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Comentario de 878718

este draco es muy dificl que salga

Comentario de 1083883

Aquí tenéis como farmeo yo la montura que puede soltar el segundo jefe de la mazmorra del Núcleo Pétreo (Stonecore en ingles, tanto en normal como en heroico). Solo decir que los únicos enemigo que hay que matar es al NPC "Molino Tormenta de maná" que en ingles es "Millhouse Manastorm", para que aparezca el primer jefe y así habrá el camino hasta el segundo que es el que nos interesa. Pasando con cuidado todo se puede evitar. El jefe que nos interesa es Pielpétrea (Slabhide en ingles) que es el que suelta las Riendas del draco de piedra vítreo (Reins of the Vitreous Stone Drake) que puede salir tanto en heroico como en normal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcFzMjghmm8

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Comentario de Arikara

This
My mount.

MAKE IT SO.

Comentario de Happyfisherman

From what I've seen in the beta, this is a really simple fight. The fight is mostly a tank and spank encounter, but you have to be aware of not standing on the lava circles that appear during the fight (you are warned with the ground moving and shaking where the lava pool will appear).

Periodically, Slabhide will lift off and throw tons of spikes at the ground, check the ground for shadows and move away from them.

That's it, rinse and repeat for whatever time it takes to kill him.

Comentario de 613123

the model for this boss is one of the new mounts that i think you get from the therazane faction similar to hodir and netherwing.....this mount......is the business

Comentario de Kirska

Make sure you're in the flat part of the immediate area or you will be locked out of the encounter.

Comentario de Sakayra

Slabhide has a chance to drop Vitreous Stone Drake (non heroic for me)

Comentario de 263972

- Dodge falling spikes
- Dodge falling spikes + lava pool
- Spikes break LoS

Pretty basic tank-spank with little movement.

Comentario de 21910

The mount just dropped for our part, I guess the drop chance has to be really low. I've been playing for eight straight hours with my guild now, tanking. I thought I could catch a break but I managed to roll 1, I guess it has to resemble the rank for guild activity, as I'm currently first. As the guild master, I demanded the mount and threatened with a guild disband. The guild is no more...

Joke aside, rather awesome mount, glad to have seen it drop at least!

Comentario de BaronYiffington

NORMAL MODE:

Extremely easy "don't stand in the bad stuff" fight.

Tank picks up boss.

Boss will randomly spawn pools of lava. Nobody should stand in them.

Boss will fly into the air periodically, and rain down stone spikes. The spikes put a shadow on the ground - simply don't stand under a shadow.

The spikes, once they land, break LoS, so the healer will need to position themselves accordingly.

Comentario de fredo619

Got the Drake on Normal Stonecore about an hour ago, don't know if it is the first or not. So this does drop on Normal, enjoy.

Best,
Deathplz

Comentario de Blackthorne

Heroic mode pointers:

Even though he looks like a dragon, there is no tail swipe. It's safe to stand behind him.
Avoid lava pools (obviously). They are easy enough to spot, when they form you'll see a small dust cloud on the ground.
During the "air phase", avoid the black spots on the ground, because pillars will land on that spot. They may or may not oneshot you (don't know exact damage yet).
During his Crystal Storm, stand behind a pillar. If you are not in line of sight, you will take zero damage from it.
Note that pillars too close to him (inside his hitbox) will not work!

On normal, he will not use Crystal Storm.

Comentario de 27187

Heroic Mode:

Slabhide has 3 skills he uses.

Every so often he will fly up and drop rocks on the floor which you must avoid.

Crystal Storm: launches shards at all party members. Must use the drop rocks to LOS it. make sure your are out of his hit box.

Sand Blast: does about 80k damage frontal cone.

Eruption: Lava will burst from a spot on the ground and pool. Does around 45k damage.

Comentario de ElfenAeria

I find it interesting that this fight for a dps or a healer is purely skill based when it comes to the incoming damage the group will take.

It is possible to take 0 damage through the entire encounter, it does not require much effort either. That's why i very much enjoy this encounter ;)

Comentario de 344016

This is a fairly easy tank and spank with an alternating ground and air phase. "Sand Blast" is a frontal AoE cone that does fairly big tank damage. Face the boss away from the group and just heal through it. You'll randomly see dust clouds form under people that turn into pools of lava after a few seconds. They aren’t big and are very easy to avoid.

During the air phase, Slab will start dropping falling spikes that cover most of the room. You can see these coming long before they hit due to the shadows they make on the floor. Following the air phase, the fight essentially becomes rinse and repeat except for his last ability. "Crystal Storm" deals 20k damage every second for 6 seconds and can be avoided by hiding behind the spikes left over from the air phase.

Comentario de qasaq

Soloed in normal mode, as hunter in blues, simple fight, clearing the trash was harder then the fight.
On the boss, keeping pet in LoS is the hard part, make sure you re-place your pet each air phase (or it is likely it will not move out from the obvious rocks) and it's a kill (and don't outaggro!).
For the trash, I used survival spec due to the good CC. I was trapping two mobs, sleeping one and killing them one by one.
(In order to trap two mobs; you shoot trap close to the target, wait for the cooldown on trap to reset, start fight, wait for the placed trap to be used, then place a new trap for the second target.)
Keep in mind that Manastorm will keep running from group to group, so you need to kill 2 of the total 3 groups, in order to be able of summoning the skippable first boss.
Start with the trash packs without Manastorm (since that's one less elite to worry about) clear them up before you head to the group Manastorm is in. At Manastorm's group I did the normal CC drill, nuke Manastorm to ~50% while pet is tanking him and one more elite and then you are free to FD, first boss is summoned and path to Slabhide is opened.
Done the boss as survival and marksman, marksman is nice for the little heal from chimera, making the fight a complete piece of cake. Used tenacity pet all times, full tanking spec (avoid the CC-breaking thunderstomp), glyph of MD and mending in order to make the fight go more smooth. Also used 2/5 tier 5 armor for the healing set bonus, not tested without.

