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

[outdrsyguy1]

my 5 box team has a druid in it for heals but my tanks sits at about 29k hp buffed and i'll say now that this is a very hard boss. between watching for who's getting pwned from above by the dragon, who's getting branded, and kiting the boss on unholy power through ice patches... it's a hell of a lot for one person to manage. even killing him in regular was very difficult, i have yet to get to him in heroic.

[Zal]

Incase some of you haven't noticed yet, the boss hits for around 6k average, and usually does him 18k smash right after someone in the party gets stunned. So as a tip, full heal the tank before the stun hits or its prolly a wipe.

[Multibocks]

Wow garfrost was that easy with rets? With the constant AoE and your only group healing being from divine storm.... Ya I dont see that as a 2.

Edit: I did end up beating garfrost, but I had to switch my druid to resto. I spammed the shit out of AoE heals and I still only lived with one shaman alive. The boss himself isnt hard, its the fucking AoE that eventually kills your group when he knocks them all over the place with the rocks.

[suprafro]

Wow garfrost was that easy with rets? With the constant AoE and your only group healing being from divine storm.... Ya I dont see that as a 2.

Well, I guess if you relied on divine storm as your only source of healing he would be harder? This guy is definitely easier then black knight for a full melee team

[Multibocks]

Im not saying your wrong, but he definitely strikes me as non melee friendly (rocks all over the place will stop IWT). Im just surprised you gave it a 2. I would say Eck from Gundrak would be a 2 for a melee team. Garfrost... 2 would be very generous.

[Iceorbz]

Alright this guy is not that easy, but i got him down

Paladin tank 33k hp's and most of my shaman are 4100 or so gear score. All elemental

I waited till he pathed towards the back so I didn't get LOSed all around. Bloodlusted on the first round , and really tried to get the adds and him down asap.

Spot healed for the most part using LHW till the boss went to the back. Then i ran the entire group behind a rock and chain healed up to full while clearing debuff.

2nd round after first debuff I used divine sac and divine protection continued to focus my burn and spot heal. Dropped fire elementals on this go to finish down all the adds. Took one more round and boss went down. Frost resistt aura seemed to help alolng with healing stream x4.

[Rms]

My strategy is now to:

phase 1
1. Ignore dpsing the adds with the shaman until he runs for his first weapon upgrade
2. Leave shaman out in the open in one pile and dps hard
3.tank 20 yards or so away from shaman
4. Watch the shaman for a shadow of a boulder... move them all forward and continue dps
-throw heals as needed-

phase 2
1. run behind a boulder to clear stack for all chars
2. ae the remaining adds down
3. repeat phase1

phase 3
1. run behind a boulder and clear stack if needed
2. return to dps -> phase 1
3. ensure the character he calls is topped

I found it work quite well for me. 4x chainheal allows you to stand in the frost ae for a while. and pushing the dps reduces how long you have to. im 4300-4700 gs

[dragoneye]

RMS's strat seems to be the only one that worked for me but it was by no means pretty. 3K HP left on tank and all the shamans dead. At least the quest got done! Here's a screenshot to show how ghetto it was... poor me haha

[Reglar]

Perhaps its my gear but this was ridiculously easy with 3 pieces of Frost Resist on each char and the Frost Aura from pally.

Sometimes the debuff would fall off just due to a char resisting during a 3 sec period.

I only have to run behind boulders typically once a fight.

If you are struggling on the boss and don't have Frost Resist gear, I highly recommend you try it with gear.

[Alemi]

A tip:

Start the encounter with all your team at the bottom of the steps and pull one of the skellies to begin. This way when Garfrost runs to an anvil, he LoSes your group and the debuff drops. No need to run for boulders. Picked up [Doesn't Go to Eleven] this way today too.

Key things for me is to keep everyone on follow and refollow often to chain heal, EXCEPT for phase 2 where you want to spread out to keep the extra frost dot from the wave down to a minimum. I blow heroism on phase 3 just to end it fast. I get 3-4 rocks at most the entire fight this way.