Doing what they said couldn't be done :-)

Either my guildies suck or I rock. At this point, I'm leaning toward me rocking. :-)

My lock turned 64 a couple days ago and I've been on a non-stop XP grind to hit 65. As I looked to see what my guildies were up to tonight, I noticed a bunch of 62's in Hellfire. I asked if any of them still had to do "Colassal Menace" since it is listed as a 2-man quest and was still showing as yellow in my quest log. They responded that they had all done that quest and were busy with other stuff, so I told them I'd try to solo it. Their response was, "it took 5 of us, no way are you gonna be able to solo it."

The gauntlet had been thrown and I was up to the challenge. How tough could it be to kill five 63 elites at level 64? :-) I soulstoned, made sure my fel armor was up and my blueberry was at 100% before heading out for the quest. Since it was right next to the temple in Hellfire, I took the shortcut to the right just as you leave the temple and found my first colossus.

My plan of attack was simple: send in my blueberry, curse of weakness, corruption, immolate, siphone life, rinse, repeat. I noticed my blueberry was taking quite a beating, so I decided to fear. Good call. I had to apply my DoT's 3-4 times and chain-fear, but he dropped. Lifetap FTW. :-)

After the first colossus, the rest were pretty easy. The biggest problem I ran into was having the stupid giants evade after being feared too far from their point of origin. That really sucked because I had at least two of them down to 20% when they evaded and reset.

I died once in the 30 minutes it took me to complete the quest, and that was on my 4th attempt. I had a hell of a time getting a fear off because the stupid giant kept stunning me. Once I got the pattern down for DoT's and fears, my health only dropped because of life tap and my blueberry only lost a couple thousand health during my initial DoTs. I used one pot the whole time and that was between fights to regen my health faster than bandaging.

here's my armory. I'm spec'd affliction with a few points in demonology. Yea, some of my gear sucks, but I have yet to be in a BC-instance on this toon, so the gear is either quest rewards or AH.