It is strongly suggested that you bring a 5 man party for this quest.

There are serveral tactics to handle this quest, a good tactic would be to move everyone onto the lower part of the mountain. The tank should now pull him down there and turn his back towards the brick wall of the mountain (to avoid being knocked off) and the rest focus on DPS (some might have issues with the add spawn, if you wipe on the add, try focusing the dps towards them as a priority and then continue on the demon).

I know many of you are highly interested in the 16 slot bag given by this quest - The chain is fairly long and starts in:
Horde: Fallen Hero (Swamp of Sorrows, questname ""The Disgraced One"")
Alliance: NPC in Nethergarde Keep (Blasted Lands - sends you to Fallen Hero)

Chain:
1.The Disgraced One (Given by Fallen Hero)
2.The Missing Orders
3.The Swamp Talker
4.The Stones That Bind Us (Given by Fallen Hero)
5.Heroes of Old
6.Heroes of Old (Reward: Shard of Afrasa)
7.Kirith (level 55 elite. Given by Fallen Hero)
8.The Cover of Darkness
9.The Demon Hunter (Loramus is at 61,66)
10.Loramus
11.Breaking the Ward
12.The Name of the Beast (Talk to Lord Arkkoroc. He is inside the Temple at 76,42)
13.The Name of the Beast (Kill Hetaera)
14.The Name of the Beast (Go back to Loramus)
15.Azsharite
16.The Formation of Felbane (Galvan is in Stanglethorn)
17.Enchanted Azsharite Fel Weaponry
18.Return to the Blasted Lands
19.Uniting the Shattered Amulet (Kill Sevine, Grol and Allistarj using weapon given by Galvan)
20.You Are Rakh'likh, Demon (Rakh'likh can be found around 47,23 Blasted Lands)

- Merowlin

It should be noted that you get all of these quest rewards; you don't have to pick just one.

Just took this guy down tonight with a 5 man group. He was pretty hard but not as hard as some people are saying.

Group composition - Me - 60 Warrior (prot spec), priest (shadow spec), warlock (using imp), mage, druid. Between us we had about 6 epics - all in pre-MC and in most cases pre-Tier 0 set gear.

So, how did we do it?:

1) Preparation. All casters had a couple of mana pots, health pots. Priest was SS'd, warrior and druid healthstoned. I used dense sharpening stone, strength, agility, spirit scrolls, elixir of superior defense and the usual priest and druid buffs. My gear is reasonable for a non-MC warrior, 5k health unbuffed.

2) Tactics. Summon Raz, warrior taunt him off whoever he goes for, everyone jumps down the hillside to the rune together, taking care to heal once down as the drop can take health off. Warrior tank him with back to hillside so that when he performs his knockback you don't get smacked off the side.

3) Weaken. Use Fel Salve at the start of the fight as you wont get time once his adds pop up. We got the warlock to do it as his spells weren't doing much damage.

4) DPS. Warrior sunders to 5, and everyone lays into him. Mage using arcane missiles, warlock shadowbolt, druid and warrior hitting with large pointy things.

5) Add 1. At 50-60%, Ilifar turned up, and the druid tanked him in bear form while the lock and mage brought him down. I got hit with a knockback here but with my back to the wall I just bounced off and didn't get hurt. Taunt Raz back onto warrior again and continued.

6) DPS 2. With Ilifar dead, I'd tank dps'd Raz down to about 45% in the meantime. We carried on with DPS til he got to around 20%. (Had to re sunder around this point.)

7) Add 2. At this time, Felcular appeared. We got the druid to tank him and self heal while the rest of us continued to smack Raz. Mana was low here, the priest had all but run out, so I whacked on shield wall, healthstoned, and bought the priest some mana up time. 10%

8) Finish him!. Our druid died then, but we'd held them off long enough. Execute along with the support dps finished Raz off, and I dragged Felcular off our warlock. With only one target left, he quickly went down.

9) Victory! ;)

Okay to clear up something: He is not immune to ""all magic"" or at least not as far as I can tell. He IS immune to shadow, fire, fear, and banish (so as a warlock.. I was freaking useless) arcane magic DOES seem to work on him though.

I also strongly, strongly suggest a 5 man party for this.

Also a tip: If you died but your fellow guildies who were so kind as to help you with this quest did not die, but are waiting at the bottom of the mountain for you, **please be careful about teleporting up to the top to resurrect without warning your party first** as it will pull everyone nearby up with you. I wiped our group once that way ;)

The walk through above is amazing, so follow that :) Good luck!

Also let it be known that he is immune to frost spells as well.

The Usher that summons you to the top of the mountain is located at 48, 23.

Not sure if this has changed after the previous comments were made, but he's not immune to shadow at least. He is, however, immune to DOTs, just like Allistarj, Sevine and Grol are. Shadow Bolt, Mind Blast and Mind Flay work fine.

Razelikh can be kited all the way to Stonard for those looking to solo this quest. While immune to all snare/slowing effects a simple speed enchantment or arathi basin foot armor reward will prevent him from gaining ground.

The Descent:

The mountain can be safely descended on the northside. The first jump down, to the rune of return plateau, will be the only one to cause damage. Once there drink a potion to recover the lost health and tag Razelikh to maintain the kite.

From the rune of return plateau move to northern most edge. Avoid the rune itself or you will be teleported to the entrance of the tainted scar. You will be able to spot the next highest ledge, and land there by walking backwards off the plateau. Directly east of the ledge will be the obvious safe route down to the road. Be sure to tag Razelikh immediately after making the third jump.

The Kite:

Once at the base of the mountain the kite is fairly straight forward. Razelikh's only ranged attack mana burn is the best time to tag him. It is slow casting enough to tag and get out of range.

