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Commento di 28236

Rage Winterchill can be found as the first boss in the Caverns of Time instance, Battle of Mount Hyjal (Hyjal Summit). He has roughly 2 million HP, an AoE Frostbolt, as well as a Death and Decay spell.

Rage Winterchill is a Lich, and looks kinda like Kel'Thuzad.
First kill by Nihilum, then Forte and Curse.

While on the PTR we was fghting him, he quoted:

Yell: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Yell: Succumb to the icy chill... of death!
Yell: The Legion's final conquest has begun! Once again the subjugation of this world is within our grasp. Let none survive!
Yell: All life must perish!

Known Drops:
Rejuvenating Bracers (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30868)
Furious Shackles (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30861)
Howling Wind Bracers (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30869)
Blood-Stained Pauldrons (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30866)
Chronicle of Dark Secrets (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30872)
Tracker's Blade (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30865)
and a couple more that aren't on WoWhead =]

Commento di 28674

In this fight, you will be helped by Lady Jaina Proudmoore and some Alliance soldiers. Jaina Proudmore does around 250k damage during the fight, and the soldiers 250 k also, so they're a good help.

You can check raid statistics from other guilds fighting Rage Winterchill on Wow Web Stats :

http://www.lossendil.com/wws/?search=Rage+Winterchill

Commento di 29902

His head is relativly small compared to the rest of the body , kinda funny =p

Commento di 23311

I hate to sound ignorant, but is this guy for real? On paper, he comes off as a joke; the only real challenge appears to be reacting to the Frostbolt, which for any healer worth their salt isn't worth breaking a sweat over. Is there something about this guy that isn't readily apparent that makes him harder than what his abilities denote?

It occurs to me that perhaps he is intended to be "easy", as you will likely go straight to him after killing Kael'thas (since most down Vashj first), and if you can kill Kael, you deserve a reprieve. Also, I get the impression that Blizzard REALLY wants people to experience Black Temple, and so making the last part of the quest a fairly easy one seems shrewd enough. Anyone able to provide some clarity on this?

Commento di 72735

He is rather easy, we killed him on our second ever attempt....however the frostbolt does hit INCREDIBLY hard, and most raid groups will lose a few people to it.

Also consider that Hyjal works much like Black Morass, and if you wipe to the boss you have to face the first 8 waves of mobs all over again.

Commento di 13143

It is probably bug and it might be fixed soon but you can actually blink out of ice thomb you are in after Icebolt. Works only for mages, tho it is major help since it is tank & spank fight. AFAIK Insygnia doesn't work on it, no info about Escape Artist racial... we will try this next week :P
Thanks to inventive Menelmietek :P

Commento di Raziel

Look-wise it's just a recycled Kel'thuzad *bummer*

Commento di Shorty

Is it just me, or are frost protection potions useful on this guy?

I mean, you can't drink health pots in response to the frostbolt, because it stuns you... but the frost pot eats the damage up front.

He apparently isn't *that* hard, but having an alchemist whip up a cauldron of frost protection for the raid would probably make it EZmode.

Commento di 53805

Can anyone inform me about him in Warcraft History?I just have played all warcraft games and still cant remember him...

Commento di Vesper

Medallion of the Alliance/Horde (that is the new version) does work on the Ice Tomb.

If you are at full health in most cases your healers can keep you up, but if you are not on full health (or are in general low on health) this may save you. Since dps on the boss is not an issue I always prefer to equip my medallion.

Commento di Cascade

Yes, Insignia and a Major Frost Res potion will make this trivial. However, Death and Decay has a very poorly done spell effect and barely visible, if your Spell Detail setting isn't maxed out.

This fight's real difficulty - if you can call it difficulty - is learning and handling the waves of mobs before the boss: usually it is done by a properly executed 'AOE everything' method. A paladin tank is really nice here, for obvious reasons. Let her build aggro, by single target killing the first 2 mobs from each pack (usually a Necromancer, Crypt Fiend or Abomination) and then go all out with AOE on the rest of the pack without the fear of pulling aggro.

Besides that, be wary pulling it too early to Jaina, as she will not be smart enough to run out from Death and Decay: if she dies, the encounter will fail.

Commento di Bargle

Jaina no longer takes damage from Death and Decay, so feel free to get her involved in the fight.

Commento di RiceCake

I've posted a strat on all the bosses of SSC and TK on thottbot, and felt like coming over here to help out more people. I recently started writing strats on Hyjal/BT bosses, so this is the first of several that will be posted. I do this for fun, and I write all my strats from memory with a little aid from bosskillers only for the exact numbers. I totally recommend going to bosskillers to check out their strat, since it's as good as any, but mine are just more personalized and might contain tidbits that I wish could help even more.

Here goes the strat. Since the trash is an integral part of the fight (you have to go from wave 1 to him in one go), I'll list the mobs and waves here.

*All the mobs are susceptible to the normal kinds of cc (fear, shackle, sheep) that apply to their type (all of these are undeads except for shadowy necromancers which are humanoids).

Ghouls: These hit fairly hard, hitting cloth for up to 3k. They also enrage, so should be kept off your AoErs at all times. At low health they cannibalize if a body is near, but it shouldn't be much of a problem taking them down amidst the AoE. They are the fodder, if you will.

Crypt Fiends: These are even easier to handle, since they shoot 3 scarabs at ranged that hits for ~800 each if the ranged aggro, giving the tanks plenty of time to take aggro back. They do hit for 3k on cloth in melee range, and they web spit the tanks. Keep an eye out for the rooting effect and you shouldn't have any problem taking them down.

Abominations: A troublesome trash mob. They hit pretty hard, obviously, and they have an melee aura of ~800 a tick. The real danger, though, comes from their stun. If your tank gets stunned while 5+ different mobs are hitting on him/her, that tank will need lots of heals (can't parry, block, dodge, etc).