-Happy farming, hunters.

Comentario de dabigwilli

Basically 3 manned this with Hunter, Mage, Shaman. Tank and DK Dps failed to get out of crystal storm and dropped group when the boss was at 70% and we finished him no problem.

Comentario de lhavelund

This encounter is exceptionally easy, provided everyone knows what they're doing. A few pointers:

Don't stand in the lava. It might seem obvious, but it hurts like a #$%^&.
Spikes. They break LOS. As a healer myself, this is quite a @#$%^. They are, however, also your best friend when he throws Crystal Storm.

I managed to pull this one off on Heroic with one DPS, a Tank and myself as healer. :)

Comentario de 403619

It looks like he stops moving when he casts Crystal Swarm. When this happens, everyone should break LOS by hiding behind a spike. Don't use a spike directly near the boss, Crystal Storm will go around/over the spike and still hit you.

Comentario de 741975

Did this on heroic last night. During crystal storm, our group wiped. When we walked back, the stone barriers that block the way out during combat were still there even though Slabhide was landed and waiting to begin combat. There was no way to get passed the barriers and therefor we had to quit the dungeon. Anyone else have this problem?

Comentario de 745942

Slabhide hits about 6-9k auto attack

.Here are a few things that u should be aware of:

¤ Tank should face him away from group since his sand blast hits people infront of

¤ He will spawn lava pools that you shouldnt stand in.

¤Slabhide will fly up randomly(?) and as he flies up he is unkillable. you can get him to 1hp but he cant die. just concentrade on avoiding the rocks that are falling down.

Here is also a video showing how a Hunter can solo it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2XoWUjrJbI.

Good luck on mount!

Comentario de 259313

Tanks should note that he'll always cast his Sand Blast shortly after landing, and shortly after finishing Crystal Storm, regardless of whether or not they're actually in range of the ability.

It can be avoided in both situations if you simply get more then 15 yards away from him while he's still immobile.

Comentario de HikariOblivion

Just got a mount drop from reg soloing, just to confirm for anyone who may have heard rumors otherwise (relying on the dungeon finder, guild run, group or anything else), that it is possible without any sort of variables like that :) happy farming

Comentario de Superchief

Melee can attack him while he's in the air by standing almost directly under him and jumping. If you time it right you can hit him with abilities every global cooldown, you're just missing auto attacks until he lands.

Comentario de 757980

Any rogue soloed this one yet? Tried couple times but no deal, I'm thinking of going Combat next time. As Mut I just used recuperate before the fight and went it blowing CDs right at start. Potion and Bandages didn't help much. :(

Comentario de Danaan

I can confirm that he is soloable as a protection paladin.
Skip the first tash mob group, kill the other two, kill the Earthshapers first, self-heal using Word of Glory and Seal of Insight. Then run to the first group and bring Millhouse to 50%, run out of the instance, skip the first trash mob group and go to Corborus. Then try to avoid the Crystal Giants. If thats not possible, jump on his Quake Ability and kill the Crystal spawns ASAP. Then straight through the gauntlet and there you go. Slabhide!

Pull and blow off every CD if its ready. Use every Holy Power on Word of Glory and self heal in the airial phase using Divine Light. At the ground phase avoid the lava pools. Rinse and repeat x-times and pray for the drake.

It took me around 14 minutes to kill him/her/it.

Good luck everyone

PS: The information here were already posted, I just assembled everything for clarity.

Comentario de 117168

Solo'd today using a ilvl 346 blood DK without to much trouble at all. Starting out with AotD should get the boss down about 10-15% before you ever take any dmg. After that it's just using bandages/blood tap/blood pact/deathstrike to keep yourself topped off. Make good use of your AMS when the boss lands to minimize the breath attack.

Comentario de 782912

It seems to have changed slightly with the patch. As a SV Hunter I clear all the rock elementals as usual. Start with the 3rd pack Freeze Trap/Wyvern Sting the 2 Beserkers or Berserker/Warbringer combo, then shoot down the Earthshaper as quick as, scatter shot when he does the dust cloud. Then work on the rest one at a time. I tried to do the 2nd pack but every time I start it brings Millhouse and his pack in to the fight, must be a new addition as it never use to. So with the 2nd pack I kill the Earthshaper before Millhouse gets there and then feign death. Will make it easier for later. Then I run back to the start and and work on Millhouse and his pack. Started with Millhouse until he runs away and then worked on the others using the same strategy as with the 3rd pack. Then did the same with Millhouse and the 2nd pack until he ran away.

Made my way down to Slabhide, send my pet in keep him alive and work on Slabhide. It's easier now with less shards falling so I never lost sight of my pet. The other thing I noticed was that when Slabhide hovers he doesn't hover as high anymore so your pet can still reach him and continue attacking.

