Aphid's Guide to the Razorfen Downs.

Razorfen Downs

This is a guide written to introduce new players to the instance called Razorfen Downs. To be egligible for going into RFD, be sure you fulfill the following requirements (or others will kick you out of parties for being too low in level or will hate you for going offline).

1- you have at least two hours of spare time for the instance
2a- you are level 36 with good items (average of about level 30 green), OR
2b- you are level 38 or higher
3- You fit in with the group's class requirements.
4- You know the basics of instancing. RFD is not a very good place to start to learn how it works. You should have gone to RFK to learn things like pulling, cc, etc. Never to late to learn, as SM is still an easy instance in which you can hone your skills for the harsh ones ahead, like ZF or this one.
5- You know that RFD is predominantly filled with Undead mobs, and you know what doesn't work against undead (fear, etc.), and what does work against them (sheep, shackle), and use this to your advantage. (For example: As a warlock, I can safely Death Coil many mobs in this instance without running add-risk).

RFD is harder than the scarlet monastery instance. It requires some careful planning on some of the mobs, especially if you are new to it. Your hard work will be rewarded with some nice non-world drop twink loot, and some items which are good in general, not only for twinking but will also make future instances a lot easier.

In RFD, you will find some rare herbs (such as purple lotus). If there are multiple herbalists, make an agreement on harvesting these.Also devise a system to loot chests (rolling for chest is commonly accepted).

Okay, some information on the instance location itself first.

RFD is located in the southern tip to the barrens. To get there, go to southern barrens (hordes take a flight path to thousand needles or the barrens, alliance walks through dustwallow, or STV-->ratchet).

Step 1: getting the quests

There are also several quests involving in subjects related to the instance. These quests are:

[35D][A Host of Evil]
Kill 8 Razorfen Battleguard, 8 Razorfen Thornweavers, and 8 Death's Head Cultists and return to Myriam Moonsinger near the entrance to Razorfen Downs.

Myriam Moonsinger tends to be quite hard to find. She is located outside of the cave to the entrance, hidden on the top of a steep hill. It requires some skill to get on top of this hill.

The quest itself is not that hard, and the Battleguards and Thornweavers can be soloed by anyone meeting the requirements for the dungeon. You should be able to solo one of these mobs. Having a friend help on this quest is always a good choice though, especially with the cultists, because they almost always come with adds attached.

This quest awards a nice chunk of XP (up to 3,000), and nets 75 silver as well. If your group is doing RFD anyway, it will probably have to hack'n'slash its way through a lot of these mobs in order to get in. These cannot be found in the instance itself, however.

[37D][An Unholy Alliance - Part II]

This quest is only available to horde characters, and can be gotten at Varimathras in the Undercity. It is a follow-up for a quest in RFK, the longest low-level instance (can take upwards of 3 hours to complete, and it is very fun to do with a good group. And you get to learn the more complicated instance techniques there (pulling etc.)). It features killing Ambassador Malkin. I soloed him at level 42, but i'm a warlock ( ), so I'd suggest having two people aid you at levels 36-39, or one person at level 40+. He comes with three adds. Ambassador Malkin is located near the instance entrance, in one of the huts of the large razorfen encampment.

The reward allows you to choose from various items, and it nets you some XP.

[42D][Bring the end] Or [42D][Bring the light]: Get it from Andrew Brownell in Undercity (horde) or Archbishop benedictus in Stormwind (alliance). This quest focuses on killing the last boss in the instance. It nets you an appropriately large amount of XP (4,000), and offers you the choice between two Rare-quality items, a sword which increases attack power by 28 and has 30 DPS, and a necklace with 1 AGI, 10 SPI, 7 STA. This quest is also interesting for people who can't use these items (well), because they can be disenchanted for a shard, or the sword can be sold for 1gold and about 78 silver.

There is also one quest in Razorfen Downs itself. This quest will be explained as soon as we get there.

Step 2: An RFD group

An RFD group is different from your average SM group. RFD is a harder instance, place it in difficulty between SM and Uldaman. Fewer people do it. The rewards are nice though. Many level 39 twink items drop here.

1: A priest.

It is definately advised to have a priest in your group. He/she needn't be the healer, it could also be a DPS shadow priest. Just for the Stamina bonus and Crowd-Control (shackle) alone, a priest is important.

A druid can be a poor-man's priest, but that will inflict harm on the capabilities of a party, certainly in the second part of the dungeon, where you can't then shackle painful undead mobs.

2: Tanks:

In RFD, you will frequently pull big pulls of lots of elites. The elites aren't necessarily tougher than those in, for example, SM, but they come in greater numbers. One tank may not be enough to hold all of them. Warlocks and Hunters should use tank pets to each offtank a meelee-mob (leave the most painful mob to the MT, which has the most armor).

The MT is a warrior in the ideal situation, but it could also be a paladin (abilties against undead and healing), or a feral druid in Bear Form. However, the paladin has one big disadvantage: no strong AOE-taunting ability. The third boss requires AOE-taunt, and thus you will need a pet which can do that, such as the voidwalker (which isn't as good a tank as a player).

3: AOE.

You will need an AOE-er. Period. There are several occasions where 5+ mobs need to be fought, and AOE is essential to the success of the party. Mordresh, for example, can be soloed by a single Hellfire and some DOTs, but a party without AOE will surely die. A mage or warlock is most recommended.

4,5: Filler

The filler can be filled accordingly to the classes chosen in 1,2,3. Generally, a balanced mix of characters is advised, to be able to use more forms of crowd-control. If the priest was shadow, add another healer to your party. Most classes have a helpful buff. Having more classes means having more buffs.

Step 3: Buffs

At this level, pots like the intelligence and agility pot (elixir of greater agility / of intelligence) become available. Having such pots and other buffs (+sta of priests, +all of druids, +int of mages), food bonuses, cries of the dragonslayer, etc., on everyone can, and most probably will make the difference between a wipe and success.

Step 4: The instance

For those people who have stuck around reading, congratulations . We are now starting in RFD.

1: Have your group walk into the portal
2: you will see a dark hallway. It will have a T-split section in it. Straight ahead leads to the instance in the proper order. To the right are the hardest pulls in the whole instance (harder than the last boss!). It is not recommended to go that way. Most groups skip that hallway altogether, as it only consists of large volumes of trash.
3: follow the hallway. In this hallway, there are several groups of Razormanes. Each of them has it's own specialities. Most pulls feature two or three Razormanes. I shall l not go into details with those pulls. But first, the mobs:

--> Death's head Geomancer (fire mage)

These blokes are quite dangerous. They should never be on a caster, and either CC'ed or tanked by the main tank. The group has then two options, either kill it first, or kill it last. Killing it last is easiest to do in most situations, but sometimes, CC (sap/polymorph) could trigger either adds, or not be possible. Geomancers have fire spells that can hit for 200-300 damage, depending on their level. They will also run away, but won't last long due to their low hp.

