Monk Solo Thread.

[TheWindWalker]

So, I figured I'd try a bit of Bastion of Twilight. Um... any tips for the trash? Some have 100% block chance, and since they attack in groups the amount of HP to get through is phenomenal.

[Dumbfoundead]

Which trash is it? The first trash you'll need to spec distance for paralysis. The patrol with two menders needs to be skipped because it takes forever really. The pee trash is easily AoE'd just hit it with a CJL and LoS their casting, you may want leg sweep for when they channel their silence.

Trash after halfus past stairs is easily slow falled over using tiger's lust.

[Ampere]

Yes thats normal. Monks have no burst damage. I have the same problem on Sarth3d10 I got him down to 300k but didn't have the energy to build chi for a quick ToD. I was in mostly MoP heroic gear/some quest greens. I will try it again, this week. I will be crafting my scribe staff and also got some decent drops in raids this week. So hopefully I can burst him down and Touch of death before I get 3 pieced by tene. If that doesn't work I'll just get a guildie to help out.

Try glyping Touch of Death if you are getting that close. Removes the Chi cost and increases the cooldown.

[Dumbfoundead]

Anyone done magmaw yet? I can get to around 40% in 474 ilvl brewmaster gear but that's it...

[TheWindWalker]

[484] So, I just tried to solo Halfus Wyrmbreaker. "Combat against Normal (10) Halfus Wyrmbreaker (97%) ended after 23 seconds." Good god.

EDIT: Second attempt. 26 seconds. Progress.

[Dumbfoundead]

If he has mortal strikes, good luck!

[Sorefang]

So for someone who wants to get into solo'ng at max how is it done? Are most things done as WW from what I'm reading? My biggest interest would be ULD10, BT really. From what I've read it all seems fairly straight forward to do WW in dps gear but is there anything special? I really like the rogue t8 gear from there and glaives. Those would be my biggest goals.

Ulduar 10 is quite easy. Hardest thing is to get the timing right on Thorim.
For Algalon you might need the Roll glyph to swap aggro with Xuen for a stack reset.

[Ergon]

I would love to hear how you solo RoS also. Cant get past phase two.

I've done it last week on my monk, windwalker spec, died on the first try because I burned all CD's in P1. It was very close but I did as follows:

Start burning through P1 and the spirits, soon as P2 starts pop ALL your offensive cooldowns and interrupt the first fear. With enough DPS you should be able to kill it with Touch of Death during the next fearcast or slightly after. Remember to use defensive cooldowns if you dont make the kill before that fear.

My average dps on the fight was about 59k and in P2 between 70-80k and my healthpool is 400+.

The rest of BT is really easy and will make a vid on youtube soon just for fun .

[TheWindWalker]

Start burning through P1 and the spirits, soon as P2 starts pop ALL your offensive cooldowns and interrupt the first fear. With enough DPS you should be able to kill it with Touch of Death during the next fearcast or slightly after. Remember to use defensive cooldowns if you dont make the kill before that fear.

Alternatively, I usually lessen my DPS racing on the second phase and summon Xuen for it. Pop Touch of Karma and go to town until you get down to about 50% then heal up again. Then simply tack away, heal self, tack away, heal self. For me, personally, it's all about balancing heals and attacks and letting Xuen be the unlucky one who gets to soak most of the reflected damage.

[Ergon]

Alternatively, I usually lessen my DPS racing on the second phase and summon Xuen for it. Pop Touch of Karma and go to town until you get down to about 50% then heal up again. Then simply tack away, heal self, tack away, heal self. For me, personally, it's all about balancing heals and attacks and letting Xuen be the unlucky one who gets to soak most of the reflected damage.

That's indeed what I ment, except for the healing part. When reaching the fear then that's needed indeed but Xuen and me avoided most of those luckily by burning. Definitely a tricky but fun fight to solo.

[pimpdaddy]

Try glyping Touch of Death if you are getting that close. Removes the Chi cost and increases the cooldown.

Great Idea. I never thought about that.


edit:
Genius, pure genius. It worked thank you thank you. I saved all my survivability cds for last dragon. Survived with a little over 100k hp left.

[Kisho]

A friend and I duo'd heroic LK 10 man last night. I know, this is the solo thread, but hey. It was a fun challenge; we wiped a few times but got there in the end.

I was Brewmaster, he was Windwalker (mains as Mistweaver in our progression raids). This of course means we cleared the entirety of heroic ICC 10 man before getting to heroic LK. Pretty much nothing in ICC gave us trouble, though Putricide was a fun bugfest. The plague thing killed my friend, meaning I solo'd the rest of the fight. The oozes just sort of sat around doing nothing, since they can't target the tank... until the phase transition, when Putricide is no longer targeting you. Then you get all the oozes at once.

Also, Malleable Goo is the most annoying mechanic ever when soloing. :<

[Athorha]

Below is a video to my kill of sarth 3d 25m this week. Used an altered strat that's generally more forgiving on dps. In past weeks it took multiple wipes to have "lucky" rng to beat the enrage. Using this as you can see by flask duration I one shot it. Given a gear level of say 495+ using this strat I definitely see it as doable (especially with the addition of stat food).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8gAhKz1vp0

for reference my other post was on Solarshot about this particular fight.

[Sulong]

Did Omnotron this evening, took me a few attemps, but in the end it turned out not that hard as I thought. (ilvl 474)
imgur.com/jmuUa

[Zergal]

Don't feel like reading 24 pages but is BT doable, well mostly is RoS P2 killable? If yes, with what gear? Want to farm Glaives on my Monk, and Sharaz's Sword.

[Weethor]

It was doable before the nerf tbh. I've always done it as BRM. Glyph leer of the ox. Use leer when you can and interupt soon as poss. Pop xuen and pot to for extra deeps. When boss is gettin to that 500k mark get ready with touch of death. Recast statue as soon as poss as boss will destroy it.

[Yohassakura]

Don't feel like reading 24 pages but is BT doable, well mostly is RoS P2 killable? If yes, with what gear? Want to farm Glaives on my Monk, and Sharaz's Sword.

Yes. http://youtu.be/kz5c3KSkrDE

I seemed to destroy it much quicker last week.

Edit: Just completely destroyed it as WW spec: http://www.justin.tv/darkwolfdude/b/353021884

[Artaius]

Just did it on my BM monk (ilvl 483), and I d/c'd at the start of the phase. Came back in, popped Xuen, missed an interrupt because I interrupted Deaden. But otherwise, I broke the shield w/ Keg Smash quickly and got off a quick interrupt. Health wasn't much of an issue.

Edit: Yay OH Warglaive!

[TheWindWalker]

Anyone else starting to take 30-50k hits (you read that right) from the Azzinoth elementals during Illidan's add phase? The tooltip doesn't say anything about percentage damage. Just "hits for 8000 fire damage."

[Thisisanalt]

Anyone else starting to take 30-50k hits (you read that right) from the Azzinoth elementals during Illidan's add phase? The tooltip doesn't say anything about percentage damage. Just "hits for 8000 fire damage."

If you pull them too far from the blades they enrage and will hurt you.