Can't confirm whether you actually do need to kill all of the 1st pack or not. It might just be Millhouse who triggers them to join in when you are on the 2nd pack.

Every try I've done pre patch and after Ive used a bear and never had a problem so you don't have to use turtles if you prefer having a bear as tank.

Comentario de Nobbel

How to solo normal difficulty as a 85 paladin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Erkl-hK0c

Comentario de kaze950

Did trash + slabhide as MM, it was pretty easy. Just get manastorm to 50%, feign death, and kill the trash pack. I found it easiest to just freezing trap one, and just single target everything else. My pet didn't seem to take too much damage. You can skip the 3rd pack and go straight to slabhide using camo.

Slabhide took me about 3 minutes, basically just popped CDs and such and then went into aspect of the fox. Your pet takes barely any damage as long as you keep mend pet up (with glyph) and as long as you periodically MD and avoid getting out of LoS, you should be fine even if it takes you 10 minutes.

Comentario de jkurkul

Way too much solo information. Have run this a lot for tanks needing trinket from last boss, ever since patch we are noticing some one-shot kills from stalagtites that don't have shadows on the ground. Curious if anyone else has seen it.

And no, in all the times running it, have not seen a mount drop

Comentario de msully72

Just had a very frustrating few fails on this guy as a resto druid. Was getting crystal spiked through stalagmites - I assumed it was due to tree form giving a bigger or offcenter hit box, but maybe it was the ranged issue from above. God how annoying that fight was.

Comentario de 570988

Drops the BLUE jemmed Stone Drake, YELLOW is the Vial, PURPE is Aeonaxx, the rarespawn, and RED is the Glory for the Heroic Acheivs... This boss is soloable by hunters, i can confirm that i have downed him over 10 times so far for the mount. Just spam mend pet and have ur pet tank and follow the fight mechanics, The mount is an extreamly low drop rate, about the same as the baron mount from stratholme, so if u really want this mount, be ready to farm or hope to be really lucky to get it on your first couple of runs :P

Happy Hunting!

Comentario de xmatty

It seems they've hotfixed this. I can't aggro the middle mob without millhouse being aggro'ed. SV hunter, i even tried pulling the middle pack down to the bottom, even still the first pack come and attack me.

Comentario de Zerotorescue

I have soloed this more than a hundred times at a Survival Hunter (spec) with a Turtle (spec) as tanking pet. My usual runs only take about 9 minutes in total whereof this boss takes a little under 3 minutes and 30 seconds to kill. Here are some pointers to hopefully make your solo runs quicker, but please note this will only be of use to anyone that can drop combat (unless you think dieing and running in is quicker then killing all trash).

Croud Controling is important to make things easier and reduce the damage the pet takes. However to ensure CCed targets aren't kicked out by your pet you must turn auto-casting of Thunderstomp off. The trash NPCs I found most annoying were Stonecore Berserkers so I prioritized CCing these over anything else. So much for the introductions, now to handling the trash.

The first pack is easy, you don't need to kill any of the trash there only bring Millhouse Manastorm to 50% so he rushes to the second pack. This means you CC two targets (preferably Berserkers), send your pet in for Millhouse and nuke him down quickly. Once he starts running Dismiss Pet and Feign Death so the pack will reset (except for Millhouse). Wait a few seconds and then activate Camouflage to skip the rest and run all the way to the third pack.

Before starting with the third pack, clear out any Unbound Earth Rager that might become a nuisance and then start CCing the dangerous targets in this pack leaving two targets alive. I always kill the Stonecore Earthshapers first as they have low HP and can be quite annoying and only then move on to the other NPCs. By clearing this group we ensure Millhouse will run to the first boss' location the next time he is brought down to 50% rather then join this pack.

Now we set our eyes on Millhouse Manastorm again. CC the two dangerous targets in his current pack again and bring him down to 50% quickly. Be warned that engaging the second pack will also cause the first pack and trash surrounding it to be pulled so if you do not bring down Millhouse fast enough, your pet will probably die from the additional damage. After Millhouse starts running, use your Deterrence for extra protection and start dismissing your pet again, make some distance with Disengage and then feign death to drop combat once more. Wait a couple of seconds for the trash to reset and then use your camouflage to skip the remaining bosses and trash; you can walk all the way to Slabhide now.

The Slabhide kill is pretty straightforward; use Aspect of the Fox to be able to cast while dodging the flame puddles while at the same time keeping an eye on your pet's health and using Mend Pet when needed. Sometimes the pet will be completely out of line of sight when you're trying to heal due to a rock falling on top of him which can be solved by ordering the pet to Follow, teleporting it right on top of you. You might also want to make a macro to enable your pet's Last Sand - just for extra safety.

I realize it would be easier to pick up on these pointers from a YouTube video so I'll see if I can get to that and in that case update this post, but I won't make any promises. (Update: got recordings solved out just need to solve a few issues with Sony Vegas.)

Comentario de NelleRavencrest

Its very simple as Marksmanship Hunter with Turtle:

THIS TACTIC ONLY REQUIRES YOU TO KILL ONE PACK WITH 4 MOBS = Very easy !

1) Go inside MD to pet, cast aimed shot on Millhouse and instanly cast multi shot right after. That way all the mobs go on your turtle. Just nuke Millhouse until he reach 50% = he starts yelling, then run out of the instance to reset the group (easiest way since you are right inside).

