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By Falcore on 11/23/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
The order of bosses in this raid zone is:
The Prophet Skeram
Vem, Yauj, and Kri (optional)
Battleguard Sartura
Fankriss the Unyielding
Viscidus (optional)
Princess Huhuran
The Twin Emperors : Emperor Vek'lor & Emperor Vek'nilash
Ouro the Sandworm (optional)
C'Thun
*Optional bosses are, optional and do not have to be defeated to move to the next boss.
The bosses in this zone drop the "Tier 2.5" pieces. The "Tier 2.5" set is obtained from quests which all require an item from specific bosses.
A video that includes almost all the bosses in the instance can be found here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5624852307034092472 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5624852307034092472
The Prophet Skeram
Vem, Yauj, and Kri (optional)
Battleguard Sartura
Fankriss the Unyielding
Viscidus (optional)
Princess Huhuran
The Twin Emperors : Emperor Vek'lor & Emperor Vek'nilash
Ouro the Sandworm (optional)
C'Thun
*Optional bosses are, optional and do not have to be defeated to move to the next boss.
The bosses in this zone drop the "Tier 2.5" pieces. The "Tier 2.5" set is obtained from quests which all require an item from specific bosses.
A video that includes almost all the bosses in the instance can be found here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5624852307034092472 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5624852307034092472
By enotrai on 06/11/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
Ahn'Qiraj is a 40 man raid instance. It is the second hardest dungeon currently in release, coming in progression after BWL and before Naxxramas (the top dungeon).
The main reputation earned and used in this dungeon is the Brood of Nozdormu, which is earned from trash mobs and boss tokens. It is recommended that you DO NOT turn in your boss tokens until you can no longer earn reputation off of trash mobs ().
You can get your tier 2.5 drops off the bosses in this zone. These sets are 5 piece sets such as the Genesis, Oracle, Enigma, Avenger's, etc. sets. The pieces the bosses drop can be turned in to the NPCs after the first boss. Only later bosses drop these pieces. The bosses, their loot, and a simple overview:
1. The Prophet Skeram: He drops random high level epics, including the Breastplate of Annihilation. At every quarter of his life he splits into 3 bosses, 2 shades and himself. He also has a mind control ability. The general strategy is to sheep the mind controlled person and DPS down his shades as quick as possible.
2. The Bug Family (OPTIONAL): They drop random high level epics including warrior and rogue nature resistance gear. The fight consists of 3 bugs named Lord Kri, Princess Yauj, and Vem. Kri has an AoE poison volley, Yauj has a heal and AoE fear. Vem has a random charge. The order that you kill them determines the loot you get. The strategies for each are rather involved, but you can find summaries at wowwiki.com.
3. Battleguard Sartura - Sartura flies around a large room after the bug trio. She comes with 3 additional elite mobs, and drops random high level epics including nice caster nature resistance gear. Sartura and her adds have the same abilities. They have a nasty frontal attack, as well as an uninteruptable whirlwind where they fly randomly around doing huge amount of AoE damage. They must be stunned in order to prevent this from occuring. DPS the adds down until you are left with Sartura. This is a TIMED encounter, and if you do not kill her within 10 minutes she will destroy your raid. At 20% she goes into a mini-enrage and should be DPSed down quickly.
4. Fankriss the Unyielding: Fankriss drops high level epics including the Ancient Qiraji Ripper, Mantle of Wicked Revenge, Fetish of the Sand Reaver, and shadow resistance gear for warlocks. There are many ways to do this fight. Fankriss himself is very similar to the AQ20 boss Kurinnaxx in that you must alternate tanks to prevent the debuff from stacking. He has a few unique abilities that must be handled: every few seconds a large yellow bug is spawned which must be killed before it enrages or it will wipe the raid. He also has smaller adds that come and must be tanked and AoE'd down after a while. Manage the adds and the fight is your's.
The main reputation earned and used in this dungeon is the Brood of Nozdormu, which is earned from trash mobs and boss tokens. It is recommended that you DO NOT turn in your boss tokens until you can no longer earn reputation off of trash mobs ().
You can get your tier 2.5 drops off the bosses in this zone. These sets are 5 piece sets such as the Genesis, Oracle, Enigma, Avenger's, etc. sets. The pieces the bosses drop can be turned in to the NPCs after the first boss. Only later bosses drop these pieces. The bosses, their loot, and a simple overview:
1. The Prophet Skeram: He drops random high level epics, including the Breastplate of Annihilation. At every quarter of his life he splits into 3 bosses, 2 shades and himself. He also has a mind control ability. The general strategy is to sheep the mind controlled person and DPS down his shades as quick as possible.
2. The Bug Family (OPTIONAL): They drop random high level epics including warrior and rogue nature resistance gear. The fight consists of 3 bugs named Lord Kri, Princess Yauj, and Vem. Kri has an AoE poison volley, Yauj has a heal and AoE fear. Vem has a random charge. The order that you kill them determines the loot you get. The strategies for each are rather involved, but you can find summaries at wowwiki.com.
3. Battleguard Sartura - Sartura flies around a large room after the bug trio. She comes with 3 additional elite mobs, and drops random high level epics including nice caster nature resistance gear. Sartura and her adds have the same abilities. They have a nasty frontal attack, as well as an uninteruptable whirlwind where they fly randomly around doing huge amount of AoE damage. They must be stunned in order to prevent this from occuring. DPS the adds down until you are left with Sartura. This is a TIMED encounter, and if you do not kill her within 10 minutes she will destroy your raid. At 20% she goes into a mini-enrage and should be DPSed down quickly.
4. Fankriss the Unyielding: Fankriss drops high level epics including the Ancient Qiraji Ripper, Mantle of Wicked Revenge, Fetish of the Sand Reaver, and shadow resistance gear for warlocks. There are many ways to do this fight. Fankriss himself is very similar to the AQ20 boss Kurinnaxx in that you must alternate tanks to prevent the debuff from stacking. He has a few unique abilities that must be handled: every few seconds a large yellow bug is spawned which must be killed before it enrages or it will wipe the raid. He also has smaller adds that come and must be tanked and AoE'd down after a while. Manage the adds and the fight is your's.
By enotrai on 06/11/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
5. Princess Huhuran: Huhu drops the Tier 2.5 quest piece for shoulders and boots. The Huhuran encounter is a Nature Resist fight. The first 70% of her life is very straight forward and only involves switching tanks so the debuff does not stack too high. At 30% Huhu enrages and hits the 15 closest people (note: PETS NO LONGER COUNT) with a very high damage and rapidly firing AoE nature spell. High NR is needed to live through this.
