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Commento di 27608

If you have enough dps to burn him to sub 25% before he does first insanity you get 2xSpawns, so if you can aoe -- warrior cleave/ww, other classes aoe -- this makes it alot easier.

Commento di Thordros

Having a melee-heavy group with a Protection Warrior tank is the key to breezing through this achievement with ease. Melee classes have the easiest time polishing off their shades, but the Protection Warrior is what really trivializes the DPS requirement. Spell Reflecting Volazj's Mind Flay will cause him to take ~18 000 damage for every Flay you send back at him.

Assuming you take 30 seconds each to handle the Insanity phases, and your Warrior reflects a Mind Flay every 10 seconds, your four non-healers need to put out only an average of 1348 DPS.

Commento di 249391

you can out-los the insanity, but i am not sure if this is intended or a bug (looks a bit buggy though).

Commento di 196807

Edit: This post is now for historical information purposes only. This method was hotfixed as of 9th December 2008's Tuesday maintenance and no longer works.

(Don't downrate this or half the comments below won't make any sense about a LoS method!)

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Tank the boss at either of the 2 pillars behind the boss and have everyone stand next to the pillar as well. When the boss casts Insanity (5 second cast), all players run around the pillar to line-of-sight the boss.

When the cast completes, assuming all 5 players were out of line of sight, everyone would briefly see 4 images of their party members for 1 second, and everyone exits the Insanity phase instantly (the images kill themselves). So Insanity pretty much does nothing, and you can kill the boss easily within 2 minutes.

Note you may need to LoS Insanity twice.

Commento di soupz

Either we messed it up, or the exploit is fixed. Either way, heres how we did it today after we found we couldn't get the LoS method to work:

Blow Bloodlust instantly, he casts Insanity at 66%. You want to get him down as much as possible, but NOT to 33% (DoTs will tick while he's unattackable, as well) or you will get 2 waves of adds at once and most surely wipe. Everyone needs to deal with their adds ASAP. Our healer was a priest, so he mind controlled his adds to despawn them which sped things up a bit.

After the first Insanity is over, he'll probably be very close to going to the next phase. Top everyone off during the 5 second cast and do it all over again. Once you come out, go all out on DPS and finish him off. For us, he had about 30,000 health left to finish off once we got of the second Insanity, so as long as all your DPS is alive you'll make the timer easily.

Times of our Insanity casts:
0:23
1:06

I also theorize that it's possible to kill him during the second insanity cast, but likely at a level of gear currently unattainable. He was casting it with about 134k HP left, and we managed to get him to 30k by the end of it as I mentioned earlier. With a DoT stacked group, it may be possible.

Commento di 271168

Just confirmed that Line of Sighting his Insanity cast no longer stops it from going through, so the above poster was correct, it was hotfixed in December 9th's maintenance. Tried to line of sight him with both the pillars and the entrance, neither method works.

Commento di 84984

We used the same method as soupz but with a 4 dps and a tank group.
ehance sham, ret pal, affli lock, fire mage, prot war

use BL and burn him hard so that he will cast insanity twice.
kills the first add wave, your mates adds, then the second add wave and try to stay alive !

finish the boss.

Commento di Fendryl

Seems like he'll do 2 insanities no matter what.

And, as we found out the hard way today - if your dps is so fast that you take him low enough when the first insanity goes off, you'll actually have 2 sets of clones up for each person.

Commento di 148091

The only way I can see to do this is to burn the boss w/o using any cooldowns/Lust till he hits the first insanity. Right before he finishes casting insanity, have everyone un-equip their weapons. The clones will now copy w/o any weapons, which makes killing them immensely easier, especially for melee classes and hunters. From here everyone quickly burns through their sets of adds and moves on to help the others. When you come out of the insanity, you have to burn the boss before he finishes casting the second insanity or you're not likely to get it done on time. My group almost did it with a DK Tank/Pally Healer/Blood DK/Hunter/Rogue, we burned him to ~5% before he got the second insanity off. With a shaman subbed in for any one the DPS/healer getting this would have been trivial.

Commento di Gimsly

My group tried it with 1 tank and 4 dps(Prot pally)me (ret pally)(BM hunter) (rogue) and (fury warrior) got him down to 10% with me solo healing myself. We just normal dps him down to about 56% before he casted his first insanity, after we came out every1 popped there CDs and just nuked him got him down to 10%, second insanity hit us and we got out with 10 secs left we just decided to wipe and try again later ( my group was up 24 hours doing achievements) :P /cheer got all the hard ones out of the way though....

Commento di 238834

there is a TRICK for completing this one, easy
clear all the way to mursoom boss, and from that boss to last boss inc the 3 "faceless ones"
then kill the musroom boss, BUT make sure every one get the 100% dmg buff from the musroom boss (lasts 2 min) and then go and kill the last boss :P
i havn't checked it yet, but i think u can even kite the musroom boss to last boss place and those not loss time with running

Commento di BigfootGolem

For those groups with high dps and a bloodlust, do NOT burn him through the first insanity past 35%, he will channel the second one and you will have to deal with 2 sets of adds.

After learning that, we burned him down with trinkets and bloodlust immediately after he re-appeared, got him to about 10% when he finished the second insanity.

Commento di 165016

1 heroic/badge/high quest items geared muti rogue
1 mostly 25 man geared Enh. shaman(me)
1 fully 25 man geared feral druid(tank)
1 fully 25 man geared resto druid(which specced to balance during the fight)
1 fully 25 man geared BM hunter

All right guyz, this one is not ez like most achievements...
first of all, let ur healer respec to some caster dps(so he/she can heal as well)...
while starting the fight, i put my totems down, and when tank aggroed the boss and brought near totems(roughly 2 seconds), ive used my heroism, while around 260k hp, he started casting insanity, and the cast was over when he had 195k hp left... since we had no healer spec, our balance talented healer was only using his wrath spell, that made things amazingly easier(like most achievements -gotta go-) and when insanity was over, we started burning him again from 180k to 80k, then his insanity cast was over at 80k(50 seconds left for achievement), we quickly popped everything for dps, and when there was 16 secs left, boss had 56k hp and insanity was over, then we burned him down, and killed at 4 seconds, /sigh

Commento di Anacopoulus

We managed to get this achievement 3 days ago.
Our group was 1 Prot Warrior, 1 Mage (elemental "FFB"spec), 2 Ret Paladins, and 1 Priest. (Now i would recommend for the people who try this achievement to not take a druid... Druids specially resto can be extremely hard to bring down during Insanity phase, advisable bring a priest or a paladin) Now we are all pretty much geared out in NAXX gear for 10 man so our dps is fairly high. If you come in here with blues it may be almost impossible to get volazj and adds fast enough.

Basically our strat was to have the tank charge in, and gave him about 3 seconds to gain agro he poped shield wall right off the bat to give the priest time to dps volazj. Ideally you want your tank to stay up by himself for 50% of volazj's health since we had our priest dps him down as well ( he poped Shield wall, Health Potion, Last Stand, Trinkets in that order). Meanwhile mage and 2 ret pallies were dpsing without using cooldowns yet.(save those for after the first insanity)
I cannot stress this enough it is of most importance for your PROT WARRIOR to spell reflect mind flay, for it does 3% damage to volazj which is a considerable amount considering he casts about 3 - 4 before the first Insanity. Eventually we got him to 50% and he started casting his first insanity at this point we had the healer, tank and dps stack on each other. (We also had our mage cast living bomb and any other dot available on volazj as well as the priest) The reason for stacking was that we were having trouble killing the healer, and tank because they were so spread out when insanity came up.
This whole achievement basically comes down to how fast your dps can bring down their adds to help the healer and tank kill theirs. So make sure you get those adds i would say within 10 seconds no more.
Once the adds are down your tank needs to be on the spot to pick him up again and make sure he has enough rage to spell reflect those mind flays. Once our tank had agro on Volajz we burnt all our cooldowns Wings, Icy Veins, and Combustion as well as PI from the priest to the mage.
We got him to 33% as quickly as possible he started casting his second Insanity we stacked again killed each other quickly and then finished him off.
At the end we finished our achievement with only 4 seconds to spare on the timer so you bet your @zz this is a tough achievement.

(NOTE) Blizzard did fix the LOS strat so you can no longer do that.

Commento di Starspawn

Also made this achievement tonight.

Group setup: Prot Paladin, Warlock, Mage, Death Knight, Ret Paladin.

Our Ret Paladin had been healing the instance in holy gear, so take a healer to the instance who is specced for DPS. Our gear was mix of 25 Mans and 10 Mans, with exception of the DK who was in blues. We basically found with this setup you can full out nuke him as hard as possible, and we didn't need any healing as there was 2x Lay on Hands. May need to use Healthstones and Health Pots for the Insanity Phases and bunching up near the boss helps aswell, so melee can kill their adds quickly.

We did it with 1 second spare, was very close! But much more fun then LoS abuse for sure! :)

Commento di 71624

Did this tonight with a setup of Prot Warrior, DK, DK, Rogue and Priest healer (myself). Only took 3 tries, but 3 of us were decked out in Naxx25 gear.

We all stacked up on the boss as to eliminate run time for Insanity. We had everyone capable of burning their copies without fail, including the healer (holy nova spam - harsh on mana, but effective).

Burst DPS is most effective on this fight, you'll want to avoid bringing dotters.

We ended up killing him at 1:57, 3 seconds to spare, and I had to burn all my mana replenish abilities. A ret pally for replenishment would definitely have made it easier, but it wasn't too hard regardless.

Also, to clarify for healers attempting this - I did not respec or switch out any gear, and my gear is crit/regen oriented so Holy Nova spam was viable for me. If you do not have the option to kill 4 enemies with 12k health quickly you may want to consider respeccing or bringing ridiculously geared burst DPS to help you out on your copies.

Commento di Sympathy

Just did this achievement an hour or so ago.

Group set up was:

Prot warrior.
Shadow priest.
BM hunter.
Marks hunter.
Enhancement shaman.

We're all geared in 10/25 man raid gear, heroic gear and a blue here and there.

What we did was pulled the boss and blew Bloodlust right away while the tank popped all cooldowns (Shield Wall, Last Stand, trinkets, etc) while we all dps'd the boss through the first and second insanity cast causing us to get two waves of adds. We had him at about 2% just as he cast the second.

The rest of the group died to the two waves while I was able to survive using Spirit Wolves, Shamanistic Rage and MSW5 Healing Waves. So I plowed through my adds and kept one alive til everyone was dead. Killed the last one and was able to finish off the last 2% on my own.

The hunters and myself were pulling about 4k dps each so you have to have a pretty solid group for this to work.

Timer was on 1 minute and 23 seconds on the kill with plenty left over.

Commento di Quaeras

Talk is going about town that having your DPS equip fishing poles and your healer run this with only half his armor on makes it much easier.

As a hunter, I find myself unable to burst down a healer before getting destroyed by the adds.

Commento di Standz

Group:

Prot warrior
Mage
Warlock
Hunter BM
Shaman Resto (Elemental talents)

Killed him with about 1 min 30 seconds left. ( ~4k dps each with naxx25 gear )

Use all your trinkets and heroism at the start and burn him down to 35%, he'll cast 2 Insinatys and u will have 2 set of adds, continue dps on him until u kill him. ( After that u will die cause of adds ). Good luck.

Commento di OccasusTuralyon

Is his insanity cast affected by CoT/Mind numbing? :)

Commento di OccasusTuralyon

ah, shame.

Hmm, perhaps this achievement is easiest with a heavy melee group, maybe rogues?

but the group would need strong aoe too.

for example, i'm a deathknight, if they are all melee, then ill simply group them up and aoe down

wonder if mages getting the stormpeaks buff would change much in this fight

Commento di 255873

Edited to be clear.

Well, we made him from 100% to 0 without doing any adds ~~Insanity~~, we just nuked as hard as possible.

Party was prot warrior, hunter, mage, balance druid, enhancement shaman.
I used heroism at beginning and we kept nuking trough the first Insanity cast, got him under 33% during that 5 secs and pushed him to 0 before he could finish the second Insanity cast.
We got one set of adds, two of us died after we killed him, but we got the achievement. Took like 30 seconds. We had mostly 213 level gear.

