Finally cleared H Gundrak!

[Tizer]

I had a busy weekend myself, i think i farmed about 40 badges in all. Managed Gundrak a couple of times, found it realtively easy. The last boss is deffinately a bitch until you realise you have to stop dps and heal when hes a rhino. Drak Tharon cleared also, using brute force. Novos was an interesting fight to start with until i realised i could just bully him down and forget about the aoe using chain healing to top up the group after every 3/4 dps spams. Nexus was realitvely easy, as were the first 2 bosses in AN. I should get AN cleared soon, the last boss is a bit of a bitch but once i got my strafe keys sorted it wasnt too bad, i got through 3 phases but died near the end due to lack of concentration. Did a couple of strat runs also, didnt managed any timed runs, my DPS on average is about 1600 in pvp gear.

My pally got the 111 stam trinket from AN and enough badges to get the 40 badge trinket, plus a 25 man alt run in naxx got me enough pieces to clear 30k HPs unbuffed. All in all, im really enjoying doing heroics. A new lease of life for boxing you might say

[Dominian]

Heroics is mostly about gear anyway..

Just went back to some pve in order to gear my hunter and im struggeling with his low dps, respecced one shaman resto and now its pretty easy.

The last boss is easy if you focus on healing in the rhino phase (since your gear is bad like mine, my protadin have 23k hp)

Most of theese instances gets easy once you get the gear, however without the gear it can be hard.

Cleared heroics so far:

UK
Gundrak (tried the murloc once, but was all red so i dropped him)
Strat
Drak'Tharon (not the last boss, since follow didnt work back then and i couldnt see the new bar who popped up due to macaroon)

Tank: http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sh...ak&n=Rubylight

[Heenan]

I cleared this for the first time as well this weekend on Pally+3Mage+Priest. My problem was always the Drakkari Colossus. My fix? I finally got my alchemist the Mighty Nature Protection Potion recipe. The absorption kept my casters alive through his phasing.

I was very excited.

I was then able to one-shot Gal'darah. The Drakkari, for my group, is the hardest encounter in there, and still a bit random even with the proper buffs.

[Hachoo]

I cleared this for the first time as well this weekend on Pally+3Mage+Priest. My problem was always the Drakkari Colossus. My fix? I finally got my alchemist the Mighty Nature Protection Potion recipe. The absorption kept my casters alive through his phasing.

I was very excited.

I was then able to one-shot Gal'darah. The Drakkari, for my group, is the hardest encounter in there, and still a bit random even with the proper buffs.

Yeah unfortunately this is one of many fights in WotLK that requires nature resistance and is made much harder without a group of shamans (healing stream totem is almost a requirement for some fights to be made easier in a lot of instances).

Good luck with your continued heroics! Since you have a non standard group you should try recording some runs and post them in the wotlk heroics thread

[Yopie Ismypie]

I cleared this for the first time as well this weekend on Pally+3Mage+Priest. My problem was always the Drakkari Colossus. My fix? I finally got my alchemist the Mighty Nature Protection Potion recipe. The absorption kept my casters alive through his phasing.

I was very excited.

I was then able to one-shot Gal'darah. The Drakkari, for my group, is the hardest encounter in there, and still a bit random even with the proper buffs.

Yeah unfortunately this is one of many fights in WotLK that requires nature resistance and is made much harder without a group of shamans (healing stream totem is almost a requirement for some fights to be made easier in a lot of instances).

Good luck with your continued heroics! Since you have a non standard group you should try recording some runs and post them in the wotlk heroics thread

I'm running a paly and 4 shammie team. When I first started boxing heroics I was amazed when I would read, from another boxer, how easy an instance was. Then I slowly became better geared and realized heroics are all about gear. With the nature resist boss, I just drop a nature resist totem, spread my guys out and let the healing totems take care of their health. Makes it way easy.

[puppychow]

my DK hit 80 on saturday, I ran vh/CoT/gundrak/drak/hol and cleared them all but wiped a few times (mostly on trash) and there were a lot of "omg im about to die" moments, my DK had 25k hp and mostly blues + few crafted epics. Ran naxx10 and voa10/25/os10/25 sat night and got some drops (including wep off KT!), bought some heroic gear and hit 30k hp unbuffed yesterday (everything also enchanted), everything is epic now except hands and sigil. Just finished vh/gundrak with my better gear and wiped the floor, didnt even come close to dying. Gonna run the spider instances and UPinnacle today.

so I would really suggest one of the first things you do with your tank is get into any raids you possibly can, naxx10 especially is great for getting a ton of gear. VOA10/25 should be the very first thing you do on all your characters every tue (I split them into 5 diff raids, but have multiboxed sometimes -- just your chances of gear are better with 5 raids).

