Ahn Kahet: The old Kingdom

Achievements we need:

http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2038 - Respect Your Elders
Defeat Elder Nadox in Ahn'kahet on Heroic Difficulty without killing any Ahn'kahar Guardians.
proposed strategy:
joe wears tank gear, kites guardians into the corner, we dps boss as normal
hard spots:
me staying alive; joe getting the guardians on him


http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1862 - Volazj's Quick Demise
Defeat Herald Volazj in Ahn'kahet on Heroic Difficulty in 2 minutes or less.
Proposed strategy:
Joe tanks (protection spec) for improved spell reflection - reflected mind flays help a lot with dps *may or may not be necessary
I will spec into shadow so my insanity clone does not heal and make it harder on you guys to get through insanity
Nick cast army of the dead right before first insanity so it helps you burn through your clones quicker then you can come help us

comment/questions?

fuck lol

its on you tn8

y/n?

y

k

best spec for this heroic i believe is here

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classe...010521330113321

although if you only plan on staying at this spec for this dungeon only then going back to fury, you could easily remove some of the mitigation talents and go further into DPS, such as deep wounds

also noticed i forgot a point in incite (tier 2 prot) in that setup, hm

and rotation is fairly complex, but you can do without perfecting it for a while

shield slam to open up
devastate
shield slam/devastate whenever they are off cooldown
revenge whenever it is available (whenever you block/parry/dodge, its up a lot)
-you have a talent (sword and board) which can proc and make shield slam immediately off cooldown and make the next one cost no rage, whenever this procs you use shield slam
heroic strike is a rage dump just like it is in fury, once youre up 80+ rage, you can throw a couple of these in place of white attacks to burn some rage off for some extra dps
-you can use a glyph (glyph of revenge), that will make the next heroic strike free after every revenge, i think you can macro your revenge skill to also activate heroic strike if you are gonna be using this glyph

sounds complicated, but its really not, rotate 2 skills whenever off cd (just like fury), revenge whenever its active, shield slam whenever SnB procs (just like instant slam in fury), heroic strike to dump rage (just like fury)

defensive abilities you have are shield block (40 second cooldown, use whenever its off cd), shield wall (60% reduction for 15 secs, long cd, use in case of emergency), last stand (grants you 30% of your max hp for a few seconds, use in case of emergency)

you shouldnt have to worry about these during the achievement, but if you burn block+wall right off the bat it will reduce the number of heals you need and allow me to dps longer before healing

i know the rotation, i just dont want/look forward to the added stress of being tank
nick has all my admiration for being tank

rather i would remember the rotation after using it a bit

<3

It won't be that difficult, we will burn through all of the lesser adds, we should only hopefully have 3 Guardians up at a time, and nobody will be attacking them so you shouldn't need to worry about any threat issues (aside from John healing).

I have confidence in you.

oh ya, and for multi-mob tanking youll be using thunder clap + cleave instead of heroic strike, ofc

What my group did was very simple... We managed to do it in 2 tries. What we did was we cleared to first boss without killing the critters (for a reason).
Our group comp was
Feral druid
Prot warrior (me)
Resto druid
Assassination Rogue
Ret pally

What i did, as the warrior, was (using a system of macros) shoot the watcher in the middle, Heroic throw the one on the right, and body pull the one on the left. I used bloodrage (for small amounts of initial aggro).I then intervened the feral druid (stealthed), Charged a spider, and intercepted a roach. This got me halfway up the hallway with the adds. I then turned around, Shield wall + shield block, when that ended, last stand + enraged regen and popped both trinkets, stoneform (since i'm a dwarf), and potted. I lasted about 40 seconds with all the adds on me. Shockwave is your friend, since they all are stunnable. While i did this, the feral druid tanked the boss while everyone else dpsed their brains out. Once i died, the adds started running back towards the group, and since the boss was dead, both druids shadowmelded and the rogue vanished, leaving the poor ret pally to die XD.

Basically, kite to entrance and live for as long as possible . I've done it for 4 separate groups using this strategy.
Good luck ^.^


kinda like that approach tbh

or balls to the wall approach

Did this in two attempts. Basically just zerged. Group was prot warrior, demo lock, mage, enh shaman, resto druid. Warrior just charged in AoE tanked the adds(shock wave, warstomp rotations) shield walled, and killed the boss. We used lust our previous attempt and didn't want to wait 9 minutes so we went without lust. We died afterwards but got the achievement. Adds were despawned on runback. Most of us are in 3/5 t7 with warrior in 4/5

h daily

thats bullshit and impossible, if you dont kite or kill the guardians the boss and everything is invulnerable

and that fist thing is also bullshit

random wowhead comments are pretty much NN for this

im not seeing the approach we tried working but im game nonetheless

what do you forsee is the problem

just that the majority of the posts there talk about kiting them to the entrance

read the date on those
theres 5+ comments refuting that strategy saying that it was hotfixed to enrage as soon as he left his room

still reading comments as of less than a month saying kiting to the entrance worked
dont see anything saying otherwise, but didnt read everything, just a few at the end

the dates of posts on wowhead can be misleading, you can reply to the oldest post and it will show up like you were the 2nd post instead of just quoting it at the end

but still interested in why you dont think this will work?

you take guardians into corner whenever a new one hatches, we kill boss uninterrupted

it seems even easier than doing it the regular way to me

lol

ITT COMMUNICATION AT ITS FINEST

meaning ohh, we are done now?
hmmm

note to m8s

do not say fuck you/fuck off/faggots

possibly some others but i wasnt on vent so

its true, i said fuck off
but only cuz nick said he didnt love me