The only reason why we managed to do this: you can target the boss during Insanity if he is casting the second Insanity.

Commento di herrera

We did this last night. Setup used: prot warrior, fury warrior, unholy dk, aff lock, shadow priest (normally, she's holy, we made her respec). Basically, the tank didn't get any heals, we just zerged the boss down to around 48% when first Insanity went off. He had a lot of dots on him, and by the time we almost cleared all adds, we got a second wave. Boss was still under Insanity effect. We cleared second wave also, and boss came up with 32%. Lock died just as boss was engaged after Insanity, but he still went down with 3 seconds left.
The reason we made the priest go shadow is because it's easier to kill shadow priest, then holy, since they don't heal when in shadow form.
The DI+SS tactics is probably better and safer, but this one works, too.

Commento di 292758

For any deathknights with 4 other DK friends, this achievement is ridiculously easy to do. Want to know why? Army of the dead

Had a group that fell out because we had a druid healer who everyone was having problem killing during insanity. I decided for hilarity purposes I was going to get 4 other DKs and try and 5 man it, just to see if it was possible. At about 15% i realized we were 2 minutes 11 seconds into the fight and had slaughtered both insanitys, me and the rest of the group was on vent so i called for a whipe for the achievement. Here's the strat we used, and our specs

1 Frost tank ( me )
1 Blood DPS
3 Unholy DPS

We all had a mix of purples / blues. We all had epic weapons.

Engaged boss, blew defense cooldowns, managed to nuke boss down to 65% before his insanity was casted. This is the important part. We all cast army of the dead as soon as he starts casting insanity. About 15 seconds later, all the adds are dead and we are back on boss. Army adds were still up when he did second insanity, and we had about 15 seconds in insanity 2. This left us one undisturbed minute to drop half his hp. We did it in about 40 seconds. This was the easiest achievement in the world for us. Thanks blizzard for the DK love =]

Commento di OccasusTuralyon

Thinking about trying this with the following setup:

Frost DK Tank

Fire mage

xxx mage

Demo warlock

Ele/enh shaman

Basically, the mages would get the buffs from storm peaks, then get summoned back.

I'll set a warning to cast a 3sec cast at the right time

Me (the tank) will then use army of the dead, while the dps preload big hits.

the hits fire off, i taunt the boss, then the ghouls tautnt he boss while i hopefully try to retain aggro during the fight.

will also get the shaman to use fire elemental for even more burst :3

Commento di 135808

12/30 completed this today with 20 seconds to spare with resto shaman, unholy dk, rogue, prot pally and a warlock, not really hard, just get your insanity reflections down fast and you'll be fine.

Commento di Nokb

Got this Today with a mix of strategies

Our group setup was Affliction lock, Prot warrior, Ret pally, Disc priest, Resto shaman

Prior to engaging the boss, we all went behind him ( we had our backs to the ramp leading out of the instance.) we did this to minimize the travel time. The warlock Soulstoned the ret pally.

As soon as we engaged, we had our shaman pop bloodlust and fire elemental. Then, he used a swiftness potion to get near the instance portal.

We burned the boss and about 3 secs before the insanity cast was over the shaman zoned out, therefore not creating a clone.

We burned our adds in about 20 secs and then resumed to burn the boss. ( Making sure the warrior reflected all the flays) Once he started casting his second insanity, the pally DIed the priest thus creating only 1 add for the warrior and the lock which they killed in about 4 secs.

Then it was just a matter of killing the boss... had about 11 secs left.
Hope this helps

Commento di 295237

done it today with the following setup:

shadow-priest
shadow-priest
fury-warror
combat-rogue
prot-pala (me)

pulled from the side, full dps till the first add-wave, we killed the adds quickly, our priests mindcontrolled and despawned their copies. did this twice and he was down in 1:48 !

equip was a 10/25 mix (mostly 25)

heroism is for pussies! :)

Commento di OccasusTuralyon

Did this today with:

Me - Frost DK tank
Ret pala (respecced from holy- his gear wasnt too great)
elemental shaman (used heroism + fire ele asap)
mage (frost)
Ret Pala

basically just nuked the crap out of the boss, i think i was always last to kill my copy, forgot to army of the dead :3

killed him with about 7secs remaining, i died but still got the achievement, very close fight indeed.

Commento di INvShika

These methods take some hella execution... good luck!

Commento di 211542

Volazj's Quick Demise is easily done!

1. Bring atleast one DK for Army of the Dead.
2. Bloodlust.

Tank grabs and just burn Volazj' down. When he starts casting his first Insanity your DK(s) should cast army of the dead. You will drop all the adds very quickly using this strat.

When you re enter normal phase, pop BL and burn him down.

Good luck! =D

(BL is not nessessary though, my group just did the achievement without it, but we only had four seconds to spare!)

(Also! I recommend using Bloodlust after the first Insanity, because if you use it before you may get Volazj' down so low on HP that you will get two groups of adds during the Insanity phase.)

Commento di 92486

Completed 1/9/09 - no heroism / no los / no mind flay reflecting

Group Make
Tank - DK (dps spec)
Healer - Priest (spec'd full shadow)
DPS - Rogue
DPS - MM Hunter
DPS - BM Hunter

We all used flasks and great feast to acheive maximum buffs. Another huge help for burning this guy is potion of speed.

We had both hunters use mis-direct to help the DK with threat and went all out, blowing our speed potions on pull to insure we could burn him below 50% before first Insanity. All cooldowns were used for the first initial burn as we felt that was our best time to take a huge chunk of his health away. Right before Insanity cast, we stacked so all adds would be in one spot.

We killed the boss with roughly 5 seconds left. No tricks - just flasks, potions, and a whole lot of DPS.

Commento di nerael

Our group conceived a very different strategy for the Volazj's Quick Demise achievement. Despite having really good dps, my party members were taking too long to kill me (Druid) and we didn't quite have enough dps to squeeze past the second Insanity before the two minute time limit had expired. Be prepared to be blown away.

Group makeup:
Warrior Prot Tank
Tree Druid (me)
Enhancement Shaman
Warlock
Hunter

The essential components of this strategy are the Warlock (for summoning) and the Shaman (heroism).

First off, you can run along the right pillar behind Volazj and not aggro the boss, he has a very small aggro radius. We ninja'd past the boss up to the area where you burn the corpse and had the warlock place summons on the druid, hunter, and warlock. None of these players accept these summons - yet. We had the warrior tank the boss down the web-ramp by the brazier. and the Hunter MD pulls to him, then runs up to join the druid and the warlock standing by the exit instance portal. The shaman blows heroism as dps starts as possible and we burst the boss down as far as possible until he casts the first insanity.

Now, when the insanity cast begins we have the druid, lock, and hunter zone out of the instance through the back door, still keeping those summons on themselves that will bring them back into the instance next to the boss. These three will wait until the shaman and warrior call them back before they use their summons - they will have to wait until the second insanity at 33% health has already been cast.

Meanwhile inside, the shaman and warrior will only have to kill one evil clone each because they are the only two people in the instance for him to cast insanity on, then they dps the boss to 33% (Our initial dps and warlock dots on the boss brought him down to 37%) and if need be they use healthstones and shield wall to stay alive for that short amount of time. When the warrior and shaman reach 33% Volazj will cast his second insanity and AFTER insanity is finished casting is when the other three people accept their summons and zone back in. The shaman and warrior will quickly dispense of their second evil clones and then everyone has about a minute left over to dps the boss. Game. Set. Match!

We couldn't believe it when this actually worked, it only took us two tries using this method to do it. =D

Commento di aerendirsafr

Just did it with : Enh Chaman / Ret Paladin / Holy Paladin / BM Hunter / Protection Warrior.

The warrior just spammed spell reflect, pop bloodlust instanlty and just zerg him.
The Holy paladin didn't healed the tank except by using Holy shock.
The goal is to take him down at ~35% at the first Insanity.

Kill your adds, help your friend and just dps him down (we dpsed him to 5% then we zerged our 2nd wave). Killed him with 4sec spare !

Commento di 237132

We took Ballance druid, enh shamy, retro pally, (me unholy tank specc in pvp gear), and frost dk

Got him down in 20 seconds. I couldnt loot badges tho.

Commento di 99640

A few easy tricks of the trade. I've now done the achievement successfully twice on three runs.

-First, find a friendly shaman who won't be hurt by sitting out Volazj's loot.
-Second, find a warrior to tank and spell reflect those lovely, lovely mind flays.
-Third, Find a healer who can handle their adds appropriately.
-Fourth, use as much melee dps as possible...

For both my runs, the above rules boiled down to a Death Knight, myself as Retribution Paladin, Priest Healer, and Protection Warrior. The first time we did the achievement we were actually trying and learning our new custom strategy. We were left with four seconds on the achievement clock and we did it four minutes before midnight on new years eve. (Just for fun) The second time... we had 44 seconds left. This is where we learned how to perfect it.

I'll play things out for you...

ENGAGE:
-Shaman bloodlust. - - - .5 seconds on engage.
-Shaman drops totems (Fire Elemental) and those useful to melee. - - - end at 8 seconds.
-Shaman teleports out appropriately - - - 19.4 seconds after engage.
-26 seconds after engage, we've done over 250,000 damage and he enters the first insanity.
-Within ten seconds, all adds on the tank and dps players are dead, we help take down the priest's adds and re-engage at 49 seconds.
-A few flays and judgments later, he's down to low health and the next insanity hits.
-With a full 40 seconds remaining on the timer (That means 80 seconds in) we re-engage for the second time and bring him down to zero in six to seven seconds flat, getting in some lucky critical hits.

And that's how it played out.

If you don't have such a shaman, use a warlock, have them soulstone a Ret paladin and run out just before the fight. Don't kick them from the group or the soulstone dissolves. During the SECOND insanity, use Divine Intervention on the Healer and wait until the copies of your other DPS member and tank spawn before using the soulstone to resurrect. The healer then clicks off the DI and heals up the last bit of the fight. With so few adds, your tank and other damage dealer can finish them off in quite a hurry and shave precious chunks of time off the timer.

Good luck. It's one of the more inventive but certainly not difficult or luck-required achievements.

Commento di 245871

Im wondering if you take a druid for heals, and have them swap out of tree into something like cat form before each insanity, will this completley prevent them from tossing heals onto the Shadows? The Shadows seem to be fairly squishy but usually the healer is the one that slows me down the most.

Commento di S3nsenmann

We ran this achievement yesterday with our Grp consisting of: TG Warrior, Ret Paladin, Enhancer Shaman, Holy Paladin, and Feral Druid (Tank)
In the first insanity our Holy Paladin did Divine Intervention in the Druid, therefore the 3 remaining damage dealers had only three adds to kill while our tank und healer had no one.
Then we popped bloodlust and burned him down before he could finish the second insanity, our Tank using what Cooldowns he had to stay alive without the heal.
We still had 40 seconds left on the timer so i guess it would have worked out as well if we had to go through second insanity

Commento di 305298

Just did this achievement with a Prot warrior, me (enhance shammy), TG warrior, Ret pala and Boomkin. Popped hero on the pull, nuked him and got him below 35% during first cast of Insanity, he went straight into the 2nd and remained targetable. Continued to dps, and got the achievement in 23 seconds, followed by getting smacked by a ton of adds, but what the hell, was faster than any of us were expecting.

Commento di 135665

Group: Elemental Shaman (who was healing), Protection Warrior, Retribution Paladin, Enhancement Shaman and Balance Druid (myself).
Time to kill: 31 seconds.

Heroism at 80%, we killed him after that. He cast Insanity twice but died.

Commento di 49893

Just finished by the skin of our teeth tonite, 1/16/2009. Had literally one second left.

Group was me (DW unholy DK), Prot Warrior, Elemental Shaman, Rogue, and a Mage.

Started fight by just plugging away at the boss to the first insanity, at which point I used Army of the Dead to help kill adds faster. Group stacked near the tank so it was easier to get all the adds grouped and killed.

After the first set of adds were killed, our Shaman popped heroism. Burned him to the second insanity (and no more than about 3-5% health left), started killing adds.