2) Go in again and use camouflage to get to the 3rd and last pack (Skip the one with Millhouse). Put down a trap right infront of you, cast MD on pet and once again aimed shot, but this time on the Stonecore Earthshaper, and emediately after use multishot to make the rest of the mobs go on pet. The Berserkers randomly charge, but since you put down a trap right infront of you. The berserkers will get trapped (sometimes there is 2 x Berserker, then you just have to eat some random charges). But with one of them trapped its very easy to deal with the remaining mobs. If you really don't like the random charges you can always stand at max range, then it wont happen.

3) When the pack is cleared go back towards the middle pack, it will have Millhouse in it. Once again put down a trap (not really needed) to help with the incomming dps preasure. MD to turtle and aimed shot on Millhouse and multishot on the rest. Now just nuke Millhouse down to 50%, when he starts yelling + run away, you emediately dismiss your Pet and FD. This will make the pack reset. Now just pop Camouflage and run to Slabhide (yes the first boss will come in when you get near the cave-hole in the wall)

4) Kill Slabhide, if you can't do this as MM with a bit of Mend Pet and fire dodgeing. Then don't even bother playing WoW and reroll Hello Kitty Online immediately !

Best of luck with the mount !

Comentario de EightBitBus

I had no problem soloing both Corborus and Slabhide as a 377 Blood DK. I used my standard Blook DK soloing spec in my DPS gear that I reforged for crit once I was hit/exp capped. I didn't have any outside buffs on me.

Focus on getting Millhouse Manastorm to 50% as quickly as possible as his Shadowfury, while not a death sentence, certainly doesn't make the pull any easier. Stonecore Earthshapers should go down next with extra attention paid to interrupting Force of Earth. I wrote a focus interrupt macro to make sure I didn't miss any (/cast Mind Freeze). Avoiding the Spinning Slash used by Stonecore Berserkers will also greatly reduce your damage taken.

Corborus is a tank and spank fight for the most part. Make sure to move out of Crystal Barrage by simply walking through him once he casts. Blood boil the small shale spiders while avoiding the kicked up dirt during the ground phase.

Jumping when there is a second or so left on a Crystalspawn Giant Quake cast will allow you to avoid the damage completely. Heart Strike cleave should take out the small geode add since it only has 5000HP.

At level 85 Stonecore Flayers can be walked past without aggroing. If you do manage to aggro them, moving away from them when they cast Flay should allow you to kill them without too much trouble.

The run to Slabhide is the same as ever, avoid the falling rocks.

The Slabhide fight itself is quite easy. Anti-Magic Shell will reduce the Sand Blast damage but isn't entirely necessary. Move your way 6-8 yards from the small fire spots when they appear so as not to be caught when they become fire pools.

Comentario de Ategra

Yesterday me and a friend managed to two-man this guy on HC mode.

This is how we did it:

Specced both BM with a turtle tanking pet (+ Glyph of Mending).
Send out your pet and MD.
Just dps and keep Mend Pet up all the time (this might get tricky because with all the falling spikes around, it will get out LoS).
Every time Slabhide flies up in the air, and starts his Crystal Storm, hide behind a pillar and put your pet on passive. That way it will instanly spawn right on you. Hit mend pet again and make sure it's full health before sending it back into the fight again.

From this part on it's just rinse and repeat (as long as you don't have aggro, you should be taking any damage at all).
If your pet should reach low health you can trick the boss by taking distance, dismissing your pet and instantly call it back again (full health) and hit Feign Death.

My pet died once during our try, because I the spikes where blocking the LoS for Mend Pet.

Happy mount farming!

Comentario de Teiwazgod

Druid tank 370
I soloed him him no pot and no extra healing with jumping cat form for Nuturing In stincts.

I started the fight with no cool downs Piel de corteza etc he flies up at 98% so it is not worth it.
If I took any dmg i would cast would recover any lost of health and I would cast right as coming to me I would cast Flor de vida
then i wait a bit cast Piel de corteza while moving slowly in a big circle to avoid the puddles
Wait a bit till most of the stalagmite are gone and have clear path to move Cast Instintos de supervivencia and then cast Rabia ( I have ) then .

While he in the Air
Cast 3-4x would recover any lost of health and I would cast right as coming to me I would cast Flor de vida
Next round CD for Piel de corteza will be up cast it now depending on your health perty stay away from the boss lower dmg I take and have Regeneración frenética

I just rinse and repeat.

Comentario de 534473

Soloable as a warrior. Initially I tried as fury with a full soloing build, and managed to kill it with 10% health left with significant difficulty (you need all the soloing buffs such as scrolls/flasks/pots/bandages and a lot of DPS). However, I went back as prot with a better method:

In the hall just before slabhide, there are various packs of mini-rock borers (tiny adds with very low health). Do NOT kill these. Instead, clear the trash near them, pull them with demo shout, and head straight to the boss. After that it's pretty straight forward - single target the boss down, and when you have no other options for self healing, use improved revenge to kill an add and get victory rush.

Comentario de Drudan

Soloable as an enhancement shaman (ilvl 375 at the moment).

Subspec into resto for Spark of Life and Focused Insight. Put Earthliving on your offhand (it may be possible with Flametongue but I found the increased survivability from EL crucial). Make sure you have Reistance Totem/Glyphed Healing Stream down to reduce the breath damage.