Shadowy Necromancer: One of the toughest foes to handle. They're completely ranged, and their shadowbolts hit for 3k. More than a couple of these on a ranged and you'll have someone dead pretty fast. They could be feared or sheeped, use these cc to your advantage. They also will summon 2 constructs (melee or caster) if a friendly npc dies, and they'll count towards the number of mobs you need to take down, beware.

Tank strat: Have your main tank up ahead of everyone at all times, since the mobs come and aggro upon proximity. If a specific wave hits hard, the tank could be behind the npcs a bit for the npcs to take the brunt of the assault. Have around 4-5 tanks if you do not have a prot paladin, and just have them try to aggro / hold all of them.

Kite strat: The Alliance camp that you start in has a lot of friendly npcs. However, they do not aggro unless a mob is in their vicinity. Having the friendly npcs helping you dps the waves (and the boss) is pretty time conserving. Have one hunter randomly pick a trash mob (mark it for the tanks to see so they don't taunt it) and kite it (frost trap, concussion shot) to Jaina Proudmoore, aggro'ing all the npc mages/riflemen as you go. Another hunter should kite another mob to the left of Jaina, aggro'ing the riflemen back there.

Raid strat: The tanks sometimes will take spike damage from stuns / shadowbolts, so have your healers be aware of what mobs are coming. The AoE should hold off until they're sure the tanks have aggro. The best way to get this done would be to mark a mob with a kill mark and everyone burn it down first (mark a second one if needed), then initiate AoE. All the raid should be at the bottom of the ramp in front of Jaina just before the entrance to the camp. Drink whenever you can in between waves, and if someone dies, he/she can run back in if ressing isn't possible. Note that running back won't be possible if you aggro Rage. As for the melee dps and non-AoErs, have a tank keep marking a kill target for them to focus on.

If you have a prot paladin (well geared), you've just made this 100x easier for yourself. Have him aggro all the mobs (consecrate, all that jazz), and wait a few seconds before AoE. With the right buffs (Salv, Tranq Air Totem), the AoE shouldn't have to stop, and the waves will go down really really fast.

Waves:
1) 10 ghouls
2) 10 ghouls 2 crypt fiends
3) 6 ghouls 6 crypt fiends
4) 6 ghouls 4 crypt fiends 2 necromancers
5) 2 ghouls 6 crypt fiends 4 necromancers
6) 6 ghouls 6 abominations(!)
7) 4 ghouls 4 necromancers 4 abominations(!)
8) 6 ghouls 4 crypt fiends 2 abominations 2 necromancers
9) Rage Winterchill
Exclamation marks mark the waves that you might have to watch out for.

The Boss:

Rage winterchill, aside from his melee, has 3 abilities that can't be avoided. He should be tanked at Jaina.

Frost Nova: Exactly as it sounds, he randomly frost novas everyone in place for 6 seconds occassionally. It does a little bit of damage, but you should just ignore it.

Death and Decay: He randomly puts this under a player. However, it's an AoE, and the range is HUGE. Anyone caught in it should move out ASAP, and move a lot they should, to make sure they're completely out of it. It deals 15% of ppls max hp per second, so it's pretty nasty. Heal through this. He doesn't coincide this with the frost nova (thank goodness). The graphic for this are red bubbles coming from the ground, just like any other death and decay. Have your spell graphics option turned up in the video menu.

Icebolt: The primary thing you have to watch out for. He very often randomly targets a player and does a 1 second cast. When the ice bolt hits, the target will be dealt 5-6k dmg and then 2.5k each second afterwards for 4 seconds. That's a total of ~15k dmg dealt. He/she will be frozen so cannot pot/healthstone. It is up to the healers to keep the targeted person alive with shield / very fast heals. This is what will wipe your raids if your healers can't handle the fast healing. Use a target of target macro to instantly heal the target the moment Rage switches. It is possible to PvP trinket out of the ice block effect (and the remaining 4 ticks of 2.5k). After each death and decay, he usually does a frost nova first, then he'll initiate icebolts. He sometimes chain icebolts pretty fast, so beware.

Strat: Basically, get the npcs involved, keep your tank up, run out of death and decays, and bomb those heals on the icebolted player. IF healing the ice bolt becomes too big of a problem, have most of your raid equipt their PvP trinket for good measure. Even if a few people die, you can still make it, for rage doesn't hit hard otherwise and it is not really a dps race. However, if you've got the bolt healing down, he's cakewalk.

Edit: His AoE doesn't do % damage now, but a set damage of ~1.2k. Also, as of patch 2.4, his Icebolts no longer stun. It probably is not a bug, and is more in line of a nerf. Even though you can't trinket out of it anymore (a buff in this sense), Icebolted players can healthstone/pot/heal themselves (a nerf in this sense).

Commento di 125236

as a demo warlock, can this ice tomb be eaten up by devour magic?

Commento di 96912

One of the quotes he says when he uses death and decayis a refrence to the david bowie song ashes to ashes

Commento di 139049

Actually actually, 'ashes to ashes' is from the funeral service of the Anglican book of common prayer.

"In sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ, we commend to Almighty God our brother <name>; and we commit his body to the ground; earth to earth; ashes to ashes, dust to dust. The Lord bless him and keep him, the Lord make his face to shine upon him and be gracious unto him and give him peace. Amen"

The closest reference in the bible is Genesis 3:19.

"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."

Can you believe I created an account here just to point that out? I really should get out more.

Commento di 3clipse

Does anyone know if the hunter talent The Beast Within prevents you from being stunned by frostbolt if you use it?

Commento di 141739

With the ash to ash comments, on a heavier note, its a line in Where Ever I may Roam by metallica

Commento di veno3

If your guild doesn't take this boss on your first night of attempts, you should seriously consider disbanding the guild. Even with guilds who can only take say.. Hydross, Lurker and Void Reaver you shouldn't have much trouble.

Commento di iconicknight

There is a video posted on http://news.curse.com/details/9883/ of a warrior doing upto 9000DPS which drops and stays at rougly 6000.

Commento di 42092

Will his frostbolts be absorbed by grounding totem?

Commento di 91060

Can a druid shapeshift out of his Icy Bolt?

