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Kommentar von 10593

Hotfix - 09.03.2007 (post 2.0.10 changes):

"Nightbane - Removed magical immunity from skeletons and reduced damage from breath attack in flight." by Tseric @ http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=82238244

Kommentar von 23045

The quest for summoning Nightbane is a long chain that begins with http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9630.

1) http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9638 & http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9639
The 2 NPCs you have to talk to are in the large room after Curator.

2) http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9640
Medivh's Journal drops from Shade of Aran.

3) http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9645
Enter from the side entrance and you should be able to see a door under the broken stair. Read the book there and watch the event.

4) http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9680
The Charred Bone Fragment is outside North of Karazhan. You can't pick it up while in a raid though.

5) http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9631
Bring it to Area 52.

6) http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9637
Book of Forgotten Names drops from Darkweaver Syth in heroic Sethekk Halls and Tome of Dusk drops from Grand Warlock Nethekurse in heroic Shattered Halls.

7) http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9644
Use the Blackened Urn where you read Medivh's Journal and it will summon Nightbane. Kill him to get the Faint Arcane Essence for the quest.

The final rewards are...
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31118
or
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31117
or
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31116

Good luck :)

Kommentar von Kylinee

Once you've completed the quest summon chain, can you summon him any time you go to the instance? If so, do you need to get the urn every time from the lady in Area 52?

Kommentar von 1171

The skeletons summoned in the flight phase are Restless Skeletons (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=17261), have between 13-15k hp and hit for roughly 1.2-1.6k on cloth, depending on which buff the clothie has. (Priests have Inner Fire; warlocks have to choose between Fel vs Demon armour, mages from their 3 armours.)

They are susceptible to frost nova and shackle undead, immune to fear/terror effects. (eg. deathcoil) The recommended method of handling is with 2-3 AE classes. If shamans are present, fire elementals help heaps.

Kommentar von 7809

After you initiate the summon, it takes him 30 seconds to land. He should land sort of in the middle of the ring. You should see a small skull on the ground - that's your landmark for the MT to pick him up. Tank him with your back to the railing - Nightbane should be about a third of the way into the dome.

At the start he's pretty easy to deal with. He has the usual dragon fear, so stance dance, fear ward, etc. to avoid that. Melee has to hit his sides - he has the tail whip. He will also breathe fire - hopefully only on the MT. The biggest thing to deal with are the Charred Earth "void zones". You want to stand on the edges of the walkways so that there's room to run around them. In addition, if you stand at max range, you can avoid the fear. Melee has to watch out, though.

Every 25%, he will fly in the air. This wipes his aggro. A healer, preferably a paladin, should start to heal to generate threat. In addition, Rain of Bones will fall on one specified (debuffed) target. The skeletons will also start spawning in a series (not all at once) on that person. Nightbane will also fire away at the highest threat person, and it can be mitigated by armor. Therefore, keep the Rain of Bones person up, the person eating the fireballs up, and assist train or AOE down the skeletons.

You have about 30 seconds, maybe a minute, to take down the 5 adds. Nightbane will then yell and land. If the MT is facing him into the dome, Nightbane generally lands on the MT's right (where you start walking in from). As such, the raid should be on the MT's left. In addition, you want a hunter doing Misdirection to give the tank some aggro so that Nightbane doesn't breathe fire on the raid.

The most difficult parts of the fights are the transitions. It is a very chaotic time, and everyone has to watch out for themselves. It is also a long fight - 13 minutes or so, and mana users have to act accordingly.

Good luck! It's a tough fight.

Kommentar von 3316

The Nightbane fight sounds very difficult to explain, but in a few words it's not that hard.
When you use the Urn to summon him, as explained in the quest line, he will land on the skull after 30 seconds.This is announced by "An ancient being echoes in the distance..." . Before he lands, make sure everyone is in position, meaning the tank and the rest of the raid.

* Bellowing Roar : the bellowing roar is announced by a ground shake. It has a 2 second cast timer and usually happens at sharp values of threat gained by the tank. By that I mean 20, 25k, 30k and so and so on. If you use a threat meter such as KTM (http://wow-en.curse-gaming.com/downloads/details/4204/klhthreatmeter/) keep an eye on it and get ready to break the fear. You can stance dance/wotf/fear ward through it. If you don't have fear ward available, you have to take 2 things into account : global cooldown and stance switching triggering a 1s cooldown. This means, if you think he will do a roar and fear, best not to use abilities which trigger the GCD (=keep heroic strike/shield block and sunder/devastate watching out for diminishing returns) and wait for the ground to shake in order to break the fear. Sharp reflexes are needed and a lot of luck if it's among the first times doing this.
* Charred Earth - Aoe spell which will make the ground look like cinder, dealing 20k-28k damage to players in the inflamed area over 30 seconds, 10 yard radius. Melee classes are the most susceptible to it landing on them
* Cleave - Frontal arc so don't run from one side to the other while he's on the ground. Anyone else but the tank might get one-shotted as it hits for 11000 on cloth.
* Distracting Ash - Reduces the range of spells and abilities by 50%. Can be dispelled.
* Smoldering Breath - Frontal cone that does 3000-4000 fire damage to enemies in front of him. Deals ~2000 damage every 3 seconds for 15 seconds.
* Tail Sweep - 450 fire damage on enemies in a cone behind the boss, knocking them back. Deals 450 fire damage per second for 25 seconds. Watch out for this when he lands.

