Wotlk - ICC - Pit of Saron (PoS) - Forgemaster Garfrost

[Zappy]

With a 5k GS, you should roftstomp that place. I've can farm that on either my DK/Rets or 5xshammys. I don't use any special positioning or anything, but I do keep either frost resist aura up or totem of frost resist depending on which team.

Start off with heavy aoe to kill the adds - they should drop in the first few seconds of the fight and don't have a ton of HP. On DK/Rets, D&D + 4 x consecration+ frost/plague pestilence. On shammys, magma + nova burns them quickly.

Next time I'm in there, I'll try and remember to fraps it.


After adds are down, then DPS the boss as normal, until you see him tossing the boulder. As soon as you see him cast it, strafe away. You have plenty of time if you start moving within 2-3 seconds of the toss. The knockback and damage adds up quickly, so make sure to strafe. Once he runs back to his forge, you need to run behind one of the tossed boulders and make sure it's between you and you're group. If you do this, you'll lose the stacking frost debuff and should have time to heal up and top your guys off.

I'll reiterrate this: the two keys to this fight are 1) strafe away from the boulders so you don't get knocked back and take boulder damage, and 2) erase the stacking frost debuffs.

My shammys have a much easier time on this, cause I can pop 5 rock elementals to tank most of the damage, and they are immune to frost damage. Now if I could figure out how to kill tyrannus on heroic with my shammys.

[crowdx]

Thanks for the advice, I always just seem to have an issue moving my guys in time, even with DBM (although it seems to be glitching lately and not telling me which toon he targets).
I really just want to get the dagger from him for each of the shammies :P .

[Zappy]

I know I see the warning in DBM, but I also use Quartz:

http://www.wowinterface.com/download...astingBar.html

Anything that shows enemy castbars is enough to see him casting "throw saronite". I'm not sure that he actually has a target selected for the boulder or not. As soon as I see the cast start, I begin strafing, and you can see the shadow on the ground where the boulder will hit. Even if the boulder does manage to hit you, if you're team was already strafing, they almost always get thrown together, rather than all over the place.

[crowdx]

So once he starts casting I presume he has already selected his target? And so just move the whole team.

[Zappy]

Yes. You want to stop dps and strafe immediately when you see him casting. While you're strafing, you should see the shadow on the ground to where the boulder will land.

[crowdx]

I have been getting him down with this technique, but not without deaths. I suppose it just needs more practice from me to move the toons. This is one of the few fights I move my toons during the fight and so not too good at it

[Mooni]

I know the topic's been beat to death, but I had a lot of problems and hope to help someone who's in my old situation resolve them.
Kept dying, interact with target was defeated by boulders, which also put heals out of sight, which also defeated the healer or tank first, etc etc
Running a mixed team now: Pallytank, Elemental Shaman x2, Hunter and Priest. But that's a topic for another topic.
How I finally went from failing at life for a month straight to beating him with only one death was:

1) Priest uses this macro now:
/target tank
/castsequence reset=15 Power Word: Shield, Renew, Prayer of Mending, Prayer of Healing, Prayer of Mending, Prayer of Healing, PoM PoH PoM PoHP OMGPOMPOH
2) Like KAC said, bob and weave. Except that didn't work for me at allll the first time, because I suddenly realized that my hunter (She's kinda special) would always turn to face Garfrost instead of facing perfectly forward. so would the shamans, but I don't know why, and that was only sometimes.
3) So EVERYONE strafes left on the first boulder, but with a twist!
3a) Once the boulder lands, go run over to it and lean it like you were Joe @#$%^ Camel. Then when another boulder comes, strafe left then once it lands strafe right again.

I did this all 3 rounds and went from the usual "Garfrost 5 Mooni 0" to "Mooni 1 Garfrost 1" (when he had 7k health left I kept fighting instead of healing the priest who was at 2k)
Thank you KAC and everyone else who contributed to his death.

[QuantumX]

I know the topic's been beat to death, but I had a lot of problems and hope to help someone who's in my old situation resolve them.
Kept dying, interact with target was defeated by boulders, which also put heals out of sight, which also defeated the healer or tank first, etc etc
Running a mixed team now: Pallytank, Elemental Shaman x2, Hunter and Priest. But that's a topic for another topic.
How I finally went from failing at life for a month straight to beating him with only one death was:

1) Priest uses this macro now:
/target tank
/castsequence reset=15 Power Word: Shield, Renew, Prayer of Mending, Prayer of Healing, Prayer of Mending, Prayer of Healing, PoM PoH PoM PoHP OMGPOMPOH
2) Like KAC said, bob and weave. Except that didn't work for me at allll the first time, because I suddenly realized that my hunter (She's kinda special) would always turn to face Garfrost instead of facing perfectly forward. so would the shamans, but I don't know why, and that was only sometimes.
3) So EVERYONE strafes left on the first boulder, but with a twist!
3a) Once the boulder lands, go run over to it and lean it like you were Joe @#$%^ Camel. Then when another boulder comes, strafe left then once it lands strafe right again.

I did this all 3 rounds and went from the usual "Garfrost 5 Mooni 0" to "Mooni 1 Garfrost 1" (when he had 7k health left I kept fighting instead of healing the priest who was at 2k)
Thank you KAC and everyone else who contributed to his death.

Mooni, i run a similar group, Pally Tank, 2 x Ele Shaman, 1 x Mage, 1 x Restro Druid. GS is around 4k to 4.5k i find fighting on the stairs and strafing is a very effective method, as when he runs back it resets the debuffs saving me alot of healing.

Only frost resist i use is usually the pally aura though i did use the flask of lesser resistance which adds another 50 resist, on a first few goes, seems to help not sure how much...

I pretty much relied on DBM addon for the warning of the incoming boulder and then strafed right a little and did the movement i put in the diagram in my earlier post.

Basically get the movement down and the encounter is tank and spank. And learning to move your team independently of your tank is a skill worth learning and becoming good at.

[emps]

I took this boss down Saturday after many previous unsuccessful attempts. I used KAC's diagram for positioning and certainly worked for me. While the urge to nuke as fast and hard was there all the time, I realized it was only getting me killed - finishing casting before moving. Hence, I focused more on surviving than killing him. I run a DK tank, 3 Ele DPS, and a healer (either Pally or Shaman depending on my mood). On the first kill, I had one shaman down. The next day, I took him down without deaths and on the first attempt.

Really important to pay attention to the saronite and just play it cool. He'll die eventually.

[Bloodcloud]

Took Garfrost (normal) down on first attempt. (one death) second run no deaths.

I started out on the stairs, but wasn't paying attention to the boulders, so I wondered why no dps was casting.
(but the stairs where good for the beginning to get all the adds down)

In the end I was running arround spamming /follow and IWT which was very messy, but did it's job.

oh and my priests AoE Healing macro is GOLD, very mana intense, but it gets the job done

#show Prayer of Healing
/stopmacro [channeling]
/console Sound_EnableSFX 0
/use 13
/use 14
/use Dark Brewmaiden's Brew
/cast inner Focus
/castsequence reset=combat/7 [target=party1,help,exists,nodead] Prayer of Mending,Renew,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
/castsequence reset=combat/6 [target=party1,help,exists,nodead][target=player] Circle of Healing,,,,,,,,,,,,
/cast [target=party1,help,exists,nodead][target=player] Prayer of Healing
/console Sound_EnableSFX 1
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()