Commento di MrHexo

correct version of Rage Winterchill waves* :
1) 10 Ghouls
2) 10 Ghouls, 2 Crypt Fiends
3) 6 Ghouls, 6 Crypt Fiends
4) 6 Ghouls, 4 Crypt Fiends, 2 Necromancers
5) 2 Ghouls, 6 Crypt Fiends, 4 Necromancers
6) 6 Ghouls, 6 Abominations
7) 4 Ghouls, 4 Necromancers, 4 Abominations
8) 6 Ghouls, 4 Crypt Fiends, 2 Abominations, 2 Necromancers

*WoW Dungeon Companion II

Commento di 167797

A good macro that I use on this fight to heal the icebolt target is...

/cast Regrowth

If not a Druid replace Regrowth with a different heal

Commento di Yarthort

He is also in Warcraft 3 when you first go to Northrend as the green base lich.

Commento di 15246

I just hopped on here to add that, as a mage, if you have the extended range fireball and get max range on this guy, you will never get icebolted and hence you will never die.

Commento di 159584

To the ones that havn't been in Hyjal ; This boss seems pretty easy himself, but the thing mostly lays in the waves. They are alike The Blood Furnance, though pretty harder. The waves are in order :

1. 10 ghouls
2. 10 ghouls 2 crypt fiends
3. 6 ghouls 6 crypt fiends
4. 6 ghouls 4 crypt fiends 2 necromancers
5. 2 ghouls 6 crypt fiends 4 necromancers
6. 6 ghouls 6 abominations
7. 4 ghouls 4 necromancers 4 abominations
8. 6 ghouls 4 crypt fiends 2 abominations 2 necromancers
9. Rage Winterchill (Boss)

The ghouls have no special abilities as far as i know.

Crypt fiends spawns small insects, 3-4 (?) hitting for ~350 on leather. The Fiends are a bit higher in health too.

Necromancers casts Shadowbolts contantly when attacking from range, and varies with melee / sbolts when targeting melee.

Abominations are slow kills, and have a Passive Aoe, that deals ~700 with around 10sec between, on any MELEE attackers nearby.

Depending on how fast you take the previous wave down, the next wave comes pretty timed. Though, if you are too slow you will have the next wave arriving before the first are cleared, wich means NO DRINKING / ressing , and often no positination, wich surely will results in a few deaths.
The overall tacs that are used in ALL waves (exept first) are : cc the Crypt fiends / abominatinons, and AoE the mobs when they are around 50-30% (depending on how much time you have)

Now, more specific how we do it :

1.Wave: Tank n spank, aoe at 50% though no need to hurry.
2/3Wave:As above, just cc the Crypt fiends and not the ghouls.
4.Wave: CC on the Fiends to start with. The necromancers are the only ranged, and hard to pull to The upcomming AoE, so use a tank ( we use warrior ) and the Melee dps you have ( rogues does this great since kick etc ) takes down the Necromancers. Then, realase the CC if the haven't expired, and Start the AoE as fast as possible. ( remember to ress / drink between fights, cuz now the real thing starts )

5.wave: Nearly the same, just improved mobs. Melee takes necros, cc fiends, and AoE when you are ready.

6.Wave: CC on Abominations, and here it is good to tank the mobs in groups ( abomintions - Fiends ) reason ; the abomination aura. So melee goes on ghouls, and ranged on abos. Start the AoE as fast as possible, around 50%, cuz a incomming wave now will result in a wipe, that's nearly 100% sure.

( wave 6 and 7 is the hardest part )

7wave: CC abos, Melee on casters ( good time to use Cooldowns for tex. rogues ) And rest on Ghouls. AoE fast, since the next grp will require a good position.

8wave: same here, BUT - Only cc the two abos, if possible. reason : you probebly will have a few deaths here, and you will need anytime you can get to ress ppl / drink before boss, so AoE as many mobs as possible. AoE pretty fast, and waste usefull cd's to fasten the process.

Now, the previous wave shut have been down BEFORE you spot Winterchill at the hill, ( or what it now is ) To give time to ress / drink, you have a rogue stealthing ( spare vanish to this moment, if your grp haven't killed the wave before Winterchill comes ) And have im use Distract at Winterchill, wich will give you another 10 sec ( one more ress! ) and time to drink.

Note : dont bring ppl with crappy computers / lag to this boss, since his Death & Decay can create some lag for them. ( wich results in a death , probebly )

Boss Fight : He casts, Frost nova, death & decay, and icebolt.

First spell dmg for 2.5k and freezes for 6sec. Death and daecay are 3 sec cast time , so you will be warned before it comes. deals ~1.5k per sec, and have a HUGE range, so watch out ! Icebolt is the major danger, since it can hit anyone in the raid. Deals 4-5k initial, then 2.5k every sec for 4 secs. use macro to heal the targeted player. In the fight you have Jaina Proudmoree and Alliance soldiers, wich gives you 100% spirit aura, and 145 AP aura. They helps with tanking, and deals 500k toghether. This guys might pull the mobs OoS, making you in-combat, and unable to drink, when you think that you have cleared the whole wave. We had some deaths at the decay last time, and took him down to 38% from 90%, with 3dps, tank 2 healers, until tank got a icebolt on him. GL ! :)

Commento di 203334

when we face this boss our guild will make sure that we have http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37864, That way when we get that Ice bolt, we can excape. you can Blink out of it if your a mage, Bubble if your a pally, and Excape Artist (passive ability) if your a gnome.

Commento di 215389

So can rage's icebolt tick be removed by using Cloak of Shadows for rogues, just looking for a little info pls

Commento di 204641

Can anyone confirm if the Ice Tomb can be stopped by the Mage's Ice Block, Rogue's CloS, or the Paladin's Div. Shield?

Commento di Nitros14

That Death and Decay ability listed there is definitely wrong. His does 15% of max HP per second and lasts 15 seconds.

Commento di guisadop

Very easy.My guild killed this without any wipe..
Like someone sayd up there, if your raid can kill Kael'Thas, you surely can kill this one.

