About the Dark Animus solo

[Senen]

Warriors say "Screw everyone's self heals D:".

But yeah, DKs and Monks should "easily" be able to do it. Relatively.

Warrior selfheal is fine (especially with 2pT15 and 2pT16). I'm pretty sure Dark Animus is soloable as a warrior, tbh.

The original video also gives credit to the warlock in the description.

There's at least one "Raegwynn is a super soloer, he finds clever ways to do things" on this thread and many more along the several forum/websites related to wow. It's a bit frustrating when he just replicated a stratgy that was given to him.
Of course he gave credit to Snowball, but since he's more famous, most people only heard of the fact that "Raegwyn killed Dark Animus", which is sad.

Edit: To be clear on the "how", when the Anima Orb explodes, all the golem don't receive anima at the same time. Anyone who has tank the fight knows that the golems at the bottom of the stairs get anima before the golems at the top of the stairs. Basically, you have to kill one of the golems that recieve anima first before the golems at the top of the stairs recieve anima. That way, the anima will jump from the golem you've killed to a golem who has yet to receive anima.
The "bug" is that when the Anima Orb explodes, it can only fill small golems giving 4 anima to each small golem. It doesn't check if a golem has already some anima.

It's a very clever way to avoid the soft enrage. It may be seen as an exploit and probably would have been if it had been used during progress, but as far as soloing is concerned I think it's legit.

[Lord Pebbleton]

Death knights have been broken for ages now, it's no surprise they are able to get around tactics by now.

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Who gives a flying fuck about old content? It's absolute brilliance that he can do that in the first place. If anything blizzard should be using him as the test dummy to fixing the shit they put out.

[Socialhealer]

Death knights have been broken for ages now, it's no surprise they are able to get around tactics by now.

yet for tanking current content like SoO, death knights are a pile of crap compared to a monk or paladin, you win some you lose some.

[Deleted]

Death knights have been broken for ages now, it's no surprise they are able to get around tactics by now.

Monks, BiS geared warlocks and probably druids and paladins can solo this too (Above poster says that warriors probably can do too). Are all of those broken?

[Lord Pebbleton]

Monks, BiS geared warlocks and probably druids and paladins can solo this too (Above poster says that warriors probably can do too). Are all of those broken?

If they really can, they somewhat are. ToT is no longer current, but it's still MoP content. If one tier later you can do ten people's job alone, that's not something that should happen.

[Senen]

If one tier later you can do ten people's job alone, that's not something that should happen.

Depends on the fight mechanisms.
Chess event is Karazhan was probably soloable very early due to its mechanisms.
Flame Leviathan has also been soloed pretty early IIRC.
Immerseus is soloable by going out-range (200yards+) from him because his room is huge. (Yeah, there's also the pet exploit, but that's not my point.)
Alysrazor was soloable during Cataclysm because you could land outside during p2 and all the adds ignored you.
Atramedes was soloable during Cataclysm because he had no enrage timer. Same thing goes for Omnotron.

Anyway, there has been plenty of examples of boss being soloable by different classes during the expansion they were released in. In a fight very, very gimmick like Dark Animus there's nothing surprising.
Finding a way to make 4 anima "disappear" was really clever and allow a new strat that involves kiting small golems during 24 seconds. That's brillant and that doesn't imply any class imbalance (well, some classes run better than others, but any engineer should be able to do it).
Yeah, you could argue that a tank class (or a pet class) shouldn't be able to survive to a boss from the previous tier without any healer, but that's something that has been true for several expansions and is rather normal. If boss from tier 2 is supposed to hit way harder than boss from tier 1 but we have to mitigate enough damage to survive, then we'll mitigate A LOT of damage against boss from tier 1. Give us some heal, even a tiny bit, and we'll survive alone against boss from tier 1.

[Deleted]

clever usage of game mechanics often called exploits

Bugging an encounter especially you know about it and still do it is actually an exploit.