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Kommentar von Burstangelone

Hey guys..
I've managed the challenge with the following skill on item level 905 ( 5. May )
2, 1, 3, 3, 3, 1, 1
legendarys: Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus and Spirit of the Darkness Flame
Instead of tank trinkets i used dps trinkets
(Veangeance Demon Hunter)
GL HF

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Kommentar von nokfed

So first attempt to defeat Kruul is free. every attempt after cost 100 nether shards. As a tank im not sure how to win this but you must protect vuul and he "heals" you.

Kommentar von lilfireballz

this is NO JOKE i last abut 30secs then he pwns vaelen game over

Kommentar von doomslug

Protip: Look for the sigil that velen puts down every so often (30 seconds maybe?) Running through it heals you to full and does.. damage? a stun? something to the adds.

There's an infernal that hits like a truck, little eyes that cast the stare from Tormentium, some nether dudes that come up from portals that do a dot I think?

Part of it seems to be swoop in, kite adds, run through sigil, and interrupt the inquisitor's drain life ASAP.

I can't get past that, so I dunno what else happens.

Kommentar von Pwnpatrol

So, I guess I won't be getting the cool bear form. Damn, that's a ridiculous encounter.

Kommentar von BasPilot

Been banging my head against this well over 150 times. I have learned this fight well for the first phase. I am going to go over everything I know.

Again, I'm a Bear. This is the same for everyone in the basics, but I don't know everyone. I have NOT beaten it, but I'm getting close to getting through P1

As a bear, if you have the legendary wrists, this should be a cake walk for you. If you don't have them, I think we can still do it. Cause I don't have them, and I think I can get there. My best is 12%. That's one burst away. If you happen to be lucky enough to have that legendary, you can stand outside the purple and you never have to go in except to interrupt and you get the happy task of building rage the whole time. And for that, you get pretty much an easy win.

If you don't, here's what we do!

902 Bear. The legendaries I do have are Sephuz's and the Prydaz Neck. Sephuz really doesn't help much, but every once in a while I go faster. Yay me. The neck, same thing, just absobs such a little amount, but I got nothing better, so there you have it. I've been eathing fireball food... whatever that's called... Fishbrul Special. Yeah, I'm full of technical terms.

I open the fight shifting into bear at the last possible second, he won't pull until you want him to. I prepot a potion of prolonged power and I begin to moon fire. When doing this the fireballs help me smack him just a bit more. While hitting him I'm staying out of the purple. He'll cast a few of his Mind Rends, I think about 4 or so, sometimes more sometimes less. One eyeball usually pops up right before he casts his first drain soul. When that first drain soul comes up I skull bash and hit the crap out of him. However you do that is up to you. After I get 3 stacks I start heading out hoping to not get the fourth becuase it's easier to manage. I'd rather live more than hit him harder. I usually face the eyeball that is up and moon fire it on the way out or after I got out. 2 of them kills those after the dot is applied. Then I wait to gather the adds. I have found that unlike most of the videos I can indeed use an orb almost each time a group comes out. If I don't have to, I won't. But, if I have to I'm not going to be shy about it. Just hit it and move on. If the adds are casting and the boss is draining life, I'm hopping on an orb. That's just a drain life I can't use for a burst, it happens and I just continue.

Here's the thing I learned today. You can... I say CAN use the infernals to build rage. Be careful becuase you gotta hit them on the way by or they will punt you.

The biggest challenge here is not being able to use normal bear things. Iron Fur is SOOO part of who I am and without it I take so much more damage. I want that up when the adds rush in or their initial hit will take me out. I frenzied regeneration when after they smack me and gain most of it back. I'm sparing about FR. I like to keep it in my pocket and use the orbs more.

Hope this little bit helps.

As for P2, you're on your own for now.

I've got about 99 more attempts before this thing closes down. Happy werebear-ing.

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Taking notes as I progress. - Important to note, it takes 100 Nethershards and you do take durability loss.

This is for all tanks. I'm a bear

~~AS A CAT IF YOU STUN HIM TO START THE FIGHT BEFORE THE PURPLE COMES OUT THERE IS NOT PURPLE!~~
That doesn't work anymore.

Do not stand in purple circle - removes health for a stacking debuff that lasts a few seconds

Stare at Eyes, they do a knock back - can moonfire them but not hit them with anything

Interrupt Drain life - You have a few seconds of it casting, so you can finish off the adds but you don't have long

Pick up adds as they come in - they do a Nether Storm - interrupt that with Velen's yellow ball, this will heal you, interrupt and disorient everything

Infernal does a knock back as well called smash, can just be side stepped. - He also gets smaller somehow. I think it's from kiting.

There is some luck to be had with velen's placement of the heals orb. He has put it in the purple, which isn't so bad, but he may cast it right on top of you and you then use it when you don't want to.

Here's what I'm doing... Stealing ideas from anywhere I can find them

Stun Boss to start, he won't cast his purple circle (I'm going stealth cat to do it)

Fight the boss

Cannot melee the eyes, but try to kill them with some sort of shot (moonfire for me) because they will stop you from moving right later.

Use the yellow orb when needed to heal and stun.

NOT EASY

Kommentar von flatluigi

This quest starts the scenario that leads to obtaining the challenge appearance for your artifact. Currently, these scenarios are incredibly difficult to the point where it might genuinely be impossible to complete unless you're better geared -- and by 'better geared,' I mean 910-920+ ilvl. Don't expect to make any headway until Tomb releases, is what I'm saying.

It would've been very nice to have the above communicated in-game before you were one-shot and came here to figure out what happened, but oh well.

Kommentar von Massiter1

Yeah forget this challenge. 890 ilvl and theres no way i can even dent this. the "nethershard" guys are one shotting me. and theres like 5 of them. 1 kills me in one hit. the elemental dosent even get to me. forget the little mini eyes. and valen dosent do @#$%. just sits there and takes it. so no matter how much i interrupt and run around, even if i hit the sigil he puts on the floor, theres not another one soon enough to help me stay alive. guess i wont be getting this one. shame that. considered myself a good tank till now.

Kommentar von Calligraphy

You'll be fighting the advisor initially.

* He has an aura that if you stand near him, you gradually lose your max HP. This falls off after a while, but it seems that you have to play around with dipping in/out of that.
* The orbs will disorient everything as well as heal everyone around you. Velen drops these after certain intervals, so you want to use them now and then. It is most useful when he's about to cast drain life - either interrupt/CC him, or use an orb to interrupt it.
* The adds which pour out of portals give you a stacking debuff which increases your magic damage taken.
* There's a knockback, so get ready to kill eyes fast.
* The infernals do a smash ability as well, which hurts.
* EVERYTHING is stunnable.

Brewmaster specific "tips" - I got Variss relatively low after around 40 attempts, so I can't give tips on Kruul himself.

You will want to go with mostly your DPS or self-healing talents. I've gone between Heilendes Elixiers and Mystische Vitalität (most of the fight happens to be magic damage), and Heilendes Elixiers seemed the most useful.

You'll want to use Blackout-Combo - I tried Nehmerqualitäten but couldn't meet the damage check, plus some of the non-damage combos from BoC seemed useful.

Chistoß is relatively necessary here for both picking adds up off of Velen as well as to have some chance at hitting the boss without being in melee.

Statue des Schwarzen Ochsen beschwören and Fußfeger are a tossup. Black Ox is nice because you can use it to pick up off of Velen a little more easily, but Fußfeger enables you to kite more and can be used to interrupt casts that BOS can't be used to do. I wound up swapping to Fußfeger and sticking with that for my more successful attempts.

For legendaries, Gai Plins lindernde Schärpe's is likely the most useful (which I don't have), followed by Sal'salabims verlorene Tunika's (for DPS + mitigation) or Prydaz, Xavarics Magnum Opus if you don't have that. I have Sal'salabims verlorene Tunika's and Prydaz.

I kited most of the encounter, throwing out Keg Smashes and Breath of Fire as often as I could to slow the adds but to also do damage to them. I set Tanszendenz up near Velen initially so that I could teleport over to use the healing orb as necessary. When all adds were down, I took the opportunity to cast Verbessertes Beleben, but that was pretty useless when the boss's casts are about the amount that Verbessertes Beleben heals for. You'll instead want to run or roll past him and hit him as much as possible while also kiting - you otherwise don't get a chance to get any damage on him, and standing in the aura with any adds up can be an almost certain death sentence.

Adds: I focused Eyes initially (because their knockback kinda stinks when it happens just as you're grabbing an orb) > nether guys > boss. I virtually ignored the infernals - they deal their own health in the AoE aura, so you can focus other adds or kite around while they kill themselves. Just watch out for smash and stay as far out of range from the infernals as you can. After last night's nerf in which the eyes have 30% reduced health, I now focus the nether guys while killing the eyes via incidental cleave (just make sure to face them properly) and kiting the infernals when they come down (try to kite them as far from Velen as you can).

Hope that helps someone. I just don't have the gear to do this.

Edit to add: I am 898-900 item level (equipped) depending upon my trinkets/jewelry at the time. I've tried a few different trinkets, but I found Bloodthirsty Instinct and Momento of Angerboda to be the two most useful ones. I'll be trying later with Grotesque Statuette and/or Majordomo's Dinnerbell. The physical damage in this fight is pretty negligible, so don't even bother with Darkmoon Deck: Immortality.(##RESPBREAK##)2##DELIM##Calligraphy##DELIM##

Kommentar von Apraeh

The eyes are immune to direct physical damage as well as AoE physical damge. I'm only able to damage them with a moonfire (Single target magic damage).

The ghost have a cast time on their spell after which they channel a pulsing AoE around them that will wreck you. Use either an AoE fear / disrupt or Velens light orb to stop them.

Facing the eyes stops their knock back, they also have different animations (Green beam coming out of them) when you're facing correctly I believe.

Not sure how to handle the knock back from the infernals yet, I've just been kiting them.

Don't let the inquisitor cast his Drain life for long or you're done for.

Kommentar von elrathqtz

Currently 20 attempts deep, calling it for the night. Here's what I've gathered:

The boss himself (or atleast the Inquisitor, I don't know if there's more after) has three things of note: His spellcast, atleast on me, is doing around 40-50% of my health bar. Drain Life is a MUST interrupt. He has an AoE zone around him that reduces your maximum hp by a certain %. He is stunnable, but I haven't gotten him to move much even with interrupts.

The adds:

He has little Nether Horrors who stack up damage that need to be stunned/killed.

He has infernals that have a cone knockback (dodgeable) and do a ton of damage.

He has eyes that, when fixated on you, knock you back if you're not facing it.

What I've been doing:
Start the fight, prepot, Demo Shout for 20% dmg, Battle Cry. I put in for around 5 stacks of the debuff, and after kill the first eye. After the eye, generally he'll life drain. I hit Velen's orb for AoE stun and heal. Focus boss until adds get in that he spawned. Pool adds at boss, stun adds plus boss, try to AoE, avoid getting too many stacks.

Past the first eye, I generally ignore them. There's too much going on to kill them. Priority is Drain Life Interrupt > Nether Adds > Infernals > Boss, ignore eyes.

I abuse Victory Rush as much as possible off adds, but sometimes it isn't enough.

Best attempt was 40%, then I got knocked off by one of the ten thousand eyes.

Kommentar von MaikCiano

Hi, 903 Blood DK here, here is what i got so far.

i can survive most things due to my really high Health pool (i have 8 million Health with 10 stacks of Bone Shield). I have the legendary cloak which turns my Anti-Magic Shell into healing me instead of absorbing damage. I also have the legendary belt which reduce the CD of Vampiric Blood when using Heart Strike.

I can't really stay in the aoe due to my class being really needing max hp to survive but i can absorb/take most Mind Rend with Anti-Magic Shell and Vampiric Blood (around 11k health with Vampiric active) so survival is there but damage is lacking.

The eyes can only be damaged by magic damage (confirmed by my friend warrior that it doesn't occur with his quest) so i need to use Blooddrinker / Blood Boil / Death and Decay.

Nether Horrors can and most be kited, need to avoid getting too close to Velen.

Need to look at the eyes when they are casting the beam or you will get knocked back, same for the Slam ability used by the infernals.

I got the boss to 59% but died due to a slam (lot of things going on).

Don't think this is possible right now. Guess we'll see later on.

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UPDATE**

I got inquisitor down right after posting that comment, however things get trickier after that. Kruul comes down to fight you with slighty more health than inquisitor so the real dps race starts. I switched my legendaries around and trinkets (got a foci 890 and a 885 pvp strength proc trinket) since i dont have any ''really good'' dps trinkets. For Blood DKs i highly recommend wearing the Sephuz's Secret legendary ring (which i dont have) and the Skullflower's Haemostasis legendary shoulders. Im 905 equipped and i have 47 points in my weapon (the new Dk golden traits helped a lot here). I got Kruul to a 3% before wiping due to the 5th annihilate. It is really hard, dps needs to be high (600k+ permanent). I will try again at the end of the week with new traits and maybe a Sephuz (lol). Best of luck.

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NEW UPDATE**

I just completed the artifact challenge! Im 907 equipped and using a Kil'Jaeden's Burning Wish with the Skullflower's Haemostasis. Since im using the Kil'Jaeden trinket im not running Bonestorm and instead took Blood Mirror to squeeze more damage on Kruul after the 3rd Annihilate. I barely defeated him before the 5th annihilate that would have otherwise killed me. After the 4th annihilate, i saved 2 light orbs and kited in circle until he casted the 5th one and use both of them to get more damage before my death. Insane dps required. Goodluck guys.(##RESPBREAK##)2##DELIM##perculia##DELIM##

Kommentar von Korbeik

So it seems like dying normally does not give a durability loss. Only flying off the platform does. That said, WTF ARE THESE NUMBERS! I get it's supposed to be challenging but was any of this tested? Such as how often Velen is supposed to heal? Look at this. Interrupt that. Kite these things. Don't get hit by that thing. Run to this thing if you want to live.

Edit: So I may be wrong about durability. Maybe I was just dying so fast before it was being nice. Still probably need a macro and set the inquisitor as focus to get the interrupts.

Kommentar von Moothur

I'm watching another bear do it on stream since I ran out of attempts. He's opening up with Incapactitating Roar and the AoE debuff isn't appearing around the inquisitor.

Kommentar von belathar

I noticed when I picked up the The Highlord's Return quest all of the other broken shore quest disappeared. When I abandoned the same quest, the other quests on broken shore reappeared.

Kommentar von pookawooka

ilvl 900 Blook DK with leg belt and trinket, T19 4set

Agree with other posts, damage is managable as a blood dk but dps isn't there. Lack of mobility can also hurt with how much movement is required in this fight.

Like others probably won't bother with this anymore until I have a decent amount of ToS gear from norm/heroic. I am sure it will help, but kind of underwhelmed at how blizzard chose to make this encounter difficult: those knockbacks will be annoying/cheap no matter your gear level.

