Druid of the Moon

So in between soloing all this old content I got to thinking, why not enchant my The Undeath Carrier that is collecting dust in the bank with Enchant Weapon – Lifeward.

I have to say going this route made soloing some of this content much easier. First, I only lose armor and mongoose chant switching from my Origin of Nightmares. I gain 1.11% crit however and the ability to get a decent heal with a good proc rate and no hidden cd.

The result was quite surprising. I am sure I have not read everything out there on the web about using this chant to tank but from what I have read even with the patch 3.08 buff to 300HP (600HP crit) heals this chant is still looked down upon for anything but farming or soloing old content.

I would say for the feral druid having a weapon enchanted like this might come in handy for some situational stuff especially AoE swiping. Take a look at the picture…

Lifeward came in at 16.7% of my incoming heals for my mech run. Not bad considering on single target fights I was still using my main tanking weapon instead. FR was 2nd with 21.3% of my incoming heals and ImpLotP was #1 at 54.5%.

Still, 16.7% is pretty amazing, well hell, getting 185938 healing from ImpLotP is just crazy as well. Let me say that if you are serious about testing the limits of soloing content as a bear make sure you don’t go without ImpLotP.

Bottom line is I think on any fights single target or otherwise that comprise only of incoming magic damage or very little physical the UC staff with Lifeward is going to be seeing some action. Watching it proc on the scrolling text was enough to sell me of it’s situational use. I would easily see 300, 300, 600 come up at times within just a couple sec span.

So when you are thinking… Oh no, not Naxx again… think twice if you might be able to get an UC staff to play around with.

Thanks to Eglador I decided to try my hand at soling Heroic MrT. You can go to his site to see the video he made accomplishing the same feat.

This post is for tips on how to do each fight since I have not found it talked about and in the video it is unclear what gear changes are being made or what cooldowns are being used.

I won’t go through each piece of gear I used but needless to say I have 5/5 T7.5 and all the best gear currently in game for the exception of 2D legs and Maly chest.

Selin Fireheart – No trick to him just bear up and tank and spank, didn’t even need CD’s

Vexallus – I died the first try but it was close. 2nd try was still close but I waited a little later to use Survival Instincts and Frenzied Regeneration as well as Berserk. I wore 3 peices of Polar gear on this one for the extra health but used a mix of kitty dps leather and bear accessories. Basically save your Cool Downs until things get really hairy. Make sure you target the sparks as it looked like swipe or maul wasn’t hitting them. Don’t worry too much about almost dying before you kill him, you will be getting 14K mangles so the health he has left right to the end can be misleading. Make sure as soon as he dies to start casting heals on yourself to save a possible run back to collect your loot.

Priestess Delrissa – Just like the video shows. I had the rogue and the pally which really sucked. Just stay targeted on her and eventually they both run out of mana and die. I basically wore my OT set for this. It wasn’t hard at all, had about 18K heath left but I did burn my cool downs in this fight so make sure they are up.

Kael’thas Sunstrider – Died the first time. I was wearing way too much bear gear including the polar stuff and didn’t get him to 50% so I took a pyroblast to the face. 2nd time I went in 5/5 T7.5 and the rest kitty gear except for Origin of Nightmares and Idol of the White Stag and I stayed on him in cat form til the first bird came out. Do your usual raid DPS cat rotation (minus shred) because you need to burn him to 50% as quickly as possible. I did not interrupt any fireballs. When the bird comes I just swiped and mauled it down. I beleive I did target the egg to assure it would break. Don’t forget to run out of his Flame Strike which you can clearly see spinning around you. Just like the video once he uses gravity Lapse run back to the door and heal yourself up but make sure to keep enough mana to shift back to cat form. Once back in cat form you won’t need anymore heals. Continue to avoid his balls of death and scratch his eyes out while swimming around in the air.

Loot, and good luck if you are mount hunting. No big white birdy for me but that’s ok cause I love my Wintersaber mount (which I would gladly stop riding for a spectral tiger).

Heroic Magisters’ Terrace down, many Heroic BC instances to go.

Today I went into Dire Maul to finish off all the classic dungeons for my Achievements.

Last 2 bosses down in the North and West wings.

Then I noticed I was missing 3 Outland dungeons for the BC version of the Achievement.

The Black Stalker – Underbog
Quagmirran – Slave Pens
Keli’dan the Breaker – Blood Furnace

All down solo style.

Keli’dan was the easiest but took the longest because you have to beat all the previous bosses.
Stalker was the fastest but the hardest and had me the closest to death.
Quagmirran wasn’t too bad at all.

Last night I tanked and healed the Headless Horseman fight… at the same time!

/flex

T5 shoulders and pants for the 2T5 bonus of instant HoT FTW. Healed myself between phases.

The rest of the leather was S3 and S4 with tanking accessories and SSC weapon.

Honestly, the DPS was so leet I probably would have been fine without heals… but what fun would that have been?

6 attempts (I had the quest from Goldshire) with not one death (DPS, stay away from his whirl when the head detaches please.)

Grats to my buddy Petsareus on his new (Molten)Core Hound.

I have never had so much fun dying and healing… FYI, don’t try this little stunt unless you have 60+ gold for repairs and spec Resto for the threat reduction.

I guess I should mention this was on the PTR. We are going to Fraps it when we do it on the live server in 2 weeks.