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Kommentar von svaza

As it seems Merciless weapons will be replaced real soon...fair enough, still the stats on those toys are sick for a level 72 quest.

Kommentar von Teiran

The teleportation orb can be found on the right side after you enter En'kilah.

Should you die fighting Valanar, it's possible for Thassarian to finish him off if he's sufficiently low, so don't release immediately. After Valanar dies, you'll see a short scene with Leryssa, and the yellow ? will appear above Thassarian's head. If you're alive, you can turn the quest in now. If not, wait for Thassarian to despawn; you can then release and turn the quest in back at the Wailing Ziggurat.

This works as of build 8681 (July 31).

Kommentar von Klingo

Soloable as a lvl 72 Hunter with Sunwell-equip and 2/5 T5 Bonus.

Kommentar von 10524

3 good dps, or 1 dps 1 healer should do (which counts as a shunter)
not really sololable for most classes/people

Kommentar von 41999

Thassarian will tank Prince Valanar for you, but watch out Valanar does some kind of AOE damage when you are close to him.

Me being a fury warrior and another fury warrior barely beat him, we had to back out and bandage a few times.

Kommentar von 43537

Despite the actual quest being very hard technically, it can be soloed by a somewhat experienced frost mage. I just completed it by myself, here's how I managed:

Stand at the ramp next to Thassarian, as soon as you notice the Prince being hostile send your water elemental at him. The elementals' DPS is NOT going to be enough to pull agro from Thassarian. When you think you're good to go, pop everything you got. Icy veins combined with the skull of gul'dan is a huge perq here.

The second you pull agro, hit ice block instantly only to cancel it right after, this time you pop invisibility. Cold snap and pop out another water elemental. Also worth mentioning is Prince Valanar follows regular casting rules, meaning he does target the one highest on threat and his spells DO have a max range. To take full benefit of this i ran half a lap around the other circle meanwhile my elemental laid the smackdown onto Valanar, who at this time was beating on a low-health Thassarian.

Ultimately I stepped back ontop of the platform and popped my second Icy Veins and trinket number 2. If you got good enough DPS here, you'll just about manage to kill Valanar before he finishes off Thassarian. It doesn't matter at all if Thassarian dies however, but you will not last long one-on-one against Valanar.
Use pots/bandage when needed and you will win, with very tight play however. Redundant or not, hope it helps anyone.

Kommentar von klausdieter

The "AOE" is a DMG reflecting Thingie...
Standing near does no DMG, hitting him will...

Kommentar von 15702

30450 exp points gain

Kommentar von 151465

Just two manned with an Unholy DK, and Ret pally. Pally nuked himself during the first soul deflection, I had to spam death strike, use icebound fortitude and use bone shield to keep myself up. I died at around 20% left and finished him off during shadow of death. Pally got credit, so staying alive is not necessary but really helpful =P

Kommentar von Scandalone

Soloed as 71 retri

Kommentar von LinuxRules

Soloed as 72 holy paladin in T5 gear. Didn't try but probably could have soloed at 71. Just keep Thassarian alive and DPS when you can while practicing mana management. You don't have to kill him, you just have to outlive him. :)

Kommentar von Dianora

Tried solo him as a T6 pally tank. Didn't work. Thassarian never held aggro.

Kommentar von 65239

For people with only quest greens, you should definitely not try to solo it. Even duo'ing it won't be easy, depending on your class mix. Without a healer, it will be a tough fight for sure.

!Watch out! for this spell: Soul Deflection. Turn auto-attack off / interrupt your spellcasting as soon as he casts this and don't do any damage to him while he channels it. It's easy to spot this spell, he shoots a pink beam at everyone.

Tips

Let Thassarian tank at the start (read: do nothing until Valanar finishes channeling his first Soul Deflection)

Kommentar von 39258

Portal at 87.28

Kommentar von 108903

I just did the quest... its just takes a while to get to the very top

Kommentar von Fulle

It's possible to solo/two-man this quest as an Enhancement Shaman, along with pretty much any other class for company.
Gear should be a non-issue; I was able to tackle it in all greens, save a couple of blues, at level 71.

Get in there and put all of your totems down-- pop your spirit wolves, keep aggro off yourself with Wind Shock while DPSing, so that Thassarian is able to build some threat.
Make sure to stop your wolves from attacking during the "reflection".
As soon as it's over, pop Heroism, Greater Fire Elemental, and trinket(s).
Go all out-- start using Earthshock in place of Wind Shock, and he should be down in no time.
Save your maelstrom stacks for healing wave if you ever get low, but your puppies should keep you topped off for the most part.

This same strategy has also allowed me to solo almost any two/three man group quest I've come across.

Kommentar von Angelcrusher

Does anyone know how much experience you gain from completing this quest?

Kommentar von 42546

If you die why fighting him and you have to run back, don't bother if your group completes the quest. You will get credit and can talk to him for the reward at the Ziggurat. (also if you ponder too long on which reward to take like I did you can do this after he goes back)

Kommentar von anakin

If you're having problems finding where to teleport to.

Once you are inside the temple go to your right, there is a table with a white teleport.

Once you're up, go up the ramp to where the 2 mobs are guarding, kill them or not. But don't go higher, turn immediately in either direction and run up the short ramp. You're there.

The 2 portals are stacked on top of each other.

Kommentar von 246021

lol , just soloed this as a ret pally with healing gear.
Buffed with wisdom , just use wise judgment and wise on while u spamm all your other attacks.
If you see the Death knight at around 50% health or so , heal him and continue attacking.

Mana wont go down , and u will be able to down him easily and get ur reward :D

Zephira , sanguino , spanish server ;D

Kommentar von Surplusaggramar

easily soloable for many classes i diddnt even take dmg

Kommentar von 247746

Easy to solo as a Retirbution Paladin. Just let the dude who helps you, get the main aggro at first, give him a couple of heals, then just nuke away and heal yourself as the HP drops of this boss. Didn't need a shield or a onehander, just my 2-hander<3

Kommentar von reidsb

Just want to point out that the quest text is a bit off on this one. You want to enter Naxxanar by using the altar to the right of the entrance. There is no 'orb' as far as I can tell. Just go to the glowy thing.

Kommentar von Nishisa

This is what to do.

If you enter the Temple City of En'kilah (Entrance @ 84.3, 30.9) turn to your right and you'll see a White portal.

Enter it, go to the opposite site of where you're looking at.
Kill the elite then enter the portal in the middle.

Congratulations! you've found Thassarian!

Talk to him and w8 for a long time as they talk.

Then kill the elite.

Quest done! talk to Thassarian again and you completed the quest.

I've done this with a group of 5. because many people needed to do this quest.

With a healer you can do it with 2 man else you simply need 3 or more!

Kommentar von 211926

It's definitely possible to two-man this as long as you have someone healing you. Did it with a 72 arms warrior and a priest.

Kommentar von 249660

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVTf5zKduds

Kommentar von Thrizie

I managed to solo this as a 71 firemage in S4/3 gear, with a pot, 2 bandages and Glyph of Evocation. It is possible if you're careful to line of sight him without losing aggro while you wait for bandage cooldown.
Also, try to only cast things when you're next to some LoS object so you can avoid his casted spell.

Kommentar von 131549

Was grouped with a 70 mage and was going to try to 2-man this (my toon was a 72 rogue), but I'm glad we didn't.

Got to the top platform as two others were just completing this. We asked them to stay and group with us, so we did it with 4 but...I was still surprised at how hard Valanar hit...at least against leather! Think it would have been a stretch to do this with the 70 mage/72 rogue and no healer.

Good luck!

Kommentar von xaratherus

This can be soloed by a 71 prot paladin in Kara-esque gear, as long as you're careful and all your cooldowns are available. Use a combo of SoW/SoL and JoW/JoL to keep up your health and mana, burning Divine Plea as it's available. Let yourself drop to about 25% health, bubble, and quickly heal yourself back up. If necessary, repeat and use Lay on Hands at 25% the second time. The main trick is to be ready to cancel your attacks as soon as Soul Drain occurs; otherwise, you wind up beating yourself to death.

Kommentar von 246735

I soloed this as a 73 resto shaman. I let Thassarian attack and just healed him and myself. With Mana Spring, Mana Tide and Water Shield, I kept near full mana. At some point I decided I wanted to speed it up so I took one swing at Valanar and immediately got aggro. Wind Shock didn't help, as I kept having to heal myself. I got out of melee range and he pelted me with spells for about a minute until Thassarian got him back. The kill took a long time, probably at least 10 minutes.

Btw, thanks to those who gave directions for this quest. I soloed the other two elites and went back down, I didn't know where to go, lol.

Kommentar von 149883

If Thessarian dies, the fight is over. Make sure you keep heals on him periodically. You cannot finish the quest if he dies, but he resets very quickly so you can try again.

Kommentar von 97929

Soloed as a lvl70 Unholy ( 11/0/50 ) Death Knight. Used 1 health potion and rune tap once.

I just kept diseases on, and death striked every cooldown. Poped bone armor before the fight and once during the fight.

I didn't find there to be much burst, so it was quite easy, Thassarian tanked for 50% of the fight.

