TOGC 10M Full Guide | All Bosses + Multiple Strategies | WotLK Classic

TOGC 10M Full Guide | All Bosses + Multiple Strategies | WotLK Classic
This is my guide to Heroic Trial of the Grand Crusader 10M. This is the first guide I've made for a raid so I hope it turned out well. Please note that all of the spell tooltips shown in this video are from 25M because I could not find 10M versions. I did include additional text when I thought it was relevant.
You CAN use this guide as an outline to 25M TOGC, however, I would highly suggest watching a full TOGC 25M guide as well to get a better understanding of how to deal with fights on that difficulty.
Hopefully this helps you get an easy clear your first week and thanks for watching! :)
All music in this video is from StreamBeats by Harris Heller
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00:00 Gormok the Impaler
01:23 Acidmaw and Dreadscale
02:27 Icehowl
03:49 Lord Jaraxxus
05:42 Faction Champions
07:44 Twin Valkyries (Normal Strat)
09:07 Twin Valkyries (Door Strat)
10:04 Anub'Arak (Zerg Strat)
12:43 Anub'Arak (Normal Strat)
14:57 Outro

[@linqwow]

This is my guide to Heroic TOGC 10M! It’s the first guide I’ve made for a raid so I hope it helps someone out there! A few important things to note: 1. The skills tooltips I found were for 25M so the damage values are going to be lower on 10M. I added some text when I thought it was relevant/needed but please be aware of that. 2. I made the slides at the end of each chapter for a quick “at-a-glance” summary of how to do the boss fight. They aren’t beautiful but they may help you refresh on some mechanics if you are looking to quickly one shot on the first night. 3. I show 2 different strategies for Twin Valks and for Anub’Arak and I would highly encourage you to watch both so you can understand the fights better. 4. You may use this guide as an OUTLINE for 25M, however, I highly suggest that you watch an actual 25M guide as damage / health values will be different which will change parts of the strategies. For example, you likely won’t be able to zerg the Anub’Arak fight on 25M. If you have requests for other videos, please feel free to leave them in a comment here! I’m also happy to answer any questions I can about the raid, as I ran it 3 times on the PTR this last weekend. Please like and subscribe as I’m trying to grow the channel and I’ll have more content out soon! Thanks for watching 😊

[@icepicmusic4324]

I love the little recap pictures you put after the full explanation, great video thank you!

[@linqwow]

Absolutely!! I'm glad those helped out, I wasn't sure when I made them if they would turn out well but it seems like they are adding a bit to the video :) Thank you so much for watching!

[@tantraturtle5588]

First raid tonight and I'm feeling confident in my knowledge thanks to this guide. Thanks very much. Great vid.

[@user-vj6vn2it5s]

One of the best guides for a WOW raid I have ever seen! Very well put together, and I feel extremely prepared with your notes. I much appreciate it! Please please keep them coming!!

[@linqwow]

This is some of the highest praise I could receive. I really appreciate you saying that :) I have a few videos coming in the next few weeks and will continue to put out more, especially with phase 3 coming soon :) Thanks so much for watching!

[@evilmerc2039]

Really clear and concise guide - fantastic work for your first time!

[@linqwow]

Thank you so much! I worked on it for a good while so I really appreciate that

[@pepsiandrew16]

I very much enjoy the to the point way you do this while still leaving some unsaid info at the end like aura recommendations. Very well done guide, love everything about it. +1 sub.

[@linqwow]

Yo thank you so much!! I wondered if those little summaries at the end would be helpful or not but it seems like they do add something to the guide. Really glad to hear you liked it and I'll do more in the future :) Thanks for the kind words and for the sub!!

[@napoliane0]

Amazing video- linked this in my guild's disc as reference. Thank you for the notes and the easy explanation! Hope you do a 25-man version, too!

[@linqwow]

Thank you for sharing the video and for watching!!

[@Mafurszki]

Awesome guide, really easy to receive and understand, and not to long. Great job, keept it up for later phases! Thx the guide.