People started dying during the second insanity though, so when we got out of it only the tank and myself were alive. The Prot Warrior died shortly after the insanity was over, and the boss killed me when he had ~30k health left (and about 10 seconds left on the timer). I died and "Shadow of Death" procced, and I figured I had enough time - so I finished him off in ghoul form, with the rest of the group dead.

Sloppy, but it worked. My recommendation would be to stack melee *OR* casters, that way your buffs complement the most people possible, and to bring a Prot Warrior to spell reflect Mind Flays.

Good luck!

Commento di Mystz0r

This achievement isn't bad if you have a well enough geared group. We did it with 10 sec to spare, in a group decked in Naxx-25. No pots, no hero, however we did use a warrior tank for the spell reflecting.

Best of luck!

Commento di magezsoul

Completed 1/19/09

Group composed of:

Holy pally
Prot Warrior
Frostfire mage
MM hunter
Fury warrior

Took a few attempt but we finaly did it, Pally used a mele weapon to dps in the first phase while our tank popped cooldowns and reflected the mind flays.

The hunter and warrior removed all there weapons before phase 2 to make it easier for the mage to burn them down which worked very well.

After phase 2 we burnt the boss down to 0% with less then a second to spare till the next insanity it was a perfect kill

We did it with no pots or food buff's only used class buff's

Commento di nick19k

downed within 21 sec over 7k dps i did as boomkin check it out ss posted at the bottom of page.

http://i44.tinypic.com/2lo2ofn.jpg

Commento di 306703

I saw few videos where ppl can continue killing Volazj even after he cast that Insanity spell. Can someone confirm this?

The video that i saw was this. If the party can continue killing him this could be easy, just good dps.

Commento di 293703

This worked well:

25-man geared fury warrior
Heroic geared ret pally
25-man geared prot warrior
Two off spec ret pallies, decent and good gear (both usually heal).

Basically just zerged it, had about 10 seconds remaining (had him at about 3% during 2nd insanity). One of the paladins was holy for the rest of the instance and respecced for the last boss.

We also had some noteable screw ups, namely the warrior missed a few mind flays, which cut dps since some of the pallies needed to heal him.

With no one specced to heal (and, especially, with all melee) the insanity phase lasts a very, very short time. You don't need to stack melee specifically, but do make sure people group up so they can be AoE'd.

Note to fury warriors: death wish first insanity, Reck 2nd, or v.v. Also make sure your ww cd is up when it starts.

Commento di 309367

We got this one last night out of dumb luck (if you want to call it that). Our group make-up was a Prot Pally, 2 frost/unholy DK's, rogue and a holy priest (spec'd shadow for just that fight). All of our gear (except the rogues) was out of 5 man heroics, badge vendors and random crafted epics.

We were planning on using interrupts on the boss's mind flays to keep our tanks incoming damage to a minimum but once the fight started we started to all out dps and missed interrupts; thus killing our tank at 65-60%, right before the boss began casting insanity. Both DK's blew Army of the Dead as insanity was casting, giving us (other DK and myself) a controllable ghoul, a gargoyle and 6 minions to help burn our adds. We quickly burned through our first insanity phase and the 12 ghouls proceeded to play agro games taunting the boss while the 4 of us burnt him as hard as we could, hoping the ghouls would still be alive for insanity #2. Once the second insanity came it was the same thing, 4 dps and 16 pets burning through 12 adds. We finished the achievement with 30 seconds to spare.

Prior to that happening we tried 10 times or so, had an elemental shaman instead of 1 of the DK's and the priest was still holy, and it kept coming down to our tank not being able to kill his adds. So I guess to sum it all up, the way for us to overcome that was to kill off the tank.

Commento di Matomeo

My group just got this achivment with the following combo:
Frost DK (tank), Unholy DK (me), Boomkin, Elemental shaman and our priest healer respec into shadow just for this fight.

We used Hero on about 80% and got him to around 45% on the first insanity.
Our tank started to channel Army of the dead as the boss started to cast his insanity, the shadows went down really fast with AotD Hero and no healer (our priest was healing with a shadow build so his shadow clone wasn't healing). On the second insanity I popd AotD and again even without hero, the clones went down very very fast.
Killd him in 1min and 39sec. The boomkin was the only one with 25lvl gear.
Not that hard if your healer spec out of the "healing" tree.

Commento di piszozo

i just laugh at this, everyone did all hard achievements so easily as if there were no achievements with DAM BUGS and now let us try to do them without bug and they are nearly undoable

Commento di 129446

The DI trick works amazingly good, and if you have a non-tanking paladin in your group I would suggest you use it for a free achivement. I've done this thing 3 times before with no special group setup together with guildies, but tonight I went with some RL-friends still in greens and blues, and there was simply no way they could kill the adds fast enough to make this achievement.

So what we did, when he started casting 2nd insanity, the ret-pala DI-ed the restodruid, leaving them both out of the fight, and the 3 remaining only had 2 clones each to kill, which we burned down at hyperspeed, then druid left DI and combatressed pala and we burned down the last 15% of boss quickly, with 28 seconds left on timer when he died.

Commento di 10334

Have done this several times, never using any DI tricks or anything. The main thing that wins this fight is having everyone stack up.

Last night, did this with:

Prot War
PvP Frost DK (me)
Enh Sham
Resto Sham
Mut Rogue

When you start the pull, its important that everyone goes in together in a big stack. The tank doesn't charge because you want everyone to get maximum time on the boss. When the fight starts, ranged stand on the tank and melee stand just behind the boss, not far away.

What this does is get everyone nice and clustered so that when he uses Insanity, you can easily begin to AOE without chasing people around or moving. It makes things a lot easier this way. I was able to kill my adds in < 10 seconds with hungering cold and howling blast and then quickly help each groupmate kill the rest in another 10 seconds, meaning the entire Insanity took < 20 seconds. All thanks to stacking up.

We Bloodlusted and still had to deal with a second insanity, but with Bloodlust up, it was even simpler than the first time. The prot warrior was spamming improved spell reflect the entire time and we won with about 10 seconds left.

No tricks, no exploits, no crazy summon strats necessary. And, as I mentioned, I was PvP spec.

Commento di M33p

Got it done recently with a Prot Paladin, Frost/Fire mage, Fury warrior, Elemental Shaman (healer where needed) and a Survival Hunter (me).

Popped Bloodlust right at the start, went all out on dps pushing him to the edge of 45% before the first insanity-phase.

Shaman's Fire elemental helped in pushing Herald down but stood passive during insanity and didn't help at getting the adds down.

For hunters this has really become one of the painfullest achievements to get. Without having a dedicated healer, they should just drop Freezing Trap before even engaging Herald, so he/she can put down another right after if needed during insanity.
Take down melee dps first, as they might not have reached you yet.

Melee dps should focus on the hunter, he deals some nasty damage and is usually weak in melee range and goes down quite fast.

During the 2nd insanity we lost the mage, wich was actually a good thing since we gained a few precious seconds on killing the illusions.

Herald died with 1 second left on the timer ;D

Commento di Oomie

Just completed this achievement myself after respeccing boomkin from resto.

Dk tank
Dps Warrior
Ele Shammy
Arcane Mage
Boomkin

Mostly T7 and T7.5 geared group.

Burned heroism at about 90% and nuked the hell out of him, started casting his first insanity at about 75%, we brought him down to 27% or so during that 5 second cast. He then restarted another Insanity cast where we promptly nuked him down to 2% before he got it off.

My boomkin twin nuked and killed the other 3 dps. I managed to keep myself alive while my typhoon and starfall did the rest. The Dk tank and I got out of that phase alive with about 40 seconds on the timer and the boss at 12k hp.

Took 2 attempts.

Commento di 122125

Done it a few days ago for my guildmates (I already got it). He was dead in 19 seconds.... My guildmate made a video about it, I'll post it, if he uploaded it.

Update: Here's the video about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSF_rcfkBSk

Commento di 313154

Just did this achivment now with a setup 1 warrior tank, 2x retr pala's, 1 arcane mage and 1 elmental shaman.

What we did was that a few seconds into the fight we poped all cooldowns and burned him down, So after he had cast the first insanity cast he was allready burned down so much he started right on the last one. So then we could still attack him, and we killed him down within 23seconds from we started.. Only problem you get is that you will have 2 sets of Insanity players on you after he dies and you will have insanity debuff still on you so you cant see the other players or help them with their adds :)

But we got the achivment and it was quiet easy :)

Total Dps in that fight was about 19k :)

-Sinsap

Commento di EUPIF

Allright... there is one more way to do this.

if you have a strong tank (large hp pool)
and dps how can survive it u basicly ask your
healer to strip naked and taunt the boss as a pull
as it will insantly kill the healer, but still have been active in the fight.
and then just nuke as hard as u can thru the fight. the insanity is extreamly easy without the healer in the mix...

we had:
TANK: Feral tank (Sarth 3drake MT)
DPS: BM Hunter, rogue, lock
HEALER: Paladin

sorry if iv misspelled some words as my first language is not english

Commento di 314505

Ok so tried it with:

DK - Tank
Boomkin
Ret Pally
Ele Shaman
& Myself - Resto Druid

We Managed to get him to 36% before insanity but we had 2 sets of adds ( 2 Resto Druids, 2 Ele Shams etc ) which was very difficult for everyone to kill so we decided lets just nuke him & kill him before he can cast insanity.

New grp consisted of:

DK - DPS
2 x Boomkins ( I re-spec'd for it )
Ret Pally
Ele Shaman

Our DK popped his Army of Undead & Shammy Bloodlusted str8 up.
Army of Undead Tanked the Boss while we all just Nuked him to Death.
We killed him in 17secs =)
He just managed to cast insanity but died within a second str8 after casting & we only got 1 set of adds whilst in insanity.

Our Main Boomkin hit 7k DPS
Our DK hit 5k DPS
& the rest of us Hit 4K DPS

So yeah just another way to own this achievement =)

Commento di 284021

It would be nice if someone apply 3.0.8 patch strategie, cause the familiar bugs in 3.0.3 are all fixed.

Commento di blexmark

Turned out this wasn't as bad as I was anticipating. We decided on 4 dps (ghetto heals for shadow priest) and prot warrior.

*S Priest (pop out and heal after p2 back to p1 transition) (usually Holy priest --spec'd shadow to play with Less-rabi 4 dps attempts---boo to blizzard with this one post 3.0.8)
*DK (usually tank) respecc'd Unholy for this fight and I had a decent mix of heroic/nax10 gear for dps
*Protection Warrior (tank)
*Ret Paladin (well geared)
*Mage (well geared)

Phase 1: We just burned down as fast as we could and stayed engaged as long as possible. I think he was at 43%ish percent.

Phase 2: Although we were supposed to stack up, we didn't, I (DK) ran to the mage, and took him down first. Quickly took down the remaining and helped others out.

Transition back to P1: Quickly engaged (everyone was low health--so Spriest threw out some ghetto heals we quickly were back into P2 again.

Phase 2 (part 2): Another burn session, stacking up on mage, then prioritizing Spriest second. We really didn't do a good job here but those that finished early helped the others out. I think we lost our tank coming out.

Transition back to P1 again: We just max dps'd him as he only had something in the range of 10% and he doesn't have a ton of HP to start with.

** Notes: we didn't use any fancy buffs or potions, it was our 2nd attempt after getting owned w/ no heals (spriest forgot *who* was supposed to top people off. Adjusted the kill order for P2 and that was about it. Also note that our tank DIED, for some reason he did not get the achievement but the rest of us did. So keep that in mind as a precaution.

Overall I think the dropping the designated healer was our best bet, we finished with ~3-4 seconds left, and I hated taking down those "#$@# druids spamming nourish!".

Anyway.. Good luck on your Red Proto Drake adventures, I've got to start focusing on "Make it count" post 3.0.8.

--Jedivh/Plaguechaser

Commento di 318057

Just did this tonight, wasn't that hard. Group makeup was

Ret Paladin (Me)
Prot Warrior
Enh Shaman
Warlock
and Resto Druid.

The two key factors to this strategy are the druid and the paladin (Any specs would work).

