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Comment by Eliandor

Nature resists is helpful.

Comment by 3629

You can found the tactics for this slime in http://www.wowwiki.com/Viscidus

Comment by NeoTMS

Viscidus is the 5th boss in the Ahn'Qiraj instance and is optional, which means you can go past his lair and proceed to the rest of the instance without having to fight him. He requires a decent amount of Nature Resistance as well as a considerable amount of mages (you'll understand if you read the tactics).

Comment by kreghx

Level: Boss
Location: Temple of Ahn'Qiraj in Silithus
Type: Not specified

Melees for around 1000 on a NR-geared tank. Hits very fast at first, but progressively slows down.
Takes 50% reduced damage from all attacks.
Poison Shock: AoE Nature attack for ~1200 Nature damage every 10 seconds or so. Posion Shock has a radius of 15 yards, so be very careful to stay away when not trying to shatter him once frozen.
Poison Volley: AoE spell cast every 10 seconds that hits for ~1500 resistable Nature damage on hit and will apply a dispellable DoT that does ~500 Nature damage every 2 second for 10 seconds. Similar to Lord Kri and Princess Huhuran. This volley ignores LoS and has a range of 100 yards, therefore it is very difficult to avoid it. Nature Resist gear can greatly mitigate the direct damage, but the DoT is unresistable and therefore highly lethal. Poison curing must be set up for the raid so that no one is hit by more than one tick of the DoT.
Toxin Clouds: These are spewed out every 30 - 40 seconds. The cloud hits anyone inside it with ~1500 unresistable damage every 2 seconds and slows movement speed by 40%. Similar to Lord Kri's death cloud. A single bolt will predate the Toxin Cloud (it is the only time Viscidus spits on a single target), so move away asap from the landing point of that single bolt. The clouds look fairly small, but their damage radius is larger than their graphic so beware!
The Three Frost Stages: Viscidus must be slowed by Frost attacks in order to defeat him. Frostbolt, Frost Shock, and Frost wands count toward this objective. The strength of the Frost attack doesn't matter, only the number of hits, so use the fastest Frost abilities possible. (Rank 1 Frostbolt and fast Frost wands)

"Viscidus begins to slow." - Movement and attack speed reduced by 15%.
"Viscidus begins to freeze." - Movement and attack speed reduced by 30%.
"Viscidus is frozen solid." - Movement and attacks cease completely. At this point the raid must switch to melee attacks to shatter him.

The Three Melee Stages: Once Viscidus is frozen he must be shattered. This needs to happen very quickly or he will thaw out and continue attacking the raid.

"Viscidus begins to crack." - Continue melee attacks.
"Viscidus looks ready to shatter." - Continue melee attacks.
"Viscidus explodes." - Viscidus shatters into multiple small "Globs of Viscidus" in a circle around the room. These Globs will begin to move towards the center of the room, slow at first, but continuously and steadily gathering speed. Once they reach the center, Viscidus will be reformed.

Globs of Viscidus:

Every time Viscidus is shattered, he splits into 1-20 Globs of Viscidus - each one representing 5% of his total HP. If he is below 5% when shattered, he will die. Each glob takes 10-15k damage to kill.
Globs must be assist trained to death, as DPSing one has no effect unless it is killed. Globs cannot be slowed or stunned so you must DPS fast and hard.

Transition Agro

Viscidus has a nasty tendency to aggro someone right as he reforms and run off after them. Since he is not chilled at all at this point, and he is untauntable, it is very difficult for the MT to catch up and get him back. Unless he is picked up and tanked very quickly, he will likely run around killing healers until the raid wipes. There are various theories as to what makes this happen, but it sometimes seems as mysterious as Onyxia's Deep Breath.
Some people say that DPSing blobs without killing them (especially with AoEs and Multishot) causes transition agro. This seems rather unlikely, as healers get transition agro as often as DPSers.
Some people say that players standing too far away from Viscidus will pull agro. In any case, it is not a good idea to run out of the room too early after a transition; if he agros someone out of the room he will instantly reset to 100%.

Comment by kreghx

Some people say that Viscidus has a limited-radius agro wipe, or an agro wipe on a limited number of the closest players, and that the players standing further away from him should not do any healing or curing for 5 seconds during each transition.

deally, all raid should drink a NR potion 2 minutes before starting, so the cooldown fades. Then, refresh NR potion on every chance. Aim for enough dps to kill your assigned Glob, and then balance stamina with NR equipment. Low stats due to wearing green NR armor may not be the best to stand NR damage. If your raid uses CT_RaidAssist, the raid leader can check the NR resistance, and the number of NR potions on each member. Once you master the encounter, you may try drinking a pot only when you are low on hp.

Beware of the single bolt: it announces the landing point of a toxin cloud, which drains health real fast. There is an addon called Viscidus Raid Warning to whisper people suffering Toxin Cloud.

Viscidus is vulnerable to Frost (spells/abilities and Frost damage), therefore mages are at a premium for this fight. Warlocks equipped with a Frost damage wand (usually 1.5 sec) will be nearly as effective as a mage (1 sec casting on rank 1 frostbolt with improved frostbolt still faces the 1.5 sec universal cooldown).

The raid is required to get as many frost attacks into Viscidus as possible so that he will go through his several emotes and freeze. After he is frozen, a number of melee attacks must be done to shatter him into 20 or so small blobs. The raid must then kill these blobs in order to reduce Viscidus' health.

The triggering for his normal state into frozen seems to be a hitcounter of ~200 Frost based attacks/spells/abilities.

The triggering for him to shatter once frozen seems to be a hitcounter of ~75 (in 1.12) melee hits, regardless of damage. Caster DPS should melee too.

All stages have a 15 second time-limit, so if you fail to reach the next stage after that he reverts to his previous one. Time is of the essence. Once people start dying, the fight goes down hill. Killing Viscidus should take around 4 freezing phases to accomplish. Therefore, longevity is the key along with poison cleansing abilities. Mages and Druids are key to this encounter. Shamans make the fight relatively easier for the Horde. There might be changes in 1.11 or future patches allowing weapons with +X-Y frost damage to count as (part of) the number of attacks needed. This would mean that Hurricane and other weapons would be very useful.

Melee positioning

Most guilds keep their melee players away from Viscidus so that they don't take poison damage. They have to stay at least 100 yards away to avoid damage. This can be accomplished either by standing on the staircase outside Visc's room or by standing inside Visc's room far off to one side. The difficulty with this strat is that meleers will take one or two poison volleys while running in and out, and someone has to be in range to depoison them. However, with proper depoisoning, meleers takes much less damage and may not even need to wear full NR.

The alternative is to have high-NR melee players in melee range of Viscidus, DPSing him at all times. This does a minimal amount of damage to Viscidus, but it does hurt him a bit. The advantage is that, with players moving around less, it is far easier to keep in range of shaman totems (for Horde) and of your Druids for depoison. The tradeoff is that you take more direct Poison damage (which is resistable), but hopefully you take less DoT damage (not resistable). You can also make use of Frost Oil to help freeze Viscidus.

Comment by 102996

For groups running it in TBC and beyond, let it be known you cant kill him unless you shatter him, we had were 15 manning it and had 2 shaman and a mage and after him being at 1% for about 5 minutes we eventually died/reset since he never once shattered. Took forever getting him to there and I would have thought we would get at least one shatter but I geuss you need a whole lot more hits then we were able to put out.

Comment by 253858

Years later, Blizzard still has yet to confirm whether how badass this thing looks is a bug or not.

Comment by 93865

My group has been farming him for four weeks straight now, with a raid comprised of 10-20 level 80 players, a minority of whom had experienced AQ40 at 60.

His melee and poison damage alike are beyond marginal. Prior to downing him with a proper raid, my prot pally and a holy pally were able to bring him to zero health over the course of an hour, but unable to kill him due to insufficient melee attacks.

There is no timer on the freezing effect - however long it takes to deal sufficient frost attacks to freeze him makes absolutely no difference. Nor does the strength of the frost attacks matter; only the number. Absolutely any source of frost damage will trigger the freezing effect, whether a mage's Frostbolt, a hunter's Freezing trap, a shaman's Frost Shock, or a deathknight's Icy Touch. I myself use my old Frostguard to proc the freezing effect.

However, the shattering effect, which must be applied by melee attacks after Viscidus is frozen, is timed, and players have only a very short window in which to shatter him.

We have found it best to have all raid members - including casters and healers - close to melee range and wail on the boss when he freezes. Since most staves have a slow swing speed, we ask our staff users to remove their weapons when engaging the boss. At this point a shaman pops Heroism and all deathknights use Army of the Dead for additional melee attacks. A 15 man raid should easily have enough melee swings to shatter Viscidus.

With few sources of frost damage and level 80 DPS, Viscidus is invariably at zero HP when he is finally shattered. We have never seen him split and merge; he always has died instantly when shattered.

This last week, he dropped the Scarab Brooch.

Comment by Grizlor

Frost wands don't seem to work as of this writing. While slumming through AQ40 for rep, with the only sources of frost damage being me (resto shaman) and a holy priest with a frost wand, Viscidus didn't shatter until hit with exactly 200 frost attacks from me - 75 frost shocks and 125 frostbrand attacks exactly. The holy priest was wanding most of the fight and hit him 408 times.

Comment by nyctric

First defeated by Death & Taxes of Korgath on the 5th of March, 2006.

Comment by 436033

This fight is pretty strange.

Viscidus does little damage. When you get him to 1 health his health stops lowering. Like I said he does little damage, in fact my group was able to hold him for about 10 minutes as I checked how to defeat him :). Anyway, when he gets to one health you must start using frost moves (Mages and Death Knights are important to this fight because they are the only classes that have frost spells). The chat log will display a message saying "Viscidus begins to slow", continue with frost. Next it says "Viscidus is freezing up", continue. Finally it will say "Viscidus is frozen solid!" (You will know this because.... well he will be in a giant frozen block of ice). When this happens stop using frost attacks. Soon more messages will appear. "Viscidus begins to crack" keep going, "Viscidus is ready to shatter", continue, "Viscidus Explodes!" When this happens Viscidus well... explodes. If he is at 1 health he will die, if not he will be seperated into little ozzes which will then reform back into Viscidus and the whole process must be repeated. So in this fight my groups prefer to ignore using frost moves a lot until he is at 1 health.

Comment by 153089

I'm quite surprised no one has bothered to mention this.

This boss is an homage to the old horror/sci-fi film "The Blob", in which a nearly-invincible slime monster from outer space was only weak to freezing temperatures. And fire extinguishers.

Comment by 144063

as a frost dk, my frost dmg does nothing to him as frost damage

Comment by Mylan

Assuming Frost Oil does work on this fight, Dalaran Sword and other white vendor-bought weapons in Dalaran are perfect for the job for those of us who lack frost attacks.

Comment by Albo125

The only mob in the game with the unique "Glowing eyes-spiny blob" model.

Comment by 542090

By the tusks looks like this one was a troll when it became that or a poor troll just got devoured

Comment by Anathelia

Viscidus can be duo'd; an enh shammy and a Surv specced hunter can manage it.

Essentially, the shaman uses dual Frostbrand weapon and frost shocks as the cooldown comes up. Eventually, he will get close to freezing. At this point, you may want to use Windfury on one or both of your weapons, and push him into being frozen using Frost Shock.

Once he freezes, the shaman pops Bloodlust or Heroism, and the Survival hunter pops a snake trap with Improved Traps or Trap Mastery or whatever it's called - the 14 snakes, the hunter's melee (dual wielding, not with a 2h) and the enh shammy's attacks under the haste effect are more than enough melee hits to shatter him. By the time he's ready to freeze, he's usually down to 1 HP anyway.

Healing is very simple, too. Healing Stream totem + chain heals from Maelstrom weapon are enough to keep you both going without any effort, and his poison is a joke at L80.

Comment by 618815

This boss has a pretty unique kill mechanic (the freeze him and shatter to do damage) compared all the other bosses blizzard has come up with.

Comment by Oakenshadow

Just killed him in a full clear run, and if he doesn't get frozen by the time he hits 1 hit point, he still takes damage, but he doesn't die until you freeze then shatter him.

Comment by 767364

I tried doing this with 2 people. Just me and my friend. We didn't know the fight so we had him at 1 health and he wouldn't die. Then my friend remembered it but we didn't do enough damage. Anyway, the point is that it is most likely impossible to do this with 2 people. The room was filled with the poisonous slime things as well.

Comment by 740032

biggest waste of time ever trying to solo this as a blood dk. Lost track of how many times i hit with frost attacks, had at 1hp and room filled with the 1500 dmg gas/slime... I ran out of the room and hearthed, took about 8 minutes to get him to 1hp

Comment by Beace

This is my experience trying to solo him on an 85 DK, avg ilvl ~350.

First try: I went in as blood spec, just testing it, not having much of a clue how it was gonna work. It took almost 20 minutes of icy touch spam, to get him to "freeze solid", and when it did I was not ready and didn't stand a chance at shattering him in time.

Second try: Changed to my 2H frost spec, and enchanted my weapon with Razorice. Instead of 20 minutes, it now only takes a couple of minutes to freeze him, with howling blasts, frost strikes, and most important razorice procs. It takes about 20-25 seconds from second freeze phase to the last one, and in this phase I summoned my army of the dead. With this I was able to get him to second shatter phase, but didn't quite make it. I decided to reset and wait for army cooldown for one last try.

Third try: Difference now was that I had my regular ghoul up at same time as the army, but I still didn't make it. I just doesn't seem possible, but also not far away.

I think dual wielding two fast weapons and it might happen, but not sure about that even. And even if you do manage to shatter him, the question is how many of the globs you can kill before he merges. I'm guessing you won't be able to get them all. And for every merge, you'd have to wait another 10 minutes for army cooldown.

I'm calling it plausible, but not likely without a TON of effort.

Edit: Seems it has been done solo by a lvl 80 DK, found a video. If you get him to 1 hp, he'll die when you manage to shatter him apparantely. So it's just gonna be about getting him down there, and then manage a shatter and you're home free. So get 2 super fast weapons, and maybe some haste potions or similar, and I'm sure he'll go down.

Edit2: I went back and tried while dual wielding 1.4 one-handers. Still didn't make it.

Comment by jd234

So, when people say something is hard I take it as an invitation. I'm a feral druid, with no frost abilities. But how cool would it be if I could pull this off! So, I went and got a Brunnhildar Harpoon, and I put Deathfrost and Frost oil on it.

This worked quite well to freeze him. Staying mostly in bear form, I froze him 4 times before he got to 1HP, which sounds similar to what other classes with actual frost abilities are reporting. But I could not shatter him.

My strategy was to stay bear as he "began to slow" and as he "began to freeze", but shift cat and have savage roar up before he actually froze solid (my gear and spec is full Kitty DPS). I also tried to time it so I got Savage roar, but still had maxed combo points as he froze to immediately hit him with Rip, popped all cooldowns, go behind him and go nuts ... but it was never enough.

Comment by 260458

We duo'd it as 2 hunters, 1 BM and 1 MM. We got him down to 1hp like any other boss. Then switched to Brunnhildar bows to freeze him, then 3 snake traps (due to MM Readiness) plus the two pets (spirit beast and cat if it matters), and melee with 1.3attack speed daggers, to shatter and kill him. So we didn't need to shatter him more than once.

Comment by wvance

Verified: (Out of curiosity) A priest's Shadowfrost damage from Mind Spike counts as a frost effect toward the 200 count.

As everyone else has stated, it doesn't do any good unless you can melee a minimum of 5 hits per second for 15 seconds to reach your 75 hit shatter, but it's at least possible to completely freeze him using this method.

Comment by 125795

There are alot of good tips on how to take this boss down now at lvl85. DK and Hunter can apparently solo him. But other classes have a hard time, and have to bring friends. I will sum up some methods that are useful here;

All classes
-First of all, get a fast 1-hander(or two 1-handers if your class supports it).
-Potion of Speed is also good to have to speed up those melee attacks(you cant use it together with , so use the potion).
-If you have no classes with frostspells in the group, you need Brunnhildar Harpoon, Brunnhildar Great Axe, Brunnhildar Bow, a weapon enchanted with Enchant Weapon - Deathfrost, or a weapon encoated with Frost Oil.
-Wand with frost damage does NOT count as a frost spell.

Priest
-Mind Spike counts as a frost spell.

Shaman
-Bloodlust / Heroism when he freezes for the haste.
-Dual counts as frost spells, but remember to change to before he freezes, and push frozen with just when getting close.
- counts as a frost spell.

Mage
-Time Warp when he freezes for the haste.
-Flurry counts as a frost spell.

Hunter
- and = 2 traps, and therefore 28 snakes. The boss is immune to nature damage, so you will get alot of "IMMUNE" warnings from the poison they try to inflict, but the melee attacks still count.
- counts as a melee strike, and wont reset your swing timer.
- should also count as a melee strike, if I remember correctly from back when training weapon skills were possible.

DK
-Army of the Dead is 8 ghouls attacking with melee, including your regular ghoul and you, thats an army of 10 melee. To obtain 75 melee hits within 15secs, you need to hit 5 times per second, or each of an army of 10 need to hit 1 time every 2 seconds. I dont know how fast the ghouls attack speed are, but you should use 1-handers if you plan to solo it.
-Death's Advance(w/ ) gives 15% haste.
-, Charred Glyph(Chains of Ice glyphed) and Howling Blast does NOT count as frost spells.
-Rune of Razorice on weapons do count as a frost spells.

>>The Boss<<
At ~100 frost spell hits, the boss will emote once and change color slightly, at ~150 hits you will get a second emote, at ~200 hits he will be frozen and you will clearly see a frost trap-like thing around him. When he is frozen, you need to hit him ~75 times with melee attacks. All these attacks can do 1 dmg, the amount of damage doesnt count, only number of hits. (there is a mechanic where he will shatter into smaller adds if he become frozen above 20% hp, but as a lvl85 dps, you shouldn't have to worry about that)

Update 5.1 patch(inc 29th of November hotfix)
-He gets frozen after 20 frost hits, down from 200.
-To shatter him while frozen, you now need to hit him 30 times within 30 seconds, down from 75 hits within 15 seconds.
They are obviously letting people solo him now to farm for the new pet drop.

Comment by DrCheis

The most difficult part of this fight today is meleeing him before he unfreezes. Because characters are more powerful, groups tend to be smaller, leading to fewer available attacks. For this reason it is essential that everybody pay attention when it's time to shatter Viscidus, and be ready to start whacking on him the very second he is frozen solid. Be in position before this happens. The green gas slows your attacks, meaning move him so you're not standing on it when he is frozen. And be sure to pop your cooldowns, guardians, etc. Even the healers and casters should be attacking. Favor fast, spamable abilities over efficiency and damage. There is a very short window to do this in.

Comment by GWARslave

T-1000

Comment by TheRealLink

Yeah, you can melee him down to 1hp but can't kill him from there. Guess I have to look for freezing items.

Comment by mekikya

Just duo'd him as a hunter and a DK, not too bad, just added the frost rune on a couple one handed weapons, hunter dual welding daggers, all our weapons with frost oil. Hunter was BM with a spirit beast for heals, just popped my ghoul and my army of the dead, hunter meleed and trapped...with my lifebloom popped we managed. You have to time it right or wait 10 minutes for the army of the dead cds...

Comment by 43040

For those that like to "SOLO" old school raids still (level 60) in the true sense of doing it by themselves; and are mele DPS. This item would be useful to those classes that cannot cast frost spells when combating this boss: No'Kaled, the Elements of Death.

Comment by 936998

you cant take this boss solo or 2 player you need more than 3-5 players with frost damage to kill this

thanks for listening hope it helped

Comment by Nobbel

How to: Solo Temple of Ahn'Qiraj (AQ40) 4.3 version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_5EpBdJHA4&hd=1

I show you how to solo all of them, but I don't kill Viscidus & C'thun myself.
It also explains the tactics for when you want to do it with a couple of friends.

Also includes information about mounts & reputation.

It took me around 31 min and I earned around 613g.

I hope it will help :)

Nobbel

Comment by Gamus

Apparently Froststorm Breath from a Chimaera pet does not count as frost damage when fighting Viscidus in AQ40. No hunter soloing here.

Edit: Missed the part about the Brunnhildar weapons

Comment by 966628

Soloed as lvl85 frost dk, nuked Viscidus to 1hp, waited for the emote that he starts to slow, popped army and pet ghoul, empower rune weapon and spammed Howling Blast and Frost Strike. Boss died with mere second to spare before breaking ice. Felt like a boss since this kill earned me also Brood of Nozdormu exalted achievement :) So deffinetly soloable (if you know how to)

Comment by brudarek

if you don't have a DK, how many people does it take to shatter him?

Comment by 193457

The definitive amount of physical hits to shatter the boss is 150.
These physical hits can be melee auto attacks, pet hits, or special attacks that deal physical damage (I don't know about ranged attacks).

At 50 hits, the first emote will appear: "Viscidus begins to crack!"
At 100 hits, the second emote will appear: "Viscidus looks ready to shatter!"
At 150 hits, Viscidus will die (or explode into smaller blobs, if he wasn't low enough).

You can see the amount of hits needed in my DK video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3lU5E6miUo), where there is a hit counter in the chat frame (I originally only intended to confirm that it's more than 100 hits to shatter the boss, but it turned out so easy as a Death Knight that it resulted in an actual kill).

Anybody wanting to solo this boss without access to class specific pets is going to have a very hard time. Believe me, I've tried for days on my Rogue before giving it a shot with my DK.
The only possible way I can think of as of patch 4.3.4 would be a Troll in full haste/hit gear, the Barov Servant Caller trinket, the Troll Berserking racial ability additional to Windfury Totem and Bloodlust. Which of course requires another player, which makes it not a "real" solo kill anymore (because you need that other player, although he does nothing else but to provide the haste buffs).

Comment by Xenthal

You CANNOT Solo this at lvl 85 atm. you can bring him down to 1hp, but never able to solely kill it simply because you cannot do 75 melee hit with in about 5 sec by yourself. There is a report shows that 2 hunter with at least 1 readiness will be able to kill it (3 snake trap+cat pets+ 1.3 daggers). Tips: if you found out this after you pull, you can always run out and reset it like I do

I am not saying this is easy, but I just soloed it today June 12, 2012.

Took 5 tries, but as long as you have fast weapons and can summon alot of mobs at once it's doable.

(Frost DK with swords that have a 1.4 weapon speed + Army + Ghoul + haste pot for extra measure).

Comment by MarkusF

Yes, as someone states elswhere in this thread, the count is NOT 75, but 150.

I was super sceptical when I read this, as all sources everywhere state it is only 75. Also after watching his video twice, I didn't see any counters between the tons of numbers floating around on this custom interface. (Friendly tip: next time state where the counter is :-) ). That said massive kudo's, as he is right!

As a MM hunter 75 would be a walk in the park with two snake traps even when executed with bad timing. But 150 would be hard even with perfect timing. Two traps is 28 snakes and with pet and two fast daggers will do. Issue however is that hunters have minimum range and need to use trap launcher or walk in. I saw a YouTube video of some hunter with perfect placement, but I failed to get it right that way for about 8 times.