Blood specced DK's should find this really easy with the amount of self healing they get.

Kommentar von 99393

Soloed as lvl 76 Prot Warrior (with some trouble and all cooldown)

Kommentar von Erethzium

Solo'd with a 73 Shadow preist, in mostly blues from 70-73 Northrend instances and epics from kara/ZA.

Just DoT'd him up, then spammed Mind Blast / Mind Flay on him, switching out of Shadowform when I needed a heal. Midfight, sent in Shadowfiend for mana, then when that mana ran out, used Dispersal, and finished him off with ease.

Kommentar von 257731

Just soloed this as a lvl 69 blood specced Death Knight.
I got tired of looking for plp to join me and decided to have a go at him.
Used a health pot and was prob lucky to spawn 4 blood maggots, but it only took one shot to get him down.
Don't think I could have soloed it on my warrior or shaman...

Kommentar von sfagias

He is soloable by a Blood specced DK. Because of thassarian's improved blood aura you have increased healing done to you so your heals from either blood worms or rune tap or death strike heal you for much more. Just wach out for his soul deflection spell and stop dpsing. a health pot is not mandatory but would be good to have one just in case

Kommentar von 5338

You cannot use the teleport if you are not on the quest. I am guessing that once you obtain Cold Weather Flying you can just fly up.

Kommentar von Xandrael

Duo'd with me 73 holy priest (In full TBC Epics - around 1300 Spell Power) and 72 combat rogue (In full TBC Epics, two merc gladiator swords, the rest PvE and badge gear).

Used one Shadowfiend and one Super Mana Pot. Probably didn't NEED the super mana pot but I was WAY overhealing the rogue considering he was tanking (had 11k HP with improved fort).

I tried solo'ing it earlier by just healing Thassarian, even though his health stayed at 95% and up, at about the two and a half minute mark, Thassarian's health dropped to 0%, the mob said "Pathetic" and despawned o.O (Note, I didn't take one swing at Thassarian, this might have messed me up)

Edit: For Typos

Kommentar von Aeni

From the perspective of a level 71 Blood DK:

With my current gear and some crafted BOEs from Outlands, I had about 12500 armor w/ Frost Presence up (11.3K health), which helps to mitigate some damage. Just use your cooldowns accordingly (i.e., Icebound Fortitude, Rune Tap, Anti-Magic Shield) Basically, what you're doing is tanking the boss, so pay close attention to your health and watch out for Valanar's Soul Deflection. Spam Death Strike, keep up your diseases, queue up Rune Strike as much as possible and if you took up Sudden Doom, try to use Death Coil during Death Trance. Rotate through all of your abilities, so that you won't have to wait for the runes to recharge, but most importantly, Death Strike as often as possible to keep health up.

I did not have to blow any of my 3+ min cooldowns or raise my minion either. Keep some health pots on hand in case you need it. Most importantly, don't panic. I hope this helps other Blood DKs if they cannot find other players to group with.

Kommentar von 247353

Fury warr, Hunter and Resto Druid And Found this to be a Peice of Cake. We let the Hunter Pet Tank, while Druid Spams Heals on Everyone. Warr simple DPS, And Thassarian Basically Soloing this Guy.

The Pink beams are a total Pain if you dont Alert the DPS.

Other than the beams, Pretty Easy Fight if you Bring a Healer Along.

Kommentar von Daggett

A strange thing happened while I was doing this quest.

While I was waiting with my group for our final member to arrive so that we could do this quest, another group came along and started it. One member of my group also attacked (while the rest of us stood around waiting for the respawn), and all members of both groups got credit for the kill, and were able to complete the quest.

Kommentar von 187326

If you decide to solo, and you die, don't release. If Thassarian, kills him you will still get credit.

Kommentar von 224179

where can i get the first quest on this chain?

i need the weapon i got the honed voidaxe from nagrand not saying it sux but it is too hard to kill the guys outside valence keep i mean i lose like 2k health and on guys in shadowmoon i only lost maybe 500? WTF!

Kommentar von 177892

This quest appears to be bugged at the moment.

People were talking about it on my server (Aerie Peak) in 1. General as I was recruiting for the quest. When my group go to the top and found Thassarian he was there, but nothing happened afterwards. He just had a grey question mark over his head and when you clicked on him he basically said "Hail" and your only available option was to click the cancel button in his text window.

Hopefully this is fixed soon.

Kommentar von 159356

Duo'd it as a 73 combat rogue (TBC blues/quest green equivalents) with a 71 arcane mage, also in quest greens. Tharassian died at the end, but as that dumbass Prince Valanar was standing there talking about what a pity it was we killed him.

Able to run to the ziggy to turn it in, quest finished.

Kommentar von caskeper

Guess I'll contribute to the mass of posts that's going to get downrated.
It ought to be fairly easy to solo him for decently geared Shadow Priests.
Though the reflected damage hurts (yes, your DoTs ticking, though applied before he casts his reflect crap, will damage you), you just need vampiric embrace up, power word: shield at every CD, devouring plague at every CD, and attempting to LoS as many of the Vampiric Bolts as possible.

Kommentar von 267084

Not clear from previous comments, but the healer is required for Thassarian. I easily soloed this as a 72 lock with a Felguard for the tank. Just chain heal the pet and Thassarian never pulls aggro. You can even throw a dot up now and then. Takes a few minutes though...

Kommentar von Greenshadow0

As I did this quest later on in the opening of the expansion, it was not as easy find a group.

I, an experienced prot warrior in t5/t6 gear, and a warlock in half merc/half t4, ended up 2-manning the quest.

This guy is not to be taken lightly, as I had to pop Lifeblood, Last Stand, and Shield Wall. And a runic health potion.

The thing is that we ignored his spell, probably for the worse, but we did in factdown him, albeit I finished with 1.2k out of 17k base health.

So in conclusion, this is easily done with a healer and must be done with care without one.

Kommentar von 267801

The comparison of the two caster's staves from the quest reward

Full comparison

Kommentar von 115982

Tried to solo as a protadin a couple of levels above. Was a bit overconfident and as a result saw the end of the fight out running away and desperately healing like a chump while Thassarian slowly whittled his health down. Valanar died before I did but the quest didn't complete, presumably because I was too far away when he bit the dust. So watch out for that.

Kommentar von 273911

Alright...
So i'm a 70 prot warrior that is going to attempt to Solo it but...
I go up there and the event won't start...
Thassarians is tehre and he just has a gray ''?'...
Anyone have this problem?

Kommentar von Ultenth

Solo'd as a 71 Unholy DK, harder than the elite encounters in HF, but easier than lots of TBC ones. If you have any kind of healing or self-healing the encounter is pretty easy. Just make sure to let Thas take a decent amount of the damage first before getting aggro, and don't be afraid to burn cooldowns/pots etc. if you really have to.

Kommentar von 275026

To the people say'n don't try to solo it if you're lvl'n up in greens - 71 dk can do it :p

Kommentar von Nekrotik

If you've been following the quest series leading up to this one without stopping, your gear might not exactly be in tiptop shape by now. I believe the only repair NPC this side of Valiance Keep is the spear crafter in Unu'pe village. He's in the hut near the dock, down by the water (not up on the hill). 77.9, 52.2.

Kommentar von Paegan

Pretty easy solo for a L72 BM hunter with a gorilla tank (L72, 15.9k armour, 10.6k hp with stamina scroll + Kibler's Bits buffs) and T4 level gear.

As advised above, I waited until after his first Soul Deflection before doing anything. Then sent in pet, popped all cooldowns, kept Mend Pet up, and pulled pet back and stopped dps when he did Soul Deflection again (only happened once). Soul Deflection is good in that it allows a few free ticks of Mend Pet, you could also pull the pet out of LoS if it's health gets too low.

Pet died just before he did, but even if it dies early I'd imagine you can just FD to put the mob back on Thassarian while you rez pet, so this is probably do-able earlier than 72.

Kommentar von masterpaik

This is quite easy if you have your shadow resist set from bc. his attacks will hit for around like 500 instead of the 2k.

soloed as a spriest wearing shadow resist set (shadow resist was at 313 with buff) had to use pet and dispersion and pop out once to heal but thats it. pretty easy

Kommentar von rotor

Fairly easy with a Hunter and Mage, once I learned to avoid casting during Soul Deflection.

We ended up vanquishing Val twice, because the question mark over Thassariann disappeared, and I hadn't turned my quest in fast enough. Turns out that was unnecessary as you can turn in this quest at Wailing Ziggurat.

Kommentar von 64664

Level 73 Affliction warlock. Did it kind of solo.
Had to use a soulstone to rezz.
Got the mob till about 10% and didnt want to wait till the elite npc killed it. Rezzed up and dotted it again. I had aggro from the mob kinda right at the start so had to keep using life drains while adding dots.

Did it with just northrend gear about 856 bonus damage.

Kommentar von Resanos

Easily soloed as a 71 Demo Warlock. Felguard, DE whenever cool down is up, was able to keep corruption up the entire time while swapping between Drain life and Funnel health. I used curse of weakness, but I'm sure any curse you wanna use will work just fine.