What you do is, have the paladin cast divine intervention on the druid during the Insanity cast, then after its up, the druid immediately clicks it off and BRezzes the paladin. Unfortunately, you must now wait until your teammates finish their insanity by themselves, but since two of you weren't "alive" for the cast, Itll only be vs 2 shades. So, easy out, then PEWPEW.

We ended up getting a second insanity, burning through it, and STILL getting the achievement with 20 seconds to spare.

Commento di 272508

Just completed this with:

Feral Druid
Combat Rogue (Me)
Arcane Mage
Shadow Priest
Warlock

We didn't have any heroism or spell reflecting of the mind flay so decided to run a 1 tank / 4 DPS setup instead - seemed to work ok. We all used buff food and elixirs.

We basically popped all cooldowns and nuked as hard as possible until the first insanity (Herald was at around 42%). I did save Blade Flurry for the first insanity though, made it a breeze. Then continued DPSing as hard as possible until the second (casted it with 48 seconds remaining on the achievement timer), with dots running the boss went down to around 5% by the time the second insanity was over and we finished him off with 18 seconds left on the timer (Deadly Boss Mods recorded the kill as 1:42).

Because we didn't have a specced healer, I found I needed to use both my healthstone and a potion during the second insanity so that really helped out.

So it is possible to do this achievement with just "brute force" and no heroism or spell reflection, but it takes a lot of DPS to pull it off. Also we were quite heavily geared in 25-man raid gear which helped massively.

Good luck with the achievement! ;>

Commento di 318582

So, "Quick Demise" pretty simple actually... What we did :

Our group was like this :

All of us was 25man instances geared

Warrior tank
Frostfire mage (me)
Frostfire mage
Retri paly
Shammy = i got a guildie who normaly plays elementel shammy to respecc resto, for the little trip to Volazj and when we was infront of Volazj and have taken care of those mobs there are in same room as him, i got the shammy to go and respecc back to elementel.

The first 2 tryes was a little messed up because of some UI problems, but after a quick relog, we
continued, heroism from the beginning and all the dps'er popping ofc all there cooldowns... He went down so fast that we even skip first "Insanity"
and nearly in some point skipped second "Insanity" but what im trying to say is, he actually got to make second isanity, but he also died right after he had put it up :D, me & the retri paly died, and the other mage and shammy was still in insanity with a dead boss outside of it and a achievement well completed.

This strategy works really good, can only say try it out before u try some tricks where u maybe can
cheat or something, call it what u want... But this was just "Max Dps"! ( 4 dps on the boss and a warrior tank to reflect "Mind flays" and the tank ofc popping his cooldowns so he will be sure to stay alive, he will not really get a heal so. But its not needed anyway. :)

gl and may the force be with u :p

//Chronicx @ Silvermoon.

Commento di 320393

Completed easily after the patch 3.0.8
4 dps 1 tank
Burned him down until first insanity, killed all the clones.
Popped bloodlust as soon as first insanity was over and killed him without him entering a second insanity phase, around 40 seconds left on the clock.

Commento di Radiuz

We made it on the second try. As a feral I can recommend saving berserk for the adds, and then burn then down with kitty-swipe. Went down in 5-7 sec.

Commento di 8472_

Did it with a pvp specced mut rogue, prot pally, fury warrior, dw dk, and resto druid (me), with 20 seconds to spare. We were wearing a mix of heroic blues and naxx/heroic epics.
I specced balance. Starfall-barkskin-hurricane. Was a complete joke. Not too hard to heal, blew a tranquility between the insanitys to top people off for the second one.

Commento di Himself

Summon tactic worked a charm, tried most other ways (5xDPS, BL on pull; normal setup and army of the dead first insanity BL second insanity; BL at 80% and nuke through insanities) and summoning five party members, nuking, zoning out, accepting summons and BL/AoTDing last insanity worked fine.

First time I did it and got my mount we had a ret paladin DI the healer and the lock SS the paladin, BL+AoTD on the second insanity.

Commento di RiceCake

This achievement, albeit difficult, is doable without a prot warrior tank, without an off-spec healer, and without any cooldowns such as bloodlust as long as your dps are capable. So if you're worried that you don't have the right group makeup, as long as you have good dps you should be fine. That being said, any such tactics mentioned above would help make this achievement a lot easier.

The evidence stems from the fact that my group (DK tank, DK dps, holy pally healer, mage, and hunter) is able to kill him in 1 minute and 15 seconds without using any tricks (except for me burning an army of the dead after the first insanity).

An interesting thing to note is that it is possible for a group to kill him before he even finishes casting his first insanity. However, on one particular strange run I did, we dps'd him down so fast (but not fast enough) that he started casting his first insanity, stopped short, then started casting another. What resulted shortly after was 2 waves of images and a very funny wipe. As someone mentioned above, if you're positive that your dps is insane, take care in not taking him down too quickly. It's always good to stop short of the hp% for second insanity, deal with the adds, then kill him rather than wipe to 2 sets of insanity adds. While it might've been a bug, the fight could be programmed so that no matter what happens he'll cast 2 insanities if given time.

And yes, army of the dead is insane. If you have 3 or more DKs and they all pop it before engaging, you could potentially kill him before the first insanity.

Commento di 51621

Just did this kill in 19 seconds - loaded SS on our website
http://theharlequins.guildlaunch.com/guild/library/gallery/8981/19_sec_volazj8439.jpg

our setup:
Warrior - prot spec - full DPS gear - pretty much shield slamming throughout the fight
Enhancement Shaman - used wolves and lust
Rogue (me)
Deathknight - Frost/unholy (0/32/39) used army of the dead and gargoyle
Hunter

What we did:
Deathknight started off using army of the dead (before we went into the fight). As soon as the army grabbed the boss the deathknight used his Gargoyle. At the same time the enhancement shaman let loose his wolves as well as bloodlusted so we had a total of 19 things bloodlusted! Warrior provided battle shout and we just went to town on him. He died before he finished his second cast of insanity.

However; be aware, we did get stuck in insanity and unable to get out of it until we zoned out of the instance.

edit: spelling, also wanted to add that unfortunatley i do not have wws or recount to show damage output but all of us were over 3500.

Commento di 231753

Easily possible to do this with 4 DPS, helps if one can heal the trash and 2nd boss though, otherwise you'll need to coerce someone into helping with that and then getting replaced.

Just did it with a DK (tank), ele shaman (me), hunter, moonkin and mage. Everyone stacked up on top of each other so they could be aoed during insanity. DK used all defensive cooldowns at the start, but during that time we were able to dps him down until he started casting his insanity so our tank was still at almost full health. During insanity cast we got him down to about 50%

We cleared up the ghosts in about 20 seconds, when insanity ended he started casting it again and we dpsed him down to 20%. Cleared up the ghosts again in around 20 seconds then finished the boss off. Tank again popped his cooldowns and took minimal damage, finishing the fight on about 50% health. He didn't even need to use death pact.

We had pretty average gear (nearly all pre-raid) and were still able to do this easily in 1m30 seconds simply by not taking a healer.

Commento di 326969

Aparently you can do this as follows, and it is a lot easier.
Group was

Resto druid (me)
Frostfiremage
Prot warr,
2x ret palas

Dps was not great even if we were naxx25 etc geared, as we did not have a shamy so what we did was an adaptation of the Di and BattleRezz strategy, on 2nd insanity the palas di'ed me and the mage, that left the tank alone, and the boss did not actualy triger the clone production, me and mage releashed DI effect, healed a bit and ressed one pala to finish the boss off. we had like 10 seconds to spare. we had an average of 2k dps on the palas/mage, and 1k on tank.

This should work even better if you had a boomer instead of a mage, for a 2nd battle rez. just need quick reflexes cause after the 5 sec cast on 2nd insanity he will go straight to normal phase again. Too early and you will get insanity, too late and the tank might die. As long as there is 1 and only 1 party member insanity will not be trigered.

Commento di Tropix

Is it still 2 minutes or has it been changed, but doesn't show?

Commento di Akumas

When we did the encounter we didn't use a healer and the only non-dps person was the prot warrior. We did the encounter the "traditional" way by killing two sets of clones, one set at a time. Here's how it went down:

(1) Group engages the boss all at once, tank immediately puts spell reflect up in an attempt to correctly reflect all the mind flays (this helps but is not necessary - our tank missed at least one).

(2) Our four DPSers immediately put on the damage, burning him down to his first insanity. When he began to cast his first insanity, we made sure to turn the DPS down, specifically the DoTs. We noticed that if we had heavy DoTs on him after he got his first insanity off that a second set of clones would appear while we were fighting the first set. This makes things more difficult if you have individuals in the group that can't handle two sets of clones at once.

(3) Everyone kills their first set of clones, and then resumes back on the boss when the clones are down.

(4) Popped bloodlust (not necessary) and burned the boss down as heavy as possible. Even when he began to cast his second insanity, we burned heavy (I believe he got his second insanity off with 5% health left).

(5) Everyone kills their second set of clones, and then resumes back on the boss when the clones are down.

(6) Burn that last 5-10% or so when he pops back up after the second set of clones are killed. I think we killed him with less than 10 seconds left by using this "non-burn" method.

Now, in order for this method to work, each player in your group needs to be able to kill their adds in less than 25 seconds. Rinse and repeat the add cycle twice, and you'll be able to kill the boss in under two minutes.

We also noticed that our elemental shaman's clone was using Thunderstorm, even though he wasn't specced into it in his talent tree. It appears as though the clones will use any ability in the tree of concern. For example, if you have an elemental shaman in the group, all abilities are fair game for the clones to use even if your player isn't specced into it. We didn't believe this at first, but later found out it was legit when we kept getting knocked back from the shaman clone's Thunderstorm. This made the burn method through two insanities appear impossible due to the knockbacks that would break the heavy streaming DPS that's required for that method to work.

Commento di 185836

We did it tonight on the first try with Prot Paladin, Holy priest, Affliction Warlock, Blood DK and Elemental Shaman.
Bloodlust + army of the dead at the start of the fight. Kill clones. On 2nd insanity cast I used divine intervention on the holy priest. To make it only 3 clones to kill. I (Prot Pally) was soul stoned and I waited for the insanity to be over and I popped up and tanked him to dead. We had about 15 seconds to spare. Entire group had full 7.5 gear..

Commento di 292772

Just did this without a Shaman. Prot Pally, Ret Pally, Rogue, Boomkin, and Priest. Had the priest DPS, easy as pie. Had 20-25 seconds left on the timer too.

We are all geared though, so...

Commento di phobert

Successfully 4 manned this achievement. We were originally just going for The Party's Over but grabbed this and Volunteer Work as well. Our Setup was:

Holy pally (me) naxx 25 geared
Enh Shaman naxx 25 geared
2 DKs tank was naxx 10 geared, DPS was a mix of 10/25

Our DK tank was frost, I think the other was blood. We started off dpsing him as normal until DBM called out the first insanity. At that pop both DKs popped army and shaman lusted. We managed to burn through the Insanity pretty easy as we all stacked to find each other quicker. Once we got out of the first one he was done to 25% then we just killed him from there.

Commento di caskeper

Spriest (me) ~5k dps
Huntard ~5.2k dps
Lock ~5k dps
Elemental Shammy ~5k dps
Unholy DK tank. 1.2k dps

Everybody except the tank used flasks.
We popped heroism as the tank was running towards the boss (to not waste the global cooldown on the ele shammy - minmaxing ftw!)
3 casters used potions of wild magic when he reached ~80% (not sure if the huntard used anything, and I know the tank didn't), and we managed to nuke him to ~25% during his first cast of insanity, forcing it to bug out and allow us to continue DPS on him while in insanity.
He died in 19 seconds, pretty much, and we could slowly kill the mirror images, not having to worry about the time at all.

Edit: We had a fish feast up as well.

Commento di 315638

Did this two days ago as a protection warrior with an all caster dps setup:

Mage
Shadow Priest
Elemental Shaman
Resto Shaman

After 3 tries we got it, all we did was heroism at 90% and nuke him through both casts, since if you get him to 33% before he finishes his first cast, he'll begin to cast his second insanity. It helped to have the resto shaman dps and I got lucky with spell reflect, got both of the mind flays he casted. On a side note, if you do it this way, you could get glitched and become stuck in insanity even after you kill your group. Just rezone and wait til everone gets back to loot. Hope this helps anyone who has yet to get it.