--> Withered Reaver/ Withered Warrior (tanks)

These mobs have low priority. They are undead, and won't flee and are immune to crowd control. They do low damage (about 80 on someone with reasonable gear), and have lots of hitpoints. Nuke any mobs that go into a rage, because they will hit twice as fast.

--> Withered Quillguard/ Withered Spearhide (hunters)

In the instance, a lone Quillguard will come with some non-elite boars (five at most), which can either be AOE'ed or killed separately while CC'ing the hunter.

--> Battle Boar horror

These patrols will spawn every few minutes if you are in the first part of the instance. They will pull others if you attack them before they go through mobs, so be careful with that. The boars themselves are no more than a nuisance because they are level 37 and non-elite. They can interrupt casters who are DPS'ing a difficult pull, so be careful as they can come from behind when clearing a room. Have your casters create a 'boars' macro to notify tanks and let them get a bit of aggro on the boars. The boars themselves to almost no damage, so they can safely be ignored until the rest is dead (or AoE them, it's your choice).

Now there are some notable pulls in here. As you finish the first hallway, you will come into a small room. It contains a hard pull. This pull can be skipped, but you must then pull back the other pulls to prevent them from adding up, and miss out on a chest. In the second room: To the left is a large oven. This room has to be cleared to be able to do the quest in the instance, and there is one 4-pull in there. It's important that you cc the caster, tank one, offtank another, and leave the fourth (a meelee) to bash on a tank and not harm it.

Continue down the hallway. You will come across another small room, with exits to the north and south. The exit to the south skips a boss and the quest, and is not advised. There are over 8 mobs in this room. If you pull the right group first, you have a very high risk of pulling them all. So walk back, and have your tank shoot the left group, while he's hugging the left wall! This is very important. Otherwise, the mobs will walk slightly too close to the others, and a wipe ensues. When the left group is defeated (only 2), you can kill the right group. It consists of 1 caster elite, 3 withered, and 1 skeleton pet. The skeleton pet has very little health. Start with frying that with a single nukespell which does at least 350 damage. In the meantime sap or polymorph the caster. If you can't you must shackle one of the undead mobs, and kill the caster as fast as possible. The second pull can be skipped, but the questgiver (which will walk through here) may aggro the mobs, and the mobs appearing from nowhere & these are kind of a hard fight, even with mr. BeliniStrasz.

Take the path to the left. You will end up in a large chamber with a gong in it. Do not hit the gong!. That will spawn 10 spiderlings and link the pulls in the room together, and then wipe the group as a consecuqence. There are two strategies. Left group first, or right group first. Both mob groups cannot be dealt with at the same time, and both contain a caster. It is important that this caster is somehow prevented from running. A curse of recklesness or a well-timed entangling roots may do the trick. Both groups can possibly be dealt with at the same time or close to each other, but it will be harder.

After dealing with the monster groups in the chamber, be sure that the chamber and 10 yards into the hallways around it are clear, and that everyone is at full health/mana, buffed, and standing close to the gong.

It's time to activate the first boss. Ring the gong, and some level 35spiderlings should come marching in. They will organise into two groups. The MT must then walk off the platform, gather up the spiders, and use his AOE-taunt, while the main healer heals/shields him/her. Then use AOE to kill the spiders. The groups may also be dealt with separately, but due to the stacking poison these buggers drop on players, I advise to kill them as fast as possible: round up and AoE.

When everyone is ready again, ring the gong for a second time. 4 elite 37 spiders come marching in. Either AoE, or CC one of them (they are undead, so shackle or polymorph is the only option!). These things do hit quite hard, and have area of effect webbing abilities. Casters should stay in the back, unless they are AoEing.

If you survived the last one, then the boss is going to be a cakewalk. If you let your tank put on 2 sunders/taunts/whatever, and the healer pays attention, you can breeze through him. He again has an AoE webbing ability, but it doesn't really do anything besides being time-consuming. Tuten'Kash (level 40+) drops the following loot:

- Silky spider cape: a rare level 35 cloth cape with 11 sta and 5 spi at 28%. It's not that good for a level 40 boss.
- Arachnid Gloves of xxx: A rare level 37 leather set of gloves with 10 nature resistance and a random buff (for example "of the eagle" gives sta and int). It drops 29% of the time. These can be very good, but also appalling.
- Carapace of Tuten'Kash: A rare level 40 plate chest piece with 15 sta, 10 strength, 8 agility. This item is highly valued by warriors, and it is quite good up until the high fifties when people start getting the dungeon sets and such. It drops once every four kills (25%).

After Tuten'Kash, there will be a long winding hallway with lots of pulls. These are the same as before him, but the geomancers are now replaced by necromancers. The necromancers have a deadly AoE spell and a skeletal companion which can be killed very easily. The necromancers themselves are -not- undead and will run! Killing order should now be:

1: Skelly pets (they go down so fast it's most efficient to kill them first)
2: Necromancers (Shadowbolts and AoE are painful)
3: Ranged attackers (quillguards)
4: Boars that come rushing in
5: Anything else.

You should take the road leading up whenever you get a fork in the road. You will eventually find a large room devoid of mobs. Ignore this room at first, and go over a bridge which leads to a large pile of bones. This is the second boss.

The second boss consists of two things:

- Mordresh Fire Eye: a level 37 skeletal fire mage.
- 30+ Skellys (you know, those 350 hit point skeletons =P)

This boss needs a separate strategy. A warlock could solo the skeletons provided he uses a voidwalker to gather, aoe taunt, and then sacrifice/hellfire for enough damage to kill all the skellys. But most of the time the VW will require some healing while the rest of the party takes on Mordresh. Without a warlock, a mage could try to AoE the skeletons after the tank has used an AoE taunt on them and gathered them up. The disadvantage of this approach is that there are only 2,5 characters left on mordresh (half the healer, and the two others). A druid or shaman could also fulfill the mage role, although the druid can't do the dps as fast as the shaman or mage, and the shaman's strategy requires a certain talent build.
Ppl who do single-target dps should focus on mordresh and ignore the skeletons. They are no match for their sheer numbers. These people should only come marching in as soon as the skeletons are on the MT, and take away Mordresh from the MT. So to sum it up:

1: tank gathers up Skeletons
2: Tank uses AoE taunt
3: Single Target DPS takes mordresh off from the MT, and possibly on an OT. (he doesn't hit that hard).
4: The mass of skeletons is AoE'ed to death (this determines if you win or lose)
5: as soon as the skellys are dead, the MT should try to take back Mordresh.
6: The group now focuses on getting mordresh down as quickly as possible (chances are he won't be getting off of whoever did the most damage to him by taunting at this stage).

If done correctly, mordresh is one of the most fun and unique fights. Oh and the music's nice . He drops:

Mordresh's Lifeless Skull (29%): A rare level 36 offhand item providing 11 spirit and 5 stamina. An alternative to a shield for a tank, also nice on a healer.