[@linqwow]

Thank you so much for watching and for the encouragement! Planning to make a guide for ICC once the PTR drops :) Probably normal mode then heroic mode :)

[@051biohaz]

Great guide man, thanks for the quick and clear explanation of all the mechanics, super helpful..:)

[@linqwow]

Absolutely! Hopefully it helps you out and thank YOU for watching

[@BabyPicklesTV]

Amazing video, thank you!

[@linqwow]

Thank you for watching

[@ario2019]

Everything is perfectly explained with all the details. Keep up the good work bro.

[@linqwow]

Thank you so much

[@dianakeenan1907]

Would have never guessed it was you first video like this well done

[@linqwow]

Thank you for saying that and thank you for watching :) Looking to do more guides in the future for ICC and Cata as well :)

[@anthonybox3222]

Thanks so much for your easy to understand guide bro.

[@linqwow]

Thank you for watching and I hope it helps

[@sather92]

So clear and to the point! Really wish I watched THIS video before raid last night (first time going) lol

[@linqwow]

Yooo hopefully your first run went well! This will definitely help you in the next one if you had any trouble before

[@theodoulosvangas3525]

Nice simple and extremly helpfull. Tyvm! Keep up the good work

[@linqwow]

Thank you so much for saying that and for watching :) New video should be out in the next 4 days :)

[@theodoulosvangas3525]

Is there any weak auras for togc or still 2 soon?

[@user6876]

Really clear and concise guide

[@linqwow]

Hope it helps out :) Thank you for watching

[@jollyjoligan]

Started playing WoW back in vanilla, came back recently. Never been in a raid, gonna look for one tonight. Thx for this!

[@linqwow]

Yooo good luck in your raid tonight and welcome back! Hope you get some good loot :) Ty for watching!

[@jollyjoligan]

@linqwow thanks bud. Actually got 1st in dps on 3rd boss, was in top 3 on all of them. Safe to sat the guide works!

[@linqwow]

@@jollyjoligan Yo nice!! Hopefully they tried to recruit you because it sounds like you're already pulling your weight!

[@Crookqt]

Nicely done thank you!

[@linqwow]

Thanks for watching :)

[@lukec4096]

really good vid mate

[@linqwow]

Thank you :) Hope it helped out and made your ToGC clear easier!

[@jamesbond1231]

Great guide - Dig the simplicity but still detail oriented! Thanks. That earns my sub!

[@linqwow]

Really appreciate the kind words! :) Thanks for watching and thank you for your sub!

[@thecrappyone]

Really good job, perfect guide

[@linqwow]

Thank you so much :) Wishing you luck in ToGC and Phase 3 :)

[@thecrappyone]

@@linqwow One question though, what did u guys do with the shadow strike from the adds?

[@brettness1416]

What a unique and fun raid. I remember eoing ToGC back in the day when it was end content before Icecrown dropped.

[@linqwow]

I know a lot of people are saying how easy this raid is going to be (and it really isnt that hard) but I love this raid! Can't wait to get back in there, especially on some alt classes :)

[@brettness1416]

@@linqwow Honestly one of my favorite raids next to Kara. I havnt played since Legion and I always feel a piece missing since I can't play. Hopefully will get a new PC soon. Enjoy the raid and adventures!

[@shtroizn]

Excellent guide. Thanks

[@linqwow]

Absolutely, glad you liked it :) Thank you for watching

[@shtroizn]

@@linqwow Thanks for making it. One tiny word of advice. Maybe just start the vid with a little "foreword", you know - get people into the video - get them hyped up and introduce the content you are about to share - then on with the great content. Just my 2 cents.

[@linqwow]

@@shtroizn Like a little 10 second summary or something first? Like "hi guys im me and in this video I'm going to go over all of the fights in ToGC 10M Heroic. I'll try to cover as much information as I can and will show multiple strategies for both Twin Valkyrs as well as Anub Arak. Without further ado, lets get into it" Something kind of like that? Maybe I should have mentioned at the start of this video about the lil summary graphics I made in the video. I really appreciate any advice on this stuff as I still have a lot to learn and always want to improve my videos! Thank you!

[@shtroizn]

@@linqwow Precisely. I think if you start your videos with something like that it would make viewers feel a more personal connection to you and also just put some order into the content: Like a book - prologue, content, epilogue. Hope that helps. You have imo plenty of potential.