Commento di Shaxe

We did this achievement with just 1 attempt, our lineup was consist of 4 men:

Tank: Protection Warrior
DPS: Unholy Death Knight, Enhancement Shaman
Heal: Restoration Shaman

We actually did this achievement because one in our group had to leave and so since we had four people after doing all the achievements in Azjol-Nerub, we decided to run Old Kingdom as well to get The Party's Over.

The tactic is simply simple, just tank and spank. Warrior tank popped Spell Reflection as much as he could to attempt reflect all Mind Flays on him. We popped Heroism at ~10 seconds into the battle so Warrior could stack some sunders on the boss to get maximum damage done during Heroism. Then we just nuked our way through and when he starts casting Insanity, everyone would just dot up near the tank so it would save us some time to kill the illusions. We managed to get the boss down with having to go through 2 Insanity phases and killed the boss after 1 minute 39 seconds. The DPS done by the party members were not godly, Death Knight was semi 25 man geared while Enhancement Shaman was pretty much in heroic and 10 man gears. Our DPS meter looked something like this:

Recount - DPS done for Last Fight
1. Rohto (Unholy Death Knight) - 3519.9 (48.1%)
2. Inannah (Enhancement Shaman) - 2516.1 (34.4%)
3. Shaxe (Protection Warrior) - 1024.8% (14%)
4. Usiris (Restoration Shaman) - 248.7% (3.4%)

I forgot to mention, as the the boss doesn't do intense damage for our level of gears, me, the tank decided to tank this big guy in full PvP gears as I have more crit chance to do more DPS, but it wasn't needed since we got him down with 21 seconds left so spare. I don't know if having a 5th member will actually make this achievement so much harder to get but don't doubt trying it with 4 men considering it can be done. Good luck to those attempting this achievement and hope this helped.

Commento di hobbesmarcus

Did it tonight with the following group:

Blood death knight (me)
Affliction warlock
Affliction warlock
Prot paladin
Holy priest

One warlock gave the priest a soulstone. The priest pulled and suicided. The four of us beat him down until the first insanity, and with no healer in the insanity it was easy. Back to the boss, then the second insanity, same deal. After the second insanity the priest rezzed and helped us finish him off. Did it with a few seconds to spare. I don't have the best gear in the world, so someone with full Naxx 25/Malygos/OS gear would be able to do this a bit quicker. The other four had much better gear than me.

Commento di 88803

BL + haste food + Haste elixer + all CDs - Heals = 22 second kill.

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?6800f7c689.jpg

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(maelstrom)

Commento di blupache

Okay... there're a whole lot of "well we bloodlusted then we d/i'd then 14 of our mates teleported in with dragons who had phasers but they zoned out during phase 2 and then went back in time to kill Frank and that worked perfectly provided we killed Frank while wearing purple" solutions.

Our version:
Tank, 3 DPS, 1 healer.

It was a seriously complex group setup. We didn't have bloodlust, we did have - non BiS - 25man raid gear. If you're seriously curious: it was 2x pally (tank/healer), DK, s.priest, mage. My Recount for two h-instances is showing ~7500 from DPS, 1500 from tank & 180 from the healer for 9180dps total (which strikes me as a bit low, but not horribly wrong in a non-buffed heroic).

We burned the boss to 60%.. everyone went really light & slacked off & managed to do as mediocre dps as they possible could. Our agree intention was to stop at 50%, but he goes down like a person who goes down easily so we went a bit easy, stopped dots early & managed to hold enough that his first Insanity (add-summon) went off pre-50% (about 52% to be exact).

Then we killed adds. We only had one group. We were all clustered on each other so the moment we downed ours we could work on the next person's. Stunlock & kill healers, smash up the rest, it's not rocket science. The first time when we tried burning hard we took him to 20-25%ish, but had multiple groups of adds & had forgotten to time it, so we figured we were taking too long and wiped that attempt..

Then we burned him hard & used all cooldowns. If we'd had bloodlust, this is when we would probably have blown it. We killed him at virtually exactly the same time as his 2nd insanity went off. We all got the achievement but we also all had a 2nd batch of clones spawn who we had to kill (post-two-minutes), and only 2 of us were actually able to loot the boss (my guestimate is we killed him exactly as the 2nd clones spawned, and half the party had been swapped to 'clone-killing-phase' and half hadn't).

TL;DR: Go mellow to slightly above 50% and accept having to kill one group of adds. Cluster and kill them quick. Then burn CDs and kicked that last 50-55% out of the silly little bugger !@%!@ quick. If you have to deal with multiple groups of adds, wipe it & try again, or swap to some whacky-but-effective D/I your uncle's cat strategy.

Commento di 327407

Did this tonight with a really easy strategy:

1 dps dk
3 arcane mages
1 ele shaman

We had enough dps that clearing trash wasn't that hard even though we didn't have a main spec healer or tank (the shaman healed the dk in frost presence + tank gear)

Skipped the 1st boss, 2nd boss was a joke cuz he kept teleporting away before he could do damage, and the trash after that is mostly sheepable.

For the the final boss we had the dk go dps and use army of the dead, shammy popped hero, and we all dpsed. Killed him in 17 seconds and got the achievement.

Commento di 414Lokken

Thought I would throw what we did on the pile of comments:

Setup:

Warrior tank (me)
warlock
shadow priest
feral druid
holy paladin (respecced ret for this)

The summon trick no longer works. At least it didnt apear to. We had the warlock pre-summon everyone but me(tank) and i pulled Volazj to the rear entrance. When he started casting insanity everyone immediately hoped out of the instance.

This bugged the encounter. I had to fight 4 adds myself. They werent in the form of my party members, they were just 'ghostly entity' or something like that; a small cloud for each member that wasnt in the instance.

Not only that, but after i killed my adds, i got everyone elses adds as well, including copies of myself!

So we decided that we would soul stone the paladin and he would di the shadow preist (priest was having the most trouble with adds so we decided to take him out of the fight).

Everyone unloads right off the bat. I reflected every single mindflay (I just held off for 1-2 seconds after engaging and then hit spell reflect every time it was off cooldown. If you miss one, make sure to interrupt that flay!) We were able to get him to ~48% before the first insantiy went off. Paladin DI'd the priest which gave me, the lock and the druid only 2 shades to kill.

The lock, druid, and I then got him down to the second insanity quickly (got another mindflay reflect) and killed the 2 adds again. After Volazj became targetable after the 2nd insanity the priest and paladin popped up and helped burn himt he rest of the way.

We had about 15 seconds to spare. None of us are geared beyond 10 man naxx

Commento di 334051

Got this achievement a few days back.

Group setup:
Elemental Shaman
Elemental Shaman
Balanced Druid
Unholy Death Knight
Hunter

Army of the Dead tanked the boss, Heroism got popped and nuked him down in 22 seconds. Do note, if you try to do this tactic yourself, bring good geared people. My group was full 213 epics.

Hope this helps, good luck!

Commento di 329929

Well guys, ive tried 3 consequent days to get this achievement and i concluded that 5 dps (preferably melee burst dps and plate wearers) is the best solution here.

My group was :
2 x retri paladins
1x blood deathknight
1x frost tank deathknight (me)
1x destro warlock with doomguard:)

Tactic is simple : u burn him fast as hard as you can. Personally, we didnt avoid the 2 insanities. Thing is, we used both deathknights army of the dead in the start so boss got pwned good enough and we still had our zombies in 1st insanity. in second insanity, we just dpsed hard and we found out that our melee adds were not that hard as casters to beat. we had enough time in 2nd insanity anyway. also, divine storms healed our group occasionaly for some small chunks of health.i tried many times before with a healer healing in non healing spec so his add is not healing itself in insanity, but i lost achievement always for 2-3secs. i reccomend 5 dps tactic. its faster.it just needs practice. use buffs, potions, elixirs, scrolls, everything u got. i found out that potions of wild magic work great both for melee and for spell casters.(200 critical rating ftw)

good luck guys. its easy (if you think its hard, u have to see eregos timed achievement lol)

aphroditi, bronze dragonflight eu

Commento di dan121

Finished this today with 1:19

Group

Holy Paladin(Would have been better off being ret)
Blood DK
Warlock(Would have been better off being druid)
Survival Hunter
Protection Warrior

The paladin received a soulstone prior to battle. We also took advantage of the soul well. We burned him to about 40% prior to first insanity. As the insanity was cast, the paladin used Divine Intervention on the warlock. The three remaining were the Survival Hunter, the DK, and the warrior. The three remaining members were geared and killed the other two images in under 6 seconds. We beat on Volazj some more, and he instantly started casting insanity #2 @ around 1 minute. We burned the images again, and the warlock and paladin returned to us. He was at about 10-15% at this point, and we slaughtered him.

If you really want to make this easy ensure you have a Paladin and Druid/Warlock. Bloodlust isn't needed because we originally had an Elemental Shaman who had terrible dps. Good luck!

Commento di 335976

We had 1 prot pally, 1 spriest, 1 resto shaman, 1 feral druid, and 1 hybrid warlock

We had prot pally single target taunt, the resto shaman bloodlusted took aggro and died for easy insanities
dps down to first insanity, pally can lay on hands to heal right before first insanity
then spriest topped everyone off after first insanty, leading into the second insanity and helped dps
when boss starts to do second insanity, pally DI the spriest who after insanity clicked off the DI
the warlock and druid just had to kill each other images
druid/warlock/spriest finished off the boss, wanted to have druid brez the pally but said invalid target so just finished it with the 3 living
all wiped and finished it with 1 second left

easy to take and modify parts of this start to your own

Commento di quadtard

My group consisted of prot paly, holy paly TG war rogue and hunter

what we did, is we went in and nuked boss first phase, and then about 1 second before insanity finishes the holy paly DIs the hunter, so we only kill two people in the first insanity.

then after it, the hunter gets out of DI and nuke him again. we came out of second insanity with 40 seconds left.

also for those having problems, i highly recomend taking TG warrior, great burst dps and no problems at all with insanity, with 4 others i come out in about 15s

Commento di krogulek

Ok our setup was :

Prot war
2x enh sham
pom pyro mage
resto druid

we did it after 1 fail, just full nuke, 2x fire elem, 4 ghost wolfs, mages mirror images + Hero and we did it, however we had 2 sec to time end - it was a bit lucky try.

we got 2x insanity

Windsower, Ally Sporeggar EU

Commento di 330765

i did it like that also, having prot warrior, boomkin and ret pally, ele shaman, me arcane mage
pally di boomkin then after insanity boomkin brez pally
only 1 insanity and burned boss in 1 min 35 second, quite easy, used bloodlust aswell

Commento di 65062

Did this as a guild achievement run. Most of us in Naxx gear of various levels.
We were all prepared to use some of the more convoluted strats, but decided to do a DPS test on him first just to see how hard the whole "DPS from 66 to 33% during insanity cast".

Turns out we DPS'd from 66% to 2% in the insanity cast. 20 second kill. He bugged out- was unlootable, and left us all in Insanity even though all the adds were dead.

Group: Ret Pally, Frost DK, Resto Sham, Fire Mage, Boomkin Druid. We used army of the dead, heroism, and personal CD's like wings.

Commento di 288540

Did this with a group of 'fair' dps and me (prot war) in 25naxx tank kit, basically had the healer run in and get 1shotted as was suggested before, then went mental with dps (bloodlust ftw) - result was about 4 seconds left on the timer, had to go through one insanity but that was very little bother with no healer to worry about :)

Commento di 340900

This is almost the same as one of the starts below but with a slgith adjustment.

Our make up was, Me (DK tank), Priest healer(specced holy), Lock, Fury warr, and mage. We found out our healer was immpossible to kill during the the insanity phase(We were all 25 man geared). So came up with the idea of SSing our healer and asked him to taunt boss. Boss 1 shotted him and I tanked him. I lasted long enough using pots and cooldowns. Breezed through the insanity phase since no one else can heal.

After the 2nd insanity phase our healer rezzed to heal me back up as I had already burned everything I had. Got him with 10secs to spare one the first try with the strat.

