Ashes of Al'ar! \o/

[Peter T.]

YAY!

More than 200 attempts. Finally. :)

[Catriona R]

Post by Peter T.
YAY!
More than 200 attempts. Finally. :)

Oh wow, congrats! Bet you're delighted! :-)

I've run out of steam on my mount farming, was doing quite a lot but
haven't hit lucky onm any of the raid ones (dungeon mounts are easier
due to the daily cd), only one I have got so far is the Azure Drake
from Malygos, it's pretty nice, but not on a lvl with that phoenix,
I'm jealous! ;-)

[John Gordon]

Post by Peter T.
More than 200 attempts. Finally. :)

Grats! I got lucky, it only took me about 25 tries.

Now for Mimiron's head...

[Peter T.]

Post by John Gordon

Post by Peter T.
More than 200 attempts. Finally. :)

Grats! I got lucky, it only took me about 25 tries.
Now for Mimiron's head...

I got Rivendare's Deathcharger in first shot. I wasnt even aware of a
mount drop in Stratholme when the horse dropped. :)

Ulduar is nerfed and has become more doable since patch 6.0.1, no?

[Peter T.]

Post by Peter T.
Ulduar is nerfed and has become more doable since patch 6.0.1, no?

All bosses almost one-shotted on 25man normal. Doable. No mount. :)

[Catriona R]

Post by Peter T.

Post by John Gordon

Post by Peter T.
More than 200 attempts. Finally. :)

Grats! I got lucky, it only took me about 25 tries.
Now for Mimiron's head...

I got Rivendare's Deathcharger in first shot. I wasnt even aware of a
mount drop in Stratholme when the horse dropped. :)

You lucky git :-) Friend of mine did that a few years back lol, he
knew about it alright, commented in guildchat he really wanted it to
drop, a few seconds later there came the achievement!

Post by Peter T.
Ulduar is nerfed and has become more doable since patch 6.0.1, no?

Yeah, totally soloable now, albeit you do have to know and understand
the details of the fight to succeed - I'd learned it with all keepers
up in MoP, and managed at best one keeper up (enough for the meta ach)
duoing with my bf, but that was huge stress and took tons of tries...
tried it with 0 keepers at 100 and went fine, phew!

Apparently it's bugged for shamans though, and they cannot do it; not
sure what the bug exactly is, just that it won't work and they can't
kill him. Maybe that got fixed by now though; I've just not bothered
trying on my shaman!

[Peter T.]

Post by Catriona R
Yeah, totally soloable now, albeit you do have to know and understand
the details of the fight to succeed - I'd learned it with all keepers
up in MoP, and managed at best one keeper up (enough for the meta ach)
duoing with my bf, but that was huge stress and took tons of tries...
tried it with 0 keepers at 100 and went fine, phew!

I've done the last boss a single time in an ach run with a handful of
guildies a year ago. But nobody told me the strats so I just nuked
everything at that time.
Today I also nuked everything, looked where to go, nuked some more,
found a brain, nuked it, teleported back to the initial room and nuked
the boss. Nuke heaven. Suddenly it was dead. And no protectors were
up. :)

But before that I had some probs with Mimiron. My brain was in
nuke-mode as usual. When the pieces got assembled I started nuking the
boss from bottom to top. I had forgot all about the mechanics in that
fight as I hadnt done it in a year or so. So when I had 1-2% HP left I
decided to blink away, tried to avoid everything and yadda. Here I
realized I had to bring down all three parts at the same time just like
the Protectors in SoO. I was a lucky bastard as I managed to kill the
boss with 4-5K HP left. :)

[Peter T.]

Post by Catriona R
Apparently it's bugged for shamans though, and they cannot do it; not
sure what the bug exactly is, just that it won't work and they can't
kill him. Maybe that got fixed by now though; I've just not bothered
trying on my shaman!

Worked fine here on my ele shammy. Remove your lighting shield and
youre good. :)

But I had insta-deaths at the brain on my 90 ww monk and 90 ret pally
despite I had plenty of insanity on both. Annoying. Anyhoo.
Im not sure I would kill the boss in the last phase anyway so I wont
bother with those classes again before they hit lvl 95 or maybe even 100.

[Peter T.]

Post by Peter T.
But I had insta-deaths at the brain on my 90 ww monk and 90 ret pally
despite I had plenty of insanity on both. Annoying. Anyhoo.
Im not sure I would kill the boss in the last phase anyway so I wont
bother with those classes again before they hit lvl 95 or maybe even 100.

Probably an old trick. But I used this hack so I didnt have to kill the
same bosses again and again.

<http://www.wowhead.com/item=45693/mimirons-head#comments:id=2187481>

[John Gordon]

Post by Peter T.
But I had insta-deaths at the brain on my 90 ww monk and 90 ret pally
despite I had plenty of insanity on both. Annoying. Anyhoo.

If you're still in the brain room when the Induce Madness timer runs out,
you go insane, regardless.

[Catriona R]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:57:41 +0000 (UTC), John Gordon

Post by John Gordon

Post by Peter T.
But I had insta-deaths at the brain on my 90 ww monk and 90 ret pally
despite I had plenty of insanity on both. Annoying. Anyhoo.

If you're still in the brain room when the Induce Madness timer runs out,
you go insane, regardless.

Yep, on lvl 90s, probably sounds like not enough dps on the brain to
get out before the timer? I know I couldn't always manage it in one go
at 90, and I was fairly wellgeared by that point (I'm talking really
late on with the best Timeless Isle/Ordos gear I could get and SoO LFR
filling all other slots). Ok, I was a disc priest but still, I was
duoing with my (lesser-geared) bf and we found it worked better with
me doing the brain, so possibly lower gear might be an issue there.
Lvl 100 should be fine though :-)

[Peter T.]

Post by John Gordon

Post by Peter T.
But I had insta-deaths at the brain on my 90 ww monk and 90 ret pally
despite I had plenty of insanity on both. Annoying. Anyhoo.

If you're still in the brain room when the Induce Madness timer runs out,
you go insane, regardless.

Ahaaaa! Thanks. An alternative berserk in solo-mode.

[Catriona R]

Post by Peter T.

Post by John Gordon

Post by Peter T.
But I had insta-deaths at the brain on my 90 ww monk and 90 ret pally
despite I had plenty of insanity on both. Annoying. Anyhoo.

If you're still in the brain room when the Induce Madness timer runs out,
you go insane, regardless.

Ahaaaa! Thanks. An alternative berserk in solo-mode.

On the subject of deaths while soloing, I just tried Dragon Soul solo
for the first time... jeez. 10-man normal, thought I'd play safe and
everything was absolutely fine, easymode... till Spine of Deathwing.

What a hideously complicated mess that is to solo, on the plus side,
once I learned I could stand in the goo to not get thrown off every
time he rolled, then at least I could stay alive long enough to work
it out but still. I was just about getting there when bam, instagib...
what on earth was that, I thought. His enrage timer apparently, I was
too slow :-)

Got it the next time, and then found Madness to be total easymode
after it lol, Spine is clearly the new Karazhan chess, total bitch of
a fight to solo, even when you completely outgear the place. Next week
I'll have to try it on heroic, seeing as there's a mount on Madness
heroic... or maybe it might let me change difficulty when I reach
Madness, I think Spine is bad enough on normal, don't wanna know what
new mechanics heroic adds!

[Urbin]

Post by Peter T.
YAY!
More than 200 attempts. Finally. :)

Wowè Congratulations!

Cheers
Urbin