How to Solo Garr: A Guide for Warrior and Paladin Tanks

So. I slept all day and as a result have 1h before work, I thought i'll go check out Garr in my current gear http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Al%27Akir&n=Necrolite and see what's up with him. Well, I really thought i'd just get creamed by him after a minute or two but what the hell, i'll try it.

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exactly 13 minutes and 25 seconds at an average of 1300 dps (1600 with the adds alive) as far as spells used:

Seal of Light > Judgement of Light > Shield of Righteousness > Holy Shield

Rinse and repeat. Keeping Blessing of Sanctuary up to allow for burst dps with the adds proccing it, he dropped to ~50% or thereabouts before they were automatically exploded. From there on in it was a case of mana management: Arcane Torrent and and Divine Plea, keeping Blessing of Sanctuary up. Only had to bubble + bandage twice, once due to my own lack of attention. Used Lay on Hands once, for some HP but mostly for the mana returns.

To me it seems burst DPS during the adds being alive was key to getting him down before i eventually ran OOM. But even then, all it requires is some attention and just refreshing Blessing of Sanctuary

Have fun killing him
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With regard to the previous comment about healing gear and lava... At 70, my priest could survive lava pretty much indefinitely with self-heals, so at 80 this will be absolute cake if anyone wishes to play around with the whole "going the whole way through the lava" thing that Lore mentioned a few pages back.

Although not strictly related to soloing Garr, does anybody know if there's any truth to the claims on wowhead that Smelt Elementium can no longer be learned? I've been planning to farm out a Thunderfury but doing so might be impossible on new servers if the bars can't be smelted..