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Wez
09-13-2005, 09:23 PM
1. Obtain the Eye of Divinity. The Eye of Divinity is a drop from Majordomo's (Level 500 elite mob) chest. Majordomo can be found in the Molten Core instance, which is in Blackrock Depths. Level 55+. You have to complete the following steps in order to get Majordomo Executus to spawn (Thanks Mythisafk!).

Get 7 to 8 people to complete the following Quests from Duke Hydraxis in Azshara

Poisoned Water
Stormers and Rumblers
Eye of the Emberseer
The Molten Core
Agent of Hyraxis
Hands of the Enemy

Hands of the Enemy requires you to collect the hands of Lucifron, Gehennas, Shazzrah and Sulfuron.

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.

Each flame trap is guarded by:
Lucifron
Magmadar
Gehennas
Garr
Baron Geddon
Shazzrah
Sulfuron
Golemagg

After spawning Majordomo you have to force him to submit by killing his eight guards at the same time while tanking Majordomo himself. After he submits a chest will appear. You only have five minutes to open the chest and loot items before it despawns.

Basically it takes a 40 man crew two days normally to clear Majordomo. The Eye drops roughly 40% of the time. Only one eye will drop, so you'll have to kill Majordomo once per Priest. The eye is bind on pickup however. Equip the eye and use it to obtain a clue. Follow the clue to the next step.

2. Obtain the Splinter of Nordrassil. A guide to completing the Epic Priest quest event
By: Paladeus (Immortality – Skullcrusher)


Upon obtaining the eye of divinity from Major Domo’s chest, the priest must equip it in order to gain a clue as to where the quest will take him. The eye tells the tale of a sole priest who failed in saving fleeing peasants from the onslaught of an UD invasion.
…you must make up for what she could not do!


First, head to the Stratholme area and find the NPC. She is located due west of Stratholme after passing thru a cave, on the left side. If you reach the Terrorweb tunnel, you’ve gone too far! She can ONLY be seen when the eye of divinity is equipped. She will tell you her tale, after which the quest will appear that if you accept, will begin the event that you must succeed in!


The Event:
Note: you must keep the eye of divinity EQUIPPED for the entire duration of the event

You have to save the lives of 50 peasants before 15 die. The peasants will spawn in groups of 10 near the cave to the East. In order to “save” them, the peasants must reach the area near the NPC. While the peasants are traveling from the cave to this point, they will be fired upon by UD archers which CANNOT be killed, melee’d by UD warriors (which in turn melee you), and sporadically given a disease (which appears as a green cloud) that must be cured ASAP as it eats away their life very quickly.

How to beat it:

(The items, buffs, and people you might want /need when you attempt it)



A group of 5 people, consisting of you, 2 paladins, a warlock and a mage…the people you bring with you MUST STAND ON TOP OF THE NPC and never move, as it will cause you to fail the quest. However, from this place, the auras and such will still reach you and be of GREAT use. Granted, not all of the below things are “needed”, but with the 2 hour wait between attempts, it might be nice to have a good shot at it in one try.


Auras:



Concentration Aura OR Devotion Aura
Retribution Aura
Blood Pact (warlock Imp)


Buffs (both spell and item buffs)


Improved Fortitude
Inner Fire
Arcane Intellect
Mark of the Wild
Blessing of Kings
Blessing of Wisdom
Thorns Aura (or the crystal form of it from Ungoro crystal towers)
Divine Spirit (or the crystal form of it from Ungoro crystal towers)
Cerebral Cortex Compound (+50 intellect, quest in Blasted Lands that’s repeatable)
Rum Tum Tuber Surprise (10 int)
Nightfin Soup (mana / 5 sec regen)
Wildblossom berries (10 stam)


Items



OIL OF IMMOLATION (this is by far a must have to complete this quest easily!)
Mana / Health Potions
Demonic Runes (sacrifices life and give you mana – from demons in felwood)
Whipper Root Tubers (restore health - from felwood)
Nightdragon Plants(restore small health and mana - from felwood)


There are some very key things that should be noted about the event that will help you tremendously when attempting it.


Manually targeting the peasants to heal them can be a pain! In order to alleviate this, make sure to have their health bars displayed above their heads (by pressing hotkey “V”) and also targeting them by clicking their health bars, not their bodies!


When the waves of peasants spawn, there will be a few in the front of the pack that almost have a “purple” glow to them. These peasants are extremely weak and must be cured and healed immediately or they will die. This can easily cause the priest to fail the quest when they first attempt it, as I did.