Commento di Woyruu

"You have won this battle, but not... the war."
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\RageWinterchill\\CAV_Rage_Death01.wav");
"Crumble... and rot!"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\RageWinterchill\\CAV_Rage_DthDecay01.wav");
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust."
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\RageWinterchill\\CAV_Rage_DthDecay02.wav");
"The Legion's final conquest has begun. Once again the subjugation of this world is within our grasp. Let none survive!"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\RageWinterchill\\CAV_Rage_Enter01.wav");
"Succumb to the icy chill... of death."
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\RageWinterchill\\CAV_Rage_FrstNova01.wav");
"It will be much colder... in your grave."
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\RageWinterchill\\CAV_Rage_FrstNova02.wav");
"All life must perish!"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\RageWinterchill\\CAV_Rage_Slay01.wav");
"Your world is ours now!"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\RageWinterchill\\CAV_Rage_Slay02.wav");
"Victory to the Legion!"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\RageWinterchill\\CAV_Rage_Slay03.wav");

Commento di nyctric

First defeated by Nihilum of Magtheridon on the 25th of May, 2007.

Commento di 242255

My friend and I both play paladins, and one of our favorite things to do in this game is to see how far/successful we are able to 2-man contents. The benefits are many; aside from personal feelings of accomplishments, raid bosses drop tons of gold (Hyjal bosses drop 250g, BWL bosses about 200g each) and lots of rep.

Since I think there may be folks who are interested to know, I'll explain how we are able to 2-man this boss. We are both ICC geared though, and I wouldn't suggest anything less-geared.

Both of us are specced tank/dps. One needs to be a tank during the trash spawns; you can't survive otherwise. They're pretty much simple - be sure to throw heals to the tank occasionally. Watch out for abominations as they knock you down. Use Divine Protection when you get abomination groups. Necromancers can be tanked by the ret partner - with shadow aura they don't hit very hard; separating them from the melee mobs helps reduce incoming damage to the tank.

Now comes Rage Winterchill. After the 8th wave, he will /yell to the zone, and at this point the tank will need to quickly switch back to dps mode before engaging him, due to the 10-minute enrage timer. Besides you will need alot of instant heals.

We also experimented with various type of gear, and found that we had the most success with the Icebane frost resist set pieces. And of course the shadow and frost resist auras.

The designated tank will need to have Seal of Light up, as this fight is a balance between surviving the magic damage and beating the enrage timer.

In addition, both paladins will need to spec into Divine Purpose. Like all other stun removal abilities that other classes have, Hand of Freedom will break you out of the ice tombs, with a 25-second cooldown. This is perhaps the most important part, as without a stun removal, it's near impossible to 2-man this fight without a healer.

Start the fight as usual, designate one as the tank with Seal of Light. Freedom out of icetombs, and be sure to always keep Sacred Shield up at all times. Insta-heal yourself every chance you get; without tank gear, he melees you for 4-5k and crits for double that.

Cleanse Frost Novas; don't waste your Freedom on it.

When he casts Death and Decay, run out of range - and you get a respite for a few seconds. Heal yourself to full in that duration as you wait out the channeling. Rinse and repeat.

If you do it right, you should be very near the enrage timer - our best time was 8 minutes and 43 seconds. This is why you want to be as geared as possible - since you will also be trading out three pieces for frost resist pieces.

He drops 250g, that's 125g per person. Happy 2-manning! :)

Commento di 549239

Anyone try killing this guy lately? His death and decays seem a bit insane... they're hitting for about 19k...

Commento di Alteir

I just soloed this fella on my iLevel 348 hunter, survival spec. Stood at max range with a turtle and spammed glyphed misdirection. Took about 5 minutes, never got hit by D&D or tombs.

Commento di Morbius

Tried soloing a few times on my blood DK but I didn't get far. I was able to avoid his DnD 3 times but it does so much damage that I couldn't heal myself up enough in between them. Also he iceblocks you right before he drops DnD so you can't get out fast enough. I'd say this fight cannot be soloed except apparently by a pet class. Going to try with my warlock in the future. We'll see what happens.

Commento di 241461

Trying to solo him as with my paladin tank with 172k unbuffed hp, his death and decay was doing about 25-26k a tick as of 4.0.6, o.o. Its probably percentage wise dmg or its just glitched.

Commento di 638920

I have soloed Rage Winterchill as a Blood DK but when he died I couldn't loot him, anyone else got that problem?

Commento di Vlad

Not doable solo, unless you can free yourself from stun to run out from the DaD. The DaD will tick for % of your max health thus stunned in the AoE circle is death after 6 seconds, it ticks for ~17% of your max health each second. I recommend doing this with a Balance rather than Feral, at least you can shapeshift out of the root each time to avoid dying from the DaD.

Commento di osc128

Soloed him as an enhancement shaman with this build

Commento di tehhell

i tried to solo it yesterday = not possible as far as im concerned.

Commento di Laurathos

Just solo'd as a combat rogue, a few pointers:
Have bandages with you
Use feint whenever he uses death & decay and run out (sprint out if you can)
Never used evasion, I guess it can soak a bit of his damage but the only real danger here is death & decay.

He has a 10 minute enrage timer so dps is needed however focus on staying alive and you should be good to go.

The spec I used for this fight was this

Commento di Nubia

Despite thinking this would be nigh-impossible due to the 4.1 Word of Glory CD,I just soloed this as a Retribution Paladin in mostly epics,using Seal of Light,Blessing of Kings, and Resistance Aura.

After "engaging" the boss (He apparently didn't kill Jaina after my last catastrophic attempt),he started killing me very quickly. Figuring it was a death ,for the hell of it I dragged him over to Jaina so she could help. I don't think she did much,but then I learned about her very nifty aura around her (slowpoke.jpg): Brilliance Aura

The tl;dr version is,Fight the boss normally untill he casts DnD,run far away from him and cast Flash of Lights until he finishes channeling ,run back to him,fight him while Jaina's aura gives you all your mana back,run out when he casts DnD,heal as much as possible,etc. (And of course,use Bubble or Hand of Freedom if he snares you right before doing DnD)

Doing that,combined with Seal of Insight and well timed WoGs,kept me in a generally comfortable area of health (40-50%) for most of the fight,aside from Frost Armor/Frost Nova+DnD combos.