6: The Twin Emperors: The Twin Emps drop the 2.5 quest piece for the helm piece. The fight consists of fighting two bosses with a SHARED healthbar, one is a caster who is immune to physical damage (vek'lor) and the other is a physical damage boss immune to magical spells (vek'nilash). The physical damage boss should be tanked with a warrior, and the magical damage one with a warrior or a warlock with high shadow resistance. The fight is one of the hardest fights in the instance and is a major trying point for guilds. More information on their wide amount of abilities can be found at wowhead.com.
7: Ouro the Sandworm (OPTIONAL): Ouro is the optional boss found between the twin emps and C'thun. He drops the tier 2.5 quest piece for the leggings. I have relatively little experience with this boss. His main abilities are a sand blast which
affects all raid members in a cone in front of him, and his bury ability, which causes him to bury underground and run under your raid for heavy nature damage. The idea is to avoid the sand blasts and his underground damage. More information on this encounter can be found at wowwiki.com.
8: C'thun: C'thun is the last and hardest boss of the instance. He drops the quest piece for the tier 2.5 chestpiece. I have no experience against this boss. The fight has 2 stages, the first stage involves spreading out and avoiding eye lasers, the second involves killing tenticles and getting out of his stomach. For more information please see wowwiki.com.
6: The Twin Emperors: The Twin Emps drop the 2.5 quest piece for the helm piece. The fight consists of fighting two bosses with a SHARED healthbar, one is a caster who is immune to physical damage (vek'lor) and the other is a physical damage boss immune to magical spells (vek'nilash). The physical damage boss should be tanked with a warrior, and the magical damage one with a warrior or a warlock with high shadow resistance. The fight is one of the hardest fights in the instance and is a major trying point for guilds. More information on their wide amount of abilities can be found at wowhead.com.
7: Ouro the Sandworm (OPTIONAL): Ouro is the optional boss found between the twin emps and C'thun. He drops the tier 2.5 quest piece for the leggings. I have relatively little experience with this boss. His main abilities are a sand blast which
affects all raid members in a cone in front of him, and his bury ability, which causes him to bury underground and run under your raid for heavy nature damage. The idea is to avoid the sand blasts and his underground damage. More information on this encounter can be found at wowwiki.com.
8: C'thun: C'thun is the last and hardest boss of the instance. He drops the quest piece for the tier 2.5 chestpiece. I have no experience against this boss. The fight has 2 stages, the first stage involves spreading out and avoiding eye lasers, the second involves killing tenticles and getting out of his stomach. For more information please see wowwiki.com.
By Yams on 09/02/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)
Need to be level 50, in a raid group, and the gates have to be opened.
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By kevin9488 on 03/23/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
Is this worth doing and spending time on? Since it has good drops, however i do not really know how long it takes to do all this, anyone can give me an idea?
By mmfuego on 06/24/2008 (Patch 2.4.2)
Do you still need to go through the the whole process of getting the entire server to open the gates? I'm wondering because I just want the Base of Atiesh for the legendary staff and as I am on the lowest population server in the world (Haomarush) and it's a PVP server to boot and I am very doubtful of my ability to convince my entire realm to spend their gold and time just so I can get the one item.
By Darkroot on 11/09/2008 (Patch 3.0.3)
Approximately 8.5k rep with Brood (Up to 2999/3000 Neutral) for a full clear - plus various rep items, such as Qiraji Lord's Insignia etc.
Keep in mind 2.5k of this comes from C'thun alone, so only clearing up to twins (the main difficulty at 70) gives a large amount less.
Also, this is as 70, meaning you get fractional rep from the lvl 61 or below mobs (but full rep for lvl 62 :) )
Keep in mind 2.5k of this comes from C'thun alone, so only clearing up to twins (the main difficulty at 70) gives a large amount less.
Also, this is as 70, meaning you get fractional rep from the lvl 61 or below mobs (but full rep for lvl 62 :) )
By viva on 11/11/2008 (Patch 3.0.3)
Easily 10 manned at 80. Twins need more people. At least have 1 lock and one pally.
By despyz on 01/19/2009 (Patch 3.0.3)
As of World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.0.8 released on Tuesday, January 20 2009...
"Reputation rewarded for killing mobs will no longer automatically deprecate. This means trivial mobs will continue to give out their full amounts of reputation on kill for the majority of cases in the game (level 70 creatures in Stratholme, for example, will continue to award the full amount of rep to level 80 players seeking to boost their Argent Dawn faction)."
This means you will get full reputation regardless of your level and regardless that the mob is gray or not.
"Reputation rewarded for killing mobs will no longer automatically deprecate. This means trivial mobs will continue to give out their full amounts of reputation on kill for the majority of cases in the game (level 70 creatures in Stratholme, for example, will continue to award the full amount of rep to level 80 players seeking to boost their Argent Dawn faction)."
This means you will get full reputation regardless of your level and regardless that the mob is gray or not.
By blahism on 01/23/2009 (Patch 3.0.8)
I was on a quest to see old Content and tonight I was able to solo AQ 20 after reading up on everything here. Took about 4-5 hours, lots of dying and lots of balancing acts to make it so. Prot Warrior 28.5k unbuffed and mostly Naxx 10 and Heroics gear but it happened. After that success I ran upstairs to AQ Temple figuring if anything I would finish getting ~400 rep to get Honored for quest turn ins. Killed first mob then ran in thinking I could try and pull only one the elite guards but ended up pulling all for somehow managed to live through fight that let me use enraged regeneration twice (dodge & def trinks ftw). Low and behold I got 3 mounts from clearing this trash! The Red, Green and Blue mount. Red mount being the achievement. So tonight after a long few hours of one man raiding I can go to bed seeing the beautiful content that was AQ and look forward to finding a group for AQ Temple. BTW, i tried the first boss and after the first 25% phase his 2 clones came in and owned me. Most definitely will bring a hunter and probably a shammy at least if not another couple dps to make a run of it and to get more people a few more mounts themselves. Nature dmg is in full force here as well as more mind control. Too bad we can't show these bad boys off in Dalaran :P
By Zionist on 04/01/2009 (Patch 3.0.9)
Including Insignia turnins, a full clear (minus Visc and the bug trio) netted me 17,000 Brood rep post-patch and about 5000 Cenarion Circle rep post-3.0.8. Two full clears would be enough to boost you from 0/36000 Hated to Neutral.
edit: not human.
edit: not human.