So I decided to do it the robotic way:

1) Get the Brunnhildar Bow
2) Get the haste battle elixer and optional some food and the WotlK 500 haste pot. (I did without.)
3) Get two fast daggers. The Dalaran 1.3 will do.
4) Create a super macro that uses all this stuff and all your other haste bufs (Lifeblood etc). So in essence a long list of /use and /cast ending with a /cast Snake Trap
5) Put it on your bar, and put readiness next to it, or make sure they are hotkey'd where you can quickly press them
6) Go to and nuke boss. I used first my better normal bow to speed up the stuff and switched when he was low health.
7) Use recount or so to count the exact number of hits of your chilled ability from the Brunnhildar Bow.
8) When you are at 199 hits/crits, stop dps, disable growl on pet (want use his focus on his special attack) and walk into minimum range.
9) Make sure you are at the absolute minimum range. Shoot and run into his center. This last shot should freeze him. Else repeat this step.
10) Press your maco, press readiness and your macro again.
11) Press kill command and raport strike when off cooldown
12) If you are a bit lucky the boss will shatter

Now, during all my years of wow I have collected a long series of trinkets with guardians. Almost all of them share cooldowns and some of them don't do melee, but in the end I notcied that the Horseman sword's Pumpkin Soldier do also melee and surprisingly the Dog Whistle from one of the bosses of Scarlet Monastery stack. So that gave me 4 extra melee adds.

Added them to the macro, but it was still close, but my 9th try was successful. Probably with practise it will go better though.

Comment by Lucasl0l

I'm surprised that this hasn't come up yet. For a frost mage, does the Water Elemental's attacks count as a frost attack? Just wondering.

Comment by 223216

Can be soloed by a a DK. Just did it.

Frost specc. unholy presence.
Mostly Raid Finder and Valor gear. (reforged Haste as primary stat)
Dalaran sword and a Hand of Edward the Odd, both Razorice.
Potion of speed
Elixir of speed or w/e
Shard of the Crystal Heart

Got him to 1 hp, then a few secons before he froze (like 5 secs after last warning) I used the potion and summoned the ghoul and the army, and then the trinket. Im not sure if the Hand of E. proc'ed...

He did it anyhow, I had no addons to count the hits or the time so I dont have those details, but trust me, it can be done.

Comment by 386701

Just wanted to add a bit more for any hunters out there looking to do this. I followed the general strategy of what MarcusF does below, but I used macros to automate ability usage a bit, killed him on my first try using it.

Macro 1:
/petautocastoff Growl
/use 13
/castsequence reset=15 Dire Beast, Snake Trap, Arcane Shot, Lynx Rush, Readiness, Snake Trap, Dire Beast, Lynx Rush

Macro 2:
/equipset 2daggers

The second of course requires you make an equipment set named "2daggers" which equips 2 daggers, I had to do it this way since they were identical vendor bought ones, and the first requires that you have a Barov Peasant Caller (which is /use 13 for the top trinket slot).

So same strategy more or less:

1. Bring boss to 1 health.
2. Equip Brunnhildar bow, track "Chilled" in recount/skada up until 199 hits.
3. Stop shooting (at 199), walk up near the center of the bosses hitbox.
4. Spam macro. The arcane shot in the macro will push him to 200 and he will freeze.
5. Hit the second macro at some point after the arcane shot fires to switch to daggers and start meleeing.
6. Hope he explodes. (perhaps I got lucky, but again only took one try for me using this method)

Lynx rush may overlap doing this, but I didn't find it made a difference. You may want to try moving the first LR up in the sequence if you are having issues but the difference will be minor. I did not use any consumables of any sort.

I tried Murder of Crows first instead of LR but they just don't attack all that fast. Perhaps in the original beta incarnation of AMoC it would be better, but now it just applies a dot that has an animation of crows attacking that just does X damage per 1 or 2 seconds, instead of bringing down a bunch of actual "units" that would all attack separately (which plus snake trap would probably have required nothing else).

Comment by Siiw

Blizzard counts for about 10 frost hits. He froze after about 20 blizzards, but I had far too little melee damage to shatter him as a mage,

Comment by TimB1087

The patch notes for 5.1, which can be found here, state the following:

Viscidus now requires significantly fewer hits to freeze and shatter.

Hopefully this means he will be a bit easier to solo. =)

Comment by Brand

The Mists of Pandaria level enchant Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force can be used to freeze Viscidus, as the elemental damage done counts as frost damage.

Comment by Aerozia

So, hunters are SOL for this? real fair blizz. give us a pet we cant get because of class.

Comment by Sketti11

As of 5.1 About 10-15 frost attacks then about 50 melee attacks. Hope this helps.

Comment by Mantrhax

then blizzard asks why people leave the game lol... they really dont know

Comment by 153508

Easily solod by 90 BM hunter with a Chimaera pet, just have it spam Froststorm Breath and then unload with barrage, stampede, lynx rush, anything with multiple attacks or multiple pets to hit it.

Comment by Kokiron

Solo'd this today as a druid who's normally balance. Just swapped my OS to feral, kept most of my int gear on but swapped my MH/OH for a agi staff with Elemental Force enchant. The reason you want to be feral is for the melee version of Force of Nature (Which obviously swap to that talent for this), your gear/dps/rotation doesn't mean much. When you're on Viscidus the enchant will count as frost damage and freeze him; when you get the emote "Viscidus is freezing up" or whatever (The one right before he's frozen), stop doing anything but auto attack and let your energy stay topped. After a bit your autoattacks will freeze him; as soon as this happens, blow force of nature, mangle spam, tiger's fury as soon as your energy is too low to mangle anymore, ferocious bite, mangle spam some more and he should die.

I'm a balance druid and don't have a clue how cat works and even I managed to do it, so i'm sure a better player can manage it even more easily.

PS when you use Force of Nature, try to drop it near his backside or you'll lose melee hits to the trees running to get behind.

Comment by 835854

Just did this tonight following Kokiron's method as kitty druid dps. Took a few tries, but once I read to drop the treants behind the boss, he went down easy. No speed pots or other buffs, just a Brunhilder Spear and mangle spam/tiger's fury/mangle spam. You might want to drop the treants just a hair before he actually freezes solid to make sure you get the most out of them.

(I'd have posted in reply to Kokron's post, but it doesn't seem that wowhead wants to let me)

Comment by Lolivia

with 5.1 being live now, I tried this boss immidiatly on my retri pala.
The tactics on how to do it are exactly the same. you hit him with ice damage (ANY ice damage will suffice, spells, enchants, ice effect on hit, anything.) until he's fully frozen. then , like before, you need to hit him with melee, and the damage of these melee attacks is not important, it's about the number of hits.

I opened a ticket to a gm after I couldn't seem to get him down and gm confirmed that frost effects are needed to freeze him, and melee and only melee hits can break him . the number of hits required for him to shatter are roughly 50. (the gm also noted that he has not tried to do this himself but that the number of hits required were greatly reduced to about 50, and that it should be possible to do solo..)

in the end I had to ask a friend for help (warlock with melee pet) and we got him to shatter in the nick of time. I don't yet see how I should be able to get these amount of hits alone on my pala, but I'm sure other classes like DK with army of the dead, hunter with pet etc. etc. should be able to do this maybe with the use of the right cd's and stuff at the right time.

Comment by gold07

Got Viscidus Globule after killing him, I realized after 10 minutes of attacking him at 1hp, my DK attacks didn't really do anything since I'm unholy, but I did notice that Mind Freeze and do infact freeze him even though they don't deal damage. Thought I'd let people who role DKs know if they were wondering. :)

Comment by Imanomnom

Just tried doing this with me as a Mistweaver monk plus a Frost mage, we got him to 1% really easily, but didnt get passed the second message for the 'crack'. Then I went dual wielding as a Windwalker monk, popped Xuen/Fists of Fury and Timewarp, but it just wasnt enough. (I had two axes equipped, one with 1.6 and one with 2.6 speed)

So nothing really changed for us old raid fanatics, just as before the patch, 'soloable' but only bring the right classes.

Edit after the second nerf to Viscidus : We did the same thing, and it went down easypeasy :-)

Comment by 1059316

Hey ROGUES!

managed to solo just a few minutes ago this boss.

lvl90 combat spec.

damage the boss to 1hp. then switch to 2x dagger with ilvl not higher than 164. becouse u have to use frost oil + deathfrost enchant.

pop killingspree when he frozed, then adrenalin rush and spam sinister.

GL :)

p.s: also tired to kill him with regular slow weaps enchanted with elemental force. but i wasnt enought. or just i was unlucky. however this enchant makes the boss frozed also

Comment by Bahthalend

did they even test this when they nerfed it? I don't see any possible way to do this as a arms/prot warrior unless you want to respec fury every single time you fight him.

Comment by Ozlem

For the Hunters

It was pretty straight forward

Go forth and purchase Brunnhildar Bow (if you are not friendly with these giant blue women you will need to start They Took Our Men! until you get transformed into one (like the 4th or 5th quest in the chain), then go and buy the bow.)
Have Stampede, A Murder of Crows, Dire Beast & off CD and good to go.
Just remember he is immune to nature damage so no need for serpent sting.
Pull Viscidus as normal using your normal bow and favourite pet. Nuke him down to 1hp (making sure not to blow the above CDs) and have fun praticing your raiding skills by keeping out of the green stuff on the ground.
At 1hp switch bows and monitor what's happening to Viscidus. At 1hp it's no longer about the damage you do, it's about the number of times you freeze him. You're going to use that bow right up until the end so at no point stop firing on him.
When Viscidus turns dark blue and is in "freezing up" stage (stages: slow > freezing up > solid) blow the above CDs making sure to pull him into the snake trap and continue shooting him with the Brunn bow. The stages happen fast so before long he will be frozen solid with your snakes pecking at him (yes they do nature damage BUT they also count as melee.)
At frozen solid stage, with your crows, beasts and your snakes all 'melee' damaging him he shatters and you haven't needed to lay a hand on him yourself because all those spells/traps have given you your melee quota to shatter him.
Another strat is laying two snake traps down right before frozen solid stage, two snake traps is also enough to shatter him.... I just like the one with all the beasts because it makes me feel all queen of the jungle like.

If he 'cracks' instead of shatters he is back to his 1hp self, just rinse-repeat the steps until you shatter him.

This method has helped me solo him on a lvl90 (in greens) and lvl89 (dungeon blues/greens) & just scrapped in on my lvl86 hunter... and I always say it but I'm not a skilled player so if the above worked for me it'll work for you.

Mages

I like being captain obvious so I'm going to say "go frost" save CDS and mirror image and frost orb till frozen solid stage, then pop them. My mirror images and orb did the trick of shattering him.

Comment by minkage

Extremely easy for a hunter to solo.

1 - Tame a Chimera pet
2 - Cast froststorm breath till he is fully frozen
3 - Throw snake trap, beastial wrath and other CD's and nuke hard
4 - repeat till dead.

Comment by evitarani

90 rogue strategy: Using two 1.7 daggers plus Elemental Force, I had no luck relying on my usual abilities. Remember, it's purely about number of attacks, so when he froze I popped a haste pot + Adrenaline rush and then spammed the hell out of Shuriken Toss, whilst keeping in autoattack range. When down straight away with that strategy. No pet though :(

Comment by Drazius

Just soloed him on my 85 enh shaman. Had 2x frostbrand weapon and using frost shock to freeze. once frozen had to pop all offensive cooldowns to shatter him. took a few tries.. downed in about 30 mins.. no pet though.. have only gotten the pets off of chromag and maexx so far. everyone else no luck..

Comment by Avantes

Hey Warriors! Viscidus is an absolute cakewalk for us. After toying around with ideas (I really wish my Crate of Kidnapped Puppies ideas would have worked), it hit me.

Here was my setup:

(2x) 1.70 Daggers, both with Elemental Force. - I just purchased a few level 88 Agility daggers, you don't need anything good at all, you just want Elemental Force to be freezing him as much as possible.

(1x) Elixir of the Rapids - This is overkill. But I wanted to come in fully prepared, so I popped this on. You should be able to do fine without one.

- This is the bread and butter. At a 0.5s cast time, you can send these little bastards screaming at him by simply spamming the button, over and over.

Quick rundown:

Well, it's rather simple. Start wailing on him in melee range, just keep going nuts, your Elemental Force should be cranking on him repeatedly, with the fast daggers. His freeze sequence displays 3 messages total.

"Viscidus is slowing down!" - Don't worry about it, just keep cranking on him.
"Viscidus is freezing up! - When you see this, it's a good idea hover your Heroic Leap target a bit out of melee range. Throw does not work in Melee Range.
"Viscidus is frozen solid! - BOOM baby, nail Heroic Leap, face him, and start unloading daggers as fast as you can. It'll be more than enough to force him to shatter.

Once he shatters, he explodes into smaller Oozes, take out as many as you can, a nice Bladestorm where they group up in the center could take care of it pretty quickly.

If you don't get all the slimes, no problem, just repeat the proccess until you dwindle them all down!

I'm sure this can be done in any Warrior spec, but the dual-wielding daggers in Fury spec makes it go much quicker. I hope some of this can apply to other classes as well!

Take care guys!

Comment by 735449

After many attempts I finally killed im as a Ret Pally, Here's what I did:

I bring him down to 1 HP with my normal weapon and then swap in a 1h 1.7 second speed mace with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force. It seems to take roughly 20 Elemental Force hits to freeze him solid (10 for slow, 5 for freeze, and 5 for frozen solid). I'm using Elixir of the Rapids, Tangy Yogurt, and popping Potion of Speed right when he is frozen solid.

As far as abilities, I was having trouble until I specced into Sanctified Wrath. About when I think he is going to freeze (about 19 elemental force hits - tracked in Skada) I pop Guardian of Ancient Kings and Avenger's Wrath with five holy power and when he freezes I alternate between Templar's Verdict, Hammer of Wrath, and Crusader Strike - whichever is off CD or closest to. I imagine for any class, popping CDs that increase your haste or ability to spam physical/weapon abilities will make this seem more possible.

It seems like a lot of trouble to get it done and I think it should be easier if it's intended to be soloed, but no doubt it is possible (even though I feel like I got lucky).

Edit: ...and the pet didn't drop for me :(

Comment by Lyandria

Balance druid

- Enchant a weapon with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force, this is key

- On frozen phase keep following spells up: , Moonfire, Sunfire, Rake in feral form, , and auto attack + when u got energy for it.

Boss will die very fast during frozen phase with only these things on him, no need to buy potions and whatnot like many others apparantly did for this encounter.

Comment by 668287

Failed on my 90 feral druid - totally unprepared for this guy (leave the room and he resets). Rather than get him a weapon with a frost/elemental enchant, I grabbed my old 85 DK; he's blood but did the job - didn't use death strike, instead used to chill him and for damage (didn't need heals, and preferred a microscopic amount of vengeance if possible). When he froze (he gets bluer and bluer and ice finally stuck in ice), pop army and loot.

Comment by LordVarbaro

Soloed as a destruction Warlock.

Bought a random 1.7 dagger from ah, used Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force.
On frozen phase just meele hit, using pet, Grimoire of Service, Ghost Iron Dragonling, Ancient Cornerstone Grimoire and Summon Infernal.

Comment by 228

The boss was apparently hotfixed last night, and is now possible to solo as a Retribution Paladin, not sure of the changes but i was atleast able to get it using a 1.6 Speed weapon with Elemental Force, and then just popping everything when he froze.

Comment by Chromell

Soloed as a mage equipping a dagger for melee hits plus the help of this trinket. The boss freezes at exactly 20 hits from frost damage. Heroism was not neccessary as the guardian and I were able to shatter the boss just in time before he thawed. It took me 3 freezing phases as there are many, many blobs to kill (20, I believe) and they move slowly but eventually become really, really fast to kill.

Comment by jd234

As of 5.1 Blizz nerfed the number of hits to freeze, and shatter this guy. So, this is totally soloable now with just Frost oil on your weapon.

If you want to speed it up, and can weild them, go pick up a frosty weapon from Warsmith Sigfinna (polearm, bow or axe) and put both Deathfrost and Frost oil on it.

I froze him in about 30 seconds with an enchanted polearm, and killed him in about 5 minutes as a kitty druid. The just frost oil technique takes 15-20 min.

Comment by 165195

For a caster having troubles shattering this thing alone, try using a couple of pet trinkets like Barov Peasant Caller if you still have that on your bags, C'thun's tentacle trinket also helps,!

Just solo'd myself as 90 mage with those, hope this helps!

Comment by 988502

Soooooooooo, this was recently hotfixed to be soloable by ANY class. After patch 5.1, I tried and it just didnt work. I just went in about two minutes ago to try again after hearing about the hotfix.

DPS as normal as a fury warrior. Put elemental force on my offhand throw away 2h 3.6 speed sword, and go to town. He started freezing up, and then froze. He stayed frozen long enough for me to shatter him. I didnt use any haste pots/speed enchants or anything. Just Elemental force on one wep is now enough.

Edit: I did nothing special other than the typical Fury warrior "Smash that guys face in".

:) Got my pet too.

Comment by 1060068

As a ret paladin I just bought some level 88 healer spell power mace (1h) and put elemental force on it. The fight took 2 minutes and 49 seconds. Hope that helps someone.

Comment by smax242

Make sure to pop Time warp / Lust / Hero as well as it gives melee haste.

Comment by Eddafred

As of November 29th, 2012, Viscidus has received another nerf. According to the release notes:

"Viscidus now remains frozen for 30 seconds (was 15), and it takes 30 hits to shatter Viscidus (was 50).

Comment by Luminitia

Just soloed it as a level 90 Priest
Pushed it down below 20% to avoid the split thing and then spammed 20 Mind Spike
As soon as it was frozen I popped my Mindbender, Potion of Speed & Quilen Statuette and then just started beating on it with my Rondel

Comment by Bukowskaii

Soloed today as an Affliction warlock using Grim of Service, popped DS:M and Grim of Serve, with 2 felpups and the 30% haste it was a easy win, wait till he is at one hp and frozen to do this though. Weapon was Loshan, Terror Incarnate Normal Mode, a 2.20 speed sword.

Comment by 195601

Just wanted to add my quick strat on solo-killing this boss as a Balance Druid (During patch 5.1).

I got myself the Brunnhildar Harpoon, got it enchanted with Deathfrost, and made sure I had chosen and off cooldown.
I basically nuked him with normal Balance rotation and made sure I got a few swings in on him as I went. Don't get him frozen until he's at least 10% remaining, as you aren't a feral druid :)

Once he was low enough that I was happy with, I put up my dots and kept melee'ing him until he froze. Once frozen, I popped Heart of the Wild, jumped into Cat form and dps'd him down, using the physical damage mechanic.

Easy :) Good luck to the fellow Druids out there!

Comment by 1060694

Solo'd as a 90 Demo Warlock, with Felguard as my pet. Once frozen I popped another Felguard off Grimoire of Service and hit Felstorm. This was enough for him to be shattered.

Comment by pagussol

Just soloed him as Demonology warlock. I usually play as Destruction however was unable to shatter him once he was frozen. I changed to Demo (which I haven't played in a loooong time), summoned up the Felguard, burned him down to 1hp, waited until he froze and then using the Grimoire of Service summoned up a 2nd Felguard and along with the 2 minions just wailed away on him with my staff.....job done.

Note that I didn't use any frost damage whatsoever...no oil, no enchant, no special weapon.....just my Inscribed Serpent Staff with Jade Spirit enchant.

And of course, after all that he didn't drop the pet :(

Hope this helps someone out there.

Comment by 1057274

If you are looking to do this as a solo mage post 5.1 get a trinket that summons a melee pet such as Quilen Statuette. When you freeze the boss use time warp while wielding a fast dagger and with your chosen pet out and you should be able to get enough melee hits to kill him.

Comment by 1060932

Managed to do it on mage with the following:

A 1.6 speed weapon, any will do but I used Blade of the Poisoned Mind Quilen Statuette
Got him to 1% then froze him with Ice Lance spam.
Once he was frozen, I used the statuette, lifeblood, time warp and Kafa Press, got me to just a hair above 50% haste and was able to shatter him 20-25 seconds in.

Comment by 1051146

hunters put a scratch to that { Brunnhildar Bow } spec BM go tame a from kamagua island northrend that pet actually frreezes viscidus faster then a mage, once viscidus is frozzen use dire beast,lynx rush,stampede,readiness re apply dire beast,lynx rush,stampede and barrage=viscidus dead use also double snake trap with readiness
i solo twin emperors as prot warrior using 450IL weapon 7297k damage the strat i did was stack on a wall so the caster boss cant knock u back and basic he cant keep up on heals on my current gear which are all blues
VISCIDUS ABLE TO KILL AS WARRIOR, method used was :elemental force enchant on weapon,to break the shatered use our OP throw 0.5sec cast,u must make sure u have yr banner on 10 yards away to intervene on it otherwise boss once is frozen you will be too close to him to cast throw x30 times or another way you can use yr heroic leap good luck those
THOSE INFO ARE 100% TESTED ON HUNTER AND PROT WARRIOR
got kills on both classes using the above strats specially the throw ability from my warrior to break the shatter is a joke how fast is going
forgive me for my poor english main language is greek

Comment by Typherus

I just did this on my priests recently, and it seems like shadow fiend does not work on Viscidus as he is Frozen so i did not have enough melee but then i remembered a trinket i found from a rare in Mist of pandaria Terracotta Fragment it summons a Terracotta Warrior for 10 minutes and with this "Pet" and my auto attacks i had enough melee to shatter Viscidus. This item can be dropped by a rare in valley of the four winds "Jonn-dar" http://www.wowhead.com/npc=50351. So if you get this Pet and have frost spells and a decent 1hander you should have enough to shatter this boss and get your mini pet ! My mace had 1.9 atk speed.

Comment by Rubii

As a warlock, if you're noticing that Viscidus is freezing and you have absolutely no clue why, here's what it is: . I noticed that when I went to solo him that while I was getting him ready to freeze and shatter that he was freezing all on his own, and pretty quickly too. I confirmed this simply by using the ability to disable the passive, and he didn't freeze again until the cooldown was up.

So, warlocks? If you want an easy solo, take a quick dagger, , and maybe use the Grimoire of Service's Felhunter and it will be a snap. No Frost Oil or any of that other nonsense required.

Comment by 365883

Standing in 16x Toxin poison debuffs as a 90 Warrior with the Second Wind talent... Cannot kill you at 460 ilvl.

Comment by 614958

Did it today on my Warlock just by being in Demo spec, using my Felguard, using Demon Hunting glyph. My equipped weapon was my Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole , so you do not need to be optimal at all now.
I guess with all the imps, Felstorm, and my Dark Apothosis skills, they just got the required amount of melee attacks. No idea what was freezing him but its done anyway.

Any class should be able to do this after getting a relevent frost weapon from Warsmith Sigfinna now

Comment by 911103

Soloed as a Demo Warlock with Felguard.

Talents: Soul Leech, Mortal Coil, Dark Bargain, Burning Rush, Grimoire of Service (Felguard), Kil'jaeden's Cunning
Glyphs: Demon Training, Imp Swarm, Dark Soul

Tactic:
With patch 5.1 Viscidus became possible to solo. In addition, he can now drop Viscidus Globule. At the beginning of the fight start to generate . I ran some tests on the freezing of the Boss and I know how he can be frozen without the use of things like Frost Oil/Formula: Enchant Weapon - Deathfrost. When you have 1000 , use and start spamming . I noticed that this ability freezes Viscidus, because it deals chaos dmg which is dmg in all seven schools: Physical, FROST, Fire, Holy, Shadow, Nature and Arcane. When the Boss is frozen, use Felstorm and summon second Felguard via Grimoire of Service. This should be enough to shatter Viscidus. After shattering him just kill him. Good Luck and Have Fun!

