World of Warcraft Healers - Priest Epic Quest Info

One really think it's impossible... esp
Written by Wah on 2006-12-03 19:38:54

It took me 4 tries to figure out the way to do this, and 2 tries to make it work. I'm assumed that you already got your eyes and all... and before hand, I need to make it clear that I bought my eye of shadow for 200g and got my eye of divinity by luck cause everyone already got it. I have 1 piece of tier 0 gear, no epic, and just a tinderhaven staff. Lousy equipment. Btw, you can't have anyone around to help, solo only or a Demon will come out and wipe everyone with 1 hit.

Here is how:

1. Oil immolation a must, hot key it use them often.
2. Bind key under "key bindings" so u can tab over to "Nearest friendly target".
3. Hot key abolish disease key next to heal.
4. Hot key renew (lvl 5) and Flash heal (lvl 4)
5. Major mana potion (with my lousy equipment, I ran out of mana and have to wait for buff to restore a little) Use Major mana potion early.
6. Hot key Holy Nova (I downgrade mine)
7. Greater intellect potion (+25wis)
8. Sunfruit juice (from Argent dawn merchant)

The order:

1. Abolish disease one first, then renew
2. See low hp, flash heal
3. Wait for skellies to gather, holy nova (u probably will use 4 nova in the whole process)
4. Keep oil of immolation once you see the skellies approach, but most of them died with 1 hit of holy nova.

Comment:

1. Many said mechanical yeti helps, I didn't use it, but I'm sure it does, but make sure you give it couple try first so u know how the quest work.

2. Some said, don't waste mana on Holy Nova... it helps a lot because they are attack you and the villager, once they gathered, 1 hit of Holy Nova, they are all dead.

3. With my lousy equipment, I didn't even use any druid,pally or mage buff... so don't worry about it.

4. V key doesn't work anymore, you can't see the health bar, don't even waste your time. (that's why bind key on nearest friendly unit may help, but I ended up didn't use it)

5. Don't wait until they walk all the way before you turn around, toss the one that have health lower than half a renew and then start back to the cave.

6. Don't panic when the peasants started dropping... even 2 at a time, just focus on step 1: abolish disease and renew/flash heal depends on how low the health bar, once u toss a renew, u probably don't have to worry about it for a while.

Seriously, after the 1st 3 tries, I thought I couldn't do it because of my lousy equipment. It can be done. I have 7k mana and 3.5 health. I suggest you should try it 3-4 times to practice.

Good luck!

Happy Benediction owner

Wahnita

A couple observations
Written by Raikanitchu on 2006-09-29 07:18:38

Got my benediction last night. Woot. Here's a couple of things I learned.

First, your friends can AOE the melee skellies even though they can't see or target them. The cleaner won't come out as long as your friends stay off to the sides by where the skellies spawn. I had a mage and two priests with me last night doing AOE. I didn't have to worry about a single skelly. I just focused on healing. Even with that, it took two attempts to get it done. Tough quest.

Second, apparently the health bars don't show up on the ghost villagers. I have my name plate keys set up for V, shift V, and CTRL V. They work fine on players, other NPC's and typical mobs. But, I couldn't see them on my targets in this quest.

Turning off the text balloons in the interface option was another huge help the second time.

Written by Ypog on 2006-09-11 06:40:09

The truth is, you can not see peasants' health with neither V, Shift+V nor Ctrl+V.I did this quest pre-1.12 on my first priest and I did it at first attempt, now I died at third peasants wave even though I popped desperate prayer and major mana pot and many oils of immolation.

Good luck, you gonna need it.

1.12
Written by thekemist on 2006-08-29 08:20:59

UPDATE: I completed this quest on 8/26/06 just after Patch 1.12 was released. There have been two significant changes with the new patch:

1) You can no longer "V" toggle on these mobs. There is no way to pull up the health bars above the peasants heads to aid in healing.

2) People who have already completed the quest can no longer see the peasants or skellies with their Spectral Essence.

The only effective way that I could find to rapidly scan through the mabs and successfully complete the quest was to bind "Target Nearest Friendly" to my Caps Lock key and tab through them as quickly as possible. I did complete the quest on my 4th try. No buffs but my own and no pots at all (I'm all blue with 1 purple, Holy Spec).

Good Luck!

Addition
Written by eternal_star01 on 2006-08-04 04:42:39

Holy Nova 3 worked amazingly, btw...Flash Heal 5 I found was sufficient for average healing gear and I used Cure disease rather than abolish.

New NCP Respawn time and a few more hint
Written by Gunetero on 2006-06-29 00:56:37

I've been very much apreciative of the feedback and help given by this page. I got myself all worked up that I wouldn't be able to do it on my first time and needed a large number of buffs.Well, I didn't do it on my first time, nor my second. It took me four tries but here is what I learned...

The quest giver respawn time is now more like 10-15 minutes instead of the two hours it was before. I logged my char out as soon as I failed to save some of the timers on my buffs. I changed to another char and did a couple of things and got ready to head to bed when I decided, "I'll just check to see if she respawned"... She had so I gave it another try and ran out of mana a second time and failed almost immediately. I'm not used to running out of mana that fast so I did some checking and discovered the following:

Use Holy Nova Rank 3 instead of Rank 6 (Which I had hotkeyed by default). The skellys will be killed in one blast. I probably could have used Rank 2 because of my Spirit talent but Rank 3 definately worked.
Downgrade Flash Heal to Rank 4 or 5 depending on how much +Healing gear you have. I had about +315 with the talent, buffs and gear.
Same goes for your Renew spell. The npcs you are healing don't have a ton of health anyway and the individual damage they take can be counteracted by rank 3-4. You can make up the difference with your Flash Heal.
Use Cure (Instant Cast) instead of Abolish. Not only is it less mana it's instant cast unlike Abolish.

I ended up using 2 mana pots during the quest still but I was able to get it done on my fourth try with a lot less buffs than when I did the first try.

BTW ...
Written by Chayla on 2006-06-16 09:57:33

This is my second preist ...

So my second benediction I did without outside help (in case there is confusion).

Rumor
Written by Lafonda on 2006-06-10 22:23:44

What you heard is completely untrue. I still have my splinter and I did the quest about a week ago.

Written by stavfx on 2006-06-05 14:34:13

ah yes! that was it! i was later able to see her! thx

Eye of Shadow
Written by Lafonda on 2006-06-05 09:53:13

You do NOT need the Eye of Shadow equipped to see the questgiver. I only had the Spectral Essence equipped and was able to see her. My coordinates were 20,18 and I went back to check today just to make sure I wasn't giving people wrong info. I could once again see the questgiver. She is not at the entrance of the cave, so maybe you just missed her? I even equipped the Eye of Shadow AND the Spectral Essence at the same time and could see her.

Spectral Essence...O RLY?!
Written by stavfx on 2006-06-05 04:48:33

i was excited to hear you can use the trinket before you get the eye of divinity, so i went to the spot, had my trinket equipped and...nothing! i couldn't see the quest giver!
should i have the eye of shadow equiped or something for that?

Yes, you can use the spectral essence.
Written by Lafonda on 2006-06-01 02:24:45

I would like to confirm that you can use the Spectral Essence to complete the quest "The Balance of Light and Shadow" and recieve the Splinter of Nordrassil. Of course, you still need the Eye of Divinity to complete the staff, but for an impatient person like me, having the splinter makes me sit a lot easier

I would also like to confirm that any priest who has the Spectral Essence or Eye of Divinity equipped is able to heal and cure the peasants with no penalty. I had a priest friend equip his Spectral Essence and take over healing and curing the peasants once I reached the ghost priest. I would then run back to the front of the cave to get a head start for the next wave of peasants. Considering how easy this was, I'm sure the help of my friend wasn't even needed.

Whoever decided to use holy nova rank 3 is a genius! It's easy to get flustered and fumble around for your oil of immolation, but holy nova made it so much easier to concentrate because the skellies were dead immediately. I did not use one oil of immolation the entire time.

My following buffs were:
Mark of the Wild
Arcane Intellect
Cerebral Cortex Compound (+50 int)
Headmaster's Charge (+20 int This buff stacks with any intellect buff. Good luck finding some one with the staff to give you the charge though :P)
Power Word: Fortitude
Inner Fire

I used:
1 Major mana potion
1 Dark Rune
Inner Fire (can't go wrong)
Desperate Prayer (this is a given if you have the spell)

Good luck to anyone who attempts this!

Lafonda
60 Dwarf Priest
Smolderthorn

Use Spectral Essence if you don't have
Written by dags on 2006-05-18 09:34:10

I just completed the "Balance of Light and Shadow" without having the Eye of Divinity. Instead, I equipped the "Spectral Essence" trinket from the Eva Sarkhoff scholo quest chain to see the quest giver in EPL.

Here are a few points worth noting from my successful run:

1. I did it solo with no help whatsoever. The key is using the right spells (abolish disease, renew rank 4 on the peasants), and dispensing with the skellies quickly. The key there is Holy Nova rank 3, and periodic Oil of Immolation.

