Difficulty for Old Raids seems to be all over the place. I can do some Shadowlands raids but some BFA ones seem impossible.
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Yeah, used to be two expansions back that you could solo, now it doesn’t look like this anymore
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It’s mostly mechanics that make BFA hard right now, we mostly do enough damage and don’t get hit for a lot. But very very few mechanical changes have been made and those make soloing some encounters pretty much impossible.
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Yeah, I was able to solo Battle of Dazaralor and Crucible of Storms on my hunter, but some fights still require for you to do mechanics, like Conclave on Battle, but if you have a well geared char you can ignore mechanics and pray you kill the boss before the mechanics kill you.
I haven’t tried the other raids yet
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I actually did solo Conclave by timing a near instant nuke trinket before the fear/mind control boss got the damage resistance. Was actually proud of that one hah.
But bosses like Rastakhan, Ghuun, Queens Court, and I think N’zoth all need a mechanics pass to be able to be done by classes that dont have pets.
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I tried mythic Battle of Dazaralor today and I only stopped at Opulence because I was too lazy to learn the mechanics, so either my main is well geared (458 ilvl) or BFA raids are now soloable
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It’s not the damage that makes them unable to be soloed. Damage can be out geared. As I stated earlier it’s mechanics.
Ghuun literally cannot be soloed, you have to move a ball around and you need someone else. Queens Court cannot be soloed, mechanics there you cannot solo. Rastakhan has a mind control that despawns the boss when it hits and you are the only one in the room.
Bosses like Opulence can be soloed though they are difficult since you cannot do the two golem mechanic. But that is the perfect example of a boss that is hard but can be out geared.
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Exactly this
Honestly it depends on the difficulty and what fight you are doing. Some Mythic fights in BFA would be harder to solo than LFR bosses in Shadowlands.
Mythic tends to have more one shot mechanics, mechanics that require multiple people to pull off and that it is a fixed difficulty. LFR is the fight down to its absolute basics and it scales to 10 people at a minimum.
N’zoth and Stormwall Blockade can be done on LFR and normal by yourself but heroic and mythic need more than 1. For N’zoth it is due to the debuff preventing you from doing into the other downstairs phase during phase 2 (phase 1 on mythic) and for Stormwall it is the fact that the bosses teleport to the other ship when they hit 50%. And since they do not share a health pool… you end up having both bosses on the same ship and you cannot leave the ship you are on until the boss that is currently on your ship is killed.
I managed to solo conclave on a pally by getting bubble right before the mind wipe boss engaged. If you can kill her before the bubble pops, you win. Unlikely to work on mythic though due to the amount of HP. As you say, hunters can do it too by relying just on their pet auto-attack. But most other classes are screwed.
Ghun is still a no go on any difficulty. Mythrax also doesn’t work due to the instant cc. And no, the rock exploit doesn’t work. I tried it and instantly got killed. Jaina is literally impossible with less than 6 players on mythic etc.
There’s a bunch of others (several from ny’alotha etc). BfA is a mess.
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its funny how ion said they have better tech to deal with legacy scaling whenever a squish happens now than they have before, but they still wont touch BFA raids
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Just give legacy buff a buff like 1000000% damage boost. So you one shot all boss
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That wouldn’t solve the problem. Some of the bosses are completely immune or have like 99% DR due to mechanics. Others will just permanently CC you or outright one-shot you.
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I can solo some fights in the Battle of Dazaralor LFR with relative ease (Mainly Mekatorque through Jaina, mainly want to see if I can get G.M.O.D). But admittedly, I think some mechanics are dumb, like Mekatorque’s drones, which sole purpose is to keep you stun locked, so ranged classes that have a lot of hard cast abilities have it kinda rough. And of course Melee classes who don’t like to kite will have it rough too. I also find the whole “Sheep Bomb” mechanic dumb, but only because I have a hard time believing that a technological advanced (for the era he is in) race would just attach bombs to sheep instead of, I dunno, a drone whose sole purpose is to chase after a target THEN blow up. But oh well.
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I soloed Uldir up to Mintrax today as BM. Cant get past his mind control solo.