Glowing Eye of Mordresh (29%): A necklace giving 11 spirit and 5 intellect. Give this to your healer .
Deathmage Sash (28%): A cloth belt with 15 INT and 6 STA. It can be put on by any cloth caster class.

Remember the room I told you about? It's now time to go there. Open the pens. In one of them you should find Henry Stern. He has a cooking and Alchemy recipe.

Then go to Belnistrasz.

Side note: he's actually a member of the Red Dragonflight, a red dragonwhelp/drake/dragon. All names on strasz almost always are. He's disguised as a human. This fact is just some background, and has nothing to do with his quest.

He has a quest. Before someone rushes in to get it, ask if everyone has a free slot. Everyone must accept it, or you'll end up doing it twice. The first part of the quest involves nothing. The second part involves walking with him to the room with the large fire in it I told you about in the beginning, while beating some random spawning trash mob groups (nothing worth noting, because mr. strasz is a really powerful fire dragon, umm, wizard. Sorry 'bout that .

As soon as he's there, he'll start doing a ritual. Immediately, huge quantities of mobs start pouring in. These will go on for five minutes without pause, so it's adviseable to use mana potions for this fight, and be as mana-efficient as possible. The MT has a fun time, because of all the rage he's going to get. Kill casters first, then the ranged guys, and then everything else. This goes as far as to switch targets the moment a caster comes into the room (as these will continually spam shadowbolts/firebolts if you ignore 'em. At the last bit, a boss will spawn, called Plaguemaw the Rotting. He has a lot of health, so kill everything else before him. He drops Swine fists at 58% (an uncommon pair of gloves with +8str, +8 agi), and Plaguerot Sprig at 30% (a twink rare wand with 37dps and +7 shadow resistance).

If you survive the onslaught, congratulations!. If you don't, just use the raid-wipe prevention and go on further in the instance. This is just optional, and as such it's harder than most of the other stuff in RFD.Completing the quest awards all members of the party the rare item Dragonclaw ring, a ring with +4spi and +10 stamina, which is very good for any tank, but can also be used by most other classes due to its large bonus amounts. It can also be either sold or disenchanted.

Now you can head on from the room where you defeated Mordresh. Just now keep following the road down, and you should get into a long passageway to the east.

From here on, you'll not be facing any boar mobs anymore. All mobs from this point on are undead, and I will not be notifying that to readers anymore.

There are several trash pulls in this long hallway. There are also patrols of two Splinterbone Skeletons (oh nooo). Do try to be careful to pull as little as possible, because the mobs can get dangerous. The pulls consist of:

--> Splinterbone Skeleton

These are just level 35 meelee fighters. You can either offtank them while having dots on them and focus on the main mobs, or ignore them altogether. They'll die from a few basic AoE spells anyway, being nonelite.

--> Skeletal Shadowcaster / Skeletal Frostweaver

These are level 37 elite skeletons which can cast shadow/frost bolts. These bolts are not as painful as those from the necromancers, but can still hurt at 180+ damage apiece.

--> Thorn Eater Ghoul (36-39 elite)

These mobs do not hit very hard, being just meelee fighters, but they do have really pesky debuffs which harm the entire party if everyone gets them. I'd place these in priority about equal with the skeletal mages

--> Frost Spectre (level 38-39 elite)

These are meelee, but they hit quite hard, and have a habit of resisting aggro-increasing abilities such as taunt, and have a higher than average shadow resistance. They also come with a silence ability, so casters should be very careful about aggroing them.

A typical pull consists of:

2 different elites
3 skellys

Some pulls will consist of 3 elites (2 spectres & a ghoul, or one of each, etc.)

As soon as you finish the hallway, it changes into a large winding spiral. Everybody except the puller must remain at the spiral entrance. The puller then pulls the mobs to everybody else. This is to prevent pulling the next boss, Glutton. Glutton is a large abomination which wanders around the first circle of the spiral. If the party starts battling groups normally in the spiral, glutton could show up, and someone could get his aggro (or he's pulled by a mob), and that would cause a wipe.

Once Glutton can be safely pulled, do that. The rules of the above paragraph then cease to exist. Glutton can normally be tanked, with one exception: the healers must have careful attention about the buffs/debuffs on the MT, and try to dispel Glutton's debuffs, as they slow the taunting down, and could cause our little friend to change targets. Glutton does not hit extremely hard, but he does hit in the 100's depending on your tank's gear and level, and he'll put a 10% debuff on you for 10 minutes, which lasts through his death. The next part of the dungeon will be much harder if you can't remove that debuff.

If you pull Glutton with adds, he won't be a pushover like he is alone. On the priority list, he ranks just above a ghoul. This means he has to be dealt with first without disease cures and such, and just after the mages if you do have those nice anti-debuff spells that help out a lot here.

He drops:

Glutton's Cleaver: An uncommon-quality level 36 axe, which does 23 DPS, and can wound a target to bleed for 50 damage over 30 seconds. This thing is totally appalling, especially the chance on hit effect which is totally negligible. It's very bad quality.

Fleshhide shoulders, however, are great. They are a level 37 set of leather shoulderpads providing 5 STR, 15 STA, and 6 AGI. Any feral druid would fall in love with these.

If you are lucky, you could also encounter the very rare Ragglesnout boss. In all my 10+ runs I have personally never seen him. If you do, you can post your suggestions on strategy on him in the comments below

Now you'll be marching up the spiral. The pulls will get steadily harder, and the Skeletons will be replaced by Warriors, centurions, and the Thorn Eater Ghouls will be replaced by Bone flayer Ghouls.

When you're in the 2nd-3rd circle some new mobs start to appear. Large groups demand lots of CC and smart tactics.

--> Splinterbone Captain (level 39-40 elite):

This is merely an elite version of the Skelly centurion, with thrice the hp and twice the damage.

--> Skeletal Summoner (level 40 elite)

Now these things are a real pain, and could be a big danger to your group. You cannot CC them very effectively, as they will still use their most painful ability as soon as they get loose. They also seem to have quite some resistances against these spells, among others. As the name would imply, these things will try to summon in more undeads. They'll simply SPAM this summoning spell, so must be nuked as quickly as possible. If there's a summoner in a group, simply target that one first with all you got (OT's, warlock DOT's and CC is an exception, of course), and then do the other mobs. If done correctly, they shouldn't pose too much of a threat.

Summoners are usually lone patrollers, except for a few groups just before Amnennar the Coldbringer, and some groups in the hard road. Try to take these patrollers out lonely, as that will make your job easier on the groups (if a summoner comes as an add, you're in trouble).

To sum it all up: a priority table for the spiral and the hallway before it. Kill the mobs with the lowest number first.

1: Skelly Summoners
2a: Skeletal Frostweavers/ Skeletal Shadowcasters
2b: Ghouls (could also be equal with the casters, depending on classes in your party. Without disease dispel, place these above the skeletal casters, but after the summoners).
3: Frost Spectres
4: Skellys (splinterbone xxx)
5: everything else (skelly patrols, etc.)