2. Don't get flustered. Toggle "V" off to make selecting diseased peasants a little easier, take care of them first, then watch the health of the others. When the skellies pop, forget about the peasants and get rid of the skellies quickly.

3. A single rank 4 renew on peasants around 50% health was generally sufficient to keep them alive through the walk.

4. Don't stay with the groups too long. Once your abolishes and renew are up on the worst peasants, let them go as they approach the ghost priest. You need to get back to the next group quickly to tend to the deseased peasants right away.

Overall, a nerve-racking event that bested me twice before I finally heeded the good advice I read here, and in other forums. I must stress, however, that this is possible alone. You don't need anyone to help you if you manage your mana, get rid of the skellies, and don't over-heal.

Buffs and Items I used:

1. Fort
2. Spirit
3. Shadow Protection
4. Elixer of Greater Intellect (1)
5. Brilliant Mana Oil (1 charge)
6. Oil of Immolation (used 6)
7. Sagefish Delight ( for another +6 mana/5 sec)

I had 7600 mana, +253 healing.

Good luck.

-daghor
NE priest, suramar

1.10 patch
Written by TheEllna on 2006-04-04 11:23:39

I FINALLY completed this last night just in time for our ZG run. One thing I haven't seen mentioned here which helped me immensely during this quest was using a mere rank 3 holy nova (which is now spammable) which 1-shots the melee ud that attack you. Saved myself lots of mana vs. rank 6 and only used 1 mana pot. Also only used 4 oils of imm and probably didn't even need them.

a shadow priest's perspective
Written by vbrokop on 2006-02-26 19:08:37

02/26/06

i have just completed this quest after the 4th try. if you're a shadow priest, you will find what i have to write here valuable.

firstly, it seems that everyone in the above posts who have had an easy time of it have been healbot spec, and as a pvp shadow priest, am the farthest from. i have a very small mana pool and thus, rely on mana/5sec gear when in MC and healbot or dispelbot duty.

buffs:
fort
int
motw
crystal spire
crystal ward
inner fire

i used only 8 oil of immolations throughout the fight. i also had my mechanical yeti help. for potions, i used 2 major mana, 1 superior mana, 1 demonic rune, and 1 whipper tuber.

there are three extremely important things to remember during this event:
1) pressing V to display npc health bars are as much help as hindrence, due to their unpredictable nature; they hop all over the place in a very chaotic fashion and easily lead to frustration. this is THE reason i failed it three times. use them, but know when to toggle. this is the sole reason i suggest running through the event a couple of times before using any consumables to get the hang of it.
2) DO NOT delay in getting back to the cave entrance. i had a habit my first couple trys of staying with the previous waves until they were 100% safe, which is simply the wrong thing to do. once the next wave spawns, you have to leave the others be and hike it up there to dispel/renew and gain skeleton aggro through use of oil of immolation.
3) continually be doing *something*... whether it be popping a potion or dispeling or renewing; targets that had more than 50% health i renewed with rank 6.

i did not cast any rank of flash heal once during the fight.

i had a measly +68 healing for the event but chose this specific set of gear because it gave me 81 mana per 5 seconds. since you're within the 5-second rule almost the entire event, this seemed to me to be the best way to go. if you don't have sufficient amount of mp5 gear, use your +healing gear and lower-ranked spells.

for us shadow priests, it's more of a challenge due to our reduced mana pool, but it's certainly doable. good luck.

For those asking about Shaman Help
Written by nachinnici on 2006-02-11 10:24:45

Ok, since the question has been asked several times without an answer on whether or not Shaman's totems can help with this quest like Paladin Aura's do, I decided to find the answer for all you Horde players out there.

The short answer is yes they can buff you without ruining the quest.

More detailed...
They must pretty much stay by the quest giver, they can't move. They can continually cast non-offensive totems (Stoneskin, Mana Tide, etc.) and they will stay out of combat. The problem is that the range of the things is pretty crappy and by the time you get to where you have led your peasants to where the buffs effect you, it's pretty much time to run up and start healing the new group.

One more thing to add that is helpful since it is new as of the 1.9 patch is get some Mana Oil for you weapon, Enchanters can make this and it is a mana per 5 second buff for 30 min.

UI help
Written by durrin on 2006-01-26 23:42:44

i'm having trouble targeting the bars \for the epic staff quest does anyone know of a UI addon that makes the bars move around less or puts them into a table form or anything along those lines any help would be good ty

surely....
Written by Guest on 2005-12-21 13:39:51

evryones talking about how they managed the solo bit with saving peasants etc, but surely the hard bit is killing all those lvl?? bosses and summoning Major Domo (and getting his chest) And then getting the other eye from krazzak (i think) . seems like this'll take forever..?

warrior is needed
Written by Guest on 2005-12-19 22:55:56

have a warroir stand in the purple spot with thorns on and just throw e/z throw 2 dynamie at him or use immolation oil if needed.

it took me

3 immoalation oil ( you may need more if they get pulled off the warrior)
4 EZ 2 throw dynamite
1 major mana pot
1 dark rune
2 mana pots would have woked allot better

buffs/ aura's you should have

arcane intelect, i just had a frined give me the 1h buff in IF
MOTW
Thorns
a pally using retribution aura
and optionaly a warlock for stamina buff and fire shield
essence of pure flames would be an uber trinket to have for this but its not needed

I only needed to heal myself 3 times the whole fight. Also dont be affraid to use a flash heal on them if there low but use a rank 3-5 they dont have much health so rank 6-7 is way overkill and just using up mana. Always focus on the ones that are glowing puple or green using abolish disease then immediatly put renwe after abolish disease. There will be some in the start that are diseased and some that werent diseased will become diseased as they walk allong.

As soon as u see them all dissapear in a flash of grean get ready for the next wave as they already spawned.

If you have a decent amount of + healing you can easily get away with lower rank renews essprcially for the once that have more then 1/2 hp. But if u have 2 mana pots and either a dark rune or night dragons breath you are fine using the rank 9 renew.

i layed out my hotkeys 1) flash heal rank 6 2) abolish disease 3) renew rank 6 4) renew rank 9

i got it on my first try i was soo happy :) I think it was like 4-5 waves and i only lost 4.

I got 22 int on it because i cant afford 55 healing or 30 spellpower atm

Pincenez
Written by Guest on 2005-12-14 21:26:40

Obtaining the splinter or Nordassil: You must have the eye of divinity eqipped

Locating the quest: Cross the bridge into Eastern Plaguelands, turn left immediately, go over the hillocks, ride north along the river to terrorweb tunnel. Go through the tunnel, then bear left, walk along the ridge, and you will spot the NPC on a mound to the right. A smaller cave, in front of which the event begins, lies beyond her. Remember you can't see NPC without eye of divinity equipped.

Preliminary preparations:This quest is easier if you are holy specced and have holy nova. You should carry at least 25 oil of immolation potions. This quest is easier if you recieve AI buff from mage before going, but not necessary. You should punch "V" on keyborad to see health bars of peasant targets. Hot keys should include decursive, lvl 9 renew, and holy nova if you have it. A mana potion and major health potion may be helpful.

Procedure: After you receive the quest, move quickly to the mouth of the cave where peasants spawn. They spawn in 5 groups of 10.

1st wave; Peasants attacked by hunter skeles on hills around area. They will receive physical damage from this, but also, some will be diseased. Disease looks either green or blue aura. Blue disease is very bad and should be dispelled as quickly as possible. These peasants also walk faster. Dispel and then cast lvl 9 renew. Next targets are those with green disease. Dispel. Then renew peasants with health bars under 40%. Follow them as they walk away from cave. Do not overheal. In first wave try to lose fewer than 3 peasants, but dont get flustered if/when one dies.

Second wave. As you get near NPC with first wave, glance back to see second wave of peasants. As soon as you see them go back to help them. On second wave, skeles will run to group and attack it with physical damage, this in addition to hunters on hills. Again, dispel disease first. Try to aggro the running skeles to yourself. If peasants aggro them they will stop to fight and get separated from the group. This is bad. At this point use holy nova and begin popping immolation pots. Also shield yourself.

When the second wave reaches safety with you accompanying them, you will be attacked by skeles before you begin to run back to the third group. Do not fight them! If you do, you will be too far from third wave of peasants to heal them, and too many will die. Instead, shield yourself, take an oil of immolation potion, and get back as quickly as possible to the third wave. Once there, continue to do all you can to aggro the skeles, and use holy nova at that time if it is available. Make sure oil of immolation is on at all times here.

In the final two waves, skeles may attack at several points in the walk, generally close to where the peasants spawn. Again, try to get them to fight you, not the peasants. keep an eye on your own health, and take a health pot if shield is not enough.

Bottom line: Dont overheal. A peasant who is not diseased and who has more than 60% health at the start of the walk will probably make it. At the end of the walk NPC may also heal the group, which adds a margin of safety. Keep calm, and have fun!

I made it!
Written by Guest on 2005-12-14 06:13:27

Yesterday i finally made the quest after my fourth try, the first two attempts wasn't serious at all, no buffs and so on, just to get a feel of it...