Right before the first wave of peasants reaches the safe point (and every group thereafter), the next group will spawn. Therefore, it is imperative that you turn around and head back towards the cave and be ready to heal those weak peasants in the front first. In addition, the second wave of peasants will cause the UD melee warriors to spawn. I found it best to FEAR (yes they CAN be feared) this initial group of warriors as it allowed me to compose myself, heal the very weak peasants, and in turn gain their agro so they weren’t targeting peasants. I did this every time a new wave spawned.


When Melee UD warriors engage you (and they will, after you pop one heal on a peasant) Activate your Oil of Immolation! These potions have no cool down between uses and grant you the chance to deal tons of damage to melee things attacking you. Combined with the auras listed above, the UD fighters (which don’t have much health) will die after 1-2 swings at you, saving your mana from having you use it on healing yourself.


It’s a good idea to hotkey Flash heal (rank 6 or 7, depending on how much bonus +healing you have, ONE of these will fully heal the peasant), Renew rank 9, and abolish disease to keys right next to each other…such as 1, 2 and 3. These will be the only spells you will use on the peasants and you need to use them in rapid succession. AOE heal does not work, nor do you have the time to cast a spell that long.


Using Renew on peasants around ˝ health as they near the NPC is a good strategy as it allows you to not worry about their health and in turn focus on the next group that’s about to spawn.


Use Health / Mana Potions frequently, renew, and divine prayer (if you have it) to heal yourself if needed. Do not waste time healing yourself with cast time spells as it will make keeping the peasants alive that much more difficult.


Your friends that are there for support / giving you the buffs CANNOT see the NPC’s. So, as hard as it might be for them, you must convince them NOT to move as to them, you’ll be running around alone taking damage and healing nothing!
All told, you should count on their being at least 6 waves of peasants, as some will die here and there…it is unavoidable. Upon completing the event, you gain the Splinter of Nordrassil, that when used will form the Benediction Staff as long as you also posses the Eye of Shadow! (which can be obtained by killing Kazzak, an outdoor raid boss in the blasted lands, or by farming high level demons for it)

Best of Luck to all of you who attempt it!

http://www.wowhealers.com/images/stories/SplinterOfNordrassil.gif

Wez
09-13-2005, 09:46 PM
3. Obtain the Eye of Shadow. The Eye of Shadow drops off of Lord Kazzak, a very powerful elite boss in the Blasted Lands. Bring a raid group. Currently, you MUST be in the kill group in order to loot the Eye. Tigole says they plan to change this (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-dungeons&t=25093&p=1) so you can loot the Eye even if you're not in the raid group. Update from Tregga: Well it seems Tigole was mistaken about the impending change. He just came back and said you will have to be in the group that tags Kazzak in order to have a chance to loot it. However, it was not intended to have the Priest epic quest loot only drop from raid encounters. The devs are looking into alternate methods for Priests to get the drops required for the epic quest.

Tips for fighting Lord Kazzak (Taken from Elenandaron's post on the Thottbot.com's boards) :

First of all, his attacks:



Melee
His melee attacks are pretty weak, no more than 1500 hits on cloth users.
'Shadowbolt Volley'
Shoots out an insanely long range volley of Shadowbolts that damage anything it can target in distance for 800-1000 damage. The volley totally ignores all line of sight issues: it cannot be dodged.
Twisted Reflection
Casts a magical debuff (on a random player in range other than the player with aggro) that heals Lord Kazzak for 25,000 health each time he deals damage to the player with this debuff. This combined with the Shadowbolt Volley can ruin the attempt.
Mark of Kazzak
Casts a curse (on a random player in range with mana) that drains the target's mana for 250 per second and explodes for 4,000 AOE damage when there is no more mana to drain. A living bomb.
Cleave
Attacks a number of melee range players around him with a cleaving strike that deals 1000-2000 damage to each. Since a 'blind spot' has not been found, Cleave might be capped to a certain number of players affected.
Thunderclap
A point blank area of effect spell, hardly dealing any damage, but slowing movement speed. Some have reported 200 damage, some say it doesn't deal damage at all. Doesn't seem to affect attacking speed either.
Void Bolt
A strong bolt he may cast only on the player with aggro, deals up to 3000 shadow damage (or more!).
Capture Soul
When a player, pet or totem gets killed, Lord Kazzak casts this spell to instantly regenerate 70,000 health.

