Heirloom Tanking Items introduced in Patch 4.1
New heirlooms have been added in the latest build of PTR 4.1. A tanking set is now available from vendors and should make leveling instances much more enjoyable for everyone. Apparently, these new items are available from your regular heirlooms vendors.





Maelstrom Crystals for Honor/Justice in Patch 4.1
You might hate or love this change depending how much time you spend speculating at the AH, but Maelstrom Crystal will be available from Honor and Justice points vendors in Patch 4.1. Someone pointed out that I never posted the price for those, there, have a screenshot.



Jider (Rogue) Solos C'thun & Twin Emperors
You might remember Jider from his past videos of Grobulus and Patchwerk solo kill a few months ago, he's now back in a new video featuring a very ... interesting solo kill of the Twin Emperors and C'thun as a rogue!


From Jider
Phase 1 of C'Thun is quite simple, damage the Eye of C'Thun until 0% which then triggers Phase 2. This phase is significantly more difficult. To start, C'thun has a shield reducing all damage taken by 99% and various adds will spawn throughout the fight. Shortly after Phase 2 begins you will be eaten by a tentacle which is unavoidable and once you are inside his stomach you must kill two Flesh Tentacles to weaken and bring down his shield. The reason this fight was thought to be impossible to solo is after seven seconds of being in the tentacle room you instantly die if you are attempting the encounter alone. Normally, to get out of his stomach you must reach the platform in the center between the two tentacles inside but seven seconds is not enough time to do this.

So, after some theory-crafting I set out to apply clever use of game mechanics and soon enough had a working strategy. I would now pull Ouro to C'Thun's room. Like most bosses when you attempt to evade them they will port you directly to them so I used this ability to my advantage in Phase 2. Once eaten Ouro would perform the necessary task of porting me out and to increase DPS time on the tentacles inside I changed races to Goblin for the Rocket Jump ability. I also changed my spec to subtlety for shadowstep and finally leveled up Engineering for Tazik Shocker (glove enchant). Combined, these three abilities gave me enough time to do damage to the Flesh tentacles and eventually weaken C'Thun and brought the encounter down to a reasonable two hours.

Twin Emperors Explained : Both Emperors share the same health, When one loses health so does the other. Using good timing i pulled Vek'nilash alone while Vek'lor remained out of combat. There for they would not use teleport. And since they are split up they can not heal. Vek'nilash is immune to magic and can only be damaged by physical damage which is why i chose him. Vek'lor is immune to physical damage and can only be damaged by magic. When Vek'nilash dies so does his brother Vek'lor even though he is out of combat.



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This article was originally published in forum thread: Jider Solos C'thun & Twin Emperors, Tanking Heirlooms, Maelstrom Crystals in 4.1 started by Boubouille View original post
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  1. mmoc54571373ba's Avatar
    Tanking heirlooms are made for warriors. Ofcourse...They look warrior-ish.

    Although, nice that maelstrom crystals will be cheaper so you actually can BUY some enchants
  1. Dad's Avatar
    <3 Might set look..gonna buy it for my lvl 85 Tauren Dk :P
  1. lansky52's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Knomad View Post
    I thought a warlock already solo'd C'thun back in Wrath?
    You thought wrong. He only did phase 1 and said phase 2 was impossible to solo. Jider proved him wrong.
  1. Taen's Avatar
    SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE TANKING HEIRLOOMS finally finally finally
  1. Icebear's Avatar
    Nice, tanking heirlooms, yet still no shield? Blizz WTF
  1. Balir's Avatar
    Grrrrr, my little Goblin Warrior is at 67 already dammit. However, my Pally is sitting at 70 and hasn't been touched since we had 71 pt talent trees.....hmmmmm. Reroll me thinks and start again horde side.
  1. Shmazard's Avatar
    sweet, so now plate wearer's will level super fast, im not the only one whose going to level a dps warrior with legs and the new helm, since guild isnt 20 and these appear to be the only legs with %10 exp, tanking lol...
  1. mmoc6d1a2d0551's Avatar
    http://www.wowhead.com/items=4?filter=qu=7;sl=7

    There are more BoA pants and they've been there since Beta
  1. eternalwhitemoon's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by caboose1984 View Post
    hmmm the heirlooms go to 85.. will the exp bonus work till then as well?
    Only the helm goes to 85. The shoulders and chest go to 80, if you look carefully.

    Also that solo vid is ridiculous. I don't know whether to be jealous of his mad skills or his patience.
  1. Alsonia's Avatar
    BoA Pants?
  1. Leodegrance's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by eternalwhitemoon View Post
    Only the helm goes to 85. The shoulders and chest go to 80, if you look carefully.

    Also that solo vid is ridiculous. I don't know whether to be jealous of his mad skills or his patience.
    So you call cheating and exploiting skill now.

    Maybe it was a good thing I quit when I did when cheaters and exploiters become heroes to the masses.
  1. DaGhostDS's Avatar
    twin emperor is an exploit, not a grats on that..
  1. mmoc70c145fdaf's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Leodegrance View Post
    So you call cheating and exploiting skill now.

    Maybe it was a good thing I quit when I did when cheaters and exploiters become heroes to the masses.
    I was about to say something similar...

    youtube info :
    Twin Emperors Explained : Both Emperors share the same health, When one loses health so does the other. Using good timing i pulled Vek'nilash alone while Vek'lor remained out of combat. There for they would not use teleport.
    Good timing my ass, he just found a bug and abused it.
  1. mmocf3b228c4c6's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Leodegrance View Post
    So you call cheating and exploiting skill now.

    Maybe it was a good thing I quit when I did when cheaters and exploiters become heroes to the masses.
    Sadly, seconded.
    The twin ems can't be pulled one at a time on live, so yeah ... kind of an exploit. No idea about C'Thun, but it smells kinda fishy to me.

    Gotta love the MMO report as well
  1. dotSeed's Avatar
    Whilst the C'thun kill was very clever and patient, I have to agree that obviously pulling Vek'n on his own isn't intended and is only really half the boss encounter.
  1. Lawlwut's Avatar
    MMO report made me laugh...but for a different reason than usual.

    "...if you're really lucky, a ghost horse mount! And you're still playing WoW because...?"

    Oh, lawdy! A GHOST HORSE?
  1. Gratlim's Avatar
    Wait, warrior tank heirloom gear without shield O_à i want my shield to farm low lvl bgs with a gimped spec like prot paladin...
  1. Naoto's Avatar
    Time to farm heroics on my tank to buy crystals, gives me shit to do when bored!
  1. Fenz's Avatar
    This "good timing" part of twin emps kill looks more like a bug abuse to me, he just pulled the boss 2 times whenever he felt like it, no super precise timing used. C'thun part is better explained and is clear though.
  1. Sidone's Avatar
    Celestial steed rather!

    Twin Emps smells too fishy. Or again too clever use of game mechanics.

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