Anzu solo but not in feral build... possible?

[Xelu]

I got gear for Resto(main) and some decent gear for Moonkin... is it possible to clear the room and kill the Anzu solo for me? or should i get some decent feral gear? Any tactics?

[Kavalir]

yes especially if you bother to use the 3 owls that you cast rejuvinate on.

[Screamer]

Stealth in.
Cast Rejuvenation on the owl that deals damage to Anzu.
Do it for 30 or so minutes untill you can one shot Anzu with Starfire.
You have to get the killing blow to be able to loot.

[Borked]

It is indeed possible in resto but it takes forever because he hits hard and doesn't leave much time to throw some nukes in. You just have to keep hots on the statues and yourself at all times and look out for the mana burn curse.

The trash can be easily done in balance, just nuke the prophets because of their nasty fear and you can use all of your cc on the trash and handle 1 or 2 mobs at a time. If there are 2 prophets then root one and nuke the other. You can also use parts of the room to cut line of sight and get some heals in.

I'd also recomend killing the last boss first so the doors open and you get easy access to the chamber should you die.

If you can spec feral I'd say it would be a lot easier even if you don't have feral gear. I farmed it on my moonkin (dual specced to feral just for this, then back to resto/balance) and only used about 3 or 4 pieces of blue feral gear I got from lvling and it was enough. Just get a feral weapon and you're good to go.

[Nirual]

It's possible, but not easy. I do it in a combination of ICC gear and PvP gear.
If things go well, I can do it without a death, but dying once or twice is the more common outcome. Vendoring the loot I find while doing it covers the bill, though.

My approach is as follows:
-catform stealth through the instance, most mobs wont notice you unless you run into them. The first boss detects stealth but can still be bypassed, or is fairly easy to kill for some extra gold.
-start with killing Talon King Ikiss to open the back door, making it much easier to get back when you die. Throw up some hots when you hide behind the pillar for his aoe (probably not so dangerous now but he's invulnerable anyway)
-Clearing the room: Talon Lords and the birds are the most dangerous/annoying. Root them (or sleep on the birds) and run back into Ikiss's room while casting Starfall. Typhoon is useful for slowing them significantly but Starfall should do most of the work for you. Keep some distance and you can avoid aggroing the ghosts some of the mobs spawn on death. The voidwalker-ish adds are immune to nature. The big snake is a pushover as long as you can pull it separately.
-Use Regrowth on the bird statues before you pull (the damage effect won't pull Anzu) and also Regrowth and Rejuv (if you use the same idol for this as me). Putting Anzu on focus can be useful. If you use PowerAura, set it up to warn you about spirit bomb, the most significant obstacle to casters
-Anzu phases: Use Starfall as often as possible after pulling with Wrath or Starfall. Nuke all out and dont stop until Anzu actually becomes banished (he'll stop attacking when he yells for the adds, but takes a few seconds to banish). In subsequent phases, beware of the stun and spirit bomb and react accordingly. If your health runs low when he casts the stun, consider using the pvp trinket, barkskin and possibly a health potion. Keeping the birds active is beneficial, but less so than for the add phases.
-Add phases: Run away from Anzu and rehot yourself and ensure the birds stay active. Watch out for the Spirit Bomb and dispel it before anything else. Anzu will probably cast the stun aswell, be sure to be in Moonkin Form beforehand. Save the trinket and barkskin, the birds will not deal a lot of damage with your form and the birds active. Once the stun wears off, use Natures Grace to root some of the birds or Cyclone one before AoEing the rest. This gives you some time to rehot yourself/birds before Anzu unbanishes.
-Force of Nature is useful for the second or third Anzu phase. However, active summons (Val'kyr included) will make Anzu cast Cyclone on you, so don't combo them with Starfall.
-Insect Swarm is worth considerating on Anzu for the hit chance reduction.
-Buffs: Spirit Towers active is a nice boost. Otherwise, I run it with nothing but basic sp food and maybe a scroll I found on the adds. Other buffs are obviously useful but might be hard to come by.