I failed my third attempt because I ran out of mana and too many peasants died. The reason for this was a bad specc i think + I used a too high rank of renew (rank 7). I also followed the first wave too long which made alot of ppl in the second wave die. When attempting this the third time i was shadow specced, ofc you can make this quest if you are shadow but the problem was I hadn't specced fully into Mental Agility which means all my instant spells cost more. And that is a big problem here because you mainly use renew and abolish disease! I figured it would be more expensive to keep trying in shadow specc than just doing one respec to holy/disc and then making the quest on the first attempt!

So... I specced 31/20/0. I specced full mental strength and mental agility + full improved inner focus. I then spececd meditation all the way down to divine spirit. And don't forget Inner Focus, it's a lifesaver. I did not specc holy nova, the oil of immolations does it's work so I believe you don't need holy nova. In holy make sure you specced improved renew and spiritual healing. I also wanted to try this heavy discipline build for a couple of weeks while playing MC thats also why I didnt specc a "useless" holy nova build.

The quest was so much easier after doing this! My mana did not run out like before. This is exactly what I did. And I want to point out that I only used buffs and stuff that was easy to get from AH and so on. No whipped roots and so on! So for the lazy ppl like me this is a good way:

Buffs:
I got a 60 min buff from a druid in IF. I also bought the +25 int potion from AH. Thats all buffs i got! I also used fortiude and divine spirit on myself.

Pots:
Nothing fancy, only Major mana potions (I used 2 or 3 during the quest)!
I also asked a warlock in my guild to give me 3 healthstones.
And ofc oil of immolations (used 15), I didn't have any strat holy water!

I then went to do the quest and i made it!

Tips:
I almost only used Renew (rank 6) and Abolish Disease. It's alot easier you don't really have time to use flash heals all the time. You can use a flash heal (rank 4) if someone is close to dying. Other than that only renew. Use 'V' to show healthbars and if someone gets a disease, turn them off with 'V' so you can easily target the green guys and abolish disease. When you see purple peasant dispell and renew them as fast as you can! Use oil of immolation as soon as you hear or see skeletons appearing. Also walk behind the peasant and get the skeletons in your back. This makes it easier to see the peasant healthbars. You can also try moving the camera to a "bird view" which also makes things easier. When the groups get close to the NPC turn around quickly to see if a new group has spawned. If they have, hurry back!

Thats all i did and it worked. I also drank the Mana Potions as soon as I could and used the healthstones when my health got low. Between the stones cooldown I used Inner Focus + Greater Heal on myself. Which means you heal yourself for 2500+ for free! After that use healthstone again!

Hope this info helps! /Merenwen (Svea guild, Twillights hammer)

Mage Assistance
Written by Guest on 2005-12-13 10:37:27

My friend Mjolli (earthen ring) had tried this question numerous times and failed. The cleaner came once and she'd tried this a couple times with a priest friend helping. The pally buffs from 2 pally friends helped a bit too, but it wasn't until I offered to help that she found success.

2 Paladin Buffs, 1 Arcane Int - 1 priest at the edge of the mage spell blizzard's range.

She did her thing and as a Mage I just watched from the hill where the NPC supposedly is (being a mage I have no idea what she was seeing). Whenever things got ugly and you can tell by what she was casting I would toss a blizzard around her and the skeletons supposedly would be hit by it and go down. She completed the quest first try. No oil of immolation and only 1 mana potion used. The mage spell blizzard apparently helped her alot. She said afterwards that when the fight was just about to go bad, Xetrov was there with his blizzard to save the day.

xetroV - level 60 Steampowered Gnomish Archwizard

(Earthen Ring)

Written by Guest on 2005-12-12 03:26:40

Took me a few tries (wasn't removing poisons on failed attempts, priest is not my main :p ), used about 12 immolation potions (and thunderbrews boot flask!!), 2 major mana potions and a superior mana potion. I had mark of wild and AI buff.... I used "v" and it was confusing at parts when skeletons were mixed in but fear did the job.

I also found it useful to have ctmod show how much hp and % hp and mana I had.

I thought I was going to fail again but quest said complete so who cares? The first 2 waves of civilians caused me most problems, they just seemed to take more damage.

Quest difficulty is depended on your gea
Written by Guest on 2005-12-11 19:10:30

its a lot tougher to do with blues
took me 4 or 5 tries
i have 2 purples, about 6k mana unbuff and 7k mana buff (without kings)

the trick here is to chuck down mana pots ASAP
demonic runes are lifesavers

the hard part about the quest is no being able to heal the normal way "AKA" CT raid windows

so pressing V and heal is a pain in the ass
the guys u gotta heal moves so their health bar moves (very annoying x10)

the skels zerg and confuses their health bar with the peas

overall it just takes time to get use to, too bad the cooldown to do this quest is 2hours.. they should make it one hour since lotta people are capable to get the pair of eyes

SS and ress
Written by Guest on 2005-12-09 10:50:06

Did this on my third try.. I had a SS when I did this quest, and died, so I just ressed and kept healing the peasants, and died again, and then a druid ressed me, and I could finish it, so ask a warlock and a druid to come with you :) used 2 mana pots and 1 healthstone.
Died on my second try too, without a SS, but I didn't relese and it completed. Then the pally in my group got disconnected so he couldn't res me, so I had to relese, and then it failed, so make sure you have somone who can res you.

2nd try
Written by Guest on 2005-12-07 02:38:04

did the quest on second try. first try got little bit surprised by first wave und 7-8 died just in wave 1 = failed.

second try done without buffs, just used tons of oil of immolation (no holy nova). was getting close but did it. overall used 2 mana potions, 2 demonic runes and 12 oil of immolation. no water from stratholme (completely forgot, had 20 with me). mainly cured deasease and used renew and couple of times flash heal.

jsut try to stay in the middle and get all skeletons to attack you and not the peasants, that's the key.

Can other priests heal?
Written by Guest on 2005-12-05 04:01:49

If you can party, and the rest of the priests not moving around, just standing next to the npc heal the peasants when they get near the end, will you fail the quest?
Some people just says that you'll fail if anyone else kills the skeletons, so as long as no one but you attacks the skeletons it should be ok...
Well, dunno, failed this quest twice already.

easy
Written by Guest on 2005-12-02 18:18:30

Did this quest first try with fort/ai/motw.. used 15 oil of immo, and 1 major mana potion.. simple enough, just be on top of your shit.

Written by Guest on 2005-12-01 11:17:24

Stupid quest. Nothing to do with ability to play a priest.

Got mine today
Written by Guest on 2005-11-28 08:04:47

3rd attempt, used 12 oil of immolation, 1 major health potion, 2 night dragon's breath, 2 whipper root, and was buffed with nightfin soup, rum tum tuber suprise, divine spirit, imp. PW:F, and a +25 int potion.
First attempt was just to get a feel for it, and the second time I allowed the health bars (hotkey V) to confuse me, third time I switched the bars on and off, on for scanning quickly and easily, off so I could quickly target without the bars dancing around in an unpredictable fasion.
Love riding around with it equipped, so many random people come up and inspect you :)

I got it too today
Written by Guest on 2005-11-23 07:02:40

After 2 failed tries I got it too. First time I was with a paladin guildie and as soon as I accepted the quest and advanced a few steps. the Cleaner appeared and killed me ( I suspect the paladin moved a little bit, not sure). Second time the skeletons got me. The trick is, like everyone said before, Oil Of Immolation. The skellies hit for 60-70 and up to 140 crits. Comined with their number, you can go down pretty fast. To avoid that, !nulljust spam immolation. every 15 seconds use another one and you won't have any problems. I used 2 mana pots, desperate heal and barely made it in the end because my oil ran out :D But I got it completed. Haven't used anyone else , just my buffs, crystal spire and mana + health regen. Enjoy and good luck

Written by Guest on 2005-11-21 21:47:20

Read the whole thing. Helps.

To answer a few questions.

I'm on a server with 50+ priests that have benediction/staff of dominance. It's a question of preference and dkp, really.

So I have my eye of shadow, had it since my first Kazzak Kill, with the new patch I see two or more Eye of Shadow's on the AH daily.

Even if they do sell for 750 G, they're still on the AH.

AS per Kazzak, no one must die, no bunny wabbits, no hunter pets, etc. We have 20 manned him without incident.

Get your eye of shadow, get your agent quest completed and join a raiding guild. It's the only way you will reliably get enough domo/kazzak kills to ensure that you get your epic staff. Hopefully with the expansion the staff will still be uber enough to last to 70.

/agree with above, I would almost rather have a lesser +healing weapon with more mana regen per second, as the int/spirit/stam are just not that much better than other non class specific epics (SoD, even Glowing Brightwood...)
Given the time it takes to raid with a 40 man guild.

AS it is, Domo has been stingy, more leaves than Eyes by far. Ugh. I'm next in line tho, and we do MC in one day every 7 days, so it wont be long.

