So, a guildie and I tried to run AQ40 in hopes of getting the pet to drop. But we couldn’t get past the first boss due to the cheapness of mind control.
We tried 3 times on 3 different sets of characters.
Attempt 1: me on rogue, him on mage. Fighting boss… boss splits. I try to attack the copies but keep getting errors “not enough energy” to attack them even though I had plenty. Then he gets mind controlled and nukes me instantly. Boss then despawns and does not reset, bricking the lockout.
Attempt 2: Me on hunter, him on shammy. Same thing happens. He gets mind controlled and just immediately nukes me from full health to dead in a half second. No chance to react, no chance to see it coming or do anything about it. Just instant death. Then, the boss despawns with him still mind controlled and does not reset.
Attempt 3: I think maybe if there’s only one of us inside, the boss can’t mind control cheat us. So i go in alone on my warrior. Fighting boss… seems fine… then I get mind control cheated and… the boss just disappears. Does not reset.
This is ridiculous.
Ya as I recall, it took them a while to actually fix all those old raids that they put the pets in.
I solo’d it on a hunter, not sure what I did differently. I got mc’d but then it broke. I was able to solo every boss except twin emps I had to dual box my elemental shaman in with me to get it down.
I did solo this on my hunter before prepatch. not sure what happened differently, but this time he’s just mind control cheesing us and resetting.
I did this yesterday to get the pets
You can solo it if you have enough damage, I did it a few weeks ago to get the achievement.
i was able to solo the first boss on my rogue before the prepatch, but i think that was just because it never tried to MC me. i wasn’t able to finish the raid back then.
would be real nice if blizzard just put in the legacy buff for the vanilla raids (inb4 someone interprets this as me wishing blizzard would just hand me everything on a silver platter without working for it)
There is a big difference between being handed something on a platter and “you lose instantly, nothing you do matters.”
Of course the more annoying part of this situation is how the lockout bricks if it MC cheats. Boss just disappears and never comes back.
I killed the 1st boss on my dk today, I don’t think he’s supposed to mc if you dont have any pet.
On my 3rd attempt i was in there alone on a warrior. No pet, just me… and I still got MC’d. And because there were no other hostiles, when it MC’d me the boss just disappeared and stayed gone. So if it is supposed to not MC cheat if there’s only one player there, that is broken.
did you even look at the context of that statement before commenting on that?
Yes. I’m saying if someone thinks this is asking for stuff on a silver platter, they’re wrong.
I ran another character as prot warrior and he never casted mind control again so I don’t know if it was fixed or something rare that can happen.
Weird. Went back in there later with another person (so 3 of us) and we got through it. He still mc’d someone but with 3 ppl it wasn’t a MC = automatic lose situation.
You can range the MC and as long as there isn’t another player or pet within range and you can do enough damage to not get overwhelmed by his mirror images, you can kill it. There is also a bug on that boss that resets all you pet stats. I have to let my pet do all the damage until 50% when it dies and just kite until I kill it.
Leave the raid and set a timer for 30 minutes. The boss will respawn.