At 75%, 50%, and 25% health, he will enter phase two and take off. Gather up around the tank. When he casts
* Rain of Bones on a random player, it will hit the target with bone fragments which deal 352-408 physical damage in a 6 yard radius around the targeted player, and summon 5 Restless Skeletons. If you're not the target of rain of bones, move away from it. Let the tank/others pick up the skeletons and keep the person alive. (Restless Skeletons hit for approximately 400 on plate and have ~14,000 HP)
* Smoking Blast every second for approximately 15 seconds. for ~5000 physical damage (mitigated by armor) and ~3000 fire damage over time. This can be dispelled and stacks up to 4 times.
* Fireball Barrage: Happens if you're too far away from him when he takes off. Be sure you're not, you're only making it harder.

When he lands, he will land on the same place as at first. It will look like he will land waaaay further but don't be tricked and you can get a perfect landing phase. When he yells from above, the aggro resets. If you're casting any heals over time, stop them as the threat generated now might kill you. (e.g. a druid rejuvenation and swiftmend can cause up to 3000 threat, talented or not) and the tank will have trouble picking him up, even with a misdirection. He will land on the right so people will have to position themselves on the tank's left, meaning on the door side.
The transitions are the hardest. To get a perfect landing : he can and will fear as soon as he lands; it can be really hard to break this one because it does not appear on any casting bar and you can't tell if the ground is shaking. After you've experienced him and have enough gear to take the damage, you can stay in berserker stance before landing in order to break the fear asap.

Kommentar von Drosera

A working strategy for "Tanking" Nightbane during the Air Phase is to have a Shaman respec resto without threat reduction talents, and to spam chain heals. This works quite well due to the high ammount of threat it generates, and it helps a great deal to to keep everyone up because the chains intelligently target the people hurt the most. Since we tried this, we havent gone back to using our Paladin for this.

Kommentar von 5288

He has a very large collision radius just like Onyxia. Meaning that melee dps can hit him from several yards away, making it a lot harder for you to get feared into a cleave or tail swipe. Another benefit is that if you get charred earth on top of you, you can always just move closer to Nightbane (to where you would be on a normal mob) and continue to dps.

As for ranged dps, you can keep attacking him even through the wall so don't worry about los and just keep your distance. Both of these things help a lot with positioning even in a cramped space like the Master's Terrace.

Kommentar von 53132

As of the 2.1 patch, Nightbane has had his damage output reduced, primarily on the "charred earth" ability.

During the flight phase of the encounter, "rain of bones" whilst still targetted on a player, will not follow the player if they move.

Fears are also much less frequent.

Kommentar von Meringue

You don't need to do anything ridiculous like having a Shaman show up with no points in their threat mitigation talent.

Take a Paladin, put Salvation on the Priests, have the Paladin turn on Improved Righteous Fury (99% of Holy Paladins will have this post 2.1).

Improved Righteous Fury adds 90% threat to all Holy spells (yes, including healing) and -6% all damage taken post 2.0.

This will counter act the Paladins natural healing threat reduction, and instead give them a rather large gob of threat above the other healers instead, especially with Salv on.

The Paladin will have the threat every time, complete with -66-67% melee damage. :) If you're trying to take a dig at the raid viability of the Paladin class... don't. That's one area they will always shine in.

Kommentar von 14566

Since patch 2.1 Rain of Bones doesn't follow the targeted player anymore, it's a static aoe.

Kommentar von Flangus

Did this with a paladin tank tonight, most certainly can be done. Just make sure to have a tremor totem near the tank (we're horde, so no fear ward =p). Also people should be pve specced in the sense that fear resist can wipe the raid if you have the usual 15% from talents. One thing we did is we put up a shadow protection buff on the MT but not the other raiders, not sure if it helps but afaik all fears are shadow based (except perhaps turn undead).

Kommentar von 43505

If you have NO fear ward and NO warrior tank you can still do Nightbane we did a Druid MT w/ a Druid OT the OT would run out of fear range and everyone else would run in. He would chew on the 2nd druid until the 1st druid could pick him up again.

We did have a shaman w/ the tremmor totem so the fear was shorted and the few times that everyone got feared he would eat the grace of air totem.

Just so ya'll know :)

Kommentar von 66849

As I'm MT myself I will tell a bit how to avoid the fear which is very important because not only does he fear and there is chance for others to take aggro, he also walks away from the position you should tank him in if you not react quickly to avoid the fear.
If he fears you it can be a problem for your melee dps that could be hurt very bad by the cleave while he hunts you while you are feared, anyway I will tell how to avoid it.