Kijael
Written by Guest on 2005-11-20 14:31:39

Just got it today. We did it with lots of buffs (mage, druid, locks, pallys) plus we had two priests doing it at the same time. 1 Priest stood at the bottom of the hill next to the NPC, the other stood where the peasents spawn. Neither priest moved and you can't heal each other. Though you can both heal and cure disease of the peasents. The one nearest the cave handles all the aggro. A lot easier, didn't use 1 mana pot or go out of mana (nearly full at end).

the cleaner
Written by Guest on 2005-11-17 08:14:18

You have done smthing wrong m8.The cleaner is a lvl 63 elite demon that spawns and kills anyone that helps the priest doing the quest.Prpbably somone was trying the quest at this time and you by mistake helped him or tried to do something.FOR THOSE THAT dont know it if a horde player take the quest and you are an alliance and take the quest the same time just W8 and dont do nothing IF the other player complete the quest yopu get it completed also.

not mentioned below.
Written by Guest on 2005-11-16 15:57:25

oh and btw, did it in one try..

ps. watch movies when ppl do the quest. gave myself a good picture about what was going to happend.

my experience, fwiw
Written by Guest on 2005-11-16 04:22:50

Quote:

1.8 quest changes
Written by Guest on 2005-11-14 20:14:59
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The quest has been changed with Patch 1.8. The monsters do at least the double damage, the respawn has been drastically increased. I've asked around and before 1.8 most priests completed it after 1-3 tries, after 1.8 90% failed even after 10 tries. I've seen a pre-1.8 video of this quest and the difficulty went from normal to insane.

The peasants get massive damage, you cannot use low lvl renew anymore, so you will run out of mana soon.

This seems to be true. I never tried it before the patch, so I don't know for sure, but what I was experiencing seemed much more difficult than what the people in this thread were telling me it would be.

Anyway, my respect to those who said they completed this quest after one or two tries if it hasn't been changed (made harder) since they did it. It's a good challenge and took me 4 or 5 tries, which was really annoying given the respawn rate and the desirability of the reward. The quest giver is hardly ever there unless you have the time to camp it, since lots of priests seem to be doing (and failing) this quest now that eye of shadow is more plentiful.

how I did it (completely alone, without any other people's buffs):
Started with buffs:
flask +2000 mana (still had this buff after clearing MC (I was one of only 3 priests we had for that, which is why I used a flask. As someone else said, flask is not necessary - just remember to use mana pot early in the fight and you should be ok).
mageblood potion (+mana regen)
crystal spire (the fire shield one that does damage for ten minutes, I thought about using the spirit one, but chose fire shield one for the attempt where I succeeded)
+25 int potion
fort & inner fire

used tipbuddy addon (shows the buffs/debuffs of your target in the tooltip) - helpful for targetting diseased peasants

started quest, ran to cave entrance, cured sick guys asap and renewed (rank 6) peasants that got below ~80%

pressed v a lot to distinguish diseased peasants from the others and to see which needed a heal, and also used bird's eye view quite a bit, so their health bars don't bounce around as much, but not always

after first wave, hostile mobs spawned, I put on immolate and I used Barov Peasant caller, those guys killed all the first and some of the second waves of mobs. I had about ten trinkets to choose from, and thought "what the hell, let's try that one!" I considered using smoky's lighter or Essence of Eranikus for doing damage, but thought peasant caller would be more fun. I knew I saved all those dumb trinkets for a reason.

during third wave, more hostile mobs came, I holy novaed them, when more came, I used holy water, I kept immolate up as often as I remembered (apparently often enough :-) - it's very important to keep that buff on yourself, and very easy to forget, but if you are keeping an eye on weakened soul for your shield, you can also remind yourself to use the oil of immolation since they are both on 15 second timers)

at one point, holy nova and holy water were both on cooldown and I used fear... when they returned, with more spawns, the cooldown was up on one of my aoe attacks

I should have used a mana pot at least once earlier in the fight, and got really close to not having enough mana at a couple points... however, since I had been using tubers and night dragon's breath to heal myself (I used those and shield and possibly a renew one time on myself) I had just enough mana to squeek through this quest. It might be better (more mana efficient) to use renew on yourelf instead of shield (and renew is on 15 second timer like oil of immolation, too!)

I didn't use flash heal; I used as little mana as possible to heal myself since there are other ways to heal myself, but not other ways to heal those I was protecting. If you don't kill the mobs immediately, you will have to heal yourself, which wastes time and mana, so try to kill them immediately.

the final wave of peasants was about twice as big as all the other waves and so was the final spawn of mobs... I killed about 9 mobs with holy nova and three seconds later there were just as many.. I was just about out of mana and thinking "oh no too many peasants are going to die" and luckily I noticed that holy water was usable and it killed all those mobs, I cured 8 or so guys while I watched the horde of peasants wandering towards the destination when it finally said completed... I then ran over and got the third item needed to make benediction, then got a summon to org and got the eye of shadow and made benediction and can't wait to try it out in BWL tomorrow night!

anyway it was a really fun and challenging quest, I wish I would/could have copied my guy to a test server before-hand so I could do it again - oh well hind sight is 20/20

Confused
Written by Guest on 2005-11-15 13:30:28

In attempting the quest for the Splinter of Nordrasil, i was on the last wave, and a massive doomlord came out and killed me in 1 hit, he was called "The Cleaner" anyone know why he came?

harder after patch 1.8? i disagree
Written by tristan on 2005-11-15 04:46:45

i have got my benedicion/anathema after 1.8, and it was first try. Just read a lot about the quest, get the needed items and ...voila

you just need oil of immolation and major mana pots. Any other thing isnt really needed

1.8 quest changes
Written by Guest on 2005-11-14 20:14:59

The quest has been changed with Patch 1.8. The monsters do at least the double damage, the respawn has been drastically increased. I've asked around and before 1.8 most priests completed it after 1-3 tries, after 1.8 90% failed even after 10 tries. I've seen a pre-1.8 video of this quest and the difficulty went from normal to insane.

The peasants get massive damage, you cannot use low lvl renew anymore, so you will run out of mana soon.

Video
Written by Guest on 2005-11-12 16:09:07

Can someone link a video of this event? I am about to try it, and I'd like to get a feel for it. All of your comments have been very helpful!

Outside buffs? Useless.
Written by Guest on 2005-11-07 13:01:56

I just have to say, I've seen some videos of people using two complete rows of buffs to complete this quest. Some even purchased flasks of distilled wisdom (+2000 mana for a period of 2 hours), which go for around 60g on my server (Bleeding Hollow).

You DO NOT need all this crap to complete the quest. Here's what I used to complete the quest this morning:

-Divine spirit
-Fortitude (Improved)
-Inner fire (Improved)

That's it for buffs. I had NO AI, mark, blessings, flasks and any other consumable buff you can think of. Here are the items I used for the duration of the fight:

-2 *greater* mana potions (+700-900 mana)
-12 oil of immolation

In my opinion, the key to this fight is (and was for me) spirit. YES spirit is a gimped stat when you cast continuously, but in this case, you can EASILY use it in your favor to regain lot of mana. I had 6974 total mana for the quest, and Im not that much decked out (4/8 prophecy).

Keep your cool for the quest, and try your best. Don't stress yourself if you fail, and if you do, then you won't need to cry because you just spent 80g on flasks/major mana pots/various buff pots.

Good luck!

Elaurah@Bleeding Hollow

Written by Guest on 2005-11-05 22:50:25

Took me two tries...

Buffs:
Fort, AI, GOTW, Devine Spirit, health stone

Tips:
- use only renew (8) and abolish disease, flash heal is a waste of time & mana
- watch them for the disease, the best indicator is the glow they get around them, abolish it right away, don't get hung up watching health bars for too long, scan the peasents for the disease after every few casts
- if there's more than 2 or 3 skeletons beating on you, cast renew on yourself
- oil of immolation is a must, around 15 per attempt
- I think I used two mana pots, probably didn't need either
- keep inner focus up, the fight isn't long, you should only have to cast it once in combat
- walk BEHIND the peasents, the skeletons spawn behind them, you want to be between them, that way they come right at you, and their health bars don't get mixed up with the peasants
- when they reach the quest NPC, do one final round of abolish, renew the low ones, and head back for the next wave, the ones you left will make it
- the NPC blesses you with some health & mana after each wave
- don't get flustered...abolish, renew, oil, renew yourself. that's all you have to do.
- be confident, remember you killed Majordomo to get here. now all you have to do is renew a few peasants :grin

easy quest...!!!
Written by Guest on 2005-11-05 13:37:28

i did this quest in 2 trys and it is so easy.. you dont need all thouse buffs i did it whit divine sprirt and fortiude and ofc inner fire.. some do this quest buy only use renew the highest rank.. but did in another way, i used rank 5 flash heal and rank 6 renew thats it.. and god shake get some holy water and oil that make the quest so much easyer.. good luck whit this quest..

wow
Written by peddee on 2005-11-03 02:06:40

This is gonna be so helpfull for when i do the quest.
I already have the eye of shadow and my guild has just killed Shazz so we are well on our way to kill Domo.....so it's won't be long till i have my very nice staff...

btw High Council on aggramar server rules!!!!!