[@linqwow]

@@shtroizn Thank you so much for saying that

[@gx7000000]

Good job explaining it ty.

[@linqwow]

Thank you for watching! Hope it helps

[@andydudley1775]

this does help ty for your time and effort ty.this is now been linked to my giuld discord.

[@linqwow]

Thank you so much for watching :)

[@mosquito6581]

Thank you for this guide

[@linqwow]

Thank YOU for watching :) Good luck in ToGC!

[@briansung3036]

Thanx for text guide ❤

[@linqwow]

Hey I'm glad you liked that part! I thought it would be nice to have the summaries at the end of the fights. Thank you very much for watching :)

[@its_serp]

Great video! Thanks!

[@linqwow]

Thank you for watching

[@richard19901031]

About the touch of jaraxxus, I did find it's in the wow database but some guides didn't include this ability and I was told Blizzard removed this ability when go live back in the day

[@linqwow]

Interesting find honestly! I'll add this to my pinned comment when it goes live if I'm not seeing touch of Jaraxxus. Its likely already going to be removed when its launched or it might not have been on the ptr. Thanks for the info!

[@sebastienlebel7725]

WP very nice guide :)

[@linqwow]

Thank you very much :) And thanks for watching!

[@BaseSRKI]

thanks, graet video!

[@linqwow]

Really appreciate you watching it and I hope it helps :)

[@gustavocaicheo7512]

amazing guide!! you should do one for Ulduar, i always have difficult with that

[@linqwow]

Thank you so much for saying that and for watching :) We are pretty late into the phase for Ulduar and there are a lot of great Ulduar guides out there; have you tried any of them? I could recommend a few really good ones. I may consider making my own very short guide to ulduar or a class by class tips guide for Ulduar since we will be in there for a while longer :)

[@gustavocaicheo7512]

@@linqwow oh please!! Tell me about those guides, i dont have a clue

[@linqwow]

@@gustavocaicheo7512 I got you! So one is a 30 Second Boss Guide and its amazing - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZPCdIesoM6ZocU If you want more in-depth guides than that, @Joardee has a guide on every single boss in Ulduar. I'll link his channel here: www.youtube.com/@Joardee Hopefully that helps you out! Ulduar is a tough raid so don't be discouraged :) Lots of guilds are still progressing on it and will continue to in Phase 3.

[@c2thewick]

this is great, ty

[@linqwow]

Absolutely! Hope it makes your first week clearing TOGC easy :) Thank you for watching!

[@maraxussrafhael]

Thanks, God Bles..!

[@linqwow]

Thanks for watching :) Bless up!

[@aykan5621]

Nice guide

[@linqwow]

Thank you :) Hope it helps you out!

[@theren10]

just another tip for icehowl, if you stand at max melee range you won't get knocked back by the whirl thing

[@linqwow]

This is huge! I didn't know it at the time when I made the video but that tip is honestly really helpful and I wish I had included it in the video

[@justbob8294]

On faction champions if you have 2 DKs you can chain death grip a healer out of range of the other healer and nuke it down really fast. Even if you don't cc the 2nd healer.

[@linqwow]

Yo that is a really good call out! Thank you for this!

[@oswaldchangerton5328]

Goated

[@linqwow]

You're the best :)

[@JoshuaMiller77]

I see you Blood DPS

[@linqwow]

Blood dps is funnnn! Really hoping it scales well into ICC so we can pump!!

[@jasonbraby5982]

What UI addons are you using? Is that grid like that setup

[@linqwow]

For my action bars at the bottom I typically use Bartender. I still use an mmo mouse so it works well for me, but my healing UI could use some work haha :)

[@silvermonkey5351]

How much GS if wanna try this raid? And is trinket that could losing all bad stat movement that you mean?(pvp tringket)? Thanks bf

[@linqwow]

If you're doing normal mode ToGC 10M you could probably get into a group around 4k-4.5k gearscore. If you want to do heroic 4.5k-5k would probably let you into both 10m and 25m heroic runs I think, but this depends on your server :) Its a relatively easy raid so people are willing to put up with lower gearscore compared to Ulduar groups. PvP trinket is only good for faction champions if you need to escape a CC or something like that. Otherwise you will want to keep your dps trinket on during the raid. If you don't have a pvp trinket (and ur not human for the racial ability) then thats okay, you should still be fine on faction champions without it. Hopefully that helps :) Ty for watching

[@TheDerpp]

Hey man! I just have a question about the zerg strat for Anub. You say DPS should passively cleave the adds but doesn't that leave them open to cast their shadow strike ability? Or does that become the offtanks responsibility?