The last three pulls of the spiral are exceptionally hard. The last pull consists of:

2 or 3 skellys
1 skeletal elite
1 ghoul
1 spectre
and 1 summoner

This pull will essentially be harder than Amnennar himself, speaking of which, you will now encounter. So prepare your group for a short and painful boss fight.

Amnennar (41++ elite) hits very hard, so he should be on the MT all the time, and the MT must always be healed, just like in any other normal boss fight. However: One other person has to play the OT (or the pets do this role), and the job of the OT(s) is to keep the spirits Amnennar will summon to his aid during the encounter off the casters. He doesn't have to kill the spirits, just use AoE taunt to keep 'em off the healer. They will eventually stay on the healer, and kill that person, and a wipe will ensue. Anyway, just keep them off as long as possible. The healer himself can help with this by using spells with low aggro (such as shields and HoTs) As soon as Amnennar is dead, those annoying Freezing spririts will immediately disappear. So we have:

1 MT trying to keep Amnennar's aggro. You can switch tanking duty to someone without AoE taunt here, because Amnennar needs single target taunt only.
1 healer trying to heal the MT while gaining the least possible aggro from the spirits that he will summon to his aid.
1 person and/or the pets on offtank duty: keep the spirits off the healer
2 or 3 others, depending on the setup, killing Amnennar as quickly as possible.

If done correctly, Amnennar will be killed before the healer dies. Sheeping spirits or shackling them can be quite useful in the fight, but don't spend too much time on CC as a mage or priest. Also: if the offtanking is succesful in keeping all mobs off the Healer, try to keep mobs off from other casters too. Note that the patrols will still go on during the boss fight, and it is possible to encounter such a patrol during the boss fight. These skellys do not need much handling, except when they start to interrupt casts and heals. Just treat them like additional spirits.

Luckily, Amnennar has very low health for an end boss. He'll probably die before the main healer has gained too much aggro, especially when using the priest's shielding spells.

Amnennar drops the following items.

Robes of the lich: (29%) A cloth level 39 rare twink robe providing 20 intellect and 10 stamina. Because warlocks already have the quest for the Enchanted Gold Bloodrobe (which is only 3 stat points worse), i'd suggest giving this great item to a mage or priest first.

Icemetal Barbute: (29%) a plate helm with +15 STR, +7 SPI, +10 STA, and +10 frost resistance. It also boosts 383 armor. Your warrior will drool over this. A rare item.

Bonefingers: (24%): Leather gloves with +9 sta and +9 INT. They are of uncommon quality, and not really notable.

Deathchill armor: (24%) is. It's a level 39 mail item providing 20 spirit (!), 9 INT, and 3 STA. It's great for any Healadin or Healshaman.

Coldrage Dagger: (only 14%) is a level 39 twink dagger with 29,7 DPS, and a chance of launching a frostbolt which deals a minor 20-30 damage, but which does slow for 50% (!) for 5 seconds.

Because this is the end of the instance, i'll also list some loot dropped in general in the instance:

Silk cloth / mageweave cloth: drops aren't as frequent as in SM, but there's still far more than on normal humanoids.

Ichor of undeath: each of the high-level undead in the instance has a rare 1.5% chance of dropping this item. It is used in professions, for example to make the 20-slot soul bag.

Any items dropped in this instance can ofcourse also be disenchanted. Most blue (rare) items will award shards which can sell at the auction house for 3-5 gold apiece (large radiant shards sell for 8-10 gold). Much better than the vendor price. Green items can award dusts, essences and shards. Consult a mod such as Enchantrix for the amount recieved. If no one wants to wear/ can wear a rare or uncommon item, it is often better to give it to an enchanter in the party, who then disenchants it, and gives the mats to the player who won the roll for it (just type /roll to do so), especially in the case of BoP, which can't be posted on the Auction house. None-bop items may also have disenchant values higher than their actual price.

Step 5: alternative ways.

Once you have tried the instance, you'll find out that you only want to kill glutton and Amnennar. Just take the path to the right at the beginning, and you should end up halfway in the first spiral. Be careful, as the pulls in this path are at least as hard as the very last pulls before the lich. They feature AoE, summoners, casters, etc.

Step 6:

Well, repeat if you so desire, or go do something else (read Jame's Uldaman guide for a guide on the next instance on the ladder to supremacy).

Note: During the Invasion of the Scourge event, there was an additional boss in this dungeon, called Lady Falther'ess. This level 40 elite dropped some very nice rare caster loot. Alas, she's no longer there. She may return if the event repeats itself, but we can only hope and wait if such a thing happens.

The End.

Written by: Aphid
Level 45 Gnome Warlock
Bloodhoof

P.S. Comments on improving this guide are always welcome. Please show me my mistakes, as this is my first guide .

Gnomeregan Instance Guide

Gnomeregan Instance Guide

Introduction:

Gnomeregan has been the gnomes' capital city for generations. Recently, a hostile race of mutant troggs infested several regions of Dun Morogh - including the great gnome city. In a desperate attempt to destroy the invading troggs, High Tinker Mekkatorque ordered the emergency venting of the city's radioactive waste tanks. Several gnomes sought shelter from the airborne pollutants as they waited for the troggs to die or flee. Unfortunately, though the troggs became irradiated from the toxic assault - their siege continued, unabated. Those gnomes who were not killed by noxious seepage were forced to flee, seeking refuge in the nearby dwarven city of Ironforge. There, High Tinker Mekkatorque set out to enlist brave souls to help his people reclaim their beloved city. It is rumored that Mekkatorque's once-trusted advisor, Mekgineer Thermaplug, betrayed his people by allowing the invasion to happen. Now, his sanity shattered, Thermaplug remains in Gnomeregan - furthering his dark schemes and acting as the city's new techno-overlord.

Level range:
Though meeting stone says 26-35, you won't be able to complete the dungeon, if you're not lvl 30 at least. This affects healers too because low lvl players can aggro a nasty amount of mobs in the latest part of the instance.

Quest gathering:

Alliance quests:

• [26]Save Techbot's Brain! You get this quest from a gnome in the tinker town in IF-Tinkmaster Overspark.

• [27]Gnogaine Questgiver-Ozzie Toglevolt ( 45,48 )
  2nd part-[30]The Only Cure is More Green Glow
  
  
• [30]Essential Artificials Questgiver-Klockmort Spannerspan (Tinker town, IF)

• [30]Gyrodrillmatic Excavationators Questgiver-Shoni, the Shilent (middle of dwarven district, SW)
  Note: You have to complete two quests before this one-one in DeadM, one in The Stockades.

• [30]Data Rescue Questgiver-Master Mechanic Castpipe (Tinker town,IF)

• [35]The Grand Betrayal Questgiver-High Tinker Mekkatorque
  

Horde:

• [35]Chief Engineer Scooty Questgiver-Sovik (The engineering supplies vendor in Orgrimmar )
  2nd part[35]Gnomer-gooooone!
  3rd part[35]Rig Wars
  

Both :

• The Sparklematic 5200! Questgiver-The Sparklematic 5200 in the clean zone in the instance.You need a "Grime encrusted object" in order to get it.

