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

[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()

[emps]

(Heroic)

So the stairs trick works best for me. I've been taking him down without losses (at least with my pally tanking). You just need to control the fights to perfect it. Stairs is perfect for heroic cause it avoids additional aoe dmg when he goes back to his forge...

There's a minor modification to the strategy that I'd like to add. After moving away from the saronite, I actually have been moving back right next to where it landed. This way I maximize space and only consume two rows at most instead of ending up on the top of the stairs.

In normal, I don't even bother using the stairs as the amount of dmg taken is negligible to the group. I just nuke him down wherever I catch him.

[Bloodcloud]

(normal) Garfrost

Farmed that boss for 15 emblems in like 1.5 hours not bad for my taste

Mixed team is mostly in i232 Gear, AOE Heal is key.

1) Use LFG tool: select specific dungeon tick PoS, FoS (I tried it with ticking just the PoS but then it didn't work.)
2) Use LFG tool: join as party. .. select role .. enter dungeon. If you get the other one just do step 2) again
3) Do instance Instance, kill boss, loot boss
4) Before you queue up, eat/drink to save time, while eating/drinking (mage food ftw) goto step 2)


Quick Instance path:




tactics to quick run:
- 1: Mount up
- ride on the right side up to the first skelly, hug the wall and continue riding, collect second skelly and stop at 2 (thats a kind of place to the right of the way) (sometimes the 3rd skelly (orange) gets pulled during the ride.
- 2: Kill the pulled skellys and pull 3rd red skelly (around the corner)
- wait till the dragons are gone (mana up if needed) mount up and start riding. If the 2nd dragon is still between the torch on the right side and the boss you can pass him by riding close to the edge on the left and you reach the stairs.

(almost got a heart attack when I reached the stairs and a gargoyle flew over me with a saronite. I thought I pulled the dragon )

This should shorten the time you need to reach the boss.

The use the tactics of your favour to kill the boss, loot boss

[thefunk]

got him down first time simply by having toons on follow, 1 death only due to boulders LoS issue, other than that was a LOT easier than devourer of souls. To be fair it was on Normal, i'll give him a go on Heroic.

Edit: heroic is MUCH harder, i couldn't tank n spank him. I'll try some of the methods above (toons are 3.6k GS).