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On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:49:25 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
<g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>Okay, so one time?  In band camp?  Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> was all, like: 
> --> 	 Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:03:05 +0100 <c0vs41...@mid.individual.net>
>
>> On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 06:38:32 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
>> <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>
>>>I thought I'd finished the rep grind for ICC, but I still have about 8K
>>>to go, so I went in and killed everything up to the ship.
>>>
>>>I could *NOT* solo that. I saw some comments about doing it, but none of
>>>the instructions seemed to work. For starters, they all said that after
>>>the mage appears on the other ship, use the rocket pack to go over, but
>>>I cannot use it because I am in combat.
>>>
>>>Ideas?
>
>> The rocket pack is a shirt. Equip it *before* entering combat,
>
>AHA!
>
>> then
>> drag it to your actionbar and it'll work whenever you like. But it's
>> like any other bit of armor, can't be equipped in combat, so has to be
>> equipped first. That threw me the first time I went there too,
>> confusing!
>
>Thank you, I didn't know that.

Neither did I till the first time I went there and wiped badly lol -
"why doesn't this thing work", look a bit closer... "Shirt". "Ahhhhh"
:-) A very un-obvious way of doing it for those of us who never went
there at the time!

>> Most bosses are relatively simple to solo, but if you can't heal you
>> won't manage Valithria lol (the objective is to heal the dragon to
>> full health!), and Blood Queen is a headache, since you have a hard
>> timer after which you get MC'd, so either need good dps, or to have an
>> alt along that you can bite to prevent the MC. I had her on about 5%
>> when I got bitten, luckily I had the alt! A proper dps class should be
>> alright though, I was on a disc priest, decent dps but not exactly dps
>> spec levels.
>
>Well, I cannot heal at all and can't bring an alt, so Valithria is right
>out. I could never do all the bosses in AQ because one required frost
>damage.

There are some weapons which do additional frost dmg on hit, sold by a
vendor in Storm Peaks: www.wowhead.com/npc=30006 - I usually equipped
one on my druid for that boss and it worked alright, though it's still
a total pain in the neck even with that!