[Guide] Glory of the Hero as of 3.0.9 (Without exploit methods)

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Please bare with me while I edit this for formating
I have not done an indepth analysis for each and every achievement, i have just explained enough for those who are familiar with the events how to go about completing them.

Yes I understand this is a repost, however the original is out dated and uses exploits, I wouldn’t consider any of these methods used below as exploits, so it is less likely they will be “fixed” or changed in upcoming patches.

Our group consisted of;
DK Tank [Able to solo certain bosses without a healer]
Ret Pally [Strong DPS, able to offtank/heal]
FG/Ember Lock [Strong DPS]
Holy Pally [Geared Healer]
An additional DPS who was online

We only changed the group make up for Less-Rabi where we replaced the Healer for a TG Warrior. (He later respec'd ret and did it replacing the 2nd ret pally)

Was a very geared group and we cleared all the achieves and got out Protos in 2 weeks of starting it.
Most of the methods were taken from another source, mostly from a fellow guildie who has completed it and WoWHead and some we just made up on the spot without any knowledge of it floating around on the internet.


Utgarde Keep:

On The Rocks:
Defeat Prince Keleseth in Utgarde Keep on Heroic Difficulty without shattering any Frost Tombs.

Have everyone equip their PvP trinkets (If they are not human)
Paladins can bubble out;
Mages can Iceblock out;
Can be resisted (Rogues CoS) Frost Aura Helps.
Others will have to trinket out.

Nuked the boss, very simple and easy to get.


The Nexus:

Split Personality:
Defeat Grand Magus Telestra in The Nexus on Heroic Difficulty after having killed her images within 5 seconds of each other during both splits.

She will split into 3 images TWICE throughout the entire fight.
Very simple if you have any AoE classes, just AoE them down to roughly ~30% then focus on any that are above, then burn them down. Simple

Chaos Theory:
Defeat Anomalus in The Nexus on Heroic Difficulty without destroying any Chaotic Rifts.

Range DPS and Healer are to be positioned down on the ground where the trash non-elites where killed.
The tank aggros and drags the boss to the edge of the plateau within range for the DPS and tank. Melee DPS will obviously stand where the boss will be positioned after the pull. When the boss summons his rift melee DPS jump down to the range group. The tank will be healed through the immunity phase and is not to AoE (agro adds). The adds will then agro onto the healer and walk all the way around the plateau. DPS can either AoE or FF the adds as they come down the ramp. After phase 1 we had our melee (Ret Pally) off heal with the casters for when the next group of adds spawn he will tank them away from the main healer. (Other melee classes like rogues etc can run back up to the boss so no DPS is wasted)

Intense Cold
Defeat Keristrasza in The Nexus on Heroic Difficulty without allowing Intense Cold to reach more than two stacks.

A very easy achievement with the correct classes/races
We used 2 pallys make this trivial.
Pallys can bubble out
Mages can Iceblock out
Can be resisted
Humans can racial out

Have a class that can dispell (Paladins) and just create a rotation, eg. First Nova, pallys bubble, humans trinket, everyone else will get dispelled by pallys.
Casters just keep strafing after a cast, Melee can constantly move without loosing DPS.


Azjol-Nerub:

Watch Him Die:
Defeat Krik'thir the Gatewatcher in Azjol-Nerub on Heroic Difficulty while Watcher Gashra, Watcher Narjil and Watcher Silthik are still alive.

Sounds hard right? Wrong.
You need a scapegoat, the best class is a pally.
If you have a tank that can take this boss and heal himself (DK are great for this) you can use your holy pally to do this. Before you even consider pulling anything stop. Have everyone but the scapegoat stand out of range, so you wont get in combat. You will have your pally run in bubble agro the 3 groups, and run to the instance exit (Don’t zone or you wont earn the achievement.)
The remaining 4; 3 DPS 1 Tank is our situation just burns the boss. His hits are trivial and can easily be bursted down.
Have the pally kiting LoH himself half way so he doesn’t die.
Shadow Aura is great for this.

Hadronox Denied:
Defeat Hadronox in Azjol-Nerub on Heroic Difficulty before he webs the top doors and prevents more creatures from spawning.

Aggro the first group of mobs, burn these fast! We aggroed all 3 groups and AoE’d them, after that run down to Hadronox, **NO AoE FORM THIS POINT**. Just FF Hadronox, have the tank agro him and he will die very fast, also note you will die after this.

Gotta Go!:
Defeat Anub'arak in Azjol-Nerub on Heroic Difficulty in 2 minutes or less.

Tooltip says 2mins, the actual achievement has been extended to 4mins.
DPS Race, very easy.


Ahn'Kahet: The Old Kingdom:

The Party's Over
Defeat Prince Taldaram in Ahn'kahet on Heroic Difficulty with less than 5 people.

