sarge816
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11 months ago The FR gear and SPP buff made all the difference, and we successfully downed the HH all three times today. This is a good work around, but even with 315 FR our Ret Pally still succumbed to Conflagrate once since he didn't hit his bubble in time.
1) You cannot loot the Candy Buckets in the inns - you can click the bucket and the quest will show, but it will not allow completion. :( EDIT: This problem was solved, as an addon (Questie) was throwing a null value and preventing the quest completion. Disable this addon and issue is solved.
2) Headless Horseman was a pushover in retail TBC, but this Horseman in SPP is back with a vengeance! Far more difficult than retail is an understatement, mainly due to inflated conflagrate damage. In retail, if he threw the pumpkin at you it did ~1k damage and ticked for ~500 damage for several seconds. Here, if you get hit with the pumpkin, you are dead! It ticks down your health in a few seconds, and even the tank gets targeted (pretty sure tank didn't in retail). We went into the SM graveyard with three 70 players and two 70 bots, all decently geared in pre-raid BIS. We wiped all three times we could summon him (bots cannot summon), mainly due to conflagrate. We remembered to equip our pvp trinket the second and third attempts (it will dispel the conflagrate), but he would target players multiple times with it and you cannot heal through it. Another notable issue is that bots will refuse to attack the head after the body is dps'd down, even if you skull it. So they are pretty much useless in this battle. Wipefest!
I've made SM a level 70 dungeon in the .conf file and will be going back in with our gang to try again today (just three of us) with the SPP buff. I might spawn us a whole set of fire resist gear to equip as well, just in case.