Maybe I'm a bad druid... advice?Follow

This is advice for something specific: I want to solo. And not just anything, but old game content.

For a while now I've desires to get my tier 0 gear, which means I'm trudging through the old instances. I have 5 pieces so far... just missing the three hardest ones (chest, legs, helm). That means I need to kill the end bosses of Stratholme (UD), Scholomance, and Upper Blackrock Spire. I know UBRS solo is out of the question, but Stratholme and Scholo seem doable.

I ran Scholo a while back; managed to get to the 6 rooms before the Instructor. I don't think I died, although I probably would on Lord Barov. I tried Stratholme yesterday, and maybe I'm just out of practice, but that place is KICKING my behind. I couldn't even down the spider boss (got to about 60%, then got royally eaten by all his bugs). So I need some strategies, and maybe a talent review.

Most of my fights go like this:
-Enrage in bear form for rage
- When enrage fades, engage enemy.
-If the enemy has adds, swipe. Otherwise, just faerie fire + Maul + Mangle. No use for Lacerate when solo.
-Enemy is usually unstunnable, so I only use my feral rejuvination spell (can't think of it right now)
-Hope I kill the guy before my health falls again.

I definitely feel like I'm missing a key point... or three.

My stuff isn't horrible, but it's just a bunch of level 65+ gear. The only epics I have are Haramad's Bargain and the Staff of Natural Fury. Any other easy-to-get pieces I could use? I do have all the Heavy Clefthoof tanking pieces as well, filled out with stamina stuff; they raise my health by about 2000, but I also lose a ton of agility and strength. Thank you for any help :D

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Sen%27jin&n=Aureliano

For soloing elites, nothing works quite so well as tank gear. Personally, I also equip a Mark of Conquest. Usually just the hp regeneration from it and Imp. Leader of the Pack are enough to keep me topped off unless the enemy hits exceptionally hard.

If the enemy goes hit hard enough to warrant healing, a Regrowth/Rejuvenation pre-battle helps. Also, with adds it may be better to focus on getting them down first, especially if the enemy spawns them at a certain % of hp remaining. Swipe is great simply for how much rage it can generate.

My tanking gear in caster form is still equivalent to mail armor (or better, comparing with most of my friends at 70), so hitting Barkskin to cast and shift at once followed by healing spells, was usually a sound tactic. I never had something start hitting me so brutally that it made shifting out to heal (with Barkskin at least) a non-option.

Don't discount lacerate with 5 stacks it ticks pretty well. Not a waste of rage on those stubborn elites.

UBRS requires a minimum of 3 people to click the stone to unleash the first fire elemental boss.
I ran it recently for Ony and BWL attuments on my 70 druid. our run as
me, 70 druid feral/tank
70 pali healer
70 mage
66 hunter

it was tough, but not all that hard. mage T0 chest droped off drake, nothing special, but i was happy to be attuned for ony.
If Shadowcraft or wildheart chest would have dropped i would have "needed" and added them to my collection of old gear in the bank.

a tank +dps or a tank+healer combo should be enough to handle Strath live or Dead and Scholo.
...Baron is tough though...might need 3 for him because the skelli;s he spawns that go right for the healer usually.
...Edit...for rookery....
....Rookery...still kicked our a$$es though....wipe for the lose. we didnt have enought DPS fast enough to kill the big dragons...if the big dragons live..they open eggs...once the eggs start opening....good luck.

...and no one had epic type gear...just blues/greens from leveling and dungens and what not.

[i][sm]Edited, Dec 14th 2007 6:23pm by *********************************

I run strat ud daily a few times. Doin it in sortof decent hybrid tankin/dps gear (u can look up Atnip norg serv on armory)

Thing to remember is u don't need ungodly amounts of armor for old instances, you cap at 75% damage mitigation at around 22k armor vs lv62.

For Baron I first get medallion and turn in toget npc help w him. I use shadow prot pot rest > rej > bear then engage him. Make sure u swipe his adds fast or he will usem to heal himself. I normally have around 40-50% health left at end of fight. That spider is actually hardest one I think I finish w 25% health on him. Get lots of stamina so improved lotp is maximized.

Bumping this for more strategy advice;

so I'm batting 2/6 on the Baron right now, but using the Medallion and getting more shadow resistance seem like a sure-fire way to up my odds. My next challenge is soloing Scholomance. This will take longer, obviously. My main problem, as I see it, is Lord Alexei Barov. Gandling, truthfully, sounds like a pushover.

This fight is going to be tough because of three things:

1. A curse that reduces healing by 75% for 15 seconds. Hopefully won;t be spammed.
2. 150 DPS Unholy Aura (same as Rivendare... I hate Death Knights)
3. Two guards that are linked to the boss

Any suggestions? Stock up on shadow resistance? Get new gems? What would you guys do?

Note: I can't even try anything until January because I'm home for the holidays, but advice is helpful and rate-ups are given! Thanks again!

emm I'd go

ff.
demo roar,
buid rage,
mangle,
laceratex 2-3
mangle.
build rage,
ff
lacerate 2
mangle,
demo roar,

keep lacerate and demo topped while spamming swipe or mangle while it's up.