Level 80 Death Knight solos Zul'Gurub
by Mike Schramm 
Nov 26th 2008 at 2:00PM
The snake boss, he says, was easy, just a nuke. The bat boss Jeklik silences, and a few of his resists failed on her, so she got some healing off, but she still dropped. Panther and spider went down all right, though the spider's webbing apparently kept him from healing as well -- being silenced, he couldn't cast disease, so Death Strike didn't heal. Bloodlord Mandokir was super tough, apparently -- I can imagine that watching would be pretty nuts during that. On Thekal, the tiger boss, his problem was that he was killing too fast: the boss would get ressed when one of the adds died early. Eventually he just brought them down to 50% and then just nuked all out, and the second phase was easy.
And Hakkar was anticlimactic -- he just basically tanked and spanked. He tried to anti-magic the Blood Syphons, but they didn't heal for much, so he just wailed on Hakkar until he was the last one standing. Quite a feat. Of course, at level 80, he was 20 levels above where this 20 man instance was meant to be, so we probably haven't seen the end of the level 60 content being soloed. But it seems that Death Knights are almost more equipped than Paladins to bring down some of the raid content on their own.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Raiding, NPCs
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Jay Nov 26th 2008 2:05PM
Looks like he did Onyxia and ZG on the same day, nice.
Josho Nov 26th 2008 2:12PM
Beaten by such an unholy knight of darkness and shadow...oh the shame...
/target PaladinPwnage
/mourn
Kellerune Nov 26th 2008 2:13PM
I love watching people solo these high level instances. They get to brag about beating a boss that normally took a lot of people to beat, and can brag about getting worthless gear! Yaaa old sets!!
shumanfu Nov 26th 2008 10:17PM
actually the only really cool thing from ZG is the poly turtle
Mat Nov 26th 2008 2:22PM
Big deal?
Arcaria Nov 26th 2008 2:26PM
Jealous much? If you had done it, you'd be happy too. But you didn't so it makes you feel better to belittle someone else's accomplishment. Pathetic...
AS Nov 26th 2008 4:47PM
lol @ "accomplishment". I hope people don't measure their self worth in these so called accomplishments. It's impressive but also expected, c'mon 20 lvls higher than your enemies..yea it's not that big of a deal. Next!
SINisterWyvern Nov 27th 2008 10:11AM
Try it at 80 and come back to tell us the results. 20 levels higher != instant win. ZG is a bit easier but I'd like to see MC or some BWL done. And I figure BWL isn't even possible with the way many of the boss fights go.
Moki Nov 26th 2008 2:19PM
I'd wanna do that on my unholy DK too, if only to get the achievement and see the content.
Netherscourge Nov 26th 2008 2:25PM
I wanna solo Molten Core, but there's too many mobs to juggle.
It was designed for 40 people after all...
I wanna rock Domo's chest for the Petrified Leaf and get Rhok for nostalgia.
Crazymarc Nov 26th 2008 2:24PM
Is the mod with the runes an updated X-perl? Or something else?
niko Nov 26th 2008 2:35PM
That's RuneWatch.
Download it. It's one of the better ones out there.
Crazymarc Nov 26th 2008 4:48PM
Thanks man.
Kerag Nov 26th 2008 2:27PM
@Crazymarc
Thats Rune Watch. Awesome mod
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10133-RuneWatch.html
Sorano Nov 26th 2008 2:29PM
At least now you can go farm the tiger and the raptor all on your own. : )
Michael Nov 26th 2008 2:39PM
All this really helps show is that DK's ARE op. I mean come on, how many other classes were able to get 5 dpsers or tanks together and run something at the appropriate level?
I've been running dk's through stuff on my resto sham, and they are sick. At first I thought they took alot of burst dmg, but now (around lvl 66) I barely have to heal anything. I throw down totems, toss a couple heals and the boss' are dead.
I, for one, will not roll a dk. Personally, it would have been better for Bliz to fix the other damn classes instead of adding another one.
Moki Nov 26th 2008 2:56PM
They were designed to fly through the outland content in order to catch up to everyone else in northrend. It evens out in northrend.
I was tanking utgarde keep last night on my death knight and healing was definitely required. I'm wearing all the blacksmithing cobalt stuff, so it's not that I was wearing really crappy gear.
Don't write them off so soon.
crsh Nov 26th 2008 2:59PM
Well some pallys have been able to solo ZG and whatnot at lv70 (if I recall, a lv60 pally solo'ed one or a few bosses in ZG even, but did not complete it); ironically pallys are the latest target of the ever-going "(insert class) is OP" witch hunt (eventhough it happened way back, before Ret was considered OP).
No doubt DKs will eventually get hit by the nerf bat, but right now they make an awesome showcase for Wrath sales, Blizzard is not likely to even mention "adjustments" to DKs until the arena season starts and whiners start flooding the forums.
Blackhorn Nov 26th 2008 3:01PM
So, five ret pallies couldn't do ramparts at 60? Five druids?
You're telling me five rogues couldn't down a boss at appropriate level by juggling evasion and vanish?
Face it... the game is just easy. I'm running with a group right now with a basic warrior tank, feral druid, warlock, shaman, and shaman healer. The shaman rarely does anything more than earth shield to keep me (the warrior tank) alive.
Michael Nov 26th 2008 3:52PM
I dont think that 5 ret pallys could clear ramparts when they themselves were at level 60. Druids probably could since they can heal others and themselves. I will freely admit I dont know the DK class but am pretty sure they cant heal(other than self heal from damage).
I do think half of my opinion is from the starting gear that they receive making them such. There are other classes that could pull stuff off, just not so easily. And rogues are not one of them.
DK's do shake things up a bit, and thats fine. But they are definitely not the answer to a 'tank shortage', most that I run with claim to be dps and dont want to tank. I do not think this will fix much.
FYI I do have a priest, pally, rogue at lvl 70 or up and a sham, druid, and mage in the mid 60's so I know the class' decently.