Was Grobulus the one with the slime spawning AOE? I beat everything up to that wing, then got stuck on him and thaddius. I was thinking of revisiting it as well...
With the GvG cards, especially Healbot, if you have a decent collection they get a lot easier. Thaddius and 4 horsemen aren't too bad, but still challenging, Priest takes care of them decently enough. The last 2 are a huge pain. Pyroblast helps. The rest I managed to get through pretty quick.
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I can't remember but I was surprised that a standard fatigue mage is enough to beat most of the bosses. Although I do remember that doomsayer cannot be used on the four hoursemen that sucked.
I used a cheap f2p "miracle priest" to beat most the others (obv shadow word pain on four hoursemen was easy with a good mulligan.)
I think about 6 hours. This could probably have been shorter if I had resorted to either netdecking or abusing the obviously broken card that is alextraza. Also fairly sure 4 hours was spent trying to beat sapphiron, the retarded flying lizard.
Sapphiron was the worst. Spent my first hour trying a secret Hunter type, second hour I beat him with a freeze/pyroblast mage. If you have Antonidas(I don't) I bet he could be cheezed...
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. - T. E. Lawrence
I still didn't finish the last wing in naxx on heroic. Kinda didn't feel like it. Maybe I should but you can speed run the wings in a few hours if you read up on strategies. Some wings did only require luck and you could finish it in a few minutes. On day 1 of the release and without knowing what is coming your way it did take a while though.
Pretty fast even with my EU and Asia accounts that have almost no cards.
I made an all basic heroic Sapphiron deck lol. Has like a 40-50% win rate. Kel Thuzad and Grobbulus on heroic with basic /crappy cards are really hard.
Just now I made a GvG deck with a 100% win rate against Patchwerk lol. He was easy to beat already but man this deck. Snowchugger and Jeeves just RECK patchwerk SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hard.
I don't actually remember since I didn't unlock all the wings when they were open. I finished normal Naxx somewhere in September i think. I did heroic one later on, when I got some more cards. Some of them aren't too hard if you tech your decks, tweak them, but most of them will take at least 2 tries to beat. Sapphiron took me at least 30 as I recall, it was the hardest one, no exceptions.
I still have Kel'Thuzad left. It's difficult to estimate how much time it's taken, because I've usually completed just one boss at a time and then moved on to do other things. Sapphiron probably took the most attempts. Over 90% of those were with warrior. Once I switched to hunter, I won on my second attempt.
As for Grobbulus, Gurubashi Berserker is a great card for this encounter. With a priest, you can buff and heal your berserkers to make them very durable.
If anyone needs a pretty awesome deck for Sapphiron that doesn't have any epic or legendary cards... Try this one, the goal of it is to use all the control skills to keep his minions off the board, then when you get the Duplicates, use them when you put out your second Feugen or Stalagg. Then when the freeze wave hits it kills them and summons Thaddius.
Its works great because you make make 5 of them for a total of 55 damage, add any other damage you can scrounge up. Make sure to take advantage of their minions that destroys the minions beside them when killed to make your Control spells as efficient.This deck game me an easy win on my EU account.
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It didn't take me too long, but Grobbulus and Kel'Thuzad were the bane of my existence. Those two encounters took longer than everything else combined. I wasn't in a rush and took my time and experimented with several different types of decks for each encounter.
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It took me several days of play, but I don't have many cards and I don't play more than 1h per day. The problem is that you need to start with your perfect hand with many of the bosses, and that barely happens.
I would imagine that the upcoming new set of Heroic bosses will mostly be as hard as the very trickiest Naxx ones. With GvG, the range of tools available to us is much broader, with some cards eg. Snowchugga being significantly useful.
A few words of advice before the adventure begins :
Treat BRM heroic boss battles as puzzles to solve, rather than ordinary matches. They should be deeply unfair battles if you use your normal ranked decks against them and it should require a finely-tuned bespoke deck to beat them.
With this in mind, even such a deck will struggle to win. It may require several attempts and plenty of tweaking before you finally pull off a win. Embrace this, as it will make that victory all the sweeter!
The real fun comes from the sense of achievement from solving the puzzle. With this in mind, I strongly recommend that players don't use decks which get posted on Hearthpwn or elsewhere and instead come up with their own solutions.
