Twenty Wipes: Terribly Geared DK Soloes Moroes
Author: Roboticus
Two evenings and 20 wipes later, I downed Moroes. His company of four minibosses presented a huge roadblock, having to deal with their special abilities.
The strategy that finally worked was to use army of the dead for the pull along with all of my other cooldowns in sequence over the first 45 seconds. Downing the healer first is key, interrupting all of her heals. Her heals come every 8-10 seconds, so you will have one that cannot be interrupted with Mind Freeze (10 second cooldown). For this, save Death Grip until this heal, backing up just a bit before you use it. This should buy you enough time to use Mind Freeze again on the next. If she heals once, you are pretty much wiped.
Worse than the healer was Lord Crispin Ference and his 10 second disarm ability. Death Strike requires a melee weapon, which means the disarm effectively shuts down your main healing for the duration. He cast disarm every 20 seconds. To be able to burn the healer down, it is imperative you avoid all of the disarms. To do so, start the fight by casting Chains of Ice on Ference. This will aggro your ghoul and your army of the dead onto him, holding aggro and taking disarms as long as they live. Chains of Ice is the best ability to use because its aggro is easily overcome by your pets. While your pets fight, drag the priest as far away as possible. As soon as your pets die, cast Chains of Ice on Ference again and proceed to kite him. Two chains later, I was able to down the healer without getting disarmed.
As the priest goes down and you begin to burn Ference, you will need to begin using your cooldowns to survive. Moroes will have his Garrote on you at this point, doubling his DPS. Don’t forget to use Empower Rune Weapon to get 4 Death Strikes in a row as part of your cooldown chain. The next burn target was the Fury Warrior, whom I found best to kite when he cast his Whirlwind ability. After him, the Shadow Priest fell quickly. With just Moroes left, I found my Death Strike alone was enough (barely) to keep me alive, and after five minutes of DPSing, I found myself with a new dead boss, but no Moroes’ Lucky Pocket Watch.
As the fight progressed, I considered swapping in a Titanium Weapon Chain, but did not because that would drop me below being uncrittable. In retrospect, I need a second weapon with a chain for fights like these.
SUPER SECRET EXTRA BONUS! Maiden Down as Well.
The Maiden of Virtue was so easy, that she does not deserve a full post. Her 35g was greatly appreciated.
Next up, the fun and drama of The Opera Event.
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