• [34]Grime-Encrusted Ring Questgiver-A grime encrusted ring is a random drop from dark iron dwarves in the deerprun tram part of the instance.
  2nd part [35]Return of the Ring

• [30]A fine mess Questgiver-Kernobee(Go into the clean zone and then east from where the punch card machine is.There's a room with Kernobee in it.)
  

Group composition:

1. Tank-Warrior or prot.specced Paladin
2. Healer-Priest/Druid
3. DD-Mage/Rogue(It'd be very good to have both in group)
4. DPS-Hunter/Lock
5. Random-A secondary tank or healer will be really nice on this slot.

Map:

To the entrance:

If you have been questing in Dun Morogh (usually dwarf/gnome), you should know where the entrance is. Horde gets teleport to there. Anyway, if you don't know where it is, location is Dun Morogh (24,40).
Mobs near the entrance outside the corridor are lvl 9-10, so that's not a problem. You probably won't see any mobs till the elevator but there'r sometimes patrols of one or two lepper gnomes-lvl 25-26. So,you can safely go inside the corridor. You will go down and down till there's an elevator. Usually there are around 6 lepper gnomes there, which are non-elite and easy to kill. When you go down the elevator, you'll see a room full of gnomes (lepper ones ). If you are alone,you'd better wait for the others because you can pull all of them. Once you'r all together, clear them and go up the corridor to the right. Some more gnomes and you'll be at the place where elites start - lvl 25-27 troggs. If you have the quest for Techbot's brain go forward. Follow the path and don't jump. He'll be in one of the rooms to the right of you. Kill him. He has no special abilities and drops nothing good-usually a shield. Loot him and get his memory core. 1 quest completed. Probably, the one, whose loot is the bot can get 1 robomechanical gut for the quest. You'll get this quest done with no need to go to special places and so on. Meanwhile, any mob you've already killed should've dropped a white punch card. Use it on one of the punchers to get the next card. Now, go back to the place where road separated and go to the other side. Just go on killing mobs till you reach the entrance.

Let's get it started:

As you enter, you'll be in a corridor. Go forward (there is no other way, actually). You have to kill only two mobs before the corridor separates in two ways - right and left. Go left and keep cleaning your way. You shouldn't have any problems in this part. You'll see another corridor going right in 2-3 groups time. There is an optional quest there with no difficulty (see Grubbis on the map). You just have to try not to go inside the caves, which will open (because they collapse after a certain time, killing anyone inside. Even worse, you can't be ressed, because generally even if a resser stayed outside the cave and lived, he can't target your body. There is a warning shouted before the cave blows). Fight the troggs outside. If you don't want to do it continue fighting. IF there is/are hunter/Warlock in the group, he/she/they must put his/her pet to passive. Soon there'll be a way to move to the right. There'll be 3 troggs, which are also easy to kill.Remove them from your way and go down the stairs to the right. You're in the clean zone.

The Clean Zone:

The thing I really love in Gnomeregan is the clean zone. Why? Well, vendors and a mail box. Also, here are 3 "Spracklematics 5200", which are for two quests - The Sparklematic 5200! and
Grime Encrusted Ring.
You can do only the first one for now, though. At the end of this zone there is the next puncher. Use it to get the third card. The corridor splits.You can go to the Dormitory and search for Kernobee in order to do the escort quest or take the left one and continue your way. Turn right when there is place to move and you're in the Hall of Gears.

The Hall of Gears

The hall of gears is a round hall with elementals and oozes.You can take the samples for the quests here. Also, there is a boss here called Viscious Fallout. The fight with him is really simple but some good drops here:

Acidic Walkers
Hydrocane
Toxic Revenger

You can clear all the mobs for loot here but it's not needed. You can continue your way through a passage way. Go in that corridor on the left side, which is a bit upper than the right one. Stick to the left!!! This is where the "fun" begins. There'll be two types of mobs - mounted leppers and unmounted leppers.First kill the mounted one, with having someone beside the MT tanking the other like - paladin/rogue/shaman/pet can do it. On your way you'll see some wardrobe like boxes, which can be opened. This way you can colect the essential artifacts. Look out for alarms, they're killed easily but if not they get around 30-40 elites after you, so just kill them . At the end of the corridor, you'll see the beginning of a huge area, called the Launch Bay.

The Launch Bay:

After you get out of the corridor, you'll see big machines and lepper gnomes. To clear them get your MT to attack the machine and your mage/Warlock AoE the non-elite gnomes. They're not hard. You can go both left and right, no difference.The point of this room is to get to Electrocutioner 6k. This boss looks like the machines and his special attack is a chain lightening, which doesn't hurt a lot, though. He drops the workshop key, needed to open the workshop entrance, which is nearly directly to the deeprun tram part. Also drops:

Electrocutioner Langnut (31%)
Electrocutioner Leg (~9%)

and 0.0% to drop a 12 slot bag but hope never ends. ))
Behind him is the next puncher.
As you get down the ramp, where he is, go left. Start clearing the mobs, if you haven't till you reach a passage way. Enter it and you'll finally reach the deeprun tram part.

Deeprun Tram part:

First, I wanna say that that's name because it looks like the deeprun tram. . There are 3 ways to go - right, left and middle. The best way (for me) to go is right. Shortest way but a lot of dwarves. The way to kill them is warrior tanks all and mage/Warlock/both aoe. They come in groups of 3-4 but are really easy with two mages = two blizzards ^^. The bad thing is when they drop bombs, which have big aoe. At least one of them should drop a grime-encrusted ring. Also, a new mob type you'll find here are the arcane nulifiers. The bad thing happens when they get into reflecting shape, which also affects their "allies". At the end of the corridor there is a group of 2 dwarves and 2 nulifiers. Also,a "Dark Iron Ambassador" is a rare spawn at the end of the middle path. He can drop a nice gun:

Glass Shooter (35%)
a mace-Royal Diplomatic Scepter

and leather bracers which give 5 arcane resistance and random stats.
You'll see a big door. Open it and you'll be oposing a group of mounted leppers, 2-3 non-elite leppers and a machine. Clear them and only the mekgineer will be left. (and a card )

Mekgineer Thermaplugg:

That is the big boss. He is a lvl 35 mechanical mob. His special ability is to drop bombes, which if not killed explode for some nice dmg. Get a pet/rogue/mage/Warlock to take care of them (this can be done by running around the room and pressing the big buttons.), while the others are nuking the boss.

Additional info from Kriemhild:

He is a bit tough fight but has nice drops:

Thermaplugg's Central Core
Thermaplugg's Left Arm
Electromagnetic Gigaflux Reactivator

some rings which give 5 arcane and nature resistance + random stats
and has 0.4% to make an engineer happy with
Schematic:Craftman's Monocle.

In his loot pool there are also a lot of greens.