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3AxZnJT_70

Comment by Boonasineaj

As a shaman, i can say that the hits from our elementals doesn't seem to count toward the 30 hits needed to break it.

I had everyting prepared, 19 frostshock, BL+cooldowns+fire elemental. I hit it 28 times, and my elem around 18 times, but he didn't break.

So... i'm sad.

Edit : Tried one more time with searing totem, earth elemental, hast cd and bl. It really doesn't count neither our elementals hits or our totems hit. Too bad.

Comment by 626994

Doable as a fury lvl 86 warrior ,405 ilvl tank gear with (86522) with normal tank enchant and (86527) enchanted with elemental force.
Had viscidus freeze thrice and made it shatter every single time, Second Wind is mandatory and Bladestorm helps.

Comment by MuriloNZ

Very trivial now as a hunter with Brunnhildar Bow and a chimera pet. I'm sure the bow isn't even necessary, just hit the boss with chimeras channeled attack, freezes very quickly.

Also throw out a snake trap after he freezes solid, helps make the shattering that much easier.

Comment by Mexeaki

How to kill him being Elemental Shaman:

1. Enchant your weapon with your
2. Get him down to 1 hp using your rotation
3. Keep hitting him all the time with your weapon
4. Spam and on Cooldown
5. When he freezes completely ONLY USE Heroism/Bloodlust and (Do not use )
6. He should be dead shortly

Good Luck finding your pet ;)

Comment by togahsisoka

For you Droods out there, the Brunnhildar Harpoon not only procs in animal form, but you can switch to your regular weap while he's frozen to crank the damage. I didn't get the pet on my first try but as guardian spec I never got below 95% health.

Comment by Tassit

I just did it today as a WW Monk, no ice enhancements or items. Boss went down to 1% HP, about 30 seconds later he froze solid. Not sure why exactly, but maybe these items are no longer necessary?

Comment by Lisanette

I enchanted a Bloodied Prison Shank with Deathfrost and used Frost Oil. Then I went in on my warlock level 85, got the boss to 4% started melee attacking him, froze him up, shattered him with help from my voidwalker, an extra felhound and an infernal. It was almost to easy. Then mailed the dagger to my rogue - killed it again. I am going to mail it to my hunter and druid aswell. DK and shammy are on their own.

I would have used a faster dagger, but it needed to be between level 60 and 165 to use both enchant and oil. Favored the non-binding to use it on more characters - best dagger for that is Dulled Shiv or Sharpened Stilleto with the speed of 1.60.

Edit: Typos mainly.

Comment by dedequrqut

Just a note for casters: use a fast weapon and any melee pet that you can summon (using trinkets or spells) once he is frozen. You just need 30 hits, and he is frozen for 30 seconds (after 5.1). I don't know if there is any weapon that has a speed of 1.0 or lower, but you'll probably need some more melee hits besides your own.

I'm an elemental shaman, and I used a dagger with speed = 1.80. I had on it, and used as well. When he was frozen, I summoned my . There was no need to pop Bloodlust.

BTW, if you bring him very low and then shatter, you won't have to deal with the smaller oozes Glob of Viscidus after he shatters. I had forgot about those, and the first time I shattered him there were too many of the oozes and couldn't kill them before they joined using Rejoin Viscidus. I had to wait for my earth elemental to come off of CD before freezing him again :-(

Comment by toppjubei

Melee can enchant their weapon with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force and then just DPS as normal. When he gets to 1 hp you'll need to keep hitting him for a short while till he shatters. Easy.

Comment by tormael

Demonology Warlocks can beat him down in demon form - chaos damage freezes him.

There. Enjoy your new pet.

Comment by actwentysix

The Horseman's Sinister Slicer + Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force also works... just release the pumpkins right as he freezes up and he'll go down.

Comment by harumph

I just soloed him on my 90 Frost Mage. I had Elixir of the Rapids (990 w/alchemy) and Tangy Yogurt haste buffs and when he froze at 1% I popped my , Time Warp, Quilen Statuette and switched to Wasteland Saber for a speedier weapon. Didn't manage to get the pet but now I know what works for next time.

Comment by MentalmMinD

if u are a class witch do not have frost ability u can buy from auction house Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force and enchant any melee weapon as u like that is higher than 372i lvl

no need more than one weapon enchantment

Comment by hjp426

Very easy solo as a 90 Ret pally. Used Seal of Righteousness, Kings, and the enchant that MentalmMinD mentioned, Elemental Force. He froze at 50%, and at 1%, at the second freeze I popped cd's, Avenging Wrath, Holy Avenger, Execution Sentence, with added Lessons of the Darkmaster (heroic) and Synapse Springs from Engineering. Was able to easily kill him this way. Hope this helps.

EDIT: could've used Seal of Truth, but it worked either way. :)

Comment by solidsnak

For my part, as a frost mage i used Kris and Elixir of Mighty Speed (there was no Potion of Speed in the AH)
and this trinket Quilen Statuette.

My melee attack speed with Elixir of Mighty Speed and before Time Warp was 1.45.

1-DPS him down to 1HP
2-Wait for him to be frozen
3-Time Warp + Quilen Statuette. + melee attack
4- THE END.

Hope it helps

Comment by angorashi

Cake as a demon warlock. This took me a while to figure out- while I was whacking away at him in aff at 1hp trying to figure out what was going on, I read the comment about how Deathfrost would work. Being an enchanter, I decided to try Elemental Force, and whattaya know, it works :)

Unfortunately, I was unable to get the required number of hits in as aff. Soulstoned, suicided and switched to demo.

In demo, used meta, glyph of imp swarm, glyph of demon training(makes imps shoot 3bolts instead of 1), grimoire of service, and doomlord. Popped em all at once when he froze, it was cake.

Comment by 327600

If you're having bad luck with the Terracotta Fragment dropping, you can also use your old vanilla Seal of Ascension and Vanquished Tentacle of C'Thun at the same time. As a priest, I was able to get him down with just those two items.

Comment by Theolol

Kafa Press is the ticket for making Viscidus much more of a breeze! It's worth getting since it's also the only haste pot as of 5.1, beating the one from the previous expansion, that people are still using on Viscidus, by x8: Potion of Speed).

Other things you may already have and can use are Quilen Statuette and/or Terracotta Fragment - you can have both of these trinkets working at the same time! Hits from pets help a lot, but I didn't even need the trinkets with this "pot".

As a Retribution Paladin, all I had to do was to use the Kafa along with Guardian of Ancient Kings as soon as he froze. Any 1H weapon you currently have as high as 2.6 speed will work, with the only special thing being the Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force enchant (much better than Enchant Weapon - Deathfrost both in procs and damage, as well as cost to make, just requires a higher ilvl weapon). No swaps, no worries, no low level stuff, high enough damage and speed all the way (you can/should use your best weapon for taking most of his HP down though).

You might rather bring a faster weapon, possibly from vendors (the fastest are 1.6, and the only non-Dagger/Fist Weapon are soulbound maces that cost 110g+, so they're a bit of a nuisance), or also use Elixir of the Rapids.

Comment by venduss

As an elemental shaman, i soloed him with and . I didn't even use .

Comment by 218488

Level 90 Shadow Priest Solo.

Sadly, I've had no luck farming either or Terracotta Fragment

Most people have actually spoken about using trinkets to assist with this kill. While my trinket farming failed, I did manage to get the offhand Antique Cornerstone Grimoire to drop for me off Onyxia

Got the kill as follows:

1. Equipped a 1.6 speed weapon
2. Used Elixir of the Rapids
3. Engaged and DPS'd the boss down to below 20%
4. Mind Spike x 20 times to freeze him
5. Antique Cornerstone Grimoire + Potion of Speed + Mindbender + Melle Attacking

The effort was well worth it as Viscidus Globule dropped on my 1st kill.

Have fun everyone!

Comment by Hrobertgar

SOLO as Ret Pally under 5.1

I expect this boss should be SOLOABLE by ALL Classes under 5.1. The following is how I solo'd it, (and got a nice pet) as a lvl 90 Ret Pally OS with ilvl 360 gear.

First I ran up with my regular outfit and proceeded to beat onhim withOUT using any CDs.

Once he got to like 10% health, i then pulled out my cheap AH weapon (in my case a 66g lvl 88 polarm) enchanted with Elemental Force as it is a LOT cheaper than the Deathfrost enchant.

At this point I beat on him until he froze solid, again using NO CDs.

Once he freezes solid then I popped the following:
1: GanK
2: Power up Macro consisting of: Holy Avenger (lvl 75 Pally TALENT) & Avenging Wrath (not needed for this fight, but part of my standard Macro).

Note: Holy avenger grants 3 HoPo per ability, thus allowing you to alternate a basic ability with TV and increasing your effective strike speed to once per GCD for as long as Holy Avenger is up (18 secs) which is enough to finish him.

I then proceeded to beat the tar out of him alternating CS, Judge, or Exo with TV.

I Did NOT use a potion of any kind. My base swing speed with the AH Polarm was: 3.34 (3.50 weapon base with 1,955 Haste rating)

Good Hunting :)

Comment by 235214

Found this hard as an affily warlock (especially as I forgot that I had heard about the frost mechanic and just tried to nuke), so I read up on the suggestions in here and hope the below helps other locks.

Tactic that worked for me:

DPS him down as normal and made sure I was landing hits with a weapon enchanted with Deathfrost. I used 1.9 speed Thunderfury as by chance I'd put the chant on it way back when I got the sword but any weapon will work. Proc is not that often so just keep plugging away. Once he got to 1hp I used drain life as needed as it heals you normally even if he has 1 HP and obviously move out of poison :)

After that, just watch your chat window for the messages to time your nuke as he changes colour to blue on the first message - "Viscidus begins to slow" but this is not the time to nuke. He goes a darker colour with the message "Viscidus is freezing up" and then finally "Viscidus is frozen solid" which is when you attack as he is encased in ice.

Soon as he was frozen, used a trinket and stopped casting, just used melee. I had both Barov Peasant Caller and Defender of the Timbermaw but I hadn't realised they are on shared cool down so I could only activate 1 but the Timbermaw Ally and my Felhunter were enough.

Comment by Drujden

Extremely easy to kill Viscidus as a feral druid (in 5.1).

Bought the polearm from Storm Peaks that deals 5 frost damage, enchanted it with Deathfrost (15g x 2 for Primal Shadow, 30g x 2 for Primal Water) and ~20g for the Polearm = 110g.

Dps'ed the boss down to around 600k hp left, then I switched weapon to the Polearm, he became frozen after 10 seconds, then I killed him with my normal weapon equipped.

No CD's needed or something, just get in there and get your pet.

*BTW, Got my pet from my first kill, yeey :-)

Comment by silverhazed

Just solo'd as prot pally ilvl 485. Used Kafa Press, Vanquished Tentacle of C'Thun, Iron Belly Wok with
Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force and Elixir of the Rapids.

Many thanks to all the posters below for their tips n tricks!

DPS'd down to 1HP when he froze for 2nd time then popped all the above and boy, am I glad the pet dropped!

Happy hunting

Comment by Macamirunni

PAIN IN THE BUTT

Comment by Yark1y

Soloed as of patch 5.1 as retribution paladin.

Video

Comment by 563400

Soloed as a 90 Shadow Priest. Mind Spike till frozen - then Mind Bender & (I am not kidding here) Mechanical Greench (from Xmas present) - along with my dagger. Sadly the pet did not drop for me.

Comment by Keetchaz

I just soloed him as a shadow priest.
First, I equipped Spring Flowers and Barov Peasant Caller. Spring Flowers has lower swing time than my staff.
Then I dps'd him with regular spells to get his health down to 1. (If you don't do this first, he shatters into a couple dozen small blobs, and if you can't kill them fast enough, they merge and become full-sized Viscidus again.)
Next, I hit him with Mind Spike until he froze (20 times). After the 19th cast, I summoned Mechanical Greench and the Barov peasants, and cast Mindbender so they would be ready when Viscidus froze.
That was enough to take him down. Didn't get the pet, though. : /

Edited to fix formatting.

Comment by 1070029

As a hunter i just got a couple of 1handers and applyed frost oil on both of them and just went melee dps.When he becomes frozen just use Rapid fire,Barrage,Stampede,Dire beast and snake trap for the extra hits.It worked perfectly.Easy to solo.Just get an alchemist to create a couple Frost oils but get yourself a couple 30-40 lvl crap 1handers cause Frost oil cannot be applyed on high lvl weapons.Buy it from a vendor.IT can also be done by Taming a Chimaera beast from shadowmoon valley or northred.its an exotic pet and it has the Froststorm Breath ability.Its channeled and you can spam it manually.Froststorm Breath

Comment by Slagert

Shadow priest 5.1.0

Equipped Tiny Voodoo Mask (I suppose Miniature Voodoo Mask would work just as well, or even better) and Commander's Badge. Brought a Potion of Speed as well, which wasn't entirely necessary.

Next, burned him down to 1%, then Mind Spiked him into freezing. You can of course mix in some Mind Spikes as needed before that - just make sure you don't freeze him too soon - the shatter will create tiny globules which are rather hard to kill completely. Make sure you are already melee'ing him as well, saves a little time in the 30-second window.

When frozen, popped both trinkets, popped Shadowfiend and kept melee'ing him. Viscidus goes boom, win and loot.

Comment by 336870

well, funny thing is... with the advent of bows and guns not requiring ammo, any class that has "Throw" (such as warriors) can do so WITHOUT daggers - haha

thanks to the posts of hellomynameis and Avantes, i was able to solo Viscidus as a level 90 warrior. i only bought the axe Brunnhildar Great Axe (no daggers, no enchantments, no potions, no pets)

following the same instructions found in several posts here, i froze him... then switched to Throw, and shattered him easily.

but... the globules flew out in a ring and he reformed. but i just kept at it until i finally got him down. it took about 4 shatterings to finish him off.

for others who want to do it more elegantly than i did:
-- DPS him until he is at 1 hp
-- switch to your freeze attack until he freezes
-- shatter him with your fast attack for the kill
-- smile like a pro

thank you all for the great info everyone!

Comment by Zebix

The easy way for melee, I just tried it solo today, successfully (as a level 90 guardian druid) :

Go to Warsmith Sigfinna in the Stormpeaks. You may need to have done the prereq quests there in order to be able to speak to her (as you have to be auto-turned into a Hyldnir).
Purchase the Brunnhildar weapon you can use
Have it enchanted with Deathfrost, cheap enchant but not all enchanters have it (drops from Slave Pens event boss of Midsummer Festival)
Hit Viscidus with your regular weapon
When Viscidus reaches 1 HP, switch to your Brunnhildar weapon
You will freeze Viscidus quite quickly, and after that it will shatter and die (because he is <5% HP)
Loot corpse ^^

As for casters without frost options, sorry I don't know exactly, as there aren't any Brunnhildar dagger or mace ... :'(

Viscidus has been hugely nerfed: the attacks needed to be frozen seems to be now around 15 or something, and the time to shatter is very comfortable; I didn't use any haste potion or trinket and I have 3.8% haste only.

Comment by 1074558

As a shadow priest I can freeze him with ease. I can't seem to get enough melee hits in to shatter him though...

Comment by Evisane

I've recently started soloing this boss for the pet on my warlock, and I've noticed that I've been able to freeze him without the use of ANY frost attacks or enchants/enhancements, and then shatter him with melee from my pet and myself. Do we no longer need frost to kill this boss?
Edit: Just for clarification, I do this in affliction spec with my voidlord tanking.

Comment by Zintarian

To any Dks trying to solo him as of 5.1, army of the dead works wonders!

Use frost spec, don't worry about gear or pots etc.
1. Get him down to 1 hp
2. wait for him to freeze
3. pop army
4. keep hitting and he'll be down in 2 seconds

I assume this will work for other classes that can either summon combat pets, even temporarily through a trinket or item or through a spell/ability.

Good luck!

Comment by 1023644

Shadow Priest solo kill. Was unable to shatter with my Shadowfiend + Kafa Press, however I sent my Quilen Statuette from one of my alts and ka pow! He was dead!

Comment by 801876

(Patch 5.1) Easily solo'd with level 80 Ret Paladin, ilevel 239 (mostly badge gear and heroics). Just DPS with main weapon and heal as needed with Eternal Flame (he doesn't hit very hard at all). Move out of range of his Poison Shock when it starts to pile up. Nuked him down to 1% then switched to Brunnhildar Great Axe. Once he was frozen I popped Avenging Wrath and Guardian of Ancient Kings...shattered...dead. Had a potion of speed on hand but didn't need to use it.

Hardest part was how long it took to get him down to 1%. He's got close to 2MM HP so it took a while for me. But I never even got close to dying.

Another helpful hint is that you don't have to kill Fankriss the Unyielding to get to Viscidus. You can just mount up on a normal mount (not a Quiraji Battle Tank as taking any damage will knock you off), and run to the corridor leading to Viscidus's lair. Once in the corridor Fankriss will reset to his room and you don't have to fight him. This was a boon for me as I've had trouble soloing him with this character.

Comment by Azuraa

Solo'd as a 90 Demo Lock (478 ilvl).
I used a 1.8 dagger I found in my bags, and enchanted with Elemental Force.

I had no trouble freezing him. I just kept my normal rotation up until he was at 1% and frozen. I then equipped my Horseman's sinister saber (the older 365 version) and popped the pumpkin soldiers, popped Wrathstorm on my Wrathguard, popped Ipm Swarm, and then auto hit him with the sword and he was dead.

I also didn't need to use my Terrorguard

Comment by 1083060

I am 99.9% certain frost is still required to completely kill him.

BM Hunters can solo this with a Chimaera pet. Use the Froststorm Breath exotic ability until Viscidus freezes, then go all out. Might need to do it a couple times but still, cake walk at 90, and probably easily done earlier than that.

With a different pet, I was able to get him down to 1 hp, but he would not die or freeze until I used the frost spell from the Chimaera.

Comment by 1084610

Kinda surprised no one has said anything about No'Kaled, the Elements of Death it can proc frost damage plus the elemental force enchant :)

Comment by MzRezia

Was able to solo him down to 1 as a shadow priest, but was unable to kill him until I got a frost mage in for the frost damage. Some frost damage is indeed needed to win.

Comment by 1083317

for hunters:
the chimera pet ability does work on this thing.
when he is frozen i recomend throwing in your stampede for the fast hits.

Comment by TriesteHunter

Scuffling on this guy.... 90 well gear'd Frost Mage... so I easily get him to 1 hp. After that, nothing doing. Spent about 15 mins doing everything I could to him, he would not shatter. Finally popped Mirror Image for agro and hearthed out. Any ideas? Thanks for reading this post.

Comment by 919903

As a frost mage this can be difficult to solo -> you cant hit him fast enough to shatter him, unless you use the 'crate of kidnapped puppies trinket'. These will attack him and he'll shatter in no time. Pop the trinket when the fight starts (the puppies last for 10 min) and it will be easy to solo.

Comment by 1071973

As a solo Hunter (who didnt know the tactic at first and failed to nuke Visc) I found the easiest/quickest way was to fly to Silithus Northwestern borders, change spec to BM and tame Prince Lakma (White Chimaera - rare) that has the Froststorm Breath ability that you need to freeze Visc.
If you are already at Silithus, give it a try before going to the enhancement options, its a time saver.

Comment by paladno

FOR ANYONE WONDERING WHERE TO GET FROST WEAPON:

Brunnhildar Great Axe

This weapon deals some frost damage, and is VERY easy to get, just go to vendor and buy it, I am not sure what reputation you need to have, or if you need to have any at all.

Comment by paladno

Warsmith Sigfinna sells all the frost weapons you need!

Comment by 1116019

For casters having difficulty reaching the melee count Crate of Kidnapped Puppies or similar can help. Your guardians' melee counts towards the total, 5 pups do the count quickly. I was looking though my inventory for haste pots and I happened to have it on me, made it a cakewalk.

Comment by Martorc

I just soled this as a Mage and found it super easy using Crate of Kidnapped Puppies

Comment by theASCHE360

Soloed as Demo Warlock as of Patch 5.2 without using any special weapon or enchant, I Killed it with my ToT Staff

I used the following talents and glyphs:

Soul Leech
Grimoire of Service
Glyph of Imp Swarm

How I did it:

Build max Demonic Power while u leave it with 1% hp, then make sure you refresh Corruption and Hand of Gul'dan Before then go to melee range before Switching to demon form THEN start spamming Touch of Chaos until he is frozen, then pop Grimoire of Service Felguard and Glyph of Imp Swarm, then your felguard use Felstorm and spam Fel Flame with a occasional melee attack betwen Fel Flames

Voala! dead Viscidus

Comment by Thaag

Ele shaman trying to solo this:

1. Weapon imbue: frost
2. Cast frost shock while auto-melee smacking this thing around. Heal and move a bit when needed.
3. When big boss is frozen solid, whip out the earth elemental totem and hit bloodlust while continuing to auto-melee.
4. ?
5. Profit!

Comment by nushidorei

For those who as having trouble with this boss, I have made a one minute video guide showing how you can farm him as any class, if you have any questions or issues farming this boss feel free to send me a message on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nswLPlNyl8U

Good luck with the farming,

Nushi

Comment by Joschka

For a scarab lord he even dies if you fail to apply 30 frost hits in 30 seconds...
Youtube video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

Comment by ac3UVspad3s

Fire mage here. I had troubles with the melee part, of course. However, while looking at my staves (pvp and pve) I saw that my pvp was faster yet still couldn't shatter him with time warp going. I decided to take the stave off and use my fists. Any weapon under the 2.00 speed with haste WILL WORK.

I also felt accomplished beating up a raid boss with my fists.

Comment by Joschka

Whats up with this vid?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jozV9MBR-UI

I have faster attack speed but cant solo him. he didnt take more than 25 hits in this vid (i counted several times), not 30 ;-X, any ideas?

Comment by 530935

Just confirming aequalsb's simple method works like a charm:

-- DPS him until he is at 1 hp
-- switch to your freeze attack (weapon) until he freezes
-- shatter him with your fast attack for the kill
-- smile like a pro

I was able to solo this with no issues as an 88 Mistweaver Monk bringing only Brunnhildar Harpoon, with no trinks, potions, or enchants using only Jab/Tiger Palm spam to shatter.

No pet but at least now I know I can farm this boss.

Comment by Eromee

After many attempts, I found a way to solo this as a Shadow Priest. Mind Spike does the frost damage needed, and I used this attack only, as it uses next to no mana. When Viscidus froze for the final time, I pulled out my shadow fiend and used Quilen Statuette with Wind Reaver's Dagger of Quick Strikes (probably any high dps 1.8 speed dagger will do). Thanks to the RNG, I got the pet on the first *cough* successful try. Probably still kill him for fun now that I have this down!

Comment by 355273

As a Warlock i did this:

Damaged him to 1hp and switched to another weapon with Elemental Force.
A few melee hits later and he died.

Comment by Snagrat

Heres a tip for Boomkins :)

As a Balance druid this is very difficult as your weapon swings arnt fast enough. I changed to Cat spec however and used a lv 77 dagger with Elemental Force, used this on him to freeze him, then killed him using Mangle and Rake :)

Comment by bilguun83

Solod easily as caster trick is to use http://www.wowhead.com/item=86570. Puppies did melee hiting fast :D

Comment by 59229

Done it as frost mage with Terracotta Fragment & Crate of Kidnapped Puppies , was super easy, GL.

