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Comment by djomlah

This is gonna be a pain, i can feel it

Comment by Drakkuz

Does anybody know why Disciple of Humility is not tracking at all?

I've done almost all with Pelagos but it's not counting

Comment by snivels

Does anyone know if this will be an account-wide achievement? Like, if I earn it on my Kyrian monk will I just be able to buy the mail set on my Kyrian hunter for anima without having to redo it?

Comment by Dab86

I have done all 10 fights so far with Pelagos, Kleia and Mikanikos, you can see these fights on my youtube. Below I also Added the description for how I did Craven Corinth of Humility with Mikanikos. Plus I added how to cause the red slime to deaggro, thanks to my community on twitch and youtube we have found another method to easily defeat Mad mortimer on humility see link below.

Link to playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzpisTlcwrLzA_WnngcChDRdwIt5GVKYu

Echthra updated fight on Humility with Pelagos and master of the path
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SLgm_BStCc

Any fight against Mad Mortimer to get red slime to deaggro
What causes this to occur is that one of the summoned slimes spawns clipped into the arena. You can use the 4 pillars, the brazier stands, flowers stands or any part of the arena that causes the slime to clip into it. I apologize for any confusion it may have caused anyone. Thank you to Banshee Erano for letting me know

I did add the new mad mortimer fights on humility now that he has been patched

For Humility with Pelagos and Master of the Path- What causes this to occur is that one of the summoned slimes spawns clipped into the arena. You can use the 4 pillars, the brazier stands, flowers stands or any part of the arena that causes the slime to clip into it. I apologize for any confusion it may have caused anyone. Thank you to Banshee Erano for letting me know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfFiju2Vjpk

For humility with Kleia 9.1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcmyffpZ_VE

For Humility with Mikanikos using charm of focus 9.1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RIek0p9lM4

Strategy for Mikanikos on Humility Craven Corinth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKuaYe2O5kc

required equipment - Vial of lich frost

required charms -all of them, however wait till after he teleports to use the charm of discord as this can break your crowd control on him

Important time stamps for boss using the boss timer

1:20 boss is at center

1:15 Use your first heal

1:10 boss teleports to center to begin casting fan of desolation

1:03 fan of desolation ends

48-50 seconds boss teleports to furthest pillar to consumer anima orb. I recommend freezing him at 50 to 49 seconds on the time

15 seconds remaining he will teleport to center of stage and use his second fan of desolation

Currently Bron has an energy glitch that starts fight with no energy however he generates a ton of it now, this may be patched. I recommend starting the fight to the right as pulling straight forward may cause him to leave a puddle near center making it hard to approach and dps him during fan. Instantly engage using melee and kite him backwards in a U shape (make sure to grab energy orbs if possible) and back to about center by 1:10 on boss timer ( 10 seconds after fight starts). He will teleport to cast fan of desolation allowing you to use your second hyperlight beam. Make sure to also be in melee range and use overhead smash. At 1:03 on the clock he will stop fan of desolation and engage you in melee, you will be able to use your third hyperlight beam. This will cause you to get tossed out but make sure to do this no later than 55 seconds on boss time. At 50 to 49 seconds remaing in the fight use your vial of lich frost to freeze him as he teleports at 48 seconds remaining to the further pillar away from you (so if you are bottom right pillar he goes to upper left and so on). Equip your charm of discord as you approach and hit him with your hyperlight beam. Once again you are now engaged in melee. Use overhead smash, melee and hyperlight as it is up and a good time to once again use your heal. Make sure to move boss back close to center around center as he will teleport at 15 seconds remaining for his second fan of desolation. Finish him off at this point

Comment by sngmtokos

Here is a cool tactic on cheeseing Thran'tiok as Mikanikos.

This fight is unkillable due to him doing high melee damage so here is how to beat him in 15-20mins by tanking through his enrage.

Required items: deep echo trident

Required charms: Charm of focus (mandatory), charm of discord (optional)

Start the fight by breaking all the phylacteries as soon as possible. Try to conserve your energy and not pick up any orbs.

Upon breaking the last philactery die to terminal destruction or any spell ( last wave of death blossom according to my tests) then also die as mikanikos but do so on TOP of your golem. Make sure u have atleast 1 energy while you die. Wait for 1-1.5sec and the boss will turn orange then even when considered dead you can re enter the golem and the fight will reset. The boss will have no abilities aside his normal necrotic bolt and you can spam him to death with lasers and trident damage.

PS use passive energy gain from charm to re enter your golem after dieing to enrage. Gather ranged orbs when you are playing as mikanikos and use your damage reduction to tank 2 casts. You can tank an unimitagated bolt as well for a total of 3 casts. mikanikos can throw you on top of boss to grab the melee orbs since you are immune for 1.5sec but that is risky and not really required aside from speeding up the process. Re-entering your golem too fast or slight before a cast of necrotic bolt can make the boss to reset. Make sure you took the damage and the boss is standing still then re-enter.