It is easiest to avoid the fear as alliance because of their priest's Fear Ward. But if you are Horde you can, only as Undead though, use Will of the Forsaken. Always remember to use it just before he fears because it makes you immune for around 4 sec, so you don't get feared at all.
You can also "stancedance" which means you should shift to Berserker Stance quick and make Berserker Rage which make you immune to fear for around 10-15 sec, I don't really remember.
Anyway it could seem hard to time the stancedance right, but it actually isn't. With Deadly Boss Mod it announces "Fear soon", so when it says that go Berserker Stance and make Berserker Rage.
If you not got Boss Mod you can see when the ground starts to shake you should quick go Berserker Stance and make Berserker Rage and then quick back to Defensive Stance because the 20% extra damage you take in Berserker Stance can be very crucial if you get a crushing blow at that time. Anyway with good healers and stuff you should not really worry about that just remember to go back in Defensive Stance ;-)
As druid tank you can use your Insignia/Medallion to break the fear as soon as you are feared. Of course it is easier to be an ally druid tank because they got Fear Ward to but as Horde it is no problem though the fear don't wipe the raid if you don't avoid it - but it can be very evil against the melee dps as mentioned before.
Just remember to move him back quick to the position where you start to tank him (exactly where he lands) and remember to turn his tail into the wall.

Kommentar von Shada

Just to clarify something: when he lands initially (first landing) he *doesn't* land square center of the parapet, he lands about two thirds of the way south - on top of one or both sections of your raid, depending on how you're handling the encounter. Tanks be aware of this and Shield Bash him immediately (he's taunt immune), hunters should as mentioned Misdirect/Aimed Shot him onto you to solidify initial aggro. First time we attempted him it came as a nasty surprise when he landed on top of our "mana cell". Subsequent landings he touches down fairly square centre of the terrace, though.

Kommentar von Darkicon

Our strategy for this fight:

Class makeup:

2 Priests (1 Shadow, 1 Holy)
3 Warriors (2 Prot, 1 Fury)
1 Paladin (Holy)
1 Mage (Fire)
2 Hunters (1 BM, 1 MM)
1 Warlock (Affliction)

Normal DPS at beginning, until 75%, once he flies up, we all stack on top of the holy priest, once Rain of Bones starts we all move out of it, towards Nightbane (To not cause Fireball Barrage), while we focus fire down the skeletons. 5 seconds before landing, the MT positions himself to pick him up, while the rest DPS down the last of the skeletons. Rinse and repeat. Simple fight. Save your mana, it can be a long fight.

Kommentar von 86469

Recently, we've been in encounters where Nightbane randomly go after a dps who is not on top of the aggro list. We had KTM to confirm this on several accounts. Sometimes this happens after the fear wore off of the dps, although the MT was never feared and therefore never lost aggro until Nightbane turn around and one-shot the dps. Does anyone else has this problem, or know why this occur?

Kommentar von Tamika

I found out that the best way to avoid fear is to get a boss mod and actually wait for Nightbane to begin casting Bellowing roar and not using berserker rage directly when you see a "fear soon" message. The reason to do so is that the message appears when the cooldown of fear ends, but it doesn't mean that Nightbane will cast it right away, and if you pop Berserker Rage too soon it might wear off before fear and you'll be unprotected against fear when it really gets casted.

Once the Bellowing Roar starts to cast, you have 2 seconds to get yourself immune to fear. some tips for beginners (or nor only beginners):
1. As a tank you should maintain your Shield Block through all the combat, but especially when you're going to perform stance dance. If you use it, along with thunderclap that slows attack speed of a boss, you'll maintain the block buff even if you change stances, you will block, and you will not get crushed (unless you are VERY unlucky).
2. A common berserker stance -berserker rage - defensive stance macro might be useful but I'd suggest that people not familiarized with this kind of macros (or laggy / low fps ) to not to use them.. the reason is that if you do something wrong or lag out.. you might get to defensive stance BEFORE berserker rage pops (it's a macro not a player, you cannot blame it afterwards :S ), so it's up to you.
3. I use the next method to pop berserker rage fast and safe way. I have Pummel in button 5 normally. When I face nightbane I move Pummel away and put Bersker stance there, and on berserkser bar, I put Berserker rage in the same button... so when I see fear warning I just mash 5 until I get sure BR popped (30 sec CD started counting on :P ). Then I return back to defensive and use shield block... and so on. This method is not the best but... it's simple and works fine.

P.S. I commented somewhere below that if you get feared in berserker stance (noticed fear too late) and use berserker rage just afterwards, your character probably wont move as it has only been feared for 0.5 seconds or so, but you WILL deaggro most probably, happened to me twice today (was on 800ms ping) so pay attention tu pull. Good luck killing it and enjoy your chest and shield :)

Kommentar von 52664

Fear shouldn't be an issue in 2.3.

Official Blue Post: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2509265802&sid=1#14
"• Creature AI has been changed to no longer prioritize attacking unfeared targets over feared targets."

Which means Nightbane will still be beating on the feared tank, instead of the rest of the raid.

Kommentar von Shorty

Successfully tanked this guy tonight as a paladin with no fear ward.

What I did to break the fear was rotate between three things: Using my PVP trinket, casting BoP, and casting DS. For the second two, they were macroed so that double-clicking the icon canceled them immediatley.

It wasn't perfect. I had the 5-minute cooldown PVP trinket instead of the 2-minute cooldown; as such, there were 2 fears that I had to eat with only a tremor totem up and someone died on one of them. It was still a successful kill, however, and I plan on getting the better trinket soon.

The macros are as follows:

BoP:
/tar (your name)
/cast Blessing of Protection(rank 3)
/cancelaura Blessing of Protection(rank 3)
/targetlasttarget

DS:
/cast Divine Shield(rank 2)
/cancelaura Divine Shield(rank 2)

All of these must be doubleclicked for them to work; otherwise you'll still have one of the bubbles on you and nightbane will run off and instagib some hapless clothie.