Comment by Lucidtragedy

Had to get on here and post this just because I thought it was hilarious. Just solo'd this on my frost mage. Got him to 1% and just sat there hitting him with my weapon for like 5 minutes straight. Couldn't get enough hits off in time even with time warp. Looked in my bags for some speed potions, trinkets, anything. And the only thing I had was Dog Whistle so I thought what the heck? So I reset, got him back down to 1% waited for him to freeze, started hitting him with my bare hands, hit time warp, and popped the trinket. Dead. lol and to make it even better, the pet dropped! :D Good luck all!

Comment by ZJPV1

Suggestion for Moonkin druids I just tested (and got Viscidus' pet on my first try doing, not that it matters):

Used the Previously suggested Brunnhildar Harpoon after I got him to 1%, then swapped to Cat form, popped Heart of the Wild, and the Kafa Press, and got him down

Comment by 1132071

i had a problem killing him while he was frozen but i have very simple solution for it . crate of kindap puppys which drop from rare npc in mop will do the job summon 5 dogs with 80 k hp that kill him real fast hope it helps :)

Comment by Amarilys

He is soloable as a retri pala....even if it takes a while. No need for speed potion or any consumable. Here's how I did:
-get his hp low
-change to a fast 2 hand weap (used a 1,8) with Deathfrost
When he freeezes (might take quite a while so heal if you need since even if his hits aren't so hard you might take many of them)
-used my trinket (extra 3,5k haste for Jade Charioteer Figurine)
-used Guardian of Ancient Kings (yes aparently his hits do count)
My inicial haste was 4,1k so maybe if you got more you could have a slower weap or skip some part.

Comment by 1131913

Well, I solo'd this guy twice on my rogue so far.

I used frost oil on the Claw of the Phoenix from Tempest Keep (I have it because I transmog'd my fist weapon to it, because it looks so darn cool). Just melee'd him on auto attack, he shattered twice, and BAM! down. It does take a while because you have to rely on the frost oil procs, so bring some pots, if your gear isn't too good, but at 90, he's a cakewalk. I nearly went to make a cuppa while dps'ing him.

When he freezes, use your Sinister Strike, if you're combat, or just Mutilate, should work, anything harder hitting than auto attack really, and Fan of Knives knocked down two globs pretty quick.

Just remember to keep walking now and then, or you end up with a lot of stacks of this glowy green stuff (Can't remember the name, but glowy green stuff works), it's apparently not too friendly, and I noticed my attacks were slowed by it.

Comment by Malakhi

As a Paladin I also went with the elemental force enchant. Get him frozen THEN pop Guardian of Ancient Kings. Wait to use it or you will probably have to cycle through it again.

Comment by Qoko

Rogues, due to our immense dual wield attack speed, can easily solo Viscidus with Elemental Force which I coincidentally enchanted on my Golad fang whilst levelling in Pandaria. For the wings I still carry the main hand with me, so for sake of soloing this boss I'll keep it with Elemental Force. Of course, Deathfrost is probably better as it is a guaranteed frost hit. On average, Elemental Force would increase your time on this boss by 3-fold (minute instead of 20 seconds at high ilvls).

Comment by 913874

I used a Frost Grenade after bringing Vic to 1 hp. It did not work. It hit for 1 frost, 57 overkill, and the slimeball would not die.

Comment by 1104996

As a Mistweaver monk, bought a PVP 1 hander and added Deathfrost enchant. Worked like a charm and the Viscidus Globule dropped!

Comment by Nabril

For a frost Death Knight, this fight is a cinch. It was tailor made for us.

Comment by Albaharmamar

If you are soloing this boss as a hunter it is best to have a pet who can deal frost damage like a chimera, tried killing him with my raptor summoned but you can't get him below 1hp without frost.

Comment by amacon

just solo'ed him as an ench shaman by using Frost shock at the end

Comment by ns88

As a 90 mage, i could get up to as much as 12 hits with TW.

Comment by SiCkGFX

As a ww monk, i didn't have any frost damage enchants or weapons...
at 1 hp i poped Touch of Karma, he frozed and after a few hits he died

P.S. : Viscidus Globule didn't drop for me

Comment by Noobalator

Solo'd as an 85 Blood DK without any issues and nothing fancy at all.

Used my regular 2h weapon, threw on Rune of Razorice for the frost damage, and did my normal rotation. He ended up splitting a couple of times due to freezing so fast (80% health), but I never even used Army of the Dead. Used my ghoul and DPS'd him down to 1%, he froze, and I finished him off. No CD's past my normal rotation ones.

Another kill, still no pet >.<

Comment by 1184832

Soloed as a lvl 85 holy priest with quest gear. Got a weapon with Enchant Weapon - Deathfrost , started taking down his health, he was frozen when I got him to 200k, popped mindbender and used Barov Peasant Caller and Commander's Badge, he was ready to shatter in no time. I suppose you can use the timbermaw trinket Defender of the Timbermaw as well in case you don't have the barov bell.

Comment by 781205

Just managed to solo this as a hunter without using any special bows, oils, or other similar tricks mentioned here. I apologize in advance for I didn't pay too much attention to the specific mechanics.

BM spec with a Chimera pet. Frost Breath works as frost damage for this fight. I took him down to 1hp and started popping Frost Breath until he was frozen solid. Then I simply unloaded on him with everything I had. Went down like a chump and I headed out with a shiny new battle pet for my trouble.

If you don't get the freezing mechanics down on the first try, just keep trying. As an 90 il527, his attacks didn't pose much of a threat.

Comment by Lekralilian

As a mage I got him to 1 hp, and then I couldn't do get pass that, because of obvious lack of melee skills. Took me some tries, but this is what I did :
Damaged him to 1 hp and frozen, and then I popped Crate of Kidnapped Puppies.

Comment by blammergeier

Warlocks:

to chill him:
use a wand with frost damage and autoattack OR
use a weapon with elemental force (I keep a BoA Dissector's Staff of Mutation on hand to pass between alts). more dots. seems like ticks work faster to apply elemental force. I kept Rain of Fire and Immolate up and he froze up without any real effort on my part.

to shatter him:
you can simply UNEQUIP your weapon (attack speed with bare hands is faster than most weapons) AND
use a melee demon (VW works fine) AND
...throw an Infernal on him. it took this last one to shatter him for me.

Comment by toadofsteel

Ironically, the one spec that cannot solo this? Frost mages. No way to get the melee haste high enough to kill it, even with a 1.6 speed dagger in hand, Hurricane enchant (best pure haste enchant out there), and time warp. Ended up getting a Vanquished Tentacle of C'Thun that dropped later in the raid, circled back, and used the trink to defeat him.

Comment by 1203095

do i need to meet some requirements in order to reach the boss? Because my path is blocked by a pile of sand.

Comment by Beace

Some monks report getting a kill without have a frostenchanted weapon. I tried every ability available to my WW monk tonight, but nothing would freeze him.

Comment by Luinias

Either this guy is bugged, or I am doing something wrong, cause he's not going into any of the frozen/shattering stages.
Soloing as 90 BM hunter.

Comment by RAWRimscary

I don't see that this has been mentioned but there is no need to buy Brunnhildar Bow if you are a hunter with a BM spec. Tame a chimaera and it's Frost Breath Frost Breath will freeze him just the same. Easily soloable as BM with this pet.

Comment by Wowalonegod

DK's just use Army of the Dead after he is frozen.

Comment by 182693

Frost Mages:

There is a way to make this work for you, solo. If you are sitting in the instance wanting a 'right now' fix, this will take a little work. It isn't hard work, but may take you a day or so.

First go get a Kafa Press. It's from the Frozen Trail Packer, who is in a cave in the Kun-Lai summit. If you haven't already picked up this item, it would behoove you greatly to do so. Add it to your permanent dps dump macro, as it is usable anywhere and one heck of a haste boost. He is a "rare spawn" but I have seen him pop many times on multiple toons.

As for the fight:

Burn him down to 1 HP (to be safe). You can only use the above item once per combat (CD doesn't start until combat ends). Once he is at 1 HP, wait until a fresh "Freeze" starts. At that time pop Time Warp and the above item (Kafa Press) and start melee (dagger) attacks. You should beat the timer by 4 to 10 seconds with a 1.6 speed dagger. I have Tyrannical Gladiator's Spellblade and it worked fine.

Comment by 718988

On my mage last night, went frost on this guy. Tried the remove weapon and slap him trick, didn't work. Then I activated Crate of Kidnapped Puppies , used blizzard to freeze him. Between slapping and the puppies, had no problem.

Highly recommend these two:

Crate of Kidnapped Puppies & Terracotta Fragment

Comment by 342007

I've always been taught to use what I've got on hand so that's just what I did. Level 90 Spriest, solo'd:

No weapon (beat him up with my bare hands)
Trinkets where the Quilen Statuette and the Bitterer Balebrew Charm

Brought him down to 1hp because I could, mind spiked until frozen, popped the trinkets and beat him up. It was close but it did the job. Now to farm every week until I get my pet.

Comment by 1059420

It is confirmed, Box of Kidnapped Puppies does work. Just did this on my Ret Pally using Element Enchant on a 1 hander, Elixir of the Rapids with Guardian of Ancient Kings and Box of Kidnapped Puppies. Happy Hunting.

Comment by 1232671

I decided to make a post out there for all of you loser mages that cannot solo this boss @ level 90.
Neither could I.
For about a solid hour, I strained trying to figure out why I couldn't kill him and then read the comments on this site and found out I had to melee to kill him (I literally facepalmed myself). So I gave up, and as I was walking to the twin emperors, I ran into this wonderful beauty Qiraji Champion, who gives a 50% attack speed buff. So I kited this bad boy all the way back to Viscidus, lowered him to one health, and waited for the champion to pop his 50%. I then froze the blob as fast as I could with Icy veins + time warp, and shattered him with the 50% AS from the champions buff and the 30% from time warp. You can use other trinkets too from what I've read, but just doing this requires no forethought and got me the kill. Hope this helps!

P.S. it helps to kill the pack mobs on the way to the champion and back, because if you don't he will auto aggro mobs if you get too close to them. Also you generally want to be as quick as possible when clicking him to get that final 30th hit. Dunno if the orb + mirror images idea still works but this is how I did it and it worked for me.

Comment by Avalonia

For a MW Monk with Brunnhildar Harpoon this is a pretty easy fight. The Harpoon makes the frost damage.

Comment by t3hk

As a dk I tried a bunch of things floating around, but nothing was really working for me. I could freeze him alright, but I don't think I was getting enough hits in to shatter him. Basically the best thing I came up with was get him to 1 hp, then howling blast until he froze solid then cast army of dead :D

Comment by Bomuld

As a frost mage with no melee trinkets I was completely lost with this guy. Found a site that suggested getting the Terracotta Fragment from the rare spawn in Valley of the Four Winds (by the Nesingwary place). Got the trinket, equipped a 1.7 speed dagger from the AH and got him down easily :)

Comment by Mystterious

for WARRIOR class,

for WARRIOR class,

for WARRIOR class,

This is approximatively the only one post for WARRIOR class, so please, don't disagree!

After 30 minutes of fighting with my arms warrior level 90 item level 481, and more than 2 minutes is already too much on a super low boss like this if your item level is over 390!

I decided to do THAT :

"If u are a class witch do not have frost ability u can buy from auction house Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force and enchant any melee weapon as u like that is higher than 372i lvl"

BUT LISTEN, it won't work if you don't do something else: YOU HAVE TO ATTACK REALLY FAST WHEN HE IS FROZE. With this enchant, your weapon will transform Viscidius in a block of ice, SOMETIMES. So attack Viscidus with your best weapon. When he got 1 hp (heal point) AND he is in a block of ice, then massive attack him as fast as you can. Click everything that you can click to attack him. You have to attack very fast with a lot of moves or the block of ice will dissapear and he won't die.

Perhaps my English is not perfect, but im totally useful because it works. Also I'm able to say it in your language, you're probably not able to say it in my language.

Now do like i did and don't waste more time!

This one goes out TO ALL MY WARRIORS!

Oh, and if you attack with your own hands (no weapon), it ain't work, even if you use speed potion. You need some frost damage on a weapon.

Ty, gl, hf and hand
Thank you, good luck, have fun and have a nice day!
Mystterious

Comment by oraakkeli

As mage i bought Main Gauche and used heroism when he was freezed and 1hp, worked fine.

Comment by 474699

Crate of Kidnapped Puppies and Dynasty of Steel for Mages:)

Comment by 1307457

If you are farming rep, don't forget your to get extra rep from killing bosses.

Comment by Stompa

All these posts can be summarized with a few simple facts:

Viscidus can not be killed without a frost attack of some kind.
If you go in there without a frost attack to solo him (like I did) you can reset him - just walk out of the room.
As you hit him with frost attacks he will gradually freeze solid. Once frozen he must be hit by a large number of melee attacks in a limited time (looks like 30 hits in 30 seconds) to shatter him and finally kill him.
You don't need to kill him to finish the instance, but he can drop a battle pet so it's worth a shot.

If you don't have a frost attack, you can:

Enchant your weapon to do frost damage. Elemental Force or Deathfrost
Use Frost Oil on a low level weapon.
Visit Warsmith Sigfinna and buy a frost-inflicting weapon.

If you don't play a melee class, shattering him once frozen may be difficult. Remember your melee DPS is not as important here as the number of hits within the time period is. You can:

Melee him with a fast weapon
Use a haste or speed potion or elixir to increase melee speed (or the Kafa Press)
Bring one of the many items that summons some help:

Terracotta Fragment
Quilen Statuette
Crate of Kidnapped Puppies
Barov Peasant Caller - No longer available in game, but if you still have one haul it out - I do so I think this idea is cool :-)
In season, try your Mechanical Greench from Winter Veil (doesn't use a trinket slot!)
There are actually a lot of items that summon helpers - this forum thread has a number of other suggestions.

I hope this helps!

Comment by Rizzwhit

I feel the urge to say this: it is, in fact, possible to damage Viscidus without frost damage, and I managed to bring him down to 1 hp with an unprepped Assassination rogue. Unfortunately, you really do need frost damage for that last 1 hp...

Comment by 965578

Equipped a low level dagger with frost oil, got him down to 1 hp and watched as the frost damage did nothing to him even though it says "Hit for 1 Frost damage 39 overkill" or something...

So it appears Frost Oil doesn't do it. Tried for 15 minutes at 1 hp and hit at least 20-30 times with frost damage

Comment by Dethblo

Super simple as affliction warlock.
I used Supremacy and Voidlord. Just melee him with Elemental Force-enchanted weapon and save your mana.
When he freezes (not when he turns blue; wait for him to turn to an ice block):
- keep whacking him with your melee wep
- pop Abyssal
- Rain of Fire non-stop until dead. You may need to Life Tap.

Comment by 381467

Solo with 90 Monk, used dual wield Sturdy Cobalt Quickblade enchanted with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force. He went down on the first freeze.
It is easy to make if you have a Blacksmith, it only requires 8x Cobalt Bar and has a speed of 1.70. This is the cheapest equip as far as mats I have found. Substitute a suitable dager for Rogues.

Comment by 1352392

Destro Warlocks:

Buy 1 Drums of Rage.
Have Voidwalker out.
Auto attack with a melee weapon enchanted with Elemental Force (3 Mysterious Essences for mats).

Once he freezes, keep autoattacking and summon an infernal along with activating Drums of Rage.

Done.

Comment by JakkFrost

Just a reminder, hunters are still currently capable of equipping melee weapons, so just enchant a couple of fast daggers with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force, then pound his health down with ranged, switch to daggers, and your auto-attack plus your pet's will be more than enough to finish the job, especially if you use stampede and rapid fire.

Comment by 1389562

Hunters can now solo this boss in Marksmen with no special tricks at all.

Using Chimarea shot for the frost damage, simply freeze him and swap to any melee weapon (I used a 2 handed staff), pop rapid fire and A Murder of Crows, and I did it just like that.

Good luck

Comment by Raxiel

Just to confirm this fight is trivial for a Retribution Paladin as of 6.0 as you'd expect.
Beat it down to below 5% with a frost weapon such as the ones from storm peaks, then switch to a fast 1h weapon once it freezes, spamming any abilities that trigger extra melee strikes.

Previously I'd never been able to deal with the add phase, this time it was dead in 50 seconds.

Comment by AddictedPoi

You have to hit the boss 20 times with frost damage to freeze it solid.
Then you have to hit the boss with 30 attacks within 30 seconds to shatter it.
Good choices are Frost DKs with Army of the Dead and hunters specced into Exotic Munitions to use Frozen Ammo. Once the boss is frozen, use Stampede. Both classes can shatter the boss within seconds.

Comment by nirv

For those curious, yes, the new level 100 Hunter spell Frozen Ammo can be used to freeze Viscidus up in order to take him down without needing a Chimaera with Frost Breath which requires Beastmastery due to it being an exotic pet!

I advise you just auto shot until he is completely frozen and then unload with a Barrage and everything else you got to hit him enough to shatter him. That should do the trick.

Screenshot taken on 2014-11-18 for proof: http://i.imgur.com/eBFZKlh.jpg

Comment by TheranusKJ

Was able to solo this on a frost mage (LVL 91) equipped with a Rondel, froze him using you're standard frost magey stuff, then when he was solid, i popped Icy Veins, Time Warp, Potion of Speed, and meleed away. dropped my melee swing speed to .82 or such, with a few multistrikes he died barely in time, would be nice to increase your haste additionally such as tangy yogurt or a flask, unfortunately i have none on my frost mage

Comment by 1403528

Just killed this boss as an arcane mage. Level 96. All I did was equip my pvp dagger and the trinket Crate of Kidnapped Puppies, after which I burned him to 1 HP and started melee hitting him and in turn using cone of cold and frost nova. Once he froze, I hit time warp and the puppies trinket and he broke. No pet but now I know I don't have to switch specs to kill him!

Comment by Corvak

Frost DK:

- Theres no time limit on frost, so just keep using Howling Blast and Frost Strike on him until he freezes.

-Summon Army of the Dead for an easy Shatter - a 2H DK can't do enough hits during that time (I got to 2/3 shatters)

Comment by Blublood

I just had the worst time as a Retribution Paladin trying to figure out how to do this.
But here's how:
1. I bought a One-Handed Mace (Oshu'gun Scepter) with Attack Speed 1.7.
2. I enchanted it with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force.
3. I wailed the hell out of the boss until "Viscidus is frozen solid!"
4. As soon as I saw that, I used Drums of Fury.
5. I put my head between my legs, prayed to Jesus that I would kill it this time, and mashed my Crusader Strike, Final Verdict, Hammer of Wrath, Judgment, and Exorcism just to see if they would help.

And alas, the boss was finally dead after 5 attempts!
1. No freeze weapon
2. Freeze Enchant on a 2-h
3. Freeze Enchant on a 1-h
4. Freeze Enchant on a 1-h w/ Drums
5. (kill) Freeze Enchant on a 1-h w/ Drums, lucky multistrikes, and mashing skills.

To ANY retribution paladins looking to kill this boss to get the matching gloves for your Avenger's Battlegear sets, I wish you good luck. And may the odds be ever in your favor.

---

I'm really not sure if using skills helped or not, maybe it was just Multistrike RnG. Test it out and let me know if you discover anything different.

Comment by Decolater

Shadow Priest. Got it down to 1, used an item level 571 dagger with Elemental Force. When it froze I popped Crate of Kidnapped Puppies and Barov Lumberjack Caller.

Boss went down and I got my Viscidus Globule pet.

Comment by RoninEI

I don't know if they have changed things again, but he was insanely easy to kill today on my MM hunter. All I did was equip my Frozen Ammo and use Chimaera Shot when it was available. Smacked him down to 1hp, and then just Auto attacked. After a little bit of time he froze solid, I hit and just sat there for a few. Between my regular raptor pet, and my auto attack, he shattered nice and easy. No pet this time, but at least I know I can take him easy next week. (Did get my Anubi this week tho!)

Comment by scrazzy

Hunters dont forget about your Exotic Munitions

Comment by 917459

Level 100 shadow priest here.

You can use mind spike to freeze him, the kicker is hitting him with enough physical DPS to kill him once he's frozen solid. Bought a green lvl 100 mace but it did not cut the cake. Will be coming back with a higher DPS mace.

Comment by nes76

This fight cannot be done with a ret paladin, even with elemental force on my weapon. I stood there beating on him with 0 health until he finally froze solid, which took a few minutes, then popped my drums to boost haste and still was unable to break him before he changed back. This sucks =/

Comment by Lightless123

Verified that Exotic Munitions - Frozen Ammo does inflict enough Frost Damage to kill. As of 6.0.3 at 656 ilvl it took about 15 seconds of shooting to freeze him then 30 to crack.

Comment by mikochu

After reading the comments here, this is what I did as a level 100 Ret Pally(7.36% haste before buffs and 9.70% multistrike) with no summoning trinkets:

Haste food. I just used Frosty Stew.
Drums of Fury which can be bought on the AH.
Wasteland Scepter, bought from Len at Arms, right next to the Serpent's Spine flight master in Vale of Eternal Blossoms.
Enchant that with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force.
Change the last tier talent to .

For the fight itself, dps Viscidus normally until he is down to 1hp. I didn't equip my enchanted weapon until this point but it takes a little bit to freeze him so you can equip it off the bat if you so choose. While fighting him, make sure to build up 5 holy power, but don't spend any as they are all needed for Seraphim. Once he is frozen, pop drums and Seraphim and spam Crusader Strike and Templar's Verdict until he is dead.

Hope this helps some other Ret Pallies out there!

Comment by 486642

A method I came with is to bring Barov Peasant Caller with you if you are a shadow priest, and any dagger that is fast enough, like under 1.9. Simply blast away with Mind Spike, then when it is frozen start stabbing him, call your servants and your shadowfiend or mindbender. Make sure you pop them all right when he becomes frozen, or you might make it and will have to wait until the cooldown is over. If you time it well, you should do 15 hits by yourself, while your minions do the rest.

Comment by Doobybob

The lumberjack trinket helped me kill this guy as a Frost Mage since I can't melee well after freezing him. Barov Lumberjack Caller

Comment by pepper12345

Here's something i've noticed for hunters in 6.1

I've used Ice Trap waited for it to proc and lay the ice under him, then i moved him off of it, and back onto the ice, and it counted as multiple frost spells! With 3-4 traps doing these i froze him over without the need for any ice enchants or Brunhildar bow!

Then i proceeded to call stampede, barrage and whatever else i could throw at him.

But i bet Frozen Ammo from Exotic Munitions would work just as fine

Comment by Shark5060

Got pretty easy for a hunter with exotic ammunition - just have a pet out and autoattack.

Comment by MrCake

With the new heirloom tab, if you are looking for a fast weapon for your class, this is the place. Easy to enchant and mail around aswell for all the alts.

Comment by Glamthrax

Just beat this guy as a warlock, epuipped a 1H sword with the enchant Elemental Force and used my shivarra as a pet. Was able to shatter in time.

Comment by Ethna

This was a no-brainer as lvl 100 Ret Paladin. I equipped Barov Lumberjack Caller and Brunnhildar Great Axe thinking this was going to be tough after reading comments. Took a few hits to get him frozen, then popped the trinket. He was down in seconds.

