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Lord Godfrey

Shadowfang KeepBaron AshburyBaron SilverlaineCommander SpringvaleLord WaldenLord GodfreyLord Vincent GodfreyGenn GreymaneLady Sylvanas WindrunnerGilneasShadowfang Keep

This NPC can be found in Shadowfang Keep.

Heroic Strategy

Despite the fact that he is the last boss in the dungeon, Godfrey is a very simple fight.

Pull the boss down from where he is to give yourselves a little more room.

On equal time intervals during the fight, Godfrey will Summon Bloodthirsty Ghouls, casting Pistol Barrage immediately after that. When Godfrey casts Pistol Barrage everybody should make sure they are behind him. Most of the ghouls will die to the barrage, so just finish off the ones that were summoned behind him.

He will stack on the tank, but the stack will fall off during his Pistol Barrage.

Finally, Godfrey will shoot at random people. If you can remove Curses, remove this one quickly. If not, just heal through the DoT.

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After killing this NPC you will gain:

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300 reputation with Huojin Pandaren

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Feast of Winter
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(December 16 - January 2)

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Comment by Hollowed

Replaces Arugal as the last boss of Shadowfang Keep in Cataclysm.

Comment by vindurza

i want his hat

Comment by Latias714

Guide:

1. Summons a few weak adds. Easily aoe'd.

2. Shoots at a random party member. 50k damage at first, then a DoT if not decursed. 1 sec cast if you manage to catch it, I know I was on my toes as a fury warrior for the damage boost.

3. Pistol barrage. Cone aoe you can easily avoid.

Comment by Blueprint

Is this guy supposed to be Van Helsing? Going by Pistol Barrage and the outfit.

Comment by simplicitylett

He is the enemy of grammar, too. At least, I think so. When you kill him he says:
"I thank you for the clean death. I would not of done the same."
I may be wrong, but isn't it "I would not HAVE done the same."?

Comment by BroskiDK

2. Shoots at a random party member. 50k damage at first, then a DoT if not decursed. 1 sec cast if you manage to catch it, I know I was on my toes as a fury warrior for the damage boost.

Further elaborating on this, it is an effect called Cursed Bullets. After a few wipes in Heroic SFK, I found that he likes casting it 2 times per attack rotation.

He will cast this directly after Pistol Barrage, and again 10-15 seconds after that. For example:

Raise Ghouls
Pistol Barrage
Cursed Bullets
10-15 seconds elapsed
Cursed Bullets
Rinse and repeat

I found that knowing this made Cursed Bullets, with its quick cast time, easier to catch. Knowing when to expect it made all the difference between our wipes and our kill.

Comment by TheAmadaun

This fight is extremely easy on heroic mode.

Nobody stand in front of him except the tank. Kill the adds. When he turns for Pistol Barrage, move behind him.

If you could get past the first and third bosses, Godfrey is a joke.

Comment by Chanak

Today on heroic he was stacking mortal wound, and it was getting unhealable fairly quickly.

To get around this, we just had to have the tank move a little during pistol barrage.

(Mortal wound is 8 seconds, Pistol barrage is 6 seconds, so he didn't have to move far)

Comment by DrPwnage

When he called Sylvanas a $%^&*
I was like "Oh No He Di`nt

Comment by anathama

I had completed this boss a couple days ago without too much trouble, but when I tried tonight, we kept failling. After trying several different strategies, all wiping around 30-40%, we decided to try and two heal it.

That made all the difference to our group, and even with the two remaining dps pulling under 6k each, we managed to down the boss without so much as a party member dipping below 50%.

Hope this helps, and good luck ;)

Comment by iamrock281

On heroic difficulty tonight this guys was the easiest to heal other than Lord Walden. My holy pally is geared in mostly 333 with some 349 in key slots, (chest, hands, legs). Our only decurser was the tank so he couldnt do it. I got down to about 5% mana and everyone around 50% health when the boss dropped. If you have melee dps and they are stacking behind, use 3 HPow LoD to heal them all up, and the heals from that will help alot with the tank staying up. also you can switch your beacon to the cursed player if you can't decurse, I only did this at the end because the hunter was cursed and everyone else was in range for LoD. hope this helps the other holy pallies out there that are having mana issues.

Comment by alexiel

Split Level Strat
Healer and Ranged DPS:
Jump onto the small stone wall where you first enter the room - this will allow you to heal and DPS the boss without taking damage from his AoE frontal attack Pistol Barrage. Make sure to decurse his Cursed Bullets.

