Raiding - Glory of the Hellfire Raider (First 11 bosses)
I am quite pleased that we are doing achievements on our Thursday runs. It's a different mentality, with people happy to wipe if we're not succeeding at an achievement. Also, people are so enthusiastic when we get the achievement, it's like getting a boss kill all over again.
So far we have done the first 11 boss achievements. Some of them we had from our heroic runs already, but here's a quick run down on how we have done the first 11.
Nearly Indestructible
The key to this is making sure the machines like Felfire crushers and Artillery don't get the cannons. Occasionally mobs can run away and escape up and start melee wailing on the cannons so just have someone keep an eye on them to make sure stray mobs don't get up there. Those melee mobs are easy to get off the cannons - one hit and they will agro onto you. We had used lust for the crushers or the Artillery when they came out but since our damage is a lot higher we don't really need it on normal. Also, be quick on getting the munitions up to the cannons (which drop of all the killed machinery) so that the fight gets over and done with quicker.
Turning the Tide
Iron Reaver targets player for Barrage, so it's important that everyone has to stand between the boss and the Hellfire guardians so the Barrage goes in the right direction. There is also a range on the barrage, so the skulls in the Boss Blueprint are a good indication of where to get the boss placed so you Barrage can reach the mobs.
There is an enrage timer on this fight, so you would hopefully be able to get one side down before the air phase, and then the other side done when she lands. There is still time after the second air phase to get another barrage in, but it's pretty tight by then.
Waves Came Crashing Down All Around
They blobs move rather slowly, so you can easily dodge them if you're looking for them. It's obviously much harder to dodge 3 lots of blob waves though, so try to avoid having Kormrok jump into the Shadowy pool.
Don't Fear the Reaper
At 30% health:
Dia Darkwhisper reaps immediately then puts Mark of the Necromancer on half the raid. You want to dispel it when the debuff turns red, but then it jumps to two new targets and eventually the whole raid is getting ticking damage from it.
Blademaster Jubei'thos in his final hour gains Wicked Strike, where he puts an image of himself behind the raid and dealing moderate fire damage. It occurs every 8 seconds, and increases damage by 5% each time it's done.
Gurtogg Bloodboil debuffs the raid with Tainted Blood, a stacking debuff which lowers a player's health by 10% each stack. This is cast once every 15 seconds.
So you can see once they start getting below 30% it's going to be a nightmare healing.
We tried to get them as close to 30% health as possible then we were going to do Jubei, Dia then Gurtogg. That didn't quite go to plan and we had them all drop below 30% and then everyone just started concentrating on the target with the highest health. We cycled our healer cooldowns and we made it! You do need quite high DPS for that last part to get through all that damage.
(Pop culture reference alert! Don't Fear the Reaper is a song by Blue Oyster Cult. I am assuming that the title refers to the reap that is cast because it's bloody scary especially towards the end where our health is dropping off so rapidly)
A Race Against Slime
Ariok is Eltrigg's son, who empowered himself with the blood magic of the Bleeding Hollow to distract Kilrogg and allow us to escape from the Assault on the Dark Portal. Kilrogg has him chained in Hellfire Citadel and he is there during the entire fight.
Ariok takes damage from Fel Corruption which applies a dot, and every 3 seconds is reapplied. It keeps ticking away at his life until he dies. You can't heal Ariok and you have to kill Kilrogg before 5 minutes and 15 seconds has passed because that is when Ariok will die. Make sure nobody misses their Vision of Death so you can maximise DPS and healing.
You get Ariok as a follower when you get this achievement, so it's one that's worth doing and does not require a strategy different from normal - just kill it fast!
Get in my Belly!
One of the trash mobs before Gorefiend is Gorebound Crone, and she has a lot of health, and throws out Soul Fissures that you have to stand in otherwise they do heavy shadow damage to the whole raid. This achievement, we get to fight her again!
Inside Gorefiend's Belly whilst he's channeling Feast of Souls are 3 Fragments of the Crone. You have to die to get inside his belly, and then you can kill all 3 Fragments to make the Soul of the Crone spawn. The Soul of the Crone has the same amount of health and abilities as the Gorebound Crone so everyone has to kill the Crone and stand in those Soul Fissures.
So how do you get into the belly? You have to kill yourself. And you can't already have gone into the belly so it has to be 3 DPS who haven't gone in already. And to kill yourself you have to jump into the pool behind Gorefiend. I had a bit of a mind blank and when Sev jumped in to kill himself I kept healing him up LOL.
It's only one Feast of Souls you have to sacrifice your DPS, so as long as you have the damage and heals to get through another one and kill Gorefiend before you run out of room, you're laughing.