Alright, now you know pretty well what you're fighting against. Here's how the battle itself works:

Once he is aggroed and the fight begins, you have no more than three (3) minutes to kill him. I'll explain later why. He starts off with everything he's got. He keeps meleeing the main tank while Cleaving once in a while for rogues swarming around him and keeps sending Shadowbolt Volleys to hurt everyone around. The volleys are not on a timer, instead he casts them as he sees fit. In some rare cases there's about 30 seconds between the casts, sometimes he does it every five seconds. In the meantime, he casts Twisted Reflection and the rarer Mark of Kazzak on random people.

Wez
09-13-2005, 09:47 PM
What to do here:
Send your main tank in and let him build some aggro for a short while, just enough so he won't come at you the first time you cast something on him. Then unload. Have your DPS classes give him everything they have. Priests have to be extra mindful about the magical debuff he casts on your group. It has to be removed as soon as possible or the attempt will soon end in a disaster. Priests are also in charge of healing their groups thanks to that Shadowbolt Volley that keeps hitting everyone all the time. Mages need to be on top of the curse situtation. Mark of Kazzak can and will cause a wipe if you let it go off on you. Dispel the curse as soon as you can. All casters should also leave about 1000 mana in their mana pool just in case he casts the curse on you. That'll give the mages four seconds to dispel before it goes off. In other words, 1000 mana is out of mana in this raid encounter. Also, anyone dying during the fight is not an option. Unless it happens during the first five seconds of the fight, you've failed already. Do not use grounding totems, pets or other small things he can kill for the 70,000 health heal.

Your group will have exactly three minutes to finish the demon off. If you fail to kill him in that time due to lack of DPS, people dying or not dispelling Twisted Reflection properly, Lord Kazzak will enter what is called the supreme mode. Named after his yell once it triggers, the supreme mode causes him to cast his Shadowbolt every second. That's 800-1000 DPS on everyone, kids, and that means a wipe.

4. Combine the 3 items. Once you have all 3 items, combine them to form your new epic staff, Anathema/Benediction. Using one form of the staff will change it to the other and visa versa. Congratulations! You're completed your Priest epic quest!

Update from Tregga: Right now either side can be enchanted but you lose any enchantments for good if you switch versions. The problem apparently is that when you switch the forms of the staff from one to the other, you're essentially destroying one staff and having a new copy of the other version of your staff added to your inventory. 7/20/05- This bug is still an issue after the 1.6.0 patch was released. There are no updates or estimates on a fix at this time.

raideromega
09-14-2005, 12:42 AM
i want a mage epic quest.....

Dokar
09-14-2005, 08:33 AM
Hunter epic starts in the same place (its 50/50 which one is in the loot).

Geja
09-14-2005, 08:43 AM
yup im sooooooo wanting that hunter quest too :)

Dokar we need to hang out and go mess around on our hunters together. I would like to get a feel for your playstyle so we work together better in MC.

xeno
09-14-2005, 09:57 AM
play style for hunters has little to do with MC... we sit & shoot, that's it on every fight except for magmadar, there we shoot & do tranq shot... we also collect our phat loots :)

i hope to be getting my leaf this week... two of our guys have the bow already, those dirty buggers :P

Dokar
09-14-2005, 10:24 AM
play style for hunters has little to do with MC... we sit & shoot, that's it on every fight except for magmadar, there we shoot & do tranq shot... we also collect our phat loots :)

i hope to be getting my leaf this week... two of our guys have the bow already, those dirty buggers :P
I noticed you got some hawt legs this week. Grats on dropping Rag. :D

xeno
09-14-2005, 11:03 AM
I noticed you got some hawt legs this week. Grats on dropping Rag. :D

yeah, i just got a libram of voracity for my helm, +8agil ftw :) I also got this little gem, http://www.thottbot.com/?i=37423, with +15agil on it. I'm going poor on enchants :P

xeno
09-14-2005, 11:05 AM
I noticed you got some hawt legs this week. Grats on dropping Rag. :D


rag is a wild wild fight... it was so funny when we dropped him because we were probably 10-15 seconds from having a second wave of the sons of flame spawn on us. the raid leaders were yelling "screw the sons, dps rag" in preparation but we ended up dropping him before they could spawn (thankfully!).

i'll just say that my favorite skills for MC are feign death, arcane shot and multi-shot... in that order :P

Twinsilver
09-14-2005, 11:53 PM
i want a mage epic quest.....


i want a warrior epci quest too...... :D

xeno
09-15-2005, 07:44 AM
i want a warrior epci quest too...... :D

there is one, it's the bindings of the windseeker quest. it's not solely warrior, but they're probably the best class to use the reward.