[Xelu]

thx for your help guys... I will try dual speccing for feral first but i won't give up so easy now on Anzu :P

[juzalol]

Easily done as well geared moonkin:

Trash:

Stealth to Anzus room.

Regrowth + Reju
-> Open with starfire
-> Typhoon
-> nuke moar

If you have trouble killing the trash you can just wait starfall cooldown, starfall + typhoon will get 1 pack of trash done.

You can also skip the first pack on the right when you enter the room, but remember to fight in the different side of the room if you do as starfall might pull the pack during the fight.


Boss:

Throw reju on the owl which gives you damage reduction and regrowth + Reju on yourself.
-> Nuke anzu with barkskin up until he banishes himself
-> Refresh the reju on the owl and yourself (remember to decurse before casting anything if you get the curse)
-> Wait for the stun, the birds dont hit you for anything when you are stunned in moonkin form, Reju will outheal it
-> Starfall to get the birds down (or just hurricane if you got owlkin frenzy up)

And the same again and loot a mount :3

Just be careful you don't get stunned when Anzu is beating you. You can easily avoid this by waiting for the stun on birdphase and killing the birds after the stun.

[summerzzz]

Easily done as well geared moonkin:

Trash:

Stealth to Anzus room.

Regrowth + Reju
-> Open with starfire
-> Typhoon
-> nuke moar

If you have trouble killing the trash you can just wait starfall cooldown, starfall + typhoon will get 1 pack of trash done.

You can also skip the first pack on the right when you enter the room, but remember to fight in the different side of the room if you do as starfall might pull the pack during the fight.


Boss:

Throw reju on the owl which gives you damage reduction and regrowth + Reju on yourself.
-> Nuke anzu with barkskin up until he banishes himself
-> Refresh the reju on the owl and yourself (remember to decurse before casting anything if you get the curse)
-> Wait for the stun, the birds dont hit you for anything when you are stunned in moonkin form, Reju will outheal it
-> Starfall to get the birds down (or just hurricane if you got owlkin frenzy up)

And the same again and loot a mount :3

Just be careful you don't get stunned when Anzu is beating you. You can easily avoid this by waiting for the stun on birdphase and killing the birds after the stun.

nice im gonna try this as moonkin, soloed mgt hc for a while aswell till i got the mount, this will be my next project.

[foxHeart]

It's posible as moonkin, but I wouldn't want the headache. Since you're going to be farming it, you may as well get some feral gear. Hell, even pvp gear with stam gems cuts it quite nicely. So, basically your options are: a) Go through the headache of clearing it every day as boomkin, which is rough, or b) Farm decent feral gear and have it easier. Up to you.

[Deleted]

It's posible as moonkin, but I wouldn't want the headache. Since you're going to be farming it, you may as well get some feral gear. Hell, even pvp gear with stam gems cuts it quite nicely. So, basically your options are: a) Go through the headache of clearing it every day as boomkin, which is rough, or b) Farm decent feral gear and have it easier. Up to you.

Precisely.

As a resto. druid main who keeps a reasonable set of feral gear for soloing old world content, I assure you doing it in feral bear is a complete doddle compared to resto/boomkin. While I've never died in this dungeon, if you get too much trash while clearing it can hurt a lot...

By the way, as feral make sure you spec into Improved Leader of the Pack. The self-heal when you crit is a godsend

[Xelu]

I got some "not so bad" feral gear, specced bear... and i realy was surprised how easy this encounter and cleaning the room is... compared to the hell i had to come through trying it in balance... damn it it's even hard to compare... only 28k hp self buffed in bear and I don't even need to heal myself at all in the instance...

[Sir.QuackAlot]

I got some "not so bad" feral gear, specced bear... and i realy was surprised how easy this encounter and cleaning the room is... compared to the hell i had to come through trying it in balance... damn it it's even hard to compare... only 28k hp self buffed in bear and I don't even need to heal myself at all in the instance...

The power of Druid's remain imba as always.

[Nirual]

Precisely.

