I healed a group on a new priest alt… their DPS was so abysmal we wiped 3 times on the Horseman… and my lvl20 holy priest was top of the dps meter every attempt… doing 32% of the damage to the Horseman on our final attempt.
The reason we kept wiping was because the dps was so low during the final phase when he spawns the adds and I have to stop dpsing to heal. And then he’s still not dead when the 2nd group of adds is spawned (and the first group is still alive). I couldn’t keep up with 10 mobs beating on the tank + the boss, and once he went down I was next.
I actually had to bail because I wasn’t going to keep beating my head against a wall like that.
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Sorry, but that’s hilarious and thank you for the funny image 
Scaling is super weird now, my level 41 Shaman does more damage as Resto than Enhance or Ele. So I’ve been queuing for dungeons as DPS as Resto and the healers love it!
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I have no advice for the queue, but was the headless horseman’s mount always this hard to get?
I don’t remember having to run it a million times when i for the mount in WotLK. I’m pretty sure i had it on 4 characters as well.
Yes. It was about 7 or 8 years until I got the mount. And that was running it on multiple characters daily each year until I finally got it.
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1 hour to run all my tank/heal capable toons.
1 hour in queue on first dps.
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If you can queue as a tank and/or a healer, you should do that, IMO. Yes, you won’t be optimal, but it’s not that highly tuned, so even if you’re doing an average job, you’ll be fine.
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I’ve been at it for over 10 years, and have already done it 80 times this week across 30 max level characters. I have never seen a single one.
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If you’re geared enough, queue as a tank.
That’s what I resorted to a few times.
The headless horseman is basically a loot piñata, anyway.
#boxingischeating
#endmultiboxing
That’s so sad. If i could go back and send my extras, i would. I had no idea it was so rare/low drop
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0.5% chance once a day per character.
Yeah, i just looked it up. That’s why i wondered if it used to be higher. I guess i should use it more then 
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Did they fix it? Took less than 10 min on my hunter today.
No. Still getting an hour + sometimes.
Yeah I figured I’ve got lucky this time. 1h7m on mage.
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I just did this on all of my horde characters with limited problem. Tried to do it on my ally mage and got stuck in a 1.5 hour queue. Guess I’ll only do it on my tank ally characters…
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I always get in within 1-3 minutes as dps. I’m sorry you’re having issues, I haven’t had them
Literally waited at least two hours and still didn’t get in. Tried requeing multiple times and nothing.
I don’t think the drop rate was higher, but previously you could farm the boss. Now you get one pumpkin per run.
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This happened with the valentines event as well, i had several toons all queued at the same time, and warlocks and i think shamans cant rememeber but a few would be in the queue twice maybe 3 times as long even if they queued same time or before other classes. ( i think it was year before last, maybe 2 years ago cant remember when i got love rocket. )
I see that with low level tanks. Haven’t had any trouble with tanks at level 50, but those under 30. Hoo boy! 3rd phase they can get mega chunked fast.