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A few weeks ago I soloed Thrym (the big giant in Zul'Drak) and I'm trying to decide what the next step up is. I don't think I could manage Doomwalker, but haven't tried.

Any suggestions?

Have you soloed every Outland heroic? Only ones I'm missing are Shadow Labs (Murmur will suck), Heroic MGT (need to figure out a way to survive a Pyroblast), and Black Morass (just been too lazy to do it).

Solo Heroic MGT and I'll be quite impressed. Share strats, if you could!

Theory if you're a Night Elf. Call a combat-pet (lots available from trinkets) and shadowmeld to drop aggro. That should make him drop target and stop casting. Normally he'd also reset since you're alone, but possibly that the presence of a pet will prevent that. Resume combat before the pet dies. Win!

I'd try it myself but I'm afraid I wouldn't even make it TO the last boss. I can solo regular, but heroic is a bit beyond my gear level I'm afraid.

Died four times in Heroic: MGT and called it a night :-P Died the first time on the Voidwalker-esque boss. Second time was on the Priestess's group; I managed to kill all but two of them before snuffing it. Finally made it to Kael. First time I started in cat but took WAY too much damage and had to immediately switch to bear. Was killed by a buggy flamestrike (I moved out of it but I still got the dot). Second attempt was the best. I got him down to Pyroblast phase with about 60% hp left, but hit Shadowmeld before my Peasant collar. Oops. Reset the encounter, but ran in too quickly before my cooldowns were up. Not that it mattered much; I took a ton of damage from his fireballs anyway and died shortly after the first phoenix spawn (~30 seconds).

Main problem I see with my Peasant collar is that the guys summoned will be really week, and a second phoenix spawns at the Pyroblast phase and does an AoE. I think it might kill them before Pyroblast finishes casting. I suppose we'll see! I should try again; it was rather fun, and I still need that achievement :-P

Also, I noticed that I did not partially resist any of Kael'thas's fireballs. Seemed odd. Also it stinks getting hit for 5k damage every few seconds :-P

You cannot interupt the pyroblast, its not supposed to be interuptable, you're supposed to dps him down faster so pyro doesnt happen. You can interupt the fireballs easily enough however.

Well, to be fair the "accepted" feral way to solo this involves getting Kael to 50% health within a minute so he goes to phase 2 instead of Pyro-ing you. I found it too tough; I got him to 60% before he first pyro'ed... but I was doing it as bear. Which I seemed to need, in order to survive. Bah, who knows...

Soloing older content is one of my favorite pastimes on my feral. I have managed to finish HMgt a few times, the trick is to just dps Kael down fast enough as others have mentioned. I found what works for me is to open in kitty, get a few quick bleeds (ravage, then rip) and switch to bear. (Saving the mangle for bear.) Since he phyiscally hits like a girl, wear a few of your dps pieces instead of your tank gear. You can easily push him to phase 2 this way before the pyroblast. If you take a few big hits pop your frenzied regen and SI here. Then "swim" to the door, casting a suite of HoTs on yourself. With the changes to innervate, once you're done healing, you're full mana again by the time you're dodging the balls back to him. Once there kitty him silly. The dps output in cat makes outweighs the survivablity of bear form at this point. Usually I have to re-dodge the balls back to the door, to pull them away for some more time to dps him down, but eventually the bleeds get him.


Bear in mind, that your dps output is easily 4-5 times what it was at 70. IIRC the shield he put up to interrupt the pyroblast took 10k to bring down, and was the challenge for the tank and 3 dps back in the day. That's a crit or two regular hits for a geared 80.
So far, no mount yet. (Although I did get the pet on my first attempt.) I hope it takes less than the 57 runs of Sethik it took me to get the raven mount to drop!

Thank you for this advice; I don't know if this was what did it, but I managed to splatter Kael'Thas on heroic using this technique. I would open with a bleed (not ravage), hit SR, wait to 5 CP, rip, and then go to bear. Worked wonderfully... and the fight is a joke when you hit phase 2. No mount, but now I know I can do it.

Priestess Delrissa is probably the toughest fight when you get Apoko in the party. Two healers, ugh. I just have to outlast them until they both go OOM, then kill everyone.

Fun fact: when you first enter the heroic instance you can use catform to track humanoids and see what group comp the Priestess has. If you see Apoko, leave the instance, switch to Normal, then switch back to heroic; as long as you have killed no bosses yet, it resets the instance. Just keep doing it until you have no more Apoko!

I find the Priestess fight tougher than the Kael fight now, honestly. You just need to make sure your cooldowns are up for both. Using Berserk on the Priestess fight is awesome if you time it right (when you have three of them around half health should be perfect; two will die while the Priestess self-heals. KILL THE NAGA FIRST!!!)

Well, managed to solo half of Molten Core. Lucifron, Magmadar, Garr (SO EASY), and Shazzrah. I died on Gehennas after downing his two adds; I might need shadow protection for that. Same with Baron Geddon; even with 275 FR I was torn a new one. Sulfuron Harbinger also handed me my own behind; got him to about half health, but all of his adds still had 2/3 mana left... yeah... might need shadow resistance for that as well, maybe?