By aksel97 on 08/21/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
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By XKingMega on 01/16/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
This raid is VERY difficult once you get to the final 2 bosses. The Twin Emporers are a REAL PAIN. When they switch sides, and both tanks are on the wrong side, they run after eachother and begin healing. C'Thun, I thought, was harder than Thaddius in WotLK-Naxxramas. With everyone being sucked into the stomach, and nobody knowing how to get out, it seemed as if we'd never win. The beams killed the healers almost instantaneously. Be warned, this is a very hard raid, even for lv 80s. NOBODY listens when you need to tell them what to do.
By tavioturner on 06/08/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
Attention Mountain o' Mount Seekers!
If you want a little boost to your mount count, 4 to be precise, you can solo some of the 'trash' mobs at 80. I just got all 4 mounts, the yellow, the blue, the green, and yes, even the red, on my warlock running in demonology spec. There are three mobs you can pull and take on one at a time. They are the Obsidian Eradicators. DON'T try to pull the Anubisath Sentinel, as you will pull all four of them, and you will die.
So, as long as you pull the Obsidian Eradicators when they are furthest from the Sentinels, you can solo them, and I got all 4 mounts in about 30 minutes or so. After killing all 3 Obsidian Eradicators, simply exit the instance and reset. Rinse and repeat, it's that simple.
If you want a little boost to your mount count, 4 to be precise, you can solo some of the 'trash' mobs at 80. I just got all 4 mounts, the yellow, the blue, the green, and yes, even the red, on my warlock running in demonology spec. There are three mobs you can pull and take on one at a time. They are the Obsidian Eradicators. DON'T try to pull the Anubisath Sentinel, as you will pull all four of them, and you will die.
So, as long as you pull the Obsidian Eradicators when they are furthest from the Sentinels, you can solo them, and I got all 4 mounts in about 30 minutes or so. After killing all 3 Obsidian Eradicators, simply exit the instance and reset. Rinse and repeat, it's that simple.
By robspierre on 03/09/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
just noticed if you kill 1-3 out of 4 Noobish Sentinels and zone-out/zone-in, they respawn to their base 4 men group :) ..so yes, im farming Red one + reputation :o)
edit: this trick was useful because it does not limit you with the 5 dungeons-per-hour rule.
edit: this trick was useful because it does not limit you with the 5 dungeons-per-hour rule.
By Greken on 10/28/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
The temple of Ahn Qiraj gota be claimed to 1 of the coolest raids in my eyes atlest. anyway its a fairly simple raid when you clear this with a few lvl 80 friends.
the things to keep in mind are fears / poisons and knockback.
u can easy clear it with 5 lvl 80s aslong thay have gear and experiance with the raid. ofc there are maybe somone who have done it 2 man but thats simply enught insane and it would take insane time since its quite some HP to hack down on some mobs and bosses.
This raid also have its own rep faction Brood of nazdormu. my advice is for anyone who enters and clears this place is, Hold onto your boss tokens until you are neutral with the brood whic is around 4 clears. after this point trash dont give you rep anymore.
on other note with the rep is that when you turn in these tokens you also gain 500 with Cenarion circle so maxing this out can easy earn you exalted with the CC aswel and its a realy smooth way to get your Guardian of Cenarius title.
the Qiraj mounts drop in this instance aswell. Thay have a random drop rate on kinda much any trash mobs in there. The important thing to keep in mind with these are that thay do count towards the 100 mount achivment and thay can only be mounted when you are out of combat. Any time you enter combat you will be auto dismounted so if you have slacked abit and the group have pulled a boss you will most likely end up dismounted from these unless your realy far away ;P
the things to keep in mind are fears / poisons and knockback.
u can easy clear it with 5 lvl 80s aslong thay have gear and experiance with the raid. ofc there are maybe somone who have done it 2 man but thats simply enught insane and it would take insane time since its quite some HP to hack down on some mobs and bosses.
This raid also have its own rep faction Brood of nazdormu. my advice is for anyone who enters and clears this place is, Hold onto your boss tokens until you are neutral with the brood whic is around 4 clears. after this point trash dont give you rep anymore.
on other note with the rep is that when you turn in these tokens you also gain 500 with Cenarion circle so maxing this out can easy earn you exalted with the CC aswel and its a realy smooth way to get your Guardian of Cenarius title.
the Qiraj mounts drop in this instance aswell. Thay have a random drop rate on kinda much any trash mobs in there. The important thing to keep in mind with these are that thay do count towards the 100 mount achivment and thay can only be mounted when you are out of combat. Any time you enter combat you will be auto dismounted so if you have slacked abit and the group have pulled a boss you will most likely end up dismounted from these unless your realy far away ;P
By Moocifer on 01/11/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
Does any hunter know if this can be solo'ed far enough in so you can tame the Princess?
By oneru on 01/12/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
Trying to solo as a questgeared 85 feral druid.
So far I've killed Skeram and Sartura quite easily, but that's as far as I've gotten. Trash is easy though, so I can suggest everyone to go mount farming, if you haven't got them yet.
Fankriss keeps sending me into the webs, through which I can't hit back and which kills me eventually. I don't see how this would fight would be possible to solo for a druid.
Gonna try Bug Trio, Huhuran & Ouro later (if possible), will give updates.
So far I've killed Skeram and Sartura quite easily, but that's as far as I've gotten. Trash is easy though, so I can suggest everyone to go mount farming, if you haven't got them yet.
Fankriss keeps sending me into the webs, through which I can't hit back and which kills me eventually. I don't see how this would fight would be possible to solo for a druid.
Gonna try Bug Trio, Huhuran & Ouro later (if possible), will give updates.
By Obolon on 01/22/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
Soloed the first boss on a level 85 Combat Rogue. Pretty easy. It's as far as I got before wife aggro set in and I had to log off.
By Nobbel on 04/01/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
A video guide explaining how you can solo Temple of Ahn'Qiraj (aq40). Around 250gold in loot, bug mounts and reputation with Brood of Nozdormu in 1 or 2 hours time.In the video you will find a guide forThe Prophet Skeram, Battleguard Sartura,Fankriss the Unyielding and Princess Huhuran. For other information on the bosses see the description.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaLB1XF3ACE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaLB1XF3ACE
Nobbel 85 Paladin
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By Volviga on 02/14/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
Pff...I did last night, and at one moment of silence I heard some whispers...It was the first time I heard it, and it scared me to death :D No really, if you don't expect something like that...*shivers*
It was funny, though. It took me some time to get past Skeram, I skipped Huhu since she silenced me for 8 seconds and the time I wasn't silenced I was sleeping, Twins might be soloable, but I didn't want to do to much effort in it. And now I have the red mount as well...n_n
It was funny, though. It took me some time to get past Skeram, I skipped Huhu since she silenced me for 8 seconds and the time I wasn't silenced I was sleeping, Twins might be soloable, but I didn't want to do to much effort in it. And now I have the red mount as well...n_n
By yasuhiko135 on 03/20/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
I can solo all bosses in aq40 apart from https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15543 The https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15544 Bug https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15511 Trio , https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15299 Viscidus , https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15509 Huhuran , the https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15276 Twin https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15275 Emperors and https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15727 C'thun himself on my lvl 85 dk in blood spec.
