5 boxing in Kara

[Schwarz]

Maiden for a paladin can be very tough b/c she silences. I have never tanked with a paladin but if you can't cast spells can you hold agro very well.

Make sure you are spread out. You can run around the outsides of the walls and set your toons up before hand. There are little half circle areas that can put one of each of your shaman in then when you start you can press the walk forward button so everyone moves at the same time.

Get deadly boss mods and heal your tank to full right before she silences. Not sure if grounding totems eat the holy fire thing but if they do make sure they are up the whole time.

Also if you can't get past her you can still continue on with the instance. You don't need to do maiden before you do opera.

[Dorffo]

This is sort of a culmination post. A few of us who hit 70 late are struggling in WotLK instances. And I intend to level slowly to 80 and enjoy it anyhoo, so no biggie. I also still want to do some of the older stuff, even some of the really old stuff, that I enjoy doing 'normally'. I could be a dick and say 'use the search function' and you could see that I have tried Kara (7 Man Kara post), but I'm a bit nicer than to just copy/paste that stucco line in every post :/ Also, we all know how unreliable the search feature is at times. I down Attumen and Moroes ok, but I'm having trouble with Maiden and beyond.

Please don't say 'take a friend' because I don't have any. Everybody ditched me when I started multiboxing :/ I would like to collect a section of data on the middle 80%, not the top 5%, of the community to see if anyone is still bothering wtih Kara and ZA and what their story is. Basically my shaman are at 575-600 SP 15% crit 6k hp and my pally tank is around 14k hp, 490 def 22% dodge (ish) 13-14% block and parry.

So i've been killing time waiting till I can snag 5x expansion pack... decided to hit Kara up with my crew (armory links in sig). I'd never been before, though i have cleared TBC heroics. Gear is a mix of badge / pvp. It's taken me about 4 tries or so to hone the macros/positioning for each boss encounter (except midnight/attu... but really that's just a free badge it seems). Why am I running kara when there's not much to be had out of it? For me it's a lot more fun then running my normal badge circuit for the umpteenth time and it's giving me some challenges that i expect will make transitioning into expansion instances a bit easier.


Trick for me on Maiden was to top off tank right before repentance, drop grounding totems at every opportunity and take it slow and steady. I just setup in a cross formation right outside of aggro range and went at it.

First time I made it to Opera I got Oz - started off by burning Dorthee while running around trying to keep Lion and tinman on the pali, when strawman woke up I dropped 4x fire eles to keep him nice and stunned for the duration of the fight. After Dorthee dropped it was just a matter of burning down the other targets one at a time. bit of movement once Crone popped but for the most part it was just a straight up nuke fest.

Curator gave me fits until I stopped trying to DPS him at all until Evoc. Basically I just focused on healing the tank, and added a /target Astral Flare line to my DPS macros so the rotation looked something like - heal, pause, flare - nuke nuke, heal, nuke flare, heal etc until Curator is OOM and goes into evoc; at that point i popped 4x fire eles along with bloodlust and just went nuts, after evoc was finished i dropped back to the heal/nuke flare rotation and he went down. Without a dedicated healer this fight was all about honing my healing macros to top off whoever took the hateful bolt.

edit: typos galore!

[Gadzooks]

I don't mean to come off as a dick but I say just go try it. You should be able to get down attune/morroes/maybe maiden. With wotlk out it might be kind of a waste to do it. Level to 80 then come back and see it if you just want to experience the content. I guarantee at that point you will be able to blow through it.

There's a couple of reasons to run it: learning the instance to go back later with alts that are leveling, to farm for gold, and Achievments.

[Deekhay]

At level 70 I 10 boxed to farming state Kara (9 boxed Nightbane -the person moved group out of charred earth) and never did but really believe Netherspite is 8 Boxeable) with:

Protection Paladin
4* Elemental Shaman
Moonkin
Precision Hunter
Fire Mage
Restoration Shaman
Holy Priest

Same thing in ZA, farmed all except last boss. My best was three chests on timer.

So, please ask if I can help you somehow.