(BTW - this achievement is a pop culture reference to the Fat Bastard in Austin Powers, who yells "Get in My Belly" and is hideously obese like Gorefiend!)
Pro Toss
You'd think this would be an easy achievement. Just chuck the ball back and forth, easy right? Well, there's just that little problem of interrupting the Fel Conduit from the Shadowfel Warden and dispelling the Fel bomb that the Corrupted Talonpriest casts on people. HK and I decided that we would just throw the bomb between ourselves but we were also trying to make sure we did our interrupts and dispels, and we'd accidentally hold the ball just that little bit too long!
It would be nice if you had an extra tank and extra healers so you could just ignore or the mechanics of interrupting and dispelling and just heal through them! I think that it probably is possible to do it that way. It took me and HK many goes, and we also got Kyxyn to tank and I got Tacky and Deidrea to heal so I could concentrate on throwing the ball and dispelling and HK could concentrate on throwing the ball and interrupting.
Boy were were glad that achievement was over!
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I laughed at this achievement because I'm pretty sure they are making a pun on Starcraft's Protoss.
I'm a Soul Man
In phase 2, 6 haunting souls come out from the blue portal and continue coming out every 30 seconds. You just need to keep them all trapped for as long as you can until you get 20 of them (which will be after 1.5 minutes). Then let your DPS kill all the ghosts. Hunters with traps, druids with entangling roots will all be helpful. It's probably best that you don't lay the fire like you normally do to get rid of the ghosts because they might die. Maybe perpendicular to them so it slows them down a little bit. The prisons from the boss will help hold them in place.
We actually got this achievement from stuffing up in heroic, and not from actually trying to get it. I am not sure how we fluked it, but we'll have to try it again and see how difficult it is to do. I think you would need a lot of ranged on to get it.
(This achievement gets its name from the song Soul Man written by Sam and Dave, and also had a cover performed by the Blues Brothers)
This Land was Green and Good Until...
(This achievement is a reference to The Dark Crystal. "A thousand years ago, this land was green and good - until the Crystal cracked.")
You Gotta Keep 'Em Separated
When Xhul is green, he casts Fel Surge and there is green fire. When Xhul is purple, he casts Void Surge and there's purple fire. There are also some confounders like Unstable Voidfiends casting Volatile Voidstep (which if you stand in, make purple fire). Even on our best efforts on a usual kill we have green and purple fire popping up all over the place and causing explosions. And of course, if we didn't purposely cause explosions we would soon run out of space and die a horrible fiery death.
There was some quick tanking swapping that we don't normally do when we kill Xhul. The tanks have to be very fast and taunt swap in the phase after Omnus is killed when he changes colours to prevent the wrong strike attack from being done on them as the most likely cause of a Shadowfel Annihilation in this phase using the strategy for positioning comes from slow tank swaps.
The main problem with this achievement is that you usually stuff it up towards the end. All I can say is be vigilant with your fel/void surges and don't go into the black hole if you have have the fel surge debuff on you.
Good luck with this one! We actually got it in less goes than it took us to get Iskar. But Iskar is funny like that.
(Another song pop culture reference! "You Gotta Keep 'Em Separated" is a song by The Offspring)
Non-Lethal Enforcer
So far we have done the first 11 boss achievements. Some of them we had from our heroic runs already, but here's a quick run down on how we have done the first 11.
Nearly Indestructible
Complete the Hellfire Assault encounter in Hellfire Citadel while keeping the Hellfire Cannons above 90% health on Normal difficulty or higher.
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| Don't let me die and don't forget to keep my ammo topped up! |
Turning the Tide
Kill 10 Hellfire Guardians, then defeat the Iron Reaver in Hellfire Citadel on Normal difficulty or higher.
Hellfire guardians are mobs up on the battlements that cannot be targetted during the fight. They are marked here on this map that some kind person made on Boss Blueprint. To kill them, you need Iron Reaver to do her barrage onto them - one hit with barrage is enough to kill them.
Iron Reaver targets player for Barrage, so it's important that everyone has to stand between the boss and the Hellfire guardians so the Barrage goes in the right direction. There is also a range on the barrage, so the skulls in the Boss Blueprint are a good indication of where to get the boss placed so you Barrage can reach the mobs.
There is an enrage timer on this fight, so you would hopefully be able to get one side down before the air phase, and then the other side done when she lands. There is still time after the second air phase to get another barrage in, but it's pretty tight by then.
