Quote:I've managed to die myself to the Light Hope Chapel and Naxxramas with a level 1 character, too. But how did the guy in the above picture manage to get to the various bosses within Naxxramas? I can't even get past the first spider trash mobs, and a death in an instance means that you have to start at the entrance again.

Quote:Probably either Mind Vision (or appropriately similar other class skills), or an Elixir of Dream Vision. I have no idea how far in in terms of distance these bosses are, but EoDV are very popular for videos ;-)

Quote:Where the entrance to Naxxramas supposed to be? I assumed that the grate in the courtyard to Baron Rivendare's abode would be the entrance proper. Like the passage in Upper Blackrock Spire leading to Blackwing Lair.

Quote:Supposedly some Korean guild exploited a bug that allowed them to kill all of the Naxxramas bosses. Here's a list of the various boss loot tables: http://wowwalkthroughs.free.fr/NaxxramasBoss.html

Quote:Yeesh...Looking at that loot, screw AQ40 except to beat each boss once...Everyone but gun using Hunters is set from the looks of it...

Quote:Except if you can't beat the end bosses of AQ40 or get equipped in that gear, you'll have a tough time making much progress in Naxxramas. The spider boss is doable with a little coordination but after experiencing a couple of the other bosses in Naxxramas, oh man, it's clear that the difficulty has definitely been raised a notch.

I would say that if a raid wants to be able to do anything in Naxxramas, it should try to at least get to the point where it can kill the Twin Emps consistently. The first bosses require about that much coordination. The later bosses need a lot more than that, it seems.

Quote:My bet is that the early boss fights in Naxx will probably end up somewhere on the order of Nef/Huhu in difficulty with slide heading up to something more difficult than C'Thun and Ouro for Kel'Thezad himself, but that will be many bosses inbetween that will slowly ramp up the difficulty.

Quote:I would say that if you're in a consistent raid group and want to be able to adventure into Naxxramas but haven't beaten the Twin Emps yet, then I suggest that your raiding party should try to make its goal over the next few weeks to kill the Twin Emps.

Quote:If only we didn't have to get past an idiotic cockblocked encounter to try them.

Quote:If only we didn't have to get past an idiotic cockblocked encounter to try them.

Quote:What's stopping you with Huhu?

Quote:It also seems that the technique we've had most success with, which involved using grounding totems, has been deemed not to fit Blizzard's idea of how the encounter must be defeated, and so will be removed next patch. Using your initiative - or, in the case of the shaman, one of your class's MAJOR DEFINING FEATURES - is clearly a naughty exploit and must be stopped.

• The dps needs to be gentle during the first 70% of the fight, since the tanks need to be able to trade aggro with each other. This is fine, because the first 70% of the fight is not hard on mana. You should be able to do it virtually forever. Just keep the dps nice, slow, and steady.<>
  
• Do not cure poisons unless you need to wake up the main tank who is trying to gain aggro off the other main tank. If you cure the sleep, the target gets a massive nasty poison dot. We have one and only one shaman assigned to cure the sleep off the main tank who is trying to pull aggro. Everyone else is encouraged to take cleanse poison or decursive off their hotbars so that they aren't even tempted to use it.<>
  
• Healing on the first 70% of the fight is really easy. Sure, Huhuran spits out a poison volley that does a dot that does a lot of damage. But once the dot runs its course, a simple bandage or touch of a lightwell will cure most of the damage. The healers shouldn't stress about healing people who aren't the main tanks too much, and instead they should conserve their mana bars for the last 30% of the fight. A few renews scattered about to top people off should be all the healing they should do to non-main tanks. Again, you should be able to do this first 70% of the fight essentially forever, so if healers are running out of mana, your raid is doing something wrong. Either people aren't using bandages or healers are being more aggressive with their heals than they should be.<>
  
• At 32%, dps gets called off until the melee get slept. A little after the melee get slept, then the ranged dps should turn on again so that the melee get woken up a few seconds before Huhuran goes berserk. Everyone quaffs a nature protection potion to help keep themselves up and the moment Huhuran goes berserk, everyone pops their trinkets and cooldowns and goes nuts on her.<>
  [st]Equipment-wise, only the front 16 players need good NR gear, so we place our warriors, rogues and some well NR geared shaman up there. The rest of the raid can and should wear their best dps and healing gear so that when Huhuran goes berserk, Huhuran can be burned quickly and the front 16 can be kept alive well. Some groups say that prayer of healing is enough to keep people up, but I think the only raids who can do that are ones that have really good nature resistance gear -- i.e. ones who have been killing the green dragons for half a year or more. We haven't been doing that and our NR gear is spotty (better now than when we first tackled Huhuran, of course), so what we do is assign one healer, usually a priest, to heal two rogues or warriors. (The front-line shaman keep themselves up). When I'm in this role, I pre-shield my two charges and then spam heals on both of them. I can usually keep them up for a while, but after a bit, it becomes too much and I lose one person along the way. But if I can keep the other guy up, it'll usually be enough to finish Huhuran off before the raid wipes.
  
  Like Vael, the fight doesn't really start until the last 30%. I never undestood why such a big deal was made about the shaman totem trick, because it only really helps you on the first 70% of the fight, which is a piece of cake with or without it.
  
  Edit: Sorry for the badly formatted message before. As I was just finishing the post, I had to run off and I didn't get a chance to preview or edit it.

Quote:I never undestood why such a big deal was made about the shaman totem trick, because it only really helps you on the first 70% of the fight, which is a piece of cake with or without it.