Kommentar von 26892

As of 2.3, Nightbane will stick on feared targets due to the AI fear change. However, due to his cleave and breath, it is still important to prevent or minimize the fear on the tank as much as possible. Furthermore, a feared warrior or paladin is incapable of using Shield Block/Holy Shield and would be vulnerable to crushing blows. Having the tank feared is no longer a wipe, but still a risk.

Patch 2.3 also distributes (albeit nerfed) Fear Ward to all priests. A single priest will consume a good deal of his fears, while two priests can have a Fear Ward rotation going that will negate most, if not all, of his fears.

Kommentar von Oley

Funny little easter egg I discovered while re-summoning someone in room right when you get up stairs before prince...If you look out the windows for a while you will start to see a Nightbane model flying around in the background...for some reason my pics arent saved to WoW screenshots so ill take another soon and post it under nightbane

Kommentar von GenericNPC

As melee, we always grouped up hugging his back leg. Out of range of both his tail sweep and his cleave, but still positioned right that Rogues/Druids could take advantage of being 'behind' the target.

If you get a Charred Earth below you, you can run straight through Nightbane to his other back leg, while still avoiding both his tail sweep and cleave. It may or may not put you out of range of heals, but it shouldn't matter too much considering you probably haven't taken any damage so far, and you shouldn't have taken more that one tick of damage from the Charred Earth.

Rarely he placed a Charred Earth on both sides of Melee. In which case I just backed up and started Moonfiring, if I was a Rogue I would have tried for Deadly Throw; until either one of the Charred Earth's disappear. Jumping or Sprint/Dashing through it to minimize the damage taken.

Kommentar von Kathucka

Note that Charred Earth does physical AoE damage, which is mitigated by armor. The tooltip states that it does fire damage, but that is not correct.

A hunter pet specced for Avoidance (50% damage reduction from AoE) and extra armor can survive in the Charred Earth for quite a while.

Also, Charred Earth is a DoT effect. It takes a few seconds before it actually causes any damage. If you move out of it instantly, you won't take damage.

Kommentar von 27608

If you ever thought of what happens if you take him to 50%, 25%, 1% in the air, here's what happens so you don't have to :D

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/Scynical/WoWScrnShot_031408_205204.jpg

Kommentar von 47303

Two important things:

First, you need to have your spell detail level up in order to properly see the Charred Earth effect. If it's really low, all you'll see is some grey smoke.

Second, the Rain of Bones does not follow you. As soon as you take damage from in, run out of it.

Kommentar von 48165

One nice trick I found out by accident: if you are under the effect of a Major Dreamless Sleep Potion, you will not run around while affected by Nightbane's fear. Meaning you won't have to worry about getting feared into his Cleave, Tail Swipe or a Charred Earth area, and restore a nice dose of mana too if you're a caster. As Bellowing Roar is a timed cast you can use it as soon as he starts casting it (obviously you can't use it to break fear after it's already cast).

There's one risk to this: a Charred Earth might appear under you while affected. Fairly low chance though, and even then it's unlikely to be fatal especially seeing the potion effect acts as a small HoT.

Kommentar von 144071

A Paladin using Devotion Aura can help alot, as Charred Earth does physical dmg (Will be fixed in 2.4.2), and helps mitigate the damage done directly by Nightbane.

Kommentar von defektunge

Healers beware: this is a very long fight, especially if you lose a couple of dpsers during the fight. It's easily ten minutes long when you're first learning it, and it's fairly intensive healing the whole time.

To compare, I had more healing done on the Nightbane fight during our last Karazhan run (two healer setup, ~9 min fight) than I do during an average clear ofGruul's Lair, trash included. At the end, the two of us had over 600.000 effective healing done between us.

Kommentar von Manestone

I'm surprised no one mentioned this but when the fight first starts he often likes to kill one person if the tank isn't quick on picking him up. He'll land and instantly turn to the side and crush whoever was unlucky enough to be close enough. Remedies for this can include a hunter misdirect, that paladin aoe can help as well.

Kommentar von 193992

I have two toons so this is how I know how to handle the fight for these classes specifically:

How to survive Nightbane as a Holy Priest - Fade as he's going into the air, spam Binding Heal the entire time Rain of Bones is coming down, and Fade as he's landing. Unless you have loltanks, you'll be alive.

How to survive Nightbane as a Mage (any spec) - single target at first until your tank has a good bit of aggro, then lay out on them. Only if you have a Pally tank do you stand a good chance of survival if you start to AoE immediately. Ice Block doesn't hurt either. ;-)

From the fact that there are 48 other comments I'm sure the general "How To" has been covered, these are just a few pointers I thought I'd share.

Cheers.

Kommentar von khoros

we did this with 2 healers in 8 minutes flat the only really dangerous thing (except from boss attacking tank ofc) is the charred earth if you havent seen it you take alot of unnecesary dmg, the fly phase is easy as you can just kill the skeletons and then the healers can heal evryone back to full hp

Kommentar von 39449

Like we all know: He's a fiery skeletal dragon who is giant, fiery and skeletal

(Thank Alex Albrecht for that one)

Kommentar von 234691

After 3.0.2 this boss has become very easy :) Just 3-manable now. Done it last night with 1 prot warrior (me), 1 resto shaman, 1 mage. all T5 gear.

