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Comment by Neutronimity

High Priestess Kilnara, the third boss of heroic 5-player Zul'Gurub, is located in the cellar of the panther temple. Here is an accurate map of her location.
Clear the interior of the temple of all trash packs which otherwise intervene in the boss fight. Use Crowd Control on the priests. (Yes, it's hard.)
While fighting Kilnara, don't bring her down below 50% health until you have killed all panther packs in her room one by one. Occasionally she will summon a purple wave wall (Wave of Agony) that will sweep players in front of it away unless circumvented.
Also casts Tears of Blood, dealing shadow damage to nearby players. Should be interrupted.
At 50% she will transform and call any panthers you have left alive to her aid. At ~25% she will briefly disappear and then reappear.
Loot

Arlokk's Signet
Sash of Anguish
Claw-Fringe Mantle
Leggings of the Pride
Roaring Mask of Bethekk
Swift Zulian Panther

TL;DR: Cellar of the panther temple. Kill all trash mobs inside the temple before the fight. Kill panther packs in the room before bringing the boss below 50%. Walk around purple wave walls. Interrupt Tears of Blood.

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Comment by Ketho

No. NO! Get out! Leave me here with the memory of my sister!
/run PlaySoundFile("sound\\CREATURE\\KILNARA\\VO_ZG2_KILNARA_AGGRO.ogg")
I told you to leave!
/run PlaySoundFile("sound\\CREATURE\\KILNARA\\VO_ZG2_KILNARA_KILL_NORMAL_01.ogg")
I have sworn to protect this place.
/run PlaySoundFile("sound\\CREATURE\\KILNARA\\VO_ZG2_KILNARA_KILL_NORMAL_02.ogg")
Ha! You are nothing but a plaything!
/run PlaySoundFile("sound\\CREATURE\\KILNARA\\VO_ZG2_KILNARA_KILL_FERAL_01.ogg")
Feel my agony! Wave of Agony
/run PlaySoundFile("sound\\CREATURE\\KILNARA\\VO_ZG2_KILNARA_SPELL_01.ogg")
/run PlaySoundFile("sound\\CREATURE\\KILNARA\\VO_ZG2_KILNARA_SPELL_01_FERAL.ogg")
What have you done? I can't... control... RRAAAARRRGHHH!
/run PlaySoundFile("sound\\CREATURE\\KILNARA\\VO_ZG2_KILNARA_TRANSFORM_01.ogg")
Haaa ha ha haa! Now, heathens... face the TRUE might of Bethekk!
/run PlaySoundFile("sound\\CREATURE\\KILNARA\\VO_ZG2_KILNARA_TRANSFORM_02.ogg")
/run PlaySoundFile("sound\\CREATURE\\KILNARA\\VO_ZG2_KILNARA_TRANSFORM_02_FERAL.ogg")
It did not have to end this way!
/run PlaySoundFile("sound\\CREATURE\\KILNARA\\VO_ZG2_KILNARA_BERSERK_01.ogg")
/run PlaySoundFile("sound\\CREATURE\\KILNARA\\VO_ZG2_KILNARA_BERSERK_01_FERAL.ogg")
This body is useless!
/run PlaySoundFile("sound\\CREATURE\\KILNARA\\VO_ZG2_KILNARA_DEATH_FERAL.ogg")

PTR 4.1.0.13875 -- 2011.04.12
High Priestess Kilnara / Avatar of Bethekk

96594 Camouflage SPELL_AURA_APPLIED
97380 Cave In SPELL_AURA_APPLIED, SPELL_PERIODIC_DAMAGE
98840 Clear Achievement Credit UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED, Here, Kitty Kitty...
96958 SPELL_CAST_SUCCESS, SPELL_AURA_APPLIED, SPELL_DAMAGE, SPELL_PERIODIC_DAMAGE
96530 Primal Awakening UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED
96559 Primal Blessing UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED
96531 Rage of the Ancients SPELL_AURA_APPLIED, SPELL_AURA_APPLIED_DOSE
96896 Rage of the Ancients UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED
96592 Ravage SPELL_CAST_SUCCESS, SPELL_AURA_APPLIED, SPELL_PERIODIC_DAMAGE
96700 Ravage SPELL_AURA_APPLIED, SPELL_DAMAGE
96956 Interruptable SPELL_CAST_START, SPELL_DAMAGE
96435 Tears of Blood Interruptable SPELL_AURA_APPLIED, UNIT_SPELLCAST_CHANNEL_START
96957 SPELL_DAMAGE
96438 Tears of Blood UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED
96954 SPELL_DAMAGE
96948 SPELL_CAST_SUCCESS, SPELL_DAMAGE
96460 Wave of Agony SPELL_DAMAGE
96457 Wave of Agony UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED
96461 Wave of Agony UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED
96465 Wave of Agony UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED
96542 Wave of Agony UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED
98270 Wave of Agony UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED

-- Pride of Bethekk
97358 SPELL_AURA_APPLIED, SPELL_AURA_APPLIED_DOSE, SPELL_DAMAGE, SPELL_PERIODIC_DAMAGE
97355 Gaping Wound UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED
96446 Dark Slumber SPELL_AURA_REMOVED

Comment by Dagnet

My group didn't have to throw any rats to pull those panthers, actualy, I would recommend that you do NOT use any rats as they seen to buff panthers making them hit much harder (unless you're going for the achieve).

Comment by mcglonec

During phase 1, we found it easy to deal with the panthers by having the tank grab them one at a time. The tank can stay near the middle of the room and use Taunt (or something similar) to grab a single panther. You don't actually have to deal damage to the panther to awaken it so using Taunt is a great way to get a single panther and get aggro onto the tank immediately. The panthers have very low health so they're quick to burn down and, taken one a time, mostly harmless.

Also during this phase, Kilnara has a number of spells to deal with...

Primarily, she'll cast Shadow Bolt at the main tank. This can be interrupted/reflected but only do so if you can save an interrupt for Tears of Blood. If you can't interrupt both Shadow Bolt and Tears of Blood, eat the Shadow Bolt and interrupt the Tears. Best solution we came up with: have your tank interrupt/reflect as many Shadow Bolts as possible and have one of your DPS interrupt the Tears. Having a macro that can interrupt a focus target can be very handy here as you'll often be targeting panthers but need to interrupt the boss. Here's something a friend in my guild came up with for his mage:

#showtooltip Counterspell
/stopcasting
/focus
/cast Counterspell

Naturally, replace your interrupt for Counterspell. This macro will set a focus target on whatever you have targeted if you hold a modifier key while executing the macro (like Shift or Ctrl). If you execute the macro without a modifier, it will immediately stop your current cast and cast your interrupt on whatever you have in your focus frame. As I said, this can be great for interrupting someone while DPS'ing something else. (Kudos to my guildmate Anesos for coming up with this macro.)

The last spell you need to deal with during phase 1 is Wave of Agony. Kilnara will create a large red/purple wave at her location and it'll remain stationary for some time before moving through your group. Simply have everyone step out of the way to negate this spell.

All told, phase 1 is not a race and, as long as you're pulling panthers in small groups (1 or 2) and controlling her spells, the damage taken is not huge. Phase 2, on the other hand, is a complete DPS race. If you have all the panthers down when she reaches 50%, it's very simple as her damage output is not great.

Everyone will take constant AoE damage from the ceiling collapsing which must be healed through. Kilnara will also stack up Rage of the Ancients as phase 2 progresses. With this in mind, tanks should hold cooldowns off as long as possible as the incoming damage steadily increases as the fight continues. She does have an AoE attack in Vengeful Smash, but we didn't find it anything to worry about.

She used Camouflage twice during phase 2 on us. It's mostly a nuisance and the tank just needs to be ready with a taunt as she seems to wipe aggro when she uses it. Aside from this spell, phase 2 is a complete tank 'n spank.

Honestly, the fight is not as difficult as it sounds. Just get the panthers down before she reaches 50% and, once there, burn her fast.

Comment by lyom

A wipe a day keeps the doctor away.

Comment by NoobIRL

Guide

Healer:
- DO NOT STAND IN FRONT OF WAVE OF AGONY!
- Assign 1 player to interrupt Shadow Bolt and another to interrupt Tears of Blood.

Tank:
- Assign 1 player to interrupt Shadow Bolt and another to interrupt Tears of Blood.
- Start fight.
- DO NOT stand in front of Wave of Agony.
- Generate some threat on the boss, then pull a panther.
- Wait for dpses to kill the panther.
- Repeat until all panthers are killed.
- Finish the fight by killing the boss after all the panthers are killed.

DPS:

- Assign 1 player to interrupt Shadow Bolt and another to interrupt Tears of Blood.
- Start fight.
- Don't dps boss.
- DO NOT stand in front of Wave of Agony.
- Wait for tank to pull a panther, kill any panthers the tank pulls.
- Kill all the panthers.
- Finish the fight by killing the boss after all the panthers are killed.

comment below me, where am i saying that wave of agony cant be dodged? im actually telling to avoid it. sigh.

Comment by Kathucka

Even shorter version, suitable for copy/paste:

Everyone but the tank, stack behind her at all times. Do not attack the boss until all the cats are dead. Interrupt pool of blood ASAP. Let shadow bolt go through. Tank, pick up cats one or two at a time. Blow cooldowns at 50%.