Good Luck. Hoping for nerfs soon.

edit: completed the achievement 26/02/2021 proving its 100% completable https://simplearmory.com/#/eu/twisting-nether/sngmtokospl/achievements/expansions

Extra tip: You can use turnip toy after a kill or wipe at the start of the arena to build up energy orbs and stack the haste buff. (1hr CD).

Comment by JimjimFR

With a lot of tryhard and rage, i have completed the achievement. Sorry in advance, i'm French, so my english might be questionnable.
(I'm new so i can't post link but here it is, just remove the space.)

https ://i.imgur.com/KzSwmpv.jpg

Most of the fight can be done in the "intended" way, i have no idea how to do the others without abusing some mechanics / abusing the area, or going past the timer.
Charm of discord is a total waste, it almost never proc, and when it does, it's a 55 damage dot. Yes, 55.

How to tryhard :

- If you have very few currency to try, you can "farm" them in the area next to the WB Valinor, there are 4 chests around him that provide 1 for each chest. And you can be invited to another group for the WB, and refarm them on their layer. Lots of elites are here, so be careful.
- If you die during a fight, your character is in the middle arena. You can use this item : Turnip Punching Bag and start stacking the haste buff with Bron while recovering the area with the small orbs, making the energy recovery way easier while having super high haste to start the fight. To be honest, i have done all the fight without this (Except one - Corinth). I figured it out on the last one. 1 hour cooldown, so use it with wisdom.

https:// i.imgur.com/lFlWkAZ.jpg

PELAGOS :

- Most of the fights can be done easily, he's clearly the easiest of all 3. I almost never used a charm.
- I "cheat" on Echtra by going on the edge of the arena (near a blue fire). The little spider can't touch you, doesn't move, and the AoE blind from the boss doesn't even touch you.
- Mad mortimer just... vanished during the fight, and i got the reward. (I don't know how.)

KLEIA :

- Same as Pelagos, most fights can be done in the intended way. Having the charm that give you some ressource every 5s is really nice.
- Thran'tiok was harder than i fought (because you can't go in melee range without being destroyed) and i used all the charms (Except the useless dot one), and kill the totems on this order : the one on the right first (The big bolt), then the death blossom (So, no damage during the channeling), the dot, then, the huge and lethal AoE. I used the spear to interrupt the casts (Try to watch the cooldown in order to have one ready for the big dot and the big AoE). Use the leap to do some tiny damage without going to melee range.
- Mad Mortimer can be done too, i don't think having the 10 stack fire buff is necessary. The big thing on this fight is to maximise the cleaving. So, try to lose the red and the green so you have a small window of cleave before the charge. And if you can't, try to use her primary attack when both of them are next to each other during the charge. When you can use the Archon ability, you need to keep the "Instant death AoE" when the red summon the little blob, while having both the red and the green stack. So you have 50% crit, and you can destroy them. When the blue pop, you can use the same "try to los" strategy.

MIKANIKOS :

- Mikanikos is clearly the weakest, while being the clunkiest to use. Bron doesn't have health, he's big and slow, and it's hard to keep the haste stack because he dies from any AoE, even if you're not inside. But you can abuse the "D.Va" part of his ability to cheat death on some mechanics. The charm that give ressources is almost mandatory because it allows you to have ONE energy, but enough to go back to Bron without having to pick an orb.
- Most of the fight, as the previous one, can be done on the intended way, but it's way harder.
- Thran'tiok seems completly impossible without cheating, considering you can't go in melee range, and his only range attack has a cooldown. I did the strategy from sngmtokos comment, witch consist of destryoing all totems, and dies on top of Bron, just to go back inside during the 1,5s where the boss reset.
- Mad Mortimer was hard, and i did almost of 5 min fight pass the timer. All i did was just melee attack + fist spell the red, just to get stacks and orbs, i only used the beam when the small adds were there, and/or all of them were on a line. It's like Kleia, you have to abuse the los to get them stacked. Unfortunately, you can't kill them during the timer, so use all the speed charm and the speed boot to get distance because they can be kited. Just enough time to get energy orbs, go back to Bron, laser, and repeat. You have to los the red spell absolutely, and don't stand too much on the blue patch on the ground.
- The hardest fight for me was Corinth, because he can kill you extremely quickly in melee range, while regenerating during the orb phase, and you can't cheat death the timer because he's too fast with it. I used the tryhard thing to get 99% haste before while having lots of orbs, so i can't spam all the spells, including the heal, to gain time. I used all the charm, and the nova equipement. Why? Because he uses all his abilities every time at the same moment, and the freeze one allows you to make him not go on the regen orb. (He teleports around 48s left on the timer.). You have to learn the exact timer, and you can easily use the 25s freeze equipement to regain energy, and have a little distance to have your laser back.