[Hachoo]

I cleared this for the first time as well this weekend on Pally+3Mage+Priest. My problem was always the Drakkari Colossus. My fix? I finally got my alchemist the Mighty Nature Protection Potion recipe. The absorption kept my casters alive through his phasing.

I was very excited.

I was then able to one-shot Gal'darah. The Drakkari, for my group, is the hardest encounter in there, and still a bit random even with the proper buffs.

Yeah unfortunately this is one of many fights in WotLK that requires nature resistance and is made much harder without a group of shamans (healing stream totem is almost a requirement for some fights to be made easier in a lot of instances).

Good luck with your continued heroics! Since you have a non standard group you should try recording some runs and post them in the wotlk heroics thread

I'm running a paly and 4 shammie team. When I first started boxing heroics I was amazed when I would read, from another boxer, how easy an instance was. Then I slowly became better geared and realized heroics are all about gear. With the nature resist boss, I just drop a nature resist totem, spread my guys out and let the healing totems take care of their health. Makes it way easy.

Gear does help, yes, but tactics and reaction times help just as much or more. Other than the last boss, I one shotted heroic gun'drak with 0 issues the first time I ran it (and it was my first heroic) and had it on farm within a couple runs. Gear just makes things blindingly easy but even without gear some heroics can be easy if you can squeeze out more dps, know the tactics to make certain fights easier, and have good reaction times for healing, purging, etc.

[Gomotron]

Here's a link to the armory pages for the team:

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I tried to do the DK + 4 Elemental Shaman thing last night and it was Epic Fail.

I respecced one to Resto and did better but still wiped a bunch. Was kind of "off" last night. Wiped at least 8 times on the final guy then called it a night. I am having trouble with positioning myself and keep getting knocked far away from the Shaman. The Elemental Shaman pump out 1600 DPS x 3 but I still have trouble during the Rhino phase.

I'll try again tonight. I got a set of blue shoulders that should help with my Defense (at 499 now) and I know that this is part of the problem.

[Siaea]

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I tried to do the DK + 4 Elemental Shaman thing last night and it was Epic Fail.

I respecced one to Resto and did better but still wiped a bunch. Was kind of "off" last night. Wiped at least 8 times on the final guy then called it a night. I am having trouble with positioning myself and keep getting knocked far away from the Shaman. The Elemental Shaman pump out 1600 DPS x 3 but I still have trouble during the Rhino phase.

I'll try again tonight. I got a set of blue shoulders that should help with my Defense (at 499 now) and I know that this is part of the problem.

Well, first off, your DK is wearing a lot of PvP gear (no defense). Do some dailes x5, and you can get some crafted +def gear pretty fast, and that will help immensely. Personally, I've grown to love my DK tank. In TBC, I had a drood tank, and it's so much more fun to tank as a DK. Get yours +def capped, and that will solve a lot of issues. I'm definitely not calling myself an expert, but I would recommend unholy as a tank, and maybe have a resto shammy. Bone Shield + Earth Shield can really make up for a portion of gear, IMO. Plus, I have my resto's Riptide bound to the same key as lightning bolt for the others, so my DK almost always has a HOT on her. Also, I finally got myself to where I consider Gundrak on farm. When the last boss hits rhino, I make sure to have a flameshock up, and do this sequence: Chain Lightning, Chain Heal, Lava Burst, Heal Tank. Rinse, repeat. Like I said, I'm not expert, but I have run Gundrak enough (and Lord knows wiped enough) to start figuring out what to do with the gear that I have, and it seems to be working pretty well, finally. Good Luck!

[Stealthy]

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I tried to do the DK + 4 Elemental Shaman thing last night and it was Epic Fail.

I respecced one to Resto and did better but still wiped a bunch. Was kind of "off" last night. Wiped at least 8 times on the final guy then called it a night. I am having trouble with positioning myself and keep getting knocked far away from the Shaman. The Elemental Shaman pump out 1600 DPS x 3 but I still have trouble during the Rhino phase.

I'll try again tonight. I got a set of blue shoulders that should help with my Defense (at 499 now) and I know that this is part of the problem.

Your tank is wearing a *lot* of dps gear, at least from what I can see from your armory profile. Try getting these either crafted or from the AH - Daunting Legplates, and some pieces from the Tempered Saronite set and you should be much better equipped to handle heorics. Also you can run Normal HoL to get this trinket - Seal of the Pantheon...its a great tanking trinket. Finally I'd suggest upgrading your sigil - this one's easily available, you can get the 30 venture coins from doing 3 dailies in about 10 mins: Sigil of the Frozen Conscience.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

S.