Heroic Old Kingdom DOWN!

[Raskaz]

For Old Kingdom there is an easy strat though a bit lame. Kill 3 of your toons before you engage the boss and just leave your healer and tank. Takes a while to get him down but makes the fight rather trival.

[Malekyth]

I killed the Herald the same way, suicided one warlock and went to town. It came down to a fight between him, my tank and my priest for the last 20% or so, and I was extremely surprised I came through ... but the more I thought about it, no, that was EXACTLY right. The Insanity phases are the hard part, and the fewer toons that have to go through it, the better. Next time I do it, I'll hit him with only three toons. Weird encounter.

The hard part of heroic OK for me is Nadox. I had a hell of a time keeping the priest alive when the focused swarmers start targeting him. The solution I hit upon was to remove /petattack from all my DPS macros, then park the felguards at the door to Nadox while the party pulls back toward the stairs. Made a macro, 'targetexact Ahn'kahet Guardian; /petattack' and hit it when the first Guardian hatch was announced. The felguards are pretty resilient and were able to keep the first two Guardians occupied at the end of the hall so I could concentrate on the boss and swarmers. Dropped the bastard, finally. I haven't gone back to try it again, so maybe I just got lucky, but I think tying up the Guardians as long as possible is the way to go.

Now I still need Azjol-Nerub and Occulus. Argh, Occulus.

[heffner]

This was the daily for me today. I have never been there so I figured I would give it a shot.

I managed to kill three bosses (skipped the mushroom guy) but wiped on Volazj. I don't know if I am coordinated enough to do it :P

I had a hell of a time trying to kill my priest during the insanity phase. All my other toons didn't seem to stay alive for very long either, although my paladin lived through the first phase but never managed to kill anyone.

My second attempt I simply put a DPS spell (Wrath for Boomkin, LB for Shammy, Arcane Blast for Mage) on a key and spammed it after I /target Priest. Didn't work very well.

I thought I would go back and try to simply heal through the three minutes, but crap started to respawn so I left...wish they would make the respawn longer.

Ah well, I will be back another day....

[Niley]

So today i decided to try new tactic...or wipe, I did wipe at the end becuse I couldnt belive i actually pulled it off, but here:




I managed to kill him before first insanity, you can see in chat that it took right around 16 seconds...weirdly enough even thought he died while he was casting it, the cast did finish and he did spawn the adds(which i didn't notice since i was arleady typing stuff in db irc :P)

[Multibocks]

Hmm I wonder if you get achieve when you do it that way.

edit: reason I say that is if you read wowhead comments some said that they didnt get achiev if the clones spawned. You had to kill them first.

[Niley]

Hmm I wonder if you get achieve when you do it that way.

I already had it from previous kills so no clue.

[Malekyth]

I just got this daily and about cried! Like you this and Oculus are all that stand between me and having completed all heroics with my team. I don't want to miss any more Emblems of Triumph!

You know what's sad ... I've been missing Emblems of Triumph because twice now I've forgotten to share the daily with my party until AFTER the boss dies. Silly Malekyth.

[heffner]

Ya, I can't quite kill him before the first Insanity :P I wish I could. I think I got him to about 37% though. I probably could load up on DPS with potions etc. and have another go and hope that whoever survives the first insanity with my tank finishes him off.

[Multibocks]

I can confirm that he does give achievement if you kill him before second insanity finishes. Only my tank and one shaman lived through the insanity though. I got achievement as soon as he died and then finished off my dopplegangers.