Pretty simple fight, the tooltip gives you all the info.

Volazj's Quick Demise
Defeat Herald Volazj in Ahn'kahet on Heroic Difficulty in 2 minutes or less.

The key to this is 2 Pallys;
Burn the boss, when he starts casting Insanity have 1 pally (Pally A) DI the other (Pally B), means only 2 adds per person. Have the DI’d pally (Pally B) remove the buff and rez the other (Pally A).
Burn him again to 33% Have Pally B DI Pally A, repeat the above.

Did this in under a minute using this method.

Respect Your Elders:
Defeat Elder Nadox in Ahn'kahet on Heroic Difficulty without killing any Ahn'kahar Guardians.

You’ll need;
A DK tank that can take the bosses hits and heal through it
An offtank Ret pally works well
Solid DPS

Have the DPS wait in the previous room at the bottom of the stairs, the OT and healer will sit in the bosses room with the MT. The MT will pull the boss out of the room and to the other DPS waiting at the stairs, Burn the boss.
The OT and healer will take the adds that make the boss and other adds immune and keep them in the bosses spawn room.

Note: Do not kite the boss up past the stairs or he will 1 shot the group.

Volunteer Work:
Defeat Jedoga Shadowseeker in Ahn'kahet on Heroic Difficulty without killing any Twilight Volunteers.

Easy, get a geared tank.


Drak'Tharon Keep:

Consumption Junction:
Defeat Trollgore in Drak'Tharon Keep on Heroic Difficulty before Consume reaches ten stacks.

Have 1 melee dps run up the stairs when the tank pulls, he will stop and kill all adds that spawn.
Have the tank pull him to the left side of the stairs, keeping in range of the healer and DPS, the DPS will stack on the opposite side of the stairs and strafe in and out of LoS.
Have your DPS stay hidden during the pull, wait for the first consume (Just to be safe, if your group if confident then by all means dps during the pull, we did) The boss casts consume every 15sec so have your dps time 10sec and strafe back out of LoS.
Repeat.

Better Off Dred:
Engage King Dred in Drak'Tharon Keep on Heroic Difficulty and slay 6 Drakkari Gutrippers or Drakkari Scytheclaw during his defeat.

Kill 1 add in the pen and agro the boss. Pull him throughout the pen into other raptors, 1 at a time is easy, either have ur MT pull the raptors and tank them, Burst them down. There are a total of 7 raptors, you only need 5 so just count out on vent when you have them and kill the boss.

Oh Novos!
Defeat Novos the Summoner in Drak'Tharon Keep on Heroic Difficulty without allowing any undead minions to reach the floor.

Not hard, dps them as they spawn.


The Violet Hold:

Defenseless:
Defeat Cyanigosa in The Violet Hold without using Defense Control Crystals and with Prison Seal Integrity at 100% while in Heroic Difficulty.

Shouldn’t have a problem with this one, basically don’t stuff up and don’t click the little crystals.

Lockdown!:
Defeat Xevozz, Lavanthor, Ichoron, Zuramat the Obliterator, Erekem, and Moragg in The Violet Hold on Heroic Difficulty.
Luck of the draw

Dehydration:
Defeat Ichoron in the Violet Hold on Heroic Difficulty without allowing any Ichor Globules to merge.

Engage the boss assign 1 person to the Control Crystals, when he splits pop the crystal, 6sec afterwards all the adds will die, repeat this for the 3 splits.
There are 3 crystals, learn the locations before the boss.

A Void Dance:
Defeat Zuramat the Obliterator in The Violet Hold without killing any void sentries.

No AoE and just burst him down, did it with a semi geared pug.


Gundrak:

What the Eck?:
Defeat Gal'darah in Gundrak on Heroic Difficulty while under the effects of Eck Residue.

A decent healer is all that is needed here.

Share The Love
Defeat Gal'darah in Gundrak on Heroic Difficulty and have 5 unique party members get impaled throughout the fight.

For this fight you need an OT and a geared healer, we used a Void Walker to OT.
The Lock MT and Healer all engage the boss, the lock tanks it with VW and healthfunnel spamming.
Have the healer and lock stack, have the MT stand between the Healer/lock and the void have the other 2 dps wait at the entrance.
When the MT is impaled swap out the void tank and have either the lock or healer impaled.
The other 2 DPS are not to enter until all 3 have be impaled, after that they can enter the lock can move back to the entrance, after being impaled and you are not a MT/Healer move to the entrance so everyone can be impaled.

Less-rabi:
Defeat Moorabi in Gundrak on Heroic Difficulty while preventing him from transforming into a mammoth at any point during the encounter.

