Glory of the Hero - Red Proto Completed

[Kalros]

Less-rabi!!!! I've tried it about 10 times now, and his 3rd attempt at transforming is damn-near instant!!!!

[Teslah]

Less-rabi!!!! I've tried it about 10 times now, and his 3rd attempt at transforming is damn-near instant!!!!

I just finished my second team of 5s Glory of the Hero achievment tonight. I'm glad that's done!

For less-rabi you should only need 3 interrupts. My teams are probably different than yours. I have a Pally, Mage, Druid, Shaman and Priest on one and a Pally, Hunter, Lock, Shaman and Priest on the other. This made this achievement much tougher than if I had 4 Shammies.

If you have 4 Shamans put your interrupts on different buttons so one is always ready. Make sure to make a macro with /stopcasting at the beginning so as soon as you hit it they cast Wind Shear. You can also put a couple of interrupts on one button for the last cast and smash it as soon as you see the text that he is changing.

Your Hammer on your pally tank also works. You can use that for the first or last interrupt depending on your play style.

If you miss one of the first two interrupts just die and start over. The only one that is tough is the last one. Just dps him down as quickly as you can and be ready for that last one. If you do it right he'll die right after you interrupt his third cast.

Break it down to its most simple form. The only one you will have trouble with is the last one. So focus on getting the last one timed right. The others are fairly easy. It's only that third one that can be a pain so make your focus to nail the last one.

[Bollwerk]

To get Less-Rabi, here is what I did:

1) I respec'd all 3 shamen with 5/5 reverb
2) I created /castsequence macros as follows (these were my main dps spam for this fight):
.....a) /castsequence Wind Shear, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt
.....b) /castsequence LB, WS, LB
.....c) /castsequence LB, LB, WS
3) at 50%, I used counterspell with my mage (I had my mage dps button as a different button, so I could stop dps with my mage as 50% approached)

It still took a few tries, since he will sometimes transform at 1% or so, but I eventually got it after a few days.

I now have 4 achievements left for Glory of the Hero. Looks like Split Personality and Make it Count are going to be the hardest.

[Pocalypse]

What I did for Less-rabi was spec one shaman with reverbation, remove his dps key so he did nothing but interrupt, and have this macro on my main, with the stopwatch shown and center screen:

/script Stopwatch_Clear()
/script Stopwatch_Play()

Above 50% he casts every 10 seconds
At 50% he'll cast
Below 50% he'll cast every 5 seconds

Just spamming wind shear on my shammy wasn't good enough, it always went off a split second too soon.
So using the macro above, I just cast when I saw 4.95-5.0 seconds since the last time. Mostly I'd get the interrupt before seeing the cast bar.
Got it on the second attempt with this method, after about 10 failed attempts trying other stuff.

Now I just have Volajz's quick demise left . I can't seem to get below 2.30.

[Kalros]

Congrats Teslah on your 2nd set of Drakes!!! That's awesome!!!

So here is what I have left:

-Less-Rabi (i'll try these suggestions tonight)
-Share the Love (No idea how I am going to do it with a Pally and 4x Ele Shaman team)
-Intense Cold (hoping for alot of luck on this one)
-Chaos Theory (have not actually tried it yet, doesnt seem terribly difficult)
-Dehydration (have not tried it yet, doesnt seem too bad)
-Make it count (I actually have some ideas and think its just a matter of learning every trick and shortcut you can)

I'm hoping to have everything done by Friday or Saturday. I'll keep y'all posted!!!!

And if there are any thoughts on Share the Love, Intense Cold or Make it Count, I'm all ears!!!!

[Pocalypse]

Intense cold isn't hard if you have a pally tank.

Just pick one group member, set up a /cast [target=name] Cleanse macro, and spam it whenever everyone get's stunned. You'll need 5 attempts to get the achievement on everyone, but it's not hard.

For share the love, I took a friend to offtank it for me. I tried it with 4 earth elementals a few times, but then you need to be really lucky so he impales your tank while the elementals have him.