https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15263 Skeram was a bit of a pain if you had a blood worm up cause he might mc you since theres more than one enemy to him and he wont mc someone whos soloing him.
https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15543 The https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15544 Bug https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15511 Trio I didn't even try cause https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15543 Yauj's https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=25807 heal is too powerful for me to dps over and i cant interrupt her more than 3 times before she casts it (first time https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=47528 Mind Freeze , second https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=47476 Strangulate cause mf is on cd, and 3rd mf but 4th mf is on cd so shes able to cast it), and because of the charge thing i get knocked like 30yds up in the air and across the whole room, and I only die from fall damage.
https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15516 Sartura is piss easy if you just kill her adds before she enrages as https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=49998 Death Strike with the https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=43827 Glyph at 100 rp can crit for 20k+ (on my dk atleast)
https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15510 Fankriss is also easy as long as you keep using https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=49998 Death Strike for the https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=77513 Shield it gives when blood spec and since when he gives you the tenth https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=25646 Mortal Wound he waits for them to fade before giving you the first again. The only thing you need to watch out for is the https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15630 worms enraging cause they will hit you for around 10k-ish (prolly a lot higher/lower) each hit.
https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15299 Viscidus , again, i didnt even try cause i cant hit him the amount of times necesary to shatter him and i dont have enough frost spells. (i am thinking of trying again though, in dual-wield frost spec with unholy presence and https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=53343 Rune of Razorice on both my weapons.)
Couldnt do https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15509 Huhuran because of the stun but next time i go i might try using https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=48792 Icebound Fortitude to counteract it.
https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15276 Twin https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15275 Emperors , pff, youd need atleast 2 people to kill these guys, maybe 2 druids, palas or dks since they all have tanking spec and physical+magic abilities.
https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15517 Ouro is really easy if you get him right up against one of the curves in the walls, that way his sweep cant shoot you halfway across the room and make you have to wait for him to surface after his burrow.
And https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15727 C'thun , I failed epicly by standing in his https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=26029 Red Eyebeam of Epic Failage :/
Very nice loot and rep an stuff for alts (scarabs and idols)
And thats the end of my wall of text :D hope you didnt get critted for too much cba damage :P
https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15263 Skeram was a bit of a pain if you had a blood worm up cause he might mc you since theres more than one enemy to him and he wont mc someone whos soloing him.
https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15543 The https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15544 Bug https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15511 Trio I didn't even try cause https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15543 Yauj's https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=25807 heal is too powerful for me to dps over and i cant interrupt her more than 3 times before she casts it (first time https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=47528 Mind Freeze , second https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=47476 Strangulate cause mf is on cd, and 3rd mf but 4th mf is on cd so shes able to cast it), and because of the charge thing i get knocked like 30yds up in the air and across the whole room, and I only die from fall damage.
https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15516 Sartura is piss easy if you just kill her adds before she enrages as https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=49998 Death Strike with the https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=43827 Glyph at 100 rp can crit for 20k+ (on my dk atleast)
https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15510 Fankriss is also easy as long as you keep using https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=49998 Death Strike for the https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=77513 Shield it gives when blood spec and since when he gives you the tenth https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=25646 Mortal Wound he waits for them to fade before giving you the first again. The only thing you need to watch out for is the https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15630 worms enraging cause they will hit you for around 10k-ish (prolly a lot higher/lower) each hit.
https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15299 Viscidus , again, i didnt even try cause i cant hit him the amount of times necesary to shatter him and i dont have enough frost spells. (i am thinking of trying again though, in dual-wield frost spec with unholy presence and https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=53343 Rune of Razorice on both my weapons.)
Couldnt do https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15509 Huhuran because of the stun but next time i go i might try using https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=48792 Icebound Fortitude to counteract it.
https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15276 Twin https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15275 Emperors , pff, youd need atleast 2 people to kill these guys, maybe 2 druids, palas or dks since they all have tanking spec and physical+magic abilities.
https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15517 Ouro is really easy if you get him right up against one of the curves in the walls, that way his sweep cant shoot you halfway across the room and make you have to wait for him to surface after his burrow.
And https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15727 C'thun , I failed epicly by standing in his https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=26029 Red Eyebeam of Epic Failage :/
Very nice loot and rep an stuff for alts (scarabs and idols)
And thats the end of my wall of text :D hope you didnt get critted for too much cba damage :P
By jprich on 03/22/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
Looked at all the comments and didnt see anyone mention this...
When did they remove the ability to jump out the window after downing C'thun?
When did they remove the ability to jump out the window after downing C'thun?
By jasmiini on 12/03/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
Ret paladin in 340ilv gear can solo all the 4 main bosses. Only https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=15509 Princess Huhuran gave me a hard time. It was pretty close, but fun actually. Did use LoH at the end. Use seal of insight, kings and heal often with 3HP WoG.
By captwasabi on 08/20/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
Had something interesting happen.
Running Temple of AQ with guildies for the gild classic raider achieve. We wiped on the twins and after releasing and running back in the door to their chamber was still locked.
Any thoughts?
Running Temple of AQ with guildies for the gild classic raider achieve. We wiped on the twins and after releasing and running back in the door to their chamber was still locked.
Any thoughts?
By TheLustful on 10/25/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
This raid amuses me enough to run it whenever I notice someone pugging it in trade chat. People still tend to think that because they're 85 (or 80), they don't need to know the mechanics of the fight and can just plow right through. While this is true for most fights, without enough frost spells, Viscidus can last an agonizing long time (I set my warrior on auto-attack, made a sandwich, came back after eating and we still weren't done). The Twin Emperors could be a nightmare to beat without proper coordination (though these days, most raids do enough dps to just ignore that). And C'thun's green laser will always be able to wipe a raid that doesn't space itself properly, and until Cataclysm his red laser would one-shot just about anyone that wasn't paying attention.
By Sway79 on 10/26/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
Is this still the only way to run brood rep or have they added anything to make it easier?
By Ordrath on 06/10/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
Quite easy to 2 or even 3 man most of this raid now. Myself and 2 pallies, 3 manned up to the Twin's fairly quick without any trouble, would say an hour but probably less since one of us had to head to SW for something halfway through. All 3 of us are 365ilvl but called it quits after the twins since we started the run so dam late at night XD
Overall a fun instance to run, the mechanics make it so even at 85 it is possible to wipe, first boss's mind control comes to mind. Bravo to blizzard to find a way to have a level 60 raid wipe a level 85 team if not careful.
