Paladin solos Blood Furnace
by Mike Schramm 
Mar 28th 2007 at 10:03AM
Well color me impressed. While the rest of us are talking about soloing Stratholme and UBRS, Compactd of Bloodscalp isn't bothering-- he's already turning the Outland instances into solo material. He's walked all over Blood Furnace (he says it took him 2 hours), all by his lonesome.
I'm no expert on Pally specs or gear, but if his gear currently on the Armory is any indication, he's specced holy, but geared like a DPSadin, with 674 spell damage. He's wearing a Shaman helm, strangely enough, and while I don't know if he actually carried it through BF with him, he's also running with the Six Demon Bag. Surely a spell damage trinket would be better than that, right?
But I guess you can't complain with results. Next up: Slave Pens?
[ via Paladin Sucks ]
Filed under: Paladin, Fan stuff, Instances, Raiding, The Burning Crusade
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Masema Mar 28th 2007 10:40AM
God I wish I had that much time to play WoW.
Chrispy Mar 28th 2007 10:13AM
and to think i couldn't get past the event of the 2nd boss with a rubbish pug. jebus!
RogueJedi86 Mar 28th 2007 10:21AM
Something like this calls for a video summary of some sort. I gotta see what he did. Detailed information like the guy who took on all of the SM Armory at once. That's impressive.
Lex Mar 28th 2007 10:46AM
For those interested, a hunter named Dysphoria has already solo'd several bosses on heroic mode, including one in Slave Pens and another in Durnholde Keep.
Search Warcraftmovies.com for "hunter vs. world."
Thijz Mar 28th 2007 10:44AM
Mail pants, chest and headpiece on a lvl 70 pally...? And he soloes Blood Furnace? Is there any proof of this at all?
Gadai Mar 29th 2007 5:27AM
A couple of quick explanations. The mail thing: alot of the mail items @lvl 70 have far superior +damage and healing stats to the plate gear thats easily available - my own spelldamage gear includes the tidefury chest and the big bad wolf helm from Opera. Spelldamge paladins are pretty much forced through itemisation to use mail atm.
The Six Demons Bag thing: With high spell damage the Six Demon bag can hit regularly for 1500-2000 damage (it's affected by the users +spell damage). From what I've been told you're talking about 700-800 spelldamage and then pop Avenging Wrath (30% damage) for the best results.
Babyeater Mar 28th 2007 10:59AM
If it took him 2 hours to solo this, why does he have a 60 minute mage buff with 19 minutes left? I call BS.
Archaic Mar 28th 2007 11:00AM
Read what he said in his post on the WoW Europe forums.
" Solo'ed Ramparts a while ago, so decided to try my hand at Blood Furnace, was going well all the way up the broggok room where i couldnt kill the last wave of adds cos of not enough dps, and the fact they do massive damage and stun spam you. Died a few times here so decided was time to get buffs, took flask of distilled Wisdom and got some pots(Elixir of healing power. Adapts Elixir. Wizard Oil). "
That answer your question?
Twinny Mar 28th 2007 11:02AM
/impressed.
synack Mar 28th 2007 12:50PM
No paladins aren't overpowered at all. The tank, main heal, and solo instances?
I'm lucky as a priest with over +800 dmg with LOLSMITE/Holy build to solo 3 enemies, much less an entire instance.
Horseshit I say.
zarmy Mar 28th 2007 11:15AM
umm, because 60 minutes is less then 2 hours, and if there is 19 mins left of the buff it means he had the buff for 41 minutes. If you read the post he said he got the buffs after he had tried the second boss at least once and died, so he got the buffs then. Its not hard to believe it took him 40 minutes (solo) to get from the room where the second boss is to the last boss
Burning Adrenaline Mar 28th 2007 12:35PM
Color me surprised, but he doesn't have full talent points allotted to Spiritual Focus.
Impressive solo accomplishment.
Ben Mar 28th 2007 12:41PM
As a level 70 holy priest I tanked the last boss in Hellfire Ramparts from about 40% after our warrior dropped. His physical attacks were weak enough that I could heal myself through them with no problem, and the level disparity meant I resisted basically all of the fire damage. If I can do that in cloth, I'm not at all surprised that a paladin could do the whole instance.
Kaylek Mar 28th 2007 1:25PM
"God I wish I had that much time to play WoW."
You don't have 2 hours of play time?
"waaaah, i want to solo instances"
Get over yourself.
Good stuff, but it's unfortunately it's an effective case against Holy paladins, showing the likelyhood that Blizzard isn't focusing (or isn't just) on Retribution for damage nerfs. Which royally sucks.
By the way, druids have mana-free DPS, so wah wah about every other class with self-sustainability. You priests seem to forget you're in the position paladins were in before the big changes.
GamerJunkie Mar 29th 2007 12:38PM
Taking a bunch of consumables is kind of not really soloing at all. Its like Barry Bonds hitting HRs all day long.
I would like to see the strategy for soloing an instance without any major consumables.
This kind of soloing looks pretty pricey for all the flasks he had.. not worth it...
Rebekka Mar 29th 2007 10:49AM
To those of you who commented about the wearing of Mail Armor. Let's get real here, folks. Against certain bosses you're going to get hit and damaged whether you're wearing Plate Armor or if you're as naked as the day that you entered the Real World. In a case like that I would go with Stats over Armor every day of the week! It's not that I believe or disbelieve the Paladin. If he did it, a hearty congrats. If he didn't do it, it was a funny joke.
Rebekka
Dunadain Mar 29th 2007 8:52AM
Dude... Six Demon Bag owns...
It scales with +Spell Damage
It hits for 900dmg on average
and crits for 1.2k
need I say more?