Don't pop your wolves right off the bat because he goes into air phase rather quickly. Pop them after he lands. Dodge lava pools and spikes of course. Bloodlust when you need more heals. Make liberal use of Shamanistic Rage and Stoneclaw shields. Bring health pots just in case. Air Phase is a great time to bandage or stand underneath and jump up to dps him to get MW charges.

Comentario de chrop

For Everyone who wants Mount

If your in a group with 5 People, seeing the mount drop is 1%, so actually obtaining the mount is 0.2% So This is the Percentage of obtaining the mount
50 kills - 9.5% 1 in 10 people will get this mount after 50 kills
100 kills - 18.1% 1 in 5 people will get this mount after 100 kills
250 kills - 39.4% 2 in 5 people will get this mount after 250 kills
500 kills - 63.2% 3 in 5 people will get this mount after 500 kills
750 kills - 79.8% 4 in 5 people will get this mount after 750 kills
1250 kills - 91.8% 9 in 10 people will get this mount after 1250 kills
2000 kills - 98.2% 49 in 50 people will get this mount after 2000 kills
3450 kills - 99.9% 999 in 1000 People will get this mount after 3450 Kills
This means that after killing Slabhide after 3450, there is a 1 in 1000 chance you will not get this mount
If you want the percentage of it DROPPING , then divide the kills by 5, So after 10 Kills, there is a 9.5% of it dropping

For the people who are confused saying "no, if you kill it 10000 times its only 1% of it dropping" Think about this, i flip a coin 10000 Times, after 10000 times of flipping it, is it a 50% chance that a Heads will be seen once, or almost Completely certain that you would see it at least once.

Comentario de 864326

I attempted to solo slabhide as an Arcane Mage tonight for the mount and found that I was unable to do it. I took Milhouse out and invised through the trash, then skipped Corborus and the adds that followed. When I started on Slabhide I blew all my CDs and had my mirrors tank him, also had a long period of damage while Slabhide was in the air. I was only able to get him to about 50% before he was attacking me and no CDs were available.

I'm ilvl 370, so perhaps a better geared mage specced to solo content may be able to do better, but I doubt it. Hope this helps!

Comentario de NelleRavencrest

Slabhide have been bugged as hunter since 4.3 - If you just let your pet tank normally he will evade after he comes down from the air. Way to fix this is to just have your pet on passive and move it away from the middle while he is in the air, he will then properly attack it when he lands without evading.

Comentario de 883127

Solo...Not that easy...Boss fight easy. The mobs are a pain...couldn't solo cos I'm Rouge but drop rate of 0.8% is low, so try running it about 120 times then U might be lucky. All U who got it sooner...Well done to you.

Comentario de Diodor

I finally decided to give it a try as a prot pally in 396 gear (with deathwing sword for healing). I didnt drop a single time below 90% hp. Time to do some farming, whole run took about 20 min, i recon it can be done faster with invisibility pot to skip trash before Slab.

Ok after 10 kills I managed to drop my kill time to 9min30sec using inv pot for giant trash and using tank spec with full ret gear and str flask. I used seal of truth and lay of handed myself once on Slabhide but anyway its quite duable to clear the instance 5 times before the lockout :)

Comentario de 836960

Soloable as an ilvl 396 arcane mage. Inspiration gotten from this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fotADBFhng4

Comentario de 153653

I might get downrated but I still have to ask you Mages out there:

Any Mage that have a "how to solo" guide for this boss? I would be very thankful and happy if someone could do that. If it is possible.

Tactic? Spec? Pots / buffs? Anything Will do, thanks!

Comentario de Anieyu

Been soloing up to Slabhide in normal as a ilv367 Beast Mastery Hunter. I use a Spirit Beast for the mobs and healing and a Turtle for Slabhide. I just camo past Corborus and the mobs after. I can say that I haven't had a single issue with Slabhide evading my pet after the flying phase and I don't put him on passive during.

Comentario de 411790

Been soloing in him on normal for the past few days as Bear. I was going in 10 times each day, resetting after each attempt, and got the Reins of the Vitreous Stone Drake on the 33rd run!

I skipped the flayers and did Millhouse's 3 little rampages then completely skipped Corborus, stealthing past the Giants and Flayers. He was easy to solo and well worth it! I did have to use Dense Embersilk Bandages during some of the flight phases but if I had enough health I'd bash him around during that phase to work down his health.

Again, this was just set on normal so simply reset and farm away. Good luck!

Comentario de 909363

Normal mode is soloable by Frost DK. Though currently I have 399 lev, the trick here is NOT to start with the Army. I tried that 2 times and both times I wiped at around 9% left. Instead use the Army and Ghoul on the 1st Air Phase. Cleared easily without any trouble.

Comentario de Rynna

Soloed him as a blood dk 377 item lvl on heroic mode. It was difficult and I had to stay on my feet the whole entire time. Things to be alert for include..

-The lava fissure's initial burst and aoe effect
-To not stand in the shadow where the stalactites drop
-Line of Sighting Slabhide when he uses his Crystal Storm, by hiding behind the stalactites that have dropped
-When Slabhide is done with his air /stalactite dropping phase he will use sand blast which will do about 40k, as a dk I used anti magic shell right before the end of the phase,to avoid the heavy damage this caused

Overall pretty hard fight, I was focused on the location of my character the whole time. Slabhide didn't seem to be much of a melee fighter, he took down most of my hp with his magic abilities. I think that I had close to the bare minimum requirements for soloing him on heroic.