Edit: Wiith the reworked talents and what not, it is now possible to solo AQ40 so long as you have some form of consistent healing debuff for the Twin Emporer fight. Was able to solo at 85 with my fury warrior.
Overall a fun instance to run, the mechanics make it so even at 85 it is possible to wipe, first boss's mind control comes to mind. Bravo to blizzard to find a way to have a level 60 raid wipe a level 85 team if not careful.
Edit: Wiith the reworked talents and what not, it is now possible to solo AQ40 so long as you have some form of consistent healing debuff for the Twin Emporer fight. Was able to solo at 85 with my fury warrior.
By faeofwind on 02/15/2012 (Patch 3.1.3)
"Your friends will abandon you."
...
Let's just say, if it's late at night and you have the game sound/music on and have previously never really had a quiet enough moment in AQ to experience this, you've been warned.
I threw my headset off after this for a bit. Creeeeeeeepy....
*Shudder*
...
Let's just say, if it's late at night and you have the game sound/music on and have previously never really had a quiet enough moment in AQ to experience this, you've been warned.
I threw my headset off after this for a bit. Creeeeeeeepy....
*Shudder*
By Greken on 03/21/2012 (Patch 3.1.3)
Very nice and cool raid indeed i never get bored with it even after about 100 runs on diffrent characters.
Here is my weekly 2 man set up
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/kazzak/Hir%C3%B8xzima/advanced http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/kazzak/Hir%C3%B8xzima/advanced
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/kazzak/Trancemaster/advanced http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/kazzak/Trancemaster/advanced
As 2x dps it goes quick.
There are realy not much tactics to share since its quite hard to fail here if you ask me.
On emperors just run into the corner behind vek nilash and burst him down (easy to out dps the heal)
And on Cthun make sure you dont spend to much down in his stumach because the second guy will get eaten just a short while after you. And if there is no one outside then the encounter will reset.
Figured i post the Ahn Qiraj music aswell here if you want to hear the tunes while going in there but i mean quite frankly wouldent it be simpler to just use in game sound? xDD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB2NCNoswHY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB2NCNoswHY
Here is my weekly 2 man set up
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/kazzak/Hir%C3%B8xzima/advanced http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/kazzak/Hir%C3%B8xzima/advanced
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/kazzak/Trancemaster/advanced http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/kazzak/Trancemaster/advanced
As 2x dps it goes quick.
There are realy not much tactics to share since its quite hard to fail here if you ask me.
On emperors just run into the corner behind vek nilash and burst him down (easy to out dps the heal)
And on Cthun make sure you dont spend to much down in his stumach because the second guy will get eaten just a short while after you. And if there is no one outside then the encounter will reset.
Figured i post the Ahn Qiraj music aswell here if you want to hear the tunes while going in there but i mean quite frankly wouldent it be simpler to just use in game sound? xDD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB2NCNoswHY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB2NCNoswHY
By Eshaton on 05/28/2012 (Patch 3.1.3)
Strategy for one/two players from the https://vanillawowdb.com/?guide=824/solo-duo-old-raid-compendium Solo/Duo Old Raid Compendium , done at level 85 at patch 4.3 with ilvl 385-395 gear:
/zone=3428">The Temple of Ahn'Qiraj is soloable except for the final two bosses, who are duoable. One optional boss is not duoable.
Breakdown:
/zone=3428">The Temple of Ahn'Qiraj is soloable except for the final two bosses, who are duoable. One optional boss is not duoable.
Breakdown:
- All bosses are soloable except: /npc=15299">Viscidus (optional), /npc=15276">The Twin Emperors and /npc=15727">C'Thun (last two).
- /npc=15233">Vekniss Guardian can send you up in the air and cause fall damage, so if you cannot mitigate this it is best to avoid them.
- /npc=15277">Anubisath Guardians before the Twin Emperors will aggro during the boss fight if not cleared previously
- All not mentioned: Easy
- /npc=15263">The Prophet Skeram
- Easy
- Has an MC ability, so if you are doing this with someone else, one will be MCed and need to be killed. This makes the fight easier to solo than duo. He will split into copies in his second phase as long as there is only one of him, so it is beneficial to keep a second copy up. All the copies will cast /spell=26194"> Earth Shock making this fight a bit more difficult for casters.
- /npc=15543">The /npc=15544">Bug /npc=15511">Trio :
- Easy
- Can be troublesome due to their ability to knock back and heal. You will want to clear the trash in the room before engaging them, then focus /npc=15543">Princess Yauj down first, as she will cast /spell=25807">Great Heal , then /npc=15544">Vem , as he does /spell=18670">two /spell=26561">knockbacks and a /spell=19128">stun .
- /npc=15299">Viscidus
- Duo: Very hard, Solo: Impossible
- An optional boss, and as such is not included the "duoable" category because he is extremely difficult to duo. At 1hp, he will refuse to die unless you land a certain number of frost spells on him. After about ~200 frost hits, he will freeze, at which point you will need to land a large number of attacks on him of any damage in a small window to shatter/defeat him. Since he is optional, I'll leave it at that, but for the hardcore, more strategy is on his page.
- /npc=15276">The Twin Emperors
- Duo: Medium, Solo: Hard
- When duoing they must be separated to keep them from healing one another. If soloing, you need significantly good gear.
- /npc=15276">Vek'lor is immune to physical damage, and /npc=15275">Vek'nilash is immune to magic damage, so you will need a group with a magic damage and physical damage dealer on each.
- They will periodically teleport/swap locations and wipe their threat tables, so make sure to have some sort of DoT on each when this happens, so that they will re-aggro their previous target and run back to them. They will heal eachother as they cross paths in the center, but the amount will be negligible compared to damage output.
- Sometimes, after the swap, self-healing and HoTs can mess up the aggro tables and cause more threat than the dots on the bosses. If this becomes a problem and the swap is not working, consciously make an effort to not have any self healing going on during the swap so it does not become an issue.
- /npc=15727">C'Thun
- Duo: Hard, Solo: Impossible
- Phase 1: Will turn red and shoot a beam from his eye that will kill a level 85, so it should be avoided. Once he turns red, you can either DPS him down, or kill all the Eye Tentacles to make him return to normal. The Tentacles are otherwise ignorable, although they will slow you down and make the eye beam harder to avoid.