When you kill him, go back till you see another passageway on the right side. Follow it (there are 1-2 patrols in it) till you reach the engineering labs. Here is the last puncher with which you can get the prismatic card. Grats, you completed the Gnomeregan instance.

P.S. Hope you like it, it's my first guide. I decided to write it as I know a lot about GR and there was a request for it. )

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Jame's Razorfen Kraul Guide

Razorfen Kraul Guide

Introduction :

Razorfen Kraul (aka RFK), is a nice little instance, packed with mobs, and can be done in 2 hours if you know where you're going. It's designed for a lvl 30-32+ group. I will try to cover everything that needs to be said and to keep it short. Just the map already will be a big help, the optimal route to take is drawn on it(Follow yellow route until Chalgra Razorflank, then Green until exit), and every named listed. Now on to the guide!

Where:

Razorfen Kraul is located in the barrens, at the most southern part of it, actually at the border to the Thousand needles. When you are there, look towards the West, that's where the entrance to RFK is, if you look East, that's towards the entrance of Razorfen Downs (lvl 40ish instance).

Gathering the quests:

Horde:

• [34] A vengeful Fate (Elite): This is the main quest. You must kill Charlga Razorflank and loot her heart. Given by Auld Stonespire in Thunderbluff, he is sitting in a tent, right next to the western lift.

• [33] Going, going, guano! (Elite): This is an easy quest, and it has a follow up quest for Scarlet Monastery. Given by Master Apothecary Faranell in the Undercity, in the Apothecarium.

• (Warrior only quest) [30] Brutal Armor (Elite): Given by Thun'Grim Firegaze in the Barrens. Part of the Warrior quests serie. You must kill Roogug (see map for route, he's easy to find and to kill), and loot a Vial of Phlogiston from him)

Alliance:

• [34] The Crone of the Kraul (Elite): This is your main quest. You must kill Charlga Razorflank and loot a medaillon. Given by Falfindel Waywarder in Feralas (at the Alliance outpost).

• (Warrior only quest) [30] Fire Hardened Mail (Elite): Given by Furen Longbeard in Stormwind city. It is part of your warrior serie of quests. You must kill Roogug (see map for route, he's easy to find and to kill, and loot a Vial of Phlogiston from him)

• [30] Morality Wanes (Elite): Starts inside the instance. Talk to the wounded elve lying in the tent next to Willix the Importer. He will give you a quest, and then you will have to find a Medaillon, which is a random rare drop from any Quillboar.

Both:

• [26] Blueleaf Tubers (Elite): Given by Mebok Mizzyrix in Ratchet. Before leaving don't forget to loot the crate with hole, the manual and the command stick. They are all clickable and lying around Mebok Mizzyrix. More about how to complete this easy quest later in the guide.

• [30] Willix The Importer (Elite): Starts inside the instance. More about this later in the guide.

Group formation:

Get a standard group formation, Tank, Healer, Crowd Control, Damage Dealer, etc. Nothing special required.

The instance begins:

Enter the instance and start following the Yellow route, to Charlga Razorflank. (you can if you wish follow the violet route and quickly kill Roogug, if any warrior in your group needs the quest done, it's a nice warmup, then go back and take the Yellow route).
You will be in some kind of mini-canyon, keep following it until you walk out of it, then you have two choices :

> The main route is going straight infront of you, but behind you on each side of the mini-canyon you just went through, are two optional nameds: Death Speaker Jargba and Aggem Thorncurse. They mostly drop some green items. But Jargba has a small chance to drop a blue item:

It's all up to you if you want to kill them or not. They are easy, especially Aggem Thorncurse.

When you are done with that, go back to Following the yellow route, until you get to Overlord Ramtusk.

Overlord Ramtusk:

Unlike the previous two nameds, he is a mini-boss, and almost always drop blue loot. He is also harder to kill, hits kinda hard, and has two guards. It all depends of your group setup how you want to handle those two adds. If you have both mage and warlock, keep them Polymorphed and Succubus seduced the whole fight, while killing the named. If you don't, I suggest letting your warrior tank the named while the rest of the group kills the add(s).

Overlord Ramtusk can drop good items:

Go back to following the Yellow route, over those wooden bridges. I suggest you always let your puller pull the next platform and run them over the bridge to your group. There are a few stealthed mobs on each platforms, so it's good to rush them until they seem clear. Fighting on bridges isn't recommended as well, avoid it if you can.

If you follow the bridges you will reach the caverns, this is where you find those bats who drop the Kraul Guano for the Going,Going, Guano! (Horde) quest.

A bit further west into the cavern you will see an Energy Barrier blocking the way to Agathelos the Raging. Pull the pack of mobs guarding it, and then kill one by one the two mobs channeling that wall. Once dead, the wall will fade. You can then head in and kill Agathelos. Its a straight forward melee type boss.

He can drop a nice dagger (~25% chance to drop):

Charlga Razorflank:

Go back to following the yellow route, before exiting the little cavern, check the Northwest corner of it, there is a rare named bat spawning there sometimes (this is decided when your group enters the instance and creates it) if its not there, don't look any further. Then you will finally make your last few steps before you engange the big boss: Charlga Razorflank.

He's waiting for you on top of a turret, try to get him away from it. Send your warrior to pull him from max range and then back off until Charlga gets off his turret.

He is a caster type, he casts chain-lighting (so watch your whole group's health bars, also, Shaman's grounding totem works nicely against it, use it), renew (which makes him regen like mad, you can counter this with Priest: Dispel or with Shaman: Purge, or Warlock's felhunter pet), and by the end of the fight he uses Divinity, which makes him immune for about 10 seconds. He doesn't have much hit points though, so he will go down fast if you dispel his renews or just outdamage them.

Congratulations, loot his Heart (Horde) or Medaillon (Alliance). You have finished your main quest, and the rewards are quite good. But there is still a couple of quests to do, and they are kinda on the way back anyway, so don't miss them!

CAREFULLY jump down under Charlga's Turret, there should be just one mob aggroing you when you jump. Make a quick deal of it, and then you should have Willix The Importer's tent in sight, so start pulling towards it.

Before starting the escort mission with Willy:

Blueleaf tubers: When you have the area around you cleared sufficiently, get one Snuffler out of the crates you got in ratchet, and then use the command stick. The snuffler will go and dig out the closest blueleaf out of the ground. Loot it. You need 6 of those. Be careful not to use the command stick when you are too close to mobs, because it's likely that the snuffler will stupidly go in their direction and die. You have a few spare Snufflers, but still...
If you cannot summon a snuffler, just keep moving around and try different spots.
Note: If a group member's snuffler digs a leaf out, everybody in the group can also loot it. This is useful if you happen to get all your snufflers killed

Alliance: Get the quest from the elf
Horde: Do whatever you want with that sorry elf (pvp flagged, but who cares in instances)

Accept the quest from Willix and get ready, he will start to move towards the exit. If he dies, you fail the quest. (you can try it again though by restarting the instance and re-clearing to him)

You shouldn't have any problem. Willix the Importer will lead the way to the exit, and reward everyone. (A ring with +6 to the stats of your choice)

Note: Now that the way between Willix' tent and entrance has just been cleared, feel free to go back there and get the last Blueleaves you miss. It should be easy.