[@linqwow]

Hi there! So if you have a Paladin tank here, or I suppose a Ret paladin, you can use Holy Wrath to stun both the adds and that should take care of the interrupt for you. Watching my video back a few times myself, and it looks like the adds on 10m are normally dying before they are casting it at all so if you are having issues with the shadow strike going off you may need to focus on clearing the adds just a bit more. Passive cleave may be the wrong word to use here I suppose, but you want to be focusing on cleaving while DPSing the boss as best you can so you can still meet the DPS check before he submerges. Sorry for the wall of text, I hope that helps! Please let me know if you have any questions!

[@TheDerpp]

@@linqwow yeah we had the ability go off on our first pull and it one-shot someone 😅 since then we focused on adds and it hasn't gone off since, but by focusing on adds we're being subjected to the submerge phase which sucks lmao. We do have a pally tank though so that should free us up to burn that sucker down! Thanks for the reply man, the wall of text is hugely appreciated haha

[@linqwow]

@@TheDerpp Of course, I'm glad to help! Yeah it will take some DPS away from the boss so it will be tight there. If you have a gigachad healer you MIGHT be able to 1 heal in that last phase and add more dps in. Maaaybe. Hopefully yall got him down or get him down on next attempt :)

[@drewblack3565]

Does staggering stomp silence outside of 15 yards? I did it yesterday on my boomkin and was not effected by this at all.

[@linqwow]

I don't believe it does! If you stand out as ranged you should be able to just keep casting without worrying about the interrupt

[@Mitol01]

Спасибо!

[@linqwow]

пожалуйста! (You're welcome :) )

[@user-ze2mg2hb4d]

Actually if you have a resto druid, their regens easily compensate the 10 man for the 10% health debuff. Wow, using a class other than pali and priest to heal...crazy right?

[@linqwow]

No, resto druids are good! We run 2 hpals, 1 disc priest, 1 r shaman, and 1 r druid in our 25m. Our R Druid is a beast and could def solo heal 10m if he tried, I bet. Tree druid underrated. Sorry if I gave the impression in the video that they couldn't do it or something!

[@user-ze2mg2hb4d]

@@linqwow No you didn't in the video. It is just an overall impression I get in game. Whenever I see raid adverts they just want those 2 classes. Resto Druid came into its own in TBC, and I can put out MAD heals. The regens are freaking awesome. Resto just is not a "1 button" healing class, which I love. It reminds me of Bard in EQ. Always got to have those fingers moving 8)

[@linqwow]

@@user-ze2mg2hb4d Yes Resto Druid has to be one of the most fun healers to play. Lots of buttons to press and the HoTs are really interesting alongside Nourish + Swiftmend. I really like it. Also very fun to blanket the raid in rejuvenations. I have only played a liiiiitle bit of EQ2 (I was a dwarf... warrior? or Berserker or something that meleed) but part of me hopes we see EQ3 one day. I always hear that EQ basically inspired WoW.

[@joedarling5175]

So lust doesn't reset after each encounter in togc?

[@linqwow]

I think it does, it was just bugged on the PTR when I was testing things out. I believe it will still reset after each encounter. It would be pretty lame if it does NOT reset to be honest haha I'm pretty used to it now :)

[@malestrength]

Which Bosses can you 1 Tank on 10 man?

[@belotifooloo98]

hi mate / im need help -----> i cant see stack buff on tank ( 2 stack tunt boss first boss) plz help // now 2 stack Lightsag tank sry dont good english

[@linqwow]

Hi there! Are you referring to the stacks from Impale from Gormok the Impaler? In the first boss fight? I should be able to recommend something for that

[@Jspath3]

I dont remember TOGC being this easy back in the day, did they nerf the raid?