Kommentar von Bigbeartha

I am working on this as a 907 Guardian Druid, definitely challenging. So far somethings that have helped a lot is creating Macros for Mangle, Skull Bash, and Mighty Bash set to focus and focusing the inquisitor off the bat. If I stun the inquisitor at the start he doesn't make the purple which is a huge help. I have been targeting the eyes to spam moonfire, I hit Mangle when gore is up to get extra rage, damage on the boss, and try to trigger galactic guardian for extra damage on my moonfire.

Separate macros:

/cast Mangle

/cast Mighty Bash

/cast Skull Bash

Kommentar von wildfear

found this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_pwcsbSTkw

Kommentar von Shurai

As a DH

Most of the damage seems to be magic based.

Imprison/Interrupt inquisitor when he casts drain life

Use Valens sigil/ Sigil of Silence/Fear to cc the adds and interrupt their aoe cast. Cleave them down fast.

Adding a vid of a VDH that did it with legendary bracers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we4E8agQ8X8

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It seems that as a DH, we have to try to do damage to the inquisitor and kite out to drop stacks of the debuff that reduces hp WHILE trying to survive the magical damage from the adds.

What I'm finding last longest is if I have

Focus macro interrupt and imprison on the inquisitor. Use when casting Drain Life
Use eyes to knock you out of purple/inquisitor to drop stacks. Kill them when you can
Sigil of Silence and Fear on adds to stop their AoE pulse (Take quickened sigils). If you have bracers, they will be very beneficial here
Kill adds quickly with Cleave - DPS gear seems to work better for me and damage is mostly magic
Kite Infernals
Leap back to Inquisitor to do dps and repeat

Biggest issues am facing is juggling all the above, not being able to kill adds fast enough and not enough CC to stop the adds casting. Seems doable but very unforgiving as a DH. One mistake and its over.

Kommentar von Grizzhunter

May be doable by Druids at this point but doesn;t look likely for any other tank. Droids can stop his purple HP decrease aura wasted 1000 shards trying to figure it out and all i got was a repair bill, a headache, and major frustration.

Kommentar von hexagoat

Hey i have some tips for prot warriors

i would spec storm bolt so you can stun him out of drain life his regular cast, mind rend, is non reflectable and does aoe so stay away from velen mind rend has a max range he will move towards you till he is range and miss the cast if you are to far away so if you leap to the edge he will miss it so just pick up the arcane adds charge back and forth to the adds and kite the infernal back and forth i'm only 880ish but i got pretty far into it so i feel like a higher geared warrior will nto have to much trouble

Kommentar von AmazonDruid

Killed Inquisitor as Druid 902ilvl

Here is what did.

1. Macro target moonfire on eyes
2. Macro target Mangle on Inquisitor
3. Macro target Mighty Bash on inquisitor
4. Macro target Skull Bash on Iquisitor

Used Balance afinity + Ekowraith + Luffa For max range and damage on attacks.

This makes kite Infernals and hitting Moonfire on Eyes easier

Drums are not needed once you know what to do.

Strategy.

I start stunning Inquisitor in cat form.

Try to avoid using Velen's Spheres as often as possible. They stack at the arena. It's good to have some of them up for "Holy !@#$" Situations.

Spam Moonfire whenever eyes are up.

Intimidating Roar as soon as little adds start to cast nether storm. Try to group the adds and the boss to fear them all.

Keep Moving to avoid infernal's smash and Always look to the eyes

Boss is not priority. Priority is.

Little adds> Eyes> Boss> Infernals

Try to pop Rage of the Sleeper and Barkskin with brambles when little adds are up to kill them ASAP.

After Inquisitor is down

We face Krull. Work in progress.

Right now The only skill that i see him cast are a Purple wall (Twisted Reflection) that goes in our direction. It can be avoided. Whenever we are hit by this wall he heal himslef for 5% Max HP

I'm dyin to the adds as they still come on second phase. However, eyes are gone.

I'm on my 64th atempt.

Kommentar von Blohdridder

It seems that try to use Asphyxiate as a Blood Dk to open does not prevent the Aura around the boss. Blood Boil and DnD work on the eyes, but if you have Blooddrinker talented it will kill the eye in one cast. I used Blood Mirror as well, on the next eye, to get a bit of extra damage since at that point you have the 4 nether adds on you. Haven't had an attempt past 80%, boss keeps casting at Velen instead of me when I am kiting.

Kommentar von Aerer

Hiyas all, thoughts of a 900 DH.

It honestly feels "doable" to a point, got him to 44% then mistimed a cc. My current strategy has been to only kill every other wave of the nethershard adds. When they first spawn, wait for them to group up on you then use the disorient sigil and ignore them. When the next wave spawns group them up and you now have 2 orbs and an aoe silence to deal with them. To help out when its time to kill the adds, imprison the boss to give you a bit of a break. Beyond that have been through 14 attempts with no further luck but I feel it "could" be doable if everything lines up.

Side note on timing the disorient: need to wait until they are all casting initially and be taking Quickened Sigils otherwise they will be back and ready to eat your face before the next wave spawns.

Edit: now I definitely know its doable, on last attempt (17) got him to 18% before being overwhelmed with the infernals. DHs propably have it easiest here - I got hit so many times by the knockback but glide saved me every single time.

Kommentar von mythicgriffon

Definetly doable by Prot Warriors, here's a video of it being done today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZzAm-lFj44

Kommentar von Necrosamash

How can i even start to this quest? can't find any info about it

Kommentar von Hutchyo7713

905 Guardian Druid; I was able to beat Variss but then Kruul comes down and casts a bunch of purple lazer beams everywhere, so if you haven't finished off ALL of the adds from Variss then it's a bit chaotic! I have found it most helpful to basically ignore Variss and just cleave him down while prioritizing all damage on the adds.

This is HUGELY a survival encounter, be ready to take your time with it, cycle through your defenses appropriately. I found it very helpful to actually accumulate 2-3 orbs while mitigating through the first couple sets of adds with defenses, then you have extra orbs kicking around while you're waiting for your cooldowns to reset.

Hope this helps!

Kommentar von AmazonDruid

Druid stun cheese no longer working

Kommentar von Saintguto

899 equiped propally here, and this is what i got so far (sry for bad english)

The best talent build i found was: Blessed Hammer, Crusader's Judgment, Repenteance, Retribution Aura, Hand of Protector, Consecrated Ground and Last Defender.
Gesegneter Hammer - Pretty standart talent, reduces dmg for AA.
Richturteil des Kreuzfahrers - The extra Großes Richturteil was very usefull on the eyes, you have 3 ranged spells(double judgment+AS) to kill eyes while kiting the adds.
Buße - Use this on the boss to interrupt spells and reduces overall dmg, this talent is awesome here.
- Increases your overall DPS, you can take spellward if you are having problem with magic dmg.
Hand of Protector - This is a survival encounter, this is a must.
Geweihter Boden - Helps you kite the adds and give you a little survivability.
Letzter Verteidiger - Reduces overall dmg.

Hints:
-Kill priority: Nether adds > eyes > boss > infernals.
-Try to save Hammer of justice for infernals when you have no room to dodge his knock back.
-Focus the boss to interrupt life drain, this is one of the most important things on the encounter.
-Avoid using orbs as much as possibly, save them for the "oh &%$#" moments.
-Use defensive trinkets.
-Consumables will help you a lot.

The farther i got was 39%, then i got overwhelmed with mechanics. I will do a couple more trys and give up, this is tuned for 920+ players and it will prob only be viable on TOS gear.
Good luck!(##RESPBREAK##)2##DELIM##perculia##DELIM##

Kommentar von pmkaboo

nope. as brewmaster this is not happening until 920+.

Kommentar von Redron

Any tips for guardians? How I suppose to damage first boss with that ridiculous radius of his aura?

Kommentar von serdarturk

I have 30 attempts that only 1 time i can kill inquisitor but couldnt kill kruul. And inquisitor had 80m and kruul has 76m hp.i am protection paladin. one try i enter he got 50ish m hp and 40m for kruul. Weird but don't know why and wondering videos about that fight mostly has lower hp. i know it is not ilvl scale but boss got double hp for me doesnt look fair ? Anyone noticed that ?

Kommentar von Kiross

I just killed Inquisitor post glitch fix. But Kruul did not spawn.. what a waste of time :(

vid of the kill and gear/talents

youtube.com/watch?v=sGTdGC8sfH0

Kommentar von Moetwarr

I managed to do this today 04/04 on EU servers as a Protection warrior 910 gear with Mannoroths Aderlassfesseln and Aggramars Schritte.

My recording broke so I'll give the pointers I can to each phase:

Phase 1: Inquisitor Variss

First of all never soak more than 3 stacks of Aura des Verfalls, unless you're pushing phases. Use Zauberreflexion with small adds as it reflects the adds Psycleave aswelll as reduce the Void Bolt dmg. Storm Bolting the Inquisitor at the end of a cast can give you a really long downtime on his Leerenblitz allowing u to recover or reset stacks.
In general I'd try to deal with eyes when no nether adds are up. I would try to bring Nether adds under boss, do as much dmg as I can do, when 3 stacks i pull them to the edge and continue to cleave boss down utilizing the Siegesrausch so much everytime I get a kill to stay alive. When boss is 15-20% ish and you have a break it can be worth just going in and tunneling the boss down. EYES WILL DESPAWN at transisiton but the Nether adds wont, which can be nice with some Siegesrausch procs.
Also really important is to leave 1 or 2 orbs up for Phase 2.

Phase 2: Hochlord Kruul

I found this to be the hardest phase really, it requires so much dmg until you cant avoid getting One shot by Annihilate, which usually happens if u receive an annihilate when you already have 3 stacks. Try not to cover the middle section with his Fel Jump and start near where Inquisitor spawns and work your way closer to Velen for orbs later on.

Use Zauberreflexion on Nether adds or Fel Jump to survive, and Heldenhafter Sprung if needed out of Fel (it hurts).

Annihilate is Physical damage, you can block it and the first one you don't need more than just shield block. Second one is shield block and demo/topped health maybe last stand. Last one I'd try to Schildwall and Neltharions Zorn for 100% crit block to soak it
A trick to gaining more time is to utilize the orb disorient and Sturmblitz to stun him on his Annihilate Cast. He will cast immediately again after stun but you can delay him a lot like this.
It's a huge dps check this part so use Trommels or Old War to help you. Also: dying at 1% can still be a kill if Velen kills Kruul after u die you still get credit :)

Hope it helps!

Also proof: Achievement & Appearance
Weakauras i used (##RESPBREAK##)2##DELIM##Wowhead##DELIM##

Kommentar von DONalex

for me this is just a bad joke, why? it feels like a sad memory of mop training grounds and if i am not a like a bis geared player because of luck in my loot drop with only like 2 legendary that dropped very slowly while other brag they have like 9 per character(idk how they achieved that), i am forced to become a pro player to complete this task when i should like just have fun with it since clearly i just cant do it.

It is just to hard for me as prot, i am sad.

Kommentar von Ashgun

IMPORTANT NOTE!

After killing Inquisitor Varris, fight is NOT over yet. Kruul will engage you with 45 mil hp and there will be adds left over from the beginning of the fight. Be sure to kill them off so that they don't kill prophet Velan! Kruul will cast a string of shadow that you will have to JUMP over or avoid. I did manage to get Kruul down to 80% then he INSTA-killed prophet Velan!
Don't know what is beyond that point of the fight.
// 903 Vengance Demon Hunter Inappropriat

Kommentar von JaxxASs

Any Blood DK done this yet?

Kommentar von SirPsychoDW

Why is the black/purple circle that gets you -8% hp debuff so small for classes link warrior or monk compared to druid one that is at least twice as big, just check the videos if you haven't noticed yet. For me it doesn't make any sense since if anything it should be exactly opposite as those classes have much better mobility than druids.

Kommentar von gilike05

This thing is pathetic. This sould be a class challenge not a gear check... even if im doing everything right i stand no chance... And by class challenge i mean 12 challenge types, not 7 for the roles... Very lazy work from blizzard. Some specs get more advantage than others but this gear requirement making me so angry... I mean its a CHALLENGE, which has to be actually challenging, not just some sort of f.. gear check and if you got it, you got this too if u can spam that few button less times than you have to as lower ilvl (because you kill things more faster so u get less damage). I think blizz should give scaled ilvl for this, like they do on the timewalking dungeons. If you enter this type of zone, u r on "X" ilvl, do what you want to do..

Kommentar von wowplayer0089

screw this Quest blizzard be trolling hard.

Kommentar von MysteryBOX

UPDATE:
As of 24/04/2017 I have successfully defeated the challenge (after ~130 attempts). stats are: 912ilvl, 47 traits, using the recommended legendaries and the build below. Trinkets were Alptraumeierschale (900ilvl) and Chronosplitter (900ilvl).

Here is the kill video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgjU3wRByNM
Here are my character stats: http://imgur.com/1cnvr1Q

This is a pure dps race. Your "must have" legendary is Tyelca, Statur von Ferren Marcus and I greatly advise using Sephuz' Geheimnis. Here is the build I used:

Gesegneter Hammer - Slight dps increase (having 1 more charge in store helps). It procs Grand Crusader without the need for a target. Eyes are also immune to Hammer der Rechtschaffenen's physical damage
Erster Rächer - This will boost your dps as the boss will always be the first target you hit. The increased proc chance is also important during your burst phase (more on that later).
Buße - Use this to avoid damage during the cooldown phase.
Hoch zu Ross - In the inevitable case that you accidentally get knocked back by an eye, this will help you reposition faster. Also helps avoid Netherstampfen during phase 2
- Standard survivability talent
Geweihter Boden - Doesn't really matter here since the adds are too fast to be kited even with the slow. Just don't take Aegis des Lichts.
- Since you will be taking little to no damage at all, Seraphim is a great DPS cooldown which aligns well with your burst phase

For consumables I used Salat Azshari, Besudelte Verstärkungsrune and Fläschchen der zahllosen Armeen.

This strategy has 2 phases: a burst phase and a cooldown phase.

Opening:
Prepot, wings and (save drums for the second phase of the fight), stay on boss until about 20 seconds (I used 's cooldown to keep my time in check). Look towards any eye beams and try and interrupt the boss at any cast. Nether Horrors seem to be triggered by the boss, so as long as you keep interrupting him, they will not spawn. This is actually more of a hindrance as it really messes up Terror and Inferno timers. After you leave the aura, go into your cooldown phase.

Cooldown Phase:
Use Buße on the boss and wait outside the aura to clear stacks. Kill any remaining Nether Horrors as quickly as possible. Dodge infernals, if any. Look at the eye(s) targeting you. Since the recent hotfix, eyes are now much easier to kill and you should consider doing this, but they are not a priority. Not only do they take away damage that could have been dealt to the boss, using Schild des Rächers on them procs Sephuz' Geheimnis and messes up your synergy with .