[Kalros]

For Intense Cold, will PvP trinkets break that chain effect? I was kind of hoping to get it in one shot with all 5. I guess thats wishful thinking? My plan was to go crazy with the DPS: Pop 3x Fire Elementals, Heroism, etc and burn quick, use PvP trinkets on the first chain effect and then hope I can finish her off before the 2nd chain cast (jumping with everyone before the debuffs stack above 2).

[Alemi]

For Intense Cold, will PvP trinkets break that chain effect? I was kind of hoping to get it in one shot with all 5. I guess thats wishful thinking? My plan was to go crazy with the DPS: Pop 3x Fire Elementals, Heroism, etc and burn quick, use PvP trinkets on the first chain effect and then hope I can finish her off before the 2nd chain cast (jumping with everyone before the debuffs stack above 2).

PVP trinkets do break the effect, however, with all the jumping you have to do it pretty much cuts dps by a ton.

I did it with 4 shaman and a dk - all in 1 go. First cold, pvp trinket - Right before the 2nd cold, use a Free Action Pot.

Share the Love just requires luck. Tank with your pally until he switches to rhino and then pop some (or all) earth elementals. You have to hope your tank gets impaled, but he generally picks the farthest from him, so i just ran my tank a distance away and waited to get impaled. Not too bad at all.

Make it Count is by far the hardest. Gotta have lots of macros set up ahead of time and just fly fly fly. I always fly through the center of the ring after you mount, and after you kill blinky mage dude. That way you can avoid most of the drakes and all the stupid little whelps and save time.

[Teslah]

Some ideas.

INTENSE COLD

I did it the easy way. Just leave two people near the entrance. They are out of range of the effect and they will still get the achievement when you kill her. No need to worry about jumping everyone every second or braking the chains. Just leave one or two at the door far away and they will get the achievement when you kill her.

SHARE THE LOVE

You might need another tank here. You can try the Earth Elementals, but he will kill them very quickly. Have someone help you if they can. Just let them run in, you follow with a healer and leave the others in the ring by the stairs. He will have to impale one of the three of you that are near him. Once you get impaled taunt him to you and get the other tank to get impaled, then drag him to the ring and slowly kill him. If you stay in the ring his knockback can't throw anyone far away.

MAKE IT COUNT

Practice, practice, practice. It seems very hard to do it at first, but it will become routine once you do it a few times. You'll get it no problem once you try it a few times.

1. Use the stopwatch right after you kill the boss.
2. Buff, food and anything else of course.
3. Make an exit vehicle macro. Saves a lot of time from trying to click them off individually. Hit is as soon as you are over the platforms and start attacking asap.
4. I do it by using Heroism on the second boss so I don't get killed with a freak double lightning strike.
5. Make sure to have a Frost resist totem up at all times.
6. Use timestop when killing the drakes to get to each platform. Hit it and kill the 2 or 3 drakes that are near where you are going to land.
7. You can still do this if one or two people die. Just rez them and buff as you go.
8. Use the Amber drakes to get it done.
9. Make sure to hit timestop before he starts moving. Try to time it so you hit one right when he is about to break. Keep him frozen the entire time. If whelps appear it's pretty much over with Ambers.
10. If you die or don't make the time try to rush kill him anyway for the practice. Run into the instance, hury to the drakes, get on them fast and fly right to him. Do it as if you only have two mins left to get the practice time in.

The best time I had was with about 2 minutes left once he was dead. Try to get through the initial phases as fast as you can so you can take a small 5 second break to get ready and go after the boss. Make sure to kill the whelps that follow you up to the boss when you go at him. It took me a few days to get it. You just need a little luck with the drakes, whelps and having a smooth run.

[Kalros]

8. Use the Amber drakes to get it done.

Ok, thats gonna be an issue. The time I did it with 5x Ambers, it took me about 10 wipes to finally kill him. I was gonna do the 2x Ruby and 3x Emerald. Would that still work?