How To Do A Raid Lockout?

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I have never done these before. I farm old content pretty often but I usually just full clear it for mog stuff/gold what have you. I’m getting pretty tired of full clearing ICC25H specifically. I have basically everything from there I could ever want except the mount. So… how does this work?

I wanted to save the raid from one of my husband’s unused alts since he’s playing Alliance this expansion. So, would I have to full clear it til Lich King, then exit the instance and invite myself for the last kill only? Would that save his raid ID for me to farm over and over? What about the extend lockout, when do I do that so I can just keep doing this til the end of time (or eventually get the mount after years)?

Do I need to clear it all sans Arthas with his alt or can I run 2 at once (his + mine) so it doesn’t take ages? Would that save his raid ID at Arthas or would it save it as fully cleared?

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Okay, this is actually pretty easy; all you need to do is take his character all the way through Sindragosa on 25H (your character can also be in the party for this), then drop group while the Lich King is still killable.

Then you can finish the instance on whatever character you were running on yourself. As long as he’s saved 11/12 H, it will work. You have to make sure he’s no longer in the instance or the party, just to be sure. He can either hang around in Icecrown or just hearth to wherever, it’s immaterial where his character is located.

After you’ve killed Arthas, you log onto your next character and have his character invite you to a party. Zone into Icecrown, at which point it will tell you that you’re entering an instance already in progress (11/12 bosses killed). You’ll press the button to accept, then leave the party. You can then go straight to Arthas, kill him, and repeat the process of inviting, entering, accepting the lockout, and leaving the party. That way, his lockout of ICC 25H stays intact, and you’re able to just skip straight to Arthas every time. I did this for my wife while she was farming Invincible, and it’s great. You can even use any character who’s level 80 or above to carry the lockout if you want.

After the week is up, you open up the social menu on his character (O by default, I believe), and change to the Raid Info tab. There it will list all your (now-expired) raid and dungeon lockouts. Simply right-click on the ICC 25H lockout and select “Extend Raid Lockout” and it will refresh it, so it will remain with 11/12 bosses defeated. Then you can just keep farming it by inviting your characters and so on like I described previously. If necessary, you can always just run the instance with him in the group as well until Sindragosa, effectively starting the entire thing over, whatever you’d prefer. I usually ran through the first run of the week with my wife for fun, then left before Arthas so she could reuse the lockout, but extending the raid lockout isn’t hard at all (though the fact it’s buried under a seldom-used part of the social menu interface is wacky).

Hope that helps!

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That is SUPER helpful thank you! So basically it doesn’t matter where I leave his toon as long as I’m not grouped with it while killing Lich King, it’ll still save his lockout for my other characters? I think I got it :smiley:

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You’re welcome! Indeed, his character can be anywhere, I had a lockout running on a seldom-used level 81 mage for a while, and I’d usually just fish around Dalaran in the fountain or from the Decrepit Flow in northeastern Crystalsong while she was knocking down Arthas. If you can log in on a character who can make bags or something that you just start 995 of in the crafting interface, it’s like having double the productivity! :wink:

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One more question, if you don’t mind :slight_smile:

This works for all raids yeah? Like, I can’t solo my way through Mythic Hellfire but I can clear it with him up to the last boss and use this trick too?

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Sorry for not replying yesterday, I usually browse the forums on breaks at work so I don’t always get back to things.

I’m not 100% sure about more modern raids, as a lot of things post-MoP have a different lockout system than the earlier ones (which themselves changed in a few ways, just to make things screwy). But I’m fairly certain this trick would likely work, given that the Perky Pugs/Friendship Moose crew saved Heroic lockouts when they were doing carries for the Ahead Of The Curve achievements for both the Grove Warden moose and the Violet Spellwing bird.

I haven’t tried it, though, since anything from WoD on up is something my wife and I are usually both still trying to collect things from, so we’ll usually clear things together in their entirety. But, again, it should hopefully work. :wink:

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This does not work for mythic raids, only heroic and below.

Heroic lockouts act like they get copied - you zone into heroic ICC and it copies the lockout from the group leader (the lockout holder); remove the holder from the group and you still have your copy, so killing Arthas updates your lockout but not the holder’s lockout.

For mythic it’s more of a shared lockout. Group up with the holder and enter the zone, you get attached to that lockout, but it’s not a copy, it’s really the same lockout. So when you kill Archimonde, the holder is now sitting on a lockout where Archimonde’s dead.

Personally, I’m using lockouts for ICC, dragon soul, and Ulduar, but the other raids I want to target (for mounts and pets, primarily) either the boss I need is early enough not to bother with the lockout (kharazhan) or the raid has to be mythic anyway (blackrock foundry, hellfire citadel, etc)

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I don’t mind the wait, I just appreciate the help :slight_smile: Thank you again!

Well that’s a bummer :frowning: On the bright side at least I’m not sick of farming mythic raids… yet. Thank you for the info!

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Does that work now? Last time me and my wife tried it I left raid/group, she killed it, i tried reentering and it gave me a popup “lockout 12/12, do you accept? If not you will exit the instance”.

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When this happens to me the thing that makes the correct 11/12 lockout show is delisting the group from finder.

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ICC 25H does, I can verify that at least. I didn’t use group finder, just /invited her character once she came online or used the Battlenet social interface to do it. Then I left group after she zoned into the instance where I had the 11/12 lockout.

I never tried going back in, myself, I guess, but that’s theoretically kinda the point of holding a lockout, no? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Are you using Group Finder to invite friends, or are you switching between your own characters to share the lockout amongst them? I know that relies on Group Finder, but haven’t done that myself (since I was sharing my lockout from my account with my wife on her account, so we can both be logged in concurrently).

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oh, I usually share between my alts

There is an article on wowhead that says that manually setting to normal before running it on the main, then again before setting foot on the instance with the other character helps with this.

After accepting the 11/12 lockout, change to heroic.

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Is there any way to add auto accept when creating the group? That check box doesn’t appear for me.

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The auto accept feature was removed some time ago I’m afraid. You will just have to log in and out a few times to invite yourself and then accept. You will also need to disband the raid and remake it for each alt. It’s a lot of hopping around but it’s still better than a full clear.