Glory of the Hero - tips'n'tricks

[Fuzzyboy]

With vehicle enabled /follow this achievement looks to be the challenge of boxers - and now within grasp.

http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2136

I've started this thread to discuss the achievement and subachievements and divided them into categories (easy, medium, hard).

- Easy -

On the rocks: Just heal through tomb - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1919

Intense cold: Jump before debuff stacks to 3, dispel chains with pally/priest - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1919

Better Off Dred: Pull three raptors, get them to 10ish percent each, pull dread, kill raptors, wait for him to call three more and kill indivdually. Requires decent healer and tank gear. - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2039

Defenseless: No special notes, if you have trouble with some bosses just try again the next day with some more MB-friendly bosses - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1816

Dehydration: use lever at 2 charges or pull him to entrance and AE globes - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2041

What the Eck: Kill 3 first bosses, then eck, then final boss - don't bubble or shapeshift since this will cancel the eck debuff - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1864

Less-rabi: interrupt the transform (easy if you have a mage, without a mage it takes a good connection, good reflexes and some luck/timing) - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2040

Good Grief: just burn - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1866

Lightning Struck: just burn (with charge up) - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1834

My Girl Loves to Skadi All the Time: If you can kill him on heroic this is the easy part. Just farm five harpoons and fire them real quick - you don't need to distribute them among the slaves, just be quick on the main (you may need to use 2-3 launchers) - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2156

The Party's Over: Kick one member from the party before engaging him but let them help dps still before being booted from instance - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1861

Respect Your Elders: have an offtank take care of the guardians in a distance that doesn't allow him to get the debuff - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2038

Oh Novos!: Place group at the stairs and kill adds as they spawn - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2057

Snakes. Why'd It Have To Be Snakes?: Just pull him to the bone-pile room and dps him down before adds get overwhelming - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2058

Timely Death: just burn - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1867

Shatter Resistant: just burn - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2042

King's Bane: got this without trying, just don't hurt him when bane is cast - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2157

Lodi Dodi We Loves the Skadi:- not sure how to do this without resetting the encounter but start the encounter, run back to the previous room so it resets, then rund down to where the mobs spawn inside the house and wait for boss to respawn. Have dps'er run down and start the encounter, then AE down the adds grab harpoons and kill boss - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1873

Consumption Junction: with decent gear you can out-dps this one, just button-spam - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2151

Zombiefest!: fairly easy but takes some preparation. Pull fleshboy to inn and wait a minute or two for zombies to respawn. Kill third boss and let prince wait outside. Pull all zombies in the first part of the zone through the inn and to the next area (85 zombies total at the start area) and pull 15 more. AE them down. - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1872

The Culling of Time: requires decent gear. Burn through adds and bosses ASAP. Dont rest. Get healer to assist on dps if possible - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1817

The Incredible Hulk: get a scourge hulk to less than 9k hp and tank him while on the platform when sword descends - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2043

Lockdown: Zuramat can be tricky, but you can dps through with good gear and good healing and good purging - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1865

A Void Dance: Just burn away - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2153

Ruby Void: If you use the 5 amber drake technique this one is free- http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2044

Emerald Void: If you use the 5 amber drake technique this one is free- http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2045

- Medium -


Volunteer Work: Pull to the corner (you can also dps the adds down to 10ish pct and she's supposed to get less of a buff) - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2056

Watch Him Die: Poison and disease cleanse totems are helpful. Kill the adds but not the watchers. There's a trick with the ledge although I'm not sure if this would be considered an exploit - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2036

Abuse the Ooze: dps boss to 30%, wait for 5 oozes to spawn and dps boss to 20 % (no more ooze will spawn) - wait for the ooze to convert to large - kill them and boss - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1866

Chaos Theory: Fairly easy but requires some movement - keep party at max range from tank and dps to invulnerable stage, kill adds until he's vulnerable again and kite away from rift. Rinse repeat - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2037

Hadronox Denied: lots of bugs to do this achievement but requires some luck and/or good gear if you do it the right way - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1297

Brann Spanking' New: The event itself is tricky and annoying, but if you have it under control, the achievement is fairly easy, just keep group at stairs - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2154

Gotta Go!: Easier post-3.0.8 where the timer is now 4 minutes (I got it while farming the wand without actually trying) - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1860

- Hard -

Volazj's Quick Demise: Tricky one. With the right amount of dps you can get him below 30% before the first insanity is cast which will cause him to remain targetable while he immediately starts casting the second insanity. With the right amount of dps you can kill him before second insanity is cast (for an impressive 20ish second kill) - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1862