Comentario de 639556

This is soloable by combat rogues in Dragon Soul gear, though it's something of a luck-based fight. Make sure you're using this talent and glyph setup.

FIrst, you've got to handle the trash. Start by sapping one mob in the first pack(Earthshapers are a good choice), bursting down Millhouse until he runs away, and vanish. Stealth your way to the third trashpack, killing the rock borers on the way. Here, sap the Warbringer and blind a berserker. You should be able to burn down the Earthshaper, interrupting and stunning as needed, while dodgetanking the other berserker. Once they are dead, kill the second berserker, then the Warbringer.
Your Vanish should be off cooldown now, so go to the second trashpack, burn down Millhouse until he runs and vanish again. At this point, we can stealth past everything to Slabhide himself.

The fight itself: Open on Slabhide, get SnD running and build up a 5-point Recuperate as soon as possible. Save your cooldowns. Try to move the boss to the centre of the room so he doesn't move away for the airphase. As soon as he lifts off, pop Killing Spree, then Adrenaline Rush and pound away. When he lands, pop Evasion and dodgetank. When that wears off, use Combat Readiness and make sure Recuperate doesn't drop off. There will be a lot of incoming damage once CR wears off, so have Rogue's Draught ready. Your aim is to survive to the second airphase. When he takes off again, use a bandage and then go for the kill. Killing Spree should be up again, so make sure you use it.

Tips and Ideas: I can do the fight with no consumables other than a health potion and a bandage, but this relies on both dodging and Slabhide not getting a string of crits, and isn't a guaranteed kill every pull. Flasks will help a lot, as will a foodbuff. It may be possible to reduce the Sand Blast damage using Feint. As this is not a heroic boss, another way to improve survival (I hadn't done this) is to reforge some of your hit and expertise ratings into dodge - your dodge chance is the only thing between you and death for most of this fight.

Comentario de 771598

Soloable as a 392ilvl demo lock, make sure to use your voidwalker and be careful on your threat, apart from that fairly easy, it's the trash before that gets me!

Comentario de noobisafroob

Easy solo able as a 378 ilvl protection paladin.
buffs:
Blessing of Might
Food
Elixer of the Master
Seal of Insight
Protection Aura

How i do the trash:
Place an skull on the berserkers than nuke millhouse till the earthshapers transform, kill the transformed earthshapers, nuke millhouse till 50% than kill the berserker(s), than kill the rest.
While youre fighting, use Word of Glory everytime its off CD, and use shield of the righteous everytime u have 3 HP and WoG is on CD.
do this for all 3 the trash group with millhouse.
now for the first boss, hug the wall on the left, and you will be able to skip him.
for this part, try to avoid the giants, but i find myself always have to kill 2 of them every run. it takes about 1-2 minutes to down one, so it really slows you down.
if you get in combat with them, just jump halfway while hes casting quake and when he spawns crystals use hammer of the righteous on them, = instant kill for me, else use Avenger's shield on them.

Slabhide himself!
Okay, notice that its easy to solo him, as long as youre very much moving
any form of lagg at the wrong moment can mean a death, since the lava pools do 3-5k per tick, and about 2ticks per second, and if u got 3 seconds lagg, you got 18-30k extra unneeded damage in your face.
But when he spawns a lava pool, about 3-4 seconds before that, you see a little crack in the ground, and some dust raising, if you see that, move, and you got no problems with him.
use word of glory everytime avaible
start with wings ASAP, use ardent defender when wings are over
keep ur guardian for when things get hard
when ardent defender is over, use divine protection, followed by holy shield, from now on keep those 2 on cooldown. after 3 minutes fighting, ur wings are of CD, use them again, and followed by ardent defender again
when he is at 20% health, and my guardian is off cooldown, i switch to seal of truth and pop my guardian, when my heal is getting low, i use LoH, and the last 20% is piece of cake!

Comentario de 721719

i got 386 ilvl, BM/MM hunter (was BM at the time) and i thought id give soloing this a go...

the first time doing it killed no prob, no drop tho, then went to reset then died pretty much 10 times for the 2nd and 3rd go, 4th time i changed my pet, from Skoll to Terrorpene

pretty much stayed above 30% of its health with no panic of dying..
then i screamed
so shocked!
Happy as can be!
IT DROPPED :D

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERDFHGHMDHGUJERHGQUJADFHBUHG!1!

so, solo this as a hunter with my 386 ilvl with my rare pet was a breeze ;)

(can work with any other turtles or tanking pets i guess :P )

time i done this was roughly 4 mins ~

Comentario de Erchamion1

This is easily soloable as a prot paladin, without even needing Seal of Insight. It's easy enough to mow through all the Millhouse mobs, and you can skip Corborus by sticking to the left hand wall. If you're lucky, you can even skip the first stone giant. I used 2 pieces of prot for the T14 set bonus, and the rest of my gear was ret, total iLevel at 400. I also used an exp potion, but there're obvious better alternatives, but even that's just to make things quicker. Slabhide kill takes about 2 minutes. The whole process should take about 12, if you're lazy.
34 solo kills and counting...

Comentario de Sathenia

Really easy to solo as BM/SV Hunter. For the Millhouse trash, just get a max range from Millhouse, nuke him till he flees, feign, camo, go to next group, rinse and repeat. Just camo around Corborus and all the mobs in the tunnel.

