Death Knight Soloing Romulo and Julianne in Karazhan
Posted by vultuk
Well, after almost a year of soloing content on my Death Knight I finally beat my nemesis which was Romulo and Julianne in Karazhan. The fact that Romulo has a poison debuff that reduces maximum health made this encounter particularly tricky. But with a gear upgrade and some correctly placed interrupts and shields I finally managed to solo the event.
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Death Knight solos Halls of Lightning
Posted by vultuk
To celebrate my triumphant return to the world of soloing with my Death Knight I am pleased to bring you the first in the "Khed Solos" videos. So here it is, straight to the point...
Khed Solos Halls of Lightning
[podcast format="video"]http://dk101.net/podcast/SoloHallsOfLightning%20-%20Computer.m4v[/podcast]
Hellfire Ramparts – Speed Boosting – 5 Minute full clear
Posted by vultuk
So I've been boosting one of my new alts recently and I decided to make it into a challenge to see how fast I could clear ramparts including every boss and every piece of trash! Best time so far is 4 minutes 40 seconds.
This video shows it being done in under 5 minutes and exactly how to do it. It's tons of fun and I suggest you all try it some time!
What Happened to the Death Knight!?
Posted by vultuk
So, if you've been coming here for a while you will have noticed that I've not done many updates in recent days. This is for a number of reasons. Firstly, my Blizzard Authenticator randomly blew up on me and stopped working. Thanks to Blizzard Tech Support this took 2 months to fix leaving me without an account in those 2 months, in fact the turn around was so slow I ended up starting a new account and levelling a brand new druid to 80 and was geared out in Trial of the Champion 10/25 man gear before actually getting my account sorted! Also, I really don't like the state of Death Knights at the moment! Death Knights maybe the kings of Faceroll DPS (yes in my current dps spec with limited gear i'm pulling 4.5k using a /castsequence macro) but when it comes to tanking unless things change with really high level gear we are currently the squishiest tank in game. Yes in patch 3.3 I will probably actually get back into tanking and get some T9.1 gear from Emblems but until that point I actually have heard healers complaining about healing me in heroics... Really not something I've ever heard before!
If you have tried to armory me you will also notice that Deathet of Quel'Thalas has vanished! With the onset of Faction Changes I decided to move around a few of my characters. Deathet has now become Khed and my priest has also recently become a traitor and renamed himself/herself as Khep (Gnomish Sex Changes ftw). So there's the current update. I've not solo'd anything recently apart from the usual ZG / AQ runs to fund my lust for Gold. Maybe I will again in the future, maybe I won't and maybe you'll see 'Solo Druid' arriving at some point but who knows!
Death Knight solo videos – Attumen, Moroes and Maiden
Posted by vultuk
Just a quick update, I never got round to doing videos of the first part of Karazhan yet a few people have commented about the fact I haven't done them. So last night on my weekly Void Crystal run I decided to record the kills.
Attumen the Horseman
[podcast format="video"]http://dk101.net/podcast/Attumen.mov[/podcast]
Moroes
[podcast format="video"]http://dk101.net/podcast/Moroes.mov[/podcast]
Maiden of Virtue
[podcast format="video"]http://dk101.net/podcast/Maiden.mov[/podcast]
Death Knight Soloing Ormorok the Tree-Shaper in Nexus HEROIC!
Posted by vultuk
Tonight was possibly my biggest achievement in game, at least since the launch of Wrath of the Lich King anyway. Continuing my progress on soloing my way through as much of the game as possible I bring you... Ormorok the Tree-Shaper from Nexus HEROIC.
As per my normal rules, there were no buffs from Priests, Pally's, Druids or anyone apart from myself. I was on my own in Nexus with only myself and music to keep me company. However, this was the first time i've ever had to use consumables for a soloing attempt. After 5 or 6 1-10% wipes I decided I needed them. So in this video I was using the following
Flask of Stoneblood - Increases maximum health by 1,300
Food - Just a simple 60 Attack Power, 30 Stamina food I had handy.
This topped me up to 37,120 health and around 3.5k attack power. For this attempt I also had to use EVERY cooldown I had, everytime it was available to keep me alive. This included Jewelcrafting Trinket, Dreanei Racial heal and a Healing Potion.
Gear I used to solo is my full tanking set but in my solo tanking spec (62/4/5). This gives me over 35k unbuffed health now thanks to some new gemming and brand spanking new T8 Pants I picked up from VoA 10 man today! 
Armory : http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Quel%27Thalas&n=Deathet
Tricks of the trade (or rather things I learnt from my tries that will help you if you want to try)
He does a Spell Reflect that is a buff on him for around 10 seconds. This will reflect back your Icy Touch/pestilence however it will not reflect Plague Strike as this is classed as a melee strike. So during spell reflect keep Plague Strike-Death Striking to keep up your healing.
Try to keep your ghoul sacrifice for the Enrage stage, he hits very hard here (obv) and you'll need everything you can here! Getting hit by the crystal spikes even once during the fight will probably completely ruin your attempt as you'll have to use a cooldown that you will need later on.
Pop Army of the Dead at around 15%, this takes the pressure off around half way through the enrage to give you a chance to heal / bandage so you can get stuck in again and kill him asap!
Hope you enjoyed the video and I hope to bring more Heroic Soloing to you in the future!
Death Knight Soloing Prince Malchezaar in Karazhan
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Deathet of QuelThalas solos Prince Malchezaar in Karazhan.
Rather a disappointing ending to the Soloing of Karazhan. Prince fight was too easy, I positioned him out of the way of all the Infernal drops and Shadow Nova was hitting for nothing. One of the easier bosses to solo in Kara tbh!
Death Knight Soloing Shade of Aran in Karazhan
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Deathet of QuelThalas solos Shade of Aran in Karazhan.
Who moved in the Flame Wreath!?!? Not a particularly hard fight, however as you see in my video if you get Flame Wreath and Elementals at the same time they really can make your health Vanish! Save as many cooldowns as you can for this phase. I had to Pop army to give me a chance to Bandage! Close call tbh!
Death Knight Soloing Terestian Illhoof in Karazhan
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Deathet of QuelThalas solos Terestian Illhoof in Karazhan.
Not one of the harder bosses to solo. Simply dps on Illhoof, Pestilence to his adds and Blood Boil. They die from like 2 hits. Heart strike will kill off Kil'Rek easily giving you a bit more damage on Illhoof while he's down. Don't focus on Kil'rek though just go for Illhoof, makes it a lot faster and easier!
Death Knight Soloing Curator in Karazhan
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Deathet of EU, Quel'Thalas solo's Curator in Karazhan.
Most people say this is impossible to do, but, it's not 
The trick is to forget trying to heal of Curator and don't really dps him much in his normal phase. Concentrate on the orbs, they are not immune to diseases and you can heal yourself from them. This was only my second attempt at Curator and if I go back again (I should do, Kara nets around 800g from boss kills and vendoring loot) I will probably try using lower rank IT and PS on the orbs, this means they'll stay alive longer and give me more healing.
Once you get to the enrage phase it really gets tough, make sure you keep an orb up as long as possible to tab Death Strike off and then keep all your healing cooldowns up and nuke away! It's touch and go at that point. You could probably leave your Army cooldown till that point as well though using it on an evoc was a LOT of dps!