Burst Phase:
When your stacks fade off and is back up, pop it and hop back on the inquisitor(make sure you have enough Schild der Rechtschaffenen charges). You can pick up any Nether Terrors that spawn with your Schild des Rächers. You don't have to pull them immediately though! Prophet Velen can take quite a beating before you pull them. This is where the legendary legs shine: they can hit the boss and jump to all 4 Nether Horrors. Constantly make small movements and look out for infernals and eyes. Interrupt with Zurechtweisung if you don't have an avenger proc. Leave the aura at about 20s in (about 8 stacks). Go into your cooldown phase. Rinse and repeat until dead.

Special notes for phase 1:

Only use Zornige Vergeltung at the start, save your next one for the start of the second phase.
DO NOT use Gottesschild or Wächter der Uralten Könige, you will absolutely need them for the second phase.
Try and save as many orbs as you can for Phase 2 Only use them if absolutely necessary (having more than 1 eye on you).

Second Phase:
Welcome to the actual tanking challenge. Don't be fooled though, it's still a dps race, you just take a LOT more damage now. All eyes disappear so you don't need to worry about them anymore. Any infernals will transition, but new ones no longer spawn. Ideally, you want to have 2 infernals, 3 at most. Nether Horrors still spawn, but since Kruul has a large hitbox, your shield will jump to the adds anyway. You'll probably have some stacks from fighting the inquisitor - use an orb to prevent any damage in the beginning. Pop drums when your cooldowns align. Here are the things you need to watch out for:

Twisted Reflection
Verzerrte Reflexion is a buff that needs to be interrupted at all costs. It causes any attacks to heal Kruul for 5% of his max hp. If he casts it, you might as well jump off since there's no recovering from that

Nether Stomp
Try and run away from Netherstampfen at all costs, Göttliches Ross helps, but not a lot. Constantly being on the move helps a lot, since there is a slight delay in spawning the green circle.

Annihilate:
This will be what eventually kills you, provided you dodge everything else. This deals heavy damage and applies a debuff that increases the next Vernichten's damage by 100%. Here are my recommendations for cooldown usage:

Schild der Rechtschaffenen should be enough.
Schild der Rechtschaffenen + Auge von Tyr
Schild der Rechtschaffenen + Wächter der Uralten Könige
Schild der Rechtschaffenen + Unermüdlicher Verteidiger
Gottesschild stay in your bubble as long as possible, the NPCs will be absolutely fine for that 8 seconds
Schild der Rechtschaffenen + Unermüdlicher Verteidiger, should bring you back to 12% hp
RIP

Schild der Rechtschaffenen becomes tricky to use. You want to have 2 charges for , but also have a charge for Vernichten. As you do the fight enough times, you kind of get used to predicting when to use what.

Macros:

The only macro I ended up using was to cast Buße on focus, and a macro to cast Zornige Vergeltung, , Trommeln des Berges and Trank des Alten Krieges (I would actually recommend Trank der verlängerten Macht as you can get 2 casts within that time)

Overall:
If you're 905+ and want to show off your amazing skills, then go for it. Otherwise, please spare your sanity and wait for Tomb of Sargeras to come out.

Kommentar von Squishei

Killed it on 4/4 as 911 Guardian Druid.

Legendaries: Luffawickel + Skysecs Trutz.

Luffawickel is probably close to, if not required, due to the increased radius of his Aura des Verfalls for Guardian Druids. I liked the extra healing from Skysecs Trutz, so I could save my orbs for whenever I really needed them. I've seen success with people using Ekogespenst, Erschaffer von Welten, so that's a good alternative.

Talents: 3/3/1/1/2/2/1

T15: I used Blutraserei over Dornenranken. Most of the damage in this fight is in large bursts, and Dornenranken doesn't do much to help that. Otherwise, I like the extra rage during P1.
T30: Wilde Attacke for knockbacks.
T45: Gleichgewichtsaffinität so you can actually damage in P1.
T60: I used Mächtiger Hieb to reduce damage in P1 and reset Vernichten casts in P2. I know people have had success with Taifun and using it for the Arcane Elementals, but it doesn't interrupt Vernichten.
T75: Picked Inkarnation: Wächter von Ursoc to burst P2. If you want more P1 DPS, instead of P2, you can pick Galaktischer Wächter instead.
T90: Standard Choice
T100: Not in range during P1 to Pulverisieren all the time, plus you want to keep the Thrash DoT up as much as possible.

Weapon: Having Tatzensprung and multiple Gezackte Klauen relics are a huge DPS increase, especially with Inkarnation: Wächter von Ursoc and will help you push P1 faster, and kill Krull before the 4th Vernichten in P2.

Trinkets: I ended up finding the best success with Animiertes Exoskelett and a Andenken an Angerboda, though any DPS trinket would probably suffice. Since each of Velen's orbs is a full heal and Skysecs Trutz is based on percent health, I just have more health to work with throughout all phases.

Character Link, if you really want to look.

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Phase 1 is relatively well scripted. I used Blutsauger as my "DPS Time", because you never want to be caught trying to reset stacks when a Blutsauger is going off and forced to take an additional stack AND reset your duration. My goal with the fight was to avoid using the first two orbs until the third add wave, and that way I'll always have 3 orbs up at the time. If trying to do this, make sure you know the order that the orbs spawn. After the third orb spawns, the first orb will despawn before the fourth orb spawns and so on, so you'll have to use the orbs in order.

General P1 Tips:

Mondfeuer each Tormenting Eye once, which should be enough to kill it.
Note: When you hit an Orb, it will remove your Mondfeuer and you'll have to reapply it.

Inkarnation: Wächter von Ursoc off the pull, so that it's back up at the start of P2.
Kite Infernals until they reach 20%. Stack up the Hauen DoT on them if possible, but they won't take bonus damage until 20%. Don't bother casting Mondfeuer on them
Erschütterndes Gebrüll should be used almost exclusively to stop the Nether Horror's Nethersturm. However, you should do this AFTER the cast and the second the channel starts. This will render the Nether Horror's as complete fodder for about 20 seconds and just follow you around almost harmlessly. If you do it before the cast finishes, the Nether Horror will cast again. If you can also hit the boss with Erschütterndes Gebrüll by standing on the edge of his circle to reset his cast, it's a bonus.

Note: Erschütterndes Gebrüll is currently bugged in the encounter and will make targets hit completely immune until it wears off. Not ideal, but if you interrupt properly, the Nether Horrors won't be a threat anyways and there's no rush to kill them.

Keep up for as many casts of Gedankenwunde as possible.

P1 Walkthrough:

The first Blutsauger is his 2nd to 5th cast and the most variable thing on this fight. I use Mächtiger Hieb to interrupt if it's his second cast, otherwise just automatically bash the third cast (whatever it is) and leave the circle. Erschütterndes Gebrüll to interrupt Blutsauger if it's his 4th or 5th cast.
~20 seconds in, the first Nether Horror adds will spawn. You'll still have stacks due to the aura, but the boss will be stunned by Mächtiger Hieb and you'll still have Inkarnation: Wächter von Ursoc to destroy the Nether Horrors. I used Baumrinde here to survive. Wait for the next drain life and get some DPS time.
~60 seconds in, the second Nether Horrors spawn AND the Infernal should be about to reach 20% health. I used Zorn des Schläfers to leech off the adds and with the bonus damage taken on the Infernal, should completely full heal you.
At this point, the fight is more of the same. Use Blutsauger as your queue to DPS, use the oldest orb for every Nether Horror wave, kite Infernals and cleave them down.
Probably the hardest part of the fight is the transition from P1 to P2. You want to have no adds currently in progress of spawning and really want to be full health when Krull comes down. This means using an orb or using Zorn des Schläfers on low health Infernals when Krull comes down. Ideally the latter.

General P2 Tips:

P2 has a huge DPS check due to his Vernichten casts. The Nether Horrors will almost exclusively run for Velen in this phase meaning you need to actually go pick them up. No new Infernals will spawn, all current Tormented eyes will despawn but all other adds on the platform will remain.

Krull's Netherstampfen has travel time and an animation. This means that you can expect it and either:
Interrupt him mid jump via and Orb or Stun, causing the ability to be canceled entirely.
Jump the second he's about to land and only take a single tick of the damage. You will not be snared by the pool.
With enough distance, you can just run out of the area before he lands. (Rare)

Krull's Vernichten has a 2 second cast time. Interrupting it will make him cast it again. However, that is valuable time where you are delaying his future annihilates in order to beat the tight DPS check.

Note: Occasionally, Krull will decide to cast Vernichten on Kor'vas. It seems random, but if it happens, congratulations, you just reduced the DPS check by a large amount. Two Vernichtens cast on Kor'vas will end the encounter though, so be careful.

Continue to save Erschütterndes Gebrüll for Nether Horror's Nethersturm channel. It's super dangerous to let them channel in this phase.
Interrupting Verzerrte Reflexion will sometimes force you into a Netherstampfen. It sucks. If you miss a kick, don't let Krull melee you and quickly pop and Orb to remove the debuff.
The only time you really need Eisenfell is for Vernichten.
You can use the Purple Cutters to your advantage to be pushed out of mechanics, but if you are being pushed against your will, run against it and you'll eventually just walk through it.

P2 "Walkthrough"

P2 is a lot less scripted due to the state of the Infernals and just how Krull wants to cast his abilities this time. Krull's autoattacks do not hurt and the mechanics that will kill you are Vernichten and Netherstampfen.

Use Trommeln der Wut, Zorn des Schläfers, Inkarnation: Wächter von Ursoc and a potion and do as much damage as you can before any mechanics happen.
Krull's first ability is almost exclusively Netherstampfen. Precast a couple seconds into the phase and watch for the animation to jump out of the pool.
Krull will then cast Vernichten or Verzerrte Reflexion next, and then usually the other in quick succession, followed by another Netherstampfen a little later. I don't interrupt Vernichten #1 because I felt it makes the ability lineup painful.
I Mächtiger Hieb Vernichten#2 to delay it, and then use at least one Orb to interrupt again and to top myself off before the cast.
Don't be afraid to stand next to an Orb before a Netherstampfen if you're low to both interrupt and heal yourself. Don't be stingy with cooldowns. You'll only need one Überlebensinstinkte for Vernichten #3.
At this point, use Orbs if you need health and if he starts casting Vernichten #4, delay it as long as possible and try to finish him off before he gets it off.

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Kommentar von MeltCatAmy

Hi, beat this as 905 Vengeance DH (Blood Elf, so I have arcane torrent), after 100-some-odd tries...I lost count.

Talents used for kill were: Abyssal Strike, Burning Alive, Flame Crash, Fracture, Quickened Sigils, Fel Devastation, Last Resort. I'm leaving the below discussion on other talents still.

First off, for legendaries, all I've got access to is Prydaz, Xavarics Magnum Opus and Kirel narak, so I run those. I'm running Becher mit Alptraumsekret and the Animiertes Exoskelett. The talents I'm running are:

Abyssischer Schlag - I take this because I am used to the leap cooldown with it, as I run it by default. will offer higher dps, especially in phase 1 because you have no real need to use Dämonenstachel for anything else (Variss doesn't melee, arcane add melee isn't what hurts from them). So, if you are comfortable with fewer leaps, definitely run Razor Spikes. Be warned that in phase 2 you will usually need a leap to escape from Kruul's puddles and their heavy damage/slow.
Lebendig verbrannt - This offers some extra single-target damage against Variss/Kruul, which is useful. Kollateralschaden is likely better if you have Ausbrechende Seelen, because additional aoe is extremely helpful.
Flammenschlag - Extra aoe dps. I'm considering switching this to Teufelseruption in order to have extra single-target dps and an additional interrupt for Kruul's Vernichten. EDIT: After several attempts with Fel Eruption, it felt like too significant a loss in aoe damage for too little single-target gain.
- Single-target dps and soul generation. I don't feel either other option can compete for this challenge.
Beschleunigte Zeichen - Having access to as many casts as possible of Zeichen der Stille and Zeichen des Elends is of the utmost importance, especially if you are a Night Elf. This is non-negotiable for this challenge.
Dämonische Verwüstung - technically has a higher sustained aoe dps output, but the mental overhead of running that talent on this challenge was too much for me. Fel Dev is a fire-and-forget aoe that you can use to burn boss and adds together.
- I believe every talent on this row can be used for this challenge, but Soul Barrier is my baby. Dämonische Infusion offers higher dps when combined with Razor Spikes. EDIT: After several attempts making it deeper into phase 2, I believe Last Resort is likely necessary for lower gear levels (i.e. <910-915ish?) to survive the 4th Annihilate.

Opener:

Pre-pot (I use Trank des Alten Krieges, as it has higher damage output and a nice duration for this opener EDIT: In the kill I use a potion of prolonged power, as I had run out of old war pots and the price went back up on my server) as soon as Variss stops moving. Leap onto him and begin building pain. Hit when his first Mind Rend is nearly done casting so you can take the hit, gain Kraft entziehen and then start going hard. I pop Flammendes Brandmal, Seelenschnitzer, even Metamorphose (for the pain generation. If all goes well, you shouldn't need it before its cd is up, but you can skip this step if you're worried) and just start dumping fractures into him. He will usually do a Blutsauger around 5-6 stacks that lets you keep hammering away on him. Try not to leave the circle until your potion expires. I can reliably get him to 80% with this opening, and it leads right into the first set of arcane adds.

"But Amy! Won't I just die now with the 8-10 stacks I have?"

Have no fear. Once you leave his circle, be sure to Einkerkern Variss just before a Gedankenwunde cast completes. By the time the CC wears off and he completes his next cast, your stacks will be long gone. If you overstay a bit and the arcane adds spawn while you're still in the circle, you'll usually still be fine, just play it safe, and if possible, let them punch Velen for a second or two to let your stacks drop entirely.

Bring this first wave of adds to Variss as soon as stacks drop, and get ready to interrupt them. For the DH version of this encounter, arcane adds will begin their cast of Nethersturm within ~2-3s of spawning. ALWAYS BE SURE TO INTERRUPT THE ADDS ONLY AFTER THEIR CHANNEL HAS BEGUN. This is bolded because it is the most important concept to preserving your aoe interrupt tools as well as the orbs. If they complete the cast portion of their ability and begin channeling, it goes on a 20s cooldown, giving you ample time to burn them down, always cleaving off of Variss when stacks allow.

After the opener, try not to go above 4-5 stacks. Keep using Imprison to lower your damage intake while dropping stacks. Alternate between Sigil of Silence and Sigil of Misery to interrupt the waves of adds, and if you're a Blood Elf, you can use Arcane Torrent as backup if something goes wrong. Dump every Fiery Brand into Variss, basically on cooldown, delaying it slightly if you will be able to soak a Mind Rend with Empower Wards to get the extra Agility, or if your stacks are about to drop and you will be able to follow up with real damage.

Clean up the eyes whenever you are dropping your stacks, as they are extremely annoying. Use Glide to help manage the myriad knockbacks of the encounter. Glide also allows you to avoid damage from the arcane add channel -- you will not take damage from Nether Storm while you are gliding (EDIT: This only seems to be true while you are actually gliding away from the mobs.).

