Farming raid mounts w/ saved lockouts (Invincible, Mimirons,Al'Akir)

[slumber]

sorry if i'm resurrecting this thread inappropriately or anything; it's my first post on this forum. D:

i'm wondering if there is a way to save a lockout that enables me to kill from ultraxion to deathwing (last 4 bosses) on heroic mode to get chances at both blazing drake and life-binder's handmaiden.

i tried clearing bosses 1-4 on heroic; no dice, because i guess the heroic lockout has a unique ID, so even if the lockout-saving alt isn't present for bosses 4-8, they're marked as dead the following week upon extending the lockout.

then i tried clearing bosses 1-4 on normal, then extending, going in, and switching to heroic on my main, which seemed to work at first. but when i got to spine, i got a message that basically said, "you cannot engage this encounter on heroic unless you have killed the previous 5 bosses on heroic as well," and i got the same message with deathwing after i tried switching it back to heroic after killing spine on normal.

sorry if this post is confusing; the tl;dr version is: can i save a lockout to madness of deathwing on heroic? i would prefer being able to kill ultraxion through madness all on heroic, so as not to have to set up to separate lockouts.

[Xixillia]

sorry if i'm resurrecting this thread inappropriately or anything; it's my first post on this forum. D:

i'm wondering if there is a way to save a lockout that enables me to kill from ultraxion to deathwing (last 4 bosses) on heroic mode to get chances at both blazing drake and life-binder's handmaiden.

i tried clearing bosses 1-4 on heroic; no dice, because i guess the heroic lockout has a unique ID, so even if the lockout-saving alt isn't present for bosses 4-8, they're marked as dead the following week upon extending the lockout.

then i tried clearing bosses 1-4 on normal, then extending, going in, and switching to heroic on my main, which seemed to work at first. but when i got to spine, i got a message that basically said, "you cannot engage this encounter on heroic unless you have killed the previous 5 bosses on heroic as well," and i got the same message with deathwing after i tried switching it back to heroic after killing spine on normal.

sorry if this post is confusing; the tl;dr version is: can i save a lockout to madness of deathwing on heroic? i would prefer being able to kill ultraxion through madness all on heroic, so as not to have to set up to separate lockouts.

i think the way we did it was to kill the first x number of bosses on the highest level of difficulty that you can do, (10 or 25 hm) while having an alt of proper level in the instance. Then the next week, extend the raid with the alt, run in before inviting set to heroic inside the instance and then invite people. Once the first toon enters the instance have the alt drop group. It has been a few months but I'm pretty sure that that should work. Don't accept the save to normal mode, if you accept the save to normal mode when you run the alt in, that royally messes up the lockouts just run in and set to heroic.

[slumber]

i think the way we did it was to kill the first x number of bosses on the highest level of difficulty that you can do, (10 or 25 hm) while having an alt of proper level in the instance. Then the next week, extend the raid with the alt, run in before inviting set to heroic inside the instance and then invite people. Once the first toon enters the instance have the alt drop group. It has been a few months but I'm pretty sure that that should work. Don't accept the save to normal mode, if you accept the save to normal mode when you run the alt in, that royally messes up the lockouts just run in and set to heroic.

okay -- this is what i was doing, but maybe accepting the normal-mode save prior to setting to HM once inside the instance was what was messing it up. as soon as i set it to HM, it would say "8/8 bosses defeated," as if the heroic lockout had been completed even though the alt that saved the 4/8 lockout hadn't been present for the final four kills.