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    Solo AQ40 Viscidus with Deathfrost?

    As the title states, is it possible to solo Viscidus as a melee class with Deathfrost on one(both) weapon(s)? Right now I can get him to 1%, but obviously I can't kill him because I'm doing no frost damage as my rogue.

    Deathfrost:
    Permanently enchant a melee weapon to cause your damaging spells and melee weapon hits to occasionally inflict additional Frost damage and slow the target. Requires a level 60 or higher item. Slow effect does not work on targets 73 or higher.

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    not really sure, i know howling blast and icy touch don't work on him to freeze him in order to kill him, i doubt that enchant will work tbh :l

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    Any frost damage will work (even something like frost oil). You can freeze him, but the problem is doing enough melee hits to shatter him before he unfreezes. You need a lot of hits to do this, and I would be really surprised if someone could solo it (maybe a hunter with snake trap + heroism pet?). Unfortunately, you need to shatter him at least once to kill him or he'll just stay stuck at 1% health.

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    After you freeze him, you need to do something like 200 melee hits in ~10 seconds to shatter him. That's the hard part.

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    Can't be solo'd due to the hits required to shatter him, not sure how many it would take, couldn't do it with 5 people but we had mostly casters.

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    I couldn't get enough melee hits in as a frost dk dual wielding and popping ghoul/army, so unlikely that it's possible to be soloed, though the frost part you suggest should work just fine

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    Semi-related thought - and I am having trouble remembering, but iirc when bosses are 'skull' (Show as ?? - and the api for UnitLevel returns -1, rather than 63 etc), as opposed to a named level, the mechanic for hit works off playerlevel + 3, regardless of playerlevel? As in you would require 17% hit at 85 to obtain 100% hit chance on a level 60 boss.

    Would be interested in if "only effects mobs under 73" actually works in this scenario.

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    Unless you can dish out 75 hits in 15 seconds, no, you can't solo him.

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    Thank you all for the replies. I did try this myself with dual wield death frost enchanted and got him frozen after about 8 minutes. He didn't shatter, as many have said, and instead reset to normal with 1% health. So yeah, verified unable to solo as of this time with a rogue.

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    Would be interested in if "only effects mobs under 73" actually works in this scenario.
    Bosses are only considered 3 levels higher than you in regards to Hit chance etc, Viscidus is level 60. I can confirm from experience that Deathfrost does indeed work on him.

    EDIT: 60, not 63..

    I think the only class that can solo Viscidus are DKs due to Army of the Dead. You can't get enough melee hits without it, and even with AoTD it's a close call (you need dualwield, unholy presence, raise dead, enough haste on gear, etc.)
    Something that might help in this case is to get some White very fast-hitting weapons from the weapon vendors around town (since damage is irrelevent). Preferably http://www.wowhead.com/item=44638 from Dalaran with Mongoose enchanted on them both. Combined with Unholy Frenzy, Unholy Presence and Haste buffs + Haste Gear that's gonna be ALOT of fast hits.
    Last edited by mmoc271384dc9d; 2011-08-19 at 03:22 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Archaos View Post
    Bosses are only considered 3 levels higher than you in regards to Hit chance etc, Viscidus is level 63. I can confirm from experience that Deathfrost does indeed work on him.
    I thought bosses are always Skull, meaning that they are always 3 levels higher than you in terms of hit rating, so if you're 85, they would be 88 and you still need the same hit rating.

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    In terms of Hit rating, yes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thisisanalt View Post
    Can't be solo'd due to the hits required to shatter him, not sure how many it would take, couldn't do it with 5 people but we had mostly casters.
    It has been soloed by DK's and rogues. Lots of times.

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