As a resto. druid main who keeps a reasonable set of feral gear for soloing old world content, I assure you doing it in feral bear is a complete doddle compared to resto/boomkin. While I've never died in this dungeon, if you get too much trash while clearing it can hurt a lot...

By the way, as feral make sure you spec into Improved Leader of the Pack. The self-heal when you crit is a godsend

Actually, trash is a complete nonissue with Starfall these days. The only reason I cc in my writeup above is because said mobs stun or knockback which wastes valuable uptime on Starfall.

nice im gonna try this as moonkin, soloed mgt hc for a while aswell till i got the mount, this will be my next project.

You soloed mgt as moonkin? I need to try that... at least for the pet and trinket.

[Hinalover]

when I was farming the instance last year on my druid. I was in T7 bear gear. I had no problem soloing the place even back then. Took me 20-25 tries but I did eventually get Anzu. So even with the ease of getting feral gear now-a-days. You should have no problems AT ALL with the fight and the trash.

[huth]

MGT is fairly simple as moonkin.

The only boss that is easier in feral is the third, since you need to clear the entire room to use starfall safely there and it can get quite close without. Doable though.
The first two can just be bursted into oblivion, though you can dish out ridiculous numbers in bear on vexallus(Maul will cleave to the orbs he summons, so you end up with something around 400% increased damage at the end of the fight)

Kael is much easier when you have lots of damage and range, since you can completely avoid having to deal with his pheonix and Pyro and you can easily kill him off in p2.

[Nirual]

MGT is fairly simple as moonkin.

The only boss that is easier in feral is the third, since you need to clear the entire room to use starfall safely there and it can get quite close without. Doable though.
The first two can just be bursted into oblivion, though you can dish out ridiculous numbers in bear on vexallus(Maul will cleave to the orbs he summons, so you end up with something around 400% increased damage at the end of the fight)

Kael is much easier when you have lots of damage and range, since you can completely avoid having to deal with his pheonix and Pyro and you can easily kill him off in p2.

I was more concerned with the trash, actually. Kael was a pushover in comparion even back then (I once soloed P2 in TBC as feral) and the others I didnt remember being particularly challenging, apart from the third. Well, gotta give it a shot sometime to find out.

when I was farming the instance last year on my druid. I was in T7 bear gear. I had no problem soloing the place even back then. Took me 20-25 tries but I did eventually get Anzu. So even with the ease of getting feral gear now-a-days. You should have no problems AT ALL with the fight and the trash.

Yeah, as feral it was doable in Naxx gear (hell, probably even halfway decent dungeon gear), quite a few druids I knew did so.

[Lucifersam]

Just get some crap feral set together, when i started doing this I was in ilvl 187-200 blues and a few 200 ilvl epics. When you're lesser geared try rooting one mob and if there's a bird, hibernating it. If there's no bird, cyclone the guy that stuns "talon lord" and try to burst a prophet down. I suggest killing the first boss because he's easy and while you're getting the hang of handling the prophets it's possible to die and if no boss is down, trash will be back. Save berserk for a bad fear but once you get the hang of where in the room to tank each pull this is less of an issue.

Forget the resto and moonkin thing, spending 30 minutes on this guy.. you'll save a lot of time as feral and easily use the saved time to farm and recoop the minor costs of throwing together an adequate feral set. If you're unlucky and actually have to run around 100 times (like me) using the rejuvabird strategy will take about ~50 hours total just fighting the boss, where as feral a 5 minute kill is pretty feasible even in low end gear.

[Mudkiper]

Do this really easily as moonkin every day :x Just stealth to the room, kill each pack one at a time - prehotting yourself.

The boss is easy, don't even use the owls - prehot before pull, treants, nuke. Hot when he banish's and starfall the adds. Repeat, win!

[Lupera]

True, now its a faceroll as balance. I could easily take down even 3-4 packs at the time. only problem is the mobs that stunns later in the instance. be sure to hot yourself up before starting on thoose.

[bushidox]

i only got experience in doin this as feral, its a breeze just swipe maul away brainlesly. finnaly got the mount after i dont know how many tries since tbc.

gl to the ones farming it