Commento di Hobocore

18 second kill.

Prot pally
Enh Shaman
Ele shaman
Boomkin
Arcane Mage

Bloodlusted as I pulled, I popped wings, everyone used their cooldowns/trinkets. By the time he had finished casting insanity he had about 80k hp left and was still taking damage, and immediatly cast a 2nd insanity, died before it was finished casting.

Next thing we know, we are all separated and in an insanity, couldn't loot or anything. Worth it though for the awesomeness factor.

Commento di 340813

Did this without a healer. Very easy.

Our group set-up consisted of: A fury warrior, a protection warrior, two mages ( me being one of them ), and an enhancement shaman. I would definitely recommend a shaman for heroism/bloodlust. Just have your tank pop everything to stay alive.
Pop bloodlust/heroism in the start of the fight and nuke like there's no tomorrow. If he starts casting the first insanity, and your dps is good enough, he will interrupt the first one and start casting the second one and you get another 5 seconds to dps him down, which should be enough with the right set-up. Mind you that when Volazj is down, the insanity phase will begin, probably with 2 sets of clones. So good luck with the achievement! I found it to be alot easier than I had expected.

Commento di Malvenue

2 DK's, Arcane mage (me), Elemental Shaman, Rogue, 18 sec kill too.

I popped a speed potion, 2 x army of the dead, spirit wolves, fire elemental, all trinkets.

He was at 18k health as he finished the first insanity.

Like the above poster the corpse was unlootable. We didn't care, got my first proto-drake. :)

Commento di 342414

There was a hotfix and most tactics (like being able to target boss in insanity when he is low, etc.) described above were fixed. Some may be fixed in upcoming 3.1. We used 4 dps + 1 tank tactics, but there are some important things u need to know:

! If u burn him down to like 33%, then he will spawn TWO packs of illusions in first insanity, so each of u will need to handle 8 mobs which generally will lead to a wipe (even T7.5 geared people could handle them with much difficulty)
! If u burn him to about 35-40% and DOTs will get him to 33% before u finish all illusions in first insanity -> second pack of illusions will spawn INSTANLY.
! he WON'T die of DOTs

So what u do is:
- Burn him down to ~40% without bloodlust/heroism, don't refresh DOTs when he begins to cast first insanity. Tank should use his cooldowns to lessen the damage taken as much as possible so noone should heal him
- Kill the illusions as fast as u can and pop up bloodlust/heroism and get him as low as possible. now refresh all dots before second insanity.
- Kill the illusions as fast as u can, when u will be able to target him, he will need only 1 instant cast damaging spell to die.
- Gratz!

Tips:
- if u hug the boss before the insanity, mobs will spawn close to each other for better use of AOE
- get a warlock for healthstones, helps A LOT
- start in-game timer to watch for time running out or track achievement, so you could run back if you are running out of time (with the described tactics it is not really needed, as the boss dies after the second insanity instantly)
- we havent found the way to reset boss unless all dead, post one if u find it
- we found that illusions can use all spells/abilities of ur spec, even if u dont put talents in them (100% checked on some knockback spell - noone had it, but illusions used it often)
- vent helps a lot

Commento di FB12

With a decent group it's easily achievable without the use of any tricks in less than 1:40 min.
Our Setup (pretty standard):

Prot-Warrior
Fury-Warrior
Ret-Paladin
Holy-Priest
BM-Hunter

All of them equipped in iLevel 213-226. Two insane-phases, no heroism, no problem.

Commento di Melodia

Just did this 4man the "traditional way" and had 9 seconds leftover

Frost DK tank
Fury Warr
Combat rogue
Holy paladin

DK blowed Army of the Dead at start of 1st insanity, not counting that we just did it normally. Was kinda surprised when our warr without it got it.

Commento di 343887

For some reason I've always had a hard time killing the healer class. This strategy was inspired by another one, but this is how we accomplished this achievement using a Holy Paladin, Prot. Paladin, and a Warlock.

1. Warlock put a soulstone on prot paladin.
2. Engage boss.
3. While insanity is being cast by boss, Prot Paladin casts Divine Intervention on Holy Paladin.
4. This will pull both paladins out of the insanity so that the 3 remaining team member just have to kill 2 others.
5. While insanity is still going on, prot paladin uses soul stone, and holy paladin dismisses Divine Intervention heals/buffs tank back up before insanity is over.
6. On 2nd insanity, holy paladin casts DI on Prot Paldin. Again, takes both players out of insanity and so the remaining DPS only have 2 clones to deal with each.
7. DI is dismissed during insanity.
8. DPS boss down. Shouldn't need heals for this last little bit.

With this strategy we defeated him with plenty of time to spare.

Commento di Puni

easy ;) 1st attepmt with this grp :) ofc PUG :P

setup was following.

feral tank
unholy DK
retri lol
shadow priest
elemental ( me:)

the last thrash faceless one was the one on which DK get full runic power and feral get full rage... DK poped army... in meanwhile i put totems. after army was up i poped BL. army was tanking boss... after 27secs was end :) just full NUKE.
all ppl were full nax25 geared :)

there is a high chance u will die after u get achievement, but who cares about loot... achievement is most important.

btw... after he end casting 1st instanity in MY way he immediatly begin to cast 2nd instanity. just retarget him ( if u lost him somehow) and finish him off.
GL ppl

Puni , boulderfist EU

Commento di 220291

Just did this in 23 sec. (Insanity was bugged)
Group: Prot warrior, Mage, hunter, druid and myself a unholy dk.

It was fun while it lasted every 23 sec of it :D

Commento di 345397

Finished this in 26 seconds about ten minutes ago.

Setup: (all 25 man geared)

Arcane mage (me)
Elemental shaman
Discipline priest (doing DPS)
Demon. warlock
Feral druid

We popped all our cooldowns and heroism at once and just nuked the crap out of him; we managed to bruteforce him through the first Insanity and given another half a second we would've managed to kill him before the second Insanity (he had ~4500 HP left). The final insanity cast finished just as we got our achievement and I'm sad to say we managed to bug him and didn't get any loot :/

Commento di Namaha

Did it with this group setup

Elemental shaman (me, offheals)
DK tank in DPS gear
Mage
Warlock
Hunter

We popped Lust right at the start, took about 27 seconds to get him down as he was casting insanity.

Commento di 346369

Got him down today at 1 min and 57 sec, we didn't have that much dps so we used the tactic where we got a lock to use SS on our pala tank, and put a summon on our Lock, priest and our tank, when first insanity came, the lock, priest and pala ran out before the insanity was cast (with summons on them) and me and the other mage in party only had 2 kill each other, then the Priest and Pala accepted the summons and got in again, nuking boss to 2nd insanity, then the Pala used Divine intervation (with SS on) on the priest, and me and the other mage only had to kill each other again. When we had done that the lock accepted summon go in, and we finnished the boss.

We did this behind the boss, where you can jump behind the pillars. (It was tanked around the Brazier, also used for the Daily Q in there)

Our group setup was-
Holy Priest
Frost mage
Fire Mage (Me)
Aff Lock
Prot Pala

I was the only 1 with Naxx25 gear, the others had HC gear and a few epics.

Hope this can help others.

Commento di Galabriel

I just got this achievement with a tactic ive created by utilizing elements from all the above information, and it really trivialized the encounter. In fact, you can do it with fresh 80s.

What you need:
2 Warlocks
1 Retribution Paladin
1 Holy Paladin
1 Tank (me - since Im a warrior I was reflecting the flays too)

What you do:

Run behind the pillars to where the instance exit is (everybody but the tank stay right in front of the exit - like 5 yards)
Have each lock soulstone one of the paladins
Get a summon stone up and summon everybody but the tank (so 4 people summoned)
The tank pull the boss, run back at the group, and tank him there by the rest of the group

----- 1st Insanity -----

When boss is at 70% everybody but the tank exit the instance by taking 2 steps back
Tank use one of your cooldowns to stay alive
Everybody accept the summons, and continue DPS till 2nd Insanity

----- 2nd Insanity -----

When boss reaches 36% the pallies Divine Intervention the locks
Tank use another trick to stay alive
Once boss' cast is done, locks disable your DIs, pallies use the SS and rez yourselves

----- Profit -----

As you can tell, in both Insanitys we are having only the tank appear as a living, present player. Since he is the only one targeted by Insanity, he obviously doesnt have to fight anybody in either of the Insanitys. This way this is a walk in the park.
Now possible !@#$-ups are out there during the execution, so heres few tips:
--If your DPS has a bugged summon, no biggie, you dont really need it - altho it might cause the tank and somebody else to enter Insanity where each would fight 1 clone.
--If your Healer has a bugged summon, OR %^&* hits the fan and you cant make the timer, simply wipe it and try again
--You might have to wait for SS' or DI's cooldowns if they are used during a faulty attempt - but hey, this is still the easy way

Commento di Lassy

As of 3.1, the summon trick no longer works as described above.

If everyone except the tank runs out of the zone during the casttime of insanity, your tank will get stuck in insanity and the herald will stay immune for all damage till the tank leaves the zone.

You can have the tank and one dps (preferably melee) stay inside though, this gives each one add to kill. This is still a timesaver.

Commento di 344308

Man we did it with mage fire/frost &2DK dps & druid resto &me::pala Tank

It was pretty nice::

Mage use his copy

DK's use army

Druid all time use AOE heal

This is a way to finish the achievement

Guys try to make a Group like us Enjoy

And DK's one blood &other Unholy

Commento di veno3

Stupidly easy, did it first try in 24 seconds. Would highly recommend your healer switching to his dps duel spec for this encounter, popped BL instantly and went down like a fly with 4 dps.

Setup:
Prot Paladin
Arc/Fire Mage
Demo/Dest Lock
Feral Druid
Enhance Shaman(our healers duel spec)

Commento di 260655

Went down after 49 seconds.
Our team was Naxx25/Ulduar10 geared.

resto shaman (dualspecced enhancement)
arms warrior (DPS)
druid tank
mage (fire)
rogue (combat)

Due to our DPS he went down so fast that he had casted 2 insanities simultaneously. It survived the 2nd insanity cast and we all entered a 2nd phase in which we had to kill 8(!) clones. During the insanity phase the boss died by our dots (poisons, bleed effects etc).

Good luck!

Commento di Slaine

We did it today in 19secs, it was a DPS run:

- 3 DK DPS with 3 Army of Dead up before the pull
- 1 Warlock
- 1 Ret Pally

Popped all cooldowns and get him down fast, we were stucked in the Insanity at the end lol, we had to hearth.

Commento di Kaliara

Group setup: Bear tank, DPS warrior and pala, warlock and resto shaman (me). Mostly naxx 10/25 gear.

First try we popped everything at the start. And fun and giggles, we got two insanities stacked and died from the adds. He will cast two insanities no matter what (rated up the other posters who mentioned this).

Here's what we did for the successful try:

I switched to elemental spec. At the start we blew everything except heroism. All class cooldowns and trinkets (I got my fire elemental out). Tank popped CDs to stay alive without heals. After the first insanity we blew heroism. We couldn't get him down before the second cast, but the heroism helped clearing the adds quicker in the second insanity. We came out, burned the last bit and finished with 4 seconds to spare. ;) I believe combat pets can continue DPSing the boss during insanity, so classes with pets (temporary or permanent) might be favourable here.

Messy way to do it, but the drinks were flowing freely that night. ;)

Commento di Frostfire

Just completed it with this setup

Arms Warrior
Retribution Paladin
Shadow Priest
Elemental Shaman
Blood Death Knight

All we did was nuke him. The Death Knight used Army of the Dead as tanks and the shaman bloodlusted at the start.
<Deadly Boss Mods> Herald Volazj down after 21 seconds!

Commento di 55160

really easy with a geared group (bis naxx with some ulduar gear) using the 'zerg' approach to this:

we did it with 4 dps and a pally tank
ret pally
arc mage
boomkin
enhance shammy

note: any geared tank can do this..preferably a warrior tank that can spell reflect but its not a requirement.

we engaged boss, dropped heroism and went ape-sh!t dps on him, interrupting mind-flay once or twice (cause its the only thing that did any damage to the tank)

killed him in a record setting 19 seconds. key is not to stop dpsing through instanity. While hes casting the first his health will drop to the percentage where he has to begin casting the 2nd instanity (they will chain cast one right after the other skipping the first set of adds).