- Phase 2 requires two players. C'Thun will become highly resistant to damage when phase 2 starts. He will randomly swallow you into his stomach at points. If the entire raid (i.e. both payers) are in his stomach at one time, everyone will die and he will reset. When you are swallowed, you do not have much time before your teammate will be swallowed as well: you have time to swim to the other end of the room, kill ONE tentacle, and then stand on the black circle to be ejected out of the stomach. If you stick around to kill both tentacles, you will often both be swallowed and wipe. Once both tentacles are down on two separate trips, C'Thun will turn purple and become vulnerable to damage - kill him before it wears off. You do not need a healer for this fight, so two damage dealers are ideal.
By togahsisoka on 05/05/2012 (Patch 3.1.3)
At first I thought it sucked that you have to kill the prophet and save yourself to the instance, but you can still get some trash to respawn in less than an hour and therefore grind rep all week long. The trick is to kill as few other bosses as possible. The trash preceding each boss appears to be linked to that boss so if you kill the it the trash won't respawn. Some bosses will aggro even if you sneak, but if you are soloing like me, you can still skip at least Princess Huhuran so that you get all the mobs from the scorps prior to her down to the Anubiran Defenders right before the Twins (I can't solo them yet). Burn the trash and go do something else for a bit, come back and repeat. With guild standard down, can rake in an easy 4k rep each time through.
Maybe this isn't something new, but I've notice that if I closed WoW while in AQ40 and come back in later w/o re-forming a raid, I don't get booted from the zone. Maybe b/c I was raid leader? Makes life even easier...
Maybe this isn't something new, but I've notice that if I closed WoW while in AQ40 and come back in later w/o re-forming a raid, I don't get booted from the zone. Maybe b/c I was raid leader? Makes life even easier...
By t6evo on 09/05/2012 (Patch 3.1.3)
Just an update on what people are saying about needing x amount of resist gear and what not... I literally just decided to farm aq40 for rep and gear on my pally tank. I am only sitting at 387 ilvl, only with blessing of kings and seal of insight, i just finished the fight with 100% hp and mana lol. Didnt need to use any cooldowns... The only problem I can foresee is twins and cthun and ill just get a buddy to help me with that.
By cladlow on 06/26/2012 (Patch 3.1.3)
Where is the actual entrance coordinates or screenshot would be really helpful... yes some of us are noobs.
By Panflute on 12/13/2012 (Patch 3.1.3)
Didn't feel like reading through 70 comments to see if anyone else posted about this, but I just ran the whole thing solo with exception to the ooze boss because I didn't have a freeze mod on my weapon. I had heard that the twins and C'Thun weren't solo-able but that may have been the case in Cata and not MoP. But yeah, I ran it as a 467 iLvl Fury Warrior and had no problems. The twins were the "hardest" just because they knocked down the most health from me. C'Thun is a breeze, just takes a little while to finish because you get sucked into his stomach twice or so. Other than that, easy run for some decent rep a chance at all 4 mounts and the pets.
By fgambino on 12/23/2012 (Patch 3.1.3)
How I soloed the Twin Emperors, warrior arms at lvl 85
Thanks to the suggestion of Nobbel87 http://www.youtube.com/user/Nobbel87?feature=watch i tried to defeat the Twin Emperors in AQ, after two deaths.
I succeded and killed them with this strategy.
First remember that Vek'nilash is immune to magic damage, while Vek'lor is immune to physical damage, so I choose to attack Vek'nilash.
When they are spaced apart they heal themselves, so it's essential to make them near each other. It's also necessary to put our character in a corner, so they can't throw you in air and inflict fall damage. When they stay near it's less probable they exchange position, so you can't lost the focus on your target.
For warriors it's important do a lot of dps (each emperor it's a 2M life target) and self heal in some ways, as potions or enchants. For me 143K health, full Cata gear and specially Second Wind Talent do the job.
When entering the Emperor room Vek'nilash is on the right, Vek'lor on the left. Run with your mount to Vek'nilash and make him follow to the small corner on the extreme right of the entering stairs. In this corner, with stairs on left and wall on right, you will stay fixed with both Emperors near and in your range.
Now go with dps and self healing and control to not to loose your target (Vek'nilash) or loose your health. When you kill one, both dies. Make extended use of Aoe damage because there are lot of spawns that will arrive in this corner. Any silencing ability like Disrupting Shout is welcomed.
I do the job in about 5 mins of fight, Second Wind hold my health above 25% and never use a healing potion. Every buff that increase resistence/damage is welcomed.
When they die, the small door at your back opens and you are free to go to the last two bosses: Ouro and C'Thun.
Next days I will try to solo them, hope to write more on the battle...
Hi to all.
P.S. - Guys who make magical damage can try the same strategy with Vek'lor, going in the simmetrical angle on the left of the entering stair.
Thanks to the suggestion of Nobbel87 http://www.youtube.com/user/Nobbel87?feature=watch i tried to defeat the Twin Emperors in AQ, after two deaths.
I succeded and killed them with this strategy.
First remember that Vek'nilash is immune to magic damage, while Vek'lor is immune to physical damage, so I choose to attack Vek'nilash.
When they are spaced apart they heal themselves, so it's essential to make them near each other. It's also necessary to put our character in a corner, so they can't throw you in air and inflict fall damage. When they stay near it's less probable they exchange position, so you can't lost the focus on your target.
For warriors it's important do a lot of dps (each emperor it's a 2M life target) and self heal in some ways, as potions or enchants. For me 143K health, full Cata gear and specially Second Wind Talent do the job.
When entering the Emperor room Vek'nilash is on the right, Vek'lor on the left. Run with your mount to Vek'nilash and make him follow to the small corner on the extreme right of the entering stairs. In this corner, with stairs on left and wall on right, you will stay fixed with both Emperors near and in your range.
Now go with dps and self healing and control to not to loose your target (Vek'nilash) or loose your health. When you kill one, both dies. Make extended use of Aoe damage because there are lot of spawns that will arrive in this corner. Any silencing ability like Disrupting Shout is welcomed.
I do the job in about 5 mins of fight, Second Wind hold my health above 25% and never use a healing potion. Every buff that increase resistence/damage is welcomed.
When they die, the small door at your back opens and you are free to go to the last two bosses: Ouro and C'Thun.
Next days I will try to solo them, hope to write more on the battle...
Hi to all.
P.S. - Guys who make magical damage can try the same strategy with Vek'lor, going in the simmetrical angle on the left of the entering stair.
By ttbloodlusttt on 02/20/2013 (Patch 3.1.3)
Hello. I came to give my two cents about solo'ing this at 90 on a priest.
I've never attempted to solo this before on my priest since at 80, even 85 - the dmg output of most the of mobs could be almost unmanageable. Now our health pools are so large this isn't a big deal.