...Up until I was killed when he had about 50% health by not being able to see how far his DnD spread out. So keep an eye out for that. =\

One particle density increase later,I got back in there and pretty easily killed him using the above strat.

Commento di Diodor

Biggest fail about soloing this encounter isn't the boss itself so much as its you have to fight waves of mobs all over again if you wipe. And one bad iceblock+DnD can make that happen quite a lot.

Commento di 94891

Difficult to solo with a ret pally now, possibly because there are more Icebolts than previously--it's hard to complete a cast. Your trinket and bubble will likely be on cooldown too much for comfort. Much easier to solo with a blood dk in pretty much any gear.

Commento di Draconax

Solo'ed this today doing the old BT attunement line as a Blood DK. Here are some things to know:

1) His DnD does % based dmg, and is deadly regardless of item level. You *need* to avoid this as much as humanly possible. The graphic on it is horrendously bad, and you often wont even know you're standing in it except for taking damage. Run to ~20-30 yards, to keep out.
2) IBF is your friend. Pop it preemptively when you know a DnD is coming soon to stop the icebolts from freezing you. Use it every CD.
3) AMS works exactly the same. Use on CD.
4) Eat those ghouls every CD. I pop raise dead at the start, and eat him when he's nearly done his duration. Popped Army a few DnD phases later when pact was nearly done CD.
5) Drag him every time you can to get every npc, especially Jaina, involved.
6) Lastly, swap out a trinket for a pvp trinket. Keep this for emergencies, when you get iceblocked just as DnD is being cast. This will kill you otherwise.

Commento di Nobbel

Here are 2 videos for a guide I made on how to solo Battle for Mount Hyjal.
I use my hunter for the first 3 bosses (Rage Winterchill,Anetheron & Kaz'Rogal) then switch over to my Paladin for the last 2 (Azgalor & Archimonde).
Tacs can be used for any group or class.
I hope it helps in whatever you want to get out of the instance.

Part 1:Rage Winterchill,Anetheron & Kaz'Rogal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u6MsZgCJF8&hd=1
Part 2:Azgalor & Archimonde
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz7QOLIITWI&hd=1

Commento di Hanz0

soloed him as fury warri before in 350 gear and now for the life of me i cannot do it again in 375 gear. it seems the frequency of his icebolt has increased so dramatically that he now casts it every 3-4 seconds after you get released from the last one.

seeing how icebolt does roughly 14k dmg every 7-8 seconds he`s now top contender for the TBC legacy boss with most dps. I really do not know if the icebolt buff to him was intended but I do think that its impossible to solo him with a non-pet / non-healing class after the icebolt buff.

edit: after reattempting him i saw he does icebolt every exactly 8 seconds and melee hits every 2 seconds for 3750 dmg on plate user.
which sums up to a whooping 3.5k dps sustained and a stun with 50% uptime I think even dks will have major trouble with him now cuz they wont be able to power up their shield if they are stunned 50% of the fight.

Maybe blizz is trying to make raids more like BWL where u need to be 2 in order to get past the first boss. I seriously hope that is not the case here as farming Hyjal gave me 2k-ish gold for a hour worth of play.

/grammar

Commento di 651676

Yep just went in with 365 tank gear Warrior 200k. Started the fight got a frost Nova on me and at the exact same time he cast DnD right on me even though I was running and well away. The first tick killed me outright, then straight here to find out what's going on. It's either bugged or the less people in the raid the harder it hits but atm it's definitely not 15% dmg - in my case it was 100%.

This seems to have happened possibly in the server restarts this week or last week as far as I can tell. Anyone else seeing a similar situation?

Commento di 912064

Anyone been able to solo him since 4.3 came out?

Commento di Nobbel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8tsDs1ndoc&hd=1

A guide on how to solo Battle for Mount Hyjal as a retribution paladin 5/5.
It took me around 1h and 7 min to complete and I had around 1573g without selling any BoE.

Hope it helps, happy farming.

Nobbel the Noble

Commento di Thiagorz

Soloed him with my DK Blood ilvl 384 (PvE).

Just run away when he uses Death and Decay. Use PvP Trinket and he uses DnD and Stuns u at the same time (considering that ur Icebound Fortitude is on Cooldown).

Anti-magic shell cuts the damage from DnD.

And after him, got all the Mount Hyjal by myself.

1 and half hour to do all the job for 1500 gold.

Commento di Esploratore

Just soloed him as a 390 item level fury warrior some days ago, had mostly 397 VP gear, 2 raid finder (390) gurthalak and some 384 raid finder items, no DS raid gear.

First of all, I'm normally arms, my gear is reforged for arms, so I normally can't do more than 20k dps as fury, so don't take the item level like if it was a faceroll.

Second thing, I used 3 blacksmithing items level 213 for over 300 frost resistance, this decreases the damage by icebolt by a lot, and I'm not sure, but can shorten its duration, making it less hard to avoid death and decay, so actually my item level wasn't 390 on the fight, more like 375.

Also used a pvp trinket which removes movement impairing effect level 390, but took the one which increases critical strike by 400, so at least it did something on dps, other than saving from death and decay + icebolt combo.

I moved out of death and decay as soon as possible, I also took the talent second wind 2\2, to regenerate 6% hp each time I was hit by icebolt.

Used 6 embersilk bandages healing for 35k each, 2 times enraged regeneration (only when I was at very low hp), once the pvp trinket, saved me from icebolt + dnd, the fight lasted almost 9 mins, had still 1 minute before enrage.

The tactic that helped me to down him was: often he casts death and decay regardless of deadly boss mods saying it or not, so I kited him when I felt that he was going to use it again, and while running from him you don’t get many icebolts.

Also, jaina and the other ones were helping with dps.

I also used a 25k healing potion which critically hit for 52k or so, so this really seemed the right attempt.

