my shamans more in future videos As far as unholy aura - this is a talent in the unholy tree, its unrelated to "unholy presence". I am using frost presence (which gives extra threat and armor, hp, etc) but also have unholy aura which just gives my entire party +15% run speed).

As far as healing, I am not really using any special method, its just brute force. When I need heals I spam my healing macro and whichever shamans end their current cast while I'm spamming the key start healing my DK. It makes it so sometimes I can just heal my DK with 1 or 2 shamans instead of all 4, but now that I have such a high avoidance and large health poll I usually just wait until I'm really low on HP and then let all 4 shamans heal my DK (plus they have such high SP I can heal around 18k health with 1 set of lesser healing waves).

I have been using 4 elemental shamans since I started boxing - never used resto, never plan on it. Even when I was geared much worse I still used 4 elemental, so its definitely doable at all gear levels

[David]

As far as healing, I am not really using any special method, its just brute force. When I need heals I spam my healing macro and whichever shamans end their current cast while I'm spamming the key start healing my DK. It makes it so sometimes I can just heal my DK with 1 or 2 shamans instead of all 4, but now that I have such a high avoidance and large health poll I usually just wait until I'm really low on HP and then let all 4 shamans heal my DK (plus they have such high SP I can heal around 18k health with 1 set of lesser healing waves).

Din`t think it would work like that. I really thought I would need a /stopcasting + heal macro. On the otherhand, with your geared DK it shouldn`t be a problem to wait at all.

[Hachoo]

As far as healing, I am not really using any special method, its just brute force. When I need heals I spam my healing macro and whichever shamans end their current cast while I'm spamming the key start healing my DK. It makes it so sometimes I can just heal my DK with 1 or 2 shamans instead of all 4, but now that I have such a high avoidance and large health poll I usually just wait until I'm really low on HP and then let all 4 shamans heal my DK (plus they have such high SP I can heal around 18k health with 1 set of lesser healing waves).

Din`t think it would work like that. I really thought I would need a /stopcasting + heal macro. On the otherhand, with your geared DK it shouldn`t be a problem to wait at all.

Keep in mind I've been doing it this exact same way since the first time I went into my first Heroic even before I was geared. I've never used /stopcasting for healing (if anything it causes more issues because if you panic and spam it you'll never get a heal off).

[Siaea]

Hachoo,

I've been trying Heroic UP and can easily kill Svala and the guy in the trophy room. Skadi I can't seem to get. In your video, I see you collect the 6 arrows, run out to reset and then run all the way to the end. Then I see your tank leave for a sec (from what I can tell) and another group of trash appears, and then you can start the boss fight. I've tried this, and when I run back out, the boss is there, and usually he resets the event, in which case my shaman are all one shotted before I can get my tank back. What is it you're doing here?

thx (and great vids!)

[Hachoo]

Hachoo,

I've been trying Heroic UP and can easily kill Svala and the guy in the trophy room. Skadi I can't seem to get. In your video, I see you collect the 6 arrows, run out to reset and then run all the way to the end. Then I see your tank leave for a sec (from what I can tell) and another group of trash appears, and then you can start the boss fight. I've tried this, and when I run back out, the boss is there, and usually he resets the event, in which case my shaman are all one shotted before I can get my tank back. What is it you're doing here?

thx (and great vids!)

Well you're close... its not actually my tank that leaves, its one of my shamans So what I do is drop a totem farm including 4x healing stream totems. I send one of my shamans down the hall... when I get near the boss but before I pass him I turn back around so I'm facing the harpoons - I back up my shaman until I'm in front of the boss which starts the event (The event doesn't trigger when you get near the boss from behind, it only triggers when you're in front fo the bosses face so thats why I "back up through him"). Then, I immediately hit my autorun key and flip back to my tank screen and drop a DnD and 3x magma totems on my shaman, then just concentrate on spam healing my DK while I let the magmas, DnD, UB, etc take out the mobs (don't forget to use cooldowns on your tank to avoid getting gibbed). I also throw in a full array of thunderstorms After I take out the initial wave of trash that spawns I run out and grab the shaman from between the harpoons (the one that was auto running back from the boss area).

If you do it this way you can keep all your guys alive and also knock the boss down in 1 pass and kill him within the time limit The key is using a shaman to "trigger" the event and not your tank or yes your shamans will get instagibbed

[David]

I also noticed that you spam one button a lot. Do you have a tank macro for your DK on it? Does it also work for your shamans?

Would be interesting to know how you manage abilities in your group since I`m going to run the same kind of setup.

[Hachoo]

I have 1 "tanking" macro I spam that is a castsequence for my DK tank. I have a separate button I spam that is my "offense" button for my shamans - can either be LB, or CL, or LvB, or it can be a castrandom.

Aside from that all my other special abilities I need to use are on entirely unique keybinds, for example:

1/alt+2/ctrl+alt+2 = tanking macro
2 = LB
ctrl+2 = CL
ctrl+alt+2 = LvB
alt+2 = Castrandom LB/CL/LvB/Purge
shift+c = 4x flameshock
f1 = DnD
alt+f1 = icebound fort
ctrl+f1 = dark command
v = bone shield
alt + v = anti magic shell (hardly ever use this)
ctrl+c = anti magic zone (hardly ever use this)
4 = rotating earthshocks
5 = 4x thunderstorm
shift+v = rotating thunderstorms
3/ctrl+3 = various heals
ctrl+4 = mana spring totems
alt+4 = healing stream totems
ctrl+alt+4 = 3 mana spring + 1 poison cleanse
ctrl+1 = combination of earth totems (all 4)
alt+f = ToW + 3 searing
shift+f = ToW + 3 magma
ctrl+f = 4 Fire Nova
shift+r = 4x grounding
ctrl+5 = various wind totems (all of them)
shift+t = chains of ice
ctrl+r = death grip
alt+c = 4x earth shock

Ok thats all I can think of now - yes its a ton of buttons, but part of being great at multiboxing is knowing exactly what button to hit and when. I am at work right now and notice I pretty much have every key memorized - I know exactly what button to hit and when I want to hit it and what it does Its all about practice.

To be fair though, for PvE during actual combat I really just have to the 1 and 2 key.

[Xinxo]

Are you going to be able to complete the other vids before your 4 account are closed up ? I'd love to see one for Nexus <3

[David]

Your going to quit boxing?