Glory of the Hero

I think we can agree that there’s nothing challenging about any of the heroics in the game with the gear levels we all have access to. No heroic boss is remotely hard – but now that we need to do the daily heroic constantly to get our Emblems of Triumph we see this same old content over and over. 

So when Hrist brought up going for the Glory of the Hero achievement (completing 40 different heroic achievements)  this sounded like something that could present a challenge – and at the same time make doing the daily heroic a bit more interesting.

Well, it took some time, but we finally got it.

A bunch of the achievements everyone already has just by accident – anything involving fast kills (all of the HoL ones) or just generally being competant. But some of them were a real chalenge. Here are a few of the memorable achievements that we had to do – including some that had a very special hunter role in the way we tackled them:

Better Off Dred
This one isn’t hard with a good tank and healer, but as the hunter it was my job to basically ignore the first chunk of the fight and just keep MDing raptors to the tank. I made sure to use just one shot per raptor, so I could get 3 with each MD. When MD was down I just pulled them to me, popped deterrence and ran to Hrist.

Split Personality
This one was just plain hard. Fortunately we had a group willing to wipe whenever we failed to kill them close enough together. The really difficult part is one of the mirror images casts a frost aoe, and is unkillable while casting — which makes it really easy to accidentally kill the others while she’s untouchable.

When we finally got the achievement, it was partially luck. We got the first set of mirror images down all together, and then while she was whipping us around in the air we killed her (go kill shot crits!) before she could split a second time

Intense Cold
The hard part about this is when Keristrasza freezes you in place and you have no ability to move to remove the stacks. I’ve never been dispelled fast enough to get the achievement, so I finally switched to BM for it, and used my pvp trinket. Between the two I was able to break out both times I was frozen and score the win. This nice thing about this is it’s one of the few personal achievements that doesn’t require your entire group to be doing it (What the Eck may be the only other one).

Chaos Theory
Another crazy, insane fight, that took us two attempts (the first time we accidentally aoe’d a rift down). Hrist slowly backed down the ramps during each portal phase, with the rest of us following. By the end Hrist couldn’t contain the dozens of mana wraiths spawning every couple seconds and they were flooding through to the healer. At least one dpser died aoeing the mass on our healer (and I was only saved by FD).

Share the Love
A special hunter opportunity. This is pretty easy as long as you have a really strong healer. No one attacks the boss (except the tank) until everyone is impaled. The problem is that Gal’darah doesn’t impale his primary aggro target (the tank). So do get this one I switched to BM tank spec and had my turtle tank the boss until Hrist got impaled, then he took over.

Less-rabi
Just super fricking hard, for us anyway. I think we once went 5 attempts in a row (we deliberately wiped if we ever missed an interrupt) until one attempt Badass Mage has his mirror images out when we screwed up and called for the wipe. He ran, but his mirror images finished the boss off, damn them.

Later Hrist and I got the acheivement on just a speed run of the daily without even trying for it. Ah well.

Volazj’s Quick Demise
This also proved pretty tough for us. We went for it severa times and lost by only a handful of seconds. From a hunter perspective, the ideal group for this is all ranged dps and a priest or shaman healer. Worse run every was in a group with three pallys, all healing each other and staying in melee range, blah! 

We finally got it when we were doing our 4-man clear for The Party’s Over. With only 4 people the nightmare phase went much faster, letting us down him with time to spare.

Ruby Void
Just surprisingly hard, and the one I think we wiped on the most (not intentionally). It doesn’t help that everyone hates the Occulus to begin with. We ended up using all 5 bronze drakes and cycling time stops to try to keep the whelps from spawning.

Respect Your Elders
While I don’t recommend this, we happened to go after this one during our 4-man clear as well, so I think we get bonus badass points for doing this with only four people!

Hrist, the healer, and Arust pulled the boss out into the courtyard to dps him down. Meanwhile I switched to BM solo spec and tanked the guardians as they spawned. I found I could hold two, and the third one quickly burned through my pet (I ended up dropping a frost trap and doing some back & forth kiting). Fortunately Arust and Hrist had plenty of dps to kill the boss within 10 sec of the third guardian spawning (well, on the second attempt anyway – when Arust wasn’t in viper!)