Retribution Paladin - Solo Kael'thas in Tempest Keep

Took me a lot of practice and tons of attempts to get the strategy worked out. The plan is based on Raegwyn's video, but its tougher to execute as a paladin since, well, we're not death knights...
I'm not the first paladin, though I only know of one who did it before.

The video includes a step-by-step explanation of what to do in each phase. I didn't execute it quite right, and nearly died in phase 4 a couple times.

Gear helps a lot here, I remember having tons more trouble in 359 (although my strategy was worse for phase 3). Now I was doing it in 378 but that shouldn't be necessary if you do it right. A PvP trinket is a must, though (unless you're human).
You can see my spec/glyphs as I wait for the second advisor. It is a standard 7/2/32 PvE spec with Selfless Healer; glyphs are standard, with Divine Protection to mitigate the insane amount of magic damage.

I was using a flask, food, drums, scroll and a potion, but all of that isn't necessary once you got it down.

Good luck and have fun! Ashes didn't drop this time, but I'll keep coming.

Music: Stone Sour (Audio Secrecy, Mission Statement, The Bitter End, Come Whatever May)

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[IntelligentBystander]

This is pretty easy to solo as a ret pally, the hardest part for me was fighting 4 of kael's lieutenants at once, i seperate them all, caster chick away from all when i kill them during the initial phase. When killing the caster i pvp trink her disorientation and dps her down, pop wrath and guardian and dps the shit out of her. Later i bubble the other three and dps one down asap, then after that with two of them you just kinda do the best you can do dps them down between cc's

[RiV]

Pretty sure you can kill Caperninan in bubble, so its fairly trivial now.

[Ret4life]

ok i got to kael but he put the Charmed debuff and it reset the whol encounter.. it happened twice? What the fuck? i tried using the pvp trinket as well.

[Bastarden]

Seems that melee are pretty much screwed on this. He'll cast the MC despite you being alone now. Pet classes have it as easy as before, melee/none-pet classes will have to bring another person.

[RiV]

Oh well that's definitely broken. Have you tried ticketing it? (Inb4 "thank you for reporting this issue our dev team is investigating it").

[RiV]

Do you have any pets? If your pet gets aggro, you can get MC'd because you're not his target anymore. This is very likely to happen during disorient because your aggro drops to 0.

[Raegwyn Soloing]

wow great job

[Nicholas Cain]

Finally, I have been looking for a video for this for months or some good tips to effectively solo this guy. Now I have some bearing on what I was doing wrong. Many thanks. You sir, are a saint.

[FrReifersheid]

i guess there's a guy how did this as rogue, but for mee it seems kinda impossible... no chance against the 4 guys at once

[kakakiua]

thank you so much!!! i made it as Fury warrior following some of your tips! :)

[bamazudi]

Just soloed him but the ashes didn't drop. :/ Was hoping that would be my reward for soloing. :p

[indefinableification]

it'd be nice instead of crappy music.... you talked through what you were doing and why.

mute button, thank you very much.

[Ironwox]

Just Soloed him now Ret paladin ilv 470 -- I did everything exactly as you did in this video . didn't take the weapons- just Zergged him the adviceors dies really fast

The main issue was when Kael'thas Retruns to his spawn zone. he Teleported me to the Locked door , other than that I had no issues.

thanks for this guide it really was helpful.

[RiV]

Not really, they just had a fixed number of players for each raid. Kara and ZA were the only 10 mans.