For Slabhide, Just let your pet tank, keep Mend Pet up, Misdirect or feign as needed, move out of the magma pools, stay out of the shadows on the ground during the air phase(s), and otherwise just nuke him down. Not a hard boss at all. If doing on Heroic, just pop Mend Pet right before he lands, maybe have your pet Cower, and get behind the stalactites to break LoS till Crystal Storm is over, then continue as normal.

Personally, I used a Spirit Beast (Skoll) for normal and a Shale Spider for Heroic. No consumables, just basic CDs (Rapid Fire, Call of the Wild, Valor Trinket). I also bound Mend Pet and Kill Command into this macro that alternates between casting the two.
#showtooltip
/petattack
/castsequence reset=6 Kill Command, Mend Pet
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
It also tells your pet to attack the target if it isn't already, it won't give one of those annoying 'Spell is not ready yet' messages if you like spamming keys, like I do, and if you wait out the 6 second CD on Kill Command without using Mend, it will let you use Kill again without having to use Mend first.

Good luck, and Happy Farming!

Comentario de 901016

Just solo'd as a shadow priest ilvl402, glyph of dark binding and Power Word: Shield, helped lots, but the only challenge was the mobs, even though they didnt come all too close to killing me, they were harder than the bosses, as the first one was fairly easy and with slabhide just need to follow the tactics and keep the shield and auto heals up and he should be dead.

Comentario de 455792

Just solo'd as a Demonology Warlock ilvl 407. Very easy to solo now with the new talents and abilities. Glyph of Demon Hunting, Glyph of Siphon Life, and Glyph of Demon Training you definitely want to use. Secondly for talents I would use Harvest Life, Shadowfury, Soul Link, and Grimoire of Supremacy.

Killing the trash is easy, just pull them one pack at a time in Dark Aotheosis form. Be careful though wild imps might follow Millhouse and pull extra trash. How I handled the trash was send Voidlord in first and Hand of Guldan at the same time. If you have the Demonic Fury use Aura of Enfeeblement and Fury ward just before you pull. If not please do it when you do build of Demonic Fury and keep them up. After This I just use Demonic Slash, Immolation Aura, and Harvest Life for some good AOE damage. Use Carrion Swarm when off cool down since the knock back is very useful and can interrupt the Earthshaper. Pretty simple and Easy.

Lastly for Slabhide, just a simple tank and spank with the Voidlord and just avoid the damage from the mechanics of the fight.

Hope this helps and good luck on getting another mount to your collection.

Comentario de zennon999

Here's a guide for trash and boss fight for Fire Mages with commentaries... Good luck getting your mount..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fs1bEBK6-0&feature=plcp

Comentario de bleuwolfe

Not that it needs mentioning, but soloing this at level 90 is a joke, especially as a hunter. I've been doing it for awhile (lost track somewhere over 100 kills) but tried it for the first time tonight at level 90. I can't imagine any class would have trouble now. 57 seconds to defeat Slabhide. Still no mount though. :(

As a bonus I discovered you WILL get rep with the panda faction tabard- just for kicks I soloed the entire instance, all bosses including Ozruk and not even half the trash for about 2k rep on normal. I've started killing Corborus (bosses give 330 rep for me) on my runs too just for variety and to delay hitting the instance lockout. By the time the mount drops for me I'll probably be exalted with the Huojin just from doing Slabhide runs...........

Comentario de Ponkana

Did as a level 90 Guardian druid. Ran approximately 2 min 24 sec from the entrance up to Slabhide kill. (record is 21 seconds to kill Slabhide). He does not die when he is on airphase (He'll be on 1 HP till he descends)

No adds needs to be killed if you have skills that drop combat. Such as Night Elf Racial Fusión de las sombras , Hunter Fingir muerte, Mage Invisibilidad, Rogue Esfumarse and some other stuff that you can think of. Speed boosts are great too.

Millhouse needs to be dot'd at start, run till the 3rd pack. Go back for him and dps him to 50%., go past first boss till you reach Slabhide's platform (Pop survivals, speed boosts etc.), use your combat dropping skill/potion. Wait for spawn. Kill. Profit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltMATZzOrb4&feature=youtu.be (Please ignore my chatbox since it's in another language, and the volume adjustment that I did).

Got my mount today 11/7/2012. 199th kill in normal .. (did 3 or 4 times in heroic too)

Comentario de Dust

I was very pleasantly surprised with how unexpectedly easy it is now, as a level 90, to go in Stonecore and down Slabhide.

As an 85, this run was too aggravating and time consuming to justify "farming" it. Now, it's cake.

Comentario de Panflute

I managed to solo this the other day on my level 90 Titans Grip Warrior.
Here is how I did it.
I entered the instance, and killed Slabhide.

Comentario de 1082435

I can confirm that this mount drops on normal mode. I ran this instance 137 times before it dropped last night. I ran it that many times out of spite. The dungeon journal shows the mount in the loot table for both normal and heroic so I continued running even after reading and talking to people that said it didn’t drop on normal. So don’t give up it, might just take a while to see it.

Comentario de booMcfierce

I noticed when soloing El Núcleo Pétreo on normal mode, Pielpétrea did not spawn right away in the area he should have according to the map. Once you enter the cave he will be floating right in front of you, he then flies to the appropriate spot once you walk by him, thus triggering his appearance. Give him about one minute before skipping.