All in all, a fun quest line to do, with some pretty slick rewards at the end.

Kommentar von 72402

If you are doin' this at level 77+ and you got cold weather flying. You can just fly up to the top where Thassarian is.

Kommentar von 21986

Doesnt appear to be soloable as a healer. Tried to keep the elite up and just let him tank, but he takes massive amounts of damage when he tanks. He has 67k health and he needs all of that because he must have negative armor or something with how much damage he takes. You will run OOM pretty fast unless you have someone else to take aggro or DPS.

Kommentar von manowars

this is a really easy fight for a paladin(level 71 prot) all i did was when i got him to 50% health i Loh then kited him around the bottom of the circle LoS him while thrassian took him down to about 10% then i bubbled and killed him for the rest of the percentage
only thing you have to do is keep aggro and make sure hes on the plat form above

*while kiting dont run into the portal

Kommentar von fredferd

Solo'ed as a 73 Holy priest with t4 gear at best, just had to keep healing and try to stay out of FSR as much as possible to regen mana.

Kommentar von 289750

soloed this as a 73 lok.

imortant :

a)u need a pet that holds aggro vs u and the npc
so, demo with imp vw (3/3) + imp funnel is a must (if u want it easy w/o potting/soulstone,kiting) (my solo zg spec), demonic empowerment + shatter helps ofc alot. Felguard may work too, but too stressy to heal up his compared low amount of Hp, and with cleave he runs oom fast and then no more taunts.,.

if u wait too long with aggro the npc just dies like a paperdoll and the quest resets and the mob vanishes
so its very important that ur pets gets aggro asap, put imp cow in the mob since he hits quite hard on ur pet (with imp cow still 1200 on vw, though cant remember if it ws the melee or the vampiric bolt, anyway - cow wont hurt))

b) do NOT use DOTs, with souldeflection it will hurt U
so just bolt the mob , if u get souldeflection on u, stop doing dmg, and take the time to heal up ur pet (funnel, imp funnel = -30% dmg on ur pet during funnel, he needs it, didnt try w/o)
19k vw (with glyph) went down to 7k - so check his hp and heal him as often -
u have time enough - ur pets hold aggro - npc wont get dmg , u wont get dmg, ur funnel outheals the mobs dmg - so just keep cow up, spam bolts and funnel ur pet. easy as cake if u know it.

U get a +30% dmg buff from the npc, so its still quite fast even with defensive tank specs.

Kommentar von 299214

Soloed as a lvl 71 Ret pally. Made sure Righteous Fury was off and I let Thassarian tank at the start until the first Soul Deflection was finished, as someone suggested above. I went easy on dps so Thassarian kept aggro and I healed him. Had Judgement of Wisdom, Seal of Wisdom and Blessing of Wisdom on to keep maximum mana regen going.

Whenever Soul Deflection was being channeled, I targeted Thassarian and dumped all my mana through Holy Lights on him. Then I went back to light dps to regen mana.

Toward the end I pulled aggro, but he was so close to dying I didn't need to heal myself or bubble before he dropped.

Just let Thassarian tank, heal him and go easy. Outlast and you can solo this.

Kommentar von 102479

If you can Heal and you are high lvl just aggro and heal yourself, you will get many resists and a lot less dmg then the NPC, he will do the dmg for you. Worked fine for me as 77 Shadowpriest, also if i have to admit that i had shadowprotection, but i dont think that made all the difference it dependet more on the lvl i think.

Kommentar von 286076

easy q to 2-man.
i myself as a lvl 73 balance druid was gonna help a warrior (with most TBC epics 13k hp) and a lvl 71 paladin (fresh to wow and with most borean tundra q rewards and some blue lvl 65-70 TBC items)
i died at the start of the encounter becayse i took aggro :P they managed great. warrior tanking and paladin dps and heal the warrior. they were both tankers1

Kommentar von mjblink

if doing this quest post 77, do NOT try to fly up into the bottom of the necropolis like you do in naxx unless you do so very quickly. i was just casually flying up and in and was dismounted in mid-air. i was on a druid luckily, but any other class would have fallen to their death. there is a portal on the ground directly below the temple to get inside if you want to be extra safe.

Kommentar von Pheinox8

Solo'd 71 Unholy DK, started by poppin all cooldowns, when i got low shadowmelded and let Thassarian take it and continued beating on him, death strikes to heal up. Thass got low, i taunted off him and finished him up, used one healing potion thru it all.

Kommentar von 209698

Just solo'd as a shadow priest. Used all my cooldowns in the beginning to build solid threat and LOS'd/kited.

Easy quest. Make use of the four pillars around the roof.

Kommentar von 309337

Soloed as a lvl 70 Retri Paladin, only wearing quest gear.
Tried several methods, kiting, healing Thassarian, etc. but without success.
At one time when I managed to get him down to 25% a lvl 80 Horde player came along and killed Thassarian and then stood there for a while laughing at me. That really tickled my nerve.
Gave up but decided to see how long I could keep myself alive, just for fun. Used BoW, SoW, JoW to regain as much mana as possible and just brute force attacked with Judge->CS->DS (not during Soul Deflection) while keeping myself alive by spamming flash of light. Took some time but I survived the fight.
I never used consencrate since I didn't want to risk going oom. Also had concentration aura up to maximize the chance of healing myself. X)

Kommentar von 143336

the orb is to the right once you enter En'kilah. It's a bench like thing with a glowing light, walk right into it. Once you get inside walk up the stairs. And staying in this small inner circle walk up a small ramp to another glowing light which will transport you to Thassarian. You don't need to kill any mobs in there (unless to get by).

Kommentar von powdogg

Almost Solo'd as a 71 afflic lock. He killed Thassarian just before I killed him (down to under 3k health). Died once and used soulstone to continue fighting. Had voidwalker until he died halfway through battle. mostly greens and some blues.

Kommentar von alga

Did this last night solo, 71 prot pala, used LoH and shield but absolutley doable,
ive got crap gear so anyone with some decent lvl 70 gear can do it no poblem

~Alga~

Kommentar von 175243

Did this quest as a lvl 70 Frost/Unholy DW DK.
I let Thassarian aggro Valaran at the beginning. I kept dpsing / watching my aggro while Thas tanked him.
I taunted Valaran when Thas was at 10% and I started kitting Val.
(use IT & HB otherwise Thas will aggro and insta gib die) Remember to abuse bandages and Anti Magic Shell.
When I was low on health I sacrificed my pet and summoned a new one.

Kommentar von izmirstinger

Ok soloed this as a 69 ret paladin after a few trial & error runs (in terrible green questing only items). I believe that any class with the ability to heal themselves should be able to use my strategy.

Some important overviews:

DO NOT let thassarian have aggro, YOU need to keep aggro.
play defensively, don't worry about your DPS output--play with suvivability in mind. I used shadow prot aura, seal of wisdom, JoW.
Buff thassarian as he will be your main source of maintained DPS, he doesn't do much dmg and this will take a while (about 7mins on my watch)..so he needs all the buffs you can give him.
force Valanar to cast, not melee. (more details below)

Your primary goal is to keep him casting his "vampiric blood" ability and outheal it. It does about 1400~2000dmg per hit and heals him (but not for that much). If you are melee dps, you can safely melee him HOWEVER-- if he starts to melee instead of cast, BACK OUT....this will force him to resume casting (he won't chase you). This is key since his casts hit for a lot less than his melee.

When he starts to channel his soul deflection ability, stop attacking him and just top yourself off, and reapply any necessary buffs etc.

You don't have to worry about thassarian at all, and it might be a good idea to bring a mana potion if you're not too confident on your mana efficiency.

TLDR: pew pew him and pepper yourself with heals. If he hits you with melee, move out of melee range. don't attack during channel.

I hope this helps some people (sorry for bad structure, english is not my primary language)

Kommentar von eyecyou

solod this 72 enh shaman .. was cake :) took a screen shot too.

Kommentar von ThaOne

Read patch notes :P

It says that for feral attack power because they removed the feral attack power notification off weapons for other classes to be able to use with benefit, whereas they couldn't use them before.
I believe this was done in 3.0.8 but may have been the one just before.

Anyways, in-game, the feral attack power no longer shows on the weapon unless you're a druid.

Kommentar von Wisdomsword

true but if no ones there to ress you lol it's annoying

note if u die at the start release and walk back to the place the man will still be fighting if u got a mount.

Kommentar von Soldier45

I find it strange that when I died, I watched Thassarian die as well, I released my spirit and I was back at the graveyard alive. Can anyone confirm if this is normal or a bug?
Edit: Graveyard at Death's Strand.

Kommentar von 319347

Guide "How to solo as a retri paladin":

Let him he Thassarian get up a little aggro till the first Soul Deflection, then start to do Judgement and Crusader Strike. (Try to keep ur aggro down) If you should get aggro, use Hand of Salvation.
If Thassarian gets low hp, heal him.
If all goes acording to the plan you won't lose that much mana because of Judgement of the Wise.