Kommentar von Thae

Combat rogues, I don't suggest you use killing spree when he is in the air. It teleports you to him and you end up in some weird unpopulated area of the kara background and getting back up can be annoying. It seems that when you are down in that area everything red is an "invalid target" for killing spree, so trying to killing spree my way back up didn't work! :(

Kommentar von 177159

Do not use the rogue talent "Killing Spree" when Nightbane is in the air as you just get thrown off the roof!

:-(

Kommentar von Skelgril

Just thought I'd drop off a comment here about Nightbane in WotlK..
You no longer need the Blackened Urn to summon him. Instead, you just use the Blackened Urn that's on the ground there. Wether you are required to do the quest or not to use it, I am not sure, if anyone could confirm this that would be awesome. P.S. The Urn is now sellable for 2 gold if I remember correctly. :)

Kommentar von 323186

Nightbane soloed on February 13th 2009 by Dreadwyn lvl 80 Death Knight on Eonar(US) first attempt using this spec - http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=jcEMqc0IsbRzzhZhxbkIZbg

Major glyphs of Icebound Fortitude, Death Strike and Vampiric Blood. Minor glyphs of pestilience, raise dead and horn of winter. Rune of the stoneskin gargoyle. Frost Presence.

No buffs but my own, no flasks, no food buffs, no scrolls.

Rotation was IT>PS>DS>HS>HS DS>DS>HS>HS replacing heart strike with vampiric blood/rune tap/mark of blood when needed.

No runic power dumps, all runic power stored for higher death strike heals.

Stayed out of the fire, used anti magic shell on breath when possible, add phase was easiest part, human racial/lichborne used to prevent fears when low.

Last week attumen, moroes, maiden downed with ease, oz went down as well. This week along with nightbane aran and illhoof also were soloed by me. Was using all dps gear, armory is showing the gear i used at the time of this post.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Eonar&n=Dreadwyn

Edit: Working on prince, got him to ~30% and was about to pop all of my cd's including army, had done a good job of preserving them throughout the majority of the fight and got insta gibbed by a bad string of windfury procs and parry haste.

Kommentar von 215749

This boss is soloable as a prot paladin. I used seal and judgement of light, and fire resist aura. Keep sacred shield up, move out of charred earth. I used every man on first fear, divine prot on second, and ate the third. Average 3 fears per ground phase for me. Air phase is the time to regen mana, skellies are easy and can give you a full mana bar from sanct before you kill them. Dispel yourself when you get distracting ash, and dispel the dot off yourself once he's coming back down. Rinse and repeat and he's dead. Pretty boring fight, took me about 17 minutes.

Kommentar von hellrex81

When i was doing this boss it gliched and he was on 10% of his health and he just ran away and disappeared and then another one appeared with full health and we did kill him but we realy had to nuke hard so when you get him to 10% watch out coz this glich might happen to you

PS:what dose the list iteam button do?

Kommentar von 336526

If you are gonna solo this: use the inner wall to LoS his breath, you got less than a second to react to it and run, but it is possible with some practice.

The rest should be easy if you can handle his melee damage.

Edit: if you run out of Charred Earth immediately you will not suffer a single tick of the damage.

Kommentar von Ssateneth

I completed the quest to summon nightbane before they made the urn grey quality (I remember vendoring the urn after it turned grey quality) but I cannot summon him still. Is it because I never got the key to kara? I need to do BM for the key still.

Kommentar von mattroszel

Soloable by a feral druid, hardest part was the smoldering breath debuff which I saved my barksin for.

Kommentar von nyctric

First defeated by Death & Taxes of Korgath on the 29th of January, 2007.

Kommentar von 212613

i have the urn still but how do you summon him now that its useless, hes still the coolest looking boss and funnest, well for me cause i pulled him so many times in BC. lock that is 0 21 40 RIP

Kommentar von 48509

The only boss I can think of from BC onward with dialogue that has no voice-over.

Kommentar von Keiser

It looks possible to solo him as Retribution using SoL/JoL, I got him to his 2nd ground phase and was at 100% hp/mana when he landed. Problem is if he crits you a couple times in a row it'll be 8k a pop and you'll be stuck at 30% life unless you use a CD. You pretty much have to be willing eat CDs like candy, probably 1 per ground phase.

Edit:
Just downed him as Prot, turns out using each ridge of the center wall you can LOS not only his breath, but his fear as well. You can fight him along a flat area of the inner wall, stand near where the wall juts out slightly, and as soon as you see a cast bar, run around the wall. Since it's a semi-circle you can just keep moving along in one direction each cast of fear, breath, or charred earth, and when you get to the end just turn around and go back the other way, skipping any charred earths that haven't gone away. I was taking little enough damage that I could just use SoV as Prot for increased DPS.

Kommentar von PilsnerDk

Beware of pulling him to far away from the urn. It might have been fluke, but as I was soloing him and slowly backing away from his Charred Earth while fighting him, I ended up at the southern end of the balcony, and suddenly at around 32%, he just flew away and I was out of combat. Had to start all over again, and that time, I stayed in the area around the urn.

