Random dungeons are as good as a personal trainer!

[Malekyth]

I've been avoiding heroic Halls of Stone and Oculus, because in the past I have never come close to finishing Brann and Eregos. Not halfway, not a third of the way. When the heroic daily came up Sjonnir or the regular daily came up Ley-Enforcers, that was it for me for the day: no can do.

Now I have dungeon randomization dropping me into these instances and shouting, "RAAWWWR! ONE MORE! PUSH! PUSH! YOU CAN DO IT!" The teleport to and from means I don't spend a lot of travel time en route to these difficult dungeons, so it hurts a little less if I get stuck once I've arrived. The badge bonuses are huge and there's more incentive to just get on with it and kill everything.

The result: finished HoS! I don't think the Tribunal event will be much of a problem from now on: I get it now. Possibly as a result of being forced to learn this fight, I can now move my DPS and healer out of AOE damage like a champ. It's ninja multiboxing, it is. Also, I've done heroic Azjol-Nerub before but got through it by the skin of my teeth and decided I'd never go back. Naturally it came up in the random cycle, so I had to do it again, and like HoS, I get it now. Noooo problem.

OK, still haven't finished Oculus, but having to try it again means that I *almost understand how to pull this off. Eregos is doomed, eventually.

So yeah. I love this thing. And it earned me the badges to buy everyone new shoulders with spiky bits and red glows, so that's cool too.

[Xorn]

Same with me - always avoided HOS as well as Oculus just like everybody else I know and does not even multibox .
I recommend using Ruby + 4x Emerald, it's fail safe and ... boring I know.
Just use the search for macros and you'll be fine if you were able to do HOS.

[Clone]

Yeh same here, I managed halls of stone once before but wouldnt have gone back there again from choice. Ive done it 3 times now since the patch when its come up as random dungeon.

The occulus still beat me though, Pre patch I never even zoned into there, just the thought of vehicle combat sends shivers down my spine. I had a shot at it yesterday though, 1 shotting the first 3 noob bosses then wiping at 60% on eregos because I didnt know about the arcane explosion thingy he does. I was also on 5 bronze drakes as I figured I might be able to zerg him down before he did anything special. It didnt work out but I will try the 4 emerald and 1 ruby next time

EDIT: have also read the tactics for eregos now also and seen that you can buff the drakes up, that will be a massive help too

[heyaz]

Yeah it's nice. Even though I've had the gear to do most of them, I always skipped anything not super easy (GD, DTK, UK, etc.) Now I finally did Nexus and Violet Hold (ok they aren't that hard but still, I wanted no gimmicks, no positioning fights whatsoever)