If BRM is anything like Naxx, the uber-powerful heroic bosses will still have the AI of a 5-year old rookie. The power-level of their cards and abilities is monstrous in order to make up for this so you may well need to take advantage of the AI in order to win. An example of this would be heroic Maexxna from Naxx. A great tactic here was to let her flood the board with 7 minions with 1 Attack each and just heal every turn to stay alive using bounced battlecry minions.
Sapphiron was the hardest for me ... the RNG gods were brutal to me on that one.
I spent several days worth of play time to defeat it, but I don't have a lot of the legendaries that were required for some of the "sure-fire" kill decks. A lot of fun trying to figure out substitutions and reworking combos though ...
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With the new adventure coming up, I feel that I should beat Heroic Nax.
I am currently stuck at Grobbulus.
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Was Grobulus the one with the slime spawning AOE? I beat everything up to that wing, then got stuck on him and thaddius. I was thinking of revisiting it as well...
With the GvG cards, especially Healbot, if you have a decent collection they get a lot easier. Thaddius and 4 horsemen aren't too bad, but still challenging, Priest takes care of them decently enough. The last 2 are a huge pain. Pyroblast helps. The rest I managed to get through pretty quick.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. - T. E. Lawrence
I can't remember but I was surprised that a standard fatigue mage is enough to beat most of the bosses. Although I do remember that doomsayer cannot be used on the four hoursemen that sucked.
I used a cheap f2p "miracle priest" to beat most the others (obv shadow word pain on four hoursemen was easy with a good mulligan.)
I have a very decent collection. I think that you really need to get lucky on Heroic to win because I feel that I lost to Grobbulus by being unlucky.
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Sapphiron was the worst. Spent my first hour trying a secret Hunter type, second hour I beat him with a freeze/pyroblast mage. If you have Antonidas(I don't) I bet he could be cheezed...
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. - T. E. Lawrence
Most of the bosses only took a few attempts.
A few took maybe ten.
Sapphiron took dozens and dozens.
I still didn't finish the last wing in naxx on heroic. Kinda didn't feel like it. Maybe I should but you can speed run the wings in a few hours if you read up on strategies. Some wings did only require luck and you could finish it in a few minutes. On day 1 of the release and without knowing what is coming your way it did take a while though.
Pretty fast even with my EU and Asia accounts that have almost no cards.
I made an all basic heroic Sapphiron deck lol. Has like a 40-50% win rate.
Kel Thuzad and Grobbulus on heroic with basic /crappy cards are really hard.
Just now I made a GvG deck with a 100% win rate against Patchwerk lol. He was easy to beat already but man this deck. Snowchugger and Jeeves just RECK patchwerk SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hard.
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Me too
It took about 2 days of the sweetest deck building experience. Love it. I wasn't hurry.
I don't actually remember since I didn't unlock all the wings when they were open. I finished normal Naxx somewhere in September i think. I did heroic one later on, when I got some more cards. Some of them aren't too hard if you tech your decks, tweak them, but most of them will take at least 2 tries to beat. Sapphiron took me at least 30 as I recall, it was the hardest one, no exceptions.
If anyone needs a pretty awesome deck for Sapphiron that doesn't have any epic or legendary cards... Try this one, the goal of it is to use all the control skills to keep his minions off the board, then when you get the Duplicates, use them when you put out your second Feugen or Stalagg. Then when the freeze wave hits it kills them and summons Thaddius.
Its works great because you make make 5 of them for a total of 55 damage, add any other damage you can scrounge up. Make sure to take advantage of their minions that destroys the minions beside them when killed to make your Control spells as efficient.This deck game me an easy win on my EU account.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. - T. E. Lawrence
It didn't take me too long, but Grobbulus and Kel'Thuzad were the bane of my existence. Those two encounters took longer than everything else combined. I wasn't in a rush and took my time and experimented with several different types of decks for each encounter.
"To build or destroy...only you decide which joy." - Last Crack
It took me several days of play, but I don't have many cards and I don't play more than 1h per day. The problem is that you need to start with your perfect hand with many of the bosses, and that barely happens.
I would imagine that the upcoming new set of Heroic bosses will mostly be as hard as the very trickiest Naxx ones. With GvG, the range of tools available to us is much broader, with some cards eg. Snowchugga being significantly useful.
A few words of advice before the adventure begins :
Sapphiron was the hardest for me ... the RNG gods were brutal to me on that one.
I spent several days worth of play time to defeat it, but I don't have a lot of the legendaries that were required for some of the "sure-fire" kill decks. A lot of fun trying to figure out substitutions and reworking combos though ...
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