Written by Guest on 2005-10-28 16:30:35

Just did the splinter part without oil of immolation. It's easy if you just cycle through holy nova and psychic scream.

Start the quest with 5 priests?
Written by Guest on 2005-10-27 07:07:52

So, it is possible to start the quest with 4 other priests having the same quest?

Written by Tristan on 2005-10-26 03:44:17

Quest can be done grouped even after 1.8 patch. This is the prove:

[IMG]http://img481.imageshack.us/img481/8017/wowscrnshot1026051228337bm.th.jpg[/IMG]

I even used the Admiral's Hat to give Bubblan (he did the quest since his mana pool was larger) a bit more stamina.

Shackle?
Written by Guest on 2005-10-25 06:09:54

Does it matter if you can shackle? You can only shackle one enemy at a time anyway, so it wouldn't make that much of a difference. And since you can't kill the archers apparently, I doubt they can be shackled.

problems with the Splinter of Nordrassil
Written by Tristan on 2005-10-24 18:45:39

if you don't see the NPC that gives the quest, and once you enter the cave and pass it, you are atacked by skeletons, it means that someone else has recently tried and failed the quest.

Just log out and try later if you don't see the NPC

When i tried it, the key is using Oil of Immolation (3 every minute more or less, and the fight lasts for 4-5 minutes, so it makes like 15 oils), abolish disease, a lower rank of renew (more mana saved), inner fire, and using mana pots as soon as you are 75% mana so you can use a second pot. My buffs were just:

Fortitude
Divine Spirit
Inner Fire (improved)

and potions with life regeneration (cheap at the auction house).

Eye of Shadow
Written by Guest on 2005-10-24 05:16:37

Got my eye of shadow yesterday on my first run at Kazzak got invited to a PUG by a friend and won the roll for it over 4 other priests. i just went balistic :)

Saimdang
Knights of Justice
Kilrogg

Undead Stratholme Holy Water?
Written by Guest on 2005-10-24 00:19:58

How well does the water from UD Strat work for this? I've saved up 7 spare waters just because I've heard it's like a substitute for Oil of Immolation...

Cant wait to try this... But I'm probably farther away than I think. Maybe I'll get lucky on Eye of Shadow soon... =P All I know is that ever since I first saw Anathema/Benediction, I've drooled over it's greatness. And I must have it.

Written by Guest on 2005-10-20 08:06:39

I'm about to have the Eye of Divinity, but I would like to know how much the UD warriors deal damage.
I have approximatively +200 healing bonus, and 7700 mana without buff, do I have to use lesser ranks of my spells?
Thanks to anyone that can help me :)

Written by Guest on 2005-10-18 16:00:43

I did it today, got the +50 int buff from blasted lands, thorns, motw, ab, pof. I got a fellow priest with me who stood on the hill without moving (in my party) and he completed the quest when i did. So its possible to do it with multiple priest at the same time, dont realy know if the other priests can help, i assume not.

Enchant
Written by Guest on 2005-10-17 07:25:30

I have a question. At the moment I have +55 healing on my staff, and with the new 1.8 patch I can transform it and keep enchant. Is it possible to have a different enchant on each Ben/Ana? For eg. +55 healing on Benediction, and +22int on Anathema

Confirmation on 2 priests
Written by Guest on 2005-10-16 03:27:30

I got my benediction on 10/15/05... Here are a few tips...
YES, MORE THAN ONE PRIEST CAN GET THIS QUEST DONE AT THE SAME TIME...In my run, we had one priest do the actual event and I grouped with him but stayed a couple little hills down from the npc.. I got the 'so and so is starting the quest, woudl you like to as well'... we both got the staff and turned it into benediction... so it IS CONFIRMED YOU CAN DO IT WITH MULTIPLE PRIESTS...what i suggest is the following... get your guildmates to help you.. grab a warlock, druid, and mage and have them cast AOE spells continuously starting from before you even accept the quest..as long as they stay on the hills, dont run down, and are not in your group, their AOE's will killl the skeletons and you dont have to worry about oil of immolation or holy nova... makes this quest A LOT easier..
i can explain in further detail if need be... ./t Boost on illidan server, horde side

Wich do i start with
Written by Guest on 2005-10-15 23:37:18

Wich do i start with ? :grin

anathema!!
Written by Guest on 2005-10-13 07:17:38

first of all:
1.
find duke and do all quests
((Poisoned Water
Stormers and Rumblers
Eye of the Emberseer
The Molten Core
Agent of Hyraxis
Hands of the Enemy ))

2.
go to winterspring and farm 60 elite demons
for eye of shadow.

3.
kill majordomo (MC) and take eye of divinity

4.
use eye of divinity like a trinket in e.p. and find quest giver. u must done it and take reward (Splinter of Nordrassil

5. Combine the 3 items...and listen this song (anathema-alternative 4 )

good luck!

Update
Written by Guest on 2005-10-12 07:43:42

Anathema, Benediction, Thunderstrike, and Shadowstrike will now remember the enchantments and durability data they possessed when they transform

The new patch v1.8
GREAT NEWS!

no buffs, no auras
Written by Guest on 2005-10-12 02:46:25

ok, i got my staffe yesterday, i am disc/holy speced now,

got only :
fortitude
elixir of sages

used:
16 OIL OF IMMOLATION
2 major mana potions

did it on 2nd try, couse first time i didnt have OIL OF IMMOLATION and want only see how the quest loooks like.

used only renew rank 8 and abolish diseasee on peasants,
4x flash heal to heal myself.

only 4 peasants died.

didnt got any aurasm pala,druid,mage buffs.

Lets solo it m8s, not so hard like it looks like.

Whats the Epic quest name?
Written by Guest on 2005-10-11 08:11:48

Ok well im a new and up comeing priest and i definatly want this staff at 60 but whats the name of the quest that starts it? :upset

And i would really like to know for future referance.

Aliki - Exodia - Skullcrusher
Written by Guest on 2005-10-10 16:14:38

I can confirm, the quest can be done in pairs. However, the cleaner will still spawn if the priest who did not initiate teh quest gets too close to the cave entrance.

Easiest way to beat it
Written by Guest on 2005-10-04 10:42:22

I already had the EoS. I obtained the EoD this past Saturday (10/01/2005) and finally got a chance at the quest the following day. Be warned, if another priest, undead or alliance, fails the quest, you have a 2hr wait for the quest to repop. I kept missing the quest because both an alliance and an undead priest were failing ad nausem, so you may want to camp your toon there and check in every 30min to try and gauge the respawn and hopefully get a whack at it.This is what I eventually had to do to try to get my chance at it.I would play an alt and every 30 min I would log in and check.

Some tips:

1. Holy Nova / Oil of Immolation

Holy Nova + Oil of Immolation makes this fight insanely easy. All you need is rank 1 Holy Nova and it will kill every skelly within range immediately. Keep an Oil of Immolation in your system at all times. As soon as you use one, pop another so you're ready for the next wave when Holy Nova is on cool down.
Make sure to bring 20-30 with you just in case, albeit you will probably not use nearly this many, especially if you use Holy Nova.

2. Walk among the peasants

It is easier to walk among them to easier identify the dieseased ones, as the Health Bars can and will shift and move as the peasants walk and move among themselves making it sometimes hard to target via bars. This threw me completely off the first time and caused me to fail because you would go to target a health bar and it would shift and move away. Walking among them keeps them more steady and allows you to manually target the peasant instead of the bar if you need to.I actually targetted the Peasant 90% of the time directly.

3. Diseases

No matter what, cure diseases first, period, then worry about using Renew.
Failing to make diseases a priority will greatly increase the chances of you failing

3. Renew, Abolish Disease, Flash heal

These really are the only tools you will use, and you do NOT need to use flash heal on the peasants. It is a waste of time. Use a 1-2 lower ranked Renew to save mana, as by this time you hopefully have +healing gear to offset.Pop a renew on yourself continually and keep Desperate Prayer at the ready. If you keep a timed renew on yourself + Desperate Prayer towards the end, you won't need flash heal most likely.This entire encounter can be beaten with instant spells.Relying on flash heal = a waste of 1.5 seconds (1.4 for me) and that can make a huge difference.

4. Fear

Using fear will allow you to gain time to heal yourself (if needed), cure and renew more peasants, and will also allow more non-feared skeletons to spawn so you can amass a much larger group to kill via Holy Nova to maximize it's use, as it has a 30 second cool down. Another strat, which I used, is to shield yourself to let them build up in #'s as you continue to abolish diseases and toss out renews, and then use Holy Nova to take out an appreciable mass of the Skeletons.

5. Buffs

You don't need any outside help (lock/pally) to come with you. I did the quest solo using Fortitude, and 1x elixir of sages and 1x elixir of intellect, and that was it. I used 2x major mana, even though in hindsight I could have only used one, but it never hurts to be sure with a 2hr cooldown on the quest.

Good luck!

Ascention
60 Priest
Suramar

erm
Written by Guest on 2005-10-01 19:45:41

Great guide :p im at 55, hope this guide still is upp when its time for me to get teh staff

/Gurbeh@Ravencrest

Written by Guest on 2005-10-01 11:05:45

No.

