Cata - Heroic Shadowfang Keep

[olibri1]

Here's a link to his tank:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...eetsome/simple

Congrats, man. I am so glad to see that people are finishing heroics. I just spent a frustrating weekend on some and finally gave up. I ran a few solo with PUGs, which was mostly a disaster.

My tank is a druid as well, so I see you ran into the same problem finding good boots . For reference, here's my tank:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte.../olibri/simple

I'll try to give HSFK a try. Maybe I'll have better luck .

[crowdx]

Here's a link to his tank:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...eetsome/simple

Congrats, man. I am so glad to see that people are finishing heroics. I just spent a frustrating weekend on some and finally gave up. I ran a few solo with PUGs, which was mostly a disaster.

My tank is a druid as well, so I see you ran into the same problem finding good boots . For reference, here's my tank:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte.../olibri/simple

I'll try to give HSFK a try. Maybe I'll have better luck .

So here is a "DUH" moment for me, I was looking at all the reforging on the gear and went "oh yeah, I can change some of the stats now" LMAO

[olibri1]

So here is a "DUH" moment for me, I was looking at all the reforging on the gear and went "oh yeah, I can change some of the stats now" LMAO

Yeah...actually the whole thing is pretty time consuming. After I got to 85 I literally spent HOURS reforging, gemming, and enchanting for my team. It is so much to manage. In fact one thing that maybe isn't obvious to us playing multiple toons is that some items that would otherwise be inappropriate for your character but available (like a rep reward) can be reforged into something useful. For example there's a spirit cloak that was great for my holy priest and ele shaman, but no good for my lock and mage until I realized that I could reforge half the spirit into something else!

[Kalros]

Ok, maybe I'm missing something here, but I am having some serious problems with the 3rd boss. I tank him in the hallway, pick up the adds and burn them down, and get back on the boss. That part is easy.

The problem is, he does a TON of damage to my tank, and the healer just cannot keep up. Also, the DPS start getting low on mana, and he'll only be down to about 65% health. My Mage pulls around 9.5K DPS and the Shamen do about 8.5K. Everyone is in a minimum of 333 gear, but alot of 346/359 gear as well.

I have been able to kill about 7 Heroic bosses now, but this guy is just destroying me.

Any thoughts?

Oh, and group comp is Blood DK, Holy Paladin, 2x Elemental Shaman, 1x Arcane Mage.

[Alemi]

Springvale is by far the toughest in that instance, imho (walden requires a bit of luck)...

The adds he summons HAVE to be burned down fast and you HAVE to interrupt the Unholy Empowerment (if it goes off it's a 4% heal on Springvale and gives him and unholy charge, and I think the heal is the worst part). I thank him about halfway down the stairs with my bear's butt in the wall to the right, so I don't have to worry about a mob getting that 1 degree to my side and being unable to dodge. And then I'm constantly tabbing (like every 2 seconds to pick up and taunt the add, burn him down, interrupt, and get back on the boss). You can also move out of his descration if you find mana to be an issue... I do not because I find that I'll miss an add since they seem to be random spawns and then I'm eating back attacks.

[Kalros]

One thing I'm considering doing is making CC macros specifically for that fight. Something like:

/target Jerky Mcdouchebag
/cast polymorph

-and-

/target Dickwad dingleberry
/cast Hex

And just spam those as soon as he calls his adds, this way I can take care of them individually.

[Alemi]

Undead mobs.

No poly.
No hex.

Only pally & priest cc on those.

Yes, it makes me sad too.

I did make those hex macros for the Lady Naj'zar fight however.

[Kalros]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO! I forgot they were undead.

Maybe a Turn Evil on the Paladin?

[Alemi]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO! I forgot they were undead.

Maybe a Turn Evil on the Paladin?

Yeah. And shackle from a priest... that's it for cc on the undead. But if you're having issues with healing, using the holy pally to cc might not be a good idea unless you have it glyphed. I'm also not a huge fan of fear as a cc since they can come back and hide in walls.

Pesky mobs.

P.S. You can just skip him until you've got better gear. Walden is a PITA.

[Reprisal]

My elemental shamans do around 11k dps on that fight and the pally pulls about 7, then the 4 fire elementals pull around another 10k dps so I'm not having to hard of a time with it, but I can see how it could be a pain. My shamans are all around 335, the tank is now 345 from the blacksmith crafting epics and rep gear. Took me two tries earlier today, but I spent to much mana at the start. Pally tank can holy wrath when the adds come, not sure about dks. I geared my dk to a 5400 gearscore in wotlk and still didn't like him so i switched to a paladin. I also use a cooldown every time a group of adds come. Do whatever ability you have to regain mana whenever it comes up, i just spam riptide and two healing waves on my shaman, healing surge when i absolutely have to and only after a riptide so it has an increased chance to crit.