Easier Attumen the Huntsman

[DeathComesForU]

If this is a repost, apologies. I searched for Karazhan, Attumen, Huntsmen, Kara, and found nothing.


Easier/Faster Attumen the Huntsman solo kills


Yo:wave:

While soloing Attumen the Huntsman today on my Druid, I hit him with Faerie Fire (Feral) right after he jumped on Midnight (his horse).
When he became active after that and attacked me, instead of being full health (264k) he was at 132k!

Now this is not a MAJOR exploit, but it does help in making your solo Attumen kills much faster.


tl;dr:

1) Fight Attumen until he jumps on Midnight
2) Use Faerie Fire (Feral) on him IMMEDIATELY after he jumps
3) Instead of being full HP, he will be at around 50%
4) Profit.


Thanks for viewing, good luck in farming your mounts.

Ps. If anyone can test if it works with other classes and spells it would be good- I do not have any other classes that can successfully solo clear the trash or do the boss.

[Frito]

Phase Three begins when either Attumen or Midnight is brought down to 25% health. It ends when Attumen dies.

Attumen mounts Midnight and the two of them fight as a single opponent. If Midnight has more health than Attumen, Attumen's health percentage goes up to Midnight's. Attumen gains the Berserker Charge ability, and continues using his Shadow Cleave and Intangible Presence abilities.

Taken from Wowwikki, so i assume if midnight doesnt have more hp than attunmen, attunemens health will not go up which is what you experienced.

[kaustos]

There's a pretty easy way to totally cheese this fight. Bring Midnight to ~97% and throw some dots on him, then use run speed potions or sprint away and begin kiting him until 95%. Attumen is not linked to midnight and if you are outside of aggro range (which is very small at 80) he will just stand there out of combat when he appears while you bring the horse to 25%.
At 25%, they will combine as normal except Attumen will not automatically aggro- you get as much time as you want to regain cooldowns, mana up and heal before you pull him again already in phase3.

So, you get only Midnight in ph2 and a fresh start from OoC at ph3. Easymode.

[403Forbidden]

There's a pretty easy way to totally cheese this fight. Bring Midnight to ~97% and throw some dots on him, then use run speed potions or sprint away and begin kiting him until 95%. Attumen is not linked to midnight and if you are outside of aggro range (which is very small at 80) he will just stand there out of combat when he appears while you bring the horse to 25%.
At 25%, they will combine as normal except Attumen will not automatically aggro- you get as much time as you want to regain cooldowns, mana up and heal before you pull him again already in phase3.

So, you get only Midnight in ph2 and a fresh start from OoC at ph3. Easymode.

This, although correct, however has no relevance at all to the original post.

Back at OP: Are you sure you didnt bring down Midnight low as well? seeing how you are a druid, perhaps you swipe-spammed so when one of the two got low, and jumped on horse, the other was low as well, thus making the phase3 hp lower than 100%

[Moroar]

btw, just so you all know, using the dk's spell DRW before he mounts his horse will cause him to despawn

[BlodyWarior]

This, although correct, however has no relevance at all to the original post.

how come no relevance? topic title clearly states "Easier Attumen the Huntsman" this is just another way of makin this fight easier

[DeathComesForU]

I'll try and just nuke one next time I solo it.

[niguz]

+2 rep @kaustos

[Lexodia]

attumen when combining with his horse gets the highest hp of either, and a bit more
that said, whenever i do it i just bring both to 30% so attumen on his horse will be at around 35%
what happened here is probably your cleave bringing down attumen while you were nuking midnight - and the above occured