🚀 go-pugleaf

On Friday, December 20, 2013 8:21:40 PM UTC-5, Catriona R wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:35:54 -0800 (PST), pete...@gmail.com wrote:
 
>>I was lucky - it only took 26 tries, at a 2% drop rate.
 
>>For the past several months, I've been trying to solo Tempest Keep's Kael'thas
>>Sunstrider each week, for the Ashes of Alar mount.
 
>>I'd got the run down to about 30 minutes, including traveling there. I now have
>>a very pretty ride (which is nowhere near as rare as it used to be), and an
>>extra half hour of free time each week.
 
> Oh wow, congrats!!! According to the Armory I'm on 10 kills (plus one
> on my druid), really should do more but I ran out of steam after
> finlly getting the last pet from that place. I'll go back sometime
> though, it's a beautiful mount.
 
> You've got it down way faster than me, although I still use the tactic
> of dragging the mobs all around the place instead of fighting them all
> in one room (my dps isn't really high enough for that; it is not fun
> having more than 2 of them CC'ing me at the same time....), so my
> record for the Kael fight itself is about 13 and a half minutes, and
> that's after clearing the entire raid out first (ok, I only need to
> clear half of it but hey, more chance at pets!). Void Reaver sucks if
> you're a caster lacking many instant spells btw, that one's 3.5
> minutes on a good day.... did him in under 1 minute when I took my
> druid there, sheesh!

I adapted a strat from Wowhead. Basically, it involves separating the four
adds around Kael so you can take them on one by one; they all have cc 
abilities which in combination can be deadly.

I was after the mount only, not pets. I'd clear trash to the Alar room, kill the trash there, then clear up to Kael's room. There I'd clear the trash, then pull the main event, and run down to near the entrance. Add #1 turns up a 
couple minutes later, an easy kill, but you have to make sure his knockback
does not send you through the entrance. I'd then move up a little, kill Add 
#2 (fear cc) when he turned up, then run up (with a speed potion) to the 
corridor from Alar's room to Kael's. There I'd kill the caster add (who has a
very nasty disorientate). This took a PvP trinket to break, and by working in
the tight corridor, her knock back didn't move me far.

After killing her, the 4th add shows up, with a 1 minute long set of random
stuns. I'd move up to just outside Kaels room, wait till the debuff was nearly
gone, and kill him. Run down to where the caster died, and hide to force the
legendary weapons that turn up to come close. Killed them, waited near the dead
caster.

At this point, all four adds revive, and run to attack you. If you've done
everything right, they're separated enough that they turn up one by one, not
all at once. You kill them as they turn up.

Run up to just outside Kael's room. He turns up, burn him down to under 50%,
then he returns to his room for a minute, which lets you heal up. He comes back,
kill him, profit.

pt