Comment by Uern

To outfit my level 100 fury warrior and level 100 combat rogue for this boss, I made 2 level 1 human rogues and mailed their starting offhanders (Worn Dirk) to my enchanter to receive the Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force upgrade. Then I bought the cheapest 1.60-speed daggers available on the AH for their main hands and put the same enchant on them.

The warrior's slower attack speed + misses means it can take a couple of cycles of freezing to kill the boss, but I've never had it take more than two. The rogue, with his speed buffs, seems to always down the boss with a ton of time left in the first freeze cycle.

Using the rogue starting offhander on a new toon saves some gold when setting this up.

Comment by DaScootz

MM Hunters can solo Viscidus using Chimaera Shot and Frost Trap, both count as frost utility towards this boss. ~

Comment by dartworth

After reading the comments here I used the following items on my 100 Ret Pally

Oshu'gun Scepter from the AH enchanted with Elemental Force. Found one with haste on it. Feverflare
Vanquished Tentacle of C'Thun trinket drop from C'Thon
Potion of Speed bought from the AH or made with Alchemy
Frosty Stew 100 haste food
Drums of Fury

I was able to kill Viscidus on first attempt. When the boss froze, I used Potion of Speed, Vanquished Tentacle of C'Thun, and Drums of Fury.

Hope this helps and good luck.

Comment by madseasonshow

To kill Viscidus, you can't simply drain his health to zero. You have to freeze him by hitting him with ~25 frost attacks, then shatter him by hitting him with ~25 physical attacks, in addition to draining his health.

For those having trouble killing him, I made guides to kill him for all 11 classes. All of these guides are made for level 100 characters(Warlords of Draenor). If any of these become irrelevant in future expansions, I'll replace them. You can find them below:

Warlock Level 100
Death Knight Level 100
Hunter Level 100
Druid Level 100
Warrior Level 100
Priest Level 100
Rogue Level 100
Monk Level 100
Shaman Level 100
Paladin Level 100
Mage Level 100

Good luck!

Comment by Tisina

As a rogue, i combined the advices from here when i read up during the fight in which i couldn't kill him.
Always went here with my DK, never paying attention to the game mechanics.

So, broke the combat by vanish when I read the stuff here. Took 2 daggers from my heirloom tab, ilvl463, put the elemental force on it. Love to be an enchanter and always having some old enchant mats with me.
And kicked off again. eventhough you use outranked weapons for yr lvl (assuming yr lvl 100 by now) the rest of yr gear will make up for it.
Come on people, we are talking about a lvl 60 raid boss from vanilla here.
Just keep hitting him and eventually you will freeze him and do enough dmg to take him down.
Too bad the companion didnt drop, so i have to come back next week. But will keep my heirlooms ready for him.

Comment by Gandoron

Easily soloable as a lvl 100 hunter with Exotic Munitions (Frozen Ammo)

Comment by bertdad

Balanced Druid -

First: Pick up the Crate of Kidnapped Puppies from Borginn Darkfist in Kun-Lai Summit in Panderia.

Second: Pick up a dagger or knife you can wield and apply Elemental Force to it.

Third: Go to Temple of Anh'Qiraj in southern Kalimdor and get to Viscidus. Wield melee weapon and hit him until he freezes. When he freezes, unleash the hounds!

Force of Nature will not work.

Comment by Traximos

Hunters - Exotic Munitions - Frozen Ammo. Burn him down with your normal attacks, then use Barrage once he's frozen... and you're done. I had Stampede going at the same time, but I doubt that had anything to do with it.

Comment by Barleduq

L71 BM hunter here. Neither cold trap had any effect on Visc - didn't trigger them at all. Had him at 1 hp for about 5 minutes before I gave up. :(

Comment by Xwast90

Question, since demo locks have a few abilities which deal chaos damage (being, being considered multi-school of all the magic schools including physical) does that mean that they are able to solo this guy?

Comment by reZoner

For mages(but not only) mini guide how to kill him.

First we must buy the fastest weapon in game! Gas-Powered Stick vendor Guh

Then just divide boss on zero, and stun with you ice abilities(stay in melee range). Use BL and boss will die.

Don't forget to activate auto-attack.

Comment by 1544192

Its actually very simple to kill this boss. Attack him with frost attacks and once he freezes (at 1hp) use: Gas-Powered Stick

Comment by Elladaow

As a 683 ele sham i pounded him with frost shock till he froze then while frozen popped earth elemental and heroism and auto attacked the crap out of him.

Comment by cephadex

"Why can't I get this boss down below 1 health?"

Even at level 100, you still need to follow a certain sequence of actions in order to kill him; killing him has to do with the number of hits, not just the actual amount of damage done.

After hitting him a certain number of times with frost damage (used to be 100, now greatly reduced though I don't know the exact number; might be 10), he goes into phase "Freeze 1/3." After hitting him more with frost damage (used to be 150 frost hits, maybe now it's 15 total), he goes into phase "Freeze 2/3." After 20 total frost hits (used to be 200), he goes into "Freeze 3/3." At this point, he will appear frozen within a block of ice, and you will have 30 seconds to hit him 30 times (this time, it doesn't need to be frost damage; it can be any melee hit).

Do not despair if your class cannot do frost damage, because there are ways around this.

The strategies given on this page are meant to help with two things:

1. Help classes that do not have frost spells be able to solo him despite that (such as with the elemental force enchant, which can only be applied to a weapon up to ilvl 600, or with frost oil, which can only be applied to a weapon up to ilvl 165).

I recommend getting a fast one-handed WoD green weapon under ilvl 600, such as Howling Mace (or, if your class can equip two one-handed weapons, then get two fast ones); and then enchant it with elemental force.

2. For the final phase of the fight ("Frozen 3/3"), to achieve 30 hits within 30 seconds (which is a bit challenging when you are soloing this boss). Suggestions to this end are intended to:

a. Help you hit faster, such as by using potion of speed and elixir of the rapids;

b. Help you have more things hitting the boss at the same time, such as by using trinkets that summon helpers, who can also hit the boss at the same time as you.

Some examples of trinkets/items to use (you probably don't need more than one or two of these at the same time; note that some of these are no longer obtainable, but you might have them sitting in storage from back when you could get them):

Manual of Void-Calling
Quilen Statuette
Terracotta Fragment
Mechanical Yeti
Mechanical Greench (Winter Vale only)
Captain's Badge or Commander's Badge
Bitter Balebrew Charm/ Bitterer Balebrew Charm/ Bitterest Balebrew Charm/ Bitterest Balebrew Charm
Barov Servant Caller

If your class has the ability to call on a pet or minion (ex., water elemental, shadowfiend, etc) that also helps.

The reason people want to kill him is because he has a chance of dropping a pet (Viscidus Globule); he is not required in order to get the achievement for completing the raid.

Comment by 0v0awkardOwls0v0

i dont know why but i cant kill him with my frost DK but i have no issue with my survival hunter just thought it was funnny since the dk spec has is nammed frost

Comment by 1363783

You can skip him.
This Boss is not necessary to get the achievement.

Comment by danicadb1

I just killed him now, it only took 10 seconds, I wore as much lower level gear with haste on them added a haste enchant to a 160 speed dagger, one of the boas you can find in Dread Wastes; I have a lumber yard so I used the Barov lumberjack caller( you get 5 lumberjacks that melee hit), I am a frost mage and I had my water pet out; it was the haste and the lumberjacks that did it for me; as I tried like 6 times yesterday to no avail, and today I changed a few things as mentioned above, and it was very fast :)
Good luck to you all.

Comment by Yeha

WoD update for hunters: u can use Exotic Munitions talent with Frozen Ammo.

Comment by DakMonkeyz

Killed him as a Balance Druid level 100.

Strategy:

Equip a Weapon with Elemental Force (Elemental Force) enchant. (Speed of the weapon doesn't matter I used 3.8 staff)
Just to be sure I changed my talents to Force of Nature and Heart of the Wild)
Activate Catform and start meleeing the boss, just melee attacks (white attacks).
As soon as the boss emotes: "Viscidus is frozen solid!" Click your force of nature three times and activate heart of the wild and spam shred and ferocious bite until the boss is dead.

Notes:

I'm not sure if the 2 talents help at all, I just tried to do everything I could to make it easier without respeccing away from balance.
I used my resto pvp gear with 21% haste.
I didn't use any potions/elixirs/other consumables.

Got my first slime on my first kill, cheers, gl hf :)

Comment by Viserion

it bugged for me just now, won't die
tried to reset the fight and again but his hp freezes at 1 and no matter how many times I hit him (the hits seem to count) but his hp won't go to 0

*sorry for beying a noob, I just belived that it was bugged; this is a mechanic, after you down his hp and he freezes u need to hit him with a number of melee attacks within a timeframe; can't solo it as a frost mage of 710ilvl

Comment by Palaholland

In patch 7.0 this boss was made very easy for shamans. All you need to do is switch to enhancement. Then take the talent 'Hailstorm' (lvl 60 talent), keep the buff up on yourself and just hit the boss with your abilities.

Comment by Menjina

Warlock

Use Destruction as Specialization.
Chaos Bolt to freeze him.
Summon Succubus + Summon Infernal to shatter him.

No enchants, trinkets etc. needed to kill him.

Comment by Verosumatic

As of the 7.0.3 Pre-Patch, he was still easily solo-able by an Elemental Shaman. The strategy I used has changed slightly but is actually super simple:

Cast Frost Shock until he's frozen (seemed to be about 15 times)
Cast Bloodlust or Heroism and melee with a fast 1h weapon (Mine was 1.6 and I didn't even have a second to spare before he unfroze)
Loot boss (or repeat if you messed up)

If you have anything else to increase your haste that will certainly make it less of a close-call than mine was. I, however, was lazy and this method made it so I hardly had to do anything but sit and wait while my shaman auto-attacked.

Comment by kushano

not soloable anymore for me with my frost dk lol :S

Comment by delabarra

Soloed as Unholy Dk. Just autoattack with one-handed having Rune of Razorice (probably from frost spec duals) untill freeze and then cast Army of the Dead.

Comment by Spuugvuurlol

How to solo Viscidus as frost mage without anything special needed.

I once again forgot my Barov Servant Caller in my bank but I was too lazy to go and get it. I figured I'd give it a shot anyway and of course Viscidus got out of his frozen state before I was able to smash him to smithereens. Then I realized I have both Time Warp and Icy Veins. I tried to go at it unarmed at first, but unfortunately that fell a little bit short. I used Invisibility to reset the fight and my cooldowns. Then I remembered we have heirlooms now. I picked the fastest weapon in my heirloom collection, which turned out to be Balanced Heartseeker and tried again
With an attack speed of 1.70, the Balanced Heartseeker in combination with Icy Veins and Time Warp was enough to shatter Viscidus.

tl;dr version:

Equip Balanced Heartseeker
Get Viscidus' HP down and freeze him up.
Pop Time Warp and Icy Veins as soon as he's frozen and melee him down with your weapon.

Comment by Shibang909

As a frost DK I found myself with no shortage of frost damage. Getting to 30 hits in 30 seconds was an issue though because I had pretty slow weapons.

As Unholy, Chains of Ice counts for the frost damage you'll need. Minions and Army of the Dead will cover the 30 hits.

Comment by Alteir

Good news for Demon Hunters, chaos damage counts as cold for the purposes of freezing Viscidus.

Comment by calmlunatic

As a warrior. Specced to Fury. Equipped 2 2h brunnhildar axes, bought 2 cheap daggers off AH (they don't need to be frost enchanted). autoattacked. When he froze, switched to daggers, used whirlwind and bladestorm. he went down very quickly. I'm not sure if trinkets were necessary, but I had rhea's egg and ghost dragonling trinket.

Comment by Frostascious989

Soloable as a BM hunter by use of Chimaera Shot, as it has a chance to use either nature or frost damage against him.
It does however, take a VERY long time to do this using Chimaera Shot because of the random chance, and the cooldown on the ability itself.

Comment by sherrasama

I was finally able to do this as a Frost DK since the 7.0 changes with the following setup:

2 fast 1h weapons (2.00 or less) both runeforged with Razorice
Taking the Frozen Pulse talent

Use Howling Blast on CD to keep your runes empty to proc the Frozen Pulse effect
Basically just strictly use Howling Blast and then Frost Strike while your runes are empty.
As soon as he freezes, use Remorseless Winter. Use it again before the freeze timer is up.

I don't know that this works 100%, I had to fine-tune it a bit before I finally got him down.

Comment by Baronessa

For my unofficial guide for killing Viscidus, there are two rules to remember:

1. Any frost type spell will do, it doesn't have to be damage-based
2. It doesn't matter how hard you hit him, but how fast you do

Rule 2 makes sense when you consider this boss was tailor-made for a 40-man raid, and when you've got 40-some people pounding him at once, he'll obviously be instantly killed.

With this in mind, I soloed Viscidus on my Death Knight, with the newly designed unholy spec, which doesn't allow you to do any damage-based frost spells. Thank you, Blizzard.

So, I got my ghoul out, and after I easily got him to 1 health point, I started spamming Chains of Ice on him until he froze; as he was frozen I popped the unholy-exclusives Army of the Dead and Gargoyle on him, and he was dead in seconds.

I'm unaware of how many hits Viscidus has to actually take to shatter, but combining Army of the Dead and Gargoyle with my guardian ghoul he took like a baker's dozen of hits at once. My guess is that it's not a set amount of hits, it's a set amount of damage per second.

Comment by zdravi

Killed today with a pair of Grasscutter enchanted with Elemental Force. No strategy necessary-- I intentionally just autoattacked him to death with at least a couple of seconds left on the "shatter" timer; using any abilities whatsoever just speeds up the process.

Should be extraordinarily trivial if you can dual-wield any ~1.6-1.7 speed weapon.

Comment by Tanfana

Lvl 100 Warlock - iLvl 702 w/ Succubus

1. Crafted Lesser Magic Wand & enchanted it with Elemental Force from inside the instance (In fact, while fighting Viscidus)
2. Beat the crap out of him with my usual rotation until he froze
3. Equipped Kris of Unspoken Names (re-acquired from an NPC outside the 10M Ahn'Qiraj instance)
4. Stabbed him until he shattered

Probably could've saved myself a couple steps if I had just put Elemental Force onto my Kris of Unspoken Names. C'est la vie!

Comment by SatuOnDrugs

As a DH you only need to use the Havoc Spec to kill him because of the Chaos dmg. Just do your normal rotation and it will work.

Comment by tacgnol

As of Legion, Shaman's will want to switch to Enhance and just go all out with your Doomhammer buffed with frostbrand. Bloodlust couldn't hurt, but I didn't need it. Elemental simply can't smack it fast enough, even with your Earth Elemental helping.

Comment by codeytherhino

They really need to remove this dumb gimmick. I understand its purpose and it made perfect sense when you had 40 people running it, but now this raid is only done solo and you've put a pet as a drop on this boss. It's dumb that certain classes cannot kill this boss without planning ahead, while others can faceroll right through it no problem.

Comment by Zirakzigil

Update for mages trying to kill this mob. With the new heirloom gear and the addition of new spells he is possible to solo at L80 without much trouble. Use the heirloom dagger with haste, the heirloom book, and 2 of the heirloom haste trinkets. As soon as he starts to freeze cast your Time Warp, you have 40 seconds so it will last through the exchange. When he freezes use Icy Veins, it only lasts 20 seconds but the two appear to stack for a total of +60% haste during that time.

Comment by 362388

You'll need a weapon/attack that does frost damage to beat this boss down to drop the pet... natural frost works (Frost Mage, Frost DK, etc), but for weapons, you want it enchanted somehow to do frost damage... Rune of Razorice for DKs, Elemental Force for everyone else (also of note the Brunhilder weapons sold by Warsmith Sigfinna also work without any enchants).

Finally, and most importantly, you want FAST weapons... the quicker the speed the better, auto-attacks will work if you have a fast enough weapon.

The fastest 2H weapons (staff/polearm) in the game include:
Gas-Powered Stick
Ethereum Phase-Spear

Some fast 1H weapons (swords) include:
Maldo's Sword Cane
Sturdy Cobalt Quickblade
Dazzling Mithril Rapier

Daggers for those that can use them, are of course a "duh"... shouldn't be hard to find fast daggers.

Comment by Babytoes

Remember folks, just because you can't equip a dagger doesn't mean you can't equip a Skinning Knife.

Just had to use 2 of them on my 105 Frost DK because her haste wasn't high enough I guess.

EDIT: wewps didnt realize you had to be level 1 skinner for this to work.

I ended up getting Grasscutter on my DK that didn't have skinning. You get this from a vendor in Dalaran. SheMagistrix Lambriesse is in the building right under "Windrunner's Sanctuary" on the map in OLD Dalaran.

Make sure you change the sort drop down box at the top right to "all" so you ensure it shows up. As a death knight it being agility it didn't show up at first.

Comment by grorge

Endothermic Blaster toy from 2016 Winter Veil works, but theres also a problem about to break it. :)

Comment by mnkypox

update 12/27/2016 ::edit:: grorge beat me to posting, but props to them for figuring this out

For those that forgot our freezing spell/enchant BUT remembered to get our xmas gifts from in game, the Endothermic Blaster toy works great!

Activate the toy, use repeatedly on boss until he freezes solid. Then deactivate buff (right click on it) and pummel as usual.

Thank goodness for this, didn't really want to run out of instance just to go find something to use.

GL and happy holidays all!

Comment by reikatana

As a Mage, I just used Frost spec, and equipped Balanced Heartseeker. When the boss was frozen, cast both Icy Veins and Time Warp, and before long, it was shattered.
Mage=Easymode?

Comment by milundaria

Just attempted to use the new toy we got from Winter's Veil since others posted that it worked. However, on my paladin, I clicked on the toy... pointed at the big blob, and repeatedly used my extra action button to shoot snow all over him to no avail... can we just say durn it :(

Comment by somnomania

The Endothermic Blaster did work for me, but some part of my UI was interfering, so I couldn't cancel the toy buff. Instead, and this is a general tip for hunters, use Chimera Shot! It takes a while, but it IS possible. I had my pets attacking him as well so I could stay out of the slowing debuff range, and I'd guess it took about two minutes for the Chimera Shot frost part to build up enough to freeze him. No battle pet drop, though.

Comment by iamsyntact

here's one method that worked to kill Viscidus for my main Priest without the enchant or trinket
requirements:
•25% or higher haste rating
•azshari salad before engaging
•the "kris" dagger (sold by vendors in major cities)
•drums of the mountain
•the talents Reaper of Souls, Mind Spike, and Power Infusion (Dominant Mind would also be a cool idea, bring some trash into the boss room and use them for some extra physical damage in phase three, didn't try it)
instructions:
1. use mind spike twelve times or until you see the "viscidus is freezing up!" message in chat
2. cast SW:D and Mind Blast to get to 100 insanity, enter voidform, then mind spike to push him into phase three (this will leave you with a few seconds of voidform and then lingering insanity for the added haste, which helps a lot)
3. immediately cast Drums of the Mountain, PI, then Shadowfriend
this should give you and your squid enough time to get those 30 physical attacks in before the timer runs out. enjoy your loot!

Comment by ry2k

I pulled this old coot on my DH just for fun w/o checking anything ahead of time, and figured I was out of gas when he didn't immediately explode, but, like an unfortunately buried post suggests, chaos damage counts as frost. One Eye Beam and he was frozen, and then I just wailed on him and he shattered. Go crazy, demon hunters.

Comment by SargonStarblade

First I want to say this guy is a pain now.

I killed him as a DK by switching to Unholy Spec. Spammed Mind Freeze and Chains of Ice. As soon as he froze up I summoned my Army of the Dead.

Could not hit him fast enough as a Frost DK and did not know they changed him in 7.0.

Comment by Addy

As long as you have the tiniest bit of haste, the Gas-Powered Stick in conjunction with the Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force enchant is able to solo Viscidus with ease.

The boss needs to be melee hit 30 times during his 30-second long stun to die, which is triggered by dealing frost damage to him 200 times, which the enchant will do for you fairly quickly, due to the fast attack speed of the staff.

No drums or companion/guardian summoning trinkets or spells required.

Comment by Sebiale

I was able to do this as an Arms warrior using Endothermic Blaster and Bladestorm to get me through the first 1/3 of shatter and then spammed slam, whirlwind, and smash.

Comment by Koolaider

If there's any confusion as to how to use the Endothermic Blaster to kill this boss, you simply need to DPS him down to zero health, activate the toy from your toybox, use the action icon up close to the boss until he reaches 3/3 frozen status (you'll see the prompts in text, phase 3 freezes the boss solid), deactivate the toy by right clicking the buff to cancel, then DPS him as using as many hits as you can until it's dead. I did this on my Monk and it took no time at all.

Comment by daedelusikarius

Endothermic Blaster TOY totally works. Confirming from below. Go INSIDE the BOSS and use it about 12-15 times. He gets Chilled 1 - Chilled 2 - Chilled 3 and then he freezes.. then click off toy and KILL

Comment by daedelusikarius

Comment by Pastoral

Elemental Shaman:

Freeze him with repeated casts of Frost Shock, summon Earth Elemental and Fire Elemental, cast Heroism and then right click on him to melee.

Dead Viscidus.

Comment by Sethdarkus999

Can be Solo on a Havoc DH.

Chaos strike does chaos damage which can freeze him.

once he frozen/near trigger your meta form for the increased haste now just auto attack/use artifact ability, Blade dance and of course Demonbite if you are not talented into demon blades and you killed him. Would advise demon blades and Fel rush, just for the fury generation so you can blade dance.

Legion DK solo method.

The only DK spec able to solo now would be Unholy, Just use Rune of Razorice on your Artifact or any 2 hand sword, atuo attack at some point he will freeze when he does army of undead, that plus your ghoul will be enough to shatter loot win done.

Frost DK got changed in such a way as of Legion that Frost strike no longer does physical damage so it counts just as spell damage which prevents it form shattering, so you only got 1 2 rune cost ability and atuo attacks you will not meet the needed result without a drums, just best to unholy it due to the ghoul/army factor.

(I will be updating this as I do some more testing with other classes of ease.)

Comment by Charminn

I want to add if you're a melee without access to frost spells Faulty Countermeasure from Vault of the Wardens does work. I had to use it twice with Crusade on my Paladin to freeze him, but the second use froze him right away and the haste from Crusade let me crack him.

Comment by Redday

Hunters can tame a pet with frost attack. Take little longer to kill but it worked with an Chimera (frost breath)

Comment by Matsen115

I hope we will get frost enchants for artifact weapons so we can kill this guy everytime we come to AQ40. i need xmog from him.

Comment by 1759050

Frost oil did work for me as a lvl 100 feral druid. Once he is in the frozen ice block do all the dot's and hits you can do as fast as possible.

Comment by cailmarlo

I haven't seen this mentioned on this thread but the toy Endothermic Blaster works just fine to freeze him.

Edit: Just remember to click off the buff once he's frozen. It took me roughly two minutes of the five that the toy is active to freeze him.

Comment by Alixstar

Endothermic Blaster still works wonders when freezing him. Just make sure you're standing close enough for it to affect him :P

I used it to freeze him and brought along a pair of daggers on my hunter to melee him til he cracks. Worked beautifully.