Otherwise, for Variss, try to get back to dpsing him whenever your stacks drop, and always cleave off of him when possible. Be sure to save as many orbs as possible for phase 2. You'll need them. EDIT: The orbs actually seem to expire, so don't be afraid to use one or two here and there if you are slightly off on an interrupt or just need some recovery time. That said, for the last 15-20% or so of Variss, you will still want to pool orbs for Kruul.

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Phase 2:

For Kruul, I didn't have quite as firm an overall strategy. Here are some tips, though:

You must ALWAYS interrupt Verzerrte Reflexion. It does not have a warning like Drain life. If this cast succeeds, you receive a debuff that causes Kruul to heal for 5% of his max hp when he next hits you. This is about a 6 million hp heal. You cannot afford that. EDIT: If Kruul successfully casts this, all is not lost, provided you immediately grab an orb. This will clear the debuff and prevent him from healing.
His Annihilate cast deals stacking damage through the encounter. Use Imprison and Fel Eruption (EDIT: and sigil of misery if it is convenient and will hit arcane adds as well) when its cast is nearly complete to buy yourself some time. He will recast it immediately, but for this phase, every second you can dps him counts. The orbs that you have saved up also interrupt this.
Annihilate is physical damage. Use your mitigation accordingly.
Bring Drums, use them either as soon as he lands, or after his first leap, whichever feels more comfortable to you.
The arcane adds in this phase tend to ignore you and run straight to Velen when they spawn, so be extra careful to watch for them. Since their channel starts so soon after they spawn, you must round them up away from Velen asap. If they begin channeling on Velen, he will die almost instantly.
Be sure to save a charge of leap at all times to get out of Kruul's fire puddle. The slow on it is extremely heavy and the damage will kill you within 2-3s
The sweepers deal very little damage, but they are annoying so avoid them as best as possible, unless you are using them for extra mobility to get to orbs/get out of puddles. A nice clean double-jump will clear them easily.
EDIT: Be careful when using orbs and sigil of misery in this phase, as it is easy to wind up locking enemies inside Kruul's puddles, causing significant DPS loss.

I hope these tips help, ~~and will upload a recording of the kill if I'm able to actually get him down.~~

Kill video : https://www.twitch.tv/videos/135694934 (warning, I got a little excited at the end and yelled at him...sorry :/) I got lucky and survived the last annihilate with the world's greatest Fueled By Pain proc.

Kommentar von AveryZan

Surprised more people haven't encountered this bug, but several times now the second orb on the fight doesn't spawn for me. usually it does. This is pretty serious because the orbs become crucial for the fight. What I ended up doing is saving the first orb until the second set of adds just incase. Sometimes he does spawn it and will even stack it on the old one so both just get wasted. Really annoying. I feel like on guardian they really need to only increase the death and decay radius if you have the balance affinity spec + lufa combo. Not having the lufa bracers definitely hurts, the Ekowraith chest is what I ended up using. I don't know if there is any enrage on this fight, but one strat I orriginally used was going full survival mode with Resto affinity + ekowraith and the Symbiote belt that increases dmg on high health which is really nice for killing off the adds. I haven't reached the final phase but I imagine Resto affinity might help you there. May try it again later but I really hope they fix that orb bug.

Kommentar von perculia

Hey there,

UnholyQT submitted the Blood DK challenge video to Wowhead, and when I reached out asking if they wanted to write anything up as a comment, I was told I could use the info in the Companion Blood DK Challenge Guide. So while I don't play a DK, here's the relevant info :)

Guide Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl_80UxNs_E
Kill Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC-T9NHIa1Q&t=1s

Talents: 3 1 1 2 2 3 1. Standard Blood DK build with Erzittert as it can proc Sephuz' Geheimnis and randomly interrupt boss.

Knochensturm is a must because you want to kill the adds with it and it has a minute cooldown which lines up with the adds spawning in Phase 2.

Gear: 42 Traits, 907 ilvl, Sephuz' Geheimnis and Dienst von Blutschatten. You want either Aggramars Schritte or Sephuz' Geheimnis, second can be preference. Recommend DPS trinkets over tank trinkets. 875 Andenken an Angerboda, 895 Ketten der Tapferen with Strength/Crit.

Recommend doing it with at least 42 traits - Seelentrinker is amazing. Get lots of Nethershards in advance so you do not lose focus.

Get Goblingleiterbausatz from AH to avoid being knocked off platform.

Mark both of your allies - Velen and Korv'as, especially Kor'vas because he is the #1 reason of wipes in Phase 2, he is suicidal.

Phase 1
Focus Inquisitor Varissin the phase, and use focus kick and focus stun macros.

At the start, prepot, Tanzende Runenwaffe, kick boss for Sephuz' Geheimnis proc for extra haste and damage. He does Blutsauger, so use Asphyxiate to interrupt it. You always want to interrupt the Blutsauger, it is top priority. If he heals, the fight is going to last longer.

Pick up the Nether Horror adds, let them cast the Nethersturm and move away. Wait for debuff to drop, put more damage on the boss.

When the Tormenting Eye spawns, priorities are: deal with the eye > dodging infernals > dodging the Nether Horror exploding, dpsing the boss, and last priority is AoEing everything with Knochensturm.

Do not recommend going over 5 stacks of Aura des Verfalls, but in case you go over 5, you need to kick Gedankenwunde or use AMS to survive, it can be scary.

Suggest using Bluttrinker on boss when you're not in range/have debuff.

You will be running around like a headless chicken a lot in this phase!

Every time you don't have the Aura des Verfalls deubff, try to grip everything on top of each other and AoE.

Suggest saving all of the Heiliger Zauberschutz orbs in Phase 1, because you will need them in Phase 2.

You want to have as few adds as possible going into Phase 2. While the eyes disappear, the Nether Horrors and Infernals stay. The goal is to clear as many adds as possible before transitioning the boss.

Phase 2
Use second potion and Heroism straight away.

Kick Verzerrte Reflexion because if you don't, the boss can heal himself to full and you wipe.

There is not a strict DPS requirement for phase 2, but if you kill him before the 5th annihilate, you're good to go.

Cooldowns used for Vernichten:
1. Vampirblut
2. Nothing
3. Vampirblut
4. Vampirblut + Eisige Gegenwehr

Nether Horrors have weird aggro table - sometimes they go to Velen. If you keep attacking the boss and use any sort of heal/damage effect, you will pull aggro which is good. Drag Nether Horrors away from the suicidal Demon Hunter NPC, always keep track of where Kor'vas is.

In this video attempt, the player got lucky with placement - but be positioned to center of room so even if you're knocked, it's towards center of platform.

Use Heiliger Zauberschutz whenever you want to reduce pressure.

Phase 2 wipes are either caused by Annihilate one shotting you or Kor'vas randomly dying.

Final note: Kor'vas tries to be behind the boss, like a melee. Rotate the boss and remember that no matter what he'll adjust to be behind the boss.

Kommentar von Yogilaw

Utter waste of time & G. If you're not at least 900+ iLvl then don't even go near this. Should be a scenario NOT solo encounter, it totally sucks. Still plenty of other things in Legion to entertain you, so my advise is to go do those instead, until you have gear that gives you a chance. Realised v soon that my 887 Blood DK wasn't up to the challenge. If Blizz are going to throw crap like this around then drop the G cost for dying FGS, cos believe me you will die...a lot. You have been warned.

Kommentar von leowow

The cost of the nethershards to try this should be lowered.

Kommentar von Runaetus

Hello!
Just passing by in my ectasy for I am become Harambear \(o.o)/
Used Luffa + Elize's
276 Attempts (around 20 were due to Kruul despawning when he enters and starts phase 2 (Think it only happened when i had no other adds up, infernals recharging, so I tried to make sure I left an eye up and moonfire it before Inquisitor died)
Mood slightly dampened by the lack of emotes the skin has (much like the Feral talent Claws of Shrivallah from WoD)
Goodluck with the grind!

Kommentar von Vidyaschmoe

Just completed this at 896 ilvl druid, 4 piece, and 47 ranks on my claws. Thrash bracers and pants. I used Gift of Radiance from HoV as an extra ranged interrupt which helped out significantly in phase 1 allowing me to interrupt the life drain without having to get in range with skull bash.

I also took Guttural Roars to increase the range of Incap Roar so that I'd be able to interrupt the boss from a much further distance while kiting the adds(I found it really useful to save incap roar until the nether horrors casts were actually finished so that they wouldnt recast the storm upon breaking out of it). As for consumables I used the typical stuff but actually started using Bear Tartar in the end which helped a lot with movement issues I had been having since it procs off the nether horrors and eyes.

I wasn't counting but overall it took me well over 150 attempts.

Kommentar von yoskaur

If you are tired of marking the dummys:

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Kommentar von kekonok

Finally did it with my Guardian Druid. 903ilvl equipped, I don't have Luffa, so I used Ekko for the P1 aura, and Elize to meet the DPS requirement in P2. P2 is ^&*!ing brutal compared to P1. It requires timing, luck and a $%^&ton on DPS. I did about 250 to 300 try I think. Loved the fight, and kinda proud atm :) GL to every tank trying that challenge, it's insane ! Armory : http://eu.battle.net/wow/fr/character/khaz-modan/N%C3%B8n%C3%B8k/advanced

Kommentar von ripkurrle

Hi,
Brewmasters
FED UP WITH GETTING ANNIHILATED?

I did it differently than the videos I watched prior, so if you're exasperated about how people seem to be able to get to 4 stacks of annihilate and somehow live, this may be the strategy for you.

Talents
After some variations over time, I took 1132123 -

Stats/gear
Crit 30%
Haste 24% (30% after high tolerance input for most of the match)
Mastery 24%
Versatility 10%
I used Prydaz, Xavarics Magnum Opus and Sal'salabims verlorene Tunika for legendaries
I used a haste statstick and have a 900 Zuckendes Herz der Dunkelheit luckily, so this took a little of the damage edge off

Cliffnotes of the strategy:
Niuzao
The idea was to use Niuzao to cop one or two of the annihilates, and have the statue take some of the brunt of the adds off me (in inquisitor's pool, refreshed after each add wave).
I'd use him immediately right at the start, which would have him up for Kruul. I'd stay in the pool till about 8 stacks (and a full old war pot) because you know that the statue will tank the adds till your debuff is mostly gone and you can explode the last few seconds of debuff). Note that if you use paralyze on the inquisitor now he becomes immune, so Niuzao will come help you kill other stuff, so I tried to kick the drain lifes rather than paralyze them while the Ox was up. After that, I'd come in to kick the boss as often as I could, even as a drive by dragging the adds in with me.

In phase 2, I'd use him a little after he lands, hoping to get a near immediate annihilate, then he should die to the 2nd annihilate.
He likes to stay in the green stuff, which is fine for him,, but you end up dpsing from the side. You can taunt Kruul to take him off the green pools and Niuzao will taunt and take back threat at the new position.
After Niuzao dies, it's similar to other videos (on annihilate paralyse => orb if you're low, be ready to kick his debuff (or orb it off), and torpedo out when he jumps on you. His melee is pretty light, so don't be afraid to stay in close (and nearish an orb unless he's going to jump on you soon)

Chi Burst
Chi burst is solid for the adds in first phase with keg smash and exploding every other set (using an orb on the non-exploding set) (or if it crits it should one shot eyes). It's also useful if you end up farther away in Kruul phase.

GOBLIN GLIDER
Works, and saved me many many many times. Might be easier when they reduce infernal spawn rates.

Walkthrough:
Phase 1:
Statue up in front of where inquisitor will be, and a transcendence near Velen, just in case.
Open with old war pot up, Niuzao, and face the first eye while dpsing.
Leave and kill the two eyes before turning back for the adds - exploding keg including boss, keg smash, chi burst, kick boss when you can (don't be afraid to take them through the pool, it gets you in a nicer position depending on where the eyes are)
Dps boss till eyes, go kill them and paralyze drain life when it happens (I had a /tar macro bound)
Avoid the infernal smashes, this was the prime source of wipes for me - goblin glider works per 3 mins.
2nd wave of nether adds has no exploding keg, so I'd generally hit an orb about this time if I hadn't already (depends how good you are with kicks, and prydaz)
Rinse and repeat - try to get Kruul down with orbs sitting up, but it's not always feasible

Phase 2:
New statue
Drums, old war, get on Kruul, and pop Niuzao after 5-10 seconds. He'll still cast the healing debuff on YOU despite aggro on Niuzao.
Dps hard, he'll still jump on you however so be ready, and you'll still be taking damage - be ready to torpedo out to near an orb post jump, and taunt him out of the pools if you have to.
When Niuzao is dead, it's the usual strategy - paralyze annihilates right at the end of the cast, kick debuff casts, and torpedo out of goo. Use you fortifying on the 2nd annihilate, and if you get lucky and have no adds on you, zen meditation.

He should be pretty close to dead now. I had a 2 wipes about 1 mill hp left, then finally got him.

Kommentar von yoskaur

Just done it yesterday (Blood):

Gear:
906 equipped
931 Weapon 45 traits
Gargoyle runeforge
Sephuz+Skullflower's Haemostasis
Nightmare Egg Shell
Ember of Nullification
21% crit
31% haste
23% mastery
10% vers
24% parry

Talents:
Blooddrinker
Rapid Decomp
Ossuary
Red Thirst
Tremble Before Me
Foul Bulwark
Bonestorm

Consumables:
Str flask
Bear tartare
Prolonged potion for pull, Old War potion for p2

A few tips:
You might want to finish p1 before the 2 min mark if possible, with around 3-4 infernals
For DKs it means you should not use Dancing rune weapon at the pull nor BL, just the potion

This will be a dps loss, but here is a trick: Velen
Velen hits like a monster with melee attacks, and not affected by the boss' aura, so if you grip Inquisitor to melee range of Velen, he'll usually beat the c* out of it.
For me he usually did 10-12m of damage to the guy, this is quite a serious chunk of its health. Be aware that Velen sometimes wanders to the side of the aura, you just have to grip him to place again.

In p2, just go balls to the wall, BL, DRW, Old War pot.
I don't know how this actually works, but sometimes Kruul annihilates Kor'vas. If this happens, you are pretty much in the ballpark, considering he got around 10m of health after the 3rd Annihilate in total, and you have a big cd for the next. He did not cast the 4th in my successful attempt, I had 2 orbs left when he started and chain interrupted him until the kill.

Kommentar von leowow

The fight is still really bugged.

The infernals and eyes knock you off the platform without hitting you.

Kommentar von Lonarain

Completed it yesterday, 03.05.2017, as a Protection warrior.

Had gear of 896 equipped ilvl on me, used Kakushans Sturmschuppenstulpen and Mannoroths Aderlassfesseln. As much as I was trying to complete this "tank" challenge with tanking trinkets, I hadn't any success in doing so - but switching said trinkets to the only DPS ones I have, specifically 850 ilvl Wappen der Tapferen (+979 Haste) and 885 ilvl Macht von Krosus (+ socket) allowed me to complete the challenge on the 3rd try.