[@linqwow]

I don't believe ToGC has had any nerfs this time around but 25M heroic is definitely a step up in difficulty from 10M. Its still relatively easy compared to Ulduar but 25M Anub is a decently tough fight for sure. The item lvl in Ulduar was buffed in this version of WotLK from what it was in original WotLK so its basically an indirect nerf to ToGC since we are overgeared for it, if that makes sense.

[@jimmystory4352]

how to interupt on warlock? what spell?

[@linqwow]

Their Felhunter pet I believe has a spell that interrupts. I think its actually just called Spell Lock: www.wowhead.com/spell=19647/spell-lock

[@pyotrbagration2438]

Bro , as a melee, on icehowl, stay with your back towards the wall so you dont get knocked back to pump more deBBs.

[@brandonschick8102]

You can literally just stand at max melee range and it won't hit you, no need to position near a wall and sacrificing hitting the boss from the back.

[@Styreta]

Fine guide but I have hard time taking it seriously without nameplates o,O;;

[@linqwow]

My UI was jank and this footage all comes from the ptr but.... yeah my UI needs some work in general lol

[@colcil]

For the Anub'Arak fight, can't we just report all the bugs ?

[@linqwow]

LOL amazing comment

[@danman2810]

BoP (or hand of freedom) doesn't make you lose top threat. You're still top threat the boss just goes to 2nd threat instead. As soon as BoP is removed he switches back to top threat (you). No need to taunt.

[@linqwow]

This is actually something I had no idea about so that is really good to know. Thank you for that!

[@TheShostako]

Is this hard mode or normal mode? Which is the difference?

[@linqwow]

This is for Hard mode 10m. Most of these mechanics will still apply in normal mode, they just won't hit as hard :)

[@stiffed6049]

the backpaddel tf

[@linqwow]

F I ruined the entire video with that backpedal. Backpaddle would be like for a boat tho

[@gripzpewpew]

No point in using low rank heals to conserve mana, in wrath each rank uses the same amount of mana.

[@seanknowlen8055]

the lower rank is to prevent over healing and thus healing anub for more. The mana cost is the same, you are right, but this is a rare instance where you actually want to be healing less rather than more

[@gripzpewpew]

​@@seanknowlen8055 I can see why people would assume downranking would be effective because less hp = less taken away, thus keeping the target barely alive would be just as effective. However, there is no incentive to using a lesser rank for the same mana, most of the healing should be covered by group healing output like shadow priest /judge light/healing stream totem ect. which is enough healing in each group to keep them from dropping to 250 (kill zone of leeching swarm). the only healing that should go out from healers is to the tanks and members who get targeted by penetrating cold, which should be healed with a high rank as to not risk being dropped near the 250 that would otherwise kill them. if people are dying to leeching swarm alone, either your comp doesn't make sense or someone didn't do their job.

[@kinkinjunior4349]

how much longer toc?

[@linqwow]

I think it will be out in less than a month, though I don't think anything has been confirmed yet. I would be shocked if we didn't see ToC by June 20th

[@malestrength]

Door strat still viable

[@linqwow]

Door strat works great! Highly recommend it :)

[@stodanko]

Looks like this healer needs healbot addon.

[@linqwow]

My UI needs a complete revamp tbh. I am going to borrow HolyPalaSwe's UI with Grid I think

[@sonchai6517]

The snobolds cannot be effected by AoE you have to single target them down, not a bug but lame either way haha

[@linqwow]

It really is lame haha feels weird to have to target them and lose some uptime on the boss

[@namenoname3284]

tl;dr just kill the boss in 10man, you can't wipe if youre not pugging

[@linqwow]

Likely true!

[@kristenrobinson7189]

You can freedom over your BOP to remove it and damn people really need to use the middle of the room for some fights - their positioning is awful.

[@rbernardo4748]

Hunter or rogue to dispel potential ice howl enrage. This game was fun but unfortunately also piss easy

[@linqwow]

this tip is huge and can save a wipe. Definitely should have put this in the video, thank you!

[@andreasthoma8951]

witch PVP Twinket