Tips:
1. Don't pull too big since a lot of these mobs can fear, mind control, punt you into the air causing massive fall damage, etc. Pull too big and get punted into a boss room isn't fun - especially on 'The Bug Trio.'
2. Be patient. The bosses have ridiculous amts of hp and some have self healing, stuns, and silences. Keep yourself bubbled, I have Glyph of Power Word: Shield on my Shadow spec so i get free heals from it which is handy so you don't have to switch out of shadow to heal yourself.
3. Glyph of Vampiric Embrace helped a lot, I almost never had to pop out of shadow form because of this.
4. Edited Area since PW: Solace is no longer available in shadowform. Use Mind Spike on the Anubisath-type mobs. They like to become immune to shadow dmg a lot, Mind Spike does 'shadowfrost' dmg.
5. If you're in a group with someone, make sure you looted your Lord's Insignia off the bosses in AQ40. I noticed in a group, even if you clicked to loot, sometimes the insignia doesn't loot. On Twins, make sure you loot BOTH bosses.
6. If you're revered with Cenarion Circle it's okay to skip trash in AQ40 since it stops giving rep. Except the Anubisath-type mobs in the hall before Twins, clear them of they will pull when you pull the boss.
What I experienced:
The Prophet- Just keep dotting away and bubbling. Eventually it will die.
Battleguard Sartura - Mind Sear her adds off and then dps until dead.
Fankriss - Not nearly as annoying as the one in Ruins. Dps until dead.
Viscidus - I was unable to solo this boss. Mind spike worked awesomely as Frost Dmg but I was unable to melee him fast enough to 'Shatter' him with a 1.8 speed dagger. Since I can't DW I am thinking I might need alternate methods. I am pondering the use of trinkets that summon helpful (dps adds) or my shadow fiend. (Will test this and report back.) - So I tested this and I am sad to say I was unable to solo him. I got him to the 'It looks like he's about to shatter!' emote but to no avail, he wouldn't shatter. I popped my Netheringwing Ally and Mindbender and melee'd with a 1.6 speed dagger along with taking a potion of speed (500 haste.) I think this might be possible for someone who has the Barov Peasant Caller (no longer obtainable.) For some reason I no longer have mine so was unable to test this. WIth my melee and Mindbender I was getting him to the 'about to shatter' emote (no potion and no ally.) I'd be curious to see if someone with the Peasant Caller could manage to get it (priest preferrably.) I also tried punching him - also got the 'about to shatter' emote. I am assuming I was maybe 4-6 more hits away from shattering him.
Princess Huhuran - Dots. She is a cranky one with the stuns/silence.
The Twin Emperors - This is an extremely irritating encounter. Find the one that isn't immune to shadow dmg and start dotting. You notice there are two stair cases leading up to the bosses, I strongly suggest you stand in the V shape between the stairs and back wall. These guys knock back over and over and over. At first I was using the wall behind them but since they teleport they eventually got behind me, knocked me out.. annoying. The V was perfect. I didn't get knocked out. This will take a long time (if you're like me, being shadow in your holy gear because you're too lazy to gear a proper set) so just keep dotting away. There are a lot of interrupts so try to Mind Flay AFTER a knock back or not at all to help with mana. Make sure you have the talent Divine Insight for that chance to instant cast Mind Blast.
Ouro - This giant worm is annoying until you run to a wall and put your back to it. Then just dot him up and wait out his submerges. At 90 his quaking dmg will either miss or absorb into your bubble.
C'thun - Pretty easy. The only stage that killed me once was when he teleported me inside EDIT: I am wondering if they fixed something since the debuff stacked up for 5 and was only for 750 per tick, hardly touching my health pool this time. The teleport cancels shadowform (still) which is extremely irritating when you don't realize it for a few seconds. So, once teleported inside DoT the tentacles AS SOON as they are in range. Kill them as fast as you can. Once back outside get the DoT's on cthun - ignore the other tentacles. Mindflay, Mind Blast, etc. Get him down fast so you don't get teleported inside again.
Note: If you die on C'thun wait a couple minutes before running inside. I made the mistake of running in and C'thun was still active. It teleported me inside of him and I died pretty quickly as I had not healed myself to full, buffed, or anything.
Edited with more specific information:
Rep Gains:
You start at Hated with Brood of Nozdormu. It should take about 2 runs to get into friendly, including quest turn-ins. The https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=21221 Eye of C'thun and https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=21220 Head of Ossirian the Unscarred should award 1k or more rep with Cenarian Circle and 500+ rep with Brood of Nozdormu depending on your rep perks/buffs. Killing bosses in Ruins of AQ should award (with guild perks) Cenarion Circle rep +110 x3 (awards this amount three times) and Brood of Nozdormu +55. The last boss, Ossirian, awards CC rep +220 x3 (awarded this amount three times) and BoN rep +110. Completing the armor quests should give 500+ rep with Cenarian Circle and Brood of Nozdormu (depending on which items you're getting.) Completing https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=8595 Mortal Champions should reward 500+ rep with both CC and BoN (this is the repeatable quest to turn in https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=21229 Qiraji Lord's Insignia which only drops off bosses in AQ 40.) Bosses in AQ 40 should award BoN rep (w/ guild perks) +110 x5 (this amount rewarded five times) and CC rep +220. Killing C'thun will give BoN rep +550 x5 (this amt is rewarded five times.) Trash will stop giving rep at Revered status with CC. https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=21230 Ancient Qiraji Artifact has a chance to drop which should give 1000+ rep with Brood of Nozdormu. If I had to estimate, it would take 3-6 runs of both Ruins and AQ40 to get exalted with CC. In Ruins of AQ trash gives rep for CC (about 10-11) per trash mob, even at revered but only bosses give a small amt of BoN rep.
You can repeat the armor quests multiple times for +550 rep (with perks).
My priest is in Raid Finder gear - ilvl 483. I feel this would go much better if I had a separate set for shadow. In my holy gear I have a ridiculous amount of hit rating, probably not enough haste and crit. My dmg output was significantly less than someone who is geared specifically for shadow.
Hope this helps the next curious priest :)
I've never attempted to solo this before on my priest since at 80, even 85 - the dmg output of most the of mobs could be almost unmanageable. Now our health pools are so large this isn't a big deal.
Tips:
1. Don't pull too big since a lot of these mobs can fear, mind control, punt you into the air causing massive fall damage, etc. Pull too big and get punted into a boss room isn't fun - especially on 'The Bug Trio.'
2. Be patient. The bosses have ridiculous amts of hp and some have self healing, stuns, and silences. Keep yourself bubbled, I have Glyph of Power Word: Shield on my Shadow spec so i get free heals from it which is handy so you don't have to switch out of shadow to heal yourself.