Kommentar von 60852

Easy to solo as ret paladin, killed him in first try at lvl 70 with quest gear

Had Seal of Command and ret aura on, then i just nuked and healed myself, used divine protection, lay on hands and 1 runic mana pot

Used JoL -> CS -> DS -> exorcism and just spam them when they are off cooldown, use avenging wrath and trinkets

as said in prev post dont worry about dps you will get him down if you just keep yourself alive

Kommentar von 337668

Solo'd as a demo lock, level 70 in full glad gear (S1) and kara epics.

Basically just kept dots up, and health funneled my fel guard. Wasn't too tricky.

First time I tried nuking him and that didn't work out so well. Second try just did what I said, + life drained when I got low.

Kommentar von 283799

Done as a lv 69 unholy DK: The trick is to use Frost Presence to generate enough threat to keep him locked on you, one full dps rotation is enough for the mostpart; you then kite him around using the trenches on the outside of the ring to stay out of line of sight.

Just keep running around non-stop and after about 5 mins he'll drop to your ghoul and Thassarian. When you have to run to a trench on the other side just pop Anti-magic shell or IBF to reduce the damage while you cross; last ditch scenario just pop Death Pact and summon another ghoul (I had to do this).

It's imperative you stay out of the Prince's LoS for this or you'll just die to his vampiric bolts in no time.

Kommentar von 154224

Solod as mage! (lvl72)
nothing hard.. just used water elemantal! :)

Kommentar von solinvictus

Completed as a 71 protection paladin. 70 is probably not possible as prot since I used divine plea to regenerate mana. With shadow prot aura up, you will still take too much damage from vampiric blood. And you can't outheal it since you're not getting mana from blessing of sanctuary and seal + judgement of wisdom aren't enough to chain cast holy light on yourself (at least with prot gear).

To solo as prot pally:

Use avenging wrath and create solid aggro at the start of the fight. Then jump to the lower floor, and LoS his bolts. Use avenger's shield when it's cooldown is over to keep aggro. Use divine plea when running, otherwise you'll run oom. Heal yourself when he uses his damage reflecting ability. If he turns to Thassarian, taunt and use avenger's shield. If you keep his LoS blocked, he will only hit you with one bolt as you pass each quarter of the area. You can just dps him down when he drops to around 10k health.

Kommentar von Scoody

Did this one on my level 73 shadowpriest.
Buffed up with Shadow Protection and PW: Fortitude.
When the event started I used my Shadowfiend and I dotted him up with Vampiric Embrace, Devouring Plague, SW: Pain and threw a Mind blast.

Then I spammed Mind Flay and keeping up SW: Shield, and reapplying Vampiric Embrace when it closed in on timeout plus a couple of Mind Blasts.
Had to throw myself 2 Greater Heals, and chug 1 Super Mana Potion. At the end I used Dispersion since I was going very low, but Thassarian took him down since he only had about 3000 HP left.

Kommentar von 348745

You do need at least three people because it's not the part that you will die it's the part that Thassarian will die, and that is what you need to worry about, just kill him as quick as possible and don't steal aggro from Thass.

Kommentar von 349165

I still honestly don't see the big deal with that
"Axe of Frozen Death". My Ethereum Nexus-
Reaver pwned Northrends without breaking a
sweat. Or the "Savagery" on it, either.

Btw, believe it or not. I near-soloed this at 71.
When i was about to die, I had my shammy
girl run in and ltng bolt his ass. The basics
of tanking and spanking. When you crit, if you
needm heal yourself, if not, then whatever until
it's necessary. I didn't worry too much about it.

71 Pally.

A.D.
SoE

Kommentar von Rfvcool

Solo'd by 71 protection warrior. Just get enough threat and run around. Bandage when he casts soul deflection. Important note: do not run into green circle)

Kommentar von 31022

Feral Druids looking for an easy blue weapon should go to northern Borean Tundra, get the quest King Mrgl-Mrgl and go through his quest chain until they can use Winterfin Clams to purchase Tidebreaker Trident for only 50 clams. Feral Druids can use Polearms now, but will have to go train (Undercity/Silvermoon for Horde, Stormwind for Alliance)

Kommentar von Therulnig

Fairly simple Solo as Elemental Shaman, though requires basically every cooldown.

I did as such: Stayed by stairs, only had Healing Stream totem up - worthless anyway.

Start fight with Grounding Totem as the dialogue is ending. When he engages he will immediately Bolt, grounded, drop it again, second bolt grounded. Then Thass is in melee building threat. Drop a thrid grounding but he wont bolt again for awhile.

At this point I Flame Shocked (glyphed for longer), waited for first Deflection to be over, and dropped Flame Elemental Totem. Then I just healed Thass while my Elemental did my damage (threatless damage at that). When Elemental dropped due to suicide in next Deflection boss was at ~45% and my healing aggro was catching up on Thass. I dropped Magma, stole aggro, popped Heroism - and basically weaved Lightning Bolts and Healing Waves (keeping grounding totem on CD).

One time I jumped off stairs to LOS a bolt and heal just incase - but probably didn't need too. I also used a mana pot.

Kommentar von Rizloff

got him to 2% and died thasserian finished him off, did not get credit

Kommentar von Ophe

Solo'd as a 72 arc mage by clever use of LoS of the ramp where you walk in.

Kommentar von 64664

Level 75 holy priest. Kitted him around staying out of line of sight most of the times. Putting shadow word: pain on him while keeping myself and the npc alive. Took a few minutes but he doesn't do a lot of dmg unless you're in melee range. (3k on cloth)

Kommentar von 365423

Affliction Locks can easily solo this guy. Lvl 71

9110 health/8500mana/637 spell damage in mostly greens. Imp was out and never pulled aggro but is affected by Valanar's Soul Deflection which was a slow drain on it's health down to about 50% at fights end. Fight lasted about a minute if that.

I let Thassarian attack first and get some aggro. Dropped unstable affliction, haunt, corruption and CoA. Pulled aggro. I was standing on the edge of the upper circle and just dropped down out of his line of sight and ran around in a circle away from him. Try to land a haunt on him when you can, healed me for 1000 to 1200 or so each time but you will take more damage trying to apply it if you are not careful. Other than the first haunt I maybe dropped 2 or 3 during the fight. Otherwise instant dot the hell out him.

His vampiric bolt hit me around 2K and soul blasts for 1800. Try to keep shadow ward up, take some of the sting out of what he hits you with. Thassarian will periodically pick up aggro which is perfect for dropping haunt and dots, giving you aggro again.

Hit one pot and one bandage but really an easy fight compared to my DK doing the same tactic. Picking up aggro at distance and healing is far easier with a lock. ;)

Kommentar von hardwire666

Soloed with lvl 72 DK. using mostly quest greens. Blood spec with a couple points in frost and unholy. I used one health pot, and an armor scroll I had lying around. I tanked him in frost presence, made sure diseases were always up. Icebound fortitude, rune tap, and Mark of Blood were essential to surviving. Fight didn't even last as long as Horn of Winter. So, less than 3 min. Play for survivability, and you should be Okay.

Kommentar von 388852

Clocked easily with my 71 affliction warlock, wearing measly quest greens.

Let my Voidwalker and Thasserian take aggro for a while, whilst keeping VW alive with health funnel.

Then just kept hitting Valanar with Unstable Affliction, Curse of Agony, Corruption, and Life tap/Drain life, whilst hitting with my Shadowbolt when the 0 cast time procced, and also used Deathcoil at one point. Threw in a couple of Immolates to spice things up a bit ;D

Didn't need to use bandages, potions, or Sacrifice. Came out of the situation with pretty much full HP. Was surprised.

Kommentar von 82960

Soloed as 72 Unholy Death knight (green rubbish gear) .. as previously stated, keep him on yourself and exploit LoS. Unlike similar Horde quest - Breaking Through - Valanar won't "evade" as long as you are on the roof (be it on platform or undearneath it).

I used my stamina gear and frost presence. Started the fight with 1-2 rotations to get enough aggro, then ran down from the platform and waited for him to come, then ran across stairs and hid under another part of platform. From time to time I got hit by his spells, it's no big deal, you have ample opportunities to bandage while waiting (every 1 minute), then you have antimagic shell every 45s, I used it to quickly get 2 diseases on him and hit him with 1-2x death strike to heal. Also don't forget to use Icebound fortitude every 1 minute (as I did and still it was easy).

Good luck.

Kommentar von 391738

Here's my strategy for a Holy Priest to solo. I was level 71 in mostly quest gear.

The fight for you will have two phases- the first phase is when Thassarian has aggro, and the second phase starts when you get aggro. First phase is quick, with the second phase being the majority of the fight. How well you can manage your mana is what will win or lose you this fight.

Phase 1:
Let Thassarian get initial aggro. He will do the vast majority of the damage throughout both phases, and you won't really need to keep an eye on his health, as after about the first 30-60 seconds you will generate enough hate to get aggro. How much you heal him determines how long this phase lasts.