Split Personality: difficult unless you use the the outside-the-room bug - in any event they images should be AE'd - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2150

Share The Love: tricky tricky stuff! the tank doesn't get impaled so you need someone to offtank it and keep aggro while waiting to impale the tank. It is very possible to multibox, but you need either incredible luck getting your tank impaled or you need to respec a party member so you have two tanks - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2152

- Unknown -

Experienced Drake Rider - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1871

Amber Void - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2046

Make it Count - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1868

[Kaynin]

-easy-

Experienced Drake Rider - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1871

Kinda speaks for itself, just need to beat him on a emerald/amber and ruby drake.

-normal-

Ruby Void - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2044

Go 5x emerald, keep flying in wide circles around the edge spamming leech and healing the one that takes the bosses blows. Keep moving so whelps never catch up. Takes a while but quite doable. Mboxable too with the follow focus now I reckon.

Amber Void - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2046

Go 5x emerald, keep flying in wide circles around the edge spamming leech and healing the one that takes the bosses blows. Keep moving so whelps never catch up. Takes a while but quite doable. Mboxable too with the follow focus now I reckon.

-hard-

Make it Count - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1868

Doable but very hard, can't make a single mistake really, it's one of the few I haven't done yet, got close to it tho.

Emerald Void - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2045

Also pretty hard, can do it two ways, mbox way I'd say go 5x amber. You'll need a perfect dps rotation to do this. Split up your group, 1 drake and 4 drakes.

The one drake starts with time stop followed by channeling temporal rift. The other drakes just to shock lance for now. When the one drake got 10 charges on the boss (takes a few seconds) the 4 other drakes all do temporal rift quickly, then the one drake does one shock lance immidiatly followed by temporal rift channel. When that drake's shock lance lands, the other four quickly do shock lance followed by temporal, when their temporal is up again, the one drake quickly does shock lance. Etc, etc. This way every shock lance does 150k and you can nuke the boss down in seconds.

The other way is having two amber, two ruby drakes and a healer on an outer platform. But might prove very difficult to multibox.




I currently need 4 more achievements for the red proto drake on my main, I've been doing it with guildies and not always with more shamans. :<

[Kaynin]

Watch Him Die: Poison and disease cleanse totems are helpful. Kill the adds but not the watchers. There's a trick with the ledge although I'm not sure if this would be considered an exploit - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2036

The way I did it is by having the tank body pull, have an earth elemental up at the corner before the room and have the healer heal and take aggro of all adds and run to entrance. tank and 3 dps nuke boss, and tada


Gotta Go is rather hard atm, requires a warlock and a 4dps/1tank group before the patch, should be very doable now.


Less Rabi requires a mage, imo, to take the third transformation.

[KvdM]

Volunteer Work: Pull to tunnel - done -

This no longer works, a group of guards spawns between the tunnel and the spawn area of the boss. The way to get this achievement is to tank the boss at the corner of the plateau where she spawns. Just dps the volunteers to 10% (the achievements only mentions killing the volunteers, dps'ing them is allowed). Since the duration of the berserk mode depends on how much health the volunteer has when it gets sacrificed, the berserk mode will have worn off before she reaches the tank.

Or take a druid tank with 45k health and simply heal through the berserk.

[puppychow]

Just curious but how many people are going hardcore for this achievement? I think its totally doable by a multiboxer, I've gotten about 30% of them without even knowing/trying, I am tempted to slowly grind away at the rest to see if I can get it done x5 -- 5 red protodrakes would be AWESOME!

Has anyone done the Nexus ones? I think my strat will be to focus on one instance at a time and get the achievements done, the Nexus is so damn far away I'd like to just get that one first. I cleared the instance today but got none of the achievements (lol) -- problems I had were:

1. I just couldn't kill the 3 adds at the same time, between chain lightning and the miniboss going immune when blizzard what a PITA! I think i'll eventually get it done though, I'd like to just go through 1 split phase so if anyone has tips that'd be great. It took me 2 split phases today.

2. I got frozen a bunch of times on the last boss, making it impossible to get that achievement (get 2 stacks only). Is there some trick to this? Grounding totems didn't seem to be doing anything. Do you just have to dispell when you get frozen to the ground? Otherwise I just cast, jump, cast, jump, etc and its no problem, but obviously getting stuck to the ground makes getting more than 2 stacks likely.