Comentario de 1104086

Some quick facts for those farming this mount:
10% of those trying to farm this mount will have obtained it in 12 runs or less
25% in 33 runs or less
50% in 75 runs or less
75% in 154 runs or less
90% in 255 runs or less

10% WILL NOT have obtained the mount after 255 runs or more.

Assuming each run takes 5 minutes at lvl 90 it takes 6 hours and 15 minutes on average to obtain this mount.

Happy hunting!

Comentario de Eivar

Slabhide was fixed recently, he doesn't disappear before he lands any longer. If you're used to heading to the teleporter to wait for him, he's going to land right on top of you now =P

Still hasn't dropped me a mount yet, tho.

Comentario de SenseiAiakos

Fast tip here ... the first boss you can skip just run right by him and he will de spawn makes it a whole lot faster getting threw the dungeon

Comentario de Chibchub123

For all those going back to solo this for the mount, in most cases you won't save any time by dpsing milhouse to 50% and the running out of the instance to reset on every pack. You CAN do Slabhide runs without killing a single mob other than slabhide... but it does take LONGER.

I'd suggest doing these runs on a good melee like a ret pally or warrior. My ret paladin does normal runs in 2 minutes 13 seconds total and heroic runs only take about 4 minutes 25 seconds. and that's zone in to zone out.

Kill the first 3 groups while getting milhouse to 50% each group, run down towards Milhouse on the left side, when the worm breaks the wall just bypass the first boss completely, run through the tunnels and you will often aggro 2 crystal giants, but you can do it with only 1. I don't see any reason to avoid them as you can kill them while you run, run through the falling rocks as quickly as you can even if you are still dpsing a giant you aggro'd so slabhide will actually spawn. Pop your CDs and let fly, if you can't kill him before he takes off he won't die until he lands, further angering you. Best of luck, I look forward to many more runs of this... Now that I only need 9 more mounts for my Mount Parade.

** Not sure if hotfixed, patched, or what at this point... Milhouse now returns from Group 2 to group 1 if you don't kill group 1. Tested on a rogue: Got Milhouse to 50% in first group, vanished, got him to 50% in second group, vanished, and he ran back to the first group.

If you can drop combat, and stay alive, my suggested tactic would be to run in and dps milhouse to 50% in the first group, then keep running with all the adds on you to the second group where you will need to dps him to 50% again... then run to the third group with your two sets of adds and hit him a couple times (shouldn't heal to full on the third group, but he does on the second) and he'll run to his final position. Then vanish/invis and run for the cave-in and it'll open.

Comentario de Arcturius1

so far my record to kill slabhide and leave instance(normal mode) is 2mins and 0.5 sec

Comentario de 1211845

Third Run, Normal

18/01/2014, Can hardly believe my eyes! Happened to me with the blue proto drake as well.

The sense of amazement is overwhelming, it'll come when you least expect it, happy hunting!:D

Comentario de drkangltatos

Just did a solo on him with my Lev 90 Sub Rogue! It's on Normal mode but I wasn't all "decked out" either. Only took me about 2 mins to defeat him.

*HINT* Jump while fighting and he doesn't hit you as much.

Maybe it was just me, but I kept getting him stuck between the pillars and he hit me alot less as well.

Comentario de OhexPaul

Fastest Slabhide solo ever... Flawless.
youtube.com/watch?v=bkWYZ5dEgIM

Comentario de Kaidelair

He is so beautiful, so wonderful. He is magnificent! My precious...

Comentario de disnation

First boss can be skipped

Comentario de 1382294

Farming Reins and Keeping Your Sanity!

You are NOT here to farm the mount! You are here to farm rep!

Go pick up tabards from factions you are friendly with and do the ENTIRE instance. It gives about 2k rep a run, and keeps your mind from losing it every time it doesn't drop. Afterwards, do a quick loop around the temple to check for Aeonaxx, reset, and repeat! Keeps you from waiting on instance/hour caps AND gets you a bunch of other faction mounts along the way!

Comentario de DwarfenDuck

Extreamely easy to farm if you're lvl 90 with decent gear, just join the instance on normal difficulty, Get to the boss and kill him, get out and reset. The whole run took me 3-5 minutes to do on my PvP geared elemental shaman and i did the instance about 150-200 times. Can't get easier than this! :)

Comentario de rogomatic

Don't be disheartened. RNG is RNG. Just keep going in. At lvl 90 with LFR gear I run through the groups with Millhouse to the last one then take the worm guy. I kill the two elementals on my way round. Sometimes I get the mobs on the corner but it is only a few seconds more. Most mobs don't even notice me running past. After killing Slabhide I use the portal just past him back to the entrance. 3-4 minutes tops. I don't have the mount yet but I just run a few when I have a few minutes spare. Good luck peeps :)

Comentario de 1418405

Use your instant level 90 for the opposite faction, buy tabbards and rep grind while you try to get this awesome mount. It will really help towards your mount achievement. Good luck!

Comentario de 758360

I can never use the teleporters! I'm freaking always "IN COMBAT"! I hate running back to the entrance!

Comentario de elixis

305 runs!
Man RNG is RNG..

and i'm done!

Comentario de Sckhar

I'm almost giving up on this mount..

268 attemps so far with no lucky.
No other mount I tried so far took that long, not even the other Cata dungeon mount :V

Comentario de vintagewulf778

finaly got him after two months, im beast mastery, tho had to change my spec to marksmanship to get this mount, after the 5th try on normal tonight he dropped he dropped, he a nice looking mount..