Phase 2:
LOS Kiting
When you get aggro, the boss mob will stay at range and pelt you with lifedrain bolts, an occasional instant shadow attack, and a channeled damage reflect. Your main tool in this fight is the two ramps. When the boss is in the middle platform you only have to nudge yourself a little below the top of the ramp in order to break the line of sight. When he is casting his only spell with a cast time, quickly break los with a few steps backward. The instant he stops casting, nudge yourself back in to los. Repeat as necessary. If he channels the reflect, just stay in los until he starts casting a bolt, then nudge yourself back down. Eventually he will get too close to the ramp for you to do this anymore, so cast Power Word: Shield and run across to the other ramp. Cast the shield because his life drain bolts won't drain life from your shield. When you get to the other ramp, just repeat the whole process.

Heal Tanking
A priest and his friends lives on his mana pool, and in this fight you need to buy enough time for Thassarian to kill the boss mob. Renew was my main heal, and the occasional Gheal, as well as PW: Shield when travelling between ramps. My best advice is to maximize both the damage you heal with renew and your time outside the Five Second Rule. Throw the occasional SW:P mana permitting.

Kommentar von 179999

Just a little side-note after you succeed, stay off the ramps on the sides of the top floor where you battle Valanar. They LOOK walkable, but you'll just...fall...and die...a very embarrassing death...and your party will laugh...A LOT! :)

Kommentar von 393611

it's realy easy quest! 3x 68lvl can done it :)

Kommentar von 203936

just did this on 74 blood dk, tanked in frost presence, didnt run around, fought him with melee and held aggro over thassarian, all i did was make sure had my ghoul out (ready for sacrifice), mark of blood on valanar, vampiric blood, and and used rune tap and anti magic shell whenever not on cd, easy.

Kommentar von Psychowolf

Should be an easy solo for any warlock. Using Voidwalker/Felguard to tank it, dot Valanar and just Health Funnel on Void/Felguard, redotting after every Soul Deflection as threat/health allows.

Kommentar von 337116

I soloed this guy as 70 ret paladin en epic gear having all the aggro

Kommentar von Rankkor

kinda unfair how the horde version of this quest is much much harder, not only we gotta kill 3 elites instead of 1, but we also lack the support of an elite DK Npc.

plus, we don't have the cool cinematic either =/

Kommentar von Armonis

Move along holy pallies. No reward here for you. >:(

Kommentar von 307130

Soloed with a resto druid lv 71. Surprisingly no matter how hard I heal Thassarian, he can always keep the aggro. Basically I just keep healing Thassarian while he does all the damage. His dps is really low, so you'll probably need a mana pot, innervate and good mp5 in order to not run oom before Thassarian finishes off the prince. However there's no feral weapon reward and the caster staves are no better than my heirloom hammer...

Also, why hasn't anyone talked about the plot...I know it's kinda obvious and all, but quotes like "It is clear I'm not welcome among my comrades anymore. I will have to find my own way, fighting no wars but my own and following no orders but my heart's" are still well written

Kommentar von 219571

LOL @ lack of feral staff.

Kommentar von s20mike

I thought this was a brilliantly written set piece - great dialogue, great drama. Really hoping to see more of the same throughout Northrend :D

Kommentar von 137673

Horde quest equivalent is to walk to Taunka'le village. Alliance version is a 3 man boss fight. Cool...

Kommentar von 368042

Horde quest equivalent is to walk to Taunka'le village. Alliance version is a 3 man boss fight. Cool...

Horde questline is also three extremely long chains :D

Kommentar von 133284

Credit to all the posters above for giving great tactics and tips. Soloed this on my 71 retridin EASILY where I failed on my 80 warlock through sheer ignorance of the fight mechanics.

Used most of my cooldowns to keep alive, but was wearing quest greens and a couple of blues, no enchants, pots, flasks etc. Just judged light with SoC and spammed flash heals. Needed a couple of big heals when I got low and popped Gift of the Naaru when it got hairy, but finished the fight with 90% health and 50% mana. Let Thassarian do most of the killing.

Kommentar von RedHazeKiwi

Soloed it on my 69 gnome death knight, I died once but had time to run back and continue the fight before the human died. I was blood so I used Vampiric Blood + Rune Tap and Imp. DS to heal back up fast, had to use a pot also, used AMS, I managed to survive the end by 'avoiding' the vampiric bolts through going down the stairs to los them. All I can tell you is, be 70, it makes the fight much easier due to the resists/misses/etc. You can still do it at 69 but it's harder and somewhat luck based.

Good luck!

Kommentar von 443634

Just solo'd this on my hunter. Here is a tip for those who bought the Cold Weather Flying heirloom.
If you die in the middle of the fight- quickly release your spirit and fly back up to the top and port up- Thassarian will still be fighting Prince Valanar and you can still get credit if you kill him before Thassarian dies. I did it and it worked! Hurrah!

Kommentar von 445398

Soloed as 69 enha shaman :-)

Kommentar von 450606

Soloed as an average geared lvl 70 prot pala.

Buffed JoW, SoW, Blessing of Sanctuary, and dps'd him down, healing when low. Regenerated enough mana from meleeing, so was a pretty easy fight, though I had to pop LoH cause I got &*!@y when he was at 20% ^^

Kommentar von friedchicken17

Failed to solo as a 72 balance druid when my antivirus program decided to take over all CPU usage.

Kommentar von rottenzombie

Well either blizzard chagned this quest or I did something wrong. I remember Thassarian used to be able to take quite a lot of hits when I did it on my main back when WLK launched. Now when I just tried it with my alt, he dies much quicker than I remembered.

Kommentar von Cheri

Soloed this as a 72 combat rogue in heirlooms but I had the cold weather flying tome.

Pop evasion and damage him as much as possible until you get low on health. The longer you last (a healing potion works great but I didn't have one), the better. When you get low on health, vanish and heal up with a bandage. At this point you want to keep feint permanently on cooldown while you let Thassarian tank the rest of the encounter.

If you have the cold weather flying tome, you're not totally out of luck if you die. I died, release, and flew back and the fight was still going. I managed to down the guy about 5 seconds after Thassarian died. You won't see the ending but you'll still get credit. Fly down to the ziggurat you got the quest from and turn it in.

Kommentar von 459097

Ridiculously easy to solo has a Death Knight. 71 Blood DK, just attack normally until he does the Soul Deflect. Stop attacking, then continue. I only used Rune Tap a few times.

Kommentar von IrinaWylder

Soloed as level 71 Ret (8/15/39) Paladin.
I couldn't find the second portal at first and cleared the room before I finally figured out where the second portal was... I should have known!
** The second portal is DIRECTLY above the exit of the first portal, just walk out toward the two guards, kill them, then turn around and find the path to the level above the first portal (See the second screen-shot in this thread).
I thought it was going to be hard, but clearing the first unnecessary zone without Thassarian was harder than the little fight upstairs. If you can heal Thass, it will surely make a difference. He went low on health a few times and I feared he would die.

Kommentar von 450890

soloed on first try with my 72 demo lock. :)

Kommentar von SolarSoda

Realizing this is several patches after the fact, here's my two cents:

I'm a level 70 demonology warlock. Felguard tanked for me, and between DoTs, Health Funnel, and Drain Life my pet and I managed to survive the Soul Deflection. I will admit I held my breath for a minute there when my pet's health got down to below 2000, so I just focused on keeping him alive and it worked. I accomplished this solo.

I will say I think Fel Armor played a role in my survivability, however small. The health regen rate may be small but it adds up, not to mention the added spell power you get from it.

Kommentar von 131638

Just soloed this with a 71 Blood Death Knight.

Let Thassarian dps a little but make sure u make some runic power then u start dpsing with Dancing Rune Weapon.When u get the aggro just spam death strike and rune tap.
If u get on low life - vampiric blood death strike Raise dead and death pact.
When he does the spell that reflects ur spells continue spamming death strike and heart strike but dont do you diseases.U could first aid while he's channeling that spell too.
Try to time some of his 2k hitting spell with Anti-Magic Shell.

Syni

Kommentar von 465054

A Draenie Hunter lvl 71, and my Draenie Shaman lvl 71, did this easily with the aid of a pet. No problem :)

Kommentar von 467522

WTH, when i go up there the guy isnt there im standing next to Thassarian and there is no guy wat do i have to do? some of my mates did came up round 2 hours before me and they said it was bugged or something because there isnt a guy to fight. :(

Kommentar von 63359

just soloed this as an arcane mage, I dont recommend you try it because its hard as hell

Kommentar von 468811

Solo as level 72 hunter just full nuked him and + if i got aggro from my pet

Kommentar von 60687

Hehe... Luv useful posts :))

I tried Dps'ing, healing Thass once in a while, and keeping JoL up.. Thass heals himself 1600-1800 from it, but takes HUGE ammounts of dam all of a sudden.. Watched him die 3 times, and decided to try tanking him myself.. :-S

Use a shield, and JoL + SoC it was very easy, as long as u move away from melee range, when he "hurts too much" :) I did this as Retri lvl 68, with Scimitar of the Nexus-Stalker, King's Bulwark (ye, ye, ye, I know, but a greed roll, + only thing useful from a Nagrand quest..) + some normal green plate and a few mail items.