Comment by martinblom

I use the mei gun(overwatch ref)toy " Endothermic Blaster " from christmas even. keep shoot until he is freeze ( stuned and lock by ice spike) and then click right on gun icon to close the ice gun( you cant use spell or attack when holding the ice gun) AND HURRY ATTACK WITH EVERRYTHING YOU HAVE damage is not the problem it about 30 hit in 3o sec the toy cooldown is very long so hope you success.

Comment by JillyBean4179

Just soloed on BM Hunter 110. Didn't have a frost pet (just my wolf); froze him with Endothermic Blaster (stand inside him as others have mentioned and just spam it). Only difference is when I froze him, I couldn't turn the Blaster off. Clicking, right clicking, standing on my head and doing the hula ... nothing worked to remove it. So I just set my pet to attack him. Might not be "conventional", but it worked.

Comment by Nirdana

As a frost mage, it is enough to equip your Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker and pop TW and icy veins (also have your haste gear equiped) and it easily crushes under the weight of your mighty weapon!

Comment by Xone1

Is the killing blow random? Trying to kill him with a Frost DK (soloing it at lvl 68) but no matter what I do... he keeps freezing but stays at 1 hp left.

Comment by purpleblob

Warlocks: You can spec into (lvl 100 talent) in Demonology, as it does Chaos Damage which is all schools of magic.

Comment by Robotusch

With the stealthy change to weapon speeds introduced in 7.3, it's now a bit more tricky to get the required number of hits in to shatter Viscidus if you're playing a slow hitting melee class or a caster class.

Fortunately there are two trinkets available, either of which will do the job for you by spawning NPC's that does melee damage:
Crate of Kidnapped Puppies is dropped by Borginn Darkfist in Kun-Lai Summit with a 20-25% drop chance.

Barov Lumberjack Caller is a reward from the Lumber Mill building questline in your WOD garrison.

Comment by IShowerNaked

Havoc Demon Hunter can freeze Viscidus with Chaos Nova or Eye Beam for example.

This is either a bug or a feature to make soloing the boss possible. However, it worked for me several times.

Also, I unequipped ALL items from my character and equipped 2 x Skinning Knife to make sure that none of my items was causing a frost damage proc. (0 talent points spent)

Comment by Yooper1120

The Mechanical Yeti and the Terracotta Warrior are both useful to help break the frozen boss into shards, killing him. The Spectral Brewmaster and Spectral Windwalker cannot, however, since they can't be used in the raid.

Comment by Palisis

They broke this boss again. With patch 7.3 all weapons, including old ones, have been standardized so that all one-handers are 1.6 speed and two-handers are 2.6 speed. As a ret pali, I had to bring speed elixirs and drums, just to get my axe to hit enough times. They should remove this BS mechanic already since all other bosses are 1-shots anyway.

Comment by 010001001011010

Had to rejigger my strategy as a Paladin. Specced Holy, wielded Battleworn Thrash Blade enchanted with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force, popped Drums of Fury and Holy Avenger once frozen.

Comment by dark6mac

As Retribution Paladin there is quite easy way.

Make sure you have Endothermic Blaster or any other item which is capable of freezing him up, like eg. Hammer of the Northern Wind with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force.

If you use Endothermic Blaster

Keep your Holy power on 5 points
When you freeze him cancel your toy
Pop your Avenging Wrath or Crusade
Start spending HP
Use and spend HP again
Keep spamming all your offensive spells like crazy
Pray to RNG Gods for procs on your Blade of Justice
...
Profit

If you use weapon then just switch back to Ashbringer and do the same things described above.

Also Azshari Salad will only help so take that chip and eat it :D

Comment by EverySingleDay

As a frost mage, I was able to solo this by unequipping my weapon then activating Icy Veins and Time Warp as soon as he freezes up.
The unarmed melee attacks from my character was way faster than her melee attacks with her weapon equipped, which made it possible for me to shatter and kill it in time.
Just make sure you activate Icy Veins and Time Warp when it is close to freezing up, to not waste anytime.

Comment by Erithmael

8.0 UPDATE Just went on my mage and struggled with getting my attack speed up (since they have normalized weapon speed), so I had to try a few times.

Frost spec: talented Mirror Image though I'm not sure if their attacks helped, but did Ice Lance until he turned medium blue, popped Mirror Image & Time Warp, spammed Ice Lance until frozen, then hit Icy Veins since it only has a 30 sec effect and I didn't want to waste it. Wailed away at him with my Simple Dagger and BOOM he was down. Thank goodness this still works.

As a frost mage I thought this would be a cakewalk, but I couldn't get my unarmed melee attacks to finish in time to break him, even with carefully timing Time Warp and Icy Veins.

So, what's a mage to do?

WELL I'm betting most of you have Traveler's Tundra Mammoth and after exiting Viscidus' cave and mounting up, lo and behold, what does it sell? A Simple Dagger!

After equipping it, I was able to get enough speed with about 3-4 seconds to spare.

Hope this helps!

Comment by threedmk

Edit: stand corrected, there were other mage comments, i should learn how to read comments here... ;)

Didn't see a lot of advice for mages on here that was relevant to the newest content in game. Most paths involved using trinkets for added melee hits that you just cannot get anymore, or take a ton of time. I preferred the AH approach...

Spec: Frost
Main Hand: Any sword with 1.8
Extra Stuff: Mechanical Greench and Potion of the Old War (Potion of the Old War)

Rolled in, murdered with Flurry, which killed and froze him. Dropped Mechanical Greench and Potion of the Old War and then melee until dead.

Repeat as needed. First kill dropped Viscidus Globule for me which was nice to see. Now i just need to complete my old gear set and I will be pleased.

Comment by Alcasczar

Currently bugged, got him frozen and pounded the heck out of him with frost abilities more than 100 hits and he wont die thus the encounter keeps on going like this until you run out.

Comment by Teebee2010

With the changes to weapon speed, you may have some difficulties in shattering the boss (phase two, after successfully freezing the boss). If you are looking for a faster weapon:
The Frying Pan from The Tillers may be an option (only cooking level 1 required).

Of course you can also equip a simple dagger if your class allows, or use your skinning, blacksmithing or mining skills with Skinning Knife or Blacksmith Hammer or Mining Pick ,

If you want more creativity: http://www.wowhead.com/miscellaneous-weapons#items:0+7-2
Rank by weapon speed.

Comment by Kenaris

Palret here, I can't find a way to do it solo as we hit every 200 years and have only Crusader Strike and fists as phy attacks... Had to ask a friend to help :-/

Comment by TheVeiledGhost

You would think they would have changed this by now. We're in Legion. They made every other raid from previous expansion soloable for all classes. I am after some of the cloth gear but can't kill him with my lock, mage, or priest. I don't think they will change it though, since the raid came out about 13 or 14 years ago.

Comment by Kickzors

Endothermic Blaster still works, just make sure you step forward towards his center of mass. Max melee range doesn't do the trick.

Comment by Theplaguecrow

Looks like this guy won't die since 7.3.5... I tried on my mage and frost dk and still doesn't die after the point of shattering...

Comment by mtgajax

He is soloable in 7.3.5 did today Jan 20th. Used my shaman, and repeatedly used frostbrand until he froze, then did normal damage until he cracked and broke. It did take ~2 min at 110, which is far longer than any other boss.

Comment by Grammie

Well I used the Endothermic Blaster like everyone suggested - he turned to ice and I hit him - for about 10 minutes - nothing - the guys health got to 3275 and never dropped a digit lower...very frustrating

Comment by Guldoran

Want to waste your time? Then go to this raid without reading up on it before going there. You'll waste a good hour running around to the bosses and another hour or 2 trying to figure out how to kill some of them like this one. Then you'll find yourself here finding out that you can't kill this boss with your character and must bring other items to solo a boss that has been in the game for over a decade. So then you get frustrated and have to hearth out, get the right items, come back here and read about how to properly do the boss, then go all the way back to this raid which is in the middle of nowhere land and run all the way back in to the boss that you were unprepared to deal with at the start. But hopefully people will read this first before even going there so they will know they can't just solo it as their character is for most classes I think.

Comment by FiareFox

If you happened to not be around during winter to get the winter toy that can freeze Viscidus, you can get the Shado-Pan Geyser Gun anytime of the year so you can solo this boss, it works exactly the same. Happy hunting my friends~

Comment by krikcrack

Brunnhildar Harpoon
~~Brunnhildar Axe~~
Brunnhildar Bow
Frost Oil
Brunnhildar Great Axe
Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force

you're welcome.

Comment by Yogilaw

OK, this is bugged to hell. Way over levelled Frost DK, hit him froze him, threw the kitchen sink at him & hit & froze him some more; result...the b'tard wouldn't drop below 1% HP. Gave it up as a bad job, probably doesn't drop anything decent anyway. Total waste of time.

Comment by perc

did this tonight as a frost DK. it's not bugged, but you have to hit it often enough. i wasn't able to hit it frequently enough solo, so i dug out a Captain's Badge (summon a netherwing ally) and a Mechanical Yeti that i had in my bank to hit the thing along with me. worked like a champ

Comment by jediwump

Just tried this on a 969 Ret Paladin and couldn't do it. I can't get enough attacks in after he's frozen. I did it twice, used full Crusade/raid CD's the second time and didn't make it. I read that people used to use a fast one hander, but since they normalized weapon speeds, this may not be possible. I tried equipping a one hander but there are even less attacks, if that's possible. Does anyone know of any tips for this?

Comment by Steezy123

Can no longer be frozen with the toys as of 8.0 pre-patch.. Spammed both Shado-Pan Geyser Gun and Endothermic Blaster for full duration of 5 minutes, hitting every shot with the chilly debuff and it wouldn't even slow down at all, nothing happened. Sad game

Comment by Trid3nt

As a 110 Ret pally (8.0) I managed to kill him by using the talents:

Zeal
Fires of Justice
Inquisition

I had Volcanospike (random low 1h sword) with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force enchanted.

Build up holy power, as soon as he freezes use Inquisition, Drums and hit him with Judgement. Continue to use Crusader Strike and Judgement off cooldown, maintaining your Inquisition for the haste buff.

I have 41% haste unbuffed with a speed set I use, focusing mainly on haste for Aggramar's Stride, otherwise I wouldn't have so much haste.

I tested and messed around trying to nail down a strat for this as toys are no longer an option and with this setup, I did it the first time. ~~Not sure if it was lucky procs, the smashing of my keyboard or just that the strat is solid~~ Seems it's based on the fact I have a tonne of Haste, plus lucky procs. - But I hope it gives you Paladins out there hope!

Shivwrens comment below should also help you produce a strat that'll work for you and your current gear.

Comment by Zachs

Just tried to fight Viscidus and the Endothermic Blaster wasn't working. I was close enough, and was hitting it- the debuff was showing. But wasn't doing anything anymore. Tried for 4 minutes of blasting, nothing.

EDIT: The Endothermic Blast now works once again! Woohoo! :D

Comment by 1895774

So to reiterate and consolidate some of the previous comments- Yes, as of 8.0 the toys will not work on this fight, BUT you can STILL use Frost Oil on a melee weapon (if you have the required rep with Sons of Hodir grab a melee brunnhildar weapon from Warsmith Sigfinna for the extra frost kick). Just apply Frost Oil to melee weapon, watch for the 3/3 on frozen in your chat box, then go ham on Viscidus. Even as a hunter, you can drag your bow/gun to your action bar, then equip for example Brunnhildar Harpoon (no need to spec into Survival) apply oil, auto-attack with harpoon and once Viscidus is 3/3 frozen press action bar button to instantly equip your real weapon (bow or gun), then again go ham. Did it this way with my hunter today, used Drums and Prolonged Power pot just for good measure along with ferocity pet attacking while blowing cds, easy peasy. Good luck folks.

Comment by Richmond79

Confirmed toys still don't work. Just a waste of time. Will do all the content in the game and hope they nerf things like Viscidus and Spine of Deathwing, maybe in a few years I will bother with them.

Comment by Kurasu

Wanting to defeat Viscidus, but you don't have the questline to get one of the weapons from the Valarjar?

Purchase a non-binding dagger or knife (or, if the one you want to give it to is a paladin or monk, non-binding one-handed sword). Enchant it with Frost Oil, Enchant Weapon - Icy Chill, Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force, or Enchant Weapon - Deathfrost. Then you can mail it around to any alts who need to kill the beast but don't have their own way to use frost.

Since you can change weapons in mid-battle, you can start the fight using your frosty dagger/sword, then change to your other weapon(s) as needed (although if you use the oil on a fast weapon and you're high level, changing weapons may not be to your advantage since it's the *number* of hits and not the *damage* of the hits that you need, post-freezing).

Many cities sell a variety of white, non-binding weapons that work fine for this. I used a Dalaran Dagger, because I happened to be in Dalaran when I decided to test it out, but I'm sure almost any weapon that's below ilevel 136 would work.

Note that this doesn't make it fast, in either case; all the enchantments rely on a small % chance, but they do eventually work!

Comment by aDante

Easy go as a Enhancement Shaman. Spamm Frostbrand until he freezes, pop your Feral Spirits and he will crack in 5-6 seconds.

Comment by Jagger1

New as of the launch of BFA, the Azerite Trait Tidal Surge (Tidal Surge) can eventually freeze him solid, took me about 4 minutes for the RNG to hit enough procs of this to do the trick, but then it gave me plenty of time to shatter him afterwards, and this trait seems to be available to all specs as a neutral trait on all armor types.

Comment by Netspook

Now after BfA has launched, classed who didn't have frost damage now can kill this.

A few of the abilities you can unlock on your equipment has a chance to deal frost damage. This made it easy for my warlock to kill Viscidus. I just attacked till that happened and Viscidus turned to ice, then continued to hack away on him while he was frozen. Was quite slow, but worked well.

Didn't get the pet, but now I can easily farm for it weekly.

Comment by diehardcor

He is able to be killed using Frost-Laced Ammunition
It took about 5 minutes of just standing and doing auto shot before he froze and was able to be killed.

Comment by Erithmael

8.0 MAGE UPDATE

Just went and struggled with getting my attack speed up (since they have normalized weapon speed), so I had to try a few times. Luckily running out to reset also resets Timewarp CD debuffs.

Frost spec: talented Mirror Image (though I'm not sure if their attacks helped) and did Ice Lance until he turned medium blue, popped Mirror Image & Time Warp, spammed Ice Lance until frozen, then hit Icy Veins since it only has a 30 sec effect and I didn't want to waste it. Wailed away at him with my Simple Dagger from the Traveler's Tundra mount vendor and BOOM he was down.

Thank goodness this still works.

Comment by SirHaakon

As a frost mage, I was having a difficult time with Viscidus. Obviously the freezing part is a piece of cake, but even with a fast dagger, timewarp, and icy veins, I wasn't getting enough hits in to shatter him. Someone mentioned on the item page for Barov Peasant Caller that it was a possible solution. I can happily report that this item makes the fight a breeze. If you hold onto your special items like I do and have one of these stored away in your bank, dust it off and get that loot!

Comment by D3cad3nce

as a Destro warlock, freezing things does not come naturally, but with Tidal Surge you can freeze him fairly quickly. Once hes frozen drop your Infernal, him and your void walker and you can melee him until he shatters.

Comment by Jeolene

Can confirm that hunter pets with frost breath can still work as well. Mine is The Razza from Feralas, but there is a matching one in Winterspring, Ronak. Both have frost breath. I believe there are a small handful of other pets that may have frost breath, but these are the ones I know off the top of my head.

Also to note, it took a good long while for Vicidus to finally freeze, I personally don't remember it taking so long, but it might just be because it's been a while since I've done this. Don't despair, just put frost breath on "auto" and let your pet do all the work until he freezes, then pop all your CDs and waste the ooze.

Comment by digibluez

Tried as paladin with tidal surge azurite trait, did not work

Comment by Solestre

You can do this in BFA with the Azerite trait Tidal Surge, just did it with my druid. It procs rather often so it works well.

Comment by TheMadwizz

In version 8.1 as a DK spamming Chains of Ice works just fine to freeze Viscidus.

Comment by Minderien

Okay, this is old news, but still works as of 8.1:

If you do not already have a method of killing the guy save yourself some time and energy by paying Warsmith Sigfinna a visit.

She's your new best friend, as she sells the following:

Brunnhildar Bow
Brunnhildar Axe
Brunnhildar Harpoon
Brunnhildar Great Axe

You will have to do a questline in order to gain access to her, quest starts with They Took Our Men!.

Once you're done, just buy one of the items above, give Viscidus a kick, swap weapons, keep punching him until he crumbles and voilà.

edit: cleanup

Comment by agni15

For hunters, a chimera pet has a frost attack. Works as of 8.1.

Comment by Baelof

If you're having a hard time killing this boss as a Frost DK, switch to Unholy and spam Chains of Ice until "Viscidus is freezing up!" and then use Army of the Dead + Apocalypse and spam Chains of Ice until Viscidus is frozen solid. The melee damage from your minions will be more than enough to kill the boss.

Comment by Belatherix

Little tip for hunters, have a second bow and attach Frost-Laced Ammunition, takes a while but it works.

Comment by vikn

I can confirm that Everchill Anchor will get the job done, pretty fast too.

Comment by Skondarr

Update: still working on 8.1.5
I just managed to get him down as prot pally, using the Brunnhildar Harpoon for the frost dmg (this brought him to frozen in under 2 minutes, I had tried Enchant Weapon - Icy Chill on a green 1h before but the procs were too far apart - it took over 30 minutes to reach frozen). Once frozen I popped Barov Lumberjack Caller to provide enough hits within the time limit. Worked beautifully.

Comment by Beace

For a hunter, I recommend simply getting 2 daggers enchanted with Elemental Force. As BM with access to bloodlust, the fight only takes one minute, and even without bloodlust I'm pretty sure you can easily hit fast enough to kill the boss.

Comment by Hellbringher

Hi all!

I did it using my warrior on FURY stance...
Equiped 2x Brunnhildar Axe and fighting NUDE (with no one equipment)... lol...
Start fight and not used any cast... when boss frost... used all casts and boss died.
Yes... boss was always with 1 of life... will try using my gear and update here on next week.

Regards,
Hell

Comment by Sarabande

Not sure if some change was made, but was able to do it in my DH . . . without any enchants, just using the old Legion Artifacts (with no traits anymore).

I first tried it with on that toon last week both Elemental Force enchants and Frost oil applied to two 136 ilevel axes (crafted WoD item), along with various haste items (Wrath haste potion, some sort of haste elixir I had on a bank toon, BfA haste food - the lesser one, plus Drums from Legion). It was very easy.

I wanted to test out for a guild member who really wanted to get the Raiding with Leashes done. I told her a DH could do it and I'd be able to provide enchants, potions, etc. Well, she did it, but without any enchants.

I became curious and once the raid reset, I gave it a try WITHOUT any enchants or any other consumable buffs, and was able to down this boss. Seems like the melee hits were enough to apply frost effects.

If anyone can confirm the changes (something Blizzard said, etc.,) would appreciate it. In the meantime, maybe try it on a melee toon that can hit pretty fast and see if it works.

Comment by Chromexk

First time poster long time lurker here so be gentle ;)

Just killed Viscidus using a 120 FURY WARRIOR, was looking for the pet drop which I was lucky enough to get on my first attempt. Here's what I did:
1. Bought 2 crappy daggers off the AH, along with 2 elemental force enchantments for the random frost damage which is essential for killing him.
2. Equip both daggers and use the auto attack until he freezes over (25 hits with a frost damage weapon)
3. When he's frozen solid equip a two-handed weapon in your main hand
4. Use bladestorm and follow up with whirlwind.
5. Keep using whirlwind, your fury bar should be full from using the auto attack, until he's dead.

All in all this took less than 60 seconds. Probably not the easiest, fastest, cheapest or simplest way of doing it, but it worked for me and hopefully for any other Warriors who were looking for this info. And in the end, isn't helping each other what we're here for :)

Comment by Ravenz79

I tried this on my mage today with the Terracotta Fragment and it did not work. Possibly due to me standing in the Toxin which seems to stack as well. My terracotta warrior was able to get him to the point where he was ready to shatter yet, he broke free again. I will try again to not stay in the Toxin and pop Time Warp.

*** Mage update: I popped Time Warp and stayed out of Toxin and popped my Terracotta Warrior and it still didn't work even with me doing melee. What did work was while I still had my Terracotta Warrior out I popped Icy Veins to give me that extra melee haste which got him to finally shatter :D. Hope that helps. **

Comment by NatasaEvd

As a BM Hunter, after going through your comments, managed to kill it within a minute.

Just used my Chimaera pet.

*Chimaera special abilities: Frost Breath and Froststorm Breath

Thank you all

Comment by BrimstoneCasano

Used freezing trap multiple times (10 times) with a BM hunter to solo this guy. He'll turn from green to blue and then finally freeze.

Comment by mesugo

Using Frostbrand totally works for enhancement shaman!

Comment by Mesqalito

If you are a BM Hunter and have a spare Chimera in your pocket - use to freeze him.

Comment by Outsiderxxx

As patch 8.1.5 I have soloed this boss with my druid. To do this, equip ilvl lower than 135 enchanted with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force. Change your spec to feral. Auto attack by filling combo points until boss freezes. Then apply your dots and energy generating skills.

Comment by Rorschachzerg

Finally I managed to kill this slime as Paladin.
-First of all, the icy part is easy, just equip a weapon with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force
-The problem for a Paladin is the 30 physical hit in 30sec, but I managed to solve this problem quite easily. My holy gear has around 26% haste right now, i went retri for the fight because you have the combo Crusader Strike+Blade of Justice, both physical.
-The important talents are Zeal+Fires of Justice+Inquisition or Crusade (both work).
-Use Drums of the Maelstrom as soon as the boss get frozen.
-Consume your Holy Power only if you are using some specific azerite traits like Relentless Inquisitor
-Get the loot.

Comment by obbig

For melee classes that can use daggers or 1 handed swords in BFA that don't do frost damage and who don't have an Everchill Anchor to help there is an option I used to get the pet, although if you don't have alts you'll need help. For this to work you will need at least one lower lvl alt on the same or linked realm that can use swords (mine was lvl 20 so I assume can be lower), and have the heirloom Battleworn Thrash Blade. I did this on my ret pally after a bit of toon dancing to set up. If you've got some azurite gear with the trait Tidal Surge then you can bypass the enchant bit below, although you will still need many melee hits to shatter him so the trinkets & Battleworn Thrash Blade will still help if you're not a rogue with dual fast daggers.

First off if you have an enchanter you'll need to make either Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force or Enchant Weapon - Deathfrost, or ask a friend/guild member to make for you (being old chants they're not often on the AH, at least on my server). Because of their restriction on ilvl you'll need to mail them to your lower lvl alt to do use the enchant. Get that alt to make Battleworn Thrash Blade and enchant it, then mail it to the toon doing the run. Jump over to the toon doing the run, get any trinkets you have that provide npc's to assist in battle and equip them. Personally I used Barov Peasant Caller & Terracotta Fragment but there are many others you can get - for example the new version of Barov Peasant Caller is Barov Lumberjack Caller. Be aware that Touch of the Void does not work in raids unfortunately and there may be others, so check here in Wowhead to make sure your trinket works in raids. If you do not have any such trinkets and don't want to get them, then you could try the run with the best haste potion you can get your hands on, although not sure if that would be enough on it's own. I found with my trinkets mentioned I didn't need any extra haste at all, the fight was over pretty quick once he froze.

