Quick Facts

Series

1.	Reforging The Sword
2.	Tempering The Blade
3.	The Halls Of Reflection
4.	Journey To The Sunwell
5.	Thalorien Dawnseeker

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Comment by 474751

~~This is the farest quest you can make at the moment on the public test real, since Halls Of Reflection aint open for testing.~~
When you enter Uther the Lightbringer Says stop. Just move on, and when you are close enough to Frostmourne, will you automatically throw Quel'Delar into it. Then it will start Whirlwind, and when it has done that. it will spawn so you have to kill it. it has 204k hp.

Comment by 137072

After completing the quest in Halls of Reflection you turn in the quest to the npc located just outside the entrance to the new Icecrown 5man instances.

Comment by jahf

This quest is quite horrible for people who -want- to do the normal HoR instance ... since it jumps out as soon as you get in the room and once the blade dies it appeared that the rest of the instance doesn't spawn as normal.

But hey. I got my quest done. And I really couldn't -help- how they engineered this one.

:/

Comment by 226406

Quel'Delar has 214k hp and melees for around 6k on cloth. All you squishies out there should bring a tank.

Comment by tmptfate

This quest can be done on Normal difficulty! :D Confirmed it a few minutes ago on Live.

Comment by 45234

Here's the entire quest chain, with simple descriptions and quest links for the Horde versions.

The Battered Hilt
Bring the Battered Hilt to Myralion Sunblaze at Quel'Delar's rest, south of the Argent Tournament Grounds.
What The Dragons Know
Speak to Krasus at the top of Wyrmrest Temple.
The Silver Covenant Scheme (Alliance version is called "The Sunreavers' Plan")
Obtain the Orders by killing an NPC in the Dalaran Sewers. Make sure you kill the right one.
A Suitable Disguise
Obtain a Borrowed Tabard from Shandy Glossgleam; He is upstairs in the Threads of Fate: if you are standing in front of the stairs with the Violet Citadel to your back, it is to the right (to the left is the toy store).
An Audience With The Arcanist
Retrieve the Ancient Dragonforged Blades tome from Arcanist Tybalin. Use the disguise and go in the Alliance section of Dalaran.
Return To Myralion Sunblaze
Bring the Ancient Dragonforged Blades to Myralion Sunblaze at Quel'Delar's Rest.
Reforging The Sword
Obtain 5 Infused Saronite Bars and the Forgemaster's Hammer and use them to make the Reforged Quel'Delar. (AKA: Run the Pit of Saron. The infused bars are near the entrance; don't forget you have to kill the boss, too.)(It appears this can be done on Normal Difficulty.)
Tempering The Blade
Temper the Reforged Quel'Delar in the Crucible of Souls. (AKA: kill the final boss of Forge of Souls; use the quest item nearby.)(It appears this can be done on Normal Difficulty.)
The Halls Of Reflection
Bring your Tempered Quel'Delar to Sword's Rest inside the Halls of Reflection. (AKA, obviously, run Halls of Reflection.)(It appears this can be done on Normal Difficulty.)
Journey To The Sunwell
Speak with Halduron Brightwing at the entrance to the Sunwell Plateau on the Isle of Quel'Danas.
Thalorien Dawnseeker
Visit Thalorien Dawnseeker's Remains and obtain his blessing to wield Quel'Delar. (Go around behind SWP to the Dead Scar (southern end of Isle of QD zone, not in the SWP raid instance) and kill a bunch of mobs.)
The Purification of Quel'Delar
Immerse your Tempered Quel'Delar in the Sunwell. Speak to a Warden of the Sunwell when you are ready to enter the Sunwell Plateau. (Possibly different versions of this for sword/mace?)
A Victory For The - (sword or mace)
Bring the Restored Quel'Delar to the NPC at the Violet Citadel in Dalaran.

A lot of this info came from comments people left on the various quest pages. Thanks to all those who posted useful tips!

Comment by 495203

During the fight with Quel'Delar you lose the sword from your inventory. If you happen to die during the fight don't worry, you didn't lose it; the sword will be waiting for you inside the instance to kick your butt again.

Comment by Killbilly

Anybody have any idea if you have to start completely over again with a new hilt if for some reason you're not able to kill it after you've started it?

