With both his aoe firestorm and random targeted shadow bolts, Gehennes presents the first real challenge for the Molten Core soloing hunter.
YouTube direct link: Hunter Solo of Gehennes in Molten Core
Talents: Max Health Extreme Solo Build
Pet: Turtle
Pet Talents: Extreme Solo Pet Build
Gear: 2 pieces of T5 (see full Extreme Hunter Solo Gear article)
Gehennes has two adds, and a lot of trash surrounding him. Be sure to clear out the trash, as you’ll be moving around a bit. You’ll note I left a lot of it standing in the video – only risk that after you’ve cleared him a few times and have a handle on the encounter.
There are several strategies for soloing Gehennes as a hunter, but this is what I think is easiest. Send your pet in at one of the adds and burn him down as fast as you can. Use big red pet and rapid fire, and get him killed.
Gehennes has three abilities you need to worry about:
- He puts a debuff on your and your pet that reduces healing effects by 50%. Fortuantely your improved mend pet will periodically remove it from your pet, but it does mean that in the inital encounter when both adds are up, it’s possible for your pet to take more damage than you can heal (if all the abilities happen to target him at once). Shell Shield will save you until the first add is down and you can handle the damage again.
- He cast an aoe rain of fire. You need to get out of it. Your pet is fine in it.
- He periodically casts a shadow bolt at you or the pet.
Once you’ve burned down one of the adds, the damage your pet is taking becomes managable. By this time you’ve probably taken about half your life in damage as well. Put your pet on Gehennes himself and get to max range.
Once you’re at max range you will not be targeted by the shadow bolts or the rain of fire. Keep your mend pet up and you should have no problem healing your pet through the damage. Dps Gehennes down, then take down the other add.
Now you’re ready to move on to the big boys who drop the Thunderfury Bindings: Garr and Geddon.
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Blizzard changed the encounter somewhere between August ’09 and February ’10.
His healing debuff is 75% and his shadowbolt range is over 40 yards and won’t target his tank if there’s another option. With the increased debuff, mend pet can’t tred water with another add up, and with the range increase you’re just going to get pounded by the 2500 shadowbolts.
I hate to say it, but I don’t think this guy is solable anymore.
I may have spoken too soon and in frustration. His shadowbolt range is indeed 40 yards and the debuff is 75%, but with 3 points in hawkeye that gives you the narrowest of one single yard to stay out of range of his bolts and still in range to heal your pet. So, needless to say, positioning is crucial.
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I tried this earlier today, and couldn’t get out of the 40 yard range, no matter how hard I tried. The healing reduction by 75% is a minus, and as Undra mentioned, I don’t think it is soloable except among the ultra-elite WHU people.
I bid you luck and hope your attempts go better than mine…
You’ve actually spelled his name wrong, so this guide doesn’t come up in google searches omg!
It’s “Gehennas”, with an “a”
I got this on my first attempt using the strat described here. Stayed at max range and had no trouble staying alive. I burned the first two adds quickly and my pet had no trouble either.
My gear level is around 232, with two pieces of pvp gear (helm and boots gemmed for stamina) and the tier 5 shoulders and gloves. I did not use the “max health” build, but instead used a slightly modified standard build (two points in improved mend pet, 3 points in hawkeye). This build has worked fantastically for me. Pet is at 28.3k health, and I can burn things down a LOT faster than the max health build, which I have not needed for the first 6 bosses (and maybe more…I’m about to attempt the last 3).
Here’s the build I used to defeat to defeat the first 6 bosses, including Gehennas:
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#cVbhzggRwuheot0ecoZc:VciM0z