The talent set was as follows:

Maximum health that I had in that equipment was 5.096.280.

Food eaten - Bärentatar (allows to move faster after every killing blow).
The flask consumed is the one for DPS aswell - Fläschchen der zahllosen Armeen.

For the first phase, key for me was to get through it only with two infernals up, which means that maximizing DPS on Inquisitor is always a priority.
Here is a bit detailed list of what worked for me:

At the beginning, I pre-potted Trank des Alten Krieges and charged in, using Demoralisierender Ruf + Tollkühnheit + Zähne zusammenbeißen (for Erneuerte Wut enrage) right away to take most of the burst damage, used Schildblock to keep every Schildschlag buffed for 30% more damage, and interrupted the first cast of Inquisitor's attack, right before he finished casting it.
For the next of his casts, I already had Zähne zusammenbeißen up, as I stayed inside the pool until 5 stacks, then went to kill the first Eye that spawned (can use Bevorstehender Sieg on it, and then, after it dies, you will have Siegesrausch enabled). At this point, Inquisitor usually casts his first Blutsauger - for that I had Sturmblitz ready.
Soon after that, the Nether adds spawn - gather them up and stand near the Inquisitor's pool every time they are on you, to keep damaging Inquisitor with Donnerknall and Rache, as you destroy the adds using the combination of every ability that you have available (Demoralisierender Ruf + Tollkühnheit + Zähne zusammenbeißen).
Every time stacks of Aura des Verfalls faded off, I got back to Inquisitor and kept DPS-ing him until I had 3 stacks on myself, sometimes 4 or even 5 again - should be careful there, to be ready to pickup Velen's orb or stun Inquisitor with Sturmblitz from the distance (if you are completely sure that you can and will interrupt his next incoming Blutsauger with something else, without getting more stacks of his debuff).
Infernals - they are more of a nuisance than a problem, their Slam animation is truly hard to see on the dark floor of the platform. So I found nothing better than to just increase the brightness of the game in video settings - this way you at least can see the dark clouds more clearly. I tried to use WeakAuras' addon sound alert, but found them of little help, because Slams happen quite quickly and to rely simply of the sound was not enough for me, so I just looked down below my feet and, whenever any Infernal is up and active, was always on the move, around either Inquisitor or Kruul. Of course, in case of emergency, Abfangen and Heldenhafter Sprung will save you from being knocked off the platform.

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If everything gets done right, you will enter 2nd phase with only two Infernals up - for me it was critical not because of the Slams or getting knocked off, but because of their constant burning aura that damages you for around 150.000 damage (per Infernal), whenever they are up. Many times in previous attempts that was the thing that killed me, combined with Kruul's Netherstomp at the same time. So, in other words, less Infernals you got walking on the platform - the less damage you take.

As for fighting Kruul:

Every time Kruul attempts to cast his Vernichten on you, use Sturmblitz to stun him - it will give you a couple more free seconds to DPS him.
Save as many Velen's orbs from the first phase as you can - I started using them when Kruul began to cast his second Vernichten: firstly, I stunned him with Sturmblitz, then used Heldenhafter Sprung to get to the orb, to disorient him, and charged back to DPS him more.
I did not use another Trank des Alten Krieges and Trommeln der Wut right away - I saved them for the moment right before he had cast his third Vernichten, because extra Haste that Trommeln der Wut provide give you a chance to make more rage - which turns into stronger Zähne zusammenbeißen absorbs, which can be a life-saver there, at that point. Of course, it also boosts your DPS together with another potion, which is going to help you bring Kruul down quickly.
As was said, whenever you notice that any Infernal is up, be on the move around Kruul, never stand in one spot - it may also help you move out of his green pools from Netherstomp quicker. Try to get near Infernals aswell and cleave them together with Kruul, to minimize damage taken from their aura.
For Netherstomp - before the fight began, I marked Velen to see him clearly on the battlefield (to always be in range) and made a simple macro for Abfangen, to charge to him whenever Kruul uses Netherstomp. If you do that, it will not only help you avoid the massive damage and slow effect of the green pool, but also will give you some extra rage you can use for Zähne zusammenbeißen or Schildblock.
Nether Adds that spawn don't pose much of a threat, but you should always keep your eyes peeled and grab them off Velen, if they run after him. Here they serve only for enabling Siegesrausch , as they die quickly to cleave damage.
Kruul's Verzerrte Reflexion spell - whenever he attempted to cast it, I did not interrupt it, but used Zauberreflexion to get the debuff on him instead, which allows you to rapidly heal yourself (with my health, every tick was for ~250.000). Note: every tick of your Tiefe Wunden also procs a heal. Got to be very careful to not miss any cast of the Verzerrte Reflexion, because, if it gets through, it will be pointless to continue, as Kruul will keep healing himself.

Kruul's Vernichten casts and protection against them:

For the first one, it is enough to be around maximum health and to use Schildblock (bonus from tier's 2-pieces set will be useful here).
For the second one, it hits much harder, so I found it optimal to use Demoralisierender Ruf + Neltharions Zorn, for 100% critical block chance.
For the third one, which is deadly, I saved Letztes Gefecht and Schildwall, as well as used Schildblock (Neltharions Zorn might be ready for this, depends on how many times you kept Kruul stunned / disoriented by Velen's orb).
As was written above, you should try to delay his every cast of Vernichten as much as possible - with Sturmblitz or Velen's orbs, all of which will buy you valuable time to DPS Kruul more and postpone the fourth cast, which would be deadly.

Good luck to everyone still stepping in there - believe in yourself, you can do it.

Kommentar von Arkandae

Did it with 893 ilvl as blood dk in ~50 try, with sephuz secret and skullflower's haemostasis and 46 points on my weapon : http://i.imgur.com/nZAV7Lv.jpg
I mostly died because of the infernals while fighting kruul, keep an eye on them.
If you can't survive the third annihilate with only icebound fortitude, keep orbs and strangulate to stun kruul to have vampiric blood available again.

Good luck !

Kommentar von RayNewland

Even the best guides and most thorough videos cannot compare to experience, so like most of you, I'm sure, I try nearly every challenge without reading it the first time. I made my first attempt on this today with a Vengeance Demon Hunter at ilvl 855.

It actually didn't turn out so well.

Kommentar von Izibb

May be important to note that, even if you die, as long as the NPC's kill Kruul, you'll complete the quest.

I died at like 1%, but the two NPC's killed it and it worked, it took them a good 15 sec to do the last %.

Kommentar von Reizert

This was sure is hard!

I just completed this as a 904 equipped blood dk. I write some tips, maybe it will help someone.

I used the Kil'Jaeden trinket for extra damage and the legendary boots for movement speed.

As a blood dk the damage is really lacking so i recommend using dps trinkets. Since i dont really have a very good one, i just used, a 860 Unstable Arcanocrystal as a second trinket.

It was mentioned in other comment, if you use the Kil'Jaeden trinket, you can switch to Blood Mirror instead of using Bonestorm. The extra damage helps bringing down Kruul on p2.

If you grip the inqvisitor on top of Velen he starts dps-ing him, just watch out for the Mind Rend splash damage and the nether adds. He is immune to the aura. Sometimes he steps out of melee range but you can just use grip again. He uses smite as a ranged damaging spell, but the target is random as far as i can see, sometimes he hits the eyes or the adds.

Save pot (Prolonged Power) and drums for p2. I dont know if this is a bug, but i noticed, when i use a potion at start, i can't use potion again on Kruul.

if you are a blood elf, you have an extra aoe interrupt (arcane torrent) i recomment saving it for p2, if Kor'vas or Velen is close to the nether adds, and they start casting netherstorm. Just saves you using one orb.

If you killed the adds, and still have debuff from the aura, you can heal yourself on the infernals.

Kommentar von Orann

If your item level is below 900 don't waste your time.

Kommentar von nephrite

For those of you just attempting it this weekend, DBM has some new timers that may help. It shows the cooldown timers of most of Varis' abilities.

Kommentar von Arexx

Quest abandoned. Shove it up your ass Blizzard. It's stupid *!@# like this that will cause me to cancel my account. I can tank multiple elites without problems, my health barely moves down. I enter this !@#$ and boom, dead instantly? There's no %^&*ing way I am doing this. The rest of this expansion is bad enough, this only adds to how piss poor it is.

Kommentar von Comeonguys

Did it today, never really attempted it on previous tower spawns.
Had Wucht des Donnergotts and Mannoroths Aderlassfesseln legendaries, went pretty easily for me, 910 ilvl. Macht von Krosus 910 trinket and Klaue des kristallinen Skorpiden 890

In terms of advice - nothing really to add to what Lonarain has said few posts below. Extremely well written tips, I've simply read them, watched a couple of vids, and did the challenge in like 8-10 attempts.

Here's my vid. Lots of mistakes, but still completed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqdGF-KU0Yg&t=2s

Btw, I could give someone a hand, if you guys need it. EU btag - JodieHolmes#21525

Kommentar von Gnarfoz

Weird, for me and a guildie, both paladins, this quest doesn't show up after 7.2.5.
'twas the waning hours of the tower's uptime, but still.

Other people were doing it normally while we looked on.

Anyone else have this problem?

Kommentar von dbmurloc

I was not lucky enough to ever obtain the legendary Sephuz Secret ring, and all my legendaries are for ret. Still possible without the ideal prot leg/ring combo. IL only 905. So here's a few notes for fellow Prot pallies.

Phase 1: If you follow the other prot pally guides here, you will down this pretty quickly. Just use repentance to incapacitate boss while waiting for stacks of aura to drop off and seraphim to come back off cooldown. Drag adds to boss, spam avenger's shield for interrupts and damage. He goes down quickly.
Pay attention to which Holy Wards spawn first and don't be afraid to use the first couple in the first phase to make it safer. My first two wards were despawning during phase 2 if I didn't use them early enough. What a waste :(

Phase 2: I stayed away from Kruul early on and let him attack Kor'vas. During this time I finished off all remaining elementals from phase 1. I did this before popping all cooldowns on Kruul to eliminate the possibility of getting smashed off. Once they were inactive I popped all dps cooldowns and drums of fury to start burning Kruul. Note: if you leave Kruul to attack Kor'vas make sure to focus him for avenger's shield to interrupt Twisted Reflection. He did try to cast this early on but failed due to my interrupt, but it was close. Luckily by the time I had to interrupt him with shield (which also will draw threat to you immediately) all elementals were basically dead.
Don't treat this as ONLY a dps race. You can't miss any mechanics here or it's over. If you can eliminate a mechanic from the fight, do it. Taking out the elementals, even though temporary, was done for a reason. It made it easier to focus on the rest of the mechanics.
I found the most important thing for me during this phase was not burning the boss in a dps race, but making sure to delay annihilate as long as possible. By using Wards, hammer of justice, and repentance to delay annihilate I was able to deal 50% of his health in damage before he got a single annihilate off, leaving all my defensives for the rest of the fight when the elementals reactivated, bringing smash mechanic back into play. At that point it was just deal steady dps, alternate using CDs for annihilate to survive, and step out of smash/netherstomp.
The only other note I really have is make use of Blessing of Protection - annihilate is all physical damage and this will make you immune. Just be careful to use it at a good time. Like when you know he is not going to cast Netherstomp, which you will NOT be immune to, lol.

Good luck!

Kommentar von bonelink

I'm so bad, I got ilvl 917 as a prot warrior and krull just demolishes me... I don't understand how prot wars were able to do this with 899 ilvl prenerf.
I'm just gonna wait until next xpac prepatch and try then, hopefully with 999 ilvl (or some other crazy number) I'll be able to get this done.

Kommentar von f4th3ffr

ilevel 915, weapon ilevel 922, 55 traits purchased. died instantly. what gives?

Kommentar von nofearinc

Guardian 930 here and 60-70 runs later I can barely get Variss to 60% if I am really lucky. I feel fairly comfortable in dungeons, raids, and battlegrounds but this seems outright impossible.

Kudos to everyone who nailed it.

The appearance is pretty rad and I had hopes that 7.3 will nurf that a bit. Not the slightest from my latest trials.

Eyes are often spawned farther than my Moonfire's reach, infernals never die, the pool is contagious and adds a stacking debuff, you have to avoid nether horror ads casting, drain life can get you back to square one, you could get kicked out of the platform, Velen is fairly week and damage is far from negligible. I guess that this appearance is exclusively for mythic raiders in the top 1%.

Kommentar von GhostHause

Ok, so in the Q&A with Ion and Lore(is it?) he discussed changes to the problem of having to win 10 RBGs as an "unwanted" spec to unlock one of the Mage Tower tints. Basically, he boiled it down to (paraphrasing):

"You just have to earn the basic mage tower appearance and then win the 10 RBGs afterwards in whatever spec you want."

Looking for clarification. Could I unlock my Guardian werebear and then just PUG 10 Yolo RBGs as resto and unlock that rad skunk werebear skin, or would I need to unlock the resto mage tower skin too before I do it?

PS. Should I even attempt this without Luffas, or would Balance affinity be good enough?

Kommentar von Riems

I did this as a 920 prot warrior. Couple of tips I didn't see in this thread that might help people looking to finish this:

I did this with with Aggramars Stride and Destiny Driver so you don't need BIS legendaries unless you're doing it at like 900
If there are no nether horrors up, and you zero or one stacks of the health debuff, get in there and do some damage. Even a little helps. This fight is a dps race disguised as a tank fight.
I did about 100 or so attempts with my tank gear on, complete focus on survival. I got frustrated and said screw it, and swapped out all my gear for a DPS focused set. I just went on Mr. Robot and switched the stat weights to focus on damage over survival and then fed it the items in my bags. I downed it in under 10 attempts after doing that. In my survival gear I could tank the first phase for ages, but it would take me 5 or six "burn phases" to get there and I wasted a lot of time killing the nether horrors. I couldn't consistently phase two the fight and when I was in phase two, I had issues with maxing out the annihilates because my damage was low. With the full dps gear I was reliably hitting phase two and only needed three or four burn phases to kill the inquisitor.
Set up macros for ranged interrupting the inquisitor, that makes it one less thing to think about in phase one and one less potential point of failure.
If unattacked, the nether horrors will beeline straight for velen, however if one of them is attacked they will all head straight to you and ignore velen. When you see them spawn, get to the closest one, do a tonne of damage then move to just outside the inquisitors circle. That way you can get some collateral damage on the inquistor while killing the nether adds. They don't move immediately so you can probabbly kill off (or in my case, get him low so I can rack up some victory rushes) before they start moving
Try to avoid using velens orbs unless you are about to die. Orbs make phase two exponentially easier, so the more you have up for kruul the better.
When fighting Kruul, make sure that you keep an eye on Velens health. Kruul is huge and blocks a lot of your screen, so you might miss a wave of nether horrors #$%^ing him up.
If you are going to pop an orb on Kruul, make sure he's NOT in range of a green circle. The green circle's he drops completely ruin you and its impossible to dps him while he's stunned in the circle. If you can try to kite him out before popping one of the orbs so you can maximize dps on him. I wiped a lot of the runs because of this.

