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by Josh Myers 
Jan 25th 2012 at 6:00PM
Part 1 of their adventure has the band of blooders facing off against heroic mode Rhyolith, Alysrazor, and Baleroc. My favorite moment of the video is at 7:30, when all 10 players simultaneously pop their Army of the Dead right before the pull. Part 2 includes normal Beth'tilac, heroic Shannox, normal Majordomo Staghelm, and the fiesty firelord himself. Some of the fun moments here are watching the sole surviving death knight tank Shannox for his last few hundred thousand hit points, and marveling at the talent of these 10 players on the incredibly high-magic-damage fight that is Ragnaros.
As an enhancement shaman whose preferred form of making money is soloing old raids like Caverns of Time: Mt. Hyjal, Raegwyn's videos constantly both amaze and humble me. I get excited when I can manage to down Karazhan's chess encounter weekly, but Raegwyn is a player who constantly manages to push the boundaries of traditional playing, and I'm always excited to see what he has in store for us next. If you'd like to read more about Raegwyn's approach to soloing and what he considers to be the hardest aspects, check out Lisa Poisso's interview with him.
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Filed under: Machinima, News items, Death Knight, Cataclysm
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
Bapo Jan 25th 2012 9:30PM
I'm assuming they were all decked out in the 4pc set bonus, since that it completely amazing for that particular set up.
http://www.wowhead.com/item=77010
Minstrel Jan 26th 2012 1:01AM
Not to mention, the DKs who aren't currently tanking are busy building massive blood shields, so that when they take their turns holding aggro, they have a huge buffer built up.
krislen Jan 27th 2012 12:29AM
It is per 5 man group
Mike C Jan 30th 2012 12:10PM
No mention of Bloodworms? That's 20 bloodworms on a constant uptime always blowing up on every raid member one after the other keeping the raid alive. It's like 10 Healing Stream Totems, completely insane.
Pyromelter Jan 25th 2012 7:05PM
If I recall correctly, he did a similar thing at level 80 during Wrath with "10 Death Knights vs. Ulduar"
In fact I just looked it up and it's on his youtube page... guys like this make me wish I was in Europe sometimes :P.
thenighthawk Jan 25th 2012 7:07PM
That was amazing... I like soloing on my Hunter, but dang... i almost want to dust off my DK :D
Lachdanan Jan 25th 2012 7:59PM
These guys are my heroes. :)
@GhostWhoWalks: especially if they have the T13 4-piece bonus (which I'm sure they do), which grants half of the effect of Vampiric Blood to the rest of the group when you use VP. With the glyphs, thats 20% more healing to everyone for 10s. I wonder what happens if several death knights use it at once...
Mellese Jan 25th 2012 8:22PM
What addon does he use for the numbers (damage and healing)?
Revynn Jan 25th 2012 8:43PM
Small gripe - Raegwynn did not kill Kael'thas at level 80. If you watch the video, he is pretty clearly wearing T11 and has over 100K Hp. The video was posted before the launch of Cata, but thats because he did it during the Beta. His high profile kill in TK at 80 was Al'ar.
That said, he's always impressed me. It's a lot of the reason I still have a Blood spec and updated Tank set on my DK, just so I can go do stuff like this and see how far I can push it. He's much, much better than me, to be sure, but it's still a lot of fun to go kill Sartharion or Onyxia solo. Kael'thas will be my next challenge, but I'm going to do it on my warlock.
Kittahsmash Jan 25th 2012 10:25PM
They got the mount too. Sigh, I hate DKs :(
Shirubia Jan 25th 2012 11:26PM
While the video is impressive, yes, Raegwyn is NOT the best DK soloer.
Mionelol takes that honor, soloing Firefighter Mimiron, 1 light Yogg-Saron, Lich King and Slabhide and Ozruk at THE SAME TIME. Not to mention her videos of soloing FL trash.
sidhebane Jan 26th 2012 5:29AM
I thought it was Raegwynn who did the Ozruk/Slabhide kill?
krislen Jan 27th 2012 12:33AM
yes raegwynn did the 2 heroic bosses, but Mione has beat Raegwynn at almost every other turn.
brain314 Jan 26th 2012 1:45AM
And you thought queue times are bad now. Can you imagine if tanks decided to just group up with each other exclusively?? =O
Yaroukh Jan 26th 2012 8:15PM
Whoever tries deny that DKs are unbalanced is lying to himself. (See DKs soloing bosses in fresh Zull HCs, etc.)
krislen Jan 27th 2012 12:36AM
by that line of reasoning so are hunters, as they were able to solo those before dks were, hunters were also able to solo current content raid bosses (even if only one). It is just the way the class works, you break our soloing abilities you essentially break our tanking spec period. That is what happens when you base a spec's entire system of mitigation on self healing, deal with it.
Row Jan 27th 2012 11:40AM
Could be missing something, but their buffs indicate a frost DK (melee haste)...
Still amazing, but yeah.