I highly recommend not trying this as warrior of any spec, unless you really really want to solo it, took me 2 weeks of attempt, but the very first attempt with second wind talent (although literally perfect) I made it.

9 screenshots from since when I thought I could make it, till when he died and I looted him.

One-shotted the rest, except azgalor, cause he killed thrall, done the next attempt, but wasn't really a challenge, as I had already soloed all 2 times, just asking help for winterchill.

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Commento di Bandcamp

Ok, nice tip for soloing Rage as a melee...

When the cooldown for his D&D is up, start strafing while doing "your thing"...

When he does cast D&D, he casts it on YOUR CURRENT spot, and with the cast time, it means he'll be far enough away from it that you can continue to dps him while he channels it, rather than standing away from him waiting for it to end. BOOM EASY RAIDSOLO!

Oh, yeah, disclaimer. Sometimes he will Ice Block or Frost Nova you while casting D&D. Such is life, nothing you can do about it, not going to wipe you, just means you get to watch him channel D&D instead of my trick...

Commento di Esploratore

Don't listen to Bandcamp, I tried to see if it worked, rage winterchill casts DnD exactly where you are and SINCE you are a melee, given the 30 yards area, there's no way you would be able to melee winterchill without standing in it; anyway, on the second week I did him with the same gear in two attempts (always fury warrior with 390 item level), this other week I couldn't do it in 10 attempts, the key factor seems to be:

1) If you run from him (seems even if you look at him and dps him while you do) he casts icebolt less often, this helps to keep you alive.

2) On the other hand, I tried kiting him A LOT, didn't have the enrage timer indicator on, he enraged at 170k and killed me when I had full hp, so you need to find the right balance between kiting and dpsing as warrior.

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Completely different from DK perspective: soloed as a 318 (!) dps geared blood dk at first try, used AMS at every death and decay, if you use it before he casts it you don't actually take even a minimal damage, it absorbs the DnD damage completely.

And even at that gear my death strike + absorb was just enough for all the rest of the damage.

Took me 9 min 42, killed at 18 sec till enrage and actually dps'd him while standing on death and decay in the end, lol (surprising what you can do with a dk and you can't do with a much better geared warrior).

Here's 3 screenshots, first killing rage winterchill close to the enrage, second showing that I had the same hp with 318 item level at the end of the raid, the third to let you see how long it takes with that gear to solo all (around 2 hours).

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Commento di 12966

Thought I'd give my two coppers for any rogues looking to have a go at this boss.

- Spec I use: http://www.wowhead.com/talent#fMhbZfRfcRc0RGo0h:0kozbomcV
You could probably drop 2 points in something other than Precision to get Improved Sprint, or skip it altogether.
I don't think it's a necessary talent but it's helpful in this fight and gives you a wider margin for error if RNG isn't in your favor with Death & Decay / Frost Nova.

- use a PVP trinket / Every Man For Himself to break Icebolt

- Strafe around the boss to minimize damage from Death & Decay. It lands where you were at the start of his cast. You should take 1 tick at most if you do it right.

- Rotate between Vanish(*), Cloak of Shadows and Sprint to get out of Frost Nova. Sprint is best saved to break Frost Nova if Death & Decay is incoming.
* Note: Vanishing then resuming your attacks works because the boss should have the NPCs nearby on his aggro list so he won't reset. Even if you engage Winterchill far away from the friendly NPCs, it takes a few seconds for him to fully reset so you can still use Vanish to break roots then quickly attack him again.

- I skip Combat Readiness, using CLoS is more important and Evasion helps enough against his melee attacks. The real danger is Death & Decay in his fight.

- use bandages during Death & Decay. Refresh Recuperate ahead of time, not at the last second, so you have it running while Icebolt is on you.

You have 10 mins until he enrages. Don't rush the DPS, focus on staying out of Death & Decay and healing yourself when you can.

Think that's about it.

Happy soloing :-)

Commento di Hairband

So it's Cataclysm now and I didn't know what would happen, but we easily defeated this boss with 1 warrior tank, 2 DK, 1 Spriest, 1 Hunter, 1 Ret pally and 1 Healer.

Rage Winterchill is the first boss in this Raid.

You will engage him after the waves, for which you will see a counter at the top of your UI. The waves are Ghouls, Abominations, Wailing Spirits and Necromancers (human male casters).

When you are done killing him, DO NOT LEAVE to the Horde Encampment. There are 2 bosses for each encampment and of course Archimonde is at the Tree of Nordrassil. It's a long ride if you prematurely head to the Horde base.

We tried to scout around in places off the map and hit invisible walls.

NOTE: This was a 25 man raid only so I believe at this time you need at least 10 guildies to get the Guild Hyjal Summit achievement.

I am writing a mini guide for each boss since I didn't think the information here was helpful to someone never having done this at 70. Good luck!

Commento di Reignac

Death & Decay isn't an issue for me, but his damned Icebolt always messes up my Monk when I'm trying to solo this.

Commento di Gannon

Solo'd last night with my Blood DK in DPS gear at lvl 90. Obviously much faster than at lvl 85 and in less need of luck and gold for repairs.

Morte e Distruzione didn't seem to hit as hard even though I know it's % based....might have just gotten lucky. Just make sure that you have the Trasfusione Runica talent....it really comes in handy when you need to heal up after you run out of Morte e Distruzione.

I made sure to pop my Army and Ghoul while only using diseases and attacks that cost runes so I had the full runic power when needed after running out of DnD and using Conversion.

I have yet to try it on another class as I have only gotten the DK to 90 so far. Would be curious to see how other classes are faring on him now.

Commento di skypunk

ouch,, yah watch out for his D&D for sure! All was going well then boom! 40k..40k..40k.. and before i payed attention i was at 15% health. Got frozen right before another D&D that finished me off.

Commento di benx2011

i just soloed with a afflix warlock. using voidwalker as the tank. for the first time i died by DnD because it was my first time playing this. so i didnt know. but then 2nd time, i kept the distance from him, like 40 yd away. I let the voidwalker hold the aggro. he never cast DnD, i just kept getting frozen. that;s all. so i guess either as long as you are not near him or he is not targeting you, he wont use DnD.

