I’m always telling my dps/healz exactly where to stand while I los pull and when to attack. And never, never underestimate the power of the aoe pull. With barkskin/hurricane I can get enough inital threat to hold 3-4 mobs on me when needed. I also have focusframe and focus targeting macros for maul/lacerate/mangle that really help keep threat high on a secondary target.

So, know the mobs, know your group and plot each pull…ftw.

First of all, i truly believe MrT hc, is doable with any mix of classes, as long as you have even a moderate amount of CC. I play an enhancement shaman, and i’ve run my share of MrT (still no shard of contempt. /cry)

The biggest problem about the instance (imho) is that ppl are always trying to play on “easy” mode, or don’t know how to play their classes at all. (WTB pre-TBC player, PST). with 2 cc, either mage,rogue, hunter,warlock or sp it’s actually the same. Yes maybe some are better than other on some fights, but it doesn’t reaaly mater.

For example. On the pull before the 3rd boss, witch actually is a 5v5 arena battle, we had only one CC and a priest healer. Most ppl would say “Oh well we cannot do it, lets call it a day” Well we stayed in the corridor where the robots are, pulled each group, and chained feared what we coulnd’t cc. Peace of cake.

And BBB, as for the bear tank having a problem in there. NOT at all. The only spot where maybe, who could have a problem is Kael. If your dps doens’t get his shield down fast enough before the pyro, you are toasted. A warrior with good hp, and shield wall/ last stand available, could pull this off. But everywhere else, it more or less the same..

The trick here was that we basically had three tanks. I’d send the warriors after two mobs that were squishy. The lock would enslave a succubus and have her dps; she does about 700DPS by herself, so a lock is really, really handy. They could take on another mob by themselves and survive; we usually kept them for two pulls. And the priest could heal them all fairly well, and they weren’t taking much in the way of damage. That being said, we were all T5-geared, so there’s that. But you don’t need CC necessarily; what you need to do is be able to handle 5-pulls well, and if you don’t have squishy DPS you can do that.

Also, make sure that you check out the mix of adds that the Priestess has and see whether your group can do it. If you can’t or you get something that is just horrible (like MS warrior/shaman) reset it by breaking group, resetting the instance and then readding group. This solves a huge deal.

Went cat form for the Priestess fight, and she dropped a nice trinket – the Shard of Contempt. Also I finally twigged that the druid cat Maim ability is a kick-ass spell interrupt! Why doesnt Blizzard call it a spell interrupt for christs sake??? Anyways, I used it on the priestess and another healer mob during this fight – made them both very easy to kill.

Not downing Kael at this point was no biggie – clearly something was fundamentally wrong in our strategy, so time to do some research.

Good luck to y’all with this. I feel like a real achievement was made getting so far with so little stress. (and yes, I too have spent many PAINFUL hours in there before now)

Here is your best makeup at the moment:

Tank – Feral Druid
Healer – Resto Druid
DPS/CC – Rogue
DPS/CC – BM Hunter
DPS/CC – Shadowpriest (you)

You’ll be able to handle all the normal pulls just fine until the very end, where you had trouble last time.

At this point, you (as a priest) will use Mind Control right after the Rogue saps a target. The mobs will burn down the MC very quick, thus eliminating 1. You should probably concentrate on killing the demon with your MC. Just as the MC dies, the Hunter pulls to a trap that is already sitting there with cooldown up, there’s a 3rd mob CC’d. Resto Druid cyclones immediately and then heals, which is a 4th CC. Then focus fire on the tank’s mob and the Hunter retrapping the 3rd target and his pet ready to intimidate the cyclone’d mob of the sapped mob, whichever comes first (and the pet might die, but no biggie, it’s a small sacrifice to pay to get to the last boss, just make sure the Hunter is prepared for the pet death and uses beastial wrath early to get the bonus).

Also, to make the double trapping early, the hunter will place his trap right at the base of the ramp leading up to the pull and kite it down the trap by going LOS around the corner as fast as possible (using cheetah), that way he can run back up the ramp and drop another trap a few feet away from it … so as he’s DPSing above and the mob comes out of the trap it’s not only immediately retrapped but also about 20 feet away from the action, giving you a few extra seconds for it to join the fight if the trap breaks early (which seems to happen often on this pull). I’m sure the hunter is really good if you say so, but there are multiple ways to trap this pull and I have found this is the best way when with a group that is having trouble.

This will probably take a few pulls to master, especially the MC part, and you must look at each mob’s abilities to carefully in order to arrange the kill chain and CC properly. I suggest using WoWwiki for mob abilities that might cause trouble for this pull. It’s all about timing, really, and everybody has to be on their A-game. Once you complete the pull successfully the first time, it gets so much easier even with different group configurations … it’s like the light bulb comes on, and it feels really good. The pull here is harder than any of the bosses, so don’t feel bad about failing.

Good luck!

I tanked it on the ptr in a mix of merc glad, kara and a couple badge pieces. Was easiest instance ever and that was before they nerfed it.

You need to either set targets right. OR have enough CC.

You need someone who can cc at least one mob. (i’m talking very min). Then let your dps take out pets, while you build aggro on 3 mobs.

Pally tanks are definitely the best for the instance… if their geared up enough that is. As a tank you can only do so much. You HAVE to rely on your party to take care of the rest. If your failing its most likely because of them.