He died mid way through the 2nd cast. Our adds appeared and it totally bugged out where we had to hearth out and rezone it to be able to see each other. We still got rewarded for the achivement upon his death.

You'll want your dps around 5K-6K each (during a burn phase which shouldn't be too hard with heroism in the group).

Good Luck.

Commento di 329540

Tried it yesterday. Basically, the zerg method cuz the other methods seemed to be too difficult for the warrior tank to understand... The group make-up was:

warrior tank
holy priest
mage
hunter
lock (me)

CoE was up. The hunter died during 1st insanity, but before we got into the 2nd, Volazj was at 1%. Didn't get achievement. Was about 5-7 seconds over.

Tried it again today, zerg method. Group make-up:

druid tank
ret pally
enhance shaman
mage
lock (me)

CoE up and BL right off the bat. Went into 2nd insanity w/ about 45 sec left, got the achievement a little over 1 min 30 sec.

Good luck!

Commento di dardack

How we did this in 25 seconds.

I'm a DK tank but switched to my healing spec. Brought another DK with like 4k dps in 25 mans. The hunter/rogue/mage are in 10 to 25 man naxx with some blues thrown in.

Me and the other DK both poped AoTD. Ran in and just blew everything, he began to cast insanity but we dps'd him so hard he had to go to casting the second, so we never actually entered insanity. He died right after casting the second. After that I had like 3 copies of each of the other group members each. Only me and the other DK survived that part.

So no heals, all DPS. Works great.

Commento di 383387

21 seconds.

http://www.katedrasnu.org/gal/090603004706.jpg

Commento di 398768

4 manned it,
unholy dps
retri dps
priest healer
pally tank
had 8 seconds to spare

Commento di 195693

My group consisted of DK MT, druid Healer (who went boomkin for the fight), retri pally, elemental shaman and me, hunter...

Basically the tank went with the Army starting the fight, shaman popped Hero, and we nuked him down to 66%, he started to cast Insanity, we nuked him down to 33% where he did spawn the clones, bu he didn't dissapear, but he started to cast second Insanity, and we nuked him down before he finished the cast... After that the clones were still alive, and we coudnt loot the boss before all of us reloged... It might be a bug abuse, not certain...

But to brag, in total, it took us 22 seconds to kill him :P :D

Commento di Malkris

Honestly, ignore all the other strats. Just get 5 DPS and zerg it.

We had a DK tanking in tanking gear as DPS spec.
Shadow Priest that bubbled/POM at beginning, then DPSed.
Ret Paladin judging Light (just in case).
Arcane Mage spamming Arcane Blast.
Elemental Shaman regular rotation with Fire Elemental Totem at beginning.

We flasked and had potions of speed just for overkill.
Pop Army at start of fight, blow CD's at beginning.

Just did this tonight. Downed him in 19 seconds. Coolest kill ever.

Commento di Chronalis

Just did this after having it unfinished for over 6 months (while the majority of my other achievement's were done). Setup was Druid (Boomkin, but was resto for rest of instance), Protection Paladin (me), Lock, Hunter, Rogue. We were all in Ulduar-25 gear which helped immensly.

As you can see, no Bloodlust. As we entered the 2nd insanity, we'd got 48 seconds left on the clock. We managed to burn down the adds, and got out of the insanity with around 32 seconds left, at which point he died to DoT's, etc.

As the tank, i decided to try something i couldn't 6-months ago; Block Value gear. I switched to my ulduar-25 BV gear before the fight began. I was sat at around 2K block value. This served 2 purposes; Mitigating a LOT of the melee damage from the Boss, and Nuking the adds with ease. The first insanity, i managed to nuke my adds down in around 12 seconds or so, and came out to find only 2 other adds (from other people) remaining. Assisted in nuking those, and went back to the boss. He hit 10% by the time he'd finished casting the insanity, and when we came out of the 2nd insanity, he died from DoT's.

Throughout the whole fight, i didn't have to use my Healthstone, or a Healing Pot. Buffs were the standard ones for the group, but we did have a fish feast, and i used a Guru's Elixir (since it's better than wasting a flask for hp i probably wouldn't have needed).

A few other things;
* Shadow Protection or Shadow Resistance Aura helps a great deal here, unless you're a warrior and thus can spell reflect it back.

* Judgement of Light also helps immensly, as it means you can run with little to no outside healing if you're geared well enough. In total, over the course of the fight, it healed me for 7.5K, and healed 2 of the other party members for 3.6K - 3.8K. Seal of Vengeance provided a decent benefit of quite an amount of DPS/Damage over the course of the fight (and it's still ticking while the adds are being nuked). It also provided the passive 10 expertise (and thus less parry hastening and less damage incoming).

Commento di Dalmasca

We did this a couple of weeks ago (pre 3.1) with this group composition:

Unholy DK (tank)
Boomkin
Elemental Shaman
Affliction Warlock
Shadow Priest

Our priest was Disc for most of the instance, but we figured we wouldn't need it on this boss with the small amount of damage coming in, so we had him just dps.

The strat was to burn him as fast as we could, so we popped every cooldown we had. I'll list the ones I can remember:

Army of the Dead, Treants, Fire Elemental, Shadowfiend, Doomguard, Heroism, and all trinkets and activated spell cooldowns like Starfall.

An important thing to note that truly made this fight easy is that Heroism also increases pet attack speed significantly, so all our summoned creatures went wild on dps. We downed him in 23 seconds by blowing past both Insanities and never taking any damage really. I think everyone was between 4-5k dps, but even our tank did over 2k.

I think that might be a record for a speed kill, but I'm not sure. If you're still going for heroic achievements like this one, just remember to use all of your class abilities to their fullest. Be creative! :)

Commento di Jademalo

We just did it, 9/7/09 Runetotem EU.
T8.5 Lock, Naxx 10/Uld 10 geared hunter (Me, worst of the group) and uld 10 shammy healer (who switched to DPS for this), Arcane Mage and warrior tank.

We completley went all out on him, and got him to about 45% before the first insanity cast using no cooldowns. (We were having trouble getting to 36 usually with BL) So we started.
First insanity phase everyone got through ok, and i got out of mine with 63 health left. (Hunters suck at this.. Honestly. >_<) So i got a quick heal from the shammy, and we kept nuking. we'd decided this attempt would be out last, since we'd been at heroic achievements for about 7 hours. So we decided to just plough on. we used BL and we got him down to 4%, and the second insanity was cast, so we all were fairly sad that it wouldnt work. I died, and so did the warrior.
Then, the lock, mage and shammy came out of insanity, and decided to finish him off.

We got the achievement.

Checking recount, it said it took us 2 mins, 1 second. To be perfectly honest, i dont know if i can actually place a time on how darn close we were there, but just because we decided not to wipe there, we did it.

We have now cleared both of the nerubian instances of achievements, and were getting pretty close to out shiny protos :3

(Note, The lock didnt come until this achievement, we had a DK offtank the main boss and the warrior kite the adds during AN's Watch him die.)

Edit: Speeling

Commento di 428864

Completed this easily after patch 3.1.

Used the following:

Feral druid tank
Myself as shadow offspec
Destro lock
Enhancement shaman
Blood deathknight

Popped army of the dead prior to the pull, bloodlust as soon as we pulled and I popped shadowfiend right away too. Ended up taking us only 19 seconds to kill him, literally died 2 seconds into insanity. I wouldn't recommend using so many Ulduar geared dps though as it bugged the encounter for us and we were trapped in the insanity.

Commento di 22741

Kill him "normally." Burn him down to 66%, then as close to 33% as possible without going over. Kill insanity adds quickly, burn Volazj quickly, kill insanity adds quickly again, and then kill Volazj.

We did it this way on first try, and it even worked out ALOT better then we thought it would.

We popped all cooldowns on 70%(just to be sure it would be BEFORE 66%) and he didnt have time to cast Insanity until he was on 33% health, then he started over casting a new one, and we actually continued dpsing him down and killed him the very second the 33%-Insanity was casted. He died at the same time Insanity landed on us, bugging him so that after mindcontrolled players was dead, we couldnt see eachother more then on the minimap =) ... But we got loot and achivement and it was ALOT of fun!

Note, that we had 1 tank, 1 healer, 3 dps with good gear, im talking full ulduar 25 gear on the DPS.

He was dead in 22seconds and i think it could be a record(?) =)

Commento di frozenembers

I tried this tonight.. i set a stop watch up and also use DBM so it tells the time of fights... both my stop watch and DBM said we did it in exactly 2 min and we did not recieve the achieve... so something was wrong.. either you have to do it 1:59 or the timing of both my stop watch and DBM was off

Commento di 432215

My group was able to burn him down in 17 seconds without any insanity. What we did was tank and heal go dps spec, must have 1 dk for army of dead, the army of dead will taunt the boss while we dps so we dont need a tank, all the dps need to do at least 4.5k, blood lust is a must also.

Commento di 171289

Group makeup:
Feral druid(tank)
Holy paladin
Elemental shaman
Fire mage
Survival hunter

Strategy:
Before the fight, the mage (our highest dps) took off his gear and evocated so that he had full mana and ~10k hp. The tank pulled and the shaman used heroism right away. After ten seconds, the tank shadowmelded and the hunter feigned death, causing the boss to attack the mage. As soon as the mage died, the tank battle ressed the mage and it was about then that Volazj casted insanity. After he casted insanity, the mage accepted the res. While the mage wasn't able to dps during the insanity, the other people in the group had one fewer person to kill during insanity. After the first insanity, everyone dps'd as usual, but as Volazj began casting the second insanity, the paladin DI'd the mage. Because of this, the other group members had only two people to kill during the insanity. We had ~25 seconds left when Volazj casted the second insanity. Because of the lack of group members, we were able to get through the second insanity in a few seconds and finish Volazj off with four seconds to spare. A healer wasn't necessary for the few seconds after the second insanity.

Commento di 324925

Our group had with our available spec:

Paladin - Holy/Prot
Paladin - Holy/Prot
Warrior - Arms/Prot (me)
Priest - Holy/Shadow
Death Knight - Blood

So for this fight we went with:

2x Pally Prot, Arms Warrior, Shadow Priest and the DK (no healer and 2 tanks since the pallys didnt have a DPS spec)

We just burn the boss very fast until the first insanity when the DK popped army, me with Bladestorm, the DK and the Priest killed the images in less than 10 seconds and the two tanks were half way on their images. this first insanity lasted no more than 20 seconds for our group. The army was still up and they taunt the boss giving the tank more survivality. Second insanity was a little more complicated, we took more tahn 30 seconds to take care of them and the DK died as we return to the boss. then we burned and killed him with 10 seconds left.

One advice is to everyone pile on boss. The images will appear in the exactly place the players are and if you let a ranger 20 yrds from the rest, it will take a lot of time grouping them to AoE. 2 tanks helps too because they can taunt the boss off the other if he is low on health.

Commento di 164509

We did this today with a group consisting of: Prot Pally, Fury Warrior, Mut Rogue, Aff Lock, and Rest Druid in Boomkin form.

We brought him from 100% to 1% before we were actually forced into insanity. At that point, all of us except for the Prot pally and the aff lock died because we somehow ended up fighting 2 copies of every other party member. Volazj died almost instantly after the adds died.

Commento di Ninjazombie

We did this last night, group was made of of prot warrior (me), ret paladin x2, Discipline priest, and an Enhancement Shaman. When we started we all stacked on me and popped all cds and burned him down to first insanity, we then killed all clones and went back to killing Volazj. We then hit the second insanity, and killed the clones and still had time to kill him in under 2 minutes. I did Spell Reflect all his Mind Flays.

Commento di Proteuz

Just did this achievement. Group comp was:

1x Prot Paladin
1x Ret Paladin
2x Destro Warlocks
1x Boomkin

We burned him down to 39% before the first insanity was cast. Prot paladin DI'd the Ret Paladin (Ret paladin was a fresh 80 with bad gear). First insanity was over, Boomkin Brez'd the Prot Paladin but Volazj started casting the second insanity so the prot paladin didn't take it until the insanity was over. After the second insanity just killed the boss as normal. Doable with less gear if you have a better group composition (something with a shaman for lust!)