Once you start the fight you can pop Terracotta Fragment since he sticks around for ten minutes. Don't use the Barov Peasant Caller or similar until he freezes and you need to shatter him. If you have no luck with the pet dropping then you can mail the enchanted blade to another alt to give it a crack. Hope this helps and good luck with the pet drop.

Comment by DarkLordMagus

This is how I was able to solo him as a Level 100 Frost Mage.

First increase your Haste as much as possible. At the time I solo'd him my haste was at 11.67%
Next take the level 100 talent Thermal Void
Equip a fast one-hand weapon. I usedSimple Dagger
Next I attacked Viscidus by just casting Frostbolt
I watched my chat to see when he was about to freeze. As soon as I saw the second message of he is about to freeze, cast Frostbolt one more time, then cast Time Warp. Cast Frostbolt one more time to make him freeze. As soon as he freezes, cast Icy Veins. After that just right click as quickly as possible to begin melee attacks with your dagger. The haste increase from both Time Warp, plus Icy Veins will give you at least 30 seconds of fast melee attacks due to Thermal Void increasing the Icy Veins duration by 10 seconds. It was just enough to cause him to shatter and die.

NOTE: Make sure you drop his health below 20% before you attempt to shatter him. If you don't instead of dying, he'll split into many small blobs that will reform if they come together. I couldn't kill them all before that happened. You may need to make him freeze, then just unfreeze a couple of times before he's below 20% health.

Comment by Tteer

Well dang, I'm slow! I have tried so many times through the years with my main discipline priest. Just figured she was too slow. Tried several trinkets, a dagger with elemental force, and the mind fiend/bender of course. Never could kill the viscidus.
Today I finally read, PAGES of comments back, Iamsyntact's post. He finally said the RIGHT word: "get those 30 PHYSICAL attacks in". Wait. Physical?
So... I got out the old stealthblade dagger. It's old enough to put elemental force enchant on. And it's fast, speed 1.80.
Go hit Viscidus however you want until he freezes SOLID (in ice spikes).
THEN pop your Mindbender and your trinket with helpers, I used the Barov Servant Caller.
And then just stand inside him and STAB him. Don't waste time casting, just stab.
I know, that's so unnatural for us priests, but it worked first try...
Is this what the kids would call a "face-palm" moment?

Comment by Sluggzo

For Pallies trying to finish their T2.5 set:

I used a weapon with Elemental Force on it for frost damage (which worked fine) -- then I tried to stack haste to reach 30 physical hits in 30 seconds:

My haste was up to 48% by the end, using:
- 2x Accord of Haste ring enchants (+60 Haste each)
- the Crusade talent (+3% haste for 30 seconds)
- the Baked Port Tato food buff (+93 Haste for 1h)
- Drums of the Maelstrom (+25% haste for 40 seconds)
- Shockbiter's Fang trinket (+471 Haste for 30s)
- Potion of Speed (+200 haste for 15 seconds)

I still came up about a second or two short, although I think I could have pulled it off with a little practice.

Thanks to other posts here, I dug out a Crate of Kidnapped Puppies trinket I didn't realize I had, and that trivialized the fight, as Viscidus dropped in about 15 seconds (about half the time needed). That or the Barov Lumberjack Caller are probably two of the best options for pallies farming this blobby boss.

Comment by Gasmbabj

Brunnhildar Bow or is good helper...

Comment by addmydataz

In all the years of playing I've never cleared The Temple of Ahn'Qiraj. Never had a real need to as I was pretty much focused on my REAL fun, Mining! I mined for years, maxed out leveling on Mining Experience Points. Mining all the time, everywhere. Until finally, one day, I decided to work on Blacksmithing. Found out a LOT of Plans were tied up in Reputation Grinding. Soon I found myself going days and days and days grinding Reputation with various factions, until I found myself in Silithus, trying to reach Exalted with the Cenarion Circle.

While waiting for the Ruins to reset, I decided to wander into the Temple area. I found out I could get 2 different Reputation Gains there, the Cenarion Circle and Brood of Nozdormu. So I figured, why not give it a shot.

Being 30 levels higher than needed for this area, it went pretty well until I found this green giant ooze off in a corner by himself. Went with the standard beatdown **Warrior thrashing... and noticed a short while later the Ooze was at 1 HP... and not dying. Ran away and watched it reset back to full health.

Ok. Something not right here. Off to Wowhead. Read through several pages of information, got a good idea on how to finish him off, and noted several comments about an Endothermic Blaster, and how Blizzard took the Nerfbat to a really effective way to down this mob, making it useless. However, someone else said it worked fine.... I decided to test it, as I had no other way of freezing Viscidus and was in the instance anyway. Found out it WORKS. The Toy Freezeray DOES work, it just takes some time, lots of close-up application, and the ability to absorb some damage while waiting for him to change colors and get cold. I just kept hosing him with it.. Finally Froze him solid but fumbled the weapon switch and didn't hit him enough times fast enough to down him. And it's a 20 minute recharge Timer on the Blaster. Off to town to buy a cheap dagger and find a Mage...

Edit: Bought 2 cheap daggers, found a Mage who enchanted both with Icy Chill, bought 2 bottles of Frost Oil and applied them, went back to the Temple, switched to Fury Spec, and attacked Viscidus while dual-wielding the daggers. Transmogrified him into an icy lump then busted him inta a zillion pieces.

Edit #2: I re-checked this page before going back into the Temple with a Warlock and found that Vomitersoul had added a note just for Warlocks! I found a Mage with (Elemental Force) enchant, had him whammy a Dagger for me, went after Viscidus with it, and in 1/10 of the time of using (Icy Chill), froze him in a block! (Elemental Force) works MUCH better than (Icy Chill). With my Voidwalker and Infernal, the beat-down took less than a minute.

Comment by Vomitersoul

As Destruction Warlock (and most likely any other warlock spec) this is super easy.

1. Equip any dagger with 1,6 sec attack speed or less if you can find. (I used the "Glacial Blade" from Alterac Valley)
2. Enchant it with "Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force". Create this if you are an enchanter or buy it from the auction house.
3. Summon your voidwalker and let it attack the boss.
4. Start melee-attacking the boss. It might take 30-40 sec or more to freeze him.
5. As soon as the message "Viscidus is frozen solid" appears, summon your infernal and get back to melee attacking the slime.

You, your voidwalker and your infernal should now be attacking the boss with melee attacks and deal out almost 3 melee attacks per second. The boss is dead in around 15 seconds after freezing.

Do NOT cast any spells on the boss after it freezes. ONLY melee attacks count.

Enjoy!

Comment by fraggerr

I was just able to solo him on my prot warrior. With no special enchants, I used Stolen Breath and was able to complete the fight.

Comment by Keyboardturner

Working in 9.0 using the same method mentioned below.
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As of today (9.0.1) the Endothermic Blaster is working.
Proof:
(Freeze: 3/3)
(Shatter: 3/3)
Completed on a Sin rogue. Make sure you're standing like directly on top of him and that the debuff is appearing and being refreshed.
Also many addons don't allow you to right click off buffs, so you may need to type this quick command in. It's not the greatest but you can't actually attack or use abilities with your blaster buff on /cancelaura Endothermic Blaster

~~Will test in 8.3 (which is in a few days) if this method works again.~~

The key to the fight that many may not be aware of is doing frost damage for his first 3 freeze tiers, then physical damage for his 3 shatter tiers.

Comment by anthonyg70

No frost spell? Well most of us don't have one and actually want a shot at the toy. It's 8.3 and so I thought about the toys in my bag. Good thinking.

Use the toy "Endothermic Blaster" and keep shooting boss up close. Will eventually freeze him and then can be killed.

Comment by cjmorrissey

I wanted to kill this blob for the pet he drops Viscidus Globule. Failed a bunch of times on my priest, also failed on frost mage even with time warp/icy veins/dagger attack. Was able to do it as assassination rogue - I bought two ilvl 115 green daggers off the AH for cheap; applied an Elemental Force enchant to each dagger; started with regular attacks, just kept auto attacking until he eventually froze up; once he froze, I cast Vendetta, popped a Battle Potion of Agility, used Drums of Fury and activated my trinket Kezan Stamped Bijou which has an on-use haste buff. That was probably overkill but I was tired of not beating this super low level boss. This mechanic should be patched out by now.

Comment by Zhamant

Easy to solo as slow hiting class. Just few things needs to be taken care before you can do it. Here is how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3K_4mTV4-g

Comment by neghvar

I am trying to kill it as a frost DK. I freeze it with Howling Blast. Once frozen, I unleash obliterate, frostsythe, frost and death strike on it and he never breaks. What could I possibly be doing wrong?

Comment by RabbitEar

I couldn't beat him with my 110 Elemental Shaman solo; even though I could freeze him, I couldn't get enough hits in to shatter him. Once I read up on the mechanics, I switched to Enhancement and did this rotation to kill him quickly:

Have talents Forceful Winds (for the extra Windfury procs), Sundering for a big damage hit, and Ascendance to turn Stormstrike into Windstrike (which has a 66% lower cooldown then standard Stormstrike).

Then use this rotation:

Alternate Rockbiter and Frostbrand until the boss freezes.

Use Feral Spirit and go into Ascendance immediately upon freezing.

Alternate Rockbiter and Windstrike, and throw in a Sundering, until he dies.

Comment by Argentrose

So I just killed Viscidus using this toy. Endothermic Blaster

Before I began, I had the following trinkets:
Crate of Kidnapped Puppies
Manual of Void Calling
(though you can use any trinket that summons more than 1 of something (Like Barov Peasant Caller, for instance.)

DO NOT USE YOUR BLASTER UNTIL Viscidus is at 1 HP.

First, I had to damage Vis until he was at 1 HP. Once this is done, THEN click your Endothermic Blaster. A button should pop up in the center of your screen to use.
Second, you will need to be sure you're standing inside of Viscidus when you're hitting the Blaster Button. You'll need to hit him 20 times for him to fully freeze.
Once he is frozen, use your trinkets, click off the Endothermic Buff, and kill away!

Comment by nokibear

As a hunter, you can frost trap him 20 times as well. The wife and i just tried, and are absolutely flabbergasted that no one in 20 years has tried this.

Comment by Ganic

I got to this guy as a hunter without any frost damage on hand.
I thought about what pets might work and realized Chimaeras have Frost Breath and Froststorm Breath, but I didn't have one on me. So I dropped my guild bank, pulled out the materials to craft an Interdimensional Companion Repository, then swapped to BM to pull out my Chimaera and let it freeze the boss.

Comment by cromdubh

I found this on reddit, it applies to Retribution Paladins but I think it would be very helpful to most other classes

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Posted byu/N19HT5
8 months ago
Viscidus AQ40 Ret Paladin solo (without respec, AH and Enchants)
Tip / Guide
So I spent some time reading guides / watching "smart" videos about investing into Haste gear, buying pots (I even leveled Alchemy to make that Frost Oil), respeccing into other talents and stuff... NO. Don't do that.

Get this axe Brunnhildar Great Axe -- Quest chain starting from this They Took Our Men! allows you to go into the village to buy a Frost 2h weapon from Warsmith Sigfinna vendor (when you are in the quest disguise, she is friendly), that weapon you need to freeze Viscidus after some Frost damage hits. (Frost Oil is just unacceptably slow, forget it)

Get this trinket -- Barov Lumberjack Caller It requires your "favorite" Garrison activity (just build a Lumber Mill and help Barov). But you may have leveled some time in Draenor anyway to this point. No need for ANY Haste gear or 1h weapon or Enchant or Potion!

WEAR the trinket before the combat (you won't have time in the process).

Autoattack (!) Viscidus with your 2h Frost axe until he freezes. No rush, just keep hitting Frost. There is orange text description what's going on.

Once he is frozen in place (dark blue with crystals), USE the trinket (don't use it before that, because the peasants will die). I guess similar swarm/minion trinkets will work as well (in case you sold Barov one long ago). You just need the NUMBER of hits (not DPS!) in short time.

Watch him die.

So next time you farm, just grab this trinket and that axe with you.

Comment by Bic55

Alright as a 120 frost mage joined by a 120 elf druid, we froze and whacked repeatedly, but nothing happens. We bring him to 1% and we must missing something because the the slime-ball won't die. Ok, after many failed attempts we realized that magic damage did nothing. It was actual fist whacking and kicking that shattered the slime-ball. While whacking on him, watch the chat box for progress. I don't think I needed to strip down to the essentials to do it.

Comment by Starthyas

I fought Viscidus today for the first time since the 9.0 patch and I was pleasantly surprised to find out on my Elemental Shaman (level 50) that I didn't have to switch to Enhancement. All I had to do was spam Frost Shock and then when it was frozen, I was able to finish it off with the Primal Strike we now have access to spamming it until it shattered.

Comment by Ikilleyz

Elemental force enchant on weapon works also. Just get 20 procs and he freezes then you can shatter.

Comment by ZigzagFroglok

As of the Shadowlands pre-patch (9.0.1), this boss cannot be killed solo as a Frost Mage.
The boss is locked at 2 HP and will not die after being frozen, and you are unable to deal enough physical strikes quickly enough to cause him to shatter, even with Icy Veins and Time Warp active with an 1.80 speed dagger.
A Mechagnome Mage might be able to manage it with their HOLO racial ability, as the copies only make physical attacks.

Comment by Jurani

Warlocks can solo this boss without any setup. Spec into Desctruction and hit with chaos bolts. Since chaos counts as every damage type it counts towards the frost counter. Then just have a melee pet or even cast your infernal cooldown to speed it up.

Comment by Kukkaspoika

Anyone else just done this for the first time and got this guy down to 2 HP and saw he stopped taking damage. Then popped onto Wowhead just to go "What the heck?" when they realized of all things you need FROST DAMAGE to kill this guy?

C'mon Blizzard! I value my time!

Comment by BuurmanSven

Just killed him as a Paladin, basically just following the advice given in other post. Confirming here for those who think it can not easily be done as a Pally (who can only equip weapons speed 2.6 or above, can't dual wield and have no inherent weapon speed increase).

- Equipped a cheap green speed 2.6 one hand with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force for the cold damage to freeze him. Took a while but it worked.

- As soon as he froze, I used Barov Peasant Caller, Potion of Speed and another haste on use trinket I happened to have, Wakener's Frond , in that order.
I then unequipped my weapon, hoping unarmed speed would be faster, and just kept hitting him. Managed to get him down with ~5s left in his freeze.

I made sure to get out of the Toxin on the ground under me, not sure if it was necessary but I didn't want to waste my try to find out.

Another note, after moving from Frankris into the next chamber you need to follow the circling "bridge" upwards. If you're in the chamber with sand flowing down from the wall and wondering where Viscidus is, you're in the wrong chamber. Just move directly upwards using the spiral bridge until you see him in another chamber.

Comment by Sinvii

Demon Hunter - just go buy 2 <50 level (fast) weapons and enchant them with Elemental Force. Then just auto attack. Done

Comment by Tyrsenus

Everchill Brambles which drops from Glimmerdust, As Jaina deals frost damage if you happen to have it.

Comment by Chupitos

Just use Brunnhildar Harpoon sold by Warsmith Sigfinna, in Storm Peaks... obviously for class that can use polearms! :P
Hope this can help someone

Comment by Mavie

I had to respec from prot to fury to be able to kill him, because one weapon doesnt seem to be enough. I used a deathfrost enchanted, 1.80 speed, dagger + brunnhildar harpoon + mr. munchykins trinket that gives 151 haste for 15sec.

I only auto attacked and used the trinket as soon as he got frozen.

Steelforged Dagger with Deathfrost

Brunnhildar Harpoon

Mr. Munchykins

Hope this helps someone else!

Comment by TerribleAtGames

Frost Oil does not proc anymore, as reported by others and tested by myself.

Comment by Viperr

KILLING SOLO IN SHADOWLANDS:

I have been farming the bracers for my paladin set and couldn't kill, i didn't have the crate of puppies or anything else which would attack for me. The simple solution for me was;

Log onto my frost DK, obviously do frost damage until he freezes, summon your ghoul for 1 minute (or even better use army of the dead with unholy) and he will go down first time.

I spent all this time on paladins, warriors, trying to find rares for crate of puppies and finding people to help etc, in the end all i needed was my DK with its ghoul to help me attack! I felt so silly for not thinking of it before!

Comment by Draenoth

Level 60 Paladin:

1. Got Crate of Kidnapped Puppies from the Pandaria rare Borginn Darkfist
2. Enchanted a random 2h weapon with Elemental Force
3. Ate some +30 haste food (Not sure if actually needed)
4. Equip the weapon and the trinket
5. Auto attack Viscidus until it freezes
6. Use the trinket
7. Use Crusade/Avenging Wrath and other cooldowns
8. Use all melee attacks at your disposal.

It went down 2 seconds after popping wings and Seraphim, so I reckon the puppies do most the work.

Comment by Hyrcyne

I'm surprised no one mentioned it, but the Undulating Tides azerite trait works for this boss.

All you need is your Heart of Azeroth equipped and 5 Prismatic Manapearl to buy an azerite piece from Finder Palta (Horde) or Artisan Itanu (Alliance).

The trait is found on:

Cloth shoulders: Shirakess Mantle
Leather shoulders: Fathomstalker Shoulderpads
Mail chest: Azsh'ari Stormsurger Vest
Plate helm: Zanj'ir Scaleguard Faceguard

Comment by semismurf

Did this 9.05 Shadowlands as a protection paladin with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force on a green 1 hander, Barov Lumberjack Caller trinket (does work in raid), Drums of Deathly Ferocity.

Just spam auto attacks and Hammer of the Righteous until it goes frozen. Then hit your lumberjack caller, drums, and hit .

Easy mode.

Comment by Ravenz79

I'm a druid and killed Viscidus using Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force along with the trinkets Terracotta Fragment & Crate of Kidnapped Puppies. I just wacked Viscidus for maybe about a minute or two until he was frozen and then popped the trinkets when he was frozen. :)

Comment by MageVaire

Confirmed soloable as 60 mage in 9.0.5, without racial, covenant or trinket haste boost (am human and nightfae).

I have 717 haste (21.73%), if you have less than that, you might need a trinket like Wakener's Frond to boost you up.

Spec frost, with Thermal Void talent in last row
Equip 1.8 speed dagger, I used Ritualist Dagger

I autoattacked and used frost spells until he turned blue then froze. The second he froze I activated Icy Veins and Time Warp, kept autoattacking. He cracked then died. No pet this time, but I'll be back.

Note that I wasn't able to solo him earlier this expansion, so if you're having trouble, get a bit more haste via trinkets or gear. 717 haste definitely works, you might get away with less :)

Happy farming!

Comment by Volkai

Mage:

New for June 1st, 2021:

1. Frost Specialization
2. Equip a fast weapon, I used Sharpened Scarlet Kris
3. Use frost spells until he's frozen (ensure you're already in the process of auto-attacking)
4. Activate the new trinket from questing reward in Maldraxxus: Maldraxxian Warhorn
5. Activate Time Warp
6. Activate Icy Veins

I couldn't get the trinket from the valley of four winds via the rare spawn. So this is a much easier and guaranteed attainable item that does work.

Enjoy!

Comment by NotSure

This is a big pain as a Paladin in Shadowlands 9.0.5, but after an hour of messing around this is what worked for me:

22% haste
Zeal, , and Crusade talents
A one handed weapon enchanted with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force (the two-hand ice weapons are too slow!)
Drums of Deathly Ferocity (currently 115g on Area-52 AH).

Use whatever abilities until he's about to freeze, then build to 5 holy power. Crusade haste buff is activated by spending holy power, up to 10 (30% haste) so it's important to have it ready to spend. As soon as he freezes, I use this cast sequence (Kyrian):

/castsequence reset=60 Drums of Deathly Ferocity,Avenging Wrath,Seraphim,Judgment,Divine Toll,Templar's Verdict,Wake of Ashes,Templar's Verdict

Note that Avenging Wrath actually casts Crusade.

After that, just unload on him. It seems that only physical attacks count, which in SL is only Crusader's Strike and Blade of Justice. BoJ requires a two handed weapon, meaning all you need to do is Judgement to proc Zeal and Crusader's Strike on CD. After many attempts using info from older guides, this is what worked for me. I'm not sure where the base haste % point is where I'd no longer need Drums, but it's worth experimenting to find out to save some gold. Wakener's Frond would likely do the trick if you have it.

If you're a transmog nerd like me and want to complete the Avenger set, you will need to beat him to get Gauntlets of the Righteous Champion.

Comment by Kysara

Did it on my Elemental Shaman

1: buy any weapon with 1.8 speed (I used ritualist dagger)
2: Enchant it with Gale-Force Striking
3: I believe used Drums of death striking? (whichever one gives you haste)
4.Frost shock until frozen
5: Summon Earth Elemental, Cast Heroism, Auto attack til dead
6: Done!

Comment by captbat

Ok, so, be me, lvl 60 Human Prot Paly, w/ ilvl 220 Korthia gear upgraded to tier 4, (very casual player, never raid, only do dungeon finder for quests). 1 shot this guy to 1 HP, then cant kill him. Read these comments, went and got a speedy one handed weapon that's below iLevel 50 (i got "Cudgel of Naralex" from a 3 quest chain from Naralex the Night Elf in the Southern Barrens). Went to the Auction House and got "Enchant Weapon Elemental Force", enchanted the "Cudgel of Naralex", then went to Kun Lai Summit in Pandaria, camped "Borginn Darkfist" for prob 7 kills (approx 1 hour reset) 'til he dropped "Crate of Kidnapped Puppies" (some horror stories say like 21 kills on his wowhead page). Went back to T.o.A.Q. equiped my now elemental cudgel, equipped my puppies trinket, went and wailed on Viscidus (down to 1 hp in a second) for a couple of minutes, moving every so often to get out of his noxious gas AOE (that dis not hurt me at all, i just found the build up of debuffs annoying), building up holy power to max, he turned blue after a while, and then after a while longer he froze with ice shards sticking out of him (there's orange commentary in your log when this occurs), when he froze i clicked my puppies trinket and unleashed all i had built up, took about 10 seconds and then he died. Bam! If i can do it, you can, i've got nothing special equipped other than what i gathered on these comments. PS. Sorry i don't know how to link pages, but every link you'll need is in other comments.

Comment by NormaOfMoonglade

Very easy even as low geared in haste melee. I did it on my alt retribution. You need only 3 things: 1. any 1h weapon (best is heirloom coz you may send it between toons) with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force, 2. Barov Lumberjack Caller trinket and 3. Crate of Kidnapped Puppies trinket.

Go to boss, hit it with autoattack with your 1h until it freezes, launch trinkets, attack him with autoattacks and its done.

Comment by Egween

IMO the fastest and cheapest way to get a hold of frost damage to kill this thing is to buy a weapon with frost dmg at Warsmith Sigfinna. (Unless you can make the enchants yourself ofc)
It takes a couple of hits but eventually he will start to freeze.

DO NOT go after the oil! It doesn't work anymore.

Comment by daks12

Just killed it on my elemental shaman. Spammed Frost Shock x20 to freeze it, summoned the Earth Elemental (melee), cast Heroism, and spammed auto-attack (kept clicking the right mouse button on the target). Works like a charm without any special trinkets!