You will need:
A tank that can do it without a healer
2 Short 10sec interrupts MINIMUM
We used a Pally/DK/TG War/FG Lock/Mage
Infact we did it twice for each of the ret pallys, 2nd group replaced the war with another DK.

That’s 4 interrupts.
We have the rotation
Ret Pally > TG War > Mage > TGwar/DK
We only got 3 casts since each DPS was over 3k.
100% - 60% we only got 1 cast.
60% - 30% another
30% - 10% the last

Snakes. Why'd It Have To Be Snakes?:
Defeat Slad'ran in Gundrak on Heroic Difficulty without getting snake wrapped.

Thanks to Cryde1509 and Marzx;
1. pull the boss to the top of the stairs where the entrance to gundrak is, having a hunter put a frost trap at the bottom of the stair and nuke the boss, if snakes get close have a dk use aoe freeze,
2. Just assign one for AOE here, wich ( For example Mage ) Spams 2-3 Novas every ~5-10 secs ( everytime the snakes arrive ).
Pretty easy did it with a rnd grp without even having any knowledge about that achievement!


Halls of Stone:

Good Grief:
Defeat the Maiden of Grief in the Halls of Stone on Heroic Difficulty in 1 minute or less.

DPS DPS and, DPS.
We used a healer here since he was online and needed it.
Have your dps that cant break the stun to stand in the black void to take damage. And burst away.

Brann Spankin' New:
Defeat the Tribunal of Ages encounter in the Halls of Stone on Heroic Difficulty without allowing Brann Bronzebeard to take any damage.

Put your healer in the middle of the room, and have the group stack on the stairs, very long and boring achievement but it is easy none the less.

Abuse the Ooze:
Defeat Sjonnir the Ironshaper in the Halls of Stone on Heroic Difficulty and kill 5 Iron Sludges during the encounter.

From 100% - 50% have all dps nuke the adds.
DPS the boss down to about 30% (He stops spawning oozes at 25%) have 1 person stand on the left spawn and one on the right (DPS) have ONLY 1 side kill all adds, and have the other control the flow of adds.
This will let you control how many Iron Sludges spawn, don’t let more than 2 spawn due to the heave aoe damage.
After you kill 5 drop the boss.



Halls of Lightning:

Timely Death:
Defeat Loken in the Halls of Lightning on Heroic Difficulty in 2 minutes or less.

Stack on the tank, DPS.
Decent geared group with above 18k HP each can take the hits and be healed through the nova.

Lightning Struck:
Defeat General Bjarngrim in the Halls of Lightning on Heroic Difficulty while he has a Temporary Electrical Charge.

Engage him while he has the big thundering glow, kill the adds, kill the boss.

Shatter Resistant:
Defeat Volkhan in the Halls of Lightning on Heroic Difficulty without allowing him to shatter more than 4 Brittle Golems.

Nuke the boss hard, ignore the shatters, very easy to get
If your DPS is low, kill the adds.


The Culling of Stratholme:

The Culling of Time:
Defeat the Infinite Corruptor in The Culling of Stratholme on Heroic Difficulty.

Strong DPS and a very quick Tank make this a push over, just race to each check point, after clearing the third boss (if you’re geared) have the tank aoe half the alley and aoe down everything, move on to the other half and finish it off.

Zombiefest!:
Kill 100 Risen Zombies in 1 minute in The Culling of Stratholme on Heroic Difficulty.

Firstly you have to kill the first boss, don’t worry about the zombies at the moment.
Once you engage the 2nd boss pull him all the way into the room below the third boss, do not kill him, wait 5-10mins for all the zombies to have spawned out side in the streets.
Now you can kill him, the reason we leave him up is because zombies stop spawning after he dies.
Go clear the 3rd boss now.

Split your group into 2, Tank and Healer are group A and the 3 DPS are group B
Have group A, run back to the streets where the 1st and 2nd boss spawn and agro ALL the zombies, turn all damaging effects off like ret aura etc.
Once group A has all the zombies, have group B run past the 3rd boss and start the event, now communicate with each other, have group A drop the 83 zombies and have group B AoE/burn the remainder on the other side.
There is no range limit on this so it is very simple.


Utgarde Pinnacle:

The Incredible Hulk:
Force Svala Sorrowgrave to kill a Scourge Hulk on Heroic Difficulty in Utgarde Pinnacle.

Have an OT pref a ret pally tank a scourge hulk, DO NOT DOT IT.
Have dps drop him to about 20%, there the OT can drop him to below 9000hp.
After the ritual has been broken u can drag the Hulk onto the pedestal and have the sword strike him, it leaves a dot that will kill him if he is below 9000hp.
Make sure he is below 9000hp, the sword has to deal the killing blow as far as I know.

Lodi Dodi We Loves the Skadi
Defeat Skadi the Ruthless in Utgarde Pinnacle on Heroic Difficulty within 3 minutes of starting the gauntlet event.

