Yep, and it was less annoying as a paladin before they normalized weapon speed during legion (7.3 I believe?), since you could use tf or other quick 1h weapons to get the job done.
Nope. That outdated, almost 20 year old content happens to have the exact sort of gimmick you’d expect from outdated, almost 20 year old content: being literally unkillable if you can’t inflict frost damage.
Wait until you find out about Patchwerk’s highly complicated mechanic of “keep tanks alive.” Peak 2004-2006 boss design.
Freezing him isn’t the problem for my paladin, it’s inflicting the number of necessary hits to shatter him and get the loot. You used to be able to do this with that lumberjack relic, but I guess it got nerfed somewhere along the line because that doesn’t work anymore, and is now impossible to solo.
Go to Lun Lai summit. There is a rare. He drops “crate of kidnapped puppies” or something like that. Its a trinket. When V freezes, pop the trinket and cool downs for the attacks.
For anyone doing old content as a Warlock:
I just switched to Destruction, kept hitting him with chaos bolt until he froze, then used a dagger along with succubus to melee until dead. (It was literally the Simple Dagger I bought off of the Traveler’s Tundra Mount vendor.)
Um, how long has Chaos Bolt been a Frost spell? Honest question. Because I was never able to freeze him on this character and wound up giving up entirely on farming him until I got my mage leveled.
Last time, which was quite some time ago, I tried on my frost DK, I couldn’t do it and gave up. 99% sure it’s user error though. To this day I have never killed Viscidus. Although I might go try later.
When looking back, I never tried any other class than shaman and frost mage to get that pet. Ever other option seemed too limited because of maxing out weapon enchantment at a ridiculous level.