Good luck :)

Comment by Rouxee

Finally finished this today.
Would be very curious to know how many people have...

Comment by DzonatanGavert

When patch 9.1 hits we'll have access to 40 more renown levels to buff our combatants.
I guess that is blizz's way of saying they wont be nerfing/fixing encounters.

Comment by Reddott

How does this achievement only give 5 Achievement Points?

Comment by Emarka

After obtaining this achievement on my paladin, I have just now unlocked the Path of Ascension on my priest. I can confirm that this achievement is NOT account wide -- despite having the necessary anima for all the cosmetic back pieces, my priest is unable to buy any of them.

If you wish to unlock the set appearances on alt, you'll have to complete this achievement...again.

Comment by rocktorock

Straight to the point.
Fight Mikanikos vs Corinth (Humility Difficulty)
The key to success is to bring Corinth to the middle of the platform and, when ready to squeeze the save of Mikanikos and poke, immediately jump into Bron and immediately the number 1 to strike.
The most important thing is not to be distracted by anything. Save only - change target (Tab) - number 1 (Hit) = Repeat
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ve2SbcFHQA

Comment by Sovereignt

Venting here about this s**t bear with me

This Path of Ascension is the biggest load of bulls**t that I've ever had to do in Warcraft, The fact I need to first of all get the SERVICE MEDALLION to get into the path arena, THEN farm resources to get the f**king charms THAT ARE A ONE TIME USE!. but oh no if I want to make them I need to spend hours farming mobs that have LESS THEN a 60% drop chance for the materials!
If I can get into the arena, the fights are so RNG based if you have crap luck you are screwed out of your charms, your service medallions... what else? my soul binds get stronger? yes by 500 dmg at level 80 renown? that's legitamently useless. I am 4 off from the achievement and it has been the most miserable rage inducing stress this game has caused me besides PvP. IF I MANAGE TO GET this godforsaken achievement I need to spend ANIMA! 12500? How much F***king grinding does Blizz want me to do? are you desperate for subs? no other F***king covenant has to do this cancer! Lastly I have to say F**K this indie game company and their stupid systems. Fix your game blizzard. Oh I mean activation sorry

Comment by Darnhald

I understand why some of the kyrian being forsworn. These challenges are really hard!

Comment by Wolfyw

well blizzard patched the cheese for this achievement so i'm never doing it now, it's almost like blizzard doesn't want people to play their game

Comment by rogar

New Mikanikos dual Bron bug - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1fNPZGasHY.

Comment by niordra

So I actually managed to kill Thran'tiok on Humility fairly easily with Mikanikos, long after she had enraged.

I used all charms, even though the only one really needed is the Charm of Quickness, to maneuver through the Death Blossom waves.
I also used the Deep Echo Trident to interrupt Terminal Destruction, but after she enrages she can't be interrupted anymore.

I destroyed the right phylactery first and only used Hyperlight Beam on her, and then the phylactery of Death. The only time I used the melee attack on her, was ONCE between every Death Blossom wave, backing up a bit to make sure I went through the space.
I did that so I could generate more orbs for the enrage phase.

Once she enraged, I tried to stay alive and always close to an orb. I took the hit from Terminal Destruction, got an orb with Mikanikos and hopped right back into Bron.
I kept hitting her with Hyperlight Beam and voilà! Victory.
If Bron fell before she cast Terminal Destruction, I'd just get an orb and hop back in quickly.
If you find yourself with no orbs, you can always try to get a hit between the Death Blossom waves.

TL;DR
Reach enrage phase.
MAKE SURE YOU'RE ON BRON WHEN SHE CASTS TERMINAL DESTRUCTION.

Comment by niordra

Killed my final bosses; Mad Mortimer, Echthra and Corinth, on Humility as Mikanikos.

Again the Charm of Quickness is mandatory.
(but use all of them, you don't even need to farm for their mats if you have Medallion of Service)

The whole point is to try and survive their enrage phase, by swapping between Bron and Mikanikos.
You die as Bron next to an orb, you grab it with Mikanikos (don't forget to use his second ability to reduce incoming damage) and hop back in , you try and smash the enemy once with Bron to generate more orbs, rinse and repeat.
If you can get far enough to cast Hyperlight Beam on them, so much the better.

For Mad Mortimer, it would be nice if you could Hyperlight Beam the little slimes so they don't bother Bron.

