Anzu for everyone!

[Itana]

A couple of weeks ago my druid friend and me decided to run Anzu every day to get us Ravenlord mounts. I got him on my first ever kill of this birdy (still not sure I realize how lucky I am), and have been running it every day after that so my friend could get his as well. Today we ran it for the first time since patch hit, and to our big surprise, Anzu was standing there in this room where he's usually summoned by a druid, with no usual adds around him, all ready to be killed and looted. I supose this means anyone can kill him for the mount now without a druid help, unless it's some sort of weird bug.
Sorry if it's old news, I just didn't see it mentioned anywhere, it was a complete surprise for us.

[Dewclaw]

I just checked it out. Anzu is up. I wonder if that was intentional.

[cowmuflage]

So you don't need a druid now?

[Moonlost]

Gonna have to go check this out. If you're right, this makes my Death knight extremely happy. I've been trying for that mount for him forever, but it's a bit annoying having to swap to my druid to summon then hop back to my DK to kill it.

Fingers crossed he'll get lucky and the mount will drop when I check too. XD

EDIT: And you were right, he's up! I'm wondering if they removed/are removing the epic flightform druid quest, and they're putting him in there to compensate?
(No luck this time, but just knowing I can go do him each day without hassle (for the time being) makes me extremely happy. )

[cowmuflage]

well i can say he is standing in front of me right now lol

[Unggoy]

Hopefully this is intentional, because needing a druid for this kinda sucked, lol.

[Worba]

What would you say your avg iLvl needs to be to solo Anzu (and get to him, obv) in heroic?

[Aleu]

Those Ravenguards still hurt. D: But I was able to get through it with my newly tamed bear. =D No mount though, but not having to clear that room or having to summon makes me happy!

[Vephriel]

Ooh, if he's soloable with a Hunter I might just try farming this more often. Any advice for the encounter? I don't do much 'extreme' soloing. x)

[Victorelle]

*goes and looks*

[cowmuflage]

Vephriel hes soloable even by a Bm noob like me so i think you can do it. His summons are what will more likely kill you. He summons heaps of birds and they can be a pain cos they make him unkillable for like 50 secs

[Moonlost]

Vephriel hes soloable even by a Bm noob like me so i think you can do it. His summons are what will more likely kill you. He summons heaps of birds and they can be a pain cos they make him unkillable for like 50 secs

Hmm, I haven't done it myself on Dura, but I think I have a way to deal around that. First of all, use a Tenaccity pet with thunder stomp. When Anzu fades out and summons his ravens, feign death. Should redirect the birds onto the pet. Once they're all down and the pet has thunderstomped a bit of agro on them, you should be golden.

[cowmuflage]

yeah but i still seemed to pull some off my pet XD

[Moonlost]

yeah but i still seemed to pull some off my pet XD

Hehehe, I can hear that XD
Urg, Ihate the misdirection changes, would be so mcuh easier if we could just give them our threat permanently.

[Gumballs]

Well, I was looking forward to solo'ing him on my hunter, but nope. I can't even get past trash. So it looks like nothing has changed for me. Sigh.

[ummeiko]

Yeah, I did him fine on my paladin but now I'm trying on my priest and it's not going near as well

[Moonlost]

Well, I was looking forward to solo'ing him on my hunter, but nope. I can't even get past trash. So it looks like nothing has changed for me. Sigh.

Hmm. I'm going to go try myself on Dura, see how I do and hope I can help ya. (I think I may stab myself in the foot if the mount turns up. I love the mount... But I want it on my DK or druid, not Dura.)

Typing this as I go though the dungeon XD

Okay, got to the enterance of the dungeon. I'm in my beastmastery spec and I'm using my Turtle Om (level 80 and full of win). Accompaning me is my lucky Lil' XT. I have 27k health, Om has 29.5k.

Let's get this started.

