WotLK - Trial of the Champion - (ToC)

[Greythan]

I singled boxed this with a pretty well geared and well played group last night.

We couldn't beat the female boss who cast the "nightmare" spell that summoned a ghost. First off, she seemed to target low HP targets OTHER than the tank with a 6k smite. She had a habit of doing this right after the ghost cast "Walking Nightmare" or something like that that caused a 4 sec fear and 1250 damage per second for the 4 secs.

Once I got hit with smite, feared, and hit with smite again when the fear dropped. The timer on the two smites was 4 seconds apart. Total damage? 14k. (Was already down some.)

Until I get the tactics figured out on this boss solo, I can't see any way to five box this.

P.S. The mounted combat was beyond trivial with 5 single players.

[jimbobobb]

I singled boxed this with a pretty well geared and well played group last night.

We couldn't beat the female boss who cast the "nightmare" spell that summoned a ghost. First off, she seemed to target low HP targets OTHER than the tank with a 6k smite. She had a habit of doing this right after the ghost cast "Walking Nightmare" or something like that that caused a 4 sec fear and 1250 damage per second for the 4 secs.

Once I got hit with smite, feared, and hit with smite again when the fear dropped. The timer on the two smites was 4 seconds apart. Total damage? 14k. (Was already down some.)

Until I get the tactics figured out on this boss solo, I can't see any way to five box this.

P.S. The mounted combat was beyond trivial with 5 single players.

Woah - I can't imagine how a 5 person group could lose any of these battles. I one-shot the normal mode, and died twice on heroic figuring out that I had to move my guys away from the ghouls to not get exploded and also once during the mounted combat. This zone is multi-boxing candyland. Running regular nets you 5 De'able purples and takes about 15 minutes. Running heroic again nets you 5 DEable purples (and even some stuff worth equipping), 3 Conqueror badges, and took me about 30 mins dieing 3 times. I'm sure you can get the heroic down under 20 minutes easily. This is going to replace my daily VH run. My guys are mostly wearing Naxx 10 level gear.



Edited to add information is regarding HEROIC (Which is also a joke)

First Three Champions (Mounted Combat until you dismount them all, and then everyone gets dismounted and you just tank/spank):

If you put your guys against a wall, the 3 groups of 3 easy mode guys sit in the middle of the arena waiting for you to engage. So you kill the first set of 3, then the second set of 3, then change horses on your main for the 3rd set so your horse is at full health. The 3 main champions don't wait in the middle they run to your group as soon as the last group of 3 easy mobs is killed. Simply put your 4 slaves against a wall so they are always facing whoever you are targeting. Have assist and follow keys and such set up for mounted combat. If you get knocked off your horse just jump on another one right there against the wall. I died between dismounting them all and going into the 2nd part of the battle where they are not mounted. If you die after you have dismounted them all, when you come back they stay dismounted, and you can simply continue with the second part of the fight which is basically just tank and spank the 3 champions.

Second Fight: Either Eadric the Pure (JOKE!) Or Argent Confessor(Meh) Who you get is random

Again there are 3 groups of 3 easy mobs that you pull before the boss. Once the last group of 3 is dead, the boss comes.
Eadric the pure is basically tank and spank. The two abilites I saw him use were a blinding light type ability, and a super hammer type ability. The blinding light ability has a cast time and a huge "EADRIC THE PURE BEGINS TO CHANNEL HOLY LIGHT" or some such announcement. Simply turn your guys so they aren't facing him. If they are facing him when the light comes out, they get blinded and will wander for a few seconds. If you tank gets blinded he will lose aggro on Eadric. I simply turned my tank only, let the other guys get blinded, and then just tapped my interact with target key/movement key to get my guys facing correct again after each blind. The other super hammer ability also has a huge warning with who he targets. It just does a buttload of damage, but had no trouble just hitting that person with a heal.

The Argent Confessor summons some random mob that can fear and does some sort of aoe. Just drop a tremor totem. Throw some chain heals/wild growths/whathave you. My druid has around 2000 spellpower and his wg kept everyone topped off no problem. You have to kill the mob she summons because she is 100% immune while it is alive. So just focus it, kill it fast, then back to her. They each have like 350k hps I think it was on heroic. It's not bad at all.

Third Fight: The Black Knight (put up shadow prot aura if you have a pally/priest/whatever)

Consists of three phases. Each phase the Black Knight has around 277k hps

First phase: Tank and spank. He summons a ghoul. Just kill the ghoul quick then him.

Second Phase: This phase sucks. What I finally did was put my guys against a wall and kept the black knight at max distance the entire fight. He summons a legion of ghouls that explode. I popped all cooldowns on this phase and just killed him asap. When he dies all his ghouls explode after a few seconds. I could not thunderstorm them away from my group during this time. I straffed my guys away from the ghouls asap the moment he died.

Third phase: Tank and spank. He does some aoe that I healed through. He marks one player and they take extra damage so I just healed that player, as he didn't seem to do that much to my tank.

This zone is amazing guys. Actual upgrades, badges, and abyss crystals as far as the eye can see.