For Echthra, keep trying to Overhead Smash anything for the extra orbs, even the adds. You can't stay on Mikanikos for more than 2 seconds if he gets poisoned. You need to keep getting into Bron ASAP.

And a couple of notes for Craven Corinth;
I only avoided the first 2 waves of his AoE attack, trying to get in a couple of hits as well. I took the last hit and just grabbed an orb with Mikanikos to continue.
I tried to Hyperlight Beam him as fast as I could when he consumed the orb, so that the last phase wouldn't last as long.
I lastly used the Ring of Warding at enrage to keep him off me for a couple of seconds, just to 'breathe' and get Bron away from any red anima puddles he'd be in.

I WOULD have used Herald's Footpads to counter all of the above, but they aren't FIXED yet, are they? >.<

And now off to farm that 12.5k anima needed to BUY the tmog set I earned (?)

Comment by bldvX

Blizzard, it's about time you react to this:
"Attained by 0% of profiles"
Why create content that is impossible to achieve I wonder.

Edit:
Finally managed to get this achievement thanks to these methods:
Kleai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdsEd_gkyHk
Mikanikos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1fNPZGasHY&t=39s

Comment by Orlwick

So I found a stupid cheese strat that works on every boss here.

Step 1 - Start any fight as Bron. Throw Mekanikos out of the mecha, then jump off the platform.
Step 2 - DO NOT CHOSE A SOULBIND. Start an "easy boss" as your own character (I did Kalisthra for Pelagos, and Athanos for Kleia and Mekanikos). The boss will spawn, but you won't get teleported into the arena, as you don't have a soulbind.
Step 3 - Start the real fight you want completion on with the right soulbind. Get the interrupt if you are not playing as Pelagos.

You'll have 2 bosses at the same time. Pull and kill the "easy" one effortlessly, and you will get completion for the ONE YOU STARTED LAST instead. Note that dying as Bron/getting out of the mech will pull the other boss. Also, note that you'll have the enrage timer of the "real" boss (the one you won't fight), so you'll have a shorter timer sometimes. (it's still VERY easy).

Comment by nq99

I think it's complete BS this is not account wide. It's not like if you do it on another character you get a different experience since you are doing it on another class. It's literally the EXACT same you already did....

Comment by demodecus

Path of Ascension may be the worst content in any game I've ever played. There are more guides on how to exploit than actually playing the content.

Comment by s4mourai

who ever made poa, get fired and never get a job at any game ever again.

Comment by Qoko

For anyone new to PoA here's a small recap how to work on this from start to finish, what of the Humility achievements is the skill and grind achievement of this minigame and how to approach it.

Level it up to rank 5 before you really do anything so you can just get all opponents, equipment and charms as you go.
Unlock the Humility difficulty first: this is essentially achieved by defeating every boss on Courage, Loyalty and Wisdom first. For this I recommend Pelagos on most, and learn fights as you go (note changes on Wisdom!).
As you do this, you'll unlock all opponents and equipment and get them as you go.
Once Humility is unlocked, you should have the know-how to finish all PoA achievements but this, It's How You Wear It and Master of the Path.

This is the grind based achievement. Master of the Path is the skill achievement. I'd recommend focusing on Master of the Path. Point is, any successful encounter you achieve for that, will count for this for the respective soulbind. Check out that page for a slightly more elaborate version of this comment.

Comment by AngelBloom

Craven Corinth as Mikanikos (working as of 9.2):
1. Wear as much versatility items as you can.
2. Don't pick any power, Jump in Bron, pick Alderyn Humility, start the fight, when ejected as Mikanikos, jump from the platform.
3. As yourself, pick Athanos on Courage and click the bell - this will spawn Athanos.
4. Pick Bron, use all Charms, check brazers to be lid, pick Deep Echo Trident, choose Craven Corinth on Humility.
5. To start the fight, use the trident on Athanos (this way Corinth won't be pulled and you're gonna fight Athanos all the time).
6. Don't use the trident when Athanos is in shield form;
7. When ejected as Mikanikos, pick only one energy orb and go back in Bron (maximizing dmg).
8. Ignore Athanos's shockwave (just get hit by it and proceed).
When the time is over (Craven will be engaged too). At this point you should be at 2%, 3% of Athanos's HP. Just jump 1, 2 more times in Bron and spam those last hits.
Good luck.

Comment by Qoko

Whilst almost every encounter on this list is somewhat trivial once you understand how the fights work, I'd thought I'd share my strategies for Craven and Mad Mortimer: Master of the Path with Pelagos and regular strategies for the other two. For what it's worth, I've never used the reset abuse and whatnot, just dumped all Medallions in crafting Charms and using Charms once I had a tactic that worked on these harder bosses. Did both achievements in ~3-4 hours.