[Hachoo]

Just curious but how many people are going hardcore for this achievement? I think its totally doable by a multiboxer, I've gotten about 30% of them without even knowing/trying, I am tempted to slowly grind away at the rest to see if I can get it done x5 -- 5 red protodrakes would be AWESOME!

Has anyone done the Nexus ones? I think my strat will be to focus on one instance at a time and get the achievements done, the Nexus is so damn far away I'd like to just get that one first. I cleared the instance today but got none of the achievements (lol) -- problems I had were:

1. I just couldn't kill the 3 adds at the same time, between chain lightning and the miniboss going immune when blizzard what a PITA! I think i'll eventually get it done though, I'd like to just go through 1 split phase so if anyone has tips that'd be great. It took me 2 split phases today.

2. I got frozen a bunch of times on the last boss, making it impossible to get that achievement (get 2 stacks only). Is there some trick to this? Grounding totems didn't seem to be doing anything. Do you just have to dispell when you get frozen to the ground? Otherwise I just cast, jump, cast, jump, etc and its no problem, but obviously getting stuck to the ground makes getting more than 2 stacks likely.

For #1 - for shamans, I imagine the easiest way to do this would be to actually fight the boss with the shamans in the room (yeah, sucks) and then kill the 3 clones ONLY with magma totem + DnD (consecrate) + Unholy Blight (DK only). You might be able to add a 4x chain lightning in on 1, and then a 4x lava burst on one other to kill all 3 within 5 seconds as well, but no /castrandoms.

[Zub]

Volunteer Work: Pull to tunnel - done -

This no longer works, a group of guards spawns between the tunnel and the spawn area of the boss. The way to get this achievement is to tank the boss at the corner of the plateau where she spawns. Just dps the volunteers to 10% (the achievements only mentions killing the volunteers, dps'ing them is allowed). Since the duration of the berserk mode depends on how much health the volunteer has when it gets sacrificed, the berserk mode will have worn off before she reaches the tank.

Or take a druid tank with 45k health and simply heal through the berserk.

Did this on my paly healer, just overhealed the tank (33K hp) for the duration of the berzerk.
All melees were away during the berzerk time, and another prot paly (who was dps for that fight) helped with healing.

[Alemi]

For #1 - for shamans, I imagine the easiest way to do this would be to actually fight the boss with the shamans in the room (yeah, sucks) and then kill the 3 clones ONLY with magma totem + DnD (consecrate) + Unholy Blight (DK only). You might be able to add a 4x chain lightning in on 1, and then a 4x lava burst on one other to kill all 3 within 5 seconds as well, but no /castrandoms.

This is highly unlikely, as you'll go oom having to heal through the blizzards/time stops/polymorphs.

I almost had this earlier, but the arcane clone came out of hex and time stopped me, screwing my achievement. The easiest way to do this is to hex 2, dps 1 down to 5-10%, hex that one, switch to the next one, rinse repeat. I may go back later.

The bronzebeard event is a pita to box, much less go for the achievement. I've was working on this over the past week a few hours here and there. Phase 3 is just insanity (and this coming from someone who 4 boxed Grobbulus 4 pre-nerf), dark matter increasing the damage taken by 100%/decreasing movement by 50% and then searing gazes, along with stormcallers pelting you, and the melee hits and charges, it's quite insane.

As far as Intense Cold goes, it's pretty impossible without a pally/priest to dispel the Crystal Chains. However, I will be giving it a go with my Medallion of the Horde and Free Action Pots.

Volunteer Work I found incredibly easy with a dk/4 shamans.

The Party's Over is easy, no need to resort to exploit tactics, or encourage them here.

[Fuzzyboy]

I just did consumption junction by accident. No LoS'ing, just heroism + trinkets + button spam. On of my shamans reached 4800 dps (!) - mostly crit luck I guess, but still nice

[mrmcgee21]

Quick Demise of Herald Volashz and Less rabi seem unboxable to me. Intense cold is very easy to do if you do it 2 at a time. You can 3 man the boss and let 2 chars stand at the zone in out of range of the aura, they will get the achievement. Magma totems deffinately work very well for the Mutiple Personality achievement as well. Also on Watch Him Die we killed the first watcher's adds, pulled and killed the 2nd watchers adds, then left the 3rd watcher ( far right one ) and burned the boss, takes some luck though. Had a friend playing his prot pallie tanking but I was 4 boxing for that one.