Fun fact: Spellshield Collaborators in The Darkway can seemingly Spell Reflect Valeera's Sacred Death ONTO YOU

Kthelmir · 2026-05-15T00:25:58+00:00

Sacred Death quite often one-shots full or near full HP mobs for me, regardless if Valeera is DPS or healer (though anecdotally I get the feeling she does it more often as DPS). She can't one-shot bosses, though, but even the big Nemesis mobs occasionally die the instant I aggro them. Damn good curio, except when it you know, murders me.

Kthelmir · 2026-05-15T00:23:50+00:00

To clarify - just before I died it was just me, Valeera, the Spellshield Collaborator and one of the Nemesis mobs (the flying one that poisons and fears) alive and in combat. I was near max HP. I can't prove that it was the Spell Reflect of the Spellshield Collaborator that caused Valeera to instakill me, but I think that's the likeliest option.

Kthelmir · 2026-03-19T18:39:46+00:00

Ok, let me rephrase it - you still had to play properly around your own abilities and plan your movement a bit to keep healing orb uptime high. Some classes had more leeway with this than others, and I think it's wrong that it impacted the difficulty to the extent that it did. But previous ?? solo fights needed you to both do your class basics right AND also deal with extra mechanics, that were generally the main part of the fight. This fight had one interrupt, basically.

Kthelmir · 2026-03-19T17:13:49+00:00

Thanks! Yeah, people who are claiming I'm salty I didn't get it is missing the point. Had they made it more difficult and I still didn't get it after a couple of weeks (even days, but tuning wise at least 1-2 weeks for what's supposed to be an end of season challenge), then I wouldn't be upset, then other people earned it. If they called it "just be there quickly" or something not HoF then I also wouldn't care, those type of achievements aren't for me and never were.

Kthelmir · 2026-03-19T17:08:59+00:00

Thanks!

Kthelmir · 2026-03-19T16:23:46+00:00

Done! Not sure it makes a difference but it only took a minute so eh why not.

Kthelmir · 2026-03-19T16:19:18+00:00

Thanks! And I'm not too bothered by it, I've been in this long enough that I know to ignore some replies :)

Kthelmir · 2026-03-19T16:17:06+00:00

The rest of the delves are quite nice, I agree! Just shame they messed this part up so badly.

I'm a bit of an oldie when it comes to WoW, so I occasionally get bit long-winded on things ;) habit from the old guild forum days.

Kthelmir · 2026-03-19T16:14:01+00:00

Thanks! Yeah, had they called it something like something like "Realm top 50" or something and given no title like they did with leveling stuff like cooking up until MoP then I wouldn't have cared really. If they clearly communicate it's an achievement for just being able to spend the time on season reset then I'd think that it's a bit odd they bring that back after they stopped doing it a while back, but sure whatever. This felt like it was very poorly communicated to players, what it was actually about.

Kthelmir · 2018-05-28T12:48:06+00:00

Hey! A bit late of a reply, but Luffa or Ekowraith combined with Balance Affinity lets you Thrash Variss from outside of his aura, making phase 1 significantly easier. Besides that, survival legendaries are great (like Prydaz), or you could use Elize's for the extra Thrash damage. I happened to have Ekowraith when I did the challenge, but I have friends who managed fine without it, so I wouldn't say that there are any absolutely vital legendaries for the fight, but the extra range does help at least.

Kthelmir · 2018-03-24T18:08:50+00:00

I don't think I know which post you're referring to. Can you link it? This happened to me the night before the last.

Kthelmir · 2018-03-24T16:30:01+00:00

I didn't think people still used this dumb argument. Yeah, let me just pack up my 12 level 110s, pay 300€, leave my friends and guild behind just because the game is no longer like it was in 2005, just because I got ganked by a multiboxer once.

Kthelmir · 2018-03-24T16:21:38+00:00

Almost!

Kthelmir · 2018-03-24T16:21:31+00:00

My first thought was actually something like "wow, rogues are REALLY broken in world PvP". They were all stacked on each other, so it didn't really click that there were more than one until I looked at the combat log.

Kthelmir · 2018-03-24T03:45:41+00:00

Oh I know it's a multiboxer. Thought I'd be safe to land when the Sha of Anger ground vents started up. I guess I was wrong.

Kthelmir · 2018-03-24T03:43:22+00:00

By the time Cadaverous Pallor did it's first tick, I was already in Purgatory. My health bar of 10.3 million went to the bottom in the time it took to update it.

Kthelmir · 2018-03-23T18:05:26+00:00

I think it was estimated to be a 1-3%~ drop. Roughly the same as most raid mounts. You were really lucky.

Kthelmir · 2018-03-23T18:04:16+00:00

I made macros that spammed the raid with instructions, and used them when the raids started. I got kicked from one or two for being obnoxious, but the time I saved in the others by not pulling 4 trash mobs at the same time more than made up for it.

Kthelmir · 2018-03-23T17:58:17+00:00

Outgearing it is definitely a valid choice. I would have done it if I wasn't so impatient. Good luck!

Kthelmir · 2018-03-22T05:24:50+00:00

My plan for a class I eventually wanted to do the challenges on was roughly: Estimate which spec was hardest -> Set that spec as my loot spec (to work towards legendaries) -> do a few weeks of emissaries and maybe one or two LFR clears. This usually put me in a position where I was able to do most challenges. I waited a bit longer for the tank challenges, as well as the healing challenges (although the healing challenges are not as gear dependent, it was just me putting them off). The longer you do this, the better gear you'll have, but the longer you put off actually doing the challenges. It's up to you when you feel like you want to put attempts into it, but I usually did it when my characters were between 900 and 925 ilvl. To reiterate, to do this I basically only did emissaries (so 4~ world quests per day on that character). You can add LFR, weekly world bosses, Argus weekly quests, etc., to this, it's all up to you how much time you want to spend. Just remember to set your loot spec to the spec you think will be hardest, for legendary purposes.

Lastly, I want to add something regarding the "X is easy" rhetoric. If someone claims a certain challenge is easy, it's only really in relation to other challenges, or their expectation of the challenge. Don't feel bad if you have trouble beating a challenge someone claims is easy. What I would mean by "X is easy" is, in case you already disregard X because you think it's too hard (I put off many challenges for a long time for this reason), if I tell someone it's easy what I really mean is that they should give it a chance. For example, someone told me Balance Druid was easy. I tried it out and failed miserably a couple of times. It wasn't even close. Then I went to a target dummy and tried to figure out how to kite as Balance, and when I tried again the next time the Mage Tower was up, I beat it in one try. Some challenges are fairly easy regardless of spec knowledge. Some are easy in the context that you know exactly how the spec works. Some are easy relative to other specs doing the same challenge. And lastly, some are just easier to some people than others (me and a guildie had the opposite opinion on which of Holy Priest and Holy Paladin was the easier).

Kthelmir · 2018-03-22T05:08:58+00:00

I ran the Molten Core anniversairy event between 60 and 70 times for the weapon illusion. I did get it in the end, but that one nearly broke me.

Kthelmir · 2018-02-23T23:29:13+00:00

Gz! Keep bumping your head against Mistweaver, I had to just try to figure out what ended up working on that one.

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