2 ShadowPriests Did this Together
Written by Guest on 2005-09-29 05:59:00

HI, not sure if its a bug or not. But I accompanied another guild priest to watch him do his. We both had our EoD equipped and I stood two hills down from the quest NPC to watch him. As he started the quest, I got one of those popups saying "SoandSo is starting the quest, do you want to start to?"I hit yes, but becasue we still wernt sure of more than one person being able to do this, I still stayed back 2 hills down, and watched, and ofc didnt move a muscle.

Well my friend did great, got around 70% complete, but didnt notice his hp dwindling and subsequently died. Thinking there was nothing else to do, and noticing that the NPC didnt vanish, I ran up and with no buffs on and my hotbar screwed (it was ready for the friend to run it on me) I saved what I could from the last few groups. Well, all of a sudden, with his corpse at my feet no doubt watching me, we BOTH got a COMPLETED.

Sooo I have a tendency to think that the Devs intended priests to do this as a group. However, doing this in a tag team fashion is probably safer till someone else has time to confirm this.

X_______________________________X
Written by Guest on 2005-09-28 13:03:57

Finally completed it on the 5th try though, the other attempts I kinda half assed.

Written by Guest on 2005-09-27 07:29:31

Myself, I was exploring and found Duke. Didn't bother with his quests as I was already level 60, until I read this.

Written by Guest on 2005-09-26 09:36:21

Yeah... I'd love to see you solo those raid mobs.

Nice
Written by Guest on 2005-09-23 23:00:57

wow, awsome guide

Mage Help
Written by Guest on 2005-09-21 14:34:07

Well.. u can easilly do this quest without the oil.. just ask a guild m8 (mage) to come, and when the melee skels spawns ask him to do blizzard at your position. the skels die instantly. easy...! btw.. the mage cant move or the quest will fail.

Done it, got the staff
Written by Guest on 2005-09-17 08:25:05

Used EZ-Thro Dynamite II, Oil of Immolation and a lot of potion buffs. Didn't have anybody else there so no mage/pally/druid buffs. Main thing is to be fast, cure disease and renew all the time. Use Major Mana pots every time the timer is up.

Morthandeus,
Soul of the Fire
Shadowsong (EU)

Written by Guest on 2005-09-15 09:09:24

:zzz :upset :grin :?

PLZ answer me
Written by Guest on 2005-09-12 06:40:09

I want to know, if you can farm the eye of shadow, before having the eye of divinity or before having done the quest... so i am sure, i ll get the eye of divinity in my mc raid grp (max points) and i want to farm it before getting this stuped eye of divinity, so can i farm it before?

Benedictus :grin

damn auras
Written by Guest on 2005-09-11 21:57:19

yes to auras but not to totems. . . damn ez mode.

Hmmm
Written by Guest on 2005-09-11 14:21:00

I want to know, if you can farm the eye of shadow, before having the eye of divinity or before having done the quest... so i am sure, i ll get the eye of divinity in my mc raid grp (max points) and i want to farm it before getting this stuped eye of divinity, so can i farm it before?

Benedictus

dag
Written by Guest on 2005-09-09 23:13:54

ffs ;p

Finally Completed
Written by Guest on 2005-09-08 09:01:32

I finally finished this quest last night after the 6th or 7th time, although 2 of the times I don't count since someone ran through and caused the demon to spawn and kill me.

I did this with no outside help at all, not even buff wise. This is what I used to do it:

Improved Fortitude
Divine Spirit
Rum Tum Tuber
Nightfin Soup
Thorn Aura from the crystal quest in Un'Goro
Oil of Immolation (HAVE TO HAVE!)

This is what I learned from all the attempts I did:

As Mentioned before, getting the disease off the peasants is a MUST! This is what caused me to fail a couple times. The biggest probelm I had wasn't keeping my mana up, my mana never seemed to be an issue, It was keeping my health up. I found that walking along with the peasants helped alot as far as curing them and healing. Staying calm is also a key, last night I just concentrated on healing the peasants and not freaking out like I have before. I was suprised when the peasants disappeared and it said I completed it, I didn't realize I had gone through that many peasants so far. Well I hope this helps a little.

Good Luck All!

Written by Guest on 2005-09-07 13:56:45

whenever you can position the camera so it's giving you a bird's eye view. It makes the health bars not jump around nearly as much. From my experience I noticed that not going anywhere beyond the NPC gave me enough time to run back and decurse the purple ones then proceed on. GL

What mods..?
Written by Guest on 2005-09-05 04:57:24

Thanks Neore0 for your great vid post, and congrats by the way.. Just out of curiosity, what mods are you using? Thanks!

Written by Guest on 2005-09-02 10:24:53

Whats the dropchance of the Eye of Divinity in Majordomos chest?
This guide says 40% while allakhazam says 18%. So whats correct?

Mechanical Yeti FTW
Written by Guest on 2005-08-31 19:10:27

just used this, and priase this guide to the fullest! OILS OF IMMO are a MUST! 4 attempts...2 without any buffs, and one half asses. Said forget it im going to get this done soooo

Go to Un'Goro get the crystal buffs...get a druid buff..use oil..you will barely rarely get touched. Mana pots..mana items..same for health. Find armor pots, scrolls, and inner fire 2000 armor with motw also : )

Mechanical Yeti OWNS THIS FIGHT! USE HIM IF YOU STILL HAVE IT!

hope this helps : ) GL

got it
Written by Guest on 2005-08-31 15:58:33

did it with my 4. try just 10 min ago !
buffs: motw ai pf ds if
used 2 manapots 1 demonic rune and 4 of the itens which you can farm in fellwood (restores ~ 400mana and health)

Where?
Written by Guest on 2005-08-30 23:36:51

When I have all the stuff where do i go then? Where does the quest start? NPC name? Location?

Written by Guest on 2005-08-27 10:31:54

Did the quest today on my 4th try
Afterwards i have to say that this quest isnt as hard as i first asmued

My buffs were: pf, motw, ai, ds

I did only use renew rank 8 to heal them
the key was the oil of immolatuion AND Holy Water from Stratholm, eben more than the oil. I waited for 2 waves of skellets to spawn (feared the first wave), shielded myself, waited until they were beating me an used the water. This gives you a lot of time to deal with the peasants.

Written by Guest on 2005-08-25 13:16:42

Did it just 5mins ago. With this guide the quest was realy easy. Thanks a lot for this guide it helpt me a lot to do this in first atempt. :D

..
Written by Guest on 2005-08-23 14:12:59

..

Written by Guest on 2005-08-22 10:26:43

Is it worth Farming eye of Shadow, or waiting 5 days to kill Kazzak if im able to kill him?

Priest who has it =D
Written by Guest on 2005-08-21 14:40:28

I did the quest first try, just follow all of the hints given here, and watch a video of it. It is difficult, but certainly not impossible. Good Luck

+22 Intellect Enchant or Others
Written by Guest on 2005-08-20 17:45:39

Has there been any new information from Blizzard regarding enchanting this staff?
Last I heard is if you enchant it and then change the form you lose the enchant. Are there plans to change this that we know of.
Personally I would like to see us be able to enchant both sides seperatly. (ie. +Healing on Benediction and +Spell damage on Anathema) I would probably go with +22 intellect on both, but it would be nice to have the option.

Please provide more info if possible, I have not been able to find anything.

epic quest part done on first attempt!
Written by Guest on 2005-08-16 23:43:38

Friend of mine with the eye headed out to epl with just this quest explanation and she prepared just as stated above and did it first attempt with just me a hunter in group for support mainly moral support lol

Not for those with a busy schedule.
Written by Guest on 2005-08-16 16:47:21

This is one sweet item. Shame it's impossible to get for people that don't have acces to the later stages of Molten Core due to a lack of time. It would be sweet to have two different quest chains, one quick one like this for the raid guilds and a longer one for the 5-man groups. Oh well.. :)

hrrmmmmm
Written by Guest on 2005-08-15 19:56:47

I tryed the quest like 4 hrs ago........
I going back there to try it again but I cant see her
I think some1 just did it (corpse on the ground) , does the 2hrs cooldown restart?

hard
Written by Guest on 2005-08-15 18:32:23

WoW...i've been reading half the page and gasped when i saw how much was written :p , and someone told me about this staff..i took a look on it and im reaallyy amazed :grin but the quest seems so hard, to hard to be possible :x but i will give it a try and c how it works ;)

Written by Guest on 2005-08-12 18:00:02

:) :) :) :grin :grin :grin :upset :eek :eek :cry :? :zzz :sigh :p :p :eek :grin ;) :x :(

teamelement
Written by Guest on 2005-08-11 16:16:39

hey

Stay calm and don't panic
Written by Guest on 2005-08-10 14:25:39

Staying calm is a must for the priest quest. During the first couple of waves it's not too bad, but towards the end it can get hectic with so many skeletons and peasants on the screen. Just remain focused and continually cure diseases and use renew on the peasants.