3. Glyph of Vampiric Embrace helped a lot, I almost never had to pop out of shadow form because of this.
4. Edited Area since PW: Solace is no longer available in shadowform. Use Mind Spike on the Anubisath-type mobs. They like to become immune to shadow dmg a lot, Mind Spike does 'shadowfrost' dmg.
5. If you're in a group with someone, make sure you looted your Lord's Insignia off the bosses in AQ40. I noticed in a group, even if you clicked to loot, sometimes the insignia doesn't loot. On Twins, make sure you loot BOTH bosses.
6. If you're revered with Cenarion Circle it's okay to skip trash in AQ40 since it stops giving rep. Except the Anubisath-type mobs in the hall before Twins, clear them of they will pull when you pull the boss.
What I experienced:
The Prophet- Just keep dotting away and bubbling. Eventually it will die.
Battleguard Sartura - Mind Sear her adds off and then dps until dead.
Fankriss - Not nearly as annoying as the one in Ruins. Dps until dead.
Viscidus - I was unable to solo this boss. Mind spike worked awesomely as Frost Dmg but I was unable to melee him fast enough to 'Shatter' him with a 1.8 speed dagger. Since I can't DW I am thinking I might need alternate methods. I am pondering the use of trinkets that summon helpful (dps adds) or my shadow fiend. (Will test this and report back.) - So I tested this and I am sad to say I was unable to solo him. I got him to the 'It looks like he's about to shatter!' emote but to no avail, he wouldn't shatter. I popped my Netheringwing Ally and Mindbender and melee'd with a 1.6 speed dagger along with taking a potion of speed (500 haste.) I think this might be possible for someone who has the Barov Peasant Caller (no longer obtainable.) For some reason I no longer have mine so was unable to test this. WIth my melee and Mindbender I was getting him to the 'about to shatter' emote (no potion and no ally.) I'd be curious to see if someone with the Peasant Caller could manage to get it (priest preferrably.) I also tried punching him - also got the 'about to shatter' emote. I am assuming I was maybe 4-6 more hits away from shattering him.
Princess Huhuran - Dots. She is a cranky one with the stuns/silence.
The Twin Emperors - This is an extremely irritating encounter. Find the one that isn't immune to shadow dmg and start dotting. You notice there are two stair cases leading up to the bosses, I strongly suggest you stand in the V shape between the stairs and back wall. These guys knock back over and over and over. At first I was using the wall behind them but since they teleport they eventually got behind me, knocked me out.. annoying. The V was perfect. I didn't get knocked out. This will take a long time (if you're like me, being shadow in your holy gear because you're too lazy to gear a proper set) so just keep dotting away. There are a lot of interrupts so try to Mind Flay AFTER a knock back or not at all to help with mana. Make sure you have the talent Divine Insight for that chance to instant cast Mind Blast.
Ouro - This giant worm is annoying until you run to a wall and put your back to it. Then just dot him up and wait out his submerges. At 90 his quaking dmg will either miss or absorb into your bubble.
C'thun - Pretty easy. The only stage that killed me once was when he teleported me inside EDIT: I am wondering if they fixed something since the debuff stacked up for 5 and was only for 750 per tick, hardly touching my health pool this time. The teleport cancels shadowform (still) which is extremely irritating when you don't realize it for a few seconds. So, once teleported inside DoT the tentacles AS SOON as they are in range. Kill them as fast as you can. Once back outside get the DoT's on cthun - ignore the other tentacles. Mindflay, Mind Blast, etc. Get him down fast so you don't get teleported inside again.
Note: If you die on C'thun wait a couple minutes before running inside. I made the mistake of running in and C'thun was still active. It teleported me inside of him and I died pretty quickly as I had not healed myself to full, buffed, or anything.
Edited with more specific information:
Rep Gains:
You start at Hated with Brood of Nozdormu. It should take about 2 runs to get into friendly, including quest turn-ins. The https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=21221 Eye of C'thun and https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=21220 Head of Ossirian the Unscarred should award 1k or more rep with Cenarian Circle and 500+ rep with Brood of Nozdormu depending on your rep perks/buffs. Killing bosses in Ruins of AQ should award (with guild perks) Cenarion Circle rep +110 x3 (awards this amount three times) and Brood of Nozdormu +55. The last boss, Ossirian, awards CC rep +220 x3 (awarded this amount three times) and BoN rep +110. Completing the armor quests should give 500+ rep with Cenarian Circle and Brood of Nozdormu (depending on which items you're getting.) Completing https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=8595 Mortal Champions should reward 500+ rep with both CC and BoN (this is the repeatable quest to turn in https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=21229 Qiraji Lord's Insignia which only drops off bosses in AQ 40.) Bosses in AQ 40 should award BoN rep (w/ guild perks) +110 x5 (this amount rewarded five times) and CC rep +220. Killing C'thun will give BoN rep +550 x5 (this amt is rewarded five times.) Trash will stop giving rep at Revered status with CC. https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=21230 Ancient Qiraji Artifact has a chance to drop which should give 1000+ rep with Brood of Nozdormu. If I had to estimate, it would take 3-6 runs of both Ruins and AQ40 to get exalted with CC. In Ruins of AQ trash gives rep for CC (about 10-11) per trash mob, even at revered but only bosses give a small amt of BoN rep.
You can repeat the armor quests multiple times for +550 rep (with perks).
My priest is in Raid Finder gear - ilvl 483. I feel this would go much better if I had a separate set for shadow. In my holy gear I have a ridiculous amount of hit rating, probably not enough haste and crit. My dmg output was significantly less than someone who is geared specifically for shadow.
Hope this helps the next curious priest :)
By Kalici on 03/19/2013 (Patch 3.1.3)
Is there an exit somewhere close after defeating C'thun? I couldn't see one so I've been running (mounted, of course) all the way back through to the beginning to turn in the quests. Soooo loooong...
I did see a couple comments further down regarding a window that may have been used in the past but that it's no longer a viable option.... If anyone has any updates, please let us all know!
I will update this post if I can find any updated information. Thanks!
I did see a couple comments further down regarding a window that may have been used in the past but that it's no longer a viable option.... If anyone has any updates, please let us all know!
I will update this post if I can find any updated information. Thanks!
By pod32 on 04/16/2013 (Patch 3.1.3)
So, who's the npc you hear in the background saying, "Your heart will explode?" I looked through the comments although I may have missed it in a reply. Creepy!
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To start the war effort (assuming it isn't already started) that sends the armies of the Alliance and Horde to the gates, you need to complete the quest The Calling:
https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=8315 https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=8315
To make the scepter, you will need to start this questline:
https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=8286 https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=8286