Kommentar von ShamanofAlleria

I didn't see anything about Nightbane being soloable, but i just thought i would drop one that says he is... I did on my tankadin and used fire resist which seemed to help a lot, i did take a lot of melee dmg though, but i'm guessing since paladins don't really have a lot of magic resist talents i assumed fire resist is probably better than 2k extra armor... Other than that, just make sure you keep judgement of light up and you should be able to use seal of vengeance, switching to seal of light whenever adds pop for extra health

Kommentar von Kaemalux

Prot pally (45k unbuffed) - 20 mins to solo him. Just keep SoL/JoL up, and fire aura. Will be boring...

Kommentar von Hairband

Requires Servant's Access Door. Supposedly the locked door can somehow be opened after beating the Opera event.

So, tried going to this door opposite the balcony that leads to Opera, having just 2 manned the Wizard of Oz event today. Door still locked. I'm surprised after reading the comments here that no one has mentioned it. Also that no item "Servant's Access Key" is in Wowhead database. We sorta wanted to Jenkins the quest and go but now the quest is still on our log. /Sigh.

Kommentar von violentravi

I just skimmed through these comments and didn't find anything that answered peoples' questions about summoning him.

My boyfriend and I did this last night so he could get rep, we had 5 people in our group. No one could find anything to click to start the Nightbane event. I logged over to my lock, that is attuned to Karazahn and who had the Urn that was used to summon Nightbane years ago. I instantly saw the Black Urn on the ground and was able to click it.

So, to answer any questions, you don't necessarily need to have a key to open Kara... BUT w/o doing the old Nightbane quest you CANNOT summon this boss... I'm not sure if it's still available to be picked up.

Kommentar von Nobbel

500gold, rare mount, fun fights, done in about 1 or 2 hours depending on how long the chess event takes. 2 guides explaining how to solo Karazhan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTAZe7TAv2M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4q6BRvdFlE

Kommentar von Nobbel

Now also Nightbane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJe_pR0W3z4

Kommentar von error10

Soloed Nightbane as a level 85 frost mage (avg ilvl 346).

The key here is to extend the air phases as much as possible and attack him from range. I blew CDs at the start of the fight to get him down to 75% as fast as possible to begin the air phase. After that I rooted the adds with Frost Nova, moved out of their melee range and kept on DPSing Nightbane. When the adds came back I just rooted them again. Rinse and repeat, and he will remain in the air for nearly the entire fight.

Note that Nightbane won't die during the air phase; he'll just go to 1 health and you'll have to finish him off when he lands.

Took a bit under 3 minutes.

Kommentar von 69562

Be aware that if you have a DoT up on him or are casting while he is in air phase, he can and will die and land where he is not able to be looted. (i.e on top of the domed roof)

Kommentar von 865676

August 2011. iLvl 346 Blood Deathknight. I just solo'd Kara. When you become Honored with "The Violet Eye", Go outside of Kara, and pick up the quest "Medivh's Journal" from "Archmage Alturus". After you are done with the quest chain. The quest tells you to "Go to the Master's Terrace, Touch the URN (only clickable if you've done the quest chain) and you will summon Nightbane". I just did it so it is still possible to summon him. I'm curious, if after i turn in the quest will i still be able to summon nightbane, i don't know yet, i'm standing at Archmage Alturus atm about to finish the quest.

Kommentar von forgottenring

Since there seems to be a little confusion on how exactly you can summon Nightbane post-shattering, here's what you have to do. All bunched up in one post.

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NOTE: All this info is about exactly what was needed to be done before in Burning Crusade. The only thing that changed was during Wrath, Blizzard took out the requirement of carrying and using the Geschwärzte Urne in your inventory, which players got after completing all the quests. Instead the urn is always there on the Master's Terrace. A player must have completed this quest line below before it will be clickable for them. This change is what probably caused the most confusion for some players.
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First off you have to be honored with Das Violette Auge. Doing the Karazhan key quest chain, starting with Arkane Störungen and Rastlose Aktivität, is a good place to start. (You do not get a key from these quests anymore nor do you need one to get in.) You still have to kill lots of trash to get to honored. Probably will take at least two lockouts to get the rep needed.

Once you are honored, Erzmagier Alturus will give you the quest Medivhs Tagebuch. This has you go back into Karazhan to talk to Wravien. He and his colleagues are all in the library right after Der Kurator. He will send you to talk to Gradav. Gradav will then send you to Kamsis. If you are soloing Kara this will not be much of a problem. Just watch out for the magic immune Manaschlinger mobs if you're a caster. Whacking away at these guys for minutes at a time is no fun. Level 80+ players should be able sneak past em though. She gives the quest Arans Schemen to get the journal from (who else?) Arans Schemen. After all this is where you get started on the actual Nightbane part of the quest chain.

Kamsis will send you to Die Terrasse des Meisters. Use Medivhs Tagebuch at the southern to mid part of the terrace close to the urn on the ground. Then watch the lore all the way through to complete. Go back outside of Karazhan to Archmage Alturus and turn in. (Use the side entrance door nearby for a short cut. If it says locked don't worry it's not click on it and it'll open anyway.) He will have you get a Verkohltes Knochenfragment to complete Die Vergangenheit aufwühlen. It's not hard to get as the bone is right behind the Karazhan summon stone. However, you can't loot it while in a raid group. Either convert the raid group to party (if raid is 2-5 players) from the right-click menu on your player frame (have to be group lead) or drop raid group. If you are soloing, there will not be a problem. Turn in the quest, then get your traveling gear on and tune up that flying mount for the last parts.