I was able to complete this on my first try thanks to the information provided on the forums such as this one. Was considering respeccing to get holy nova if I failed my first attempt but luckily didn't have to. The only spells I used were abolish disease and renew rank 7. Be sure to always have inner fire up and use renew on yourself if your health starts dropping. The buffs I had were fortitude, AI, and MotW. Having the right consumables was key for me. I used 10 oil of immolations, 5 night dragons breath and a couple of EZ-throw dynamite II. In additon to those you could also use health/mana pots, demonic runes and whipper root tubers if needed.

You gain a bit of health and mana after each wave of peasants are saved. Hope this helps. Good luck.

Written by Guest on 2005-08-09 07:08:11

I just did it on my 3rd try, skellies kept getting me even thou immolation pots!! but finally made it with some holy water aoe!!! used 2 major mana pots and 1 health, had to shield + heal myself to!!! lost a few duno how much... was close to dying at the end i was so scared, then it sayed complete i nearly jumped out of my skin!!! -=WooT=-

Written by Guest on 2005-08-08 06:32:44

:p 8) ;) :grin :) :roll :eek :upset :zzz :sigh :x :( :cry :?

From Crik on the A-N server
Written by Guest on 2005-08-08 01:34:52

OK, so i am couious. based on the walkthrough can you accually have a 'raid' group so u can have a preist keeping devine spirit (if you dont have it) , and a druid to keep throns on you. and if not can they be standing by and keep buffing you when it goes off?

thanks ofr your help.

omgz!
Written by Guest on 2005-08-06 01:35:05

aaw !!!!!!!!! CANT get passed wave 5 omg! :x

anyone gimme a tip how to do the quest? :? :?

Demon Drops
Written by Guest on 2005-08-05 09:12:31

Yes, the Eye still drops off Demons. I and most people on my server go the Darkwhisper Gorge in the South of Winterspring. It took me 35-40 hours of farming. Two other guildies got lucky and got it in 8 and like 20 hours. Some people farm for 60. If you want to get the Eye this way, you need to be prepared to be harassing guildies constantly to go farm :)

Ugh
Written by Neore0 on 2005-08-04 10:15:15

I really wish you could edit...

Filefront Mirror

awesome quest ;)
Written by Guest on 2005-08-04 09:17:58

finished the quest the other night on my first try. only had int, spirit, and stam buffs on. basically i hit 'v' to show npc's health, then used renew (rank max - 1) on the guys with health < 50% but > 20%, flash healed (max rank - 1) the ones with health > 20% , and of course got rid of the disease on the diseased ones. i used 2 major mana pots and 1 demonic rune. i wouldn't worry about healing all of them to full. just keep them > 30% and you'll save a ton of mana and not many will die. i only lost 1 in total (couldn't click on the stupid health bar fast enough, the peasants weave in and out of each other, making the health bars above their head shift all over the place).

as for the undead, i used a total of 10 oil of immolation. if you have a high dps wand you can also wand them when a single or double come out, just to save your oils. they probably have a total of 100-120 hp.

overall the quest is awesome. one of my favorite in the game so far. not too hard but just be mindful of your mana and health and you'll get it easily. now i just have to farm for my stupid eye of shadow cause killing kazzak on a high pop pvp server is ridiculous. and great guide by the way :)

Spawning Majordomo Solo
Written by Guest on 2005-08-04 06:44:07

Regarding the statement:

"After completing the quest you get a Vial which can be used douse one of the seven or eight flame traps in Molten Core. Technically, you only need one person to complete the quest, but it's easier with seven or eight people with one vial each."

How does one do this with only one person? I imagine that the vial only works once and then disappears, otherwise you would not have recommended having eight people with vials. Do you have to run to Azshara for each one and be summoned back? Please elaborate on how this works.

To add a word of caution...
Written by Guest on 2005-08-03 11:18:45

Just so those who bring friends to give you auras or just watch Balance of Light and Shadow know, don't let any of your friends there craft while you attempt the quest. I had my paladin friend, not in my group, standing there watching and when she got bored, started making potions. This caused THE CLEANER (a level 63 elite demon) to spawn and punch me in the face. I fell down, and did not get back up.

ok now we know how WHERE DO WE GET THE Q
Written by Guest on 2005-08-02 09:47:52

Who gives the quest and where please? :sigh

Got Eye Of Shadow for 15 min farming
Written by Guest on 2005-08-01 05:29:41

I got my Eye of Shadow yesterday from 60 Elite Demon in Winterspring!
So it's true that it drops there and also true that ã can get Eye Of Shadow before ã get quest from Domo.
I get my Eye for 15 min farm from 11th demon... I was shocked then i see it... and i LUKE that i get it! Today i go to MC with my guild and i get this quest if Mojodomo drop it for me ;)
So good luke to all u guys!!!

Written by Guest on 2005-07-26 12:30:31

I did this quest alone, forgot to buff myself on the one successful attempt (haha...) so basically I had inner fire going at the start (and only the start, saved mana after that for healing), shadowguard (I'm a troll priest) and no outside help or buffs. Took three tries.

I basically used the following objects: whipper root tubers, nightdragon's breath, 3 major mana potions, 10 oil of immolation. The following talents were handy: improved fear, inner focus

The main focus is curing and healing. Flash heal was almost never used... renew was instant and did the job in most cases.

I used renew on the peasants, as well as abolish disease. But I also followed the pack since these peasant groups get diseases even after they pass the middle point, and in my first two tries I think I lost a few by assuming they were safe and running to the cave to help the new bunch.

Be careful with your own hp, spam oil of immolation and use FEAR on melee. By the way I don't have holy nova, and I have two points in fear cooldown in my talents... so you can do this without a respec if you lack nova.

Excellent Article
Written by Neore0 on 2005-07-26 10:50:50

Awesome guide, the tip about the immolation oil helped A LOT, well written and very helpful.

I frap'd the quest, and if anybody would like to see it you can at:

Quest Video

Written by Guest on 2005-07-25 11:17:49

how many HP do the undead warriors have ?

better than immolation oil, crystal char
Written by Guest on 2005-07-25 05:14:30

383 -517 3 yard radius and stuns targets, u farm for a few yellow and red crysals in ungoro and u can get a bunch

Written by Guest on 2005-07-24 08:12:57

:grin :grin :grin

Written by Guest on 2005-07-22 19:00:39

9 oil of immolation , inner fire , fortitude , motw , thorns ... quest complete first try.

Written by Guest on 2005-07-21 09:10:26

I did it last night. On my 2nd try. Onething to add tho, is you dont really need a group of pallies to go with u or anything. It can be done by yourself. I was orig. shadow-spec, but switched to holy/disc for this. It helped me out a lot. So consider it if you're shadow spec. But i still dont think u need to respec or need group to complete this quest. And by the way, the npc is hot!

Written by Guest on 2005-07-19 11:14:28

I did this quest with no Oil of Immolation, no kings, no AI, no MoW. These buffs/items are to compensate for players with no skills.

This quest was designed for a holy priest with quick, powerful heals.

I am such a priest.

With my cure disease hotkeyed (but no decursive type mod, and flashheal is always hotkeyed) I made short work of this quest. I have had Eye of Shadow since March, but Domo was too stingy to drop the Divinity until he got patched.

The quest text was awesome, and I am the only person running through IF with a sparkly trail behind them.

336699
Written by Guest on 2005-07-17 16:47:16

:eek :eek :eek

Duke Hydraxis
Written by Guest on 2005-07-17 11:13:17

I cannot find this person anywhere in Azshara. Been looking as per thottbot indicates. Any info would be most appreciated.

What do you mean?
Written by Guest on 2005-07-14 19:12:03

I do not understand what you mean by: ".....you will have to be in the group that tags Kazzak in order to have a chance to loot it."? Do you mean a 40 man raid goes but then we will have to leave raid and I have to be in the group that he is tagged in? meaning his name is red and not grey?

Written by Guest on 2005-07-10 11:32:53

flame thrower ftw!

Droprate
Written by Guest on 2005-07-09 12:28:22

Three kills and still noe eye, 40% you say? :(

Written by Guest on 2005-07-08 09:03:20

this is hunter staff

The first time I went through.
Written by Guest on 2005-07-07 14:45:42

This is the best way to relate my feelings the first time I raided & fought Kazzak

:) :grin ;) 8) Kazzak keeps getting healed. :sigh idiot loses a pet :( :upset
supreme mode :? :eek :eek :eek and wipe... :x :cry :cry :cry

not hard at all
Written by Guest on 2005-07-05 09:52:34

The key for me was definetely the Oil of Immolation and Renew Rank 7. Using a lower rank with all my +healing gear on was plenty to keep the peasants up long enough for me to cure the ones that needed immediate attention, and cast flash heal (rank 6) if it was needed ( - was only needed 3 or 4 times). The moment I saw the skellies coming I hit off the Oil, and it was enough quick dmg that I didnt take too many hits from the skellies - shielding was almost enough for me the duration of the fight, as I only had to use 1 Major healing potion and cast 1 Renew on myself the whole time.

