Wailing and Deadmines on 19

As I already posted, the first bosses of both Wailing Caverns and Deadmines were done by Golmeg on lvl 19. Now I continued the instances. My girlfriend cleared the parts that were done last time and I've continued.

Skum and Lord Serpentis were easy kills. Serpentis hits hard, but DoTs kill him while Health Funnel keeps the voidwalker up. Skum was a bad joke, the void left the battle with half HP without heals.

Mutanus on the other hand is an extremely hard kill. I died 6 times and ran out of the instance 8 times (if you jump down to the "river" and climb out on the other side, you can get away, as Mutanus makes a big circle on the bridge). This nice murlock is:

• Shadow immune: no corruption, CoA, CoW, fear, sbolt
• Chain-cast 15 sec long sleeps
• The sleep is not broken by PvP trinket
• Has a small range AoE fear, so you can't stand by his feet with Arcane Torrent ready
• He hits the void so hard that funnel must be up in 60-75% of the time

Since there is no funnel while asleep, I had to find a way to avoid his sleep spell. The solution: there is a pillar next to the altar of Naralex (on the left of the picture, behind the damage meter). I was casting immolate, kept funnel up and whenever he started casting sleep, ran behind the pillar. There is debris behind the pillar, so it's easy to get stuck. And with no DoTs, my DPS is a joke. So he died very slowly, in 4:20: It was way the hardest kill ever. But hey, for ilvl 26 loot, you must work hard. On the other hand, the repair cost is still managable:

After that, I went to Deadmines. My GF cleared it up to Mr Smite. After some trashpulls came Captain Greenskin with 2 elite adds and a parrot. Not so hard, fear the pirate, DoT the parrot, nuke the caster, after they died, kill the captain and finally the feared pirate.

Edwin vanCleef was a very hard kill. He starts with two elite adds, and summons two more. No way I could handle four adds alone. On the top of that, he hits very hard. I tried to burn him down but it's impossible. After repairs, I read the comments about him on WoWhead. The add summoning is counter-intuitive, it's not time-scripted, nor they walk around and attack as patrol. They spawn at 50% (actually phase-changes at percentages are common in WoW, but still very counter-intuitive to me). So the strat that finally worked:

1. Pull with curse of weakness, sacrifice shield up
   
2. Immediately focus-target one of the add and fear her with focus macro
3. Turn the void from the boss to the other add.
4. Burn that add down, keep the other feared.
5. Turn the void to the remaining add
6. Keep the void up with funnel, kill the add with dots, refresh CoW on vanCleef
   
7. With only corruption on vanCleef, heal the void to full
8. Life-tap until 10% HP
9. Heal yourself with runecloth bandage to full
10. While keeping the void full, DoT vanCleef to 50%
11. When add comes, sacrifice shield up and continue from point 2 of this list
    

Since the comments were contradictory and I didn't want bad surprise with another pair of adds on 25%, I kept Mezzlos topped, so the fight was longer than it could be. Still, at the end I was up and he was down. And hey, my HPS was higher than my DPS! And some call warlock a pure DPS class.


After that I killed the Cook (no adds, no problem), who gave me a much needed new wand.

Deadmines, like most of the old instances have an atmosphere. You can be immersed to their story. It looks like a real pirate hideout and not like a mock setting around a platform for a boss just to get some emblems. I liked it much, just like wailing caverns, RFC and SFK. Goodbye lvl 18-19 scene:

I've leveled to 20 the next day to level engineering, but I did not equip my lvl 20 gear, you see the same gear on Armory that I used in the instances.