First few mob pulls, no real issues... Then I realise I'm in reg. I swear, go out and change to heroic. First fail of the night, let's hope it's the only one.
In heroic, now. Sloppy pull snags the first two packs of mobs. Asside from some agro issues, Om handles it okay, he popped shell shield once though, had I been more organised he would have been fine. Making sure to keep mend pet on him and to FD often. Side note, I HATE THE NEW MISDIRECT. /rage

Hmm, bit of a tight squeze in the next room between mobs. Advise dismissing pet then summoning again once you get past. If you agro, let the pet take care of it and run to the exit. If you need to kill, take out the controllers first.
Setthek guard mobs at the end of the first room. I sent Om into the corridor beyond uing the move to command, then misdirected them to him. Worked out really well.

Second room, dimissed pet, carefully timed myself though the mobs, summoned him again in the next corridor to take out the two guard mobs I had to agro to get in. Have to be quick, they can do a bit of damage. The owl mob will path into your group, so be prepared to misdirect it to the pet, or FD or switch pet's targets. The guards to an AoE stomp that will hurt you as you don't have room to move, so be quick in killing them.
Skirted past the next 3 mobs in the corridor, pet was fine and didn't agro them. Attacked the guards guarding the next room with no hastle.

Moved past Darkweaver Skith without agroing him. Move around clockwise, make sure you're outside the darker coloured circle and you should be good. On to the dreaded raven guards...
Not too much trouble.. although shell shield did go off. Keep up mend pet and down them quickly, should be fine.

Fourth room. Killed the owls on the ledge to the right and moved up there. Misdirected Multishot does wonders here.
Put Om on passive and MD pulled the cobalt serpent up. Have to be careful with him lest he pull the other arakkoa with him.
Pulled the pack just before the stairs. You can skirt around them if you time it juuust right, but it's not worth it IMO. If there's a contoller in the group, kill him first. I was lucky this time, there wasn't one there.
Another cobalt serpent. Easy enough to take down.
Second lot of Raven guards. I used Intimidate when the second one enraged, made the process much easier.

Last room before Anzu. Killed the owl pack and the cobalt serpent since it pathed toward me just as I finished the owl mobs. I know from experience that you can skip it though.
made my way up the mound in the middle. Be wary of the mobs below, pet could agro them if you choose the wrong time to get up. Owls agroed onto me, pet grabbed agro from them, I put him on passive to get him all the way up th mount. At this close distance, I just lay down a Misdirected Explosive trap.
Walked down and clung to the wall. Again, watch out for the pathing Talon Lord. I used the Move To command to put Om just in Anzu's room and Misdirected the Raven Guards. Was late with the mend pet this time, thank goodness for Shell shield.

Anzu! Made sure Om was fully healed then sent him in. Gave him a bit of time to gain agro before Misdirecting and getting started.
Anzu doesn't hit Om very hard. I kept him at full health easily. The ravens he summons can be a bit of an issue. I Feigned Death when Anzu faded. I noticed that Om didn't seem to agro any of the birds via proximity though. I would recomend putting your pet on passive when Anzu fades, manually hitting Thunderstomp when the come to attack you, put pet back on defensive, FD then MD some multi-shots and maybe an explosive trap. They don't hit too hard... but I can see a mob od them doing some damage to an unprepared hunter.

So yeah, defiately possible to solo as a hunter, so long as you're prepared.
Birdy didn't drop for Dura, thank god.

[cowmuflage]

I may not be the best to follow gear wise i only have the full hunter set you buy with er the eblems below frost at the tourney grounds. Forgot what they were called. But i did die a few times with trash but was fine with the ravengod.

[Worba]

I may not be the best to follow gear wise i only have the full hunter set you buy with er the eblems below frost at the tourney grounds. Forgot what they were called. But i did die a few times with trash but was fine with the ravengod.

You can get your gear level from the stats window now, but yeah it sounds like your gear is about the same as mine.

I'll give it a try... soon as I can get my LC rep up from neutral...

[Bulletdance]

Took me two months soloing Anzu on my druid once a day until I got mine.He was worth it though. Very pretty especially with updated graphics.
A few tips:
You might not have to do first boss. Keep right against the wall as much as possible, I slipped by him on my Hunter on reg to get the owl pet.
He IS soloable for a healer,but it takes a looong time. Just keep out of aggro range and heal the birds.