That's enough to win for most competent groups.

Comment by Kathucka

The Wowhead notes are wrong and/or incomplete.

Shadow Bolt probably does less damage than the melee attack it replaces while she casts. Don't interrupt it. Save your interrupt for the Pool of Blood, which is the serious threat.

Temple rats are not required to awake the kitties. They just give them a buff for the achievement. Once the fight starts, you awaken the cats by hitting them.

Not mentioned is that the cats love to pounce an off-target, frequently a healer. The tank can't control this. This does unhealable damage if there are too many cats, and always leads to a wipe.

The three most common causes of wipes:

Activating too many cats at once, including by taking the boss to 50% before all the cats are dead.
Failing to interrupt Pool of Blood
Failing to get out of the way of Wave of Agony

The above "short form" directions deal with all three of these issues.

The tank and damage-dealers will be dealing with the cats, so a focus-target interrupt is a good idea.

/cast Rebuke

would be enough.

Comment by Rannzor

Don't forget this also drops Swift Zulian Panther

Comment by 157005

MUCH EASIER STRATEGY

Have the tank pull Kilnara to the back of the room by himself. Have the healer and DPS stay in the front of the room and pull panthers one at a time.

The panthers only have 155k health, they are barely elites and will die quickly when focused on. Any added damage from the panthers being on a DPS (rather than the tank) is easily more than made up for by no one but the tank taking ambient damage from the boss (especially Wave of Agony).

After the panthers are all dead, this fight is a fairly straightforward tank and spank.

Healers: Lash of Anguish deals 200k damage over 10 seconds, clearing that is your priority.

Comment by 740032

attn: warlocks: don't use seed of corruption for this fight, you'll aggro extra panthers and wipe the group.

Thats all.

Comment by Wirxaw

"Do not stand in front of Wave of Agony"....I'd rather say "Do not stand where you stood before you stood there after you were standing right there" No, what I said makes more sense.
"Assign 1 player to interrupt Shadow Bolt and another to interrupt Tears of Blood" Also, assign a healer to heal tank and dps to kill panthers. ...why not?
"Generate some threat on the boss, then pull a panther" Yeh, obv. Get some threat on non-meleeing boss. Especially when you do not interrupt it. Yeah...
"Finish the fight by killing the boss after all the panthers are killed" Captain Hindsight approves.

Yes, I know that was a "noob" guide. But it was so pathetic that I feel pity for noobs that will follow it and wipe endlessly.

Following your guide, people would be super aware of watchig Wave of Agony, dropping focus for other things. Dps focusing interrupts on boss would likely leave tank solo-killing the adds.

Well, I would like to correct you and add my 50cents.
(So, addressing to noobs now)
1. This fight is special, even more than usually, "kill %^&*" type. Boss is not your priority - you see other ^&*! around - you kill *!@#. Fast.
2. Do not worry about Wave of Agony. Really, you are not Ensidia, you are not calculators. If your healer can not outheal it - replace him. Wave of Agony is the main source of healing problems here, avoiding it is impossible.
3. Forget about the boss in P1. She doesnt melee, spams some 20k shadowbolts that cant be HoT-healed. If you have problems with Tears of Blood - assign tank\ranged\weak melee to stay on boss and interrupt it only.
4. If you lack dps\dps are dead\healer cant heal through P1 and adds - try to kill 2 packs of them. With generous breaks of 5 seconds between them, it's should be simple enough thoughout whole P1. Once you enter P2 - tell tank to pop cds, dps to go crazy like those mailbox blockers. If tank indeed pops some cds(well, he should have at least general 50% DR left), he wont die in 2 seconds. Sleeping healers is not an issue either, so prepare for some onebutton healing. Without interrupts\avoids and with all adds focused on tank, dps should get them down in time. If they dont - boss vanishes. That gives you even more room for some free dpsing.
5. Do not panic. It is not Venoxis dancing, Mandokir dinging or Zanzil rush. All you have to do is to KILL SH1T. Take it easy.

Alright, I you can say thanks in the general channel. Leethaxpros - I am expecting your downrates. Feel free to add this comment to your 1000xCritic site achievement.

Comment by Molekh

Am I the only one that feels pretty bad in killing her? When you aggro her she tells you to go away and leave her with the memory of her dead sister (that we killed in the past).
She just wants to be left alone in her sadness and agony and we disturb her just to kill her :(

Comment by Dragon007

From the healer's perspective:

This fight is mostly about what the others do. If they pull too many cats it's gonna be rough. Remind your group that it is a marathon, not a sprint. Nice, paced cat pulls will win this. The only other thing is to avoid that wall. You'll be busy enough with healing the people who didn't avoid the wall, so don't volunteer to interrupt if you can avoid it.

What typically goes wrong: Too many cats.

What to do: The cats throw a debuff (Gaping Wound) on that will cause 5k per second on a person. If you try to heal everyone through that you're likely going to fail. Let the person with the lowest dps die, heal through the rest.

Comment by merricklb

Does anyone else think she looks cute in her panther form? I'd love to turn into a panther myself if thats what i'll look like. :)

Comment by drraposa

Those interested in farming for the panther mount will be happy to know that it is now possible to 2man this boss (by patch 4.3). We did this with a holy paladin (389 ilvl) and feral bear (375 ilvl), with this strat:

- Started the encounter with the holy paladin tanking Kilnara. Use Righteous fury ~~for a threat boost at the beginning, but turn it off soon after to avoid getting healing aggro from the cats~~ and keep it up until phase 2 starts;
- ~~In this phase keep resistance aura up to take a few shadow bolts in the face if needed, as you should have an interrupt available for Tears of blood~~; Use devotion aura - her melee hits harder than her shadow bolts. Interrupt Tears of blood.
- Druid proceeded to kill the cats, pulling one pack at a time. Beacon of light was set at the druid, and it did pretty much all healing required. ~~Next time we may try to pull more to speed it up a little bit~~; (edit: not a good idea. that stacking bleed effect is nasty)
- Obviously everybody should dodge the waves;
- When all cats were dead druid went kitty form to dps the boss up to phase 2;
- On phase 2 druid went bear to tank Kilnara in avatar form, so turn righteous fury off. Im not sure if Devotion aura stacks with some bear armor bonus, but I used it anyway. From there on it was just tank and spank, with some heavy heals required as her Rage of the ancients buff stacked. Oh, and do not use hand of sacrifce in this phase, I almost died. /facepalm
- Loot boss
- Profit

edited for updates on strategy.

Comment by citrique

ed: I find it completely remarkable that someone downrated this guide. Sorry your class can't solo farm this, but don't downvote an in-depth guide because of it.

Solo farm as a Death Knight:

Enter the instance. Skip Venomancer Mauri at the entrance and run through the poison cloud to the bridge, it won't kill you. Kill any Florawing Needlers which aggroed.

Tiki Lord Mu'Loa is actually very difficult and must be killed. When you have AMS up, he does not cast his Tiki Torch ability, otherwise he will spam it nonstop dealing roughly 12-13K DPS to you which you will have to outheal or mitigate. Kings drums and/or a resist elixir will be of great use here.

There are two different ways to go from here, either cross the bridge and kill Gub for his fish barrel and a shorter path to the boss, or go the long way dealing with one more Venomancer (tank and spank) and a pack of Chosen of Hethiss (tank and spank). I choose the shorter (more difficult) path for the free fish. Gub is just a tank and spank and does nothing, or you can just run past him (he leashes off the bridge). There is one pack of Razzashi Adder which must be pulled. This pack is also rather difficult, on the pull use AMS and use damage cooldowns to kill 2-3 mobs before AMS wears off. From there burn each mob down one at a time as quickly as possible to avoid their poison stacks killing you.

Tiki Lord Zim'wae is also a tank and spank which does no damage. From here I frequently go kill Mortaxx for a free Maelstrom Crystal, he's another tank and spank, as long as you avoid aggroing too many other NPCs around him. There is one trash pack of Gurubashi Shadow Hunter and 2x Pride of Bethekk which is also tank and spank. The final trash pack of 5 mobs is best skipped using a Lesser Invisibility Potion. Should you choose to kill it, the kill order is Priest -> shadow hunter -> blood drinker -> cat. Just run away from blood drinkers whenever they start to spin until the hunter is dead.

For the boss herself: The primary damage sources occur in phase 1, from the adds and . When this spell is applied to you, is when you must AMS or use cooldowns.

Easiest way to do this is pull boss, save your interrupt for Tears of Blood, and kill one group of cats at a time. Focus them down before working on the boss. Pushing her into phase 2 with more than one group of cats alive will kill you, so avoid dpsing her below 50% before all the cats are dead. Have a focus interrupt macro to kick tears, don't kick shadow bolts, run behind her when she casts Wave of Agony, that's it. If your health has gotten low after a pack of cats or you want to wait for short cooldowns to be up, heal up off the boss by strangulating one shadow bolt cast so you can still interrupt tears, as her melee in this phase is easily mitigated with Death Strike spam.

If you are "pro" you can AMS before Lash is cast and immune it entirely, and Lash can be Dark Simmed. It is usually the first thing she casts after Tears is interrupted. It has a 4 second cooldown so you can cast it on the boss + 2 cats before the ability's usage window fades.

Phase 2 is a DPS race if you have mediocre gear, as her Rage of the Ancients stacks will eventually cause her to do quite a lot of damage, in Dragon Soul gear it's not much of a threat and the fight is essentially over once phase 2 begins. Note the Dragon Soul tank 4-piece is worthless for solo play and using the firelands 2-piece is better for P1 cat damage unless you only have the normal version.

As is the case in a lot of instances, the trash before the boss is more difficult to solo than the boss itself.

Comment by Esploratore

Just a quick confirmation for any blood dk that might be interesting in mount farming: yes, still soloable after 5.0.4, used to do all the trash in dps gear before and the boss in tank gear (item level 403 and 399), only having problem at the last trash pack before kil'nara, killing 2, dying, running in and killing the other 3 80% of the time, then one-shotting the boss in full tank gear.

What changed is we have significantly less dps when hit by physical attacks, especially due to the new vengeance, and more dps than before, or at least the same when we get hit by heavy magical attacks, all the trash, including the last trash pack was trivial, never had it so easy, survivability got buffed a lot.

Was worried to not be able to down the boss in full tank gear due to lower dps than before, so went in full dps gear, wiped just before the last cat died; equipped my soulshifter vortex LFR in place of the creche heroic and got her, quite easy, 15 stacks of rage of the ancients.

Comment by Maccy

Protection warriors can solo her now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ETtBvviIf8

Comment by Hashupa

Easy to solo as a BM hunter. You can camo past every trash mob on the way to this boss, so I will only describe the boss fight.

At first I thought only a Spirit Beast set to Tenacity would be good for this fight, but recently I have been able to take her down with a Water Strider set to Ferocity! This gets a little bit harder to maintain in P2, and if you can't kill her fast enough, you will just need to use Heart of the Phoenix, but it should be easy enough if you maintain Mend Pet.

The main damage you will encounter here will be Lash of Anguish in P1 and Ravage in P2. Pets seem to no longer take high damage from Tears of Blood in P1, so save your interrupts for Shadow Bolt if you need. During P1, you will also need to avoid being hit by Wave of Agony, which is very simple, just sidestep it.

EDIT: As Tori11 has discovered, Pride of Bethekk can be left alone for this fight, as long as you feign death when they run at you in P2. Thanks, Tori! So all you really need to do for P1 is DPS!

Once she enters P2, you will take minimal damage from Cave In. She will vanish some time after she transforms, but as long as you have Hunter's Mark up, you will not lose sight of her. When she reappears, she will use Ravage, but if you turn quickly to face her, you may get lucky and dodge it. If you don't, it's no big deal.

Finally, just DPS her down and loot! Good luck to everyone trying to get the mount, hopefully my guide helps.

Comment by iameponine

I’m actually doing it as a survival hunter.

Using a tenacity-specced turtle pet with glyph of mending (+60% healing to mend pet), I pre-mend before the pull and then send my pet in to tank the boss where she is.

I then LOS the boss by staying inside the panther stables, and pop out while she is casting shadow bolt to refresh mend pet, black arrow, and serpent sting. This way, she never casts Lash of Anguish or Wave of Agony at me. Don’t interrupt tears of blood; instead, use the time she is casting it to pop out of LOS and DPS. If you stay back far enough, tears of blood won’t hit you at all. If it does, a quick bandage will heal you right up.

Since I’m not actively DPSing for the entire time, phase 1 takes longer than it would if I were trying to heal through the anguish and dodge waves. However, the best part is, when she does hit 50% and the sleeping cats wake up and run to you, you can simply feign and they all go right back to sleep! No, they don’t go for your pet – they just lie down again.

From there, phase 2 is cake, just burn the boss and keep mend pet rolling. Consider speccing into Exhilaration for the 100% pet heal since the boss does have a stacking damage buff.
Did this at 85 when 5.04 hit, so it should be very doable for 90s now. Good luck!

Comment by JackFellDown

Monk Windwalker ilvl 476
I beat this boss the other day but had a hard time today, so I had to stop and take a look.

The strategy that worked best for me, (and I still almost died) was to start the fight by smashing on her building 3 stacks of Tiger Power and then to flying serpent kick into a room of panthers. I would Spinning crane kick down the panthers and stop to silence her if she was casting tears to close to me. The thing about the panthers is their life orbs that they drop'd were giving me from 50-100k hp back so grouping up I would pop out of each room back at full. I almost died during the roof cave in part because she followed me into a room and hit 50% as I was killing the remaining panthers.

With bandages, zen sphere and blackout kick you can out heal the amount of damage she dish's gotta watch out for that wall tho, which isn't hard since most of the time shes bombing you with shadow bolts which if you have glyph of sparring she doesn't hit that often.

Comment by Vulthor

I can confirm that this boss is soloable as a level 90 prot warrior. I pop my cds when the adds attacked me and quickly killed them. You must have second wind as a warrior to solo. Happy mount hunting everyone

Comment by Drudan

Soloable as an enhancement shaman (478 ilvl). I ignored the adds completely. Regular dps on her until she transitioned, and then I popped everything and burned her down quickly. I dropped my Earth Elemental to keep the panthers off of me as much as possible. Died after I killed her due to bleed damage so be cautious of that :)

Comment by CaptnJay

She's also solable as a lvl 90 Protection Paladin with only blue gear from normal Pandaria dungeons. As many others, I completely ignored the kitties during phase 1 and focused on Kilnara.

Once in phase 2, I switched to aoe damage and popped some defensive cooldowns such as Guardian of Ancient Kings and glyphed Divine Protection. I also used Light's Hammer for a damage and healing boost. Kitties will die fast and Kilnara shouldn't be a problem afterwards.

Comment by kabookiejoe

I solod this boss tonight as a lvl 90 Assassin rogue with 479ilvl

Not much to say, just save all your offensive/def cooldowns till panther form and nuke her hard.
made some sauted carrots and brought some virmen bite (doesn't hurt)

I do however recommend glyph of evasion and taking combat readiness for the 2nd part of the fight.

Once she calls for her kittens, just hit vanish(keep hitting her), adds will despawn. And finish her off

With the addition of drums of rage to the game, a free bloodlust never hurts

Comment by BscorpobBx5

Recently soloed this as a 472 BM hunter.

I think this is definetly the fastest method I use to solo this boss, basically blow all CDs at the beginning, and get her to 50% ASAP, and she will usually only get one or two lashes of anguish on you if you have decent dps. I specced into spirit bond so I was easily able to heal through this.

After the boss gets to 50%, when the panthers start to attack you, just feign death and they will go back to their stables (they will reset). This allows you to just dps the boss for phase 2 and for a MUCH faster kill than the other methods here on wowhead.

Be sure to time your feign death accordingly, if you get anxious and feign death too early they'll still attack you, just wait for them to actually start running over to you, then feign death, then get back up and start dpsing again.

Using this method I was able to kill kilnara in just over a minute according to DBM.
I also used a tenacity specced turtle with glyph of mend pet.

Good luck to all you mount farmers out there! ^_^

EDIT: Received the mount after 26 kills, on 12/19/12. Truly a beauty and a great addition to my mount collection.

Comment by Irollpally

was able to solo her in 5.1 as a prot pally with 477 ilvl, was fairly easy

Comment by alystranos

Just killed her as Guardian Druid. I find the best way is to single target (to make it extra comfortable) down the cats until there are none and then damage her down until phase 2. You should pop your cooldowns on phase 2 which is when she does most damage and there are now no cats to attack you. If necessary defensive cooldowns can be popped which is why you should single target the cats so you don't use it before it might be needed.
Good luck with the mount!

Comment by eskilajnen

How I solo it as an affliction warlock:

Useful glyphs: Charred Glyph, Charred Glyph, Charred Glyph.
Useful talents: , .
Recommended demon: Voidwalker/Voidlord.

Part 1: Send your Voidwalker to attack High Priestess Kilnara. While he is tanking the boss use and to dot up as many panther adds as you can manage, if you have blue gear you might want to get 2 or 3 panthers at a time and once you get slightly better gear you can easily dot 4 at a time. If you delay each Soul Swap slightly you have time to use (together with Charred Glyph) on each panther which will heal you more than enough to stay alive.

Part 2: Once you have cleared all the panthers it's simply tank and spank until the boss is down.

Tips: Use if you are taking too much damage from Lash of Anguish.

Good luck!

Comment by DeathMaster

Fury warriors willing to solo this, it's very much possible, but don't expect this to go flawless in questing gear.
Like mentioned before, it becomes progressively easier once you gear up.

I prefer to skip the cauldron Priest and go left straight away, avoid pulling what I can and kill whatever I do pull before before heading into the temple.

- Save interrupts for Tears of Blood, the Shadow Bolt's damage is neglectable.
- Save your big DPS cooldowns for when reaching 50%.
- Don't use Die by the Sword before all adds are in place.

Also assure you have a Master Healing Potion ready for the sake of compensating poor timing on the latter.
Overall, nice and quick, nowadays it doesn't take me more than 10 minutes a day to complete.

Comment by 977871

This was easily soloable on my crappy geared (ilvl 450+pvp stuff) BM Hunter. I used a (tenacity) spirit beast and one heavy windwool bandage to get some extra heals in. I interrupted Tears of Blood cause I read that here + DBM will tell you when. And just Feign Death when phase 2 starts and the cats will go away. Make sure to keep your pet alive with Mend Pet. As long as your pet doesn't die you can slowly dps her down and kill her. Good luck!

Edit: just did it without the bandage, so no worries about lvling first aid..^^

Comment by Falanyr

She's soloable as a 484 ilevel spriest, though it's probably doable with dungeon heroic gear. I struggled on the trash as a just-dinged 90 at first though, so I'd say it's a good idea to gear up a little bit before trying her out.

Just need to pull the panthers one by one after pulling before starting to really DPS her. I found using Devouring Plague on her worked wonders for keeping my HP up - it doesn't do enough damage to push her into phase 2 before you're done - and aside from that she is a relatively simple boss to kill as a 90 shadow priest.

As a side note, it's also soloable as a badly-geared prot warrior with the same tactic. She can't DPS through second wind!

Comment by 1108729

Solo'd it on my assass rogue proof here ; youtube.com/watch?v=CXu1cCztmGQ
Took me 5 tries to win the dps race against dieng.
Still a tough and rough fight but kill is what counts.
unfortunately still havent seen the mount drop :(

- Zemion

Comment by Pathstrider

Easy to solo as a lvl90 ilvl495 ele shammy. Pulled with a flame shock/earth elemental then proceeded to kill the panthers pack by pack. Did a quick heal after each pack to stay topped.
When all panthers dead dps'd boss til 50% when she changes. Popped heroism/ascendance and beat her down quickly.
Ended fight with almost full health and mana. Definately going back each day til mount drops.

Comment by nushidorei

Easy to solo in MoP by any class with heals, made a Youtube guide here for those who want to have a better understanding of this fight. It's done as a Retribution Paladin but it is doable by many classes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHtVp7t5R2c

Good luck on the mount guys.

Nushi

Comment by BubbRubb23

As a hunter just let your pet tank, and watch your aggro. I only had to cast MD once. When all the panthers come out just FD, and they all go away. From there you can just burn her. Very easy solo fight in the new patch.

Comment by Betonkocka

She is easy now: ignore adds, just normal nuke (ret pally). Step out of the purple thingy what she casts. Around 50% health, or earlier, pop CDs and burn down. In P2 when the cats are coming, just ignore them and focus on the boss. With high DPS, the boss will be dead before the cats reach her.

Keep alive for a few more seconds after she is dead, as the cats do not despawn immediately!
Use self heal or damage reduction or just run away.

Comment by Rasztra

For any Mages having trouble soloing this, here is the easiest method:

1. Pull boss, blow all cooldowns, DPS as fast as possible.
2. Right before she calls her adds, pop Mirror Image (near the boss).
3. Blink away from the boss. When the adds join, they should come after you.
4. Before they get to you, use Greater Invisibility and they will reset. The boss will not reset because it should be focused on your Mirror Images.
5. Finish DPSing the boss.

The trick is to get the boss on your Mirror Images and the adds on you, and then popping Greater Invisibility. If for some reason the whole thing resets, just try again.

Comment by Conditioned

As a rogue: Go into the alchove in the furthest part of the room from the entrance. Keep recuperate up ofc. When the panthers pounce vanish. When they deaggro start hitting the boss again. 500 ilvl and potted.

Comment by sakera

Just an FYI, using Salyin Battle Banner will reset the fight.

Comment by dle0105

If you're a class that has no Feign Death or Vanish like spells, you can mount up and run straight to this boss and use a Salyin Battle Banner to reset all the trash.

This makes this a super fast run everyday.

Good Luck!

Comment by Nobbel

How to: Solo Zul'Aman & Zul'Gurub Heroic in Mists of Pandaria. Also includes the achievements.
http://youtu.be/fzmR5JiNQmo

Comment by Azunyan

For Level 90 Druids who want to skip all the trash and stuff.

Run past the first cauldron and the cauldron mob and wasps on your mount, ignore the Tiki and turn left, ignore Gub, the snakes, green trolls and the second Tiki.
Use Shadowmeld (or if you're not Night Elf, use stuff like Salyin Battle Banner from Salyin Warscout to drop combat). When using Shadowmeld, make sure you do not have Venom Spit on you, or else it will break stealth immediately.
Prowl and while on the stairs, drop to the left and stealth past the mobs there.
Head downstairs and engage the priestess.

For other classes, they can be creative for sneaky parts.