Tank and Melee DPS:
Aggro him, and then bring him down below from where he is standing onto the hay on the lower level. When tanking him, face the boss towards the wall. Dodge his AoE frontal attack Pistol Barrage.

Comment by Aranian

His Cursed Bullets Ability is interruptable. It is a very quick cast though, so stay on your toes. As a Warrior is was able to (try to) interrupt it every time as it seems to have a 10 second cooldown. Decursers still need to dispel any that come through as fast as possible.

Comment by AcerosAU

nasty fight if there's no one in your group to decurse. Interrupters need to be on their toes with Cursed Bullet, it's on a 1 second cast time. I found that he does a Cursed Bullet right after his pistol barrage, so when he's almost done with it, get ready with the interrupts.

Comment by parazyte

He's too powerful. He one-shot Sylvanas.

nerf Lord Godfrey!

Comment by Tuarceata

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/couldof.html
This is one of those errors typically made by a person more familiar with the spoken than the written form of English. A sentence like “I would have gone if anyone had given me free tickets” is normally spoken in a slurred way so that the two words “would have” are not distinctly separated, but blended together into what is properly rendered “would’ve.” Seeing that “V” tips you off right away that “would’ve” is a contraction of “would have.” But many people hear “would of” and that’s how they write it. Wrong.

Note that “must of” is similarly an error for “must have.”
Awesome site :)

Comment by TheMopeSquad

Trying this for the first time tonight the only real problem was dealing with the healing debuff. After we figured out what was going on, after a few wipes, we just had the ret pally taunt him off the tank long enough for the debuff to fall off and it was easy as pie.

Comment by Catriona

Does Curse of Tongues work on the Cursed Bullet cast? This could help slow interrupters.

Comment by Albehl

First dungeon boss I've ever seen using profanity when you engage it. This is some hardcore stuff!

Comment by ohgeweldig

This is a terrible fight for disc priests to heal if there is no curse dispeller in the group.
Many tanks will have mortal strike on them most of the time, forcing you to use a lot of Greater Heals on them, at the same time the curse will be on atleast one member doing huge damage(about 125k) . Because your are forced to change target a lot grace (24% more healing) wont be useable a lot.

My advice: Only use penance on the tank so you quickly restack grace
Only use Pain Suppressant on tank (because he will be damaged the whole duration)
Use Pain SUppressant and PW:barrier only if 3 are being damaged at the same time.
Keep Pw:shield only when safe, as the pw:s gcd + casttime of Greater heal are high enough together to get someone killed in the meantime.

GL!

Comment by Sora14

Really cool boss, but someone know he's outfit?

Comment by chaoslord92

Lord Vincent Godfrey is a renegade nobleman from Gilneas who opposed his king, Genn Greymane, after discovering that he and many of his people had been afflicted with the worgen curse. After committing suicide rather than acknowledge a worgen as his lord, Godfrey's body was recovered and reanimated by the Forsaken, but after turning on them as well, he fled into the abandoned ruins of Shadowfang Keep, where he and his followers remain. Taken from Wowwiki, but on my note apparently he is now the final boss in Shadowfang Keep which replaces the old boss Archmage Arugal, in which Arugal is no longer a boss in Shadowfang Keep, but his legacy will remain, as worgen death knights are said to be former servants of Arugal who escaped from Shadowfang and later became minions of the Lich King. Very interesting! I moved this comment from the page (for the heroic achieve for this guy's page) to this one, during the time the boss wasn't on the website. So the lore is now here.

Comment by SokoTheUnstable

Garrosh:" Shut your clever mouth, BlTCH! "
Lord Godfrey:" That BlTCH Sylvanas Sent you, Didn't She? "
So Sylvanas is Azeroth's Offical BlTCH Now?

Comment by LordSothe

The real question is why Alliance players would want to kill this guy. He shot Sylvanas in the head! We should be giving him a medal.

Comment by Aaro

I thought Godfrey KILLING Sylvanas, a major lore character, was beyond epic. It shows that when taken off guard, anybody can be killed, major character or non alike.

I also enjoyed that they made rezzing seem like a big deal. Everybody always QQ's when they see characters return to life, and while I agree it makes their actual death seem less significant, I think it goes more towards proving that the world of Azeroth treats death differently than reality. Death there is a "setback" -- it can only be permanent if the being that died was too powerful to be raised. Players are able to rez eachother for the same reason; it's not just a game mechanic, but it's how the game world works

Sylvanas also dying shows us that the Val'kyr are incredibly powerful, being able to raise Sylvanas after her "second death", even if they had to sacrifice themselves to do it (it'd only make sense -- she was able to hold off the Lich King and she wipes raids every day, so she's pretty damn strong).

Comment by Flametnl

Tempest's ~~Keep~~ Reach was merely a setback!

Comment by Nighteyes

it is possible (and frighteningly common) for the Mortal wound debuff to not fall away in pistol barage, causing the tank to get 2 sets of the debuff.. this leaves the tank at 80-90% reduced healing, and possibly at 100% if they are not already dead.

this is a glitch depending on exactly when the last stack is applied before he summons ghouls and does pistol barrage. If there is too little a gap between the last application of the debuff and the casting, then they will not fall off in time before he applies the next after the break. this may be due to specific group DPS's, a glitch, or just dumb luck.

Comment by Stormbeard

He called Sylvanas a @#$%^. ^&*!@.

Comment by Tidus158

This should be an easy fight for a restro shaman to heal on heroic assuming they have talent.

Comment by bramel

Is cursed bullets interruptible?

Comment by Nikkaszal

Interrupting Cursed Bullets is very doable - even on my Australian 400+ ping - when you know his pattern.

He will cast Cursed Bullets at two points:

1) Immediately after Pistol Barrage
2) 10 seconds, maybe 11, after his previous one is cast or interrupted

What this means is that classes with a 10-sec CD interrupt can accurately predict when his fiendishly fast cast is coming. When Pistol Barrage ends I hit Mind Freeze straight away, safe in the knowledge that it'll catch the beginning of the CB cast. When Mind Freeze has 1 sec left on CD my finger is hovering over the button, ready to press it pretty much as soon as it's available.

Being able to interrupt this has two benefits. Firstly, it makes healing the fight an absolute joke for ANYONE, and keeping healers happy is very important in this expac. Secondly, when you interrupt every single one of a 1-sec cast over the duration of a fight, you can claim some pretty good bragging rights =D

Comment by Tampap

Godfrey likes to cast Magic Bullet every 10-12 seconds. As a fury warrior, Pummel has a 10 sec CD, so if you see that your Pummel is about to come off CD, expect a Magic Bullet soon, and he will ALWAYS cast Magic Bullet after Pistol Barrage

Comment by koimagheul

If you could get past the first and third bosses, Godfrey is a joke.
a common trend among cata heroics. several heroics end bosses are much easier than the first ones (stonecore, blackrock caverns, throne of the tides, halls of origination...)

Comment by Basmothel

Don't tank him up against the wall. After 4.0.6 he properly faces a random direction when casting Pistol Barrage, if he's against the wall and targets a ranged player behind him, it will fill nearly the entire room with the barrage thanks to how wide the cone gets.

Comment by Kathucka

A paladin tank can make this easy.

Drop Consecration right as he starts to summon the ghouls.

Fire a Holy Wrath as soon as the ghouls are out. The ghouls are stunned in place in the Consecration. The rest of the party uses area-of-effect attacks to kill the ghouls. They'll probably all die. You'll have aggro on any that don't.

Run to the other side of the room. The travel time of the boss will allow the healing debuff to fall off of you before he can refresh it. As of 4.0.6, you'll have to make sure you avoid the pistol barrage as you do this, so it gets a bit harder.

As the pistol barrage is about to end, fire off an Avenger's Shield (or, as of 4.0.6, a Rebuke) to interrupt the Cursed Bullets. This has travel time, so you have to throw it before he finishes the Barrage. Have other interrupters available to help with this one, as it's not easy to hit that one-second window.

The cooldowns on his ghouls and your Consecration line up exactly. You should hit it ASAP when he starts on the ghouls, so that it's available next time around.

Comment by dongjinkim

The Pistol Barrage behaviour changed for 4.0.6.

He doesn't face the tank anymore, he picks a random direction and rotates.

The strategy that worked for us was to have him tanked near a wall, then we would all run around the corner to LoS the Pistol Barrage (which he did after the ghoul summons).

Comment by Phatrabbit

An npc model dual wielding pistols, hunters are next! /glee

Comment by SolidusDevilsaur

You must wear #2 Headband if you want to fight this guy.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/group/afro_samurai_madness

Comment by vazhkatsi

Tanked this today, and came across a healer who just spouted abuse at me because he wasn't aware that the fight has changed a bit.

basically- godfrey used to cast barrage at the tank, who would simply strafe out of it. now however, he casts it at a random party member, and then at the last second switches it back to the tank. this means your group can't all stand together as said healer demanded they do.

Comment by Sacrolash

Oddly enough, he tends to be harder on Normal than on Heroic, provided the group isn't over-leveled, given that you most likely won't have the ability to dispel or interrupt Cursed Bullets, and some newer players don't know not to "stand in the fire" on Pistol Barrage.

Comment by Wasuremono

Found out something strange while running it on normal mode. If you try to drag him to different parts of the instance he will teleport you back to him and to his ghouls.

Comment by Azunyan

A warning for any long-range dps (or even healers)... do not stand on the small ledge in the southern part of the room (next to the staircase, easily accessed) while shooting at Lord Godfrey. I know it's tempting (and safe), but I've had one occasion where my Warlock suddenly phased through the wall after Lord Godfrey summoned his adds. I fell off the castle zone, with the add still following me. Lost a good amount of time for dps.

The only way I got back inside was when everyone else died, and I was teleported to Lord Godfrey's room automatically when the aggro shifted to me.

...we wiped, sadly. :(

Comment by Dangeren

A warning for any long-range dps (or even healers)... do not stand on the small ledge in the southern part of the room (next to the staircase, easily accessed) while shooting at Lord Godfrey. I know it's tempting (and safe), but I've had one occasion where my Warlock suddenly phased through the wall after Lord Godfrey summoned his adds. I fell off the castle zone, with the add still following me. Lost a good amount of time for dps.

The only way I got back inside was when everyone else died, and I was teleported to Lord Godfrey's room automatically when the aggro shifted to me.

...we wiped, sadly. :(

I can confirm this, all though when the dps did it, I (the tank) fell through the castle. Needless to say, the group wiped, then Godfrey came through the castle to the ground and killed me.

Comment by BuzzNWoody

Meh, okay, but no where near as cool as Arugal. I guess all good things come to an end...

Comment by Opticonite

Just have the casters stand next to the wall behind the stairs he comes down, as the tank pulls him down to the ground floor everyone else get behind him, casters standing next to that patrial wall on that area in the corner that looks like a pile of rocks. When he casts it wont hit you there. So if you make sure the healer and casters are standing up there you should finish him in no time, assuming you have a good tank.

Comment by Opticonite

Whatever you do do not stay on the top of the ledge you walked in on. Its beyond unsafe there.

Comment by Joodass

Using a Shamans Earth Elemental works well to pull the threat off the tank long enough for the tick to drop off. Also don't try to duck behind the stairwell on the right if the boss is pulled down. The Pistol Barrage goes through that wall as well.

Comment by mewmewface

thanks i was standing on the bad ledge, and i took ur advice was on the ground near the stones on the steps where he walks from, it was a good area

Comment by Balplayer7

He calls Lady Sylvanas a *!@#$ when you begin the fight as a Horde. I found that amusing

Comment by darth603

Looks like there's been a patch recently; when standing on the ledge by the door, people keep getting teleported straight to where he's standing. I don't know if this is a bug or not, but it caused a string of wipes recently when people would just somehow get eleported to Lord Godfrey's platform.

Comment by Geecko

Is there any cloth set that´s like the one Godfrey has?

Comment by Zulraz

Why don't wowhead show how much HP he has?

Comment by SoggyPuddle

STAY OUT OF PISTOL BARRAGE!
thankyou for your time...

Comment by bluceree

Godfrey closely reminds me of the villain "Justice" from the Afro Samurai anime.

They are both good at dual-wielding handguns. Wear pointy hats and dark flowing robes, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OmohYBsrk8

Comment by LinkNordrassil

Sylvanas got pwnd by Lord Godfrey tho! Is there any sequence/ quest line where you see this happen and then the three valkyrs die to bring her back? How did that weakling Godfrey kill her anyway?

Comment by MABGamer6407

This guy apparently got a Nurf. He not only took out the Banshee queen in one hit, but also took out the 85 Elite Grunt just as easily.

He was a ? boss when in quests in Silver, but was put down to 20- an or 87 (In heroic) when encountered. Still, if your in a lv 20 run, a lv 85 elite near death at the entrance to his room, It would make more sense in a heroic to see that, but to a lv 20 que its a sight.

Comment by Gymlea

The map is incorrect. Lord Godfrey is always in up the stairs in the corner, and never down on the floor. You come in at the top of another set of stairs, and the ranged DPS should stand on the wall at the top of those stairs. After killing the trash the tank kites Godfrey down off his platform. Then when Godfrey pulls his pistols, and starts firing, he cannot hit any DPS because they are up out of the line of fire.

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Heroic		Deadly
Important		Tank
DPS		Healer
Interruptible		Magic
Curse		Poison
Disease		Enrage