One boss to go and all Heroics cleared.

[Teslah]

Im curious if you could do this with a set group? Very nice regardless, but someday I hope to find these fights trivial.

I do think it's possible. When I started running into brick walls in heroics I tried mixing things up some and it ended up working for me. The problem with this expansion is it feels like they went out of their way to try to discourage multi-boxing. I am sure that was not their goal, but it sure feels like it sometimes.

In most of the previous 5 mans you could learn a strategy and it would work 90% of the time. This expansion has some fights like that, but then there are extremely random encounters with extra mechanics that are there to intentionally slow you down. General Husam in Lost City and Throngus in GB are perfect examples of this. There is no safe strategy to complete them every single time. The entire floor is exploding, on fire, rumbling or whatever, which makes it extremely difficult to continually be moving, healing, interrupting, ccing and dpsing the boss down. They are chaotic fights that can be very frustrating. It just feels like Blizzard wants everyone going in different directions doing different things to make running more than one account unappealing.

I think if you have a way to dispel, cure poison/disease/curse, interrupt and CC with sheep, hex or whatever you can do pretty much anything. How you put your team together is entirely up to you.

The other key thing I did was switch back to one button macros. I was slowly starting to use more and more detailed and complex two and three button macors. With all the moving and positioning with the new heroics I decided to simplify my macros as much as possible so I could focus on movement, interrupts and cc. With my current one button macros I can get anywhere from 10k to 14k per character on the target dummy with just basic buffs and no heroism/bloodlust. This made things much easier since I only had to hit one key for dps, then one key for interrupts, one key for cc and so on. I was even able to create a decent Ret one key macro that gets him doing dps on par with other melee characters.

Anyway, run what is fun for you. The game will only get easier as it goes along. Once the next tier comes out and they move the 259 gear to the JP vendor it will get much easier. It will be a lot of fun going back to heroics and running through them with better gear. I do think that even with better gear you will still get killed pretty quickly if you stand in the fire too long. They should tone down some of the one hit kill mechanics. If they do that, it will be a lot more fun.

It won't be long. People will start clearing these things in numbers. There is already a hunter who solo'd Heroic VP. That's just the beginning.