There have been quite a number of suggestions where I should try to solo High King Maulgar and Gruul in Gruul’s Lair, Blades Edge Mountains. Yes, I am aware it has been done before and it is not the biggest challenge, but it isn’t super easy either. I think I tried last winter but failed and did not have much motivation to develop a strategy for it, when there were so many more interesting encounters to do
Current gear level makes this encounter rather easy though.
The adds have roughly 250k hp, and hit for less than the average level 85 mob, but the amount of mobs and their abilities can still make this fight a little challenge. Basically the encounter features a moonkin, a healer, the boss, a warlock + felhunter and a mage.
At first I’d go for the priest “Blindeye the Seer” and interrupt his heal, his heal can heal up quite a chunk of health and thus slow the remaining kills down. As second I’d go for the warlock “Olm the Summoner” and his pet, since he casts a nasty death coil every few seconds.
The third add I’d put to rest is Krosh Firehand, he casts nasty fire balls and has a spellshield which reduced magical damage taken. You used to have a mage tanking him, who had to spellsteal the buff to be able to take the huge hits (they hurt at level 70 when you had like 12k hp). So don’t forget to purge his shield.
The remaining add and Maulgar himself are pretty straightforward and easy. Just kill them, don’t forget to use Tremor Totem to get out of Maulgar’s Fear.
If you look at the video I tried to have Grounding totem up, but with all the casters it is just gone to fast to be useful, you are probably better off using windfury.

Gruul is kind of easy, you can kill him way before his Hurtful Strike becomes a problem and the other major killer ability is his shatter, but with no one else around not even that will become an issue.
Good Luck!
There’s an awful RNG component to this that your video and instructions do not cover. In my own attempts, I’ve gone from being chain feared/poly’d before even the first MW5, to being able to down 3 of them before the first poly. As it stands, I’ve had no success beyond killing 3. I’m sure I’ll get there in the end, but it might be worth mentioning that not everyone has the luck you’ve demonstarted in your video
- make sure you glyph and spec for dps
- when running in have grounding totem up
- kill the healer first
- kill the summoner next
- when you get feared the first time, use tremor totem and afterwards use earth elemental
- you can have fire elemental up
- you can have wolves running in first so they get the initial “aggro”
- but yeah you need burst to get those first 2 down fast
killed it on main and my crap alt enh shaman
I noticed as you were killing this place on ur action bar, number 3 rotates between the pick for flame shock and for unleash elements, how did u do this and what exactly is it doing??
@Codex435
Yeah, it is my Unleash/Flame Shock macro. You can find all my macros here.