[H] The Culling of Stratholme - Timer Achievement?

[Aurelie]

This morning before they took the servers down a resto druid guildie of mine suggested we run this event. We put together a guild group or two ret paladin and a blood dk (along with me, the prot pally, or course). We get about two waves in when our deathknight DCed... and never came back. Obviously we did't have time to summon a replacement. The resto druid was swearing up a storm, blaming the fact that our DK is aussie. The other two pallies and I decided that we did, in fact, have this and we kept plugging along.

Everything is going well, we're rushing through this instance and hit the gauntlet. I start gathering up mobs, but unfortunately the resto druid had hotted me up beforehand (which I hadn't noticed, panicking at the dwindling timer) and ate it due to my lack of anything but body aggro. So I stopped, we started burning down the mobs I had collected, and believe me, it was quite a few. Went through all three of our loh, my bubblewall and one of the retadins died, but the other retadin and I survived to res the fallen party members. We pushed on through the gauntlet and get to the timed boss with three minutes to spare. One of the ret pallies had gotten lost on the way somehow, so for about 50% it was just me, a ret pally and the druid who was lacing his heals with starfires. We killed the boss with literally seconds to spare.

One of the ret pallies got the drake in a lucky roll, but we've decided to do this daily until we all get one. All four of us, rofl. I'm still in disbelief that we four manned that instance's timed event successfully.

Our Armouries (mine is in my sig):
Anachronism
Anakhronism
Streezyf

[Dianora]

Finally got my own drake in a guild run. Helps that everyone at least knows what to do. Hit the gauntlet with 7 minutes left. Cleared the Gauntlet and got to the Corrupter with 4 minutes remain and won the roll. Now I almost never have to go back there (except to repay the favor to the guildie that organized that party).

[antiy4ho0]

This morning before they took the servers down a resto druid guildie of mine suggested we run this event. We put together a guild group or two ret paladin and a blood dk (along with me, the prot pally, or course). We get about two waves in when our deathknight DCed... and never came back. Obviously we did't have time to summon a replacement. The resto druid was swearing up a storm, blaming the fact that our DK is aussie. The other two pallies and I decided that we did, in fact, have this and we kept plugging along.

Everything is going well, we're rushing through this instance and hit the gauntlet. I start gathering up mobs, but unfortunately the resto druid had hotted me up beforehand (which I hadn't noticed, panicking at the dwindling timer) and ate it due to my lack of anything but body aggro. So I stopped, we started burning down the mobs I had collected, and believe me, it was quite a few. Went through all three of our loh, my bubblewall and one of the retadins died, but the other retadin and I survived to res the fallen party members. We pushed on through the gauntlet and get to the timed boss with three minutes to spare. One of the ret pallies had gotten lost on the way somehow, so for about 50% it was just me, a ret pally and the druid who was lacing his heals with starfires. We killed the boss with literally seconds to spare.

One of the ret pallies got the drake in a lucky roll, but we've decided to do this daily until we all get one. All four of us, rofl. I'm still in disbelief that we four manned that instance's timed event successfully.

Sounds like fun! I've been running Strat timer runs for about a week with some of my guildies. I personally haven't won the mount but I've seen about 6 of them drop. I'll be out of guildies to lose the roll to pretty soon, so mount will be mine one way or the other.

[Flex]

Got my drake last night.

Right after the third boss the feral goes /afk follow for a bit. We start the gauntlet and I see "Hunter has gone offline." So it is me, a Ret Paladin and a Resto Druid. I'm just as crazy as usual and pulling half of each section. By the time we make it past the middle rest area the hunter has come back online and the feral druid had come back. We 3 manned half of the gauntlet and beat the timer by 2 minutes.

[Arjuna]

freaking nab PuG huntard cost us the drake AGAIN!!!

this is really the last time I bring someone from outside the guild, even if it IS from one of the top guilds of the server...

[Jasari]

This morning before they took the servers down a resto druid guildie of mine suggested we run this event. We put together a guild group or two ret paladin and a blood dk (along with me, the prot pally, or course). We get about two waves in when our deathknight DCed... and never came back. Obviously we did't have time to summon a replacement. The resto druid was swearing up a storm, blaming the fact that our DK is aussie. The other two pallies and I decided that we did, in fact, have this and we kept plugging along.