Alturus then sends you to get Hilfe unter Kollegen from Kalynna Lathred at Area 52 in Netherstorm. (Yeah wayyyy up there.) She will want you to get a couple of books for her. For Kalynnas Bitte you will need to get the Buch der vergessenen Namen and the Dämmerfoliant, in Heroic Shattered Halls and Sethekk Halls. (All the way back down there!) Thankfully, you won't have to run either completely to get them. Dunkelwirker Syth is the first boss in Sethekk Halls and Großhexenmeister Nethekurse is the first in Shattered Halls. If you can, make/buy some Geringer Unsichtbarkeitstrank or Unsichtbarkeitstrank to sneak past a lot of the trash without any hassles. Use the potion right at the start of the Halls of the Fathers gauntlet in Shattered Halls to skip this annoying part. After all that is finished, return to Kalynna in Area 52. She will do her thing and send you back to Karazhan. (Do we get frequent flyer miles for this quest chain?)

Now all you have to do is go back inside Kara to the Master's Terrace and kill Schrecken der Nacht. Once there, you will be able to click that urn on the ground you saw earlier. Anyway, click the urn and Nightbane will engage you. He is not, for the most part, a very difficult boss to solo. Stay out of his charred earth on the ground and kill the packs of skeletons when he goes up in the air. At 85-90+, he will not last long enough to be much of a worry. And that might be a problem, because it is possible for Nightbane to die somewhere he is not lootable or bug out if he is killed too quickly. To make 100% sure he will be on the ground when he dies, dps him down to about 20 -15% health and be careful with dots and pets. At this point, Nightbane will be doing his rain of bones two times in a row. Kill the skeletons each time and he will then fly around and eventually land again. Now it'll be safe to put him out of his misery and loot the Schwache arkane Essenz. Finally, go outside and complete at Alturus.

You're done! The urn will now be clickable whenever you run Karazhan. Congrats! You can summon Nightbane anytime you want!

Kommentar von zhixson

All of the summoning drama aside, if you want to solo this guy, feel free to keep the hurt on him (DOTS and ranged attacks) in his air phase until 25%. Once he hits that level of health, let him land or face the risk of him dying in an inaccessible spot.

Kommentar von glycereth

If you had previously done the quest during BC, feel free to vendor the Urn as you can now just click the urn on the floor to summon him.

Kommentar von tired

What's up with the doors? We killed him in ~3 minutes, then the urn was clickable again, so it was of course clicked. Then we noticed the doors for the first time, and they were closed. So either clicking the urn the second time locks them, or killing him fast keeps you locked on the terrace for ... some amount of time.

Edit - Confirmed: As long as both people are able to click it the first time (they've both completed the chain of quests), a second click will re-lock the doors. It will lock you back in after you have killed the boss if you click it again. You will have to hearth out.

Edit - Why is this getting downvoted? You will lock yourself in if someone other than the original person who clicked the urn clicks the urn again after the boss is down. The doors will lock and you have to hearth out.

Kommentar von mummer

I haven't been able to find the urn.
Anyone can tell me the location of the so called "urn on the ground"?

Kommentar von 181088

Make sure you try different angles with the mouse. I was hovering from a distance and only when I came close and after a few tries, was I able to get the cog wheel.

Kommentar von Liri

A nice GM named Khyterion gave me some tips on the missing mousewheel bug and how to work around it.

1) Do a reset of the zone. So everyone out for a few minutes to 15 minutes. This worked for me.

2) Delete your UI by deleting your account folder. Log out and at least moving it out of the wow directory if not delete your Cache, WTF, Interface. Log in and see if the wheel works.

Have fun stormin' the castle!

Kommentar von 961378

I've done all the quests after being honored, I'm actually revered right now, but I still can't click that stupid URN I'm beginning to hate this boss haha.... I know exactly where it's at and still can't click it any solution to this?

Kommentar von Aadara

Ok I have a question. I was doing the questline for rep and came across the quest to summon nightbane and loot the essence from him. The problem was, was when I killed him, he was nowhere to be found to loot him. So naturally, I clicked the urn again and was locked on the terrace -.- Has anyone else had this problem? Guess I will try again on Tuesday....

Kommentar von 38876

Marksmanship (7/31/3) Hunter.
Ballinhunts, of Kargath-US.
409 iLvl

Using a turtle as the "Go-To" tenacity pet, I find it easy to solo (duo really) all of the old content as an appropriately-spec'ed Marksmanship Hunter.

I advise the use of Glyph of Mending and Glyph of Misdirection as two critical Major Glyphs, the other choices are yours to make.

As has been previously mentioned, Nightbane is indeed a pushover.

When Nightbane lands, Misdirect your (tenacity) pet and DPS him until he goes into his air phase. Whence he's in the air DPS him to 0% and ride out the phase killing skeletons (an Explosive Trap makes this effortless) and avoiding charred earth until he lands, then win pretty shinies!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me in-game!

Kommentar von endersblade

Finally unlocked this fight on my DK...boy, what a freaking annoying fight.