Commento di Lucero

Thought we would try this with five dps. Turns out he hits like a Mac truck. I was a cat druid and I managed to get most of my rotation, including my dots, up before he killed me (just prior to first insanity). Only two were alive by the end but we got the achievement with time to spare. If one of the dps had been an elemental shaman this would have gone a lot more smoothly.

Commento di Hegre

i think our group might hold the record.
we used 18 seconds to kill him. He died the instant he was finished casting the first insanity.
had a warrior tank, ret pala, a shammie, a BoomDrood, and 1 other i don't remember;) our healer went dps for the fight, couse we figured no heals was needed.
Was pretty insane to watch. :D

Commento di 319950

For the easy mode burst:

A healer that has a dual-spec dps (ideally:shadowpriest)
A tank with all cooldowns up
3 good dps

Which is pretty much described above. If everything goes as expected the boss will be dead in less than 30s, so the tank can survive that without any heal (potion, stone, last stand, shield wall, bubble wall, rune tap, you name it).

Doing so will cause most/all of the party to be stuck in Insanity. To 'fix' it we had to disconnect/reconnect. IMPORTANT: the first one who reconnected were still affected, so you need to wait like 30s before reconnecting - this worked for all of us.

This will let you look the boss and do the daily quest with the corpse and the altar.

Hope this helps.

Commento di Mandarin

Used 5 dps, no healers/tanks and downed this boss in 19 seconds! he didnt even have time to cast the first insanity!

Commento di 444673

Yea but u crashed the sever...

Commento di 309534

I remember this achievement being MUCH harder than it was today.... when I got it we had 4 dps capable of 5500 + and a tank, we bloodlusted and destroyed the boss. Today I was with a complete crap group and we got it, both insanities and all..... it just seemed like they nerfed it. I noticed after both insanities, when Volazj came back he had considerably less life than when he zoned out. Almost like he takes the dmg from the clones now... I dunno, it just seemed way too easy with a complete retard group, DK's doing 800 dps and a huntard doing 1100 dps... it was bad....

Commento di 445463

... Heh. Today we got this achievement. Basically group composition was:

Tankadin(3391dps)
Death Knight(6634dps)
Feral Druid(5321dps)
Elemental Shaman(4022dps)
Holy Priest(813dps)

During the start we blew bloodlust at 95% -- Basically killed the boss in 21 seconds... He never casted Insanity on our bars. But when the achievement popped up. The boss was unclickable and we were stuck in the Insanity realm. No exits to the instance, couldn't see each other. =3 Pretty much awesome as he never even casted it. Kind of weird, I didn't even know that was possible!

Commento di 48516

Well, two days ago we killed him before he casted insanity. We had pally tank, MM hunter, enhance shaman, feral druid (dps), and a fury warrior. I am not sure if it was a bug, but we burned him down in 22 secs, and he never casted insanity. After he was dead and we all got the achieve, we all "went" into insanity, and when we killed the illusions, we couldn't see each other, that part was surelly bugged.

Commento di 449208

Elemental shaman (myself), destruction warlock, retribution paladin, resto and feral druid did this in 23 seconds. It's possible with heroism to simply nuke him down as he casts the first insanity. We ended up stuck in the "insanity-realm" or what you want to call it, but was still able to loot the questitem, so I can only assume you would get the achievement done aswell. Meters got screwed up in the insanity phase that followed, but I guess a total group dps of close to 20k over those 20 seconds is what you need to aim for.

Commento di 416738

My group got this last night. Our make up was Prot Pally, Unholy DK, Blood DK, Resto Shaman who went ele for the fight, and Mage. The DKs used army of the dead before the pull and poped heroism right at the beginning of the fight. Got him to 40% before insanity and killed him after we downed our visions.

Commento di 416031

After bloodlusting around 70%, we got him down to 25 or so%, and he sent us into the insanity realm with... 2 copies of everyone. Luckily we beat our 8v1 fights and still managed to defeat the boss. Just be careful because apparently this can happen.

Commento di 450957

Did this today with Ret Pally in PVP gear as tank, DK, Resto shaman, Warlock and Hunter
We bloodlusted brought the boss to 30 has the DK pop army. We ended up fighting 2 copies of ourselves then downed the boss. Need very strong heals for this but it worked and we downed the boss in 1 min 40 seconds

Commento di 426277

We just killed this guy in 19 seconds, 1 tank and 4 DPS. Popped minions, elementals and all that jazz, ended with a bloodlust. After he died, we instantly got the insanity debuff, which prevented us from leaving the instance normally. Pretty wicked. :]

Commento di 256454

A GUIDE TO GETTING THIS ACHIEVEMENT, SUMMARIZED FROM COMMENTS BELOW
(kudos to all the other posters who supplied the bulk of this information)

UNDERSTANDING THE FIGHT:

Volazj will cast Insanity twice during the fight - once immediately at 66% and once immediately at 33%.
As soon as an insanity cast ends, all nonimmune living players in the instance will be cloned and will each have to fight all copies of the others' clones, then able to help allies if finishing early.
Volazj is untargetable and unattackable by anyone during any part of channeling this phase.
The NPC clones will use abilities based on the spec of the character and copy their gear setup when the insanity cast finishes. (I believe they used to scale somewhat with gear, but no longer do, or scale much less. I could be wrong.)
Volazj has a very small aggro radius and it's easy to slip behind him without pulling (for positioning reasons or to complete the daily).

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. . . STRATEGIES . . .
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<<Strategy #1>>

Kill him "normally." Burn him down to 66%, then as close to 33% as possible without going over. Kill insanity adds quickly, burn Volazj quickly, kill insanity adds quickly again, and then kill Volazj.

I assume this strategy isn't working for you, though, or you wouldn't be reading this guide. :-(often with Bloodlust/Heroism):

Save cooldowns for 66% and then nuke the boss down as fast as possible. The goal is to get him to 33% before the first insanity cast ends (thus making him cast the second immediately), and then to 0% before the second insanity cast ends.

(You must get him to 0% before the second insanity cast ends. Otherwise, you will have the adds of both insanity phases to fight through and any DoTs that would kill him during that time instead bring him to 1 HP, where he will stay until you've finished that phase. This is usually a wipe and/or too slow.)

<<Strategy #3>>
Requires a warlock:
This is complicated, but is often fastest. (Example: not having the DPS for Strategy #2, we one-shot this with 20 seconds to spare on the first correct attempt. Group DPS read 10,600.)

Sneak behind Volazj before pulling him and scoot up to the instance exit. Drop a summoning stone in front of the exit, and throw summons on the three dps.
When the third summon lands, immediately pull Volazj to the entrance. (Yes, this is a full 15 seconds where you can't DPS him.)
Start steady dps and then burn him through 66% as much as possible, allowing time for the DPS to jump out of the instance before the insanity cast lands. (This might take practice, and corpseruns.)
The healer and tank then kill their one and only add and continue burning the boss to 33% as fast as possible.
As soon as the second insanity cast lands, the dps accept summons back into the instance, wait for the tank and healer to finish the insanity mobs, and then continue burning the boss.

This will probably feel slower because the dps spend more time idle, but the time saved from quick insanity phases makes it worth it.

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. . . T I P S . . . (can all be used to supplement one strategy)
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Tip #1:
Have your healer switch to a dps spec. Despite being able to heal the fight, their clone will not use any healing spells, which speeds up insanity phases.

Tip #2:
Have your melee unequip their weapons when insanity is halfway through casting. Their clones will copy this and not be able to use any weapon-related abilities or deal any significant damage. The weapons can be re-equipped as soon as the cast finishes.
Use the following macro:

/equipslot 16 *WEAPON NAME*
/script PickupInventoryItem(16)
/script PutItemInBackpack()

Make sure you have at least one space free in your backpack.
Edit: The clones' damage seems to have been nerfed a lot - this strategy probably isn't much use any more.

Tip #3:
If you are a melee-heavy group, have everyone bunch up on the tank to lower time running around during insanity.

Tip #4:
A death knight channeling Army of the Dead at the beginning of an insanity cast greatly speeds up one insanity phase, as the ghouls will do high dps and gradually draw all aggro off the players while fighting.

Tip #5:
Paladin & Druid: Divine Intervention the druid before an insanity cast finishes. Click off and battle-rez the paladin after the insanity cast finishes. This removes both players from that insanity phase and from being cloned.
Mage Iceblock and Divine Shield may also have similar effects, unconfirmed.

Tip #6:
A warrior tank can Spell Reflect his Mind Flay, if predicted correctly, for significant extra dps.

Commento di 455918

Helpful hint - make sure all party members stay together (perhaps on the diamond in front of him), and not move far during insanity. This makes it much easier to burn down other party member's images, as they will all be close by.

Commento di Turniphead

Really easy, don't listen to all these complicated guides. Just fight him as usual, I (the healer) didn't even respec dps and we had him down before he could do the 2nd mind thing.

Commento di Furydeath

Did it with all dps ret paladin, mage, 2 warlocks and a boomkin in 18 secs.

Commento di 465890

I helped some mates get this achieve today. Full nuke, dead in 18sec. Other tactics here work aswell, but full nuke and ignore any possible adds still works as of patch 3.2.2

Commento di 487279

Did this the other day for a guildie and fell just short of killing him before second insanity went off, I think he was at 5% when it went off and we had 2 sets of adds during insanity. Just a heads up for anyone doing this, if he doesn't get first one off but does get second you will get both sets of adds. It was still easy enough to handle just kill healer first as usual.

Commento di 477730

I don't think "zerg" means what you think it means...

What you are describing is called "nuking". Zerging (a reference to Starcraft) refers to dying, resurrecting and running back over and over again.

Edite - Yes, rate me down for knowing where the term comes from and what it means... Sigh...

Sorry, I think you are the one that is using it wrong... Zerging comes from quickly building zerglings and sending them out without worrying about building any upgrades or extra drones in hopes of destroying your opponent before they have a chance to retaliate. (you can't ressurect anything in SC) I have always heard what you refering to as a "graveyard rush" but others may have a different name for it.

Nuking is what terran ghosts do.

Commento di 492298

Easiest way to do this:

Stack on ranged
Have Shaman for BL
Burn Volzaj at start
(we got him to 120k before the first Insanity)
AoE all adds (they will all be on you since you stacked, and wont move out of aoe)
Repeat

Commento di Googolplex

Killed him in 8 seconds last night, he didn't even finish his first Insanity cast. I think its safe to say we outgeared the encounter :)

Commento di Iroared

34 seconds solo (forgot to pop cd's), after insanity cast he just stands there for a couple seconds before resuming his mind flay/attacking.

Commento di 941553

Very easy to solo, you don't even go into insanity when casts it. All of the dungeon acheives are soloable as a muti rogue.

Commento di 1035223

I'm reposting something from the comment thread on the Ahn'Kahar Spell Flinger page in regards to killing the Herald easily:

By Cecyll (5,698 – 2·14·52) 28 days ago (Patch 5.0.4)
Death Knights can (and should!) enslave these with their Control Undead ability. Shadow Blast will have a 7.2 second cast, but it will do 50% of the mob's health as damage! Your tank could open a pull on Herald Volazj with this and immediately go into the first Insanity phase.

Tested personally, and it works on normal Herald wonderfully for me...can't imagine that it wouldn't work in heroics as well.

Commento di SStroda

Me (lvl 90 Frost DK) and my sister (lvl 90 Blood DK) ran this tonight and killed him in 4 seconds, apparently that's too fast for the achieve. I was along because i knew how to do the achieves in here and she needed them.

Commento di ItalianGoat

Just tried to do the achieve as a level 100 hunter. Threw my glaives, arcane shot and dead.

The thing is, I didn't get the achieve - it glitched or something. According to the 'Dungeon Objectives' on the side, I hadn't defeated him at all. Guess I'll have to come back tomorrow...

Note to self and others doing this achieve late like I am: don't kill him too fast.

Commento di juliaz

Nuke it but slowly or it will be bugged.

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