Waves Came Crashing Down All Around
Defeat Kormrok in Hellfire Citadel without taking damage from any of the waves on Normal difficulty or higher.This is a personal achievement. The waves it is referring to are the waves of blobs that emerge from each pool with Kormrok's Fel Outpouring ability. When Kormrok jumps to the shadowy pool it becomes Empowered Fel Outpouring and blobs come out of all 3 pools.
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| ZOMG too many blobs! |
They blobs move rather slowly, so you can easily dodge them if you're looking for them. It's obviously much harder to dodge 3 lots of blob waves though, so try to avoid having Kormrok jump into the Shadowy pool.
Don't Fear the Reaper
Defeat all 3 members of the Hellfire High Council in Hellfire Citadel within 10 seconds of each other on Normal difficulty or higher.The difficult part about this encounter is that when a boss reaches 30% health, they gain a "Final Hour" new ability that persists even after their death. Persisting after their death isn't a problem, it's just that these abilities are pretty horrible to heal through.
At 30% health:
Dia Darkwhisper reaps immediately then puts Mark of the Necromancer on half the raid. You want to dispel it when the debuff turns red, but then it jumps to two new targets and eventually the whole raid is getting ticking damage from it.
Blademaster Jubei'thos in his final hour gains Wicked Strike, where he puts an image of himself behind the raid and dealing moderate fire damage. It occurs every 8 seconds, and increases damage by 5% each time it's done.
Gurtogg Bloodboil debuffs the raid with Tainted Blood, a stacking debuff which lowers a player's health by 10% each stack. This is cast once every 15 seconds.
So you can see once they start getting below 30% it's going to be a nightmare healing.
We tried to get them as close to 30% health as possible then we were going to do Jubei, Dia then Gurtogg. That didn't quite go to plan and we had them all drop below 30% and then everyone just started concentrating on the target with the highest health. We cycled our healer cooldowns and we made it! You do need quite high DPS for that last part to get through all that damage.
(Pop culture reference alert! Don't Fear the Reaper is a song by Blue Oyster Cult. I am assuming that the title refers to the reap that is cast because it's bloody scary especially towards the end where our health is dropping off so rapidly)
A Race Against Slime
Defeat Kilrogg Deadeye in Hellfire Citadel with Ariok surviving the encounter on Normal difficulty or higher.
Ariok is Eltrigg's son, who empowered himself with the blood magic of the Bleeding Hollow to distract Kilrogg and allow us to escape from the Assault on the Dark Portal. Kilrogg has him chained in Hellfire Citadel and he is there during the entire fight.
Ariok takes damage from Fel Corruption which applies a dot, and every 3 seconds is reapplied. It keeps ticking away at his life until he dies. You can't heal Ariok and you have to kill Kilrogg before 5 minutes and 15 seconds has passed because that is when Ariok will die. Make sure nobody misses their Vision of Death so you can maximise DPS and healing.
You get Ariok as a follower when you get this achievement, so it's one that's worth doing and does not require a strategy different from normal - just kill it fast!
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| "Blood and honour, Commander." |
Get in my Belly!
Defeat Gorefiend after killing the Soul of the Crone in Hellfire Citadel on Normal difficulty or higher.
One of the trash mobs before Gorefiend is Gorebound Crone, and she has a lot of health, and throws out Soul Fissures that you have to stand in otherwise they do heavy shadow damage to the whole raid. This achievement, we get to fight her again!
Inside Gorefiend's Belly whilst he's channeling Feast of Souls are 3 Fragments of the Crone. You have to die to get inside his belly, and then you can kill all 3 Fragments to make the Soul of the Crone spawn. The Soul of the Crone has the same amount of health and abilities as the Gorebound Crone so everyone has to kill the Crone and stand in those Soul Fissures.
So how do you get into the belly? You have to kill yourself. And you can't already have gone into the belly so it has to be 3 DPS who haven't gone in already. And to kill yourself you have to jump into the pool behind Gorefiend. I had a bit of a mind blank and when Sev jumped in to kill himself I kept healing him up LOL.
It's only one Feast of Souls you have to sacrifice your DPS, so as long as you have the damage and heals to get through another one and kill Gorefiend before you run out of room, you're laughing.
(BTW - this achievement is a pop culture reference to the Fat Bastard in Austin Powers, who yells "Get in My Belly" and is hideously obese like Gorefiend!)
Pro Toss
Defeat Shadow-Lord Iskar in Hellfire Citadel without anyone holding the Eye of Anzu for more that 5 seconds in a row, on Normal difficulty or higher.
You'd think this would be an easy achievement. Just chuck the ball back and forth, easy right? Well, there's just that little problem of interrupting the Fel Conduit from the Shadowfel Warden and dispelling the Fel bomb that the Corrupted Talonpriest casts on people. HK and I decided that we would just throw the bomb between ourselves but we were also trying to make sure we did our interrupts and dispels, and we'd accidentally hold the ball just that little bit too long!