Fighting her is a different story. Here is how I do the fight as a Balance Druid:

My gear is not the best, only filled with upgraded RF and some Timeless pieces (with 2 tier pieces from the Celestials and Wrathion's meta gem). 539 ilvl average.
Before I start the fight, I use Astral Communion (if I'm not in Eclipse) then pop Incarnation and Drums of Rage (very useful and only costs 1 Magnificent Hide for Leatherworkers).
Burn her with the usual rotation (Moonfire and Sunfire up, Starfall, then either Wrath or Starfire, whichever is in Eclipse and Starsurge when it's up/it procs).
Rejuvenate if necessary. If she lives through your Eclipse, pop Celestial Alignment.

She dies to me after 18 seconds or so, before she can call the Pride of Bethekk to aid her. If she does call them, make sure to pop your Barkskin and focus her down. Rejuvenate as necessary.

Comment by Telar

Hey Guys,

I created a video guide which shows you how to farm this mount- Here is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCF_o1JR69M

Have on my channel more such guides to Wow and other games such as Diablo III – here is the link to my cannel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3aP4dU-K2EeAErk2To5Chg

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Comment by midobu

*** Level 90 hunter solo guide ***
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High Priestess Kilnara
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Main abilities (1) Tears of Blood (2) Wave of Agony (3) Transformation into a cat woman

(1) While casting a spell of "Tears of Blood": Interrupt the spell by "Counter Shot".

(2) While casting a spell of "Wave of Agony": Move aside to avoid a purple waive approaching you. Her key word is "feel the agonies".

(3) After the entire room is trembled and shaked she wakes up all cats in the room: When all cats are running toward you then RIGHT before they touch you, USE "Feign Death" (faking death) to avoid their attacks. Her key word is "Ha-ha-ha-Ha!".

(Note: After you kill her, a path with a fire trap will be disabled for 2 hours while your are in the instance.)

Comment by Animegirl

I hope her cattish form ends up being the female version of claws of shirvallah talent.

Comment by CrockettMaster

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but a shortcut to get to her is right as you enter the instance, take a left and run through the waterfall. This basically leads you straight to the boss allowing for a quick kill! You can also use this path to leave the instance.

Comment by AlexL1118

Got the mount one minute ago. This means - the mount still drops.

Comment by Eziair

23 Sep 2016 - 16:02

She just dropped the Swift Zulian Panther mount for me after 3 weeks doing the dungeon every day on 7 characters.
So you could say 147 runs

Comment by Elazul

For Arms Warriors running this for the mount as of Legion, be careful not to get to close to her when you're in the level above, otherwise your Strom'kar fear will activate and lock you out of her room.

Comment by notwithead

Arms Warriors need to switch specs before going into her temple the fear aura from Strom'kar puts her in combat before you get in the room sealing it with you outside

Comment by LordofWarcraft

Is it required to kill her in phase 2 to get the mount drop?

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High Priestess Kilnara

This NPC can be found in Zul'Gurub .

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

Stage One: No. NO! Get Out!

Shadow Bolt – Kilnara hurls a bolt of dark magic at an enemy, inflicting (100% of Spell power) Shadow damage to her primary target.
Wave of Agony – A crushing wave of agony sweeps across enemies in front of Kilnara, inflicting 68 Shadow damage and knocking them back.
Tears of Blood – Glittering trails of blood stream from Kilnara's eyes, inflicting (100% of Spell power) Shadow damage every second to all players within 12 yards for 6 sec.
Wail of Sorrow – Kilnara's dark wail of sorrow inflicts (100% of Spell power) Shadow damage on all enemies.
Lash of Anguish – Kilnara lashes out at a random player, inflicting 50% of her normal melee swing's damage as Shadow damage and then 23 Shadow damage every 2 seconds for 10 sec.

Stage Two: The True Might of Bethekk

At 50% remaining life, High Priestess Kilnara transforms into the Avatar of Bethekk and awakens any remaining sleeping panthers.

Rage of the Ancients – Every 5 seconds, the Avatar of Bethekk increases her damage dealt by 5% and her haste by 10%. The effect stacks up to 25 times.
Vengeful Smash – The Avatar of Bethekk leaps into the air then lands with a Vengeful Smash, inflicting 40 Physical damage to players within 20 yards.
Camouflage – The Avatar of Bethekk camouflages herself, becoming invisible to players. She then creeps behind a random target and performs Ravage on them.
Ravage – The Avatar of Bethekk ravages her current target, inflicting 150% of a normal melee swing and causing the target to bleed for 11 damage every 2 seconds for 10 sec.

Pride of Bethekk – Kilnara's sixteen panthers are in a dark slumber, but can be awoken by any offensive ability or spell once the battle begins.
- Gaping Wound – The panther leaps on a random player with extended claws, inflicting 75% of a normal melee swing and causing the target to bleed for 11 damage every 2 seconds for 10 sec.

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