Craven baseline notes

Use Vial of Lichfrost baseline. Proccing it at the right time voids the Anima orb altogether.
Use the Vial early and dps him a bit at range so you take as little damage before he jumps to the middle.
Post-middle phase, hit him twice, then pop Lichfrost and ignore him until he teleports. Repeat that after the second teleport too.

Pelagos vs Craven (Master of the Path)
Start with the cd reduction memory and root him, pump a lot of damage here using Vial when he gets close. Pelagos does have the hardest time avoiding the middle phase, so I opt to become immune during it. Pop Vial just before the orb, then Unleash so he comes back to you. Root him twice again (own ability and Vial) to trigger the middle phase. Repeat that; if you're about to hit Humility, take distance and pop the immunity memory asap, then finish it off. Even with good execution it's close.

Kleia vs Craven
Because there's no way to really abuse the increased crit on any adds except for the Anima orb, key with Kleia is pumping as much damage as possible taking damage but not enough to die, finishing just before Humility. During the middle phase, dps him until he does the 'cover 2/3' and use the jump to avoid it. Jump to him after the orb spawn, pump damage into him ignoring your own health until he goes to the middle again. Somewhere at the second middle phase Archon should become available and it's essentially a race to the finish: use the Vial one last time just before Humility and finish him.

Mikanikos vs Craven
Mikanikos is kind of similar to Kleia, but because he baseline deals less damage, there is a clutch moment at the end. During the middle phase, ignore the '2/3 cover', just avoid it by default or get hit and reenter Bron. You won't kill him before Humility: the post-Humility phase requires you to exit and reenter Bron consistently and getting one hit in, eventually being able to damage a bit more when he teleports to the middle.

Mad Mortimer baseline notes

Equipment is not as crucial here; use Lichfrost to root the adds in a clutch moment.
The key to Mortimer is to not be close to the poison boss post-charge, so you ignore the poison debuff altogether.
Second key is to hit the AoE abilities on as many boss targets as possible and preempt the poison boss charge with it in mind.

Pelagos vs Mortimer (Master of the Path)
Kleia may also work for Master, but I used Pelagos. Start with full focus on damage, cd reduction memory and get him below 90% asap. Then try to start using both the root and Unleash on both targets. At 60%, the same applies for the frost boss: Unleash is the key however. That needs to hit all bosses almost all the time. Adds are annoying, but not crucial: use Vial and the root to keep them away. Pop immunity near Humility and fire one or two more Unleashes to end it or be ended.

Kleia vs Mortimer
The key moment to getting this fight is abusing the AoE during Archon: be efficient with the frontal so you activate all three bosses before Archon becomes available. Wait until the adds spawn cast starts, then activate Archon and immediately blow up all adds with the AoE, then start hamming all three bosses simultaneously. If you do this right, they should drop like flies as the adds give you 40% more crit.

Mikanikos vs Mortimer
The issue with Mikanikos is hitting all targets with the frontal. In the first 10%, do jump out to collect some energy, as it goes too slow. Once two bosses are up, aim to hit the energy frontal on all targets at all times. This is the only way to get them low enough so that even if you do hit a clutch Humility phase, you should be able to end it before you get frozen or start vomiting; once either of that happens it's over.

Comment by gnomeregannn

I wanted to post this as a summary of the cheese/bug strategies that still work in 9.2 for anyone still struggling with this. I'd have never gotten this achievement without strats and videos from Dab86 and others, so this is a bit of a compilation of the strats I was able to pull off. I was banging my head against the wall on some of these fights as I couldn't believe they were still so overtuned at the end of the expac. I tried to beat them legitimately. But it broke me. So here's the way to beat it. As of 9.2 the following strategies work. I tried the turnip punching bag strategy but that one seems to have been disabled.

DARKMOON SEESAW METHOD:

First off, go to the darkmoon faire. Get a lot of the tiger seesaws. I got a stack of 50 because I was still fine-tuning these strategies. 20 probably works. Or however many fights you have left for the achievement. Note: This strategy does not work with the darmoon seesaw toy from your collections, as it appears they have disabled toy use in the arena due to them fixing turnip punching bag strategy. The darkmoon seesaw has to be the "consume on use" ones that stack in your bags.

Now there are a few different strategies for the darkmoon seesaw method that I've been able to strain out from all of my attempts. Of course these all rely on glitches, so sometimes they dont work but in general it's pretty reliable. For example, this first method for some reason does not work for Kleia. The first time it was posted, someone said it doesn't work for mikanikos, but that is the only soulbind that I was able to use this method on.