Once he lands, you DPS him...then he takes off again. Being a DK, there's not a whole lot you can do other than spamming Howling Blast. Then he lands again, takes a few more hits, then once more, is up in the freaking air. This fight took far too long >.>

Kommentar von the0dark0one

Soloed as a lvl 80 Disc Priest, with ilvl 168 gear. Easily done with the 5.0 changes.

Kommentar von ScumHellfire

5.2.0 (I think);

I finished the quest today and I could summon him. The urn is REALLY small. And near the edge of the walls, near the middle.

Got my shield on first try, yay.

Kommentar von Nironimus

There might be a bug if you kill him too fast.

I killed him today during his first airphase, or rather brought him down to 1 hp. When he landed, he died and then the corpse flew away - so I had nothing to loot.

Kommentar von ralphie

If you've already done the chain and have the urn in your bank (which is no longer usable btw) just to Master's Terrace and click the urn that's at 43, 83.

Kommentar von ScumHellfire

Don't use Shadowstep when the boss is in the air, you'll fall outside of Karazhan and won't be able to get back.

Kommentar von Dreaded990

Can you still summon him?

Kommentar von vegard101

Looks like you cant spawn him anymore :(

Kommentar von WebGremlin

To get to him asap, kill Moroes and do the Theater event. Then you can run straight to him and summon him with the Black Urn which is now located as a clickable item on the terrace itself (it's really small and hard to spot but it's really there).

Kommentar von thomla90

Nightbane can now be summoned without being attuned.

I tried this myself. I was doing the attunement quests (needed a transmog item) when the pre-patch for Legion hit and NPCs I needed for the quests disappeared. So I put it to rest until 7.1, and found that I could click on the black urn and summon the dragon.

Its now a new model on the old Kara raid as well.

Kommentar von Theblkbltmstr

Can confirm, Nightbane is indeed summonable without ANY part of the quest line being completed. If you kill him too quickly(one shot) he will do a couple air phases, fly around, and proceed to finally land after a minute or so.

This is as of 10/29/2016 patch 7.1 on a character that has never even touched the quest line, 20m Karazhan.

Enjoy your farming!

Kommentar von MerlinxIllidan

Whelp!

WARNING: I've been farming this boss for some weeks and never bugged it however I proceed to one shot and wait for the air phase, he landed and I was alt tab afk so he went to air phase again after 1 or 2 mins, I killed him in the second air phase and his body was nowhere to be found, right now im waiting *hopefully* the loot to be mailed by the post master, this is because i'm farming transmog.

Just wanted to share that, try to follow mechanics as close knit as possible to avoid possible flaws and bug random bosses in old raids.

Best regards.

Kommentar von Faradize

if you're neutral and just want to start this quest : its possible to kill all boss except Aran, even Prince, its quite some rep, but you still need to farm trash a bit until honored. (I was 5300 friendly after Prince) go back to the entrance, and kill again the animal boss, they are not on weekly reset, but rather a softreset is enough for him and trash to respawn.
then you can go out, pick up the quest, and do everything in the qline, and kill nightbane in your first reset :)

Kommentar von Droge

For those of you who are wondering if you still need to do the questline that will allow you to summon him, it appears they removed it. I went inside the instance on a character that I had used the level 100 booster on, so I hadn't done any quests or reputation grinding relating to burning Crusade. The item that you need to interact with was present when I arrived. This in my opinion is an excellent change for people like me who Farm transmog on multiple Toons.

Kommentar von gunsotsu

just so you all know..the quest givers for this quest - they are gone..the quest can no longer be obtained through regular means..and so it seems if you did not do this quest that..well..unless you form group with someone who has..you will never see origional nightbane or have access to his loot..

Kommentar von Nerotip

As of today (Version 8.3.0 (34769) from 11.06.2020) is the little "Blackened Urn" near the balustrade still there. Just click it and the boss will spawn after a short RP timer. But keep your Popcorn near because the air phase will take some time and no way to skip it.

No Pre-Quest or Item needed.

If you don't know how it (the urn) looks take a look into the screenshots. One or two of them shows it.

Kommentar von deiXide

Modern way to spawn/kill this guy: kill Moroes and do the theater boss. Run up from the theater to the part of your map that says "Master's Terrace" (the ring, not up the broken stair). Run about 3/4 of the way around the ring and you'll see an urn next to the wall. Click the urn, Nightbane will spawn; you'll one-shot him to 0hp. He'll make a bunch of skeletons and eventually say he'll crush you himself. Hit him when he lands and collect your netherweave.

Kommentar von YodasEvilTwin

Other comments have covered this but I wanted to put every detail in one spot. Since Schrecken der Nacht was removed way back in 7.1:

Schrecken der Nacht is summoned in the old Karazhan raid by clicking Geschwärzte Urne, which is now an interactable object instead of an item. The urn is located on the lowest level of the Master's Terrace (i.e., the first spot in the raid where you can go "outside"), right in the middle of the curve along the outer edge. It is accessed from the bottom of the Broken Stair (either the door under the stair, or the door just barely beyond it if you hang a left). You can access this area via two points:

The Servant's Access Door (southmost side of the top level of the Grand Ballroom, which is itself outside the Opera Hall)
The very upper level of the Opera Hall

The latter is only accessible after defeating the Opera bosses and continuing upwards through the door that opens, and I believe the former is only unlocked after defeating that fight anyways, so it's easiest to go through the Opera Hall.

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