Wotlk - Azjol-Nerub (AN)

[crowdx]

I think the issue was that I was not entirely sure what I was doing, so I dropped the hunter down into the first group and then did feign death, then I went down to the very bottom where the boss was and engaged him, within 30 seconds a bunch of adds started coming and basically overwhelmed my team.
I think I was missing something in the plan lol

[Zappy]

Unless you are trying for the heroic achievement, wait for him to kill all the extra spiders. The boss will then come to you and be a very easy fight.

[crowdx]

I presume the issue with killing him with the extra spiders would be poision?

[boxblizzard]

i know where your coming from:

this is my strategy:

for inchy wincy you need go in and take down the 3 guards and trash asap, longer you take the more annoying adds over run you.

second wait, she will come eventually...used to bug think its fixed now..

but anyway when she comes, make sure your shaman are spread out 2 spaces apart and tanks and spank. POISON, when the clouds hit the floor hit lesser healing waves and continue to dps you will find you will always survive and kill her long as you keep healing and dps balanced.

this method works better than wasting time moving (this is based on a ranged box team) melee is totally different which im making a team atm.

[Niley]

Here is how i do it, you can see positioning very clearly.

[KAC]

Heroic AN is pretty easy and after being gone for awhile it seems even easier now when I hit it on random dungeon mode. The best thing to do with any of these fights is to have the best gear you can have to make them all trivial. One thing about wow is that it is a bore to do the same stuff all the time but you have to in order to progress. Now that you can do normal mode instances in ICC for epics and triumph badges all day long makes this extra fast gearing possible. Do all the heroics you can easily do over and over equip all the best gear you can buy with basges and slot them all with epic gems. Once you have this done everything becomes a breeze. If you are trying to do the more movement intensive fights without a tank and healer that can take punishment and deal healing you are really setting yourself up for wasted gold on repair bills. That being said the first boss in AN is simple. The skirmishers dont even agg the healer anymore enough said about that tank and spank. Hadronoxx is simple the acid cloud deals nature damage its a cloud which means it has aoe characteristics I use one formation for all my fights and have really not encountered one that I need to change it yet. I use a + (cross formation). spread the guys out a bit the poison can be cleansed with a totem and the acid cloud will only ever affect one guy if they are not standing to close to one another. Tank and spank hadronox and heal through through the cloud damage. My druid ticks at only 2100 on a rejuv and the acid aoe does 1150ish per tick easy enough this fight is over. Anub arak seems to have been nerfed heavily the aoe spikes dont even come close to killing me and now i dont even really care if my whole team is popped in the air wildgrowth brings them back no problems. I don't sit at all with this boss unless he is up the ground pound shit is insta death for everyone in my group if they get caught in it so when he pops I hit my cross formation which stops follow i then dps while I just spin him around away from my group using aoe heals and rejuves when he is down i have my whole team on foloow and constantly move which keeps me out of the spikes 80% of the time. The adds are pretty easy and fire elementals help kill them quick enough. The hardest thing about boxing is positioning and worrying about it. WHen I approach a fight my first objective is to not have to worry about my slaves so I approach every fight with my prime objective being to do as little with them as possible and if that means park them or have them all follwing. I have never used a strafe key because my whole objective is to not really do anything with the slaves movement wise. Aoe healing is your friend my team runs the standard pally tank 3 ele shams and a druid healer. I would imagine if you are running 4 shamans that are all ele it would be a bit tougher as you have no insta heals and healing uses dps mana for movement intensive fights this causes a problem which is why i don't run teams like this because I like to keep things easy. My next thing to overcome is the boredom of farming h PoS for my battered hilts and currently after 8 hours of soft resets on 27 trash mobs inside the instance I have yet to see one drop. Lets hope I get one tonight.

[Velassra]

Idk, on this one I get slapped around on the trash pulls before the first boss. Really seems my healer gets 2 shotted (alot).

I tried several times to take skirmisher first because it darts around at will. The watcher(?) pisses on me or something and wipes me pretty fast too. I'm sure a shaman would make this alot easier, but 3 locks, priest and paladin I'm finding pretty hard.

[crowdx]

Velassra, are you doing this in heroic or are you leveling and doing it in normal?
I originally had some issues with this one but after some advice here, it becomes are really easy badge run.
A point on the last boss, if you stand around the edge with your toons spread out, it make the fight very easy. I ignore the spikes and just heal through the damage, my very first try on him got me the achievement for under 4 minutes, only thing that slows this fight is the burrowing, otherwise pretty simple.

[Velassra]

Velassra, are you doing this in heroic or are you leveling and doing it in normal?
I originally had some issues with this one but after some advice here, it becomes are really easy badge run.
A point on the last boss, if you stand around the edge with your toons spread out, it make the fight very easy. I ignore the spikes and just heal through the damage, my very first try on him got me the achievement for under 4 minutes, only thing that slows this fight is the burrowing, otherwise pretty simple.

Heroic actually, had some trouble w/ it while leveling but completed it in high 70's.

I can't get past the trash pulls before the first boss. (Also where I had the most trouble in normal while leveling interestingly enough.)

[crowdx]

I run on my main team, 2 destro warlocks, bm hunter, druid (heals) and pally (tank) and the first Boss is never an issue. I sometime use stun on the guys that weave the webs but mostly I just kill the Skirmishers first and then the rest of the adds. The boss himself is pretty much tank and spank, ignoring the little spider adds until after the boss is down.
Is your priest holy? From reading here, Discipline might be worth a shot for the extra survivability, nothing worse than losing the healer early in the fight