Everything is going well, we're rushing through this instance and hit the gauntlet. I start gathering up mobs, but unfortunately the resto druid had hotted me up beforehand (which I hadn't noticed, panicking at the dwindling timer) and ate it due to my lack of anything but body aggro. So I stopped, we started burning down the mobs I had collected, and believe me, it was quite a few. Went through all three of our loh, my bubblewall and one of the retadins died, but the other retadin and I survived to res the fallen party members. We pushed on through the gauntlet and get to the timed boss with three minutes to spare. One of the ret pallies had gotten lost on the way somehow, so for about 50% it was just me, a ret pally and the druid who was lacing his heals with starfires. We killed the boss with literally seconds to spare.

One of the ret pallies got the drake in a lucky roll, but we've decided to do this daily until we all get one. All four of us, rofl. I'm still in disbelief that we four manned that instance's timed event successfully.

Our Armouries (mine is in my sig):
Anachronism
Anakhronism
Streezyf

Yeah, pallies are OP in this place.

I really want to try it sometime with 5 paladins. With 5xHW you could probably pull the entire gauntlet and just stun it to death.


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Oh, and when my guild did this run last night, we brought a pug hunter along. After the first few pulls we realized he had no idea what he was doing. We ended up still making the timed even, but lost the roll to the pug hunter. We then killed Mal'Ganis and the hunter got the achievement for finishing heroic strat... it was his first time in the instance ><.

[Dianora]

Did another run yesterday. 2 ret pally, fury warrior, priest and me as tank. We hit the gauntlet with 11 minutes to go. One of the ret pally got dc'ed as we start the gauntlet. We worked our way through the gauntlet and the Infinite Corruptor with 5 minutes left. Felt bad for the dc'ed ret pally...

[Neara]

We had another where Arthas continually needed to be woken up, then decided he was going to ignore the first four packs in the gauntlet after the secret door, collect 50 mobs, and die.

Can't happen to me ... cause i'm faster than arthas in collecting 50 mobs



time-run in strat is a bit too easy imho, but fun trying to get better times

[Playdoh]

I am still having a blast here.

Arthas bugged one time on us, and we had < 5 min. to kill the corrupter from the bookcase.

AND we made it.

I find that I can make up lots of time on the guantlet once you know what to look for and pull.

I think our guild has about 10 of us with bronze drakes know, if not more.

[Treck]

I find that I can make up lots of time on the guantlet once you know what to look for and pull.

I think our guild has about 10 of us with bronze drakes know, if not more.

Its pretty much a free mount for someone in the party every time you go strat tbh.
Its not THAT hard, its not suppose to be that hard eather.

time-run in strat is a bit too easy imho, but fun trying to get better times

This ^^
Record atm is 7min left on timer.
Gotta try killing malganis first next time i go
Aswell as doing the zombiefest! achievment, would have time to do it next time we get a fast group again, but its prooving to be rather hard since the zombies walk so slow :S

[Kracus]

I'm disappointed that they changed the 3rd boss so he doesn't whirldance :\

[Cearn]

I'm disappointed that they changed the 3rd boss so he doesn't whirldance :\

He doesn't what?

[phaqueue]

btw... went in with a healer and 2 DPS who had NEVER been there before... and got the timer with 4 min left...

time to start putting together groups for record time...

also need to get my zombie achievement done... I think the hardest part of that is finding a group that doesn't care about mount so we can do zombies...

[ARogers]

We tried this last night with some heroic/naxx geared people, and it was a huge fail. Well, not HUGE.... the corruptor despawned with 12% life left.

Is there a better trick? As soon as the waves start, we rush to them and kill them asap. Then of course arthas runs to the inn. We start him and kill the waves of 3-4 mobs through the inn. Then we kill Epoch boss, then I pulled the gauntlet before the last boss in 2 pulls.

Are we doing something that is wasting time that we don't have to do? Is there something else to it? I thought the DPS was pretty good.

[Aurelie]

We tried this last night with some heroic/naxx geared people, and it was a huge fail. Well, not HUGE.... the corruptor despawned with 12% life left.

Is there a better trick? As soon as the waves start, we rush to them and kill them asap. Then of course arthas runs to the inn. We start him and kill the waves of 3-4 mobs through the inn. Then we kill Epoch boss, then I pulled the gauntlet before the last boss in 2 pulls.

Are we doing something that is wasting time that we don't have to do? Is there something else to it? I thought the DPS was pretty good.

Sometimes the spacing of the waves in the beginning just blows and you have to run like a lunatic. Other than pray for closely spaced waves, my suggestion would be to pop cooldowns on all of the bosses if possible. I also like to pull the gauntlet in a steady motion, so it's essentially all one pull, but grab aggro on the elites and keep walking until eventually everything dies by the time you hit the end.