WotLK - Trial of the Champion - (ToC)

[Saoul]

The strat i found working best with my DK and 4 Elemental shammies for phase 2, was to blow undead army and 4 fire elementals -pop heroism- and just blow up the Black Knight. Healing usually consists of 2 casts of ele group lesser healing waves and pet sacrafice (if its up) on DK and 2-3 chain heals on elemental shammies (running DK tank within chain heal range if a top up is needed) slide the shammies out of exploding goul range when Black Knight pops his clogs. Regroup for phase 3 next to Black knight's body, re-drop totems qik heal if required then blow up ghost (every 3rd cast is a group heal).

[SoulSeekerUSA]

For some reason when my 4 shaman are on or in vehicles they will not focus on my main or follow. What am i doing wrong? Message I get is "You cannot follow that unit".? For now I have given up on this instance, I hate the mounted combat it is just so clunky.

[BobGnarly]

For some reason when my 4 shaman are on or in vehicles they will not focus on my main or follow. What am i doing wrong? Message I get is "You cannot follow that unit".? For now I have given up on this instance, I hate the mounted combat it is just so clunky.

Are you running a focus system? You have to redo the focus if you change/enter/exit a vehicle.

I run the following for this zone:

/focus bob
/assist bob
/follow bob

and just spam that macro before each kill.

[thedreameater]

i could not even beat the normal mode.. this is tough!

Why not? What did you get stuck on?

I tried a while back but couldn't get past the jousting. I need to L2Mboxjoust, but I am having so much fun now that I can clear heroics I haven't gone back.

When my pally targets something, my alts don't target the same thing (unlike when unmounted they attack the focus' target).

[Coyote]

Jousting was hell to learn for me, but I've finally managed to get it down somewhat. What made the difference for me was:

* Positioning. All the slaves right on top of each other close but not too close to fresh horses. Having your back near a wall helps keeping the enemies in front of your slaves (less turning/moving).
* Getting a fresh horse on the main just before killing the last add of the last trash group, and getting 3 stacks of defend up.
* Getting shield breaker volleys off every time they move out to charge, or it will take too long.
* If someone is the focus of all 3 after a charge, move them out for a fresh horse at once or they will be dismounted on the next charge.
* Once you get an enemy dismounted, park your main on top of them to keep them perma-trampled. The last thing you want is that extra dps back on your team if they manage to ninja a fresh mount while you are busy doing something else. If this puts your main out of melee range of the rest, you can assist with shield breakers while your slaves melee them.
*Remember to refresh the focus and target of the slaves. Best if you have a key or two that you can spam after getting a fresh mount with any char or changing target on the master.
*Remember to spam defend/joust/shield breaker even while moving for a fresh horse. If they are not taking damage and get up to 90% reduction every time you change mounts, they will wear you down.

In an ideal run, all 3 enemies will start charging your main, while you get a volley of shield breakers off. Once you get a fresh horse with your main, they will start targetting different slaves, and you get some breathing space to work on dismounting one of them and calmly plan when each slave will have to run for a fresh mount. With a bit of awareness you manage to keep the defend stacks of your first target down and dismount it fairly fast.
Once the first enemy falls, the dps on your slaves will be much more manageable. If you park your main on the dismounted enemy, you can keep your attention focused on replacing mounts for your alts and getting shield breakers off in the short windows you get. If you can make it to this point with 4-5 of your still mounted, you will pretty much be in control and have the encounter in the bag.

[Volch0k]

The biggest mistake i made, was to think that having a diffrent key's for shield/attack on my main wasnt a big deal. Once i changed it, so I'm only bashing 2 key's its so easy it's not even fun anymore.

If you think it's hard, wich it's it not, you just need to learn it.

[Hurricane]

This is for TOC normal and the first boss only as i see that as the most difficult encounter there based on my experience doing it with guildes on my main.

Does this look like a nice strategy. Im at work and has just read this intire thread, havent tried it on my 4 shaman + 1 pala team yet.



Tank is blue and will be moving around infront of my slaves which only will use the ranged attack?

I dont have leaderless setup and is just using something like this:
on shamans, i have macro

/follow party1
and
/target party1target
/cast dps

will my stratgy work do you think?

[Greythan]

Follow the jimbobob's strategy posted on the second/third page of this thread for jousting, its ezmode.

Stack all four slaves up just right of the gates where the champions enter (if horde). Place them on top of the alliance mount so that you have 2 horde mounts close (1 on left, 1 on right).

Set target of slaves to first mob, target second mob with main.

Pull with the range attack and quickly switch target to third mob. (Leaving slaves still targeting the first.)

Run back to your slaves and starting mashing 1,2,4 over and over. Once your slave's target dies (it will be fast) switch them to assist you, kill, switch to third, kill.

Rinse repeat and after second set of three run to a mount away from your slaves and jump on a new wolf. (Restores HP.)

The reason I group up where I do is sometimes a slave will get dismounted when fighting the three bosses. I simply switch to their window and take one of the two nearby mounts.

[Hurricane]

What the hell is wrong with my english today. So you are basicly doing the mounted fase by melee attacking?

[BobGnarly]

I tried a lot of cute strategies until I just tried standing in one place and brute forcing them down. You have to be able to use the melee attack (button 1), the ranged attack does very little damage.

I do something similar to what has be previously suggested, except that I just stand out in the middle and take my main back for a new mount (with slaves following - otherwise they will get charged for high dmg when you dismount). The reason I do it this way is it's much easier for me to deal with the "walkers" this way. I've got it down to where I can usually finish this off with only one mount change. Plus, it's very fast.