It would be nice if you had an extra tank and extra healers so you could just ignore or the mechanics of interrupting and dispelling and just heal through them! I think that it probably is possible to do it that way. It took me and HK many goes, and we also got Kyxyn to tank and I got Tacky and Deidrea to heal so I could concentrate on throwing the ball and dispelling and HK could concentrate on throwing the ball and interrupting.
Boy were were glad that achievement was over!
I'm a Soul Man
Defeat Socrethar the Eternal in Hellfire Citadel after killing 20 Haunting Souls within 10 seconds on Normal difficulty or higher.
In phase 2, 6 haunting souls come out from the blue portal and continue coming out every 30 seconds. You just need to keep them all trapped for as long as you can until you get 20 of them (which will be after 1.5 minutes). Then let your DPS kill all the ghosts. Hunters with traps, druids with entangling roots will all be helpful. It's probably best that you don't lay the fire like you normally do to get rid of the ghosts because they might die. Maybe perpendicular to them so it slows them down a little bit. The prisons from the boss will help hold them in place.
We actually got this achievement from stuffing up in heroic, and not from actually trying to get it. I am not sure how we fluked it, but we'll have to try it again and see how difficult it is to do. I think you would need a lot of ranged on to get it.
(This achievement gets its name from the song Soul Man written by Sam and Dave, and also had a cover performed by the Blues Brothers)
This Land was Green and Good Until...
Defeat Fel Lord Zakuun in Hellfire Citadel without absorbing any Rumbling Fissures on Normal difficulty or higher.This achievement is funny. Normally you soak rumbling fissures so that the one that isn't absorbed, is where the big crystal comes out of the ground and then you have to protect that crystal from being hit. If you don't stand in the fissures, a fel crystal will pop out of the fissure. Each time one of the purple waves comes out and hits a crystal it causes heaps of damage. So for this achievement, you have to be a bad player and not absorb any of the fissures so they pop up everywhere and then kill Fel Lord. It's not dreadful on normal. The other good thing is that nobody has latent energy so there will be no massive explosions from being hit by dark energy. This was quite an easy achievement to do as long as you can heal through the damage - which isn't too bad on normal.
(This achievement is a reference to The Dark Crystal. "A thousand years ago, this land was green and good - until the Crystal cracked.")
You Gotta Keep 'Em Separated
Defeat Xhul'horac in Hellfire Citadel without triggering any Shadowfel Annihilations on Normal difficulty or higher.
When Xhul is green, he casts Fel Surge and there is green fire. When Xhul is purple, he casts Void Surge and there's purple fire. There are also some confounders like Unstable Voidfiends casting Volatile Voidstep (which if you stand in, make purple fire). Even on our best efforts on a usual kill we have green and purple fire popping up all over the place and causing explosions. And of course, if we didn't purposely cause explosions we would soon run out of space and die a horrible fiery death.
There was some quick tanking swapping that we don't normally do when we kill Xhul. The tanks have to be very fast and taunt swap in the phase after Omnus is killed when he changes colours to prevent the wrong strike attack from being done on them as the most likely cause of a Shadowfel Annihilation in this phase using the strategy for positioning comes from slow tank swaps.
The main problem with this achievement is that you usually stuff it up towards the end. All I can say is be vigilant with your fel/void surges and don't go into the black hole if you have have the fel surge debuff on you.
Good luck with this one! We actually got it in less goes than it took us to get Iskar. But Iskar is funny like that.
(Another song pop culture reference! "You Gotta Keep 'Em Separated" is a song by The Offspring)
Non-Lethal Enforcer
Defeat Tyrant Velhari in Hellfire Citadel without killing the Ancient Enforcer on Normal difficulty or higher.The Ancient Enforcer is the one that comes out FIRST in the Tyrant fight (at 90% health) and all you need is a third tank to tank it away from the raid (a good spot is the wall as far away from the raid as you can and still be in range of healers) and dodge the fireballs that it shoots out (make the Ancient Enforcer face the wall so that the fireball doesn't hit the raid), whilst the rest of the raid deals with the fight as normal. The funny thing was, Aimei and Kyxyn said how easy it was not having to worry about that stupid add throwing the fireball around - made it a little easier for them tanking! This achievement is not difficult, and is one of the easier ones to do.
Good luck with your meta achievements and hope you get your mount soon! Stay tuned for the last two achievements in Hellfire Citadel - they are probably doozies! Will let you know how we got it down.
I had fun during the achievement run!
ReplyDeleteI am glad - I did too!
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