Kommentar von Aludren

99% luck.
If everything goes your way, you'll kill it no matter how much you suck. If even one bad luck thing happens, you probably will fail. I think that's why some people get it on first or second attempt, and others with a lot better gear can take 100+ attempts. It just depends on how lucky you are on eye spawns, whether healing circles get stacked or not, whether you get knocked back by a blow and hit the wall vs boucne off the wall and off the platform... it's just... random luck.

Kommentar von Dwallin815

Hi! Does anyone know why i can't take the quest for druid tank? I can take the quests for boomkin and heal but not for the tank, do i have to do something spezial?

Kommentar von talkingoat

I did this on my Druid alt that has been played mostly as Balance this expansion so far. I didn't have any tier set, Luffas or the thrash pants so I was far from BiS for Guardian. That said I think we're getting to the point where everyone can outgear the challenges via Mythic + gear alone. Can definitely see how Luffas would make this easier though. Here are a few tips that got me through.

Talent wise:

Blutraserei - Majority of damage done was from Thrash and the extra rage was nice. Brambles felt a bit pointless (tried it in the first couple of attempts) as there's no real constant aoe going out, it's all predictable bursts.
Wilde Attacke - helpful too if you accidentally get knocked back (can be a life saver)
Gleichgewichtsaffinität - Without Luffas, Balance Affinity is near mandatory imho so you can continue to Thrash etc the boss while standing out of the boss's death and decay.
Mächtiger Hieb - handy for stunning the arcane elemental things as well as Kruul in phase 2.
Inkarnation: Wächter von Ursoc - Used at the start of phase 2 to push through it asap.
Guardian of Elune - safe default choice
Rend and Tear - As with Blood Frenzy, so much damage came from Thrash it seemed a safe choice.

Phase 1:

Pull in Balance from the edge of the room. This causes the boss to move to the centre of the room and for it to be within Melee range of Velen. This is important as for some reason Velen does a lot more damage via melee and helps push phase 1 faster.
Try to save an orb or two for emergencies.
Try to hold survival instincts charges for phase 2.
With balance affinity you can stand just at the edge of the boss's ground effect and still hit it with thrash and swipe. Disorientating roar can also hit the boss which you can use as an emergency interrupt if you have stacks and don't want to get more by running in to skull bash.
Aim to transition without arcane elementals up, best time to transition would be when you've just killed off a pack of elementals and the infernals are dead/low hp.

Phase 2:

Pop Incarnation, drums, pots whatever you have and go ham.
First annhilate iron fur alone was enough for me, after that start rotating SI etc.
Use an orb if you dip low and annihilate is coming or if adds are getting out of hand.
Interrupt Twisted Reflection.

Here's my kill video in all it's glory.

Legendaries used were: Ekogespenst, Erschaffer von Welten + Soul of the Archdruid

Kommentar von Bananini

I abandoned this quest by mistake and I have no idea how to get it back. Could you help me?

Kommentar von Daftedly

Beat this today, 929 Guardian Druid with Luffas and Prydaz. Even with the high item level it was pretty rough; my gear had poor stats for Bear and I am by no means a skilled tank, so this challenge was a trial-by-fire learning experience to say the least. I've never tanked current content of any kind and the most experience I have is derping around in WPvP.

I had the most problems with Kruul's Netherstomp personally. Getting the timing right was extremely difficult for me; I followed WoWhead's Guardian Druid guide and was trying to jump at the right moment to avoid getting caught in the slow and take fewer ticks of damage. Ultimately Prydaz is what let me survive those long enough to get Kruul down, it gave me just enough wiggle room health-wise to get out if I timed my jumps wrong.

I also found that it was helpful to stagger some of my DPS cooldowns rather than save them all for right when Kruul comes down. I was talented into Incarnation and popped that at the very start on Inquisitor and just got him down as fast as I could. Usually by the time Kruul came down I had about 30 to 45 seconds-ish left on Incarnation's cooldown. I did save my Drums, pots and Rage of the Sleeper for Kruul and started to burst as hard as I could. Then by the time Drums had expired, Incarnation was off cooldown and I could spam Thrash and keep up higher sustained DPS. It's probably not the best route, but it worked for me and made dealing with the Nether Horrors easier.

Also, I would like to note: The fight is not necessarily over when Kruul gets ready to blow himself up. I made the mistake of immediately celebrating the second I got him to 0% and stopped paying attention because I thought the fight was over and nothing else was coming. Nether Horrors spawned, made a beeline to Velen, and he died before I realized what was happening. I did not get the kill. I essentially had to kill Kruul twice to get my skin. It was horrible and my computer narrowly avoided getting tossed out the window. Don't make the same mistake I did, keep your guard up for adds spawning at the last second and save your celebrating for when you're safely back in Dalaran.

Kommentar von dieselh

i think the fight is bugged at the moment. nether horrors before were stationary while casting the fat aoe now they follow me super fast and is a istant wipe since their damage is unavoidable

Kommentar von flaotinging

If you're a Death Knight and wondering if you should go with the typical Prydaz/Sephuz combo vs. something else, I did this with Soulflayer's Corruption. Blood Plague was my top damage and my top healing for this fight, about 2x anything else.

Especially at 7.3 (non-raiding) ilvl (mine was a nice high 925 doing this, which obviously made this easier), this legendary makes it so Blood Plague kills eyes in one application for you so you can focus on positioning and healing. Also, along with Blood Boil, this shreds Nether Horrors and Infernals.

Good luck. I am very much not looking forward to doing this 5 more times on my other, less-geared, tanks.

Space - Eredar US

Kommentar von DonStronk

As of today i have 88 attempts on my 923 warrior using Archimonde trinket + Soul of the battlelord and phase 2 is just an absolute %^&*show, 90% of the time kruul will use his fel stomp trucking 80% of your hp followed by a guaranteed annihilate = Death. Now you can survive these if you dont use last stand and your op def cds in phase 1 which is already a big freaking challenge..Best i got kruul was down to 2%, storm bolt just came off Cd and i tossed it but it was 1 millisecond too late to interupt his annihilate...Felt like killing myself because this challenge is EXTREMELY difficult even above 920+ and for someone who is an average tank, took me 45 wipes on my 930 blood dk before i completed it and now trying on my 924 prot pally which is proving to be easier but the infernals are just buggy pieces of poop for me. Sometimes their smash tosses me off and sometimes it just doesnt and their insta-cast smash is just utterly ridicilous....I do hope they nerf this challenge.

Kommentar von DonStronk

Im praying for a nerf on this challenge because as it is 925+ tanks are having a sht time with this including myself, the rng element shouldn't even be in a damn class challenge nor should this be a dps race where you have to keep up the high dmg while also keeping your dmg taken reduction abilities up, all of that adds up to a huge amount of stress which makes this challenge further impossible...Well hopefully after antorus i'll be able to do it though i doubt it as my 927 pala and 926 warrior can't get through it, ive been close a few times but Kruul's damage is far too overwhelming.

Kommentar von Pasist

Hey guys I'm a brewmaster main and finished this fight some time ago. I made a guardian druid alt because of this awesome appearance and here are my thoughts

First of all p1 is a complete joke if you have luffas or ekowraith. I only had 2 legendaries when I did this which were oakhearts puny quods and skysec's hold. I started around ilvl 900 and was getting completely wrecked, finally did it at 923. There is a wonderful trick which I don't see mentioned often and it's that there is a spot where you can stand in the decay animation without getting the debuff stacks but still hit him with your thrash(with balance affinity ofc) after I figured this out it became much easier! So here is step by step how I did it

Buffs: Agility flask, augment rune, bear tartare, flask of prolonged power and drums of fury

P1
- Prepot, pull with moonfire. Stand on the edge and pop incarnation. Then I just stand there for the full duration and spam thrash but with interruping life drain ofc. If your standing on velen the adds will just melt while incarnation is active. When incarnation ended I ran around and killed the eyes with moonfire. For each interrupt I did mangle->maul->maul->thrash while running out. For the 2nd wave of adds you can use ROTS and they will melt. After that you need to use the incapatating roar AFTER they start channeling nether storm. You hardly need to think about the infernals if you have wild charge since you can just charge back if you get knocked back. I usually finished P1 with 30-40 secs left of my incarnation.
- Don't bother using ironfur in p1
- Pop frenzied regeneration while you have the decay stacks on you since it's % heal.
- You can run to the edge and outrange variss and pop some quick regrowths if there are no orbs and you are dying.
- You can interrupt variss outside of his decay circle with typhoon

P2
- I popped my 2nd potion and drums of fury immediately
- Try to kite him in a circle while jumping but try to stay close to velen, the nether horrors go straight to him and you need to pull aggro. He dies in 2-3 seconds after they start channeling. If you are lucky and jump while he does netherstomp you can also completely avoid it, the netherstomp is the real killer in this fight so try to GTFO of it ASAP.
- For annihilate I used 2x ironfur for first->2x ironfur+survival instincts->2xironfur ROTS->2xironfur, barkskin+survival instincts. You will die on the fifth, the fourth is very close to 1 shotting you.
- You can pop an orb if you miss interrupting his twisted reality, the orb dispells it.
- I popped incarnation when it came of cooldown and just spammed thrash while kiting

Some other thoughts: I probably had around 50 tries on this. I wouldn't even bother trying if you are under 910 unless you have luffas or ekowraith. I had around 15 tries yesterday while at ilvl 915 and had multiple <10% attempts on kruul but felt like I couldn't make the dps check. I got my 2nd legendary today(skysecs) along with some good purples which took me 923 and did it on the 3rd attempt today. I feel that wild charge and balance affinity are absolutely mandatory on this fight and I also highly recommend typhoon and incarnation, the rest are not that important I think.

Kommentar von livie

Late to the party I know but I finally did it! Couple maybe obvious tips that truly made the difference for me:

-On P2, stay near the middle of the platform and just shimmy around in a small backwards circle. No need to go running off.
-P2 also, keep Kruul stunned as much as possible. I had tons of orbs up so between that and my own stuns he was toast! Don't be afraid to use those orbs, and the more you have at the end the better.
-Eat that Bear Tartare! Saved my life running to an orb more than once!

GL everyone and thanks for all the guides and tips from everyone else too!

Kommentar von jessmoo22

This is so dumb. The infernals are just completely unneccesary and bull#$%^. It would be hard enough without them. Not to mention that they literally dont die and just keep respawning and their knockback that they spam has no ground indicator at all. Gear or skill doesnt matter when everything is just &*!@ting out knockbacks to kick you into space. The tank challenge is a literal troll by Blizzard.

Kommentar von Somarz29

As a prot paladin, I couldn't get Krul below 10% until switching to Retribution Aura and Last Defender to finally kill him.

Kommentar von blackbirdxer0

even at 922, this isnt a challenge. just trollery. between knock backs, knock offs, dbm failing to report drain life, eyes spawning at edge of platform, constant crits for 2m+, how was anyone able to down this? repentance last for 2 secs and then its mind rend/drain life city, between 3 eyes spawned all over the place(not within AS range) multiple infernals and nether horrors mobbing all over velen...cant get variss beyond 60%.

Kommentar von Vyndillan

This &*!@ really needs nerfed... that's pretty much all there is to it, if an ilvl 930 prot warrior can't get Variss past 60-50% somethings wrong. $%^& the little guy I guess.

Kommentar von Lake8888

Managed to clear it on my 930 paladin after much pain. With our DPS, you can't afford to let even a single Twisted Reflection go off. (heals Kruul) If you do get hit by the debuff, it's worth bubbling just to clear it. That happened on my last and sucessful attempt.

Kommentar von Arakara

"ALL HAIL KRULL AND HIS BENEVOLENT NEW REGIME."

Kommentar von Goretreader

No hope for me, don't have fast internet+quality pc+mythic raiding gear

Kommentar von AlicePrime

Hi all,

Just barely managed to do it in 939 as Vengeance. Since there are no comments here with tips for that spec, decided to add what I learned.

If anyone's interested, I found Sephuz + Prydaz the most useful combo here.

Bear Tartare is optional, but useful. In terms of flasks, either one works: Agility or Fel Focuser. Pro tip: entering instance resets Fel Focuser cooldown, but only if you used it INSIDE the previous instance.

1. It's not explicitly stated anywhere, not even in the guides, but that's what wiped me quite a few times before I finally figured this out. VELEN CAN DIE. If he dies, you will be kicked out of instance (though you will not die, and not lose buffs and debuffs). You MUST protect him and heal him with his own orbs.

The only thing that can realistically kill him is the Nether Spawns. Occasionally, they will not go after you and instead will go attack Velen. Since he has only half of your life (4m), they can tear him apart in no time. Sometimes these chickenlovers can even go partially after you and partially after him.

The only way to counter it is to keep a very close eye on where they go, and if they aim for Velen, run for him, as well as heal him ASAP.

2. One of the most useful items in game to have in this raid is the tank trinket from Aggrammar in Antorus: Smoldering Titanguard. It paralyzes you for 3 seconds, absorbing over 20 million damage, and then deals 2 million damage to everything in vicinity. With 2 minutes cooldown, you can use it twice to escape otherwise certain death and wipe the floor with any adds that happen to be around.

If you have this trinket, you can effectively survive one more Annihilate, or destroy a pack of Nether Spawns without as much as lifting a finger. It also deals quite some damage to Kruul.

3. Although it's tempting, only use single-target damaging spells on Kruul + Immolate Aura. Your Burning Brand is a defensive spell and should be saved for Annihilate, and your Seals and Inferno Strikes will be needed to kill Nether Spawns. Normally it takes Seal or Immolate Aura + two Infernal Strikes to kill a pack of Nether Spawns.

Only when Kruul is below 7%, you can go wild and hit him with everything you've got, usually after 3rd Annihilate.

4. Imprison, surprisingly, works in this scenario. It only lasts a few seconds, but it's very useful to paralyze the Inquisitor while you are forced to stay away from him.

5. In overgear, and with good turning, Eyes are not a big deal. You can kill them in a single Infernal Strike, or by hitting them 1-3 times with Shear. Avoid amassing more than 5 at once, though.

6. As a Demon Hunter, you have a cheat that basically makes you immune to four deadly mechanics in this fight if you know what you're doing:
- Smash and Eye pulse: if you get knocked back, just Glide immediately. This will save you in 99% of all knockback occasions. Having wings has some perks.
- Netherstomp: double jump and Glide cannot save you from the blast, but you can leave the area safely. Remember that you need to save your Infernal Strikes for Nether Spawns.
- Barriers in Phase 2: you can simply double-jump over them without even slowing down.

7. Be careful not to accidentally pick up healing orbs while Nether Spawns are up, but not yet in position. If they get blinded and stranded alone, you will simply not have time to AoE them all before they begin dealing damage.

