It’s All Hallows Eve again on Azeroth, and while I already did most of the quests last year, I still haven’t gotten the achievement and the title. Since I’m a title fiend, I packed up the sword and shield and hied over to Scarlet Monastery to pick up a Hallowed Helm (I picked up the Squashling from a lucky group last year.)
As my friend Az has already shown it’s possible to three-man the Headless Horseman without a healer, I decided to take it one step further and solo the Horseman.
Avierra soloes the Headless Horseman. Note that my interface is much cleaner now thanks to the magic of Onyxia Whelp disconnects.
Fighting the Headless Horseman is just a matter of patience (essential for protection paladins). Save your major DPS cooldowns (Avenging Wrath, etc. etc.) for the floating head phase. For extra mana, I picked up some of the level 30+ adds roaming the area along with the Horseman.
I still haven’t found a good way to do it without Lay On Hands, but I no longer completely buff up when soloing the Horseman (no more flask and stat food).
A nice reward for my troubles: a Hallowed Helm and 5g, all for me. I also kept the epic ring for my ret set since it has +hit on it.
I’m actually a little overgeared for this. I’d say you could solo him with around 32,000 hit points and maybe 40% avoidance (I’m currently at around 46%). I’d still suggest bringing friends to pound him into the dirt, though – more chances at key drops like the Squashling and the Helm, plus it makes the fight go faster.
Sadly, I’m still two years away from the Violet Proto-drake. Thanks to my crappy ex-ISP, I was offline for most of Brewfest this year (and busy through most of Brewfest last year), so I wasn’t able to sign up for Brew of the Month. I wonder if I’ll still be playing WoW in 2011.
Ah, who am I kidding.
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