WotLK - Trial of the Champion - (ToC)

[puppychow]

I use Bartender4 and have to do nothing special, bar1 is the "posess" bar and flips automatically into the vehicle bar when mounted -- 1 is melee, 2 is shieldbreak, 3 is charge (never use), 4 is shield -- across all 5 toons.

I have six macros setup (i use bindpad but just a bar with keybindings set to these would work too):

F1 = /focus my_main_tanks_name
F2 = /focus shaman1_name
..
F5 = /focus shaman4_name

` = interact with target (keybindings in WoW, scroll about halfway down)
shift-~ = /assist focus macro


So I mount everyone up, press f1 (everyone /focuses my tank), target an add with my tank, press shift-~ (everyone targets the new target), and press 2,1,1,1 etc to whittle them down. Remember every time you "remount" your focus gets lost so if your tank switches mounts re-set focus again.

shamans do seem to make a big difference in the fight, between being able to take hits from adds to nature/cleanse totems, lust in knight p2, and chain heal. Will report how I do tomorrow when I take my resto druid instead of a shaman.

[king.pa]

I've just managed to clean the non heroic version of this stupid encounter.

I can't get through the 3 bosses... I've only managed to get two down....
this first "boss" SUCK a lot !!!

I've tried the "wall" method, the middle one too ... rahh this drives me crazy

[Meshuggenah]

Puppychows(I think it was you) advice to exit the instance and zone back in after dismounting the 3 champions makes this instance a LOT easier. Setting up easy to use macros for the vehicle phase makes the mounts easy, zoning out and being able to set up at your own leisure makes the second phase cake.

<3

Thanks for the tip. Got this thing on farm now.

[Lyonheart]

I just can not live through the last phase of Black Night.. that ae he does while in ghost form is so fast.. i just cant heal through it and dps him 8( I even use Divine Sacrifice, no help ( heroic )

I was dieing a lot of his phase two until I spread WAY out and used earth elementals. But phase 3 has defeated me 10-0 now lol. driving me crazy!

[Meshuggenah]

I just can not live through the last phase of Black Night.. that ae he does while in ghost form is so fast.. i just cant heal through it and dps him 8( I even use Divine Sacrifice, no help ( heroic )

I was dieing a lot of his phase two until I spread WAY out and used earth elementals. But phase 3 has defeated me 10-0 now lol. driving me crazy!

My strat is pretty simple.

3 Healing streams, 1 Cleansing, ShadowResAura.

Phase1: Stack all the shamans against a wall and pull the Black Knight there. Drop consecrate and 3x magma totems (only 3, keep one wrath up). Don't even bother targeting the pet in phase1. The magma totems and splash damage from AoE's will kill it.
Phase2: Make sure you still have magmas/consecrate down. DPS the black knight for 4-5 casts. By this time your magmas/CL's/consecrate should have the adds down to 40-50%. Blow CL again and 3x TS straight after. This should kill the majority of the adds. Make sure chain heal your group back to full HP before you finish him off and begin phase3.
Phase3: You should still have relatively full mana pools on all your shamans. None of the previous phases are very mana intensive. Drop magmas and blow all your cooldowns/trinkets/etc. How fast you DPS depends on your shamans HP pool. I go with two nukes, chain heal, two nukes, chain heal.
Eg - FlameShock, LvB, ChainHeal, LightningBolt, ChainLightning, ChainHeal, repeat.

Between shadow resist, 3x healing streams and spamming chain heal, it's actually a pretty easy fight.

[Lyonheart]

bah.. i never thought about shadow aura GRR!! i knew there had to be a way to limit how big those AoEs hit for!

[Iceorbz]

Ive given about 1k gold in repairs to this damn last boss. The 2nd boss actualy was kicking my ass to not really sure why, i kept running out of mana. I think i need a little more crit heavy set to help out with that a little bit.

Last boss, I just cant get through phase 3, ive tried lol I get pwnt. No dedicated healer just 4 shaman dps / paladin tank.

[Greythan]

Lyon, is one of your shammies speced resto? If not, you may need to try it with a dedicated healer.

[Lyonheart]

Lyon, is one of your shammies speced resto? If not, you may need to try it with a dedicated healer.

yes. and i have tried to use healbot.. that ae he does almost one shots my team

[Smoooth]

On phase 3 I found a better way to go about healing for me. He does a shadow bolt every couple seconds to everyone in the party. So the more people you have the more damage he does. I found out I simply don't have the healing to keep everyone alive so what I do is give priorities to heals and sort of sacrifice a guy. When I was healing my lowest hp character everyone else continued to get hit and pretty soon it would be too much to handle and everyone would die pretty close together.

So now i give heals in this priority...tank,healer,highest dps, 2nd dps, last dps. You might think this is what you do anyway but I only give someone heals if everyone above him is almost topped off. Usually I get through with only 1 dps dying but sometimes 2 will. But the good thing about when someone dies is it make healing on the remaining guys that much easier.