Commento di Ugluxx

Soloed today as a lv. 85 Demonology Warlock in Pandaria green gear (ilvl about 365).
First attempt and I had never done Mount Hyjal before.

Definitely easy, even with the Wrathguard (upgraded Felguard) as a pet. The only risk is the usual d'n'd, which, me having about 135k life, ticked for about 22k and I nearly died once.
It will occasionally freeze you, which I guess is a bad thing if coupled with D'n'D but it never happened to me. I had the talent for removing all the movement impairments, though, so no problems.

But he did that only twice, and after the second time I was able to syphon life back from him. Only needed to cure the Wrathguard once or twice, for the rest I just nuked him along with the Wrathguard and the rest of the Alliance forces. :)

Dropped 10G, among a couple of epics.

Commento di Shkar

I don't know what causes it, but at least as a Fury Warrior, the key to soloing him is to CONSTANTLY strafe around him. Circle him, kite him a bit, whatever; just keep moving. It GREATLY reduces the amount of Icebolts he hits you with, which in turn leaves MUCH less time unstunned.

Commento di Dethblo

As noted, this guy is a pain to solo because of ice traps and Death and Decay. But as a warlock, I found that I could cheat a bit using my voidwalker. Send in your pet and cast your instant dots. Then back just out of casting range. He can't root you from there and he won't cast DaD. Quickly run just within casting range and refresh your dots as needed, then back up again. I only got ice trapped once using this method and he never cast DaD. Never even had to health funnel my pet.

Commento di alexz3

ok so i wiped on this boss, couldn't run away...

I had to wait until all NPCs were killed to be able to rez..

wanted to try again and ran back in, all npcs were gone, whole instance was empty.

is this normal ?

Commento di 1080974

Very easy to solo as a retribution or protection paladin. Just go far away when it casts death and decay and wait till it ends thats all. Boss doesnt hit hard at all ...so save some of your cooldowns such as divine protection and divine shield just for incase if you got frostbolted and death and decay at same time. Speed of Light will also help you in this combat. Good luck

Commento di 1105080

I was finally able to solo this last night as a 90 windwalker monk thanks to our new abilities and Tempesta, Terra e Fuoco. Nimble Brew, working in coordination with your PVP trinket of choice, should be enough to help you get out of Ice Block and Frost Nova, particularly when he casts Death and Decay at nearly the same time. Splitting off a spirit with Storm, Earth, and Fire, or sending in Invocazione: Xuen, la Tigre Bianca can help you get to a safe distance, should you need to avoid D+D or need time to heal. Of course, Calcio Volante della Serpe should be your go-to for getting out of range of D+D, but Capriola will also work.

Good luck!

Commento di biggaz69

Easy to solo as a hunter (lvl 90) as long as you stay of his D&D cast range, pet: tank or dps doesn't matter as long as you keep up heals on pet. Also make sure to bring him within jainas aggro range for that extra support from her, serpent sting, traps etc on him, stampede and I also used lynx rush and dire beast for extra dps. most of the time I spent out of cast range to avoid the D&D but other than that easy fight :)

Commento di Studhole

On both my runs of this guy I got ice bolt stunned almost 100% of the time. It was horrible, am I doing something wrong?

Commento di 1004101

I solo'ed this fairly easily as a Shadow Priest. After one wipe and a visit to this forum to see where i went wrong, I realized it was the Death and Decay that got me.

My only difference from the other comments i was reading was that i was able to get out of range of his Death and Decay but still able to reach him with my spells. I imagine this would apply to other range classes as well.

So instead of using the Death and Decay phase to run away from him, i found it a good time to unload on him without getting stunned or frozen every few seconds

Commento di 1133292

Lvl 90 Shaman Soloing Rage Winterchill

Commento di imagine451

solo'd rather easily as a 502 frost death knight. it might take a while to nuke him down because he has a lot of frost res, and if you didn't know already, frost death knights have a lot of frost spells :/. anyway, popped outbreak, and nuked him down. I was always moving because I did not know when he would cast D&D, and it helped a lot. after he was dead, I got the loot I wanted, and I was a happy bunny :)

Commento di 1110513

Soloed pretty easily by level 85 shadowpriest in 377 itemlevel. No wipes, but wouldn't recommend going with much lower itemlevels, there were some mana problems and health dropped quite low at times (when he used the decay skill when I was still stunned/rooted).

Commento di Panflute

For the love of Christ, do not wipe on this boss. You will spend several minutes waiting to release while he merks the rest of the NPC's that are "members of your group".

Commento di 1203168

i died with him like 20k hp left so the npcs killed him and it still counted as a raid kill but when i got back to the raid after i died he wasnt there for me to loot him. is there anyway to fix that?

Commento di 1211744

Soloed 25-man raid with my lvl 90 frost mage and it was easy (for this ho-hum player), except for Rage Winterchill. I was there to grind rep and getting around 1000 rep from the trash leading up to Rage so kept facing off with him, over and over and over, trying every spell & combo I could think of, none of them working.

After 13 wipes, phone rang just after starting the 14th fight with him. Moved toon out of Rage's sight, paid no attention to what my water elemental was doing. To my surprise, when I got off the phone and returned to the game, my water elemental had Rage down to 7%. I hung back until he was at 4%, stepped in and killed him.

So if you're a frost mage and having trouble soloing him, make sure your elemental is in assist mode, pick a fight and run away. Works!

Commento di JDLKY

This guy was easy on my Ret Pally and a Pain in the Asp on my Boomkin but I finally figured him out.

1) Melee needs to accentuate Healing over DPS'ing. Stay healed up ! Unless you have a pet (Lock,Hunter) you will sooner or later get stunned and you will get D&D'ed. If this happens at 50% health or less you can be in trouble, especially if you are in cloth. Count on it and be ready to deal with the consequences (moving and healing mainly). If you have a HOT I see nothing wrong with using it preemptively.

