WotLK - Trial of the Champion - (ToC)

[bartholomeo]

so, i did this for a few hours. ToC normal with my DK tank and 5 shamans ( 3 ele, 1 resto )

My dk is heroic geared, mostly epics with a few blue's here and there.
The shaman's have quest gear with 2 pieces of pvp gear and blue's / greens.
The dk is hitcapped with 27k health, the shamans have around 16k.

After a few tries i got this jousting down without much trouble.
I'm having the most trouble with the 3 champions. The first time i got the shaman, hunter and warrior.
Easy mode with ele totems up, nuking the hunter, then the shaman and lastly the whirwindmachine.
I ended up with everyone alive. I went out to repair and come back ( 7 learning-wipes )

For the next boss i got lucky, i got the big guy. i rotated my guys with each repentance he did, and healed trough the rest. free epics, a nice spelldmg ring + cloth waist.

Then on to the black knight. First part was easy, tank and spank.
I died at phase 2, again, and again ... i can't deliver the dps yet. It takes too long for me to bring him down.


After that i took a break for a few hours and tried again with a fresh reset.

Again,the jousting is cake, hitting 1, 2 and 4 at the same time all the time.
But now i keep getting the worst combo's with the 3 champions.

hunter mage warrior = all dps, my tank takes a major load of dmg wich i can barely keep up.
mage, warrior rogue = I nuke the rogue, but then all my guys are dead or halfdead due to the poison.


I'm sick of it atm i'm gonna take a break for a night

btw,

i hope they nerf that fan of knives thing, waaay overpowered ( pve and pvp )

[Bigfish]

This instance is very much a craps shoot. First fight a combination of random bosses, second fight one of two possible bosses, and then Captain DPS Race. Whole thing makes me not want to bother with it.

Of course, the ilvl 219 2-handed axe dropping from the 1st encounter earns a bit of forgiveness from me. Sweet, sweet straight up DPS upgrades for my Warrior and DK.

[Phanes]

Just zone in and start the instance with one guy it saves time he only announces one member of your team. If you do not like the combination you get zone out make a different group leader and zone back in. This will reset the instance. It only takes 3 minutes after you reset to see the bosses. That is a much shorter time than recovering from multiple wipes.

[Pocalypse]

They added an option to skip the opening sequence now. Choose it, and all the champions spawn within 15 seconds, and the first group starts running at you in 20.

[suprafro]

The "skip pleasentries" option is awesome

Haven't tried normal sense patch but as of yesterday Thunderstorm no longer knocks away the HM BK ghouls, I wonder if they are immune to CC now

[Phanes]

Yeah I just noticed that option last night. I have a select chat option macro I just spam when I click on him so I missed that. It is really nice.

As for the end fight my guys are pretty well geared I just find myself AOE tanking and killing all his ghouls then killing him.

[Greythan]

Yeah, I've beat it twice in row now with a wipe or two mixed in.

I just single target kill his army of the deal in phase 2. I actually want to try to add a targeting macro in my standard dps button but I'm not sure of the exact name to put in a "/tar x" line.

Phase three, group up, spam holy nova, pop bloodlust and win.

[Rocky Rhode]

Couple of questions regarding Phase II of the Black Knight…As I slowly gear up for the event…ToC hates me when it comes to drops. I have seen the same 3-plate items drop over and over. Sad thing too is with my team still new I do not have an enchanter to DE the stuff …eeck..need to work on that…

How soon after he spawns AoD does he begin to blow them up; and secondly does he still blow them up if they are dead much like corpse explosion?

I am thinking of trying to run full out AoE directly after a Consecrate, followed by a Holy Wrath. Would it work to have the team collapse on the Tank then go all out AoE? Or will he destroy them with his explosion.

Thanks

[Multibocks]

He makes them explode after a set time, so if you go all out AE on p2 you will probably kill them all before the first one explodes. That is if your AoE is not bad =(

[Eggy]

What I normaly do is just consecrate, forgetting to use Holy Wrath and just use fire elemental totems, never had a problem on normal, and havnt had one on heroic running with my mate playing his druid(Still cant for the life in me keep up with heals on my resto shammy for heroic).