My Girl Loves to Skadi All the Time
Defeat Skadi the Ruthless in Utgarde Pinnacle on Heroic Difficulty after having killed Grauf from 100% to dead in a single pass.

These 2 are easily linked.

First start the gauntlet event, don’t move from where you start it, have 2 designated people grab the harpoons from the mobs, once they have 5 combined (getting 6 is a safer method) run back inside and reset the event, run out past skadi’s spawn point all the way down to the harpoon guns.
When he respawns have someone start it, have the tank pick up all the adds that will spawn, when skadi is in range, have the 2 ppl shoot the 5 harpoons.

Achieve #1 done

DPS him down

Achieve #2 done

King's Bane:
Defeat King Ymiron in Utgarde Pinnacle on Heroic Difficulty without anyone in the party triggering Bane.

Treat it as a DPS race and you will have no problem, however if you are lacking the gear/dps;
Every 20% the boss moves to a boat and after that within 20sec he will cast bane. He will also cast bane after engaging him. Either have a lock’s felhunter (ON PASSIVE) despell the buff or everyone hits esc and drops target. Note some dots trigger bane like druids lacerate.


The Occulus:

Experienced Drake Rider:
On three different visits to The Oculus, get credit for defeating Ley-Guardian Eregos while riding an Amber, Emerald, and Ruby drake on Heroic Difficulty.

Pretty self explanatory.
You have to be alive to get credit

Make It Count:
Defeat Ley-Guardian Eregos in The Oculus on Heroic Difficulty within 20 minutes of Drakos the Interrogator's death.

Mark a leader (Usually a tank)
Use 2 Ruby 2 Amber 1 Emerald (It is the best group for this achievement as it makes it just that much easier)
You will want to be chain pulling the Construct groups, AoE them down is usually the best method (Our group has done this particular achievement 3times helping others and we have completed it with 3mins to spare.)
Engage the bosses as fast as possible, avoiding the adds in the air, usually you’ll pull 1 or 2 extras but it is no biggie if your dps on the ground is solid.
Engage and kill Eregos.
If someone happens to die, it is not the end of the word, keep pulling and either have 1 person sit back and rez or have them run back and meet back up with the group. (Deaths do slow down this achievement and its best to avoid them at all costs)

Ruby Void:
Defeat Ley-Guardian Eregos in The Oculus on Heroic Difficulty without anyone in your party using a Ruby Drake.

The hardest of all voids, 2 options;
Option 1; 5 Amber (The hardest)
Assign 1 person as “Tank” they will be the ones channeling to start with, then have the other 4 DPS, spam 1 (bolt) once the Tank has build 10 charges the 4 DPS start to channel (2) and the Tank shoots 1 bolt doing 400% damage +10charges.
Repeat this.
Time stop rotation, you want to timestop AS you engage him, another before the whelps, 1 as he spawns whelps. By then hed be phased out, DPS the whelps with the bolts.
Time stop as soon as he leaves his phase, DPS rotation again.
Time stop on enrage, then time stop as required, if done perfectly you will have dropped him before 2nd phase.

Option 2; 4 Amber 1 Emerald.
As above however you will have 3 DPS and 1 “Tank” and the healer makes it that much easier.

Amber Void:
Defeat Ley-Guardian Eregos in The Oculus on Heroic Difficulty without anyone in your party using an Amber Drake.

3 Ruby 2 Emerald
Assign someone to “tank” who will constantly be using maytr, heal as required.

Emerald Void:
Defeat Ley-Guardian Eregos in The Oculus on Heroic Difficulty without anyone in your party using an Emerald Drake.

4 Amber 1 Ruby
Same as Ruby void but with no adds. Have the ruby drake keep maytr and evasion up 100% of the time.

[Viiper]

Great post +Rep

[Swing]

very helpful, thanks!

[Cryde]

Snakes. Why'd It Have To Be Snakes?:

- Just assign one for AOE here, wich ( For example Mage ) Spams 2-3 Novas every ~5-10 secs ( everytime the snakes arrive ).
Pretty easy did it with a rnd grp without even having any knowledge about that achievement!

[Dastin]

Nice guide. I learned a thing or two. +Rep

[Shykon]

id like to contribute to the snakes achieve here.

pull the boss to the top of the stairs where the entrance to gundrak is, having a hunter put a frost trap at the bottom of the stair and nuke the boss, if snakes get close have a dk use aoe freeze,

[Hsk]

This is a great guide, and well organised. +Rep'd

[sid1488]

2 words: WOW! GREAT!

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Thanks for the positive feed back, I have updated the OP with the suggestions from Cryde1509 and Marzx.

Any questions just either post here or drop me a PM and ill update the OP with a solution/answer.

Cheers