2) You will get rooted. Count on it and be ready to deal with the consequences (PVP Trinket, Blink, Shapechange, etc.).

3) Don't be in a hurry.

4) Don't count on items like the Terracotta Warrior to be much help.edit: Oops wrong. If you hold off for 10-15 seconds and then DOT like a Warlock (2-3 instant casts, moving in and out of range) it works nicely. You always have to initiate combat to get the TCW engaged. This means I always got icebolted and/or rooted multiple times until I could move out of range at the beginning of combat.

6.03 edit. They keep changing how this fight goes with the Boomkin & the Terracotta Warrior. As of now the TW dies immediately and is useless. OTOH Rage doesn't hit nearly as hard as before and the stuns even with D&D do less damage. Its an easy solo at 90+ now.

The only complication were the roots which are simply not a problem for a Druid.

5) ~~The one time I used channeled spells I got off most of them off during the D&D phase when he did not move. Other than that I used my DOT's and ran like a girl a lot.~~ 6.03 edit; Move out of the D&D but that's about all the movement you need to do.

Commento di zeiz

if you are hunter don't even bother with this boss until you have erally good gear. After 16 wipes, dying on DnD EVERY time with 500ilvl I ragequited and not returning until I have atleast 540 gear.

Commento di Timbeon

Solo'd today as a frost mage in mostly Timeless Isle epics and some MoP dungeon greens/blues. Took some trial and error, but it was pretty easy once I got the hang of Death and Decay's range. Here's the strategy I used, which relied pretty heavily on Invocation and Living Bomb.

Pull him by the soldiers for a slight DPS boost, and start going to town. Make sure you reapply Living Bomb whenever it expires, and cast Frozen Orb whenever it's up. Instant casts are really handy here, since he likes you root and stun you. Pay close attention to his cast bar- as soon as you see him start to cast Death and Decay, use Blink and continue running away from him for a couple seconds, so you're just out of range. Once you are, use Evocation a couple times until your health is back up to a comfortable level (I went to ~80% or so), then go back to DPSing him- your spells should have no problem reaching. He doesn't move while using Death and Decay, so it's a good time for non-instant spells. Lather, rinse, and repeat until he goes down.

It took a while, since most of my damage when he wasn't casting Death and Decay came from Living Bomb ticks and my elemental, but I eventually downed him without too much fuss.

Good luck, and happy soloing! May the RNG loot gods be on your side.

Commento di Chalgar

Solo'd as ilvl503 Assassination Rogue

Surprisingly easily one my first try. The only thing to look out for is Death and Decay. Sprint out (or Burst of Speed) and use Shuriken Toss. Didn't need to equip any trinkets to deal with ice as some have suggested. The worst part is waiting for each wave to spawn!

Commento di Moggets

Maybe a tip to avoid D&D:

move to his spawnpoint, when first wave of mobs come push them back and walk towards there spawnpoint. when boss spawns, fight him there (outside the village) did this 2 times now and he never casted D&D when i was there

Commento di aprildawn567

How I solo'd as a Shadow Priest (after several times dying):
1. Bring him near guards, so they can help with damage.
2. Place all DOTspells quickly, and do damage.
3. When he freezes/stuns you, as soon as you can move, get the heck away from him. Place more DOT spells, and be ready to heal yourself.
4. DO NOT STAND IN THE FIRE.

Commento di CountCardboard

easily soloable @ lvl 90. you should have a little of bit gear though, as u (even at lvl 90) lose a lot of life during Morte e Distruzione! some other guys mentioned how to avoid D&D, you can try that too of course...

Commento di mykro9

Okay, what am I doing wrong on my DK? The fight looks like this to me on this particular toon:
Icebolt (stunned)>Icebolt (stunned)>Frost Nova (rooted)>Icebolt (stunned)>D&D right in the middle of being chain rooted or stunned, so have to wait until I hit Death's Advance and barely get far enough away before I am at 20% health, then have only howling blast/icy touch to range with and get 2 or 3 off before I am out of runes, and no RP to even cast death coil, then it is back to the stun/root lock until the next D&D and I cannot get far enough out of the AoE to survive. What am I missing to use spell-wise? and is there some bug with literally being chain stunned/rooted? I do not have a problem like this on any other classes, but I literally am not able to cast anything from being constantly stuck in a stun. No other time going up against Rage Winterchill, have I been chain-stunned like this.

Commento di WarMaster

I suspect they have nerfed the Death and Decay ability, as it was only hitting my fresh 90 rogue for 144 damage, as opposed to the percentage-based ticks (~15% if I recall) it had been previously.

Commento di Dondocool

I found that he is a really good way to farm Scale of the Sands rep. Just kill the eight waves, and then do something like Vanish or Feign Death and then watch him ravage the encampment. Just make sure your hearth is set at Dalaran so that you can take the portal there. (Make sure you have your rep boosts)

Commento di Taraezor

Just a warning for Frost Mages in questing gear...

While I wasn't able to solo it as a level 90 Frost Mage with questing gear, I did notice that when it lays down the D&D he is not mobile and that is your big chance to spam some attacks. The never ending Frost Novas are very annoying. Sure we can blink but the blinks have a 15 second CD. Unable to Spellsteal or Counterspell as well.

I died twice (the second time with it at half health) but I could see this being an expensive or at least time consuming fight. All for a piece of gear from a later boss I am not desperate for and rep wise, clearing the waves does nothing for me.

Commento di Redexx

If you are looking for reputation farm, here is the quickest and shortest route;

1. The very first wave of the first boss gives 0 reputation.
2. Second wave and above gives you 12 xp for each mob count you kill.
3. Boss reset timer is 5 minutes.
4. Boss fight, from the moment you start the event, till Jaina is dead is roughly 5-6~ min.
5. Make sure to engage the boss but do not pull aggro on her (ie. spells etc).

I used my 120 lvl frost mage to solo it over and over again. I engaged the boss using spellsteal which didnt do damage to the boss.

Hope this helps.

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