Comment by Ashod

as of 9.1.5 the elemental enchantment works.
as a BM hunter soloing it, don't fret about acquiring any trinkets to spam enough melee attacks in the given 15 second window.
get the animal companion talent, combine it with 2 fast (& elemental enchanted) daggers, and you're good to go.

i hypothesize that you may not even need dual enchanted daggers, perhaps you can do the enchanting on a single melee weapon for yourself, but you'll have to use a pet that can give primal rage, and you should still be comfortably shattering the ice in time.
have not tried this yet though.
(but, double enchanted daggers will still freeze the boss quicker than a single one)

Comment by xLunacyx

Almost couldn't do it as mage but went frost, talent for +10 seconds icy veins, Timewarp + Icy Veins when he gets frozen using a Dagger weapon and just barely killed it.

Comment by robspierre

Brunnhildar Harpoon / Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force / Everchill Brambles (+ depending on your attack speed second trinket can be one of those that summon pets to fight for you)

Weapon is 10g from vendor
Enchant is ~500g from AH
Frost dmg trinket is from Night Fae table missions or Star Lake Amphitheater event / Large Lunarfall Pod

As druid you can go into Cat Form to get <1s autoattack speed with that polearm and you dont need any of those summon tirnkets ^^
edit: One more thing - Deathfrost enchant does't proc for high level players so avoid using it, same applies to Frost Oil as others mentioned.

Comment by Zylideum

If anyone's struggling in 9.1.5 or doesn't want to spend all their time camping a rare for a trinket, here's how I did it as a Retribution Paladin:

Prep:
Equip Battleworn Thrash Blade heirloom as your main hand
Buy Ghost Iron Dragonling from the AH (was 2k) as your first trinket
Equip either Captain's Badge or Rhea's Last Egg - both can be acquired faster than waiting on rares. Either get quick rep done, or do the quest if you haven't yet.
Buy Drums of Deathly Ferocity, Tenebrous Crown Roast Aspic, and any other haste consumables you can find.

For Ret:
Talent into Zeal, Fires of Justice, , and Crusade.

For other classes:
Talent into abilities that translate into more haste or more auto-attacks.

Execution:
1. Use Endothermic Blaster to freeze boss.
2. Use drums, haste talents like and Crusade, and your trinket.
3. Spam Crusader Strike or your Physical damage ability if not Ret.
4. Collect loot

I wrote this because I spent a lot of time sitting on rares that weren't dropping trinkets that were mentioned in other comments, so I found easier ones to get and realized how valuable the heirloom is even sacrificing Blade of Justice usage. Hope it helps!

Comment by Spook87

Today is April 6th 2022.

I came in as Balance spec, with Elemental force wep enchant Even resto affinity level 52. item level 95, almost no shadowlands anything.

Went cat, made a snap macro for autoattack and auto attacked until froze, then used the shred - ferocious bite and the snapback macro and won it.

Comment by Pentarion

If you have Endothermic Blaster toy, use it and spam the ability until the boss is 3/3 frozen. Remove the toy buff and attack until the boss dies.

Slower-attacking classes may need to find a way to generate more attacks (swapping to a dagger, using a trinket that summons minions etc.).

Comment by WolfmanXX77

As a paladin in Shadowlands, you have to be creative. Get a weapon with Elemental Force and choose Kyrian with Mikanikos as your souldbind. Queue up about 70 hits so Bron is ready to come out. As soon as the boss freezes, pop seraphim and use hammer of the righteous on cooldown. Bron should join and you should get enough physical strikes to kill the boss. (Spinny Hammers do not work).

Comment by Ootso

Shadowlands 9.2.5 - 27.07.2022 - Unprepared Level 50 Frost Mage - You need fast melee weapon for it and you can use heirloom daggers which has got 1.80 speed, you can't see daggers at with mage filter at your heirlooms tab, change it to "All Classes" and if you didn't buy any dagger before as heirloom just login another toon, buy, relogin your mage and create it. Start with burst Frostbolt, Flurry, Ice Lance etc. it gets %1 instantly. After that when it is frozen cast Time Warp + Icy Veins and only do melee attack. Most important part is you have cast Time Warp + Icy Veins at same time, without Ice Lances haste you can't get enough melee tick.

Comment by tauvudd

Arcane mage here. Switched spec to frost for this fight.

The only way I could beat Viscidus was by:

1) Select "Thermal Void" in talents
2) Switch to an Heriloom dagger (1.80 speed)
3) Eat Tenebrous Crown Roast Aspic (speed buff food)
4) Summon Water Elemental

Get within melee range

5) Cast Icy Veins and Time Warp
6) Freeze with Ice Lance

*as soon as he's frozen solid, don't waste time with any more spells*

7) Right click to melee attack until he's dead

I tried everything else I read here, but nothing worked until I tried this combo. Haste (with food buff) is 335.

Comment by sailormeowmoon

i play as a fury warrior (ilvl293 kyrian covenant) and i spent forever reading different ways i could solo it.

i have the endothermic blaster and was able to freeze him, but had no luck when he pacified me. i tried all my attacks then on a whim clicked on my steward, and he knocked me out of the pacified state and i was able to whirlwind over and over again until viscidus shattered and died.

hopefully this helps any other solo pet hunter out there :D

Comment by Pheydre

Have any Priests successfully killed Viscidus? I went in with my level 52 Shadow Priest using Endothermic Blaster to freeze him, my Haste was at 26%, weapon was enchanted with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force and gloves were enchanted with Formula: Enchant Gloves - Frost Power. When he froze, I used the Fae Guardians Night Fae covenant ability, Shadowfiend spell, Terracotta Fragment trinket, and smacked him with my heirloom weapon Hellscream's War Staff that has 3.6 Speed, but I still didn't manage to melee him down fast enough. At level 52, my Priest is not high enough level to have Power Infusion. Maybe the only way I could do this on my Priest is if she reaches level 58 and has PI. I went through a ton of time & effort getting that trinket, obtaining and crafting the enchants, buying low level gloves so I could use the enchant on them, etc. Really wish Blizzard would do something about this boss so we didn't have to jump through a dozen hoops just to kill him for a chance at a pet, and then fail at it repeatedly until we get it JUST right.

Comment by Ootso

Shadowlands 9.2.7 (Dragonflight Prepatch) - 28.10.2022 - Unprepared level 50 frost DK - Blizzard's starter talents, only changed Gathered Storm -> Empower Rune Weapon. Used 2xheirloom one hand sword which have 2.60 speed. Start with some frost skills like Howling Blast and Frost Strike and when it get %1 hp it freezes. After that cast Raise Dead + Horn of Winter + Empower Rune Weapon and start to spam Death Strike + Obliterate.

Comment by jek3

The Crate of Kidnapped Puppies strat seems to have been nerfed with the 10.0 pre-patch. The summoned puppies kept missing their attacks.

Comment by Uncledanny

Might need some suggestions here.
As of Dragonflight Pre-Patch i am unable to kill Viscidus anymore. I use a sword with the Elemental Force enchantment and i use the Barov Lumberjack Caller trinket to help me break through the ice. I have attempted this twice and cant seem to have enough physical damage to break. I am a Ret Paladin. Any suggessions?

Comment by Ceberox

Holy Paladins Blessing of Winter works nicely for this.

Probably the only good thing about the least used and worst of the covenant abilities that had absolutely no right to make it into our class trees.

Comment by Camirra

Just tried it as Evoker and it's pretty much impossible without some kind of trinket to increase the number of melee attacks going out. Even with a dagger equipped and using Fury of the Aspects I was only able to get off about 2/3s of the necessary hits within the time limit. Without some sort of trinket to spawn a minion or a friend to help you attack, you can't get enough hits off to shatter him before he thaws. I wish Blizzard would make this boss less obnoxious, given that it's ANCIENT content, but until/unless they do, work-arounds are still necessary.

As for freezing him, Azure Strike deals spellfrost damage and is pretty much perfect for the job. If you do have some way to increase your physical attack output, it should be a piece of cake.

Comment by Juntxis

Evokers' Spellfrost abilities like Azure Strike count for the freeze phase, thus you can solo this as an Evoker, BUT, like other spellcasters (except for warlock), you will need a trinket like Barov Lumberjack Caller in order to get in enough melee hits.

Comment by karlwidu

Has anyone found a way to solo this since Dragonflight?

I can still use Elemental Force to freeze him but the lumberjack toy no longer gets enough hits in to shatter him.

Comment by Djexx

For anyone trying to solo as a Hunter in Dragonflight.

Just managed to solo as a Beast Mastery Hunter by putting two points into the Arctic Bola talent in the Hunter tree (second line from the bottom), which will occasionally deal Frost Damage with Cobra Shot (though looks like it converts to Aimed Shot for Marksmanship or Mongoose Bite for Survival Hunters).

Took a few minutes of nothing but spamming Cobra Shot, but it eventually proc'd and he froze (different to when he turns blue, don't get these confused. It's very obvious when he freezes). I was able to then just DPS shatter all three stages quite quickly.

Hope this helps any Hunter's trying to solo in 2023!

Comment by jnichel

Cannot bring him down post Dragonflight. Frost DK using both the Crate of Kidnapped Puppies, the Barov Lumberjack Caller and a ghoul still am not getting enough melee hits to kill him after he freezes.

Comment by ShadowBrooks

Dragonflight - Frost Mages with 1.8 speed dagger, Icy Veins and Timewarp as well as Elemental Shamans with their Earth Elemental, Heroism and dagger (heirloom) work just fine.

Comment by Paok

I really wanted the pet.
That's how I soloed this guy and it took me only 15 seconds.
My Death Knight was a star for the day.
Unholy spec and rune of Razorice Enchant on your weapon.
That's it. Fight him and as soon as he is frozen pull your Army of dead and let your ghouls deal with him.
Piece of cake.

Comment by Medrare

Fury Warrior, soloed this today with Frozen Devotion on my weapons. Took about 5 minutes before he froze, then I went to town and won.

Comment by Olioster

Enhancement Shamans, just get two daggers, put Elemental Force on them and just auto attack (make sure you have WIndfury Weapon active, too) while casting Frost Shock on cooldown. Easy kill.

Comment by Svirre

Ret paladin unable to kill this guy. Got the Brunnhildar axe so freezing him is no problem. Also got in 31-33 hits with physical damage before he unfroze several times. But he just unfroze and kept laughing at me. How many hits do you need? I used trash blade, seraphim, crusade, zeal. enchanted trash blade with howling rune, ate some timely demise... Also used crate of kidnapped puppies but it does not look like they do anything at all?

Comment by Hallowqi

Found something that works on my Paladin

I have 2 weapons in my bag for this:
Thrash blade with gale force striking
Random green with Elemental Force

I tried for a while as prot, but ended up getting it my first time trying as Ret, but here is the rotation I used. Start with the elemental Force 1 hander equipped, have full holy power, and get ready once you see he is freezing up. Once he froze this is the rotation I used:

Crusade(Talent)
Swap to the thrash Blade
Divine Toll(Talent)
Seraphim(Talent)
After this just burn through as much HP as you can to build Crusade to 10 stacks asap. You can't use Boj with a 1 hander so its mainly judgement and CS to build and dump through JV or TV. You could actually spec WOA (I was running decree so if your not building enough HP, try wake instead)

Worked first try for me, but might have been just luck but it is possible without any pet trinkets or anything like that.

Comment by Perf15

Aff lock with felhunter + elemental force easily repeatable, never had an issue...

Unstable Elemental Confluence heirloom trink could potentially help, havent tested on any1 yet thoo

Comment by sintax0r

killed him as a prot warrior with frozen devotion on my main hand and Gral's Discarded tooth trinket which procs a spirit shark which also does frost damage. 10.0.5

Comment by StarTattoo

The Endothermic Blaster toy also works to freeze him. Press the cold button it gives you over and over like 60 times and it will freeze the guy. Once he is in an icecube, click off the toy buff and do as many attacks as possible.

Comment by stoneshank

Dragonflight : Using the 10.07 Ring with Freezzing ice stone (upgraded) got it done with 13 hits (2 crits if that matters) for me.
edit: I also had Arctic Bola (hunter talent tree node), so nothing definitive sadly on the ring.

Comment by FairyWitch

Dragonflight: Took my frost mage (lv 52) here, farmed a box of puppies but they kept missing (maybe I was too far?). So I also had on the trinket Vanquished Tentacle of C'Thun which I had gotten from the end boss C'thun in the same raid, figured I would use that and go unarmed (so just basic melee attacks), popped Time Warp and I managed to shatter him! I went right in the middle of his body. So if you just have that tentacle trinket it's enough! No need to farm the box of puppies XP (which took me about 7 or so killings to get)

Comment by daaani

If you need it for ANY toon > you can just make your own Premade Custom group with said toone and a Frost Mage with Icy Veins, Timewarp and dagger.
Kinda similar with the solo Frostmourne quest when you need to do the vampiric bite 3 times with Shadow's Edge.

You engage it with Main > swap to Mage > kill > loot on mage go back to MAIN > loot again.

Comment by konnoriximus

I made it solo two times with my lvl 70 Marksmanship Hunter. I used Phial of Glacial Fury to freeze the boss, and then my pet scattered it in 10 seconds. (First I tried without the pet, by using just a sword, but didn't work. Sword + pet -> worked well.)
The boss dropped the battle pet at the second run.

Comment by Zamnest

Holystrike damage doesn't seem to do anything to break the ice, even though it's half holy half psychical damage. I don't know if this is a bug or by design but the only way to break the ice may be pure psychical damage.

Comment by Ragowit

Something must have changed in 10.x (writing this in 10.1.0), or I'm doing something terribly wrong.

As a shadow priest, I can easily freeze the boss with Mind Spike, however I can't melee the boss to death. I'm using Power Infusion, Shadowfiend, 1.8 Speed dagger (there's nothing faster in 10.1.0), Terracotta Fragment AND Crate of Kidnapped Puppies. But this isn't enough to melee the boss to death while freezed.

Comment by Uncledanny

To all my Ret paladins in here, I'm pretty damn sure I tried literally everything I could to defeat this boss within this current DF Patch and I'm just barely not able to. I'm therefore confident It's not solo-able anymore. Just to be clear this is everything I used during my Tests:

Barov Lumberjack Caller AND Feral Hide Drums
Brunnhildar Great Axe (To build up Frost)
One handed weapon enchanted with Gale-Force Striking (Break Ice)

With this setup I was able to get to the "Looks ready to shatter!", but not enough to actually shatter him. I also tried using a one-handed Holystrike build with Justicar's vengeance but It Didn't change much. If anyone can prove me wrong please do.
GL on your journey's!

Comment by daaani

Today, Got the bastard Viscidus, ALMOST solo!

Used an ALT...Hunter with PET !
Made group > Started fight on my ret pally > switched to Hunter to engage in fight and SEND PET to attack > switched to pally (ready to freeze by now) froze > continued on pally > SHATTERRED ! > loot on Pally > log back into Hunter and loot as well (more chance for Pet - i looted mine!, when Pally's loot didn't have the Pet).

Key things / equipment on the ret pally:
Brunnhildar Harpoon Brunnhildar Harpoon (for its Frost Damage per hit, for freezing Viscidus)
Weapon was enchanted with Enchant Weapon - Mark of Warsong Draenor Enchanting: Mark of Warsong

** Also had this trinket: Figurine - Emerald Boar Figurine - Emerald Boar, BUT I am not sure on how much of an impact it had because of the Pet from the Alt.
Will try again next week without that trinket and without this one: Young Drake's Impulse Young Drake's Impulse, which gave me Haste (128 @ Max lvl 70) and Speed (119 Max lvl 70).
** Also had MANY items on, that had Haste in their Stats (will try again next week without these as well... )

*** Keep in mind That I have tried just about anything else that was posted throughout Wowhead (including the option to just go full solo with Crate of Kidnapped Puppies Crate of Kidnapped Puppies and also I had this one at the same time: Captain Zvezdan's Lost Leg Captain Zvezdan's Lost Leg and still wasn't enough) - there just isn't enough damage anymore...

...I wonder what Box of Bombs Box of Bombs, would do for extra damage at shattering time... ?

Comment by setari

As a resto shaman farming for mogs, I had to swap to enhancement, then use the Heirloom Balanced Heartseeker + pop earth elemental and wolves. The freezing was a little slow since there's a longer cd on frost shock but it worked.

Comment by FizzlNet

I'm on a mission to kill all bosses in all instances. I wasn't expecting this much trouble this early. I'm playing a monk. After some trials and tribulations it took me about 2 hours and running back and forth to AH to get stuff to try and kill this.

What worked in the end:
* Windwalker spec
* Dual wielding Draconium Knuckles (500gp)
* Enchanted with Frozen Devotion (3kgp)

Just smacked until it got frozen. Then popped Xuen and SEaF and spammed all the buttons that conceivably could do me considered melee damage. Only took couple of seconds, while with my previous attempts I couldn't kill it before it thawed again.

I'm not sure if the green mists matter, but I also dragged the mob around to keep it out of those just to be sure.

Comment by smalldough

For my Ret friends :
Use Battered Greatmaul the only weapon with fast enough speed to do it . Spent 20 tries with heirloom 2.6 speed weapon and then simply first tried with 1.8 mace.

Comment by Baelof

With the frustrating nerfs to on-use summoning trinkets always missing their attacks, the new Defender of the Winterpelt trinket seems to work well enough.
As an Evoker I was able to use an Heirloom Dagger with Fury of the Aspects and a proc from the furbolg trinket to finally break Viscidus.

Comment by Lilyoptra

For the freezing part, be sure to check your toybox for Endothermic Blaster its all you'll need for that part. Take him to 1, stand inside of him, and use this till he freezes. Its slow but works for every class/every spec-no need for special portions, enchants, spells, talents, etc. Once frozen, click off the buff and proceed with class/spec-specific damage tips.

If you don't have the toy, you can farm it next Winter Veil and in the meantime, proceed with special portions, enchants, spells, talents, etc :)

Comment by Nevada

Frost-Laced Ammo didn't work

Comment by EQgaming

Summon trinkets no longer work as summons keep missing attacks 100%.

Comment by MamaMo

Did this tonight as an enhancement shaman. I kept spamming Ice strike and Frost Shock. Eventually it froze him and we were able to kill him.

Comment by Kurai1518

This is such an annoying thing to solo lol. On a ret pally, I found a 1.80 speed weapon, put on elemental force, took the crusade ability to give me haste when I spend holy power in wings, popped wings a little after the "Viscidus is freezing up" message to give me time to build up haste, and then sure enough it was enough to take him down. Other melee classes I'm sure you can do similar things and even easier if you can dual wield.

Comment by Tiefflieger

I had haste food buff, managed to freeze him solid with Endothermic Blaster, once frozen solid I pulled Feral Hide Drums and attack cds.... and still was not fast enough.
Next try in 30 mins because of cooldown from Endothermic Blaster.

This is one of these tasks in this game where I am turning around, walk away and don't come back to this for years (again). And I am so glad I'll be saving myself from a lot of trouble.

Comment by Silvansaria

Used Endothermic Blaster Toy. Took about a minute to freeze him. Then you're PACIFIED for a few seconds... His health was instantly zero due to the damage you do so once the Pacification passes - he instantly dies and of course - didn't drop any Mail gear for my Hunter...

But at least this is one easy way to complete this fight if you need to...

Comment by shanpo

Created an account just to say Barov Peasant Caller no longer works, all Melee hits from the peasants now miss...

Comment by clairejv

Ugh, didn't know about the frost thing on my first run. Came back with a low-level BOE green sword enchanted with Elemental Force, and got him down in a minute or so, no sweat.

Comment by Solithan

Managed to kill him with my Retribution Paladin with Battered Greatmaul, Endothermic Blaster, and Crate of Kidnapped Puppies.

Farmed Battered Greatmaul. I farmed it here (took a couple of hours, though): Opportunistic Bandit, /way #37 47.6 12.6 Opportunistic Bandit
The item level of the weapon was 122, so I couldn't enchant it with Enchant Weapon - Elemental Force
Unspecced Blades of Light (thanks @Valentir)
Specced Crusade
Brought the boss down to 1 HP.
Spammed the button of Endothermic Blaster until the boss was frozen (3 stacks).
As soon as the boss is frozen, right-click the buff of Endothermic Blaster.
Pop Crusade, Feral Hide Drums, and Crate of Kidnapped Puppies (according to the log, they dealt damage).

Comment by Sicosiao

Easily doable as a BM Hunter:
- Get Animal Companion and Dire Beast
- Use Endothermic Blaster until it freezes
- Quickly right-click the buff to get rid of the toy and spam Barbed Shot to make your pets attack as fast as possible
- Make sure you're autoattacking him too, get a faster bow from a vendor or AH if you want to make it easier
- It should die to the combined hits from you and all your pets

Comment by TigerRawr38

For anyone bringing an Evoker through here: your Blue spells will freeze Viscidus, I haven't been able to figure out yet how to get the melee hits necessary for the kill, though.

Comment by Nokiraton

Three viable solutions I've tested so far:

1. Any Spec Hunter with Arctic Bola talent - use Cobra Shot to proc Arctic Bola, just takes a couple of minutes to freeze Viscidus
2. Frost Death Knight - regular frost abilities will freeze Viscidus quickly, once frozen pop minions for additional melee damage. Dual wield works best for extra speed/hits
3. Any Spec Rogue (and assuming any other spec/class) with max level heirloom weapons (I used Balanced Heartseekers) enchanted with Deathfrost (requires a low level alt to enchant and then mail to your high level character).

Out of the three, the Frost DK and Rogue were pretty even in speed, with the Hunter coming a couple of minutes behind - but still feasible. Hope this helps!

Also remember you can a) ride your ground mount all the way to Viscidus, even if it appears "indoors", and b) you don't need to kill the other bosses first. Makes grinding for pet drops much easier!

Comment by PrestoChango

If you're here to do the Raiding With Leashes achievement, I'm here to tell you now, if you're a Mage, you're wasting your time. There is no way for a Mage to beat this creature. You can freeze it, but no weapon you could possibly use will cause it to shatter before it thaws.

Buy the pet at the AH, and save yourself the time.

Comment by buffbloom

Getting loot from this boss is cake now. Bring a warrior, equip two 1.8 speed daggers and pop a phial of glacial fury. Auto attack the boss until he freezes. Pop feral hide drums, bladestorm. He dies quick.

I got the last set piece for my Pali and the pet in one try. Finally done with this place!

Comment by Clypse

Anyone else having problem with Viscidus since TWW?
I can freeze him up easy but then it doesn't progress into the shatter phase.
Even a frost mage can't affect him.

Comment by Marweiss

Solo'ed him as a druid today. Popped a Phial of Glacial Fury, went into cat form and auto attacked for a few minutes.

Comment by deplorable

can't get it to work, can slow him, can freeze him, can freeze him solid (within 5 seconds) but for some reason the mechanics are broken because i can't shatter him. brunnhildar great axe, full haste retri paladin, so i'm hitting him faster than the GCDs on my strike abilities allow... so he freezes solid really quickly. just nothing afterwards. goes back to normal; 5 seconds frozen solid.

i miss the days of frost oil (and no that no longer works, as the frost bolt never procs properly now)

just can't shatter... blizzard screws mechanics over everytime they do something in a new patch. don't get me started on the amount of dungeon bosses that might not "start" due to mechanics changes in later expansions

Comment by SweetBacon

Did this two weeks in row with Prot Paladin. Used Phial of Glacial Fury. Weared Extra Large Leek. And Drummed when he froze.

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