Comment by 495346

If you end up in a fail group that can't complete it, then just abandon the quest, go back to the quest giver and pick it up again at Quel'Delar's Rest.

Comment by 495203

I was able to complete this quest without running the instance, you just need to avoid to talking to Sylvanis and you'll be fine. I died the first time I tried, but came back with a tank and we were able to easily 2 man the sword (1 tank, 1 DPS). There was no need to abandon the quest.

Comment by 418158

First event
its nice to have paladin/druid to CC. paladins can use holy wrath wich do dmg and stuns them for a while. and druid are nice for knowbacking on the rogue`s and root/cyclone works aswell

LICH KING event

When you do the Lich King event.. Stay behind him at all time instead.. it makes the fight way more easy to do.. (Fixed in later patch)

Comment by Traisa

Just a strategy tip for the 10 waves- (for Heroic or Reg mode)

When you walk in and finish buffing, have EVERYONE in your group run to the other side of the room (directly across from where you enter the instance). Have the tank start the event and all dps get up against the back wall (including melee). Once your tank has taken aggro, melee step up and do your thing. Ranged needs to stay at the wall and dps. If you do the waves in this manner, there will be no LoS issues for healers or ranged dps. Mobs die, party and tank stay alive.

On the last wave in the tunnel (once Jaina has frozen The Lich King) have your tank gain aggro on everything and then AoE all the adds. Pull the mobs as far back as you can on all tunnel waves as not to get "caught" by The Lich King.

Happy Running,
Traisa =)

Comment by 40498

As a hunter was able to use aspect of the cheetah and solo'd this part of the quest. Just run in a giant circle, didn't need to disengage once and never got hit.

Comment by 421626

I ran in not knowing what was going to happen.
I met an angry Quel'delar

Comment by Beace

As a DK it is possible to kite him, but it's tricky. Got him to 50% in second try, after that I found a healer that helped me out.

Key points are to keep running in a big circle, using Icy Touch and Death Coil for dmg while in Unholy Presence (for 15% extra run speed). When he's whirlwinding you're slightly faster than him, but when he's running normally he's faster than you and you need to make sure you have a rune available to Chains of Ice him (he's immune to it when he's whirlwinding).

Again, I only got him to 50% this way, but it shows it's certainly possible. This was as blood spec, I imagine both frost and unholy might have it a bit easier.

Comment by 144140

Very trivial to solo as a prot paladin, just run seal of light and a block or avoidance (i used avoid) gearset and the sword wont outdmg seal/judge of light assuming you block/avoid ms :)

Comment by 149397

Can be soloed by DPS and healers as well, from the Quel'Delar mob's comments:

http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=37158#comments:id=913756

Comment by Othragon

Did this with a totally random holy paladin player who happened to be on the same quest fase.

Simple, i (prot warrior) tanked and spanked the sword and the paladin kept me healed. We both got it nice and easy.

Comment by kurtiffrig

Be sure to tell your party ahead of time what's going on. This event starts automatically and I broke up the group when two of the members were killed by the sword. And also, once you've subdued the sword be sure to pick it up. At that point it's up to you whether to complete the instance. If you want to be an ass you can quit the party and walk back out to the questgiver. Not cool, but you're basically done once you get the sword back.

Comment by 298544

How to solo this:
I tested this with my warlock, and the best and easiest way to do is:
Summon a random demon and while the sword starts to spin and dance you go behind Uther and put the demon to aggro the sword and then make him come back at you.
Then, the sword will start whirlwind near Uther and he will engage atacking the sword. Now you have to do full dps to the sword and no worries Uther can hold aggro pretty well and there we go takes less than 15 sec.
I'm not sure about the other clases, but I belive if you aggro the sword with a ranged atack and stay behind Uther until he gets aggro you might do it.

Comment by gatygun

simple if you join a heroic, say to your group dont talk with the npc yet. then you run to the middle. make sure you start it. the mob spawns. and done.

No need to solo or doing anything really hard, its just a simple 216k hp npc. it hits hard but everything hits hard there.