8. A very powerful combo in this fight is Fracture (spammable damage + two shards each time) and Spirit Bomb (convert shards to AoE and leech). Use this on both single target and multiple targets, especially in Phase 2.

9. Last Resort is mandatory. After 2 casts, Annihilate will begin dealing more damage than you can physically survive. Third cast is only manageable by popping all defensives at once. Fourth cast can only be survived by triggering Last Resort. Fifth cast, most likely, will kill you on the spot, unless you use trinket to survive 4th instead of Last Resort.

10. Remember that the two phases are totally different. Phase 1 is a crowd control / positioning fight, where control is more important than damage. Don't go over 5 stacks of Dread Aura at any time. Phase 2 is a hectic survival fight AND DPS race. As such, save cooldowns for Phase 2. If you waste any before that, you will most likely lose.

11. Unless you do something really stupid (not jumping out of Netherstomp or getting 10 stacks of Aura of Dread, for example), there are three things that can make you fail:
- Annihilate, if you don't pop up CDs on cast 3
- Nether Spawns, if you dont interrupt them OR let them get to Velen, OR waste all AoE skills on something trivial
- Not interrupting Drain Life / Twisted Reflection (can be corrected by jumping to an orb)
If you feel like one of those is making you sick and want to crush your mouse into tiny pieces of toxic plastic, change talents to accomodate. However, most choices (Abyssal Strike, Quickened Sigils, Last Resort, Flame Crash, Fracture) are non-negotiable.

12. Be sure to kill remaining adds once Kruul is done. They can still kill you. However, if you've made it this far, this will not be much of a challenge.

Hope it helps, guys!

Kommentar von NatPaggleIsaPOS

I just did this at 915 item level with 1 legendary as a blood dk. Rethu's crafted belt. I just want to say (sorry for the people trying to help out) that the guides and comments for blood dk are absolutely horrible and inaccurate. The MOST IMPORTANT part of the encounter is being able to kill the nether adds WITHOUT having them kill Velen. That's it. Once you can manage that the fight is really a breeze, p2 took me a total of 2 attempts with a total of 15 attempts in phase 1. p2 is a joke because you can tank kruul on the very edge of the room and not worry about knockbAcks. It also allows you to easily strafe to avoid abilities. Just my 2c but take everything with a grain of salt in this game, everyone's experience seems to be different on what mechanics gives them trouble.

-Also I want to input I have also done this on guardian druid, prot paladin as well as prot warrior and in neither of those attempts did the nether adds specifically target velen and also sometimes be immune to aggro. Good luck to everyone attempting. Cheers.

Kommentar von Lake8888

I got quest credit despite Velen dying after Kruul was defeated. That whole "time crackles" thing happened, the ending event was cut short and I was teleported back to the tower, but it seemed that as long as Kruul reaches 0 hp, it counts. (Thankfully)

Kommentar von Felweed

Hello everyone! I just wanted to pop in and share some of my thoughts after having finally completed a mage tower challenge. I'm not the greatest fan of the Blood DK appearances, but I wanted to truly give this a shot once I felt comfortable on my DK after having to go Main Tank for our guild raids. In the weeks prior, I built a transmog around one of the colors, to be a reward for when I complete the challenge (the mog sat in my bank, unlearned, for a few weeks lol!). Shoutout to the seller of the Jade set I purchased a few weeks ago on Zul'jin. Seeing those pieces for sale after I fell in love with the mog was a delight, and I had no regrets spending roughly 500k on a couple of pieces.

ANYWAYS, sorry. Here's the tips I promised.

I completed this at 955 with Skullflower's and Gorefiend's belt, strength flask, bear tartare, lust and prolonged power. I had a few attempts prior to raid with Aggramar's stride, but swapped back to Skullflower's for the Death Strike procs. Oh, I also had a 945 Chrono Shard. That and bear tartare were a glorious pair throughout the fight. I haven't seen Sephuz drop for my dk (I was actually waiting to attempt this again with Sephuz), and I don't think I needed it with my lucky Shard drop.

Focus the Inquisitor. Use focus macros for Death Grip, Blooddrinker, Mind Freeze and Strangulate.

Use Velen's orbs as much as you want. But try to go into P2: Kruul with at least 1, 2 to be on the safe side.

You don't have to go too far to step out of smash if you keep the internals as far from you as possible.

DON'T FORGET GLIDERS.

The storm AOE from Horrors won't damage Velen if you're near the edges or just a considerable distance away from Velen. Just continue to be aware of smashes.. He'll remain in the center of the room, I noticed.

Also, you can fit a good amount of damage on the Inquisitor between horror spawns. Don't stress it. If I recall, I went into P2 right before the third set of Horrors came out.

Don't panic. Remain calm and collected. There's a lot going on. Give yourself a few attempts to catch on to the timing and your reactions. React with a clear head. When I completed my green fire quest in patch 5.4, I had to have a friend on Skype continuously telling me to remain calm while I walked myself through the fight. I was so quick to berate myself and become flustered. (I will admit, I panicked at 10% Kruul on my kill because I had been there a few times and carried too much chaos into that last bit.)

Take note of the abilities and suggestions in guides. But feel free to make your own adjustments, like I was able to do with Legendaries. Adapt the challenge to your play style, but be mindful of the encounter and timing.

Have courage, but don't give up easily or early.

Don't feel guilty for outgearing it, or attempting it late into the expansion. Complete your mage tower challenge when you feel ready.

And most importantly, DON'T GET COCKY. I made that mistake on a couple of close attempts and wasn't thinking quick enough to react.

Sorry this is so lengthy. I hope it helps someone. :)

Kommentar von AlicePrime

Protection Paladin: End, Once and for All

Protection Paladin is very tricky but doable even for a scrub. With overgear (I got 948), it all comes to learning a few very important notes.

On the bright side, once you've made it through phase 1, phase 2 is MUCH easier.

1. You need Bear Tartare (the food that gives speed on kill). Simple but vital. An add is dying every 5 seconds or so, you will have a near-permanent +70% speed.

2. As a Paladin, you are incredibly resistant to direct damage due to:
- Near permanent damage reduction of Shield of the Righteous
- Rapid heals with Hand of the Protector
- Blessing of Protection, Ardent Defender and Divine Shield as panic buttons
Advantages in offense:
- Blessed Hammer + Consecration semi-passively kill adds
- A ranged attack that also interrupts and AoEs: Avenger Shield
- Store charges of Shield of the Righteous to quickly discharge strong damage into a single target

And you need to use that. Strong in defense but lacking in mobility, you will have to focus on moving around. Not a single second of standing at the same point because...

3. ...the only thing that can realistically kill you (even if getting 9 stacks, Divine Shield to the rescue) is the knockback. 90% of all deaths happen due to knockbacks, which come from two sources:

- Eyes. Generally not a problem, just keep facing the currently active Eye. Judgment is not a reliable way to kill it, and Avenger Shield is needed for the priority target. The best way is to wait for the Nether Horrors, grab them (see below) and then run to the nearest Eye. Spam Blessed Hammer and Consecration while you run and when you are there, a few Hammers will clear any Eyes in the area.

- Smash cast by Infernals. The cast is short-ranged but quick, and you can only see it very briefly on the ground as a dust cloud. This will kill you 90% of the time. No standing still: CONSTANTLY MOVE. You ALWAYS move, running in circle, perpendicular to the general direction of Infernals, and NEVER run to them (that is, by the line of the Smash).

This all, combined, leads you to the single most important advice in this challenge. You will not like it. But it works.

4. Don't stand near Inquisitor. At all. The classic "damage him until 3-5 stacks, run away, wait for stacks to wear off" is not working here. You always keep your distance from the Inquisitor, only approaching him to:

- Interrupt his Drain Life, if Avenger Shield and Hammer of the Righteous are on cooldown
- Discharge 3 Shields of the Righteous into his face

Then immediately run out of his Aura. That's it. Use your Avenging Shield and Judgment to damage him. You kite all adds around the Aura, not going in, spamming Consecration and Blessed Hammers. The Inquisitor is always the focus target (to react to Drain Life), but only approach him for the two things described.

His hitbox is large enough for you to reliably hit him with Hammers and Consecration, which creates a steady flow of decent damage. Avenger Shield will ricochet to adds, damaging them as well. Shield charges are an extra DPS burst when free of adds.

Remember to face the active Eye as you run. You will often be able to do so without slowing down by running sideways.

This marathon gives you, at 940+, enough damage to kill Nether Horrors and excessive Eyes, and negate Smash.

5. Grabbing the Nether Horrors. The second hardest thing in fight after the Smash management. When they spawn, they run for Velen and start hitting him. He dies, you fail the dungeon.
- Change your path to run to Velen
- Kite around Velen until Nether Horrors come
- Use the Healing Ward orb to blind everything (Blinding Light if not available) and to heal Velen
- Before they recover, drop Consecration and spam Blessed Hammer.
- They will now follow you. Run away from Velen and continue spamming AoE.

Do not worry about their damage, heal with Hand of the Protector. Run back to your usual Eye-smashing routine, still focusing the Inquisitor. Don't stop, don't return back to Velen until they die.

It is normal if one or two Horrors live long enough to see the next pack. The scheme does not change: they will die very soon.

6. You always have a Goblin Glider on a hotkey you can instantly press. This is your 2-per-fight panic button against Smash.

Remember that Smash weakens with the Infernal size (as it dies). The smaller Infernal is, the shorter the knockback distance. Really weak Infernals might send you across the platform, and not kill you.

Also, decorations and pillars on the edges actually provide a decent cover. Smashing into them will save you, but that's more of a "dodging the bullet luck" than a real countermeasure.

7. About the Seraphim talent. Most people recommend using it because it gives you a potent offensive cooldown. However, the only time you'll actually use it is the opening blast of damage on both phases. In the heat of battle, a scrub like us will not be able to monitor it while tracking the Smashes. Righteous Protector is good if you lack skill.

8. Despite phase 1 being much harder, you need to beat it leaving the DPS cooldowns for phase 2. This includes Drums and potion: use them immediately after Kruul appears. Avenging Wrath you can use at your leisure: it recharges fast enough.

Defensive cooldowns should be used as you need them. You have enough of those to survive six (!) Annihilates. Realistically, you will kill Kruul in three. No point in saving them all if you feel that you're being overwhelmed.

9. DPS trinkets help a lot here. Gorschalach's Legacy is my favorite: every 15 melee attacks, it unleashes a blast that kills any adds in front of you, and deals high damage to the boss.

10. As of killing Kruul himself, you need to remember the following:
- You still need to grab the Horrors and kite the Smash, so you are still running in circles. However, without Aura and Eyes, it will be much easier as long as you don't stop.
- Kruul is always near, so you can interrupt him with your Rebuke alone. No more saving anything else. Bombard him with all damage you've got, making AoE take care of the adds.
- Use Shield of the Righteous by cooldown, but always save 1 charge for the Annihilate or anything else that may happen.
- Don't go too far from Velen (ideally keep him at 1/3 of arena size), as you will still need to get the orbs.
- The barriers that push you are NOT impassable. Run straight into them and they will let you through after about 1 second. Use it to get to the healing orbs; it becomes even easier with Divine Steed.
- Save Hammer of the Righteous (stun) for an emergency, if you need to run away from Kruul or heal up.

The main and hardest thing will be learning to dodge / kite Smashes. And above all, keep calm. Let your subconsciousness handle the damage rotation (target dummy helps); focus on movement, avoidance, and interrupts.

It's a very unique artifact appearance, and one of the hardest in the entire game to get, but the reward is worth fighting for it.

Kommentar von 46Knucklehead

I really enjoy a challenge that's fun.
This isn't.
Call me a whiner, I'm done.
920 Blood DK with good legos.
I know my class well, spent tons on gems and 'chants, food, flasks, etc.
Watched vids, studied like a mid-term.
Taunt me with shineys Blizz and put 'em out of my reach.
Thanks for nothin'.

Kommentar von AlicePrime

Blood Death Knight: The 'Save Velen' marathon

A hard challenge with no way to just bruteforce it; even at 947, it was still a lot of attempts, most of them ending in non-death failure. A few tips:

1. The usual tanking routine applies mostly as usual.
- Bring Strength flask and Bear Tartare
- To avoid Smash, run perpendicular to the general direction of Infernals, never stopping without a good reason
- Hotkey Goblin Gliders
- Never exceed 4, maximum 5 stacks of Aura at any time; if possible, Asphyxiate the Inquisitor when you leave the Aura (to avoid being killed by his casts)
- Single-target attacks, especially Blood Drinker, go into the Inquisitor at every chance.
- The only spells you interrupt are Drain Life (phase 1) and Twisted Reflection (phase 2).
- Push hard to move through the barriers in phase 2 (to get to healing orbs): they are not impassable.

2. Eyes are immune to Physical damage. Fortunately, a single Death's Caress (yes, that spell no one uses, the long-range single target Blood Plague) is enough to reliably kill them (instantly on crit). Just fight on, paying no further attention to Eyes, only remember to face them.

3. The hardest part of the fight, the one that will send you back nearly every time you're not being sent there by Smash, is the Nether Horrors. Unlike the Demon Hunter challenge, here they do not move once they start channeling their spell. This may be beneficial (it becomes hard for them to kill you), but it also becomes your doom. Or, to be more precise, Velen's.

When they spawn, they will always run to Velen first, and attack him until their channel begins or until you force them to move (after which they will switch to you). You will need to, every time, do the following:
- When they spawn, move to Velen's area
- AoE them to aggro them (Blood Boil is perfect, Death and Decay is second best)
- Use Velen's orb to blind them all once they start channeling (not before that!)
- Once that is done, run away and make them follow you. Afterwards, finish them with whatever AoE you've got. Blood Boil, Consumption, Bone Storm, Death and Decay - you will likely have to use them every time Horrors spawn.
As soon as they are away from Velen, they are no longer a threat, but if even one stays there and successfully casts his spell, this is a wipe.

Your last resort options are:
- Death Grip. A single add can be pulled to you.
- Gorefiend's Grasp may sometimes save you if you screw up. Use it on the Infernal or add closest to the others, but at safe distance from Velen, and they will all be pulled.
- Racials: Arcane Torrent, War Stomp to mass interrupt if an orb failed.

After phase 2 begins, they will drop this nasty habit and will always run towards you first. Still, keep an eye on Velen, and in case of emergency, follow the steps above. You don't care if they live long: the remnants of previous adds will simply die from your next AoE, or even passively from the Blood Plague.

4. After you've made it through phase 1, phase 2 will be somewhat easier. You can still occasionally fail by bringing Horrors too close to Velen or Korvas (ye, she actually is in the fight), but here, non-Smash deaths will come from Annihilate.

For this, you will need your Rune Tap. Since this is the only damage reduction spell we've got, and Purgatory is out of the question due to Bonestorm, you will need to amass other things:
- Marrowrend for Bone Shield (at least 3 charges at all times)
- Spam Death Strike (if available, turn on Dancing Rune Weapon)
- After second Annihilate, prepare Vampiric Blood and Icebound, and pray you don't see the fourth.