To remember:

Try avoid melee range, espc. when u got ½ life, or less...
Put on Righteous fury, so Thass will hammer away, without killing himself :)

Doing it like this, you should easily could take him down :) Retri Pala's don't really need mana.. I got 33% Base mana every 6 sec. with Judgements of the Wise + Glyph of Seal of Command...

Kommentar von 201609

What's the Horde version of this quest called?

Kommentar von 292640

It is pretty comfortable solo for a Draenei Prot Pala when you know the tactics. I am a fresh from outland, just dinged level 70 in a mix of Northrend starter greens and outland quest blues/greens.

Did it throughout with Shadow Resistance Aura (for Valanar's magic attacks); Seal of Wisdom (for mana regen) and with Blessing of Sanctuary (on myself and Thassarian)

I spanked Valanar with a JoL as soon the green light went off, exactly where he stands, and that, and auto-attack were the only offensive abilities i used throughout (which felt like being level 10 again). JoL and that, combined with spam healing myself with FoL when i was at about 50% health was enough to keep aggro almost the entire fight, i think i had to taunt Valanar once. Basically, just kept Judgement of Light up as close to 100% of the fight as I could muster, saving only if Valanar was casting his damage reflect (which is obvious to see, like a pink shammy chain heal) and auto-attack for mana regen through SoW between said damage reflects.

Defensive abilities used were the Draenei Racial "Gift of the Naruu" with a 3 min cooldown and Devine Protection, talented down to 2mins. I just rotated the two of these through out the fight. I did use a mana-pot at some point, toward the end, but it was pretty comfortable, and Thassarian was at pretty much full health at the end.

Just keep up JoL, auto-attack between reflects and spam heal yourself with FoL ftw.

Happy hunting! :)

Kommentar von Tacgnolol

This quest is now super easy to solo for any class, provided you have cold weather flying (available at 68 with the tome)

Just give Thassarian a wee bit of aggro time then go to town, when you die, fly back up.

Thassarian Will still have plenty of health, took me two death as a 72 elemental shaman.

Kommentar von 483609

Solo'd this as a level 70 Paladin, just let Thassarian tank him at first, then use Avenging wrath and trinkets you have dps him down, use Gift of the Naruu ( if your a dreanei) Then every time Art of the War pops up, use it to do a flash of light! Heal yourself when he is soul channeling.. !Use bubble when needed.. and LoH when needed..

I did it without LoH!

Greetz

Kommentar von SpareSimian

Horde version of this quest is Hellscream's Champion.

Kommentar von 279230

Did it with a 69 Arcane Mage and 70 Destruction Lock, both of us in mostly greens with a few outlands blues mixed in.

We started out by having Thassarian tank him, with my voidwalker out (taunts off) and I was soulstoned. He (the mage) just blew everything in his arsenal and beat on Valanar, while I threw Curse of Doom on Valanar and let Thassarian pick up some threat lead before I launched into my rotation. When I pulled aggro off of Thassarian, I simply popped Sacrifice to soak a good chunk of the damage and continued blasting him until I died, then I SS popped and continued dpsing on him.

It took 2 tries, but it worked.

Hope this helps someone else.

Kommentar von 440499

87.00, 26.00

Kommentar von Caoso

Just solo'd as a 72 shadow priest. Keep your bubble and all dots up, watch for the damage reflect and use your shadowfiend and dispersion well and its really not so bad.

Kommentar von Aros

After activating this event by talking to Thassarian an image of the Lich King and Counselor Talbot walk towards each other. When they meet Talbot transformes into Prince Valanar. Then Leryssa and General Arlos arrive from the same side as Talbot/Valanar did.

Thassarian yells: Leryssa!
Thassarian yells: What have you done to my sister, you motherless elf scum!
Image of the Lich King says: Now this is a surprise, Thassarian. I hadn't heard from Mograine or the other deathknights for months. You've come to rejoin the Scourge, I take it?
Thassarian says: I would sooner slit my own throat. You will pay for what you did to your own men, Arthas... for what you did to me! I swear it.
Prince Valanar says: Allow me to take care of the intruders, lord. I will feed their entrails to the maggots.
Image of the Lich King says: Do not fail me, San'layn. Return to Icecrown with this fool's head or do not bother to return.
Prince Valanar says: Yes, my lord!

The fight begins. And after Valanar is dead the scene where Thassarian and Leryssa speak begin:

General Arlos says: What... what happened to me?
General Arlos says: Ugh! My head won't stop spinning...
Leryssa yells: Thassarian! You're alive!
Thassarian says: Leryssa... you... you're all right!
Leryssa says: I thought... I thought you were... dead.
Thassarian says: I cannot return home with you just yet, Leryssa. I am not quite done with the Scourge.
Leryssa says: Don't leave me again! You want to fight for your country, but they don't even want you! They sent you here to die!
Thassarian says: You might be right, sister. My obligations to my land and King have been fulfilled. but there is something that i still owe to myself.
Leryssa says: I know that look in your eye... I'm not going to be able to talk you out of this. If you die on me again...
Thassarian says: Do not worry, Leryssa. I will come back to you when I am done. Nothing in the world will stop me from coming home to the only family that I have left.

Kommentar von 153953

As of patch 3.3, Thassarian now dies after about 10 seconds of tanking. It's still soloable, but don't let Thassarian tank or he'll die and the boss will disappear.

Kommentar von 21773

Even if you die, you can still solo this if you have cold weather flying. I quickly flew back and the encounter was still going on because thassarian was still alive. Then it was easy to finish him off the rest of the way.

Kommentar von 140691

i just solo this quest with my level 72 elemental shaman.i use mana,haste totems.and i pop up the earth elemantal.elemental taunt him amazingly.i just dont do any damage to him when he does that reflect skill on me,i heal my elemental that time.it was amazinlgy easy.really really easy.just do my tactic.if you shamy :)

Kommentar von 506663

Solo'd as a 71 affliction lock in outland dungeon blues, and nr quest greens.

Started with voidwalker out, to play hot potato at the beginning with Thass for threat. Casted haunt, then corruption, CoA, and Unstable Afflic. During the first spell deflect casted Shadow ward to absorb dmg form my curses. Have ss on you, and a healthstone and health pot handy, as you will need all three. used demon armor for when i needed to cast drain life, and got healed from haunt. Death coil also helps ya last a bit longer.

Now odds are, you are going to die. When you do, rez with the ss. Start nuking Val as much as you can, and pull out your infernal. Keep your dots up, and if you are afflic, keep haunt on him at all times.use shadow ward when its off c/d for the spell deflect, and keep drain life up, and you should be good to go.

Kommentar von 284543

Pet class soloing method

Solo'd with a level 70 Unholy (3/0/58) DK wearing quest greens.

Took me a few tries, but once I got it down it was relatively simple. Up until the first Soul Reflection I just let my Ghoul and Thassarian plink away at him (after an initial white hit to enter combat).

After the first reflection I blew all my CDs including my Garg and worked on him for a bit with AMS, Stoneform, and heavy Death Strike use. When he used Soul Reflection the second time I ran away and refreshed Bone Shield.

After that I was able to 'kite' him by going down to the lower area and running left-right-left-right switching his shortest path to me between two ramps, preventing him from ever reaching me or even obtaining LoS. I messed up once or twice and popped AMS to deal with the 1-2 casts he got off before I could re-situate myself.

The first time I did this I had to Sac my pet and I didn't deal enough damage to receive credit for the kill, so your pet is instrumental here. This method should work for Warlocks, UH DKs, and Hunters, maybe even Frost Mages with the new glyph. Just make sure you have a decent threat lead on Thassarian before you begin to kite.

EDIT - Will be even easier if you have the glyph to summon your pet w/o a corpse, as you can sac your pet for an easy heal then bring him back to deal damage.

Kommentar von 515348

Pretty straight forward fight as a Demonology Warlock at level 70. Fel guard held aggro all the time, the death knight and pet dealt all of the damage (I threw couple of shadow bolts here and there) and I just kept the pet's hp topped. Not sure if there were any changes to the fight, somehow I recall him summoning some adds or something, though I'm probably wrong.

Edit: Had about 850 spell power, if someone finds use for that information.

Kommentar von 93172

tried soloing as a fury warrior and no go... he has way too much health and hits like a truck.

was about to leave after trying twice and 2 hunters showed up and we got him to 20% the first time but apparently thassarin killed himself and everything reset.

the second time the hunters took turns tanking with their pets and i ended up dying but they finished him off and i still got credit. pretty tough quest.

Kommentar von geniusdude

i 2 manned this with 2 hunters

i had quest greens and the other hunter was in mostly outland greens

we both put snake, frost, and immo trap as he said the thing about sllitting his own throat

also had well fed buffs

was HARD
took like 5-7 tries

Kommentar von ChairmanKaga

A pretty surefire method for any warlock to solo this. It should work with any spec also -- I was full Affliction but this method doesn't involve Affliction spells at all.

Get out your trusty old Voidwalker and send him in as soon as the fight starts. Open with a single direct damage spell on Valanar. This is important, as you (not your pet) must deal some damage to him or you will not get credit for the kill or the quest! (I learned this the hard way, so I got a second chance to practice this method.)