Also, using a lower rank of heals is the best way to make your mana last thru the fight. The peasants have low hps, and the highest rank of renew and flash heal OVER heals them. I used "v" to target them for heals and cures, the only problem I had with that was the few seconds that the skellies were on me made it quite confusing.

Just be quick about everything you do - most importantly with the Oil's if youre using them, I feel they were the key to my success.

Buffs on me:
Fortitude
Inner Fire
Blessing of Kings
Retribution Aura
Crystal Spire
Crystal Force
Blood Pact

GL to you all, and remember, ITS EASY!

Written by Guest on 2005-07-05 05:53:17

:) :grin :grin 8) :p :sigh :zzz :upset :eek :roll :roll :roll :roll :? :? :? :cry :cry :cry :( :( :x :x :x :x

Written by Guest on 2005-07-02 18:26:06

you dont really need to do those quests as long Majordomo is summoned right?

Written by Guest on 2005-07-01 12:57:13

"After completing the quest you get a Vial which can be used douse one of the seven or eight flame traps in Molten Core. Technically, you only need one person to complete the quest, but it's easier with seven or eight people with one vial each."

Does this all have to be done on one run? does a reset means you have to restart the dousing?
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Only between full resets. So say you clear up to shazzrah one night, you can clear magmadar, gahennes, garr, shazz's ruins that night and then come back to do sulfuron and golemagg and clear their ruins. Some are easier to get at than others, so if you run out of aqualquitessence in one run, you can catch most the next night.

in thottbot ther chat with benediction a
Written by Guest on 2005-07-01 08:44:07

thottbots chat with these 2 priest staffs chat is darn stupid they say hunters warriors etc should roll on it well if they doo they will get boted out of raid group and worse get bouted out of guild im a luittle hunter here 48 and i think the priest are right for ounce! :upset :upset :upset :upset :upset :( :( :( :( :sigh :sigh :sigh :sigh

what about horde?
Written by Guest on 2005-07-01 05:51:11

horde dont have paladins with auras. does shaman totem work same way or they cause quest to fail?

Written by paladeus on 2005-06-30 10:21:52

Written by Guest on 2005-06-30 10:06:25
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when doing the quest for the Splinter of Nordrassil can someone else heal you ?

NO - any outside interference besides the paladin auras I mentioned in my strategy will casue you to fail teh quest. everything but those buffs must be from you and you alone.

Helpful Hints
Written by Guest on 2005-06-30 07:28:39

I just completed the quest last night 2nd try. Oil of Immolation is definately the key. I used 15 oil of immolation, 1 demonic rune, 2 health pots, and desperate prayer. I had the spirit buff from BL (didn't know they didn't stack so I was caught of guard by the 60 min cool down on the int one), +25 int pot, stam and spirit buffs. I tried to keep inner fire up as well. I also had some holy water on hand, but I never used it.

The thing that made the difference in my first and second try was that I tried not to move with the group. I tried to stay in the middle area. I also never used flash heal, just abolish disease and renew. I also used the 'v' health bars, but only when I needed to watch health. It can get really annoying to try to click on a peasant to cleanse them with all the bars up, so hiding v to remove disease and then putting it back up to apply renew worked well.

Something that isn't mentioned is that you receive a nice little mana/health boost after each wave makes it. IMHO, the most important thing is disease removal (esp the blue one). By staying in the middle area I could catch one wave of skeletons right as the peasants were making it to the end, and just before the next wave would spawn. This allowed me to cure disease almost immediately and put on a couple of renews. Important thing is not to panic.

Oh btw, oil of immolation is 1 Firebloom, 1 Goldthorn, 1 Crystal Vial... I AH'd the herbs and got about 25 made for < 5g. Much cheaper than a respec and more reliable.

Any buffs you get will be a little extra help, but out of the 3 priests in my guild that have done the quest now, we all did it solo with just our own buffs and immolation oil. I went and got the BL buffs while I was waiting for the quest giver to respawn.

Now it's back to farming eye of shadow and keeping an eye on the kaz respawn. GL to everyone on the priest quest, it's alot of fun.

Written by paladeus on 2005-06-29 07:59:27

Hey everyone

I'm the guy that wrote that second part to the article...the "how to beat the event thing"

Anyway to answer this post
Written by Guest on 2005-06-28 08:50:27
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any news about the enchantement problem on the staff ?
keep us aware about this

I spoke with a GM the day I got my staff..one who I've tlaked with alot on my server (hey it helps to get to know em :) ) anyway...he stated that they've looked into the issue and are attempting in some way to resolve it. The reason WHY the enchant is lost? it's because when you click the staff to summon the other form...esentially you are "Destroying" it in the item database and it is getting replaced with a new one. That is why the staff's durability goes back to 120/120 everytime you change it (no repair costs!) Until Blizzard finds some way to change this...we're kinda stuck once we get this staff. They really need to though..especially with the INSANE enchants comign out in teh patch...22 int, 20 spirit, or a nice +55 healing from the last patch.

Please, feel free to visit my guild site and ask me ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS QUEST...i'll answer anything you guys need to know...(website linked in my signature)

take care everyone
Paladeus
disc/holy priest
Skullcrusher - Alliance

... No it doesnt summon people to fight
Written by Guest on 2005-06-28 11:56:07

The use is that it summons the other version of the staff, eg, if you are using Benediction and you hit the use, you will turn the staff into Anethema, for tha one who thought it summoned ppl to fight for you. :)

Written by Guest on 2005-06-28 08:50:27

any news about the enchantement problem on the staff ?
keep us aware about this ;)

Eye of Shadow
Written by Guest on 2005-06-27 22:13:37

I'd really like to know if the eye of shadow requires the eye of divinity to obtain before i start farming for it. Does anyonw know anything about this?

Winterspring
Written by Guest on 2005-06-27 16:29:06

Is it worth grinding in winterspring for the next few years or should i convince guild to kill Kazzak with me as the only priest >_>.

Duke Hydraxis Question
Written by Guest on 2005-06-27 08:28:02

I play as the Horde and I was wondering where this person is? I have been through Azshara and cannot find him? Can someone please tell me where he is?

Written by Guest on 2005-06-25 11:06:36

:sigh :sigh :sigh :sigh :sigh :sigh :sigh :sigh :zzz :zzz :zzz :zzz

Regarding Quest chain
Written by Guest on 2005-06-25 02:44:20

Thanks for your reply in the matter, much appriciated

Kind Regards

HyG

Regarding the quest chain..
Written by Guest on 2005-06-24 20:44:53

Well i started of by doing these

Poisoned Water
Stormers and Rumblers
Eye of the Emberseer

but when i handed in the Eye of the Emberseer

I did Not reccive this quest : Agent of Hyraxis

Instead i got The Molten Core quest where im supposed 2

Kill these

Molten Giant slain:
Lava Surger slain:
Ancient Core Hound slain:
Firelord slain:

Am im supposed 2 do this before i reccive the quest: Agent of Hyraxis ?

Or am i supposed 2 grind elementals in silithus or Eastern Plague Lands until i get 50% between friendly 2 Honoured ?

If anybody could help me out this would be most welcome

Kind Regards HyG

Use
Written by Guest on 2005-06-24 18:24:27

Erm, Anathema and Benediction are the names of the staff. It's in one form to begin with, then when you "use" it, the staff turns into the other form. It is essentially two weapons in one...

Also, when you "use" it, the staff gets automatically repaired, but also loses any enchants that are currently cast on it. This is supposed to be fixed in patch 1.6.

Use...
Written by Guest on 2005-06-24 16:48:03

What does the use do???....I mean call forth wise. Does it sommon Anathema or Benediction to fight for you??

Dumbass
Written by Guest on 2005-06-24 04:01:15

W00T W00T

Written by Guest on 2005-06-23 19:55:25

:p 8) ;) :upset :cry

Written by Guest on 2005-06-23 12:14:37

Just 1 question about Lord Kazzak
Written by Guest on 2005-06-23 08:42:32

Do you need a 40 man raid to take him on or can there be less than that?

Eye of Shadow
Written by Guest on 2005-06-22 10:11:40

Latest patch notes now say that the eye of shadow is a 100% drop off lord kazzak. good luck everyone :)

Written by Guest on 2005-06-21 06:34:29

:zzz :zzz :zzz :zzz :zzz :zzz :zzz :zzz

Written by Guest on 2005-06-19 12:32:17

:eek

Eye of Shadow
Written by Guest on 2005-06-18 21:54:28

Can you loot the eye of shadow without having completed any other parts of the quest?

oil of immolation
Written by Guest on 2005-06-17 16:48:59

where can i get enough oil of immolation (Does 50 fire damage to any enemies within a 5 yard radius around the caster every 3 seconds for 15 sec) for this damn quest (4 alliance)?

cooldown
Written by Guest on 2005-06-17 14:31:18

the cooldown is 30min.... my guild will get majorhomo down next week and i will be the first priest to get the eye of divinity :) so suck on that dudes :D

OOOOOOOOOOHHHHH BABE
Written by Guest on 2005-06-17 07:36:05

*longing*

Written by Guest on 2005-06-17 04:13:58

GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME