TankSpot's Guide to Hodir

[kaloryfer99999]

Ulduar - the best Wow raid ever !

[UrghNoNames]

@IHateClubPenguinl Listen you fuck, just because someone doesnt completely understand world of fucking Warcraft doesn't make them a retard. Why don't u shut that fucking trap on ur mouth and go outside bitch. Why don't we all just give u a huge ass gold medal for being so fucking uber l337 at a game. Burn in hell u wrotten shit.

[Karolus112]

uldar, best raid ever for me :)

good guide btw

[bunnykillbrutal]

i like wow :D

[waagemensch]

can someone tell me pls what the add on is called that shows is health in green numbers there ???

[Mahnannon]

@waagemensch Digits

[killer109536]

what is the music!?

[kbyxdukf]

this voice sounds so familiar from the voice of TheWillfOfDC (his youtube acc)

[f00tballfever]

yh lol

[dyingbeforeyoudie]

May someone please share the name of the music artist?

[vicioso12345]

or a pally with frost resist aura would work?

[vicioso12345]

is really nesesary to have an offtank with frost resist gear?

[ZhakoT]

@vicioso12345

Not anymore.

[MaxedMan]

if your taking 31k frost dmg per hit during the frozen blows, how much frost resist do you have to have to cut that in half?

[jcasher2010]

soz i ment arcane power pls mages dont flame me :-(

[jcasher2010]

here is the problem im a warrior tank........ now raid gets all the buffs from npc's but me. i said before the encounter (im raid leader too) be careful with threat at those times as the shaman npc buffs crits so u crit ALL THE TIME. but what happened was..... we have all buffs.... hysteria.......deathwish......­..recklessness....blade furry.....arcane powder.......etc.......BLOODLU­ST

me:GARGH WTB TRICKS OF THE TRADE /W ME

[greedlusthate]

5:22, on the right of the screen, retarded boomkin gets f*cked up lmao.. it's actually really funny...

[DawgYoDawg]

it's an npc...

[tjenare1234567]

A minor idea, since Feral Druids tend to have higher crit chance than that of other tanks, they should be able to benefit from the additional crit damage as a treat gain.

In case anyone asks, they gain a defensive proc from all crits and therefor tend to have around 40-60% crit chance.

[drpeppa2357]

And more importantly i might add, with grid, you can gauge who needs heals before others in a sort of triage system, pay attention to who's first priority.

[drpeppa2357]

flickdude3, depending on what class you are, use specific mass heals and instant casts. Also, get the mod Grid if you don't already have it. My priest healed the shit out of the frozen blows phases thanks to the quick clicking-hotkey access grid provided. Just keep your spam and multi-target heals at the ready and hop in a starlight as it goes off.

[flickdude3]

Can anyone tell me a usful way to counter Hodirs AoE damage when he changes to Frozen Blows, my guilds healers are having trouble with it, i thought thst maybe if they stand in the light buff the extra speed will help them? if theres anything else pls let me know kthx

[Joker5133]

the only thing i can think of would be have your raid wear more frost resist gear our guild was having the same problem and when we did that it helped out took longer to kill him but we were able to survive the whole fight

[oginam]

Where can i get hold of the awsome music :D Would be great music for a long farming night and so on : ) awsome guides btw ! Helped me in ulduar and ToC alot :D But as i said Plx tell me the names of the songs or where i can get them : )

[jparks1102]

Can anyone tell me if the frost resistance gear is really necessary. Our guild is having trouble downing him and a few DPS have been wearing frost res gear while I have not. Somehow Im still alive longer than the DPS who wear the frost resistance everytime. Do you really need it?

[QuackSheeProductions]

my first guess is that your healers arnt healing fast enugh or are just focusing on u assign a dps healer if u havnt alrdy

[Milten893]

Well actually it is not needed it only helps a bit, my guild downed him without any frost gear only paladins frost aura and we are not so good gearead yet. Good tank, fast healers and smart dps -the key to succes

[clampy125]

forst resist these days if often ignored, even in a single tank strategy, the forst resist on the dps does not prevent death, but merely make the healers jobs easier as they will take less damage from biting cold etc. If you are surviving longer than others that is often down to them failing at the tactics. If you dso not wish to take FR gear jst make sure you either have a paladin or a shaman with the FR spells respective to that class.

[MasterChief07]

something I have been asking as a dk tank what should your hp be for naxx 10 and naxx 25

[DowntownDeadly]

he has mail.

[aroundtheworlda]

No one does naxx anymore. But nabs on my realm are scared of totc 25 and grand crusader 10 25 so I have to gear up with the nabcakes in ony 10 25 voa 25 new boss gloves and got all my shit from totc 10. DUNN NO! DUNNNN NOOOO!!!!

[Nazulsik]

yup true def capp 540 but i always have like 1 or 2 more def capp just to be safe for changing gear so i know il will be def capped

[Thrankff]

you guys all fail. the defense cap is 540. case closed

[01000001011100100111]

There is no def cap, it's a myth. 540 is just the point at which def rating stops reducing the chance of a crit, so crits can still happen, they're just extremely unlikely.

[Rattja]

Im sorry, but if I understand you right, then you are wrong.

You still reduce the chance of getting critted beyond 540, but nothing in PvE will be able to crit you after that. Since the highest level mob you will meet is a level 83 (boss). The crit chance a mob has is linked to it's level.

In pvp you meet higher crit chances, which is why you need resilliance as it offers more crit protection then defense ;)

[01000001011100100111]

What I'm saying is even though you can't reduce the crit chance any more in PvE, that doesn't mean you're crit immune, there's still a chance a lvl 83 can crit you, albeit a very small one.

[Rattja]

Ehm no, you are still wrong. You CAN reduce it even more if you want, there is just no point. After 540 you are crit immune, wich means that you will NOT get crit in pve, ever. That is the whole point of this "magic number"

There is no chance what so ever to be crit by a boss, if it did crit you would die.

[01000001011100100111]

You can still be crit by bosses that buff their own crit, or ones that lower your defence, but you're right about the immunity, I must have read some dodgy information.

[Hejzwej]

@ 01000001011100100111

When you critically hit you always deal twice the damage of your regular strike or more, so there can't be any "very small crit".

[01000001011100100111]

No one said anything about a very small crit, read the post again.

[Hejzwej]

You did.

[01000001011100100111]

Can't you read? I said the chance of being critted would be a small one, I never said anything about the size of the crit itself.

[Hejzwej]

Well, sorry. English isn't my primary language.

[xxDblock354xx]

sory but 2.5 dps aint cuttin it but if the tanks only are doind 2.5k dps then thats nice the actual dps should be hitting 3k+ my guild is hitting like 3k o higher

[hellshot8]

its different now then it was in ulduar, but the lowest dps in my guild was 4.6k dps in ToC25.

[lars551]

Could anyone send a full map of the ulduar raid, by that i mean facts on the bosses, the items that drops, the quests etc etc....I dinged 80 an hour ago, so i am eager to begin the raid with my guild. but i need a quick view of everything inside of ulduar

[mocire]

lars551 if you have just dinged 80 you should be running OS, Naxx, EoE and ToC before you even consider going to Ulduar

[yuyuhakusho159]

@mocire toc hell no!

[Mahnannon]

@mocire By ToC I hope you mean of the champion, Trial of the crusader is a lot harder than ulduar.

[TViPx]

@Mahnannon Ulduar has alot more tactics, so I think ulduar is harder.

[Mahnannon]

@TViPx I meant ToGC

[IHateClubPenguinI]

@mocire no retard, when you ding 80 u shud hit OS, NAXX maybe eoe

TOC isn't something that some1 in all blues shud go to u dumbass. man are u retarded or what?

[goddimmus]

Put toc and os as well as all heroics on farm before you think about goin in here. Your guild dps avg should be like 2.5 k and up.

[Mazoni]

ever concidered to actually put in any of your of effort to find things out? can u even use google? wowwiki? wowhead? thootbot? lazy ass....

[ravenwind123]

get atlas loot and if you just hit 80 you had beter run a few heroics first

[jamieovcymmer]

try going naxx 1st as that is were u should start progresion raiding!

[ageisen2000]

DO NOT GO TO ULDUAR. Our guild pugged a few people for ulduar. I know, our fault, we didnt gear check. You cannot do enough dps and the other members will be essentially carrying you. Also you need to get some raids under your belt with easier fights so you can understand how raiding works. Try to find a newer guild that is just starting progression. It will definately help.

[LackThere0f]

The 3 plate frost resist pieces have a total of 7 sockets; if you neglect socket bonuses and fill them all with Thick King's Amber, tanks should be able to get 28 Defense on them. 35 with a belt buckle.

That should at least keep you close to the cap.

Due to an unfortunately timed gear change, I once tanked Ulduar 10 from start to Freya with only 537 Defense; I was only crit once during that entire stretch. So it's definitely possible to tank Hodir while slightly under the def cap.

[LackThere0f]

should be 32 with a belt buckle, not 35. 4 def from every thick king's amber.

[KloKampfRatte]

yes you would be under 540 but when u have 530 it is enough to tank ulduar

or when u are deathknight u dont need frost ressist couse u can skill that!

HF GL

[ulktz]

530 means you can be crit, that is not good enough for ulduar.

[ficklefack]

wrong wrong wrong, you need to be def capped(540) for any wotlk raid. Otherwise you will critable.

[jamieovcymmer]

530 is barley hc ready let if u try ulduar with that defence rateing ure going 2 fail cause ure gona eat crits all night

[rsfighting1]

When tanks wear their frost resist gear, it will obviously most likely make them under defense cap, right? So how would tanks cope with the potential to get critically hit by the boss? Or is there a way to keep a high amount of resistance yet remain above defense cap?

[HylianNightmare10]

he says the resistance is built into normal tanking gear

[kilerpaladin17]

yes there is get the BS frost gear and put def gems in it or tank gems if u r able to keep the cap is cake and alot of ppl did that to hit 32k to start tanking uld since each piece has like 120stam lol(b4 this herioc conquest farming crap lol)

[PyrosInTheMaking]

hey nexxusnubs

[Nisslas90]

im in a new started guild with ppl that never been in ulduar and got half good gear. we 1 shotted flame razor xt and kolo. then we had 5 tries at auriaya (first got to 4% D':. And then BOOM down. first try on ignis got to 50% we stoped after that it was l8 before that we had 3 tries at hodir and we failed horribly =(. we didnt get him below 90% were playing 10 man. Our mt has 3 pieces frost resist gear. =/

[eddfir]

I would wand dps for the start of the fight (after the ice blocks are dead ofc) untill omen says you are over 100k threat below the tank, then start dpsing in the lights, and dont use insta pyro right after ffb untill you know what ffb has hit, it will lower your dps, but being dead is worse than that

[catch22af]

It hurts when i do this... then stop doing it

[RestoSexual]

if u have power aura classic mods, make a mod for biting cold de-buff it's helpful

[hawtnawtch]

wow. lol u guys that say "boomkin gets hit by flash freeze everytime" is like LOL fail.

[speedygonzales1000cc]

the boomkin is a npc ... all the npcs get flash freezed

[Twolfforlife]

i personly found that tanking him in one spot is ok you just have to jump about every 3-4 seconds

[goodperson656]

lol the boomkin gets hit by flashfreeze like everytime lol

[bamfee93]

beacause it is the NPC :)

[GraniteLife]

Boomkin isnt a player you nub lol

[Newmie95]

i wouldnt sy its an easy fight, but with experience would down him with ease

[mplanter13]

that boomkin is an npc wow man

[andrewrawlings]

that boomkin sucks. how do u get hit by every flashfreeze

[madinno]

@andrewrawlings: it's an NPC, not a player.

[child812]

IDIOT I SWEAR

[goodperson656]

hodir one hits all the tanks in my guild everytime y?

[bfarmer7]

if its a DK thats why they have no clue what defence is

[fwe4life]

you know theyre bad when a rogue is topping meters on hodir

[jdox3]

ok my guild did this today we tried about 6-7 times we coulden't seem to down him.....we were getting owned by the flash freeze

[TheErbz]

My guild is struggling with the frozen blows, is the only way around it with frost resi

[oXCycloneXo]

What is a good way to fix the problem with a raid that is very heavy on melee dps, and they can't seem to get enough to take him down?

[ignarukih]

Stack? Or get some ranged dps :P

[Smaugren]

The only thing that bosses can do from behind them is dodge. They can't block or parry. Melee dps needs 26 expertise (214 expertise rating) to prevent a level 80 raid dungeon boss from dodging while dps is attacking from behind it.

[marioman890]

people were using frostbolt on hodir =P

[mvadantheman]

How is this fight on 10 man?

[EricRuss50]

you said that for a tank to stand in a light may be helpful...why wouldn't it be helpful? shouldn't you always try to get in the light wether you are tank or dps or healer?

[yyy279]

Becuase tank want to tank the bosses back to the melee dps so the bosses attacks can't be blocked or parried.

[yyy279]

I posted that a bit fast without reading it clearly. The tank(s) are going to always in all incounters tank the boss so that its back is to the melee dps to their attacks can't be blocked or parried by the boss.

[Elykai]

not to sure what patch did it but lets just say as of WoTLK it doesnt matter they can still block and parry regardless of melee position

[SneakyDBH]

Actually, you are wrong. The boss cannot parry an attack from behind him. Yyy279 is correct in what (s)he said, that is why any good DPS will be behind the boss.

[genoarrc]

That only applies to players not NPCs

[UHSAdzz]

DPS dont gain threat from casting in the light, dont know how this works for tanks, but id imagine it would work the same?

[sharpee94]

Bartender

[ajz258]

whats that addon called that makes his action bars smaller?

[anthonyw713]

Spell reflect frozen blows?

[Chimicat]

Tankspot never disappoints me with their videos. I prefer the commentary and music choices added compared to other video guides.

[Vatha666]

After 20ish wipes, I could say that cache is rare(25m). If you expect to hard mode it, at least 7-8 people must have 10k+ dps with everone close behind. Quite a pain in the ass. Gl guys!

[korvmarcus]

so what are the music his haveing on these raids its always cool and relaxing ;P

[wowlegonerds]

gz on the *staying buffed all winter*

[danaownsall]

the DPS in this video r a healers worst nightmare. the point is to not get frozen by flash freeze

[Wobot17]

What is the addon with the raid members health and class to the upper right corner?

[zdog832]

That would be grid

[janroarkjolberg]

you mean left ? if so its called "Grid" , just googel it :)

[kalanc03]

you guys are so cool you always know what to do lo,l

[rorosbro13]

What server is he from btw?

[morrowind750]

he uses cool sounding music

[miyagui2]

So soothing @~@

[mdf123456789]

This is my favorite fight, 8k Dps is Sweet!!, and for Dps, there isn't a need for Frost resist gear unless you do this boss like these guys, Did you see how many ppl got hit by snowfall?!!

[joeguerra92]

does it matter what pieces of frost resist gear you get?

[mdf123456789]

You dont need it, unless your the tank, they over estimated it a little, it looks like this was one of there first kills.

[Hornzz771]

no it doesnt but it's smart tho to replace gear with frost that doesnt have the most impact to ur set up

[bandgeek8986]

Frost resist gear isn't absolutely necessary - you can afford to get by without it - however it does take a lot of stress off the healers. When my guild did this in 10-man the raid members who had frost resist gear on took substantially less damage than those without it. Like Ciderhelm said, it may make the fight longer, but your survivability increases by a lot.

[drpeppa2357]

he is seriously underestemating frozen blows.. it hits like a truck as far as raid dmg is concerned.. and not many people come prepped with frost resist gear

[awesomesjake]

woot tank spot ftw!

[Alexxxandrew]

TankSpot`s ROCK!

[trudywren]

talk about a light coming on - now i get the blue rune Dur

[sparkdemon]

Great guide, will help me ALOT trying him for the first time... wish i woulda looked up the thorim fight : / woulda saved us a wipe

[Killstron]

great guide :)

[BurningBenzin00]

Two things I would like to recommend to guilds:

At the beginning of the fight, there are mages trapped in the ice. Free them first, they will use an ability called "Melt Ice" on other frozen NPC's.

Next, turn on PROJECTED TEXTURES in your Interface menu-this will make the runes you see in this video appear-and make the healers job a lot easier.

[MrMick2413]

is this last boss?

[scratchbfunk]

no yogg-saron is

[djee69]

no, algalon is

[Wasd11112]

yogg is last, algalon is a bonus boss

[martinmagicvideos]

algalon is last boss for ppl good enough to get there.

[prolifikshadow]

Yogg-Saron is the final boss in Ulduar. Algalon is an optional, bonus boss. Regardless of difficulty, Yogg-Saron is the "final boss".

[awingwe]

any idea wad music is this?

[ekehoo93]

Ciderhelm's music is C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe\image­s\title.wma and all windows xp users have it.

[xeldon15]

what addons are you using? your UI looks epic :D

[xWolfytx]

Hmm, I use most of these addons I think they're : Pitbull (Unit Frames),Prat,Bartender4,Recoun­t,Digits ,MSBT, and Grid. There are more but I don't know they're names...

[ekehoo93]

What was the achievement in 5:18 and why did he get it in the middle of the fight? o.0

[hobokakal88]

its the one with get the 3 diff buffs at the same time  fire-lighting- starlight

[ekehoo93]

Ok, thanks =)

[martinbsc]

Its when you get all the buffs from the fight at the same time:)

[Pointpwn]

for your videos would you mind showing loot?

I would love to see it

[Darthvictor12]

Get atlas loot

[Pointpwn]

Um i do. I want to see what drops for them.

[bwhahrhr]

wowhead

[benmileham]

with the buffs and that, if you do the tacs right , our mage had like 11k dps on this fight on 25 man, so, with the buffs its easy to reach higher,.

[Elementalos]

I wonder why he doesn't mention melt ice or toasty fires...

[ihatewhorde]

Since this is 25man he assumes that you already know the basic fight.

[Elementalos]

Then why does he explain in detail what starlight and the shaman buff are >_>

[lexamark]

We just kill him 2 hours aggo.. on Anachronos Eu.. with Relief guild.. was a few atempts.. but we have done.

Now is a easy boss.. :)

[Alexm799]

anachronos ftw!

[yungchef92]

haha hell yeh!! go anachranos server :D!

[B0untey]

some did fuckin 5000 dps?!

[hobokakal88]

yeah its 5k deeps so wht

[mastaofthemojo]

5k DPS for a fight where you are mainly mobile is good buddy , not everyone likes to enhance there e-peen like you " pfft 5k dps so what ?" Dumbass.

[NemesisOfDoom]

Hodir is a fight where you get buffs, superbuffs, wich makes certain players reach 19k, so 5 isnt that much ;)

[yungchef92]

lol thats normal man lol...low in this boss fight because of the massive buffs in fact :)

[ilinkin100]

@B0untey Lol I do 14k dps as rogue.

[klanwarsftw]

@ilinkin100 Subtract 20-25% for the Icc buff you were using at the time.

[Deeo134]

52k HP!!!! WOOT!!!!!!!

[1Macdo]

Thx tankspot

[Pmak]

this kill took WAAAAAAAAY too long

[TheHairyGeek]

my guild spent an entire raid night wiping on this dude, it got insanly frustrating

[Rapi2]

Lol, mine just did. Best attempt was 36% :(