Alliance: You will have to kill some more quillboars if you want to finish your last quest. Feel free to reset the instance and to get a few more bosses while you work on getting this last quest item.

There you go, this is the most efficient way to do Razorfen Kraul and all of it's quests in one run. I hope you enjoyed this guide!

-Jame

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Jame's Scarlet Monastery Guide

Chapter I: The Library

Introduction

Scarlet Monastery is many people's favorite instance. You will get to love it yourself too. One of the reasons people love it is because it is divided in 4 Mini instances instead a single big one. The advantages of that feature are numerous. The 4 mini-instances of Scarlet Monastery are The Graveyard, The Library, The Armory and The Chapel..

I will cover the graveyard instance shortly here (because there isn't much to say about it), and then move on to the first important part of the instance, The Library. (see map above).

Quest Gathering

Horde:

• [42] Into the Scarlet Monastery (elite) - Most important quest (given by Varimathras in the Undercity, in the Apothecarium area.)

• [33] Hearts of Zeal (elite) (given by Aponthecary Faranell in the Apothecarium, Undercity) Pre-requisite for this quest is Going, Going, Guano!, a quest involving the instance Razorfen Kraul.

• [38] Compendium of the Fallen (Elite) (given by Sage Truthseeker in Thunder bluff, you can find him on the lower rise, in the house connected to the bridge taking you to the Spirit rise). Note: Undeads do not get this quest. (for lore reasons)

• [36] Test of Lore (elite) This is the follow up quest of a very long serie of quest, starting with [26] Test of Faith, given by Dorn Plainstalker, in the Thousand Needles, northeast of freewind post. It is up to you if you want to do this long quest or not.

Alliance:

• [40] In the name of the light Most important quest (given by Raleigh The Devout, in Hillsbrad Foothills, Southshore). This quest has pre-requisites: Starting with [39] Brother Anton (given by Brother Crowley in Stormwind city)

• [38] Mythology of the Titans (given by Librarian Mae Paledust, in the city of Ironforge)

Mages:

• [40] Rituals of Power (Elite) There is a mage only quest involving retrieving a book in the Library. The quest is given by Tabetha, in Dustwallow marsh, right in the middle of the zone, and a bit to the south. It is a follow up quest, you need to be at this point in your 'mage only' quest line before going to Scarlet Monastery.

How to get to SM

Scarlet Monastery is located in the Northeastern part of Tirisfal Glades.
After going up a long corridor you will be in a large room with pillars in the middle, filled with scarlet denizens all around. Clear your way to the opposite side of this hall, and you will reach the 4 entrances to the instance. The two middle doors are locked, they give access to the Armory and The chapel, you can't access them yet. The blue portal on the left gives access to the Graveyard, the blue portal on the right gives access to the Library.

The Graveyard

The Graveyard part of the instance is through the Left blue portal, as explained above. It is totally optional. If you go there and clear the first corrider to the first room, you will be in a torture room, and an easy mini-boss will be there, he doesn't drop anything worth it, but there is also a tortured prisoner there, who gives you a quest:

[33] Vorrel's Revenge (Elite) (Horde only)

If you go to the end of the graveyard you will kill an easy named who drops blue loot sometimes, but really not worth it compared to what you can get in the other part of the instance. On the other hand, this part is easy and can be done by a low 30ish group.

Now on to the interesting stuff, to the library! Enter the blue portal to the right.

The Library

Group composition: lvl 35+ basic party. You need a tank, a healer (priest/druid), some crowd control against humanoid (Rogue / Mage / Warlock) and anything else.

The only real danger of this instance:

Runners. Every single mob (besides the hounds) in this instance runs away in fear when getting low on health. This is almost the only reason why parties can wipe there. So two things:

• Have someone on snare duty (by snare I mean movement slow effects such as Hamstring, concussive shot, etc, or even better, warlock's curse of recklessness).
• Always pull way back, so you have room for errors.

The first corridor is a mix of Scarlet Gallants, Scarlet Adepts (priest type, so be ready to interupt their heals), and Scarlet Beastmasters (+Hound pet).

It's easy if you follow the rules above. After clearing first corridor you will reach the Huntsman's Cloister. Clear it entirely, then go south to the room where Houndmaster Loksey awaits you.

Houndmaster Loksey

Houndmaster Loksey deals quite a lot of damage for his level, so if your party is rather 35- than 35+, I suggest you take this fight seriously.
He is guarded by 3 hounds, which don't do nearly as much damage as Loksey does. If you have a druid, put one dog to sleep, if you have mage, sheep one, as for the last one it's up to you. Send the warlock or hunter pet on it, or even, ask the warlock to cast fear the whole fight. (if you cleared the previous room entirely, there's no risk in doing that)

Kill Loksey first, and then finish the easy dogs. Congratulations, you just finished 1/4 of the main quest.

Get moving fast though, because respawn rate is quite fast in Scarlet Monastery.

On the way toward the final boss of this part of the instance, you will meet new mobs, a bit higher in level than the rest: Scarlet Chaplain (priest type), Scarlet Monk (deals high melee damage, but low defense), Scarlet Diviner (casts fireball a lot, interrupt it).
You will finally reach the Athenaeum, where you will find the books you need to complete the Test of lore and Compendium of the fallen (Horde) and Mythology of the Titans (Alliance) as well as the mage quest Rituals of Power. Check the shelves at the spot shown on map. Also, if you have the quest Test of Lore, you will have to clear one of the little side rooms before reaching the Athenaeum, the book is on a table inside of it. (see map)

Arcanist Doan

At the end of the library, you will find Arcanist Doan(lvl 37 Elite), he casts the following spells:

• Arcane Explosion, it's an Area Effect spell, and he casts it a lot, so if you are not supposed to be meleeing him, stand away from it.
• AE Silence, he casts it from time to time, so make sure your casters are far away from him.
• Polymorph, sometimes he turns a group member into a sheep. If you have a Priest he can remove it with Dispel Magic, if you have a warlock, his Felhunter pet can remove it as well.
• Arcane Shield, he casts it once in the fight when you get a good chunk of his health down. He is immune to everything while this Shield is up, and it lasts about 10 seconds.

He is Immune to Stun, Silence, Shield bash, etc. But he is a caster and therefore doesn't have much Hitpoints, even though he is a boss.

He can drop one of the following items:

As well as the Mantle of Doan or the Robe of Doan, so-so green items.

In the back of Arcanist Doan's room, you will find a treasure box on the floor, open it, and you will aquire the key to the 2 last instance parts of the Scarlet Monastery.

Now on to the next step, the Armory.