Comment by 539313

i have just beat it , but it hasnt came up that i took the quel dalar into the halls ? :S can you abandon and pik back up

Comment by Antraxus

Soloable as a shadow priest. Let Uther tank the sword for you. I ran over to the cubby beside Uther and then shielded myself and dotted up the sword. Once it aggros over to you and Uther simply disperse to limit damage taken and let the first bladestorm hit Uther to aggro him. Let him get aggro as the disperse times out and move out of range of any further bladestorms. Proceed to DPS down the sword. You still have your fade available if you pull aggro off Uther but I didn't have an issue with it. Tried this also as a holy spec first but couldn't get enough damage on the sword to get credit for the kill.

Comment by 557429

Handy Tips for Warlocks who want to Solo

1. Summon your Voidwalker and place him next to Uther the Lightbringer in the cubby
2. Move back into the cubby and drop your demonic circle
3. Move forward and aggro the sword with corruption (or similar). Voidy will move forward to attack.
4. Transport back to your circle. Bring Voidy back by Uther.
5. Uther and Voidy will take aggro and both fight the sword.
6. You can dps, heal your pet, and if you aggro the sword use soulshatter, but otherwise you can then burn it down.

Cheers

Comment by Tjista

Just solo'd this as a feral. Bring a flask and a health potion! My Gearscore is ~4800...

Comment by Marianic

I didn't notice if this has been touched upon. I've tried to solo this quest by having Uther tank/dps it for me. However after contacting a GM, it seems that having Uther do more damage than you can lead to not being able to loot the sword!

I abandoned and tried again, with me trying to outdamage Uther and then it worked.

Just a heads up if you are unable to loot.

Comment by Hinahina

For anyone interested, Uther cannot die. By this I mean I watched him get to almost no health and he could not be killed. It's probably because he's already dead, but regardless don't worry if you see his health going down. It's okay.

Comment by Mitha

Just managed to solo this quest on a ret pally with average ilevel 213 after 4 tries. Cast Exorcism to pull the sword towards Uther and back up further into the cubby, Quel'delar should whirlwind over Uther. Cast Avenging Wrath and whack away, backing off if you don't manage to mitigate the whirlwinds. Toss Sacred Shield on yourself and use FoL whenever AoW procs. You can stun it, so don't forget to use it if you don't manage to get it on the first try. I had on BoK, Seal of Corruption, Devo Aura, and used a food buff.

Stats: 22.9k hp, 1554 str, 25.04% crit, 14893 armor.

Comment by 577442

I don't know if they changed anything in 3.3.5, but I had a horrible time trying to solo this.
Feral druid in decent kitty gear (4900ish in-game GS).

I either kept him away from Uther and tanked it in bear form, got overwhelmed by whirlwinds that I couldn't stay away from, and died, or went cat, kited Quel'Delar to Uther, and couldn't outdamage Uther because the sword was whirlwinding constantly and I'd die.
Avoiding whirlwinds wasn't that easy because I'd be outdamaged by Uther and couldn't loot the sword.

Comment by kstahmer

Part of the description in the Step 9 (The Halls of Reflection): "AKA, obviously, run Halls of Reflection" is misleading. It's not necessary to "run the Halls of Reflection." All you need do is enter the Halls of Reflection and run toward its center.

With some inspirational kiting, it may be possible to solo squishy this without a tank. But I agree with previous comments: if you're a squishy, either bring a tank or use your pet as a tank. If you're a solo druid, recommend ranged attacks with a lot of kiting. For every class, tanks included, recommend: when the whirlwind starts, move!

Step 9 is the only step which may require help. All other steps can be soloed.

Comment by 52634

Learned that if you die, to be patient. If you're next to Uther, and he kills it you'll get the credit! Then you can fly back into the instance, pick up the subdued quest item, and complete it!

5200gs bear druid, I had a problem out dpsing uther, so I pulled it solo till 48%, walked over to Uther to have him finish it off, but it finished me in the process. I got the upper hand and completed it!

Comment by 617844

Uther must hit like a truck, i even specced fire to get more crits in

Comment by StaticLgtBrngr

I couldn't solo this on my newly dinged blood dk in savage saronite gear and nor could I do it with the help of a better gerared ret paladin, both times with army of the dead and mark of blood + vampiric blood along with my gift of the naaru and lifeblood running I / we got cut to pieces in mere seconds, reminded me of that warlock infernal quest in felwood pre nerf.

In the end I joined a HoR normal run via the dungeon finder with a nicely geared group who subdued Quel'derrar for me as well as boosting me to the end, which was nice.