Anti-Magic Aura will not help, as Annihilate deals Physical damage.

5. Other than this, there is no longer any point in saving cooldowns. Bombard Kruul with all your attacks, adds will die passively from those. Move to avoid dangers, in circles, but overall, Annihilate and Twisted Reflection are the only worries here.

6. Drums and potion are best saved for the beginning of phase 2. DPS cooldowns, all you've got except AoE, can be used at pull to deal some damage to Inquisitor before any adds appear.

And that's basically it. The second Kruul is out of health, all adds will despawn, and the battle is won.

Kommentar von 362388

If you don't see this quest at the Mage Tower (especially late in Legion when you're overgeared), it's probably because you never did the "Council of Six" questline for your artifact... you need to go back to the Violet Citadel in Dalaran and do the questline before the Mage Tower challenge will be unlocked.

Kommentar von AlicePrime

Protection Warrior: This! Is! Sparta!

In my 945, this was supposed to be very hard compared to other Kruul challenges, but turned out the easiest of them all. Once making it past phase 1, killing Kruul himself was much easier. Tips collected, in addition to tactics shared among all tanks:

1. Due to main Warrior trouble - lack of self-healing - Impending Victory talent works very well. You can even put it in place of the useless Devastate, replacing it with passive Devastator (adds quite some damage). Since an add is dying very often, you will spam it every time it recharges.

2. Take Bounding Stride and save your Leap. It is a panic button for two cases: either you get knocked off, or you need to get to an orb ASAP. Otherwise, don't waste it.

3. Cast Ignore Pain. Literally every time you have enough Rage and are outside the Aura (later, every time regardless of that).

4. Hotkey and use Spell Reflection by cooldown. It's your main protection against the Inquisitor's casts when outside melee range.

There is also a rumor that if you Spell Reflect the Twisted Reflection, you'll be healed instead of Kruul. I am not sure it's true (never had a chance to test it), but if it is, it's the most epic trolling of a boss in the entire Mage Tower.

5. If possible, get your hands on Antorus trinkets: Smoldering Titanguard and Aggrammar's Conviction. This is the most powerful combo for this challenge, and it makes the run much easier and smoother (to the point where I one-shotted phase 2 after just a few wipes on phase 1).

Titanguard is a 3-seconds cheat death absorb that can take either Annihilate (regardless of the number of stacks) or adds (instantly killing them). Twice per battle, you will clean the field and survive even when you shouldn't have.

Conviction is a very valuable proc, if very simple, that will drastically raise your damage and protection.

6. There is some debate over Stormstrike vs Shockwave. I took Stormstrike, as stunning the Inquisitor when away from him + panic interrupt is more valuable than mass stun of Nether Horrors (who are interrupted by Orbs / Intimidating Shout anyway).

7. In phase 2, always save 1 charge of Shield Block and Demoralizing Shout for Annihilate. Although in good gear you should not see more than 3 Annihilates, you cannot risk having no backup here.

8. Remember you have Intervene, which can be used to move either to enemies OR to allies (i.e Velen). Sometimes it can even save you from knockback (no, seriously, it can). It is especially valuable to get the hell out of Netherstomp.

9. Due to massive cleave, Horrors are not as much of a problem for you as you would think. Keep them away from Velen, interrupt them AFTER they begin cast, and your Revenge / Thunderclap will make a short work of them all. 95% of the time your focus will be the Inquisitor, then Kruul.

10. Don't be shy to stun Kruul at every opportunity. Every moment delays you running out of health, which, in this fight, will inevitably happen. You just have to make sure he runs out of health faster.

And done. Congratulations on the flail and skull shield.

Kommentar von Lake8888

Just done it on Blood DK too. By now I can confirm that healing yourself will pull the Netherspawn away from Velen. For that, I prefer to plant Varis next to the portal on the right side next to the L-shape ruin, which you can use to help you block the weaker knockbacks. Have a Deathstrike saved up for the netherspawn there and it should attract the rest of them. That spot is far away from Velen too so he should be perfectly safe.

In P2 I find that kiting the netherspawn is useless. Kruul moves slow thus Korvas does too, and she will die from the pulses before she runs out. I find it best to stand near an orb and try your best to cleave the netherspawn down before they cast. If they do cast, use the orb.

Kommentar von AlicePrime

Brewmaster: Look at my Ox, my Ox is amazing...

Despite 946 when I did it, I had no spec-specific legendaries and no Argus trinket (really advise you get one if you can, makes your life SO much easier). However, for us lazy scrubs, there is no challenge we won't be able to beat... in an unorthodox way. So how do we do it?

1. We cheat. Not in the "exploit bug" sense, but by using our taunting summons: Black Ox Statue and Invoke Niuzao.

The Statue, while it will not deal with the enemies for you, will not let Velen die. Put it in the middle of the room, and it will:
- Attract Infernals (they will discharge their Smashes into the Statue instead of you)
- Attract Horrors (they won't attack Velen, and you will have more time to kill them)
This alone will make phase 1 much easier. Until you damage an enemy, they will ignore you. The Statue is durable enough to withstand anything they are throwing at it.

Niuzao must be saved for phase 2. When summoned, it will take the full attention of Kruul while it lasts. It can accept Annihilates to itself (and survive), keeps the boss off yourself, and basically, cuts your dangerous time in the fight in half. It also deals quite some damage. With it, once it ends, you will be able to use cooldowns much more liberally, without the need to overstretch them.

(Niuzao also works in phase 1 with same effectiveness, but its long cooldown prevents you from using it twice. Since phase 2 is harder, you need it there)

2. Since you don't get Jade Wind, your only reliable cleaving skills will be Fire Breath and Keg Smash, which are both very short-ranged and have cooldowns (so they can't be just spammed at will). Whenever Horrors are up, forget the Inquisitor, wait for them to come to the Statue, and throw the Keg, then Breath. Exploding Keg can be used at your leisure: I was using it on the Inquisitor, but a lot of people prefer to hurl it at adds. Chi Wave, if taken, works well too.

Horrors are your priority target in phase 1! Even though they don't have their signature pulsing spell in this challenge, they are still too dangerous to be left lingering. If you feel that they are out of control, abandon everything and use single-target attacks on them too. Better to postpone Inquisitor's demise than to die.

3. Knockbacks from Eyes and Infernals are much less dangerous for the Monk. With the Statue, Infernals will mostly be ignored. Eyes you'll need to cleave when you take Horrors to them, as you won't really have time to run and single-target them (but can do that too). It is also a viable plan to ignore the Eyes altogether, only facing the active Eye while kiting.

If you've been hit and thrown across the platform to your doom, you must have, on easy hotkeys, at least one of the following:
- Roll (use it in air, while still above solid ground, facing the center, and it will stop you dead where you are, negating knockback)
- Glider (same as any other tank)
- Transcendence set in middle (the hardest one to use due to limited range; only use as last resort)
Note that Roll and Transcendence are also the panic skills to get the hell out of Netherstomp and/or to get the Orbs. Save one charge of Roll at all times for an emergency.

4. Speaking of which. You want to try and save Velen's Orbs; DO NOT use them for CC, but instead go take one any time you are below 20% health, or know for a fact that a huge damage spike is incoming.

You can, and should, go through all mechanics without using the mass-blind Orb even once. Only use them for healing. This is due to Monks relying on stagger: you can slow your health loss, but staggered damage is not going anywhere, meaning that you will still lose that health soon. As such, managing your loss of health becomes a very important task, leading to...

5. Ironskin Brew and Fortifying Brew usage. At any moment when you have 2+ charges of Ironskin, activate it. Inquisitor's casts are always a major source of damage intake when you have 4+ stacks. When adds start hitting you, you must activate Ironskin or risk dying outright.

At the same time, always save one charge of Ironskin for emergencies. Namely: Netherstomp and Annihilate (Inquisitor casts while you have stacks and no orb in phase 1 instead).

When your Niuzao ends in phase 2, you might want to activate Fortifying Brew. The best moment for it is the first time you drop below 50% health.

Preventing health loss is not good enough, though. Healing Elixir should be used at every opportunity when 2 charges are available, and whenever below half life otherwise. Expel Harm can be used at every opportunity.

6. Paralysis is a super-useful ability that will be used very often (nearly by cooldown in phase 1). It has a variety of applications:
- Emergency interrupt that does not require refreshing stacks and works from range.
- Blocking the Inquisitor for a few seconds while low on health or just high on stacks, not letting him perform damaging casts.
- Delaying Kruul's Annihilate.
- Pausing Kruul to let you go collect the Orb.

Hotkey it and don't neglect it!

7. Smoldering Titanguard and Aggrammar's Conviction are the two trinkets you do want to have here. Both provide protection and damage. Titanguard is awesome for surviving another Annihilate (or simply a damage spike) plus killing nearby adds regardless of their numbers. Aggrammar is a passive boost to survival and damage, and due to being unbalanced like hell, will greatly boost your success chances.

8. While for most specs phase 1 is harder to make through, for the Monk, phase 2 is way more dangerous. This is due to just one ability: Netherstomp. It is the only real danger you face, since Annihilate is easily countered by stagger.

Use anything you can to survive it. Fortifying Brew and Ironskin will give you time to escape. Roll is the best way to get out of it and move to the orb (Transcendence can help too... sometimes). Do not linger in the pools even for a moment; ideally, never even stop and kite Kruul as close to the middle as you can. Being stuck in the pool without moving skills equals death.

The worst thing that can happen is placing a pool on top of Velen. He does not take damage from it, but that will likely place new Orbs into the pool. Avoid this at all costs: never stand on top of Velen unless you run for the Orb!

Niuzao, who shields you from most of the damage, cannot save you from the Netherstomp: you must always be alert!

And there we go. Mistbearer is a very... unusual design of the keg-staff. If Blizz allow this in BFA, it will probably be good for Mistweaver transmogrification...

Kommentar von AlicePrime

Guardian: The Beelzeboss

Probably the hardest of all tanking challenges (which are by itself among the hardest of the seven types), unless you cheat by getting good legendaries. Took me 948 AND best choice of gear to do it, with over 50 wipes before that. Collected tips:

1. Choice of equipment. You will need two of the relevant items to do it, otherwise even with overgear, you simply will run out of health due to soft enrages in phase 2 long before you can do enough damage to the boss. That is, if you even live through phase 1. In order of priority:
- Sephuz.
My personal choice, as you will reliably proc it every 30 seconds, which is basically a Heroism for 1/3 of the fight in addition to Drums. Especially effective in phase 2. And movement speed bonus will negate your biggest weakness: slow speed.
- Ekowraith.
If taken with Balance Affinity, it will turn ALL your melee attacks into ranged ones. This changes phase 1 dramatically, as you can now attack the Inquisitor without coming into his aura range, making phase 1 a cakewalk!
- Prydaz / Skysec.
Druids can't really heal (Frenzied Regeneration is a damage reduction spell, NOT healing, and you don't really have any other reliable heals in Bear form), so any external heals / absorbs can mean the difference between life and death.
- Luffa / Elize.
A poor man's Ekowraith. Worse than that one, but still relevant.
- Kil'Jaeden.
A very poor, but simple and reliable add-nuking aid. Only use if absolutely nothing else is available.

Beware of the Soul of the Archdruid: probably the worst choice here. That legendary is not only useless, but actually harmful because it prevents you from using one of the above. Guardian is the only Druid spec which has a lame version of the Soul of the Forest.

Try to obtain Argus trinket (Aggrammar's Conviction) and/or Aggrammar trinket (Smoldering Titanguard). As with all tank challenges, these rock.

2. Use Wild Charge. It has two uses that make it a very valuable tool:
- It compensates for your, to put it mildly, pathetic mobility, helping you get to the boss when needed.
- If used quickly (hail hotkeys) it will save you from a knockback.
- It can be used to get away from the boss and to adds, which is needed very often in phase 1 and can be used as a Netherstomp escape in phase 2.

3. Save your Incarnation for phase 2, where it can be used as soon as the phase begins to nuke Kruul with potion and Drums. Using it in phase 1 will make a lot of its damage potential go in vain, even with Ekowraith. However, the second Kruul spawns, all the barrage of Mangle and Thrash casts can go into him immediately.

In addition, the extra Rage it rewards will be needed, as unlike phase 1, phase 2 requires you to cast Ironfur every time you can.

4. Save damage reduction cooldowns for phase 2, where a huge pile of Netherstomps will quickly overwhelm you. Ideally try to save some Orbs as well, using them once low on health instead of for crowd control. Once your Incarnation ends in phase 2, turn on damage cooldowns one by one (not overlapping), always having at least one active on each Annihilate or Netherstomp. There is no longer any point in saving them.

Survival Instincts are best saved for last, as they are the most potent ones and they are guaranteed to not recharge for another use, while Rage / Barkskin may actually see another cast.

Your damage of Thrash, Moonfire and Mangle will be steady and enough to kill Kruul within reasonable time, but you need to outlive him, and that's where Druids, deprived of any self-healing, do not exactly shine. Hell, even Warriors can heal faster than us.

5. As said above, Frenzied Regeneration is not a healing spell, as it only works after you actually suffer damage, does not stack and heals less damage than you've sustained. Treat it as a damage reduction ability instead: every time anything dealing more than a couple of million health hits you (or multiple hits within 2 seconds), use one (and ONLY one) charge. Netherstomp, Annihilate, Inquisitor's Mind Rend are all good moments to use it. Using it at any other moment is generally a waste.

In phase 1, it's actually the only way to recover while you have multiple stacks of the Aura: due to your maximum health being decreased, the percentage of health FR can recover is higher.

A method I heard people use, but never succeeded in doing it myself, it to cast Regrowth on yourself when adds are dead and outside Aura (phase 1) or Kruul is stunned (phase 2). This might save you... All better to try it than to sadly look at your low health with no Orb around.

6. Eyes will not be a problem for you at all. A single Moonfire will kill them, sometimes instantly. Take a habit of spamming it every time you don't have anything better to cast.

If you don't have Ekowraith, Moonfire will also be your primary damage source on Inquisitor while outside the Aura.

7. Learn to use your Roars. A single faulty Roar on adds will cost you an attempt as the Horrors will instantly kill Velen if you interrupt them too soon / too late. Stampeding Roar is your panic button for phase 2 to get the hell away from Netherstomp.

8. In Netherstomp, JUMP. It does not tick while you are in air, and jumping forward at the exact moment while it's aimed, but Kruul is in air, will let you escape it with minimal damage.

9. Use your Mighty Bash on Inquisitor right before you run out of the Aura. This will give 5 seconds of him not casting his Mind Rend. On Kruul, it's wise to cast it by cooldown, ideally whenever adds come to you (to minimize incoming damage). Don't use it as interrupt tool.

10. Remember: despite phase 1 being a CC phase, and phase