METHOD 1 FOR MIKANIKOS (possibly works for Pelagos but I didn't try it):
1) Pick your boss. Pick mikanikos. Load into fight. Jump off edge.
2)You'll now be your own character. Drop seesaw down. Collect loot, click "try again".
3)Now choose mikanikos again. Load into the fight. Click on the seesaw, now kill the boss as your own character.
Note: You'll know the fight is going to count toward the achievement if the timer starts right as you get on the seesaw. The timer never started when I tried this method with Kleia so I had to use this next method.

This next one is what I had to resort to in order to finish a couple of bosses for Kleia.

METHOD 2 FOR KLEIA (I think this works for really any soulbind, but I tried to only use it for the last 2 fights I needed for Kleia as it takes more time, more repairs, and relies on a decent amount of rng for the glitches to work. And, as you'll see, is quite lenghthy and complicated):
1)Pick Mad Mortimer (don't worry this doesnt have to be the boss you are trying to get credit for but you must pick him for the first portion of this method). Pick any soulbind. Load into fight. Jump off edge.
2)As your character, drop seesaw, collect loot, click "try again".
3)Pick any soulbind, load into fight, click on seesaw. As your own character now, fight mad mortimer until he is VERY low health (aim for like 5-10%. I had to learn how to play shadow priest for these fights as I was doing these achievements on my hpriest alt. Sometimes I was only able to get him down to like 25%).
4) Once he's low enough health, get yourself killed by something.
5) There won't be loot to collect as the game hasn't registered that the fight is over. Instead you'll be teleported to the starting area to choose a soulbind and boss. If you look to the arena, there should still be all 3 bosses there, but they're back at the center at whichever % health you left them at.
6) Now choose the boss you are attempting to get credit for. Choose the soulbind you need credit for (you'll actually be playing on this soulbind now, so if you're uncomfortable with the mad mortimer fight I suggest getting appropriate equipment and maybe some charms). Load into the fight. You'll now see 4 bosses in the ring. You've got all 3 bosses from mad mortimer (but notice that they're at the low health you left them at previously), and if you chose a different boss, you'll see them too.
7) Engage with the blue ice man from mad mortimer (You can try engaging the green guy but he's much more difficult to deal with. And in my experience engaging the red one, it pulls all 4 bosses at once). If all is working properly, ONLY the blue ice man will get pulled. Since he's only got about 5-10%hp from your previous attempt, and since you're not actually fighting 4 bosses, this should be relatively easy to kill him and get credit as whichever soulbind you chose for whichever boss you chose.
Note: If you have a low damage character like myself, and fought mad mortimer as your actual character well past the 2 minute enrage, he may still be enraged and hit VERY hard when you pull him the 2nd time. Perhaps just try to get him as low as possible before the enrage and die before then, even if he's only at like 50% health, it's much easier to deal with when going back on your soulbind (assuming all goes well and not all 4 bosses get pulled).

DOUBLE BRON METHOD:

This one is a bit difficult to explain, and was actually quite overwhelming to actually use as you're essentially piloting 2 soulbinds, but I'll try to explain anyways. There are videos by Dab86 you can look up but basically if you want to get credit for mikanikos and are struggling on the dps output or the bug where he starts out with no energy, here's what you do.
1)Pick your boss. Choose mikanikos.
2)Turn around and go to the training dummies. You want to spend all the energy he has, so mash 1/2/3 until he's at 0.
3)When he reaches 0 energy, launch mechanikos with the 4 button toward pelagos.
4)Very quickly click pelagos, and the dialogue to choose him as your soulbind.
5)Immediately after choosing pelagos, run to the mikanikos right next to kleia and choose him as your soulbind.
6) As mikanikos/bron, you should be able to turn around and see that your old original bron is still at the training dummies. Congratulations, you now have 2 brons to fight with. Go and right click on the old one and you can now control both of them. Be sure to pick up some equipment. Any time you want to switch which bron you're controlling, just right click on the other one.
Again, this method was too overwhelming for me to use but it may be useful to someone for something.

Anyways, I hope these helped someone. I wanted to try and compile all of the bug strategies in one place because I found myself looking at so many videos and comments/threads across too many websites. If I think of any others that I used that were helpful I'll post them, but the first 2 methods should work just fine for the time being.

If anyone from blizzard is reading this. It's unbelievable that this far into the expansion we have to use glitches in the game for a covenant minigame where the other covenant minigames are "go plant seeds and come back and collect rewards" or "serve tea and win". If you keep removing the glitches without tuning the fights properly, you definitely have your priorites wrong. Some of these fights are actually impossible without the glitches. And that's not an exaggeration. I dare you to try them.

Comment by ChamathN

If anyone from Blizzard see this.....please make this doable........
Palegos is the only one genuinely can fight, no one else have enough DPS or defence to fight on Humility.

I don't wanna use bugs to get this done. I wanna do it myself. Honourably.

Please nerf the Boses, or powerup Klea and Bronn.
Other covenants get to play gardening, dress up games and tea parties.....why kyrians suffer..

Comment by Taalmisbruik

I have 36K anima just sitting on my Kyrian shaman. The last way I could spend it is to do Path of Ascension for the mounts and transmorg. I have tried a few weekly quest earlier on in the expansion but gave up after a few ones because it was so hard and frustrating. Not even mentioning needing Medallion of service every try. Now later on in the expansion I wanted to give it another try, but just reading these comments down below just makes me not even going to try this lol.

Comment by Taurenlover

To anyone that's getting discouraged starting this achievement by all the negative comments: most of them were made before the 3rd brazier was added to the game in 9.1. This one gives 20% additional DMG and HP in addition to the 10% from the other two braziers. I did every single encounter with every soulbind without using any exploits or tricks in about 10 hours spread over two days (this actually includes my enitre playtime in Path of Ascension including every trial difficulty and every side achievement). Compared to the time investment needed for the Stitching factory or Ember Court this felt like a breeze.

Comment by nagytibi

After 9.2.5. is it account wide?

Comment by Spuggs

Thran'tiok as Mikanikos strategy without charms:

Equipment: Phial of Serenity

The concept of this strategy is to maximize damage during Death Blossom channel.
Beam on CD when boss shield is not active.
Maximize phial healing and Recharge healing.
Start of the fight, put all of the phylacteries to low health with only melee attacks. This will maximize haste stacks.
Phylactery kill order: Death Blossom > Greater Bolt > DoT > Destruction
You must weave in Smashes and melee attacks during the cast time of Death Blossom to win this. It's the only time you won't be melee'd.

Once the last phylactery is dead, you need to use Bron to soak each Destruction, so act accordingly.

Comment by Vences

If you are Brewmaster, tip for you: After being defeated, drop Black Ox Statue, loot the chest, and try again... For the next fight Statue will tank boss for you. Unfortunately, it works only with Pelargos and Kleia.

Comment by fwuffykins

Just completed Disciple of Humility + Master of the Path on 9.2.7 using the double boss and double Bron tricks described by others. Those tricks are covered by others in this thread. I recently re-subbed so all these fights and mechanics were new to me. Even with the 2 cheese strats it still took my some figuring out to get all achievements so I wanted to share what worked for me:

I would do Pelagos -> Klea -> Mikanikos for progressing through all 30 fights. For each character I picked a single boss to do the double boss trick with 10 times. I didn't need charms at any point.

Pelagos: Double Boss trick with Alderyn/Myn'ir and Trident. This fight is fast and easy with Pelagos because they have low health and you can ignore most mechanics with pelagos shield. I struggled killing Athanos fast enough to beat the Craven timer on pelagos so I switched to Alderyn/Myn'ir (it is built to be a shorter fight). Also it is usually possible to hit both of them with his big AOE attack. Even on Craven (1 minute 20 second timer) I still didn't need to use the haste buff at all and went for shield every time just to make it simpler for myself. I interrupted anima seed with trident whenever possible but I don't know if that was necessary

Kleia: Double boss trick with Athanos and Trident. Trident to pull him away from center and tank near a wall. Very simple fight with Kleia, you just need to be next to have him facing a wall so if he does the charge, he doesn't go far and cost you DPS time catching up. For his big sweep attack and charge I just walked to the other side of him as soon as the cast started then moved back once it was over. I just soaked the quake attack to not lose DPS, but you can hop away if you want. Use her retaliate ability on CD when getting hit (except shield phase) and trident for extra DPS(don't use during shield phase because even if you hit the open spot it does no damage, save for end of phase) . Energy hits 100 around the time his shield comes up to burn him down. Craven timing was tight but doable with all brazers active.

Mikanikos: Double boss trick with Athanos and Trident + double Bron trick. This one was the trickiest for me to figure out but was effective once I got it down. I used trident to pull boss to the alcove where you spawn in. Tank and spank similar to klea, but Bron is slower so you need to be more careful and give yourself enough time to dodge attacks. Because of this I tanked him in the alcove facing one way, then after a cleave/charge I would swap to the other side so that way he is always pointed at a wall. Swapping Brons before the fight starts puts both Brons at 100 energy. Key to abusing double bron is swapping constantly to maximize DPS. I would do his smash once and laser once then switch back and forth after every laser. Doing this I never had to worry about health or energy. Also using trident on CD for DPS.

For Master of the path I did all fights with Klea because her fight against Athanos is really simple. I kept missing the 1 minute 20 second timer for Craven by a few seconds with brazers off so I did double bron + constant swapping since this had the highest DPS for me.

I hope this helps others like me who still need advice/tips even with all the cheese lol.

Comment by mRshykid

Blizzard for the love of god nerf this hot piece of garbage already. Specific fights with specific soulbinds are simply just not doable. I do NOT want to cheese it and use bugs which were not intended. This &*!@ is overtuned af. To the guy who came up with PoA, I hope you never work at a gaming company ever again.

Comment by KazzakMonk

Echtra as Mikanikos is the biggest nuisance fight over here. All people went through with cheese strats that have been fixed (with invis walls) but the fight itself was NOT fixed. Blizzard, come on!

Comment by SubcoolWeeb

Did they mess up the scaling of this in the prepatch? Anyone else find yourself doing way less damage?

Comment by Detamble

Rejoice- this is now trivially easy at Level 70! I did this fully today at 351 ilevel (idk if ilevel matters or not.) At level 70 you have high survivability, rarely taking damage, and you have enough dps to easily finish each fight in time.

Dragonflight and Beyond Guide
Ignore all posts older than this one, they will only confuse you.

1) You must unlock Humility level by completing quests / upgrading your sanctum etc. Check Wowhead Path of Ascenion guide for Details. Then, you must defeat each boss at highest difficulty, with each soulbound. See below for details.

I did not bother with equipment or charms, it's that easy. You can read old posts for equipment suggestions but you don't really need any.

Kleia Notes
Do all Kleia fights first, she has by far the easiest time, as she has the best dps, although it's not hard for any soulbind. You can even do this and Master of the Path achievement at the same time, see my comment on that page. To fight as Kleia, simply go up to the boss and spam ability 1, it's that easy. See Athanos and Thrantiak notes below, however.

Mikanos Notes
Second-best dps. Still pretty easy. I never got off Bron. Just spam ability 1, use ability 2 and 3 as needed.

Pelagos Notes
I wouldn't say it's hard, but he has the lowest dps and so you should have familiarity with his abilities. Use them all on cooldown. Use his AOE abilities wisely to hit multiple targets where possible. For Nuuminuur, kill the faeraes before Nuuminuur. (Other soulbounds can just focus Nuuminuur and not worry about faeries.)

A note on Athanos
He has an attack that can push you from the platform. You can dodge it, or, put your back to a pillar.

A note on Thrantiak
Kill the phylacteries before you kill him.

A note on a strange bug
Because we have more dps than expected, I noticed a couple of times that the NPC told me I lost, when I had really won. The credit on the achievement still updated correctly. HOWEVER, the system thought I had lost, in terms of unlocks. This is easiest to reproduce on Athanos. If you kill him right as he sweeps you off the platform, you can "win" but lose. TLDR; if a boss is not unlocked for you that you think should be, check all easier bosses to ensure the game really thinks you beat them.

Comment by AVCI

Any1 know if this achievement is account-wide? Or can u buy apperance and send it to another class? (blizz acc bound)

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Disciple of Humility

Defeat all ten Trials of Humility with Pelagos, Kleia, and Mikanikos.

Criteria

	Defeat Kalisthene as Pelagos (1)
	Defeat Kalisthene as Mikanikos (1)
	Defeat Echthra as Kleia (1)
	Defeat Alderyn and Myn'ir as Pelagos (1)
	Defeat Alderyn and Myn'ir as Mikanikos (1)
	Defeat Nuuminuuru as Kleia (1)
	Defeat Craven Corinth as Pelagos (1)
	Defeat Craven Corinth as Mikanikos (1)
	Defeat Splinterbark Nightmare as Kleia (1)
	Defeat Thran'tiok as Pelagos (1)
	Defeat Thran'tiok as Mikanikos (1)
	Defeat Mad Mortimer as Kleia (1)
	Defeat Athanos as Pelagos (1)
	Defeat Athanos as Mikanikos (1)
	Defeat Azaruux as Kleia (1)

	Defeat Kalisthene as Kleia (1)
	Defeat Echthra as Pelagos (1)
	Defeat Echthra as Mikanikos (1)
	Defeat Alderyn and Myn'ir as Kleia (1)
	Defeat Nuuminuuru as Pelagos (1)
	Defeat Nuuminuuru as Mikanikos (1)
	Defeat Craven Corinth as Kleia (1)
	Defeat Splinterbark Nightmare as Pelagos (1)
	Defeat Splinterbark Nightmare as Mikanikos (1)
	Defeat Thran'tiok as Kleia (1)
	Defeat Mad Mortimer as Pelagos (1)
	Defeat Mad Mortimer as Mikanikos (1)
	Defeat Athanos as Kleia (1)
	Defeat Azaruux as Pelagos (1)
	Defeat Azaruux as Mikanikos (1)

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