mercredi 26 octobre 2011

How to: Temple of Ahn'Quiraj

The temple of Ahn'Quiraj can be farmed for Brood of Nozdormu and Cenarion Circle reputation.

The prophet Skeram
Gear: 0/5
Strategy: 1/5

You will want to use a ferocity pet.
Remember: he has a 35 yards range mind control.

There are two ways to kill him:
1:Stay at maximum range, misdirect on your pet, feign death when he splits and let your pet handle the images (you can also let your pet do all the work, just remember to damage him to get your loot).

2: dismiss pet, and solo him without your pet. Works best if you are on the platform behind him: he will lose time after each split/teleport taking the stairs before coming back in melee. Requires good gear.

x3Bug Trio
Gear: 2/5
Strategy: 1/5

Focus Yauj while using rapid fire, readiness after using silencing shot, interrupting all the heals you can, standing with your back against a wall (because of Vem's knockback). You may want ti use a pvp trinket for her fear. Once she is dead, kill the rest.


Sartura

Fankriss

Huhuran
Gear: 0/5
Startegy: 0/5

Dps and loot.


Viscidus
Gear: 0/5
Strategy: 2/5

Use a ferocity pet with full dps spec.
The easiest way to kill him is to put him down at 1 hp, then use the Brunnhildar Bow to freeze him. You need 200 frost hits.
At 199 hits (use recount or another dps analyser), drop snake trap, them wait for its CD to end. Kite Viscidus over the trap, freeze him, then pop another snake trap. You should be well over the 5 hits/second mark. However, you need to do a minimum amount of damage: use Kill command, raptor strike, everything. He sould die then.

x2
Twin Emperors
Gear: 0/5 or 5/5
Strategy: 1/5

Legit method:
Most likely, the first hunter solo of this boss will be to kill them through their self-heal. Basically, it means focus Vek'nilash with an aimed shot hardcast rotation, use Widow venom on him (tested, it works), and quickly kill mutated bugs. It requires more than 20K dps.

Farming method:
Misdirect Vek'nilash on your pet with the following macro:

/cast Widow Venom
/stopcasting
/cast Feign Death


Dps him to 1%, then attack Vek'lor with arcane/cobra shots (stay well away from your pet to avoid self-heals).
NOTE: I heard the bug had been fixed, so it probably doesn't work anymore.

Ouro
Gear: 0/5
Strategy: 0/5

Pull and loot.


C'thun
Gear: unknown
Strategy: unknown

Legit method:
Not found yet. Maybe if you one-shot the tentacles (25K hp) inside his stomach, you won't die? He kills you about 5 seconds after he eats you, but I don't know if he kills you after he is weakened.

Farming (if you consider a possibly 1-3 hours fight farming) method.
If you really do not want to bring a friend... Well, first thing: don't solo Ouro. Simply pull him, then go say hello to C'thun. When he ports you inside his stomach, Ouro will port you outside. The downside is, you will seldom have the time to dps the flesh tentacles: make a macro and spam it.
Once you are outside, run into C'thun to get knocked back. If you don't, he will not eat you again. And you will stack digestive acid. And you will die.

Dps C'thun during you spare time. If you can't kill the flesh tentacles, you are in for a veeeeeeery long fight (999K hp, 99% reduced damage = 99 million damage needed).


lundi 24 octobre 2011

How to: Blackwing Lair.

For these soloing guides, we'll start from the beginning.
I won't be doing Molten Core or Ruins af Ahn'Quiraj guide, they were doable at level 80, so figure at level 85.

So, Blackwing lair is the only level 60 raid whose bosses drop 120 -200 gold each (200+ for the two last), and a no-wipe run can take one hour, making it profitable.

Razorgore the Untamed
Gear: 0/5
Strategy: 2/5

The main problem is phase 1: you must manage to despawn adds without them respawning later.
Step 1: Quickly kill the two guards near Grethok. Don't kill him! Do not do too much damage on Razorgore, just enough to keep aggro. You can also misdirect him to a pet (in passive/stay stance) to avoid stuns and disorients.

Step 2 : Once the adds have spawned: jump to the very small ledge on the west side on the room, go to the end of it, turn your back and jump-disengage. Get on the platform, and make sure Razorgore has aggro on you (dismiss pet if you had it out). He should heal to full and go in evade mode.
After a while, Grethok will tell everyone to go back to their posts. Jump down before Razorgore resets, kill the guards, and take control of Razorgore with the orb.

Step 3:  Use Razorgore to destroy the eggs. Grethok should have aggro on him, and he melees hard (3-5K on the boss). Simply run away from him (as the boss) while destroy eggs is on CD, as to only be hit by the weak arcane missiles.
Whatever you do, it seems that hitting Grethok will reset the add spawn timer, so once Razorscale is Mind Controlled, don't use any of his dps abilities.

If adds spawn, restart at step 2 until they won't spawn again (unless there are 2-3 eggs still alive, in wich case you should have time to destroy them before the boss dies).

Phase 2 is a tank and spank.

Vaelastraz, 


Lashlayer,


Firemaw, Flamegor.
Gear: 0/5
Strategy: 0/5

Tank and spank. Vaelastraz should be doable in green gear.

Ebonroc
Gear: 0/5
Strategy: 1/5

Once he casts shadow of ebonroc on your pet, wait 2 seconds and taunt. He should put the debuff on you, giving you 8-10 seconds of free dps time.
You can also try to outdps his healing.

Chrommagus
Gear: 2/5
Strategy: 2/5

The safest way to do it is to kill a pack or two for the hourglass sand and use drums of forgotten kings to build up resistance. Then, prepot restorative potion (http://www.wowhead.com/item=9030) and pull.
Whatever your spec, you will want to have both cobra and steady shot in your action bars, since 4 of 5 types of magical damage are reduced at set time.
Dispel brood affliction: Bronze with the hourglass sand, and use a restorative potion if you have 3 or 4 others debuffs.
Use his weakness! Spam arcane shot if he's vulnerable to arcane, explosive shot of it's fire, and cobra shot (with rapid fire) if it's nature, Chimaera/steady/Aimed shot if it's frost or shadow. You should dish out massive damage: misdirect, feign death and misdirect as much as you can!

You should be able to kill him before you transform, if not, you will be MCed for five minutes.

If you feel you are about to transform, you can unequip your weapons and hope your pet will be able to finish him.

It's also possible to pull him, fight him until he has the fire(if SV)/arcane/nature debuff then reset the fight, and use a restorative potion to clear the debuffs.

Nefarian
Gear: 1/5
Strategy: 1/5

Phase 1: Multi-shot, disengage, frost trap, kill the adds.

Phase 2: misdirect Nefarian, finish the adds. Then deal with the hunter call (weapon breaks every 30 seconds).
You can unequip your weapon before each call.
Or use the heirloom bow.
Or use Jeeves (rich engineers only). But it will cost you a lot in repairs.
Or dps with your stick! (and your pet).
Or bring a few spare peashooters.

Explosive trap should be enough for the adds that arrive at 20%.









dimanche 23 octobre 2011

And so it begins...

Hello everyone!
A while ago, Adamjmac told me that the only way to get information on hunter soloing was to navigate through the maze of the http://elitistjerks.com/f74/t43955-hunters_soloing_old_instances_fun_profit/ thread.
This blog has as goal to list hunter soloing news, boss per boss strategies, and technical guides.