Soloed this at 59 as a tankadin. Getting to the end was no problem, but using every trick in the book I couldn't even get close to killing Redpath the Corrupted, so I sat down and started reading everything I could, seeing if maybe there was a strategy that might work to kill him.

Of course, eventually he despawned, but for whatever reason, him and Davil both appeared in the town square and I was able to complete the quest.

Long story short, if you can solo your way to the end, you don't actually need to defeat Redpath, just wait for him to despawn.

Appears to be bugged. The event is going on endlessly on Malygos-US. Davil and Redpath are nowhere to be found, and the spawns of Bloodletters, Betrayers and Defenders never stop.

Did it as a level 60 Unholy DK, barely. I popped every trinket I had, used up all my engineering oddities, even bandage-healed the NPC I was supposed to protect.

AOE spam for the non elites, plus letting the NPCs tank the elites. I didn't even have to touch the super-ghoul, the NPCs all aggro'd him and killed him in seconds. As for my ghoul, I just set him to agressive and watched ""Batmuncher kills bloodletter"" pop up every now and then in my combat log. Other classes could probably pull off similar strategies.

For anyone who wants this to just finish up quests, I soloed it easily as a 72 BM hunter. Just watch the guy in blue and keep saving his hiney and you'll be okay. Note though, I thought they meant to put the relics in the town square, but the guys appear up the road by the old wagon.

Just a warning!

Here's a tip for any lower level paladins having trouble: Turn Undead works on Redpath the Corrupted. I almost beat him without it, but died at the last minute. The second attempt went even worse, and I figured it couldn't hurt to try Turn Undead. It made the fight completely trivial. Just make sure you pull him away from the bloodletters, as a 4 pack of those aren't much fun.

Not sure if someone already said this but if you want to solo and dont mind waiting awhile Then at the end when the boss comes just die once then when you respawn just sit back and watch the protecters die for about 10 mins and if will auto complete the quest for you, or at least that is what happened for me pretty easy.

Is something wrong with this event? Everytime I drop the ""Relic Bundle"" nothing spawns, even besides the wagon? Any suggestions?

So here is a tactic for Paladin (did it as 62 retadin):
Ill focus on the last part... (the fight before is a cake-walk compared to the last one).
Be sure to use Seal of Wisdom and BoW - change them during fight if you are full on mana.

Try to pull him with Hand of Reckoning when he is in combat, you wont pull anymore mobs. Use Exorcism immediately. Cast Holy Wrath and use your nuke combo (Judgement, Divine Storm, Crusader Strike). Cast HoJ after the stun from HW disappears. Continue with damaging him and when you are low on hp/mana use Repentance. Wait for CDs and repeat. If he resists Repentance, use Turn Evil. It takes while but you will surely make it.

Remeber, the key to this fight is to CC him as much as possible.

Regards,
Elnius, Paladin of Saurfang (!)

i'ts still bugged ...

1st guy just disappeared and redpath ( the one u need to protect ) got instagibed by something ... he just died in one second without any npc even near to him.

gm said its known issue bla bla ..

really annoying to do entire chain ( which is awesome btw ) and then u cant complete last part of it.

ah well blizzard ... working as intended.

Finished as a level 67 holy paladin. The key's pretty much what huldu said to do: pull Redpath away from the other undead.

Pretty much just ignore the deaths of the regular soldiers and keep to protecting the main quest npcs. I don't think this is soloable if you're wearing cloth or leather, but perhaps if you stayed away from those Bloodletter elites you may have a chance.

If you hang around for awhile after the battle you'll get a little bit of dialogue that'll make most people choke up a bit. It's very... bittersweet.

80 holy priestess solo, managed to get it done.

First attempt, I showed up and there were ghosts fighting all around. This means the event had already been triggered or was bugged. Left and waited until the following Tues reset.

Second attempt. No ghosts, hope it works. Placed bag. Waited. Waited. Some ghosts showed up and started fighting. Nuked a few here and there, but no sign of the principals. Wait, nuke, wait, nuke.

Finally after about what must have been a full 5 minutes I spotted Davil Lightfire near the main road fight zone. He's a little more ornate than the others but not easily found. You have to click around on the friendly NPCs a lot to make sure you're not missing him. Heal, nuke, heal, nuke, occasional self heal, nuke. After what seemed like a full 10 minutes Horgus showed up. He wasn't transparent like the other ghosts. Starts fighting Davil. Heal Davil, nuke, heal self, nuke, Horgus down. Nuked & healed a few more then Davil suddenly died. I was watching him and it was obviously scripted.

After another full 5 minutes of nothing but ghostly combat, I spotted Captain Redpath also near the main road fight zone (also much NPC clicking and running around to make sure I didn't miss him). Kept him focused. Nuke, heal Redpath, nuke, heal self, rinse & repeat. After another full 5 minutes, somebody on a horse made a 2 second appearance and one shotted Redpath. Oh great. Nuked & healed another 4 minutes (seemed a bit less) then the Corrupted Redpath comes strolling down the main road, easily seen in black armor. Took him down (he pulls lots of his friends to him but not really a problem). Once the Corrupted Redpath goes down the fighting stops and the ghostly armies disappear.

Then there appears a friendly NPC ghost just as you enter the town on the right, and Redpath in the center by the fountain. Talked to the friendly first, then Redpath. He was forgiven and the quest satisfied.

I wasn't partied so I couldn't mark the principals once I'd found them. Some sort of marking macro would have been helpful, but /focus worked ok.

One of the better and more compelling plotlines in the game. If you can trigger the event, just take your time. Patience and more patience is needed here. Be prepared to spend at least 30 minutes in the fight, most of the time waiting for key NPCs to show up. Never potted, rarely below 50% mana. Good luck avoiding bugs.

Quest was easily solo'ed as a mostly blue/purp geared lvl 80 DK and took less than 15 minutes. No bugs! I just ran around killing everything in sight, dropping Death & Decay with Pestilence to aggro all groups. Had to heal once using death pact and resummoned the minion. Thanks for all the previous comments. They actually helped.

I'd like to know what I'm doing wrong here

1) place bag to start event
2) kill mobs til Davil comes out
3) protect Davil til Horgus comes out, then kill Horgus
4) keep killing til Redpath comes out
5) ?

I'm a level 80 ret pally doing this for AD rep. No problems 1-2 shotting everything, mobs have no hope to kill either of the NPCs I'm protecting. Approx. 45secs after spawning, Redpath just ""dies"" even though there were no mobs attacking him and I have him healed up. Now I have been clearing mobs for 45+ minutes, Redpath the Corrupted never shows. What am I missing? Any tips here much appreciated as I've been trying this for two days now.

If, like me, you're thinking of coming back to do this at level 80, do it. The rewards won't be great, and the mobs aren't anything like as challenging as they would be at the intended level (recommended tactic: keep an eye on the NPCs and kill everything in your path), but it's still fun to do and I found it had the atmosphere down just right. The constant spawning of attackers, even if they weren't hard to kill, got across the chaos and confusion of the 'real' battle very well. Have fun rewriting history.

this quest can be bugged by the simple expediant of you starting your quest and then someone else coming in and starting theirs. this happened to me. 10 mins after startng my quest someone else started theirs and both his and mine wound up bugged now all it does is spawn the undead an bloodletters been over an hour waitin for more hopin it would finish but no luck. be sure to shout out you are doing quest to prevent this happening to you! GL te ya'll!

Mine worked fine, and the beginning is very easy. Both showed up within minutes. But...I was a surv hunter and I tried taking on the bloodletters, but there just too many. I FD'd and they went onto Redpath and he subsequintly died. I tried 2nd time, same result. Waiting now till 80..

If u want the quest for ur 50's character and already got a high lvl character on the same server and account dont even bother thinking about a group. Just bring them both in darrowshire, initiate the quest with ur low lvl and logout immediately to login with ur high lvl. After clearing up, which i did easily with a hunter lvl 80, and killing corrupted Redpath u can login again with ur low lvl, talk to Redpath and complete the quest. Works with Alliance-Horde characters as well.

Soloed with a 57 priest, everything up to the corruption of redpath was easy, I did get Redpath to 7k hp by alot of kiting etc, tried to solo him several times but I wasnt able to kill him, but my last try resulted in the quest bugging and completed ^_^

tip: Shackle works on Redpath

soloed as a lvl 55 druid. just waited for despawn was really easy.

I managed to solo this as a lvl 57 tankadin, for anyone outside a paladin I wouldn't reccomend doing so unless you have good armor and a way to consantly heal yourself. The first part is easy with Davil, especially since he's nice enough to heal you. When corrupted Redpath appears you need to taunt him away and into a group of non-fighting defenders. Then just wail away with them making sure to stun him so you can heal. Do not do anything to maintain aggro at this time as he hits hard and you don't want to take it single handedly.

Note: You can die and if/when you do I reccomend rezzing a good ways away so you can heal and eat and buff. Keep in mind it does take about 2 minutes for him to die since he has 34k health. Just plan wisely.

Yea, if you want to do it on the level you're supposed to(IE, around 60), bring some CC. Did it with a 56 assassin rogue and a 60 destro lok. The lok was basicly spamming fear and the rogue was using kidney shot whenever it was off CD.

I can't seem to find the Town Square! I tried everywhere, around the fountain before the town hall, but it's not working!

soloed this as a 62 warrior tank, got to the end by having the disciples of the silver hand heal me once in a while. Pulled Redpath over to a group of 4 defenders and had him only aggro me, got him down to about 40% and the defenders just held his aggro while i rez'd and healed and got to him before he killed the last defender and was able to kill him, I only had about 3% health left. Keep in mind I did this without any buffs or potions. If you fail just wait for the defenders to respawn and try agin.

the quest works for me now.

I was actually inspired to go back and do this questline today after seeing the Cranius video. I had apparently never finished it on either of my 80s, so I took my feral druid.

It is of course easily soloable at 80. The thing that got me was the never-ending spawn of scourge, and imagining how it must have been for the Darrowshire citizens to try to fight what was really a losing battle. Every time I'd kill one 2 or 3 would spawn to take its place, and it went on like this for a good 10 or 15 minutes.

At appropriate level, and pre-nerf, it must have been a hellish quest to finish.

Although tagged as a raid in your quest log, this does count for Loremaster of EK. The followup Hidden Treasures does as well.

I attempted to do the quest today and placed the relic bundle in the town square. Unfortunately, the relic bundle despawned after a minute, and the raid never began.

I believe that it is still bugged.

Well, as an 80, the killing was never challenging. The hard part was always situational awareness: noticing what spawns where. It's hard to defend Lightfire or Redpath if you don't notice them spawn. Likewise, unless you look close, you'll never see the bosses you have to kill in time to win. That's one of the downsides of transparent ghostly targets. At a distance, you can't even see them unless you notice their movement.

The key for me was to program the http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/npcscan.aspx NPCScan addon to alert me when they spawn. That also allows you to target them.

Once you have them targeted, if you still can't see where they are, a focusing lens like this https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=41367 Dark Jade Focusing Lens is very handy. Zap it, re-orient yourself, and run the direction the beam was heading.

Kinda cool seeing hundreds of zombies on the ground afterwards. Reminds me of the pre-LK zombie invasion world event. How fun was that!