For those who don’t know, you get this secret mount if you solo Plaguefall on heroic (or mythic, but come on…). Back then you could skip the first 2 bosses, but not anymore.
I usually play balance and resto, and not familiar with the other 2 specs, so during 9.0 I couldn’t come anywhere near beating the third boss, Domina Venomblade. But now, since the item level is higher (246 for my balance and resto set, 242 for guardian), I thought I could give this challenge another try. Here are my results:
Boss 1, Globgrog
This one is really easy as Balance. Just burst it down, heal when needed and mass root the small slimes. By some good kiting, I could group together the first 2 sets of slimes without the boss ever eating one. It died soon after.
Boss 2, Dr. Ickus
I imagine this will be the most problematic boss for most classes, and it wasn’t even required during 9.0. The main issue is the slime injection debuff which is Magic, so removal is out of the question unless playing as Resto.
I tried a lot with Balance, and by opening with Incarnation + Convoke and then drums, I could trigger phase 2 without him casting slime injection, but after that, it became increasingly hard, especially with the adds present, and having to stay in melee range.
It is possible to dodge slime injection with a well-times soulshape, but the window is so tiny, and you can realisticly only do it once. I reached phase 3 a few times, but by that time I was out of cooldowns and couldn’t keep up with the stack.
Guardian was a no-go, the stack ate me by the time I reached phase 2.
So I opted for Resto which was still tricky. Basically, Moonkin Convoke was necessary for the adds at the beginning of phase 2 and 3, so the strat was:
- slowly damage the boss during p1, keeping myself alive
- Convoke when adds arrive then drums, focus the bomb (alternatively, I guess you can survive the explosion with Barkskin+Ironbark)
- slowly damage again, waiting for Convoke to come back before triggering p3.
- Heart of the Wild + Convoke phase 3
Boss 3, Domina Venomblade
This one proved to be impossible as balance or resto, the damage is just too high. Thankfully, now I could do it with guardian after crafting a rank 4 of the legendary which buffs Thrash which is great for clearing the adds. Not much to add, slow, but smooth if you know what you are doing.
Boss 4, Margave Stradama
Tried with Guardian first, but couldn’t kill the adds fast enough, so switched to Balance. At first I struggled in phase 2 since I had no Convoke, but Heart of the Wild + heals + drums did the job.
Overall, it was a fun solo challenge, and it was kinda funny how many different builds these bosses all but required. Kind of a shame that many classes won’t be able to do it at all, because of boss 2 and 3.
Just thought I’d share.
Anyone else solo’d it, maybe with other tactics?
I know there is a debuff removing potion that you can pick up in Bastion, but it wasn’t there when I checked and god knows how often if respawns. With that, I probably could have done Ickus as Balance too.