So if you plan on doing this and you aren't a tank / a well geared tank then heed the advice of the others here and bring someone along who is or use the dungeon finder tool like I did, just be nice and tell the group what you are doing before they start anything.

Comment by Shezzykins

This can be turned in at the area south of the Argent Tournament grounds. You do not have to turn it in right outside of the instance, which makes it helpful for people who queued for it, rather than ran to the instance itself.

Comment by 239742

I was unable to solo this with my Enhancement shaman. Neither the wolves nor the elemental could hold any aggro. And it hits like a truck. I tried with 5.2k gs items, T9-T10 mixed. I also tried it with a few pieces of stam + resi gear and PvP spec. No chance. got it to roughly 60% at most.

I didn't know the Uther trick though. Might be worth a try.

Comment by Etreum

Soloed as BM Hunter (GS 5260) - Pet Rhino.

I first had my rhino tank him a little (while healing and attacking) in order to ensure I would have done enough damage. When my rhino was around 30 percent health, I pulled him back by Uther, while I stood behind him.

The dangerous part, and this is where I got killed a couple of times, is waiting for Uther to get hit so he starts attacking.

On my third attempt, the second Uther reacted, I hit deterrence and disengage. It was still after me, so I hit aspect of the cheetah to get some distance between us.

Once I was far enough and Uther finally got to tanking it, it was a piece of cake.

Comment by Ping

Heh, I just soloed this as MM hunter, completely unexpectedly.

I tried and failed with my tanking pet (he just died too quickly) then saw the tips here about getting Uther to tank so I tried that. However I pulled too much aggro at the start, so Uther couldn't pull the sword off me and I died pretty much instantly.

I ressed, flew (sloooooowly... damn mount bug) back to retrieve my corpse, and arrived at HoR to find Uther still battling with the sword. He'd only got it down to about 80% health in the time it took me to fly back in, so I just DPSed it down in a few seconds and claimed my reward.

Lesson here? It is possible, if you die, to get back into the Halls AND out-DPS Uther to complete the quest.

:)

Comment by Untamable

Soloed by an 85 feral druid 378 item level and 377 blood dk (me) with the achievement We are not retreating,we are advancing in
The tactic we used on the wave phase was simply hide behind the corners so riflemans/mages cant hit u and zerg every wave
on the bosses dont worry about the instant reduce to 1% health,they will mostly MISS it,u would have to be extremely unlucky
On the lich king encounter we always fastly killed jumping ghouls and then we runned back for the big ones
NOTE:if you want the lichking encounter achiv do not loot,overall looting corpses takes cca-30seconds which can be the difference

Comment by dillybar

Dialogue from Sword's Rest (SPOILER ALERT!)

Upon entering the Halls of Reflection instance:

Uther the Lightbringer yells: Halt! Do not carry that blade any further!

Quel'Delar leaps to life in the presence of Frostmourne!

Uther the Lightbringer yells: Do you realize what you've done?

Que'Delar prepares to attack!

Uther the Lightbringer says: You have forged this blade from saronite, the very blood of an old god. The power of the Lich King calls to this weapon.
Uther the Lightbringer says: Every moment you tarry here, Quel'Delar drinks in the evil of this place.
Uther the Lightbringer says:There is only one way to cleanse this sword. Make haste for the Sunwell and immerse the blade in its waters.
Uther the Lightbringer says: I can resist Frostmourne's call no more...

The spirit of Uther is sucked back into the Frostmourne's blade.

Return to Myrallon Sunblaze in the Frozen Halls to complete the quest and receive the next quest.

Links

The Halls Of Reflection

Bring Quel'Delar to Sword's Rest inside the Halls of Reflection.

	Bring Quel'Delar to Halls of Reflection (1)
	Subdued Quel'Delar (1)

Provided item:

	Tempered Quel'Delar (1)

Description

You have re-forged and tempered the sword, yet it sits quietly in its sheath, little different from a mundane blade. You say the sword pulls you, as though it possesses a will?

Dare you bring it where it wishes to go? It is not right that the sword should be this silent and this insistent, yet I fear that if you do not take the sword to its destination, we will never learn why. Bear it with you to Icecrown Citadel's Halls of Reflection, but be on your guard. I will wait for you in The Frozen Halls.

Progress

Completion

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Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(24561))

Guides

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