Illifar so long as not damaged/tagged will bug out at the zone change between Blasted Lands and Swamp of Sorrows. He will simply stand at the arch, but will aggro if you come into range.

Stonard:

Stonard's west entrance has 4 Stonard Grunts level 65. Two at the gate, and two patrolling both bunkers. Simply circle the north bunker until the guards have Razelikh's attention. These will more than enough to finish the boss.

However when Felcular spawns he will go straight for you. Retreat into Stonard itself and run past the blacksmith on the northside of the camp to the northwest gate. There two more grunts will finish him off quickly. Be sure to tag him once so you can loot him.

Level 63 Hunter using defiler's chain greaves without aspect of the cheetah used this method successfully, patch 2.2. Kept pet on Razelikh with growl disabled tagging during mana burn casts with distracting shot rank 6.

Good luck and happy hunting.

This is a quest in a chain of 23 that runs pretty much all over the map.
However, it all starts with the Fallen Hero of the Horde.
(Hat tip to Xeir for the initial connectors between chains.)

Technically, it's four chain quests that tie into each other:
Chain 1:
1. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2784 Fall From Grace
2. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2621 The Disgraced One
3. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2622 The Missing Orders
4. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2623 The Swamp Talker

Chain 2:
1. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2783 Petty Squabbles
2. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2801 A Tale of Sorrow
3. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2681 The Stones That Bind Us
4. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2702 Heroes of Old
5. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2701 Heroes of Old

Chain 3:
1. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2721 Kirith
2. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2743 The Cover of Darkness
3. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2744 The Demon Hunter
4. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=3141 Loramus
5. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=3508 Breaking the Ward
6. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=3509 The Name of the Beast
7. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=3510 The Name of the Beast
8. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=3511 The Name of the Beast
9. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=3602 Azsharite

Chain 4:
1. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=3621 The Formation of Felbane
2. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=3625 Enchanted Azsharite Fel Weaponry
3. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=3626 Return to the Blasted Lands
4. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=3627 Uniting the Shattered Amulet
5. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=3628 You Are Rakh'likh, Demon

Completing the entire chain gives you the following:
103,685XP at appropriate level
Shard of Afrasa
Enchanted Azsharite Felbane (Dagger, Sword or Staff)
Necklace of Sanctuary
Demon's Blood
Demon Hide Sack

You know, all the people saying ""it's easy to duo/ solo"" at level 70 are missing the point that this is a quest you're supposed to be doing in, say, your mid-50's.

Well, YEAH, if you're about 10-15 levels higher than the average quest-doer, of course it's gonna be easier. And if you're a warrior it's gonna be easier than a soloing squishy whose attacks he's immune to, go figure.

Not a helpful comment, so much, though.

I understand the frustration, Wendy, but honestly I don't think that's what most folks mean by their comments. (Some probably do.) The quest is still surprisingly challenging even at 70 and even though it got nerfed down from a 5 person quest to a 2 person quest. Though any 70 should be able to manage it solo, it isn't a cakewalk, and so people posting their results is still helpful to others trying it, especially as it can be hard to find someone out in Blasted Lands nowadays who will lend a hand.

Here's my story. On my 70 frost mage I'll admit I took a few tries. My gear is decent but not awesome; 778 +dmg from gear. The demons are (all?) immune to frost and fire, but will take damage from arcane and, surprisingly, the water elemental's water bolt. Also immune to any of the other utility of my spec, no slowing or freezing for a shatter crit.

The main issue for me turned out to be the punt, though the first attempt I screwed up by summoning the water elemental before heading down the cliff to the lower ledge per the usual strategy of then using the cliff to limit the punt. He aggrod on the water elemental and I lost important DPS time waiting for him to kill it then come down to me.

The next time I got punted off the mountain anyway.

But the actual horizontal punt distance seemed relatively small, like if I stayed on the top at the center I'd still land on top. So the next time I did, and the punt was just far enough to still knock me down. I landed on the lower ledge and he came down to me ... and then de-aggrod and went back up top. WTF?

That made me not trust the go-down-the-cliff strategy for its reliability so for my finally successful try here is what I dwowhead:1,id:

* Summoned him and stayed standing at the orb. He didn't even aggro me from that range.

* Summoned the water elemental and started combat. He then came over to melee the elemental, and I swung around to his back side, still right next to him so when he aggrod on me and did the punt, I'd have as much room as possible to still land on top of the mountain. Also summoned my Netherwing Ally (from trinket) which did additional arcane damage.

* Got him to where he summoned Ilifar. I switched to him (left pets on Rakh'likh) with one channeling of arcane missiles, which killed him.

* Not sure if it was connected to Ilifar dying or the elemental, but right at that point Rakh'likh aggrod on me and punted me. I landed still on top of the mountain.

* Cold Snap and summon another elemental. Resume arcane missiles. He summoned Felcular. Kept fire focused on Rakh'likh and downed him, then killed Felcular. Felcular has very few hit points though so some folks might want to just kill him first.

By the way, if you do decide to go down the cliff to use it as a backstop, don't believe the guy who said you don't take fall damage if your enchanted felbane weapon is equipped. You do.

Hope this helps others. Even with all the caveats (now I'm 70; they nerfed it) it still felt like an accomplishment to me to solo him, after having done it several times pre-BC with five man parties.

If you are fighting him on one side and he begins to channel his knockback, simply walk to the other side -- it only hits the area right around him and it's very easy to get away.

Zorba mentioned this already, but I thought it deserved its own post. There is no reason to be hit by the knockback at all. Fight him on one side, move to the other during the long cast time, move back after it goes off.

The rune which will portal you up to the altar can be found at 44.7, 28.8