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Chapter II : The Armory

So you just entered the Armory. Now things get a bit more tough. First off, mobs are a bit higher level (highest being lvl 40, Herod himself). So I recommend your group is majorly lvl 36+
Secondly, most pulls are gonna be two or three mobs at a time. And there is also a few patrols, and of course, mobs have that annoying tendency to run away in fear. Things can get ugly quickly.

A few rules:

• Naturally, use every Humanoid crowd control spells / abilities your group has at disposal.
• Decide who is gonna be pulling (preferably the warrior, working together with the rogue (sap), if there is a rogue.)
• Pull WAY back, this is important, you need time to finish off mobs when they run away. People sometimes forget to snare on top...
• Decide who everybody will be Assisting (preferably not the warrior who will sometimes need to switch targets to taunt mobs off people)
• Kill casters first, they hurt the most. Scarlet conjurors have annoying Fire elemental as pets. They hurt but got low hit points. So if you don't have a warlock in the group (who could banish them), kill them first right after the caster is dead.
• If there is no caster, kill Scarlet Myrmidons first, they do high damage, and they enrage when low on health, which turns them into killing machine, so finish them off quick when they enrage. The cool thing about them, is that they never run in fear.
• Scarlet Protectors are no harm, they are Paladins and can heal, but ONLY themselves, for some reason, they don't heal other mobs. They have low dps, aren't much of a threat, but take long to kill because of the self healing. So, save them for last.
• Be careful, there is about 4-5 patrols on the way to herod. You can pull every of those patrols solo if you are careful enough. So take your time and watch out for those.
• Respawn is fast, but still you have enough time to do everything carefully, so don't be too hasty and wipe.

At the end of the armory is a big circle room, where Herod awaits his challengers.

Herod, The Scarlet Champion

Herod is tough, looks cool, and is a fun fight.
He hits pretty hard, and has a load of HPs. And some nasty abilities:

• Cleave - Hits an additional nearby target. This can be avoided if nobody else but the warrior is in close melee range. Note: A Rogue can still be meleeing and avoid most cleaves if he is fighting Herod from behind, and at max possible melee range.

• Whirlwind - Herod starts to spin, and every nearby player gets hurt every 3 second for about 200dmg+ , this lasts about 9 seconds. When this happens, whoever is in melee range, must back off fast, even the warrior. When he is done spinning, you can go back at him immediatly.
  Note: Herod is immune to magic while he is doing Whirlwind.

• Immune to stun, silence, etc.

• When he is below 20% hit points, he enrages, and this is when he really hurts. So save up some mana / energy for this moment, and finish him off quickly.

• When Herod dies, about 20 Scarlet Trainees come into the room and try to avenge their fallen Hero. They are only lvl 30 and non-elite though. use AE to kill them all fast.

Congratulations, you cleared the Armory, and got your main quest 2/4 completed. Now only Scarlet Commander Mograine and High Inquisitor Whitemane are left on your kill list.

Herod can drop the following items:

Prepare for the last part of the instance now, The Chapel.

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Chapter III : The Chapel

Introduction

I would recommend your group having an average of lvl 40+ for this last part of the instance. Simply because the last fight includes fighting Mograine and Whitemane at the same time. And they are both boss mobs, and both lvl 42 Elite. If you are lvl 39 or lower, they will be Orange to you, you will hit them less often, less hard. They will hit you more and harder. This is why lvl 40 or higher is a big advantage here.

Bestiary

New mobs:

• Scarlet Centurion - Melee type, casts Battle Shout.
• Scarlet Wizard - Casts Arcane Explosion (Instant AE) and Fire Shield III - Kill them fast.
• Scarlet Champion - Melee type, hits hard - Special High damage attack: Holy Strike.
• Scarlet Abbot - Priest type, casts Renew and Heal. Must be interrupted and killed fast.

On Your Way to The Chapel

You will first have to go through a garden with a pool in the middle. The fastest way through it seems to be clearing a straight path to the pool, then move your whole group there. Then when your whole group is safely sitting in the middle of the pool, you can start pulling either left or right, towards the stairs to the upper level of the gardens.

Once you have cleared a path safe enough to move up, tell your group to do so, and establish your new camp on the upper level pool, right next to the fountain. It's safe spot, nothing aggros there.

Now start pulling towards the Chapel's gate. Pull the mobs carefully, there are lots of roamers here, and fight them inside the pool, in the middle of it.

Warning: Be extremely careful with runners here, as you don't have much room for mistakes.

Once the path to the gate is open, call your group to move up the stairs, but don't move inside the chapel yet.

You will first clear the beginning of the Chapel by pulling it outside, to the stairs. When you feel that you have cleared enough inside so it is safe enough to move in, do so.

At the end of the chapel is Scarlet Commander Mograine. There is one thing you need to know about him before you go further: when you attack Mograine, he calls for help, and the WHOLE Chapel will come to his aid. So before you aggro Commander mograine, clear EVERYTHING that is inside the chapel, including the back rooms to the side. Check every little corner before you attack him, because the next fight is quite something.

Scarlet Commander Mograine & High Inquisitor Whitemane

Engage Mograine when your group is fully ready, and warn them about a few things:

• Mograine is a paladin type mob - He uses Hammer of Justice (3 sec stun), Crusader Strike (increases holy dmg on target), and Divine Shield (invulnerable for 10 seconds). He hits hard and can take a lot of pain. Thanks god though, he doesn't heal.

• When Mograine dies, High inquisitor Whitemane comes and attack your group - Whitemane isn't much of a threat - she doesn't hit hard, casts Holy Smite mainly, until she pulls out her ''special''.

• At some point, Whitemane will cast Area Effect Sleep, putting the whole party to sleep for about 10 seconds, and there is nothing you can do about it, it is part of the script. While your party is sleeping, she goes and Ressurects Scarlet Commander Mograine, and fully heals him.

• Don't panic, send your warrior on Mograine to offtank him, and the rest of the group on Whitemane. Kill Whitemane fast, she doesn't have much hit points, she is a caster type boss. When Whitemane is down, jump on Scarlet Commander Mograine and this time kill him for good.

Congratulations for overcoming this battle.

Scarlet Commander Mograine can drop the following:

He can as well drop the Scarlet Leggings, the same ones Herod drops.

High inquisitor Whitemane can drop :

You are done with the main quest now, but before leaving the instance, go to the little side room on the right, there is a torch in a corner, which is actually a switch to a secret room. Inside this room is High Inquisitor Fairbanks, which turns out to be an Undead (so much about Holy crusade), he is sleeping but will wake up if you get very close.

Anyway, he is an easy boss, casts sleep and curse of blood (physical damage taken increased), and powerword:shield.

He drops 3 top of the line random green items.

Also, before leaving the Chapel, check out the circle room where Whitemane was before she came to attack you. There is a treasure chest there most of the time.

Now is the time for you to go and turn in your main quest, and enjoy the rewards, which are totally great for this level.

I hope you enjoyed this guide through the Scarlet Monastery!

-Jame

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