Once you've locked in your credit, do nothing but keep Health Funnel up on your voidwalker for the entire fight. Soul Reflection is your friend with this method, as Valanar stops attacking while he channels it, and you should easily be able to top off your pet during that time (the damage Voidie takes from SR is pitiful, you will heal right through it). You take no damage at all from SR, as you're not actually hitting Valanar.

Have at least two instant heals (a Healthstone and a healing potion) ready for when you get low on health, so you don't have to break off the Health Funnel for too long.

Even untalented, the voidwalker should easily hold threat for the entire fight, ensuring that Thassarian stays up (another requirement of the quest).

This method is slow (took just under 5 minutes to kill him) but it is sure. I suppose once he gets down to 30k HP or so you could just burn him down, but I chose not to risk a mistake and continued with the Health Funnel for the entire fight.

Kommentar von 295091

Solod it on my lvl 72 shadow priest really easy quest you have Thassarian there helping you

Kommentar von Behelich

Soloed as a 71 hunter w\ Tyrantus in quest greens. Nuff said

Kommentar von 227436

Easiest way to solo this is to go up there expecting to die and get saved by an ungodly lost 80 horde priest. I mean, that's what I did.

Kommentar von 468233

I got so frustrated trying to figure out how to do this quest and get to Thassarian! After taking the first portal, I killed everything in the surrounding rooms, and couldn't figure out where he was. After reading more here, people posted about taking a second portal. I spent a good 10-15 minutes looking for it and couldn't for the life of me figure out where it was. I finally found it - above the first portal.

I figured I'd make a movie of the quest from beginning to end, so that you can see exactly where the portals (or "orbs" as the quest calls them) are and what to do.

Kommentar von 285924

Not exactly sure what happened, but Thassarian died so fast that I had no hope of getting this done alone. He was dead in about 30 seconds which is several times faster than I ever remember him dying. This was after about 2 of his purple lightning attacks, during which I stayed back.

I'll try again if I can find a group, but these days, that just doesn't happen.

Kommentar von 511175

hmmm, soloed him as enhance lvl 70, i start out withearth elemental for it to tank the first 50% before lettting it die and then popped spirit wolves for the second, and healing Thassarian letting him finish him off. my totem setup was stoneclaw (w/glyph) flametongue, manatide, windfury

Kommentar von 536388

When you finish killing the guy.... Thassarian is in the top and you can turn in your quest. If he dissapears because you took to long trying to figure out which item to get.... do not panic! You can always find him back in the ziggarat where he was before.

Kommentar von lithi

Soloed as an level 72 Enhancement Shaman, wasnt hard really.

Earth Elemental to take some of the aggro
Heroism / Bloodlust came in very handy (As usual duh?)
Shamanistic Rage for the 30% damage reduction.
Feral Spirit for some extra DPS.

I could pretty much just DPS-Tank it myself, while Thassarian just keeped DPS'ng. Tried even using Wind Shear to decrease my aggro level, but no help really. Didnt need any additional help, buffs or potions at all.

Kommentar von hippossa

apparently.. no one tries to rogue solo this.. which might be a good idea btw..
but anyway.... rupture/garrote/dp can and will rock your face HARD when he hits spell deflection
saw pink beams, stopped atking, took 5 steps back.. and lost 9k... so .. yeah.. dont hit dots unless you can guarantee that theyll be off by the time he hits his next deflection

Kommentar von lectrick

In case you're wondering why the portal at the bottom won't port you up so you can help your friend finish Last Rites, it's because the portal only effing works if you have the Last Rites quest (or have completed it i guess). LAME.

Perhaps they did that to prevent you from seeing lore ahead of time? I don't know. Been through this lore on a few toons now though so it was just frustrating.

Kommentar von 212969

Naxxanar was merely a setback!

Kommentar von 517303

This quest is very easy as an Affliction Warlock. The only tough part would be that Soul Deflection will make your DoTs that are on him damage you! Easy fix: Shadow Ward right before the fight and any time you can after that. Wouldn't stop Immolate, but all other DoTs won't hurt you when that goes up.

Kommentar von 562488

Well I solo'd at lvl 71 pally in 1 epic 4 blues and rest greens. As Holy speck I found that u must attack before Thassarian does or u just wont get enough aggro on him. U can take any spells used against you if u know what your doing. All in a days play.

Kommentar von whitedragon254

Duoed by a elemental shaman and retadin both level 69. This method can be used to solo him as well.

Take the threat of Thassarian, put any damage increasing buffs on him and if you are duoing then this is much easier. Keep the threat on your self and stay by one of the ramps, have Show target's spell casting on. When you see Vampiric Bolt, jump off the ramp below, it will cause LoS. Wait a second or two before beginnning to run to the adjacent ramp, when Vampiric bolt is being casted again, run up the ramp enough so you cannot see him, this will once again cause LoS. Repeat this, and becareful as it is almost impossible to not get hit by his instant shadow cast spell.

If you can heal then use the time while he's casting Soul Reflection to healyour self up. Do not allow Thassarian to get the threat during this fight, if soloing it is entirely possible to hit him with a few instant cast ranged spells if you have them. I will say this now, This quest is a %^&*! and Duoing will allow for him to die much faster than with just thassarian or whatever pet you have smacking him.

Kommentar von longueiro12

I soloed as a 73 Death Knight, specced blood, with nothing but death strike and rune tap, with some difficulty. Wearing half quest greens and blues.
Here's what i did:
I let thassarian hit him a bit. he must've taken off around 10 or 15k off his health.
Then, i started hitting him with diseases and heart strike. Didn't summon runeblade coz it would eat me up on the reflect.
I kept at this till Thassarian started dying. Then, i pulled his aggro.
kept hitting him, now using Death Strike and Rune tap whenever it was available, Anti Magic shell at some point, and stopping damage at the reflect till he died.

After the battle, me being the lore freak i am, kept listening to the conversation between Thassarian and his sis. Because of that, i missed the chance to turn in the quest. a Mage showed up, so i helped him and noticed something. Thassarian was missing a LOT there. he got to 50% HP he had done only 5k damage. So watch out for that.

Kommentar von Aulisia

I completed it with a level 72 balance druid even with out thalassian's help.

Kommentar von iMathias

Just solo'd as a 71 resto druid, heirloom geared.

At starters it's not easy, I let thassarian do all the work at start, which isn't something you want intentionally cause of the debuff he gets. If you're healing be aware that he gets above 50% hp.

After a while I gained healing aggro. But that was easier then suspected. Since the prince only uses his spells it's not hard to outheal them. And since your healing the debuff wont matter just let Thassarian hammer away.

However... once the Prince is out of mana he'll start melee-ing, let's hope by that time Thass already gained aggro again.

From this points it's just easy since the Prince is out of mana he wont be using his spells that often.

Ps.: as druid, go melee him for free Clearcasting procs

Kommentar von 481675

Solo'd as a resto shaman with Earth Elemental Totem and heroism. If the earth totem dies, use your fire elemental totem.
Ended up needing a mana pot, but it was easy. Slow, but easy.

Kommentar von 574884

Any mage that can give me some tips? I'm a frost lvl 70 mage and I really want to do this quest, any experience that might be of help? Thanks.

Kommentar von Psychotic

Soloed as a level 74 Destruction Warlock (first try), though would be a damn sight easier as Affliction or Demonology.

Basically just done the normal Destro Warlock rotation (Immolate > Conflagrate > Chaos Bolt > Incinerate) with Curse of Elements up.

I recommend being soulstoned during the fight. I died when Valanar had 30% health, most likely because I was unaware of Soul Deflection at the time. I also was using a cookie-cutter level 80 spec and was not specced into Soul Leech.

I used the Voidwalker as opposed to the Imp, made sure to keep Shadow Ward up as well. Potions and Healthstones help, I also used my Voidwalkers Sacrifice ability. If you are a Destro Warlock specced into Soul Leech and also take note of when Valanar uses Soul Deflection, you may not die at all.

I fully expect Affliction Warlocks to solo it with great ease, Demonology Warlocks shouldn't have any problem if you use the Felguard right and pop Metamorphosis at the right time.

Gearwise, I had the heirloom shoulders and chestpiece, heirloom trinkets, a few blues from the Nexus and some quests and the rest were quest greens. I had roughly 11,300 health and 11,000 mana (buffed with Fel Armor and Demonic Spellstone).

Kommentar von llangevi

My level 70 holy-spec priest did no damage at all, but focused on keeping Thassarian alive. He was a great tank, held aggro, and I focused on keeping his health at 100% at all times. Yes, there was a sudden drop halfway into the fight, but because he was always at 100%, it wasn't too hard to recover. He won't take down the boss very quickly, so be patient, keep your eye on your mana and his health. Treat it like an instance where the 3 DPS all wiped and it's up to you and the tank to finish this guy off, with the exception that at no point did I come to any harm no matter how hard I was healing. I drank one mana pot and sent in Shadowfiend for more mana, and Thassarian won, hands down (it would have been easier if he had better DPS and if I had better intellect gear!)

As a side-note, I also have a horde toon, and I have to say, that the Alliance version of fighting a single boss where you have an NPC tank is way easier than even considering soloing 3 elites as a healer priest!

Kommentar von 448792

Soloed it as a lvl 71 resto shammy. Got dual spec and first time tried to do it as a elemental, but Thassarian died just in last seconds of fight. If you fail the q just port down and then port back up, you don't have to abandon the q. Thass will be there again. Here is how I did it:

1. Enter the portal, you will get ported to Naxxaran (or something like that). Do not attack anything, like someone mentioned elites on that floor are for similiar horde's quest. After porting inside there is another portal just above you, enter it (it's like Naxxramas and that portal to saphiron and kel). After entering the second portal you will get ported again and you will be standing next to Thassarian.

2. Get prepared, eat, drink, etc. After talking to Thassarian you will start mini in game scene but I won't do spoilers.

3. When fight starts do not attack the prince. I've set focus on Thass and started to heal him (I use healbot). After few heals I got the aggro and I started healing myself till the prince went oom.

4. That's the most important part, when he's out of mana he starts to melee attack you. He doesn't cast vampire bolts that often thus doesn't heal himself that much. That's the moment when you can start dpsing, but watch out to not go oom. I just summoned fire elemental and healed them both (elemental and Thassarian, they will need heals). I guess priest can have a problem, he didn't melee hit me that hard, but I got 6,8k armor and I used stoneskin totem as well.

Fight lasted about 7 minutes, but wasn't that hard. His vampire bolts were hitting me around 2k, was very easy to heal thru it and thanks to mana I gained from water shield I didn't have to use mana tide totem/potions. My gear is mostly ilvl138 blue items, 3 ilvl 158 blue items from dungeons and 2 ilvl90 greens from outland. Hope this helps someone.

Kommentar von 587342

I was able to solo this as a 72 ret pally - but it did take guru's elixir, kings, a healing potion, lay on hands and a lot of self healing. I used the seal of wisdom to keep mana regen up because a LOT of mana is used to take this guy down. It was tricky, but doable.

Kommentar von 589516

Soloed as a 68 Moonkin. Easiest quest I've ever done in the game!

Just go in and kill the guy, nothing to it!

Kommentar von Khord

Did it as a 71 retadin with a 70-something warrior and a 69 rogue. Not sure what they did, but I buffed all with BoK, had SoL up and Shadow Aura. I hit him immediately with JoL and got aggro. We all watched for Soul Reflection, otherwise just kept hammering away. I kept JoL up and Divine Storm, kept using FoL whenever I hit 50% health. I had to throw a couple of JoW in to get my mana up. It was easier than I thought.

I got pretty frustrated trying to do it on my own and was surprised how many people were on general chat looking for help with this. Ask and ye shall receive...if I'm around I would be happy to help someone out. I'm just happy to have that damn axe!

Kommentar von xaviergarrak

Just solo'd as a lvl 73 Combat Rogue. Started fight by using all CDs which got him down around 50%. Used a health pot the first time my health got down around 25%. When my health got low again I used Vanish and then bandaged back to full as Thassarian tanked for a bit. Then came back into the fight and between the two of us we finished him off. Depending on your DPS and health should be doable even earlier.

Kommentar von Alamandaros

Just solo'd it as a 74 Boomchicken.

At the start I popped Force of Nature and just nuked him. Immediately after his first Soul Deflection, I popped Starfall. Since I held agro for the entire fight, the rest of the fight was basically just me nuking with Starfire between SD's, and healing myself. I had to pop Innervate once, and had a mana potion for backup (never had to use it).

Kommentar von 410674

Nobody else get this quest not working?

in a group with a friend who not have q (and cba doing chain up to it)
got up to top floor and nothing happens at all.

Kommentar von 610875

No damn tank rewards on any of these starter quests lol >.<

Kommentar von 621151

Easily soloable as 74 spriest. Just nuke him, and keep shield up.

Kommentar von skyoverheaven

Solo'd by my 71 shadow priest. There was an extremely helpful comment on the first page that advised to never let Valanar melee; as long as he is casting, his damage is easily negated by Power Word: Shield and being topped up from Vampiric Embrace. In a pinch, you can Disperse and send in the Shadowfiend for mana. Didn't even have to use a pot.

I buffed up Thassarian but he was barely hurt since I was tanking Valanar. Simply DoT him up and profit. :)

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Feaster is right you cannot use the portal up to the quest area if you do not have the quest and have never had it, but if you have already done the quest you can go back in and help others do it. Done it tonight Shaman already done the quest came in and helped me do it on my rogue.

Most folks just call me "Z"

Kommentar von Allakhazam

OMG the quest is bugged and the dude wont say nothing and im frustratued

Kommentar von Allakhazam

soloed as 74 DK, all green gear dual wielding, just use ur cooldowns right and not then its not that bad.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Here's how I did it at level 70 with a 59/2/0 Blood spec:

!WARNING!
Beware of Soul Deflection as it will reflect 100% of the damage you do.
!WARNING!

Let Thassarian get aggro first. Wait for the first Soul Deflection to pass.
Attack in Blood Presence to avoid aggro. Once you do pull aggro, switch to Frost Presence.
Pop Rune Tap and potions when needed. Spam Death Strike on double-disease to keep yourself topped.
When he is at 50% health, pop your ghoul. Let him fight beside you until you get low on health, then sacrifice him.
About now you would want to remember Mark of Blood and Dancing Rune Weapon if you have them.

I finished with 90% health, but just about every cooldown on timer, except Hysteria. Mark of Blood will also help keep Thassy alive, as a bonus.

Goddam markup

Edited, May 3rd 2009 1:09am by Mazra

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Solo'd this as a level 72 prot pally. Wasn't easy.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Thanks for instructions in how to reach the place.

This is really hard to solo. Tried one time to do alone as a 74 MM hunter with good pre-LK epic gear.

The guy hits really hard and the helper died very fast.

If don't wanna waste your time, get a group or at least a tanker and be happy.

Regards.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Im confused, using quest helper, i go back to him i cant turn it in ?

Where do you turn this in

it says COMPLETE

Kommentar von Allakhazam

First, get the quest ready. Now head to the Temple City and after you get inside turn right. Get into the teleporter and notice that there's ANOTHER teleporter just over the one you just appeared from. Get into it and you will reach the summit. Talk to Thassarian. make yourself a coffee cup or something since they just go blablabla...

After the talking is done the fight start, but be careful, other people there might be waiting for it too so be ready to get it first!

Kommentar von Allakhazam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVTf5zKduds

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Let me be more specific, as I see so many groups get confused here.

When you enter the portal on the ground, you emerge from a portal in the center of a large circular area. A slight ramp leads up to a narrow middle walkway that goes around the portal.

Another ramp leads up to a larger walk that also surrounds the portal area and looks out to the areas below... you do not need to go up there unless you want to look around and get some experience for random kills. There are a few elites.

Instead, when you walk up the first small ramp TURN AROUND and look for another small ramp to the portal directly above the one you just arrived out of. This takes you to the top level and the quest end.

There is a drama to watch first. Don't approach unless you are the tank and ready to take aggro. Treat this encounter like any boss monster and let your tank hold aggro, heal the tank and try to heal the DPS. Easy with ordinary discipline, but I stayed and watched several groups screw it up by being inattentive!

The exit portal is across the platform where you have the fight.

Also you cannot bring people who do not yet have the quest. The portal on the ground does not work for them. Not sure if you can go back once you have done the quest.

Kommentar von Koolaider

This quest is currently semi-bugged at launch of Classic WotLK but it is completable. If you're having problems activating Thassarian once you're at the top of Naxxanar, the only way I have found to fix it is to get someone to invite you to another layer.

Kommentar von CrustyDad

There's a second teleport portal you need to find....Here are the instructions.

Goto the temple,
turn right as you enter
jump on the shiny blue table
You'll teleport into the floating Naxxanar citadel
Once you teleport up, there's another teleport portal immediately above you
you have to run out then turn around and run up a second little ramp above where you came in.
Now, you find Thassarian, talk to him to start the fight
You can solo it, easy fight for healers. If not sure, bring a buddy and have some pots.

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Im Tod diente ich Arthas, denn ich hatte keine Wahl. Er hatte die Kontrolle über meinen Willen und meinen Körper. Die Mitglieder des Kults der Verdammten dienen Arthas als Lebende... aus freien Stücken.

Jetzt, da wir wissen, wie wir mit den Machtworten Naxxanar betreten, können wir dieser Kultistenseuche ein Ende bereiten. Geht nach En'kilah und sucht unter der schwebenden Zitadelle nach der Teleportationskugel.

Arbeitet Euch nach oben durch und trefft mich ganz oben. Bewaffnet Euch mit all Eurem Mut. Es kann sein, dass wir da nicht lebend rauskommen.

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	Boreanischer Zerkracher		Axt des gefrorenen Todes
	Stab des entschlossenen Bettelmönchs		Furor des wütenden Drachen
	Klaue der einsamen Seele		Turm des unendlichen Geistes

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	Abenteurerbedarf von Nordend

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Bei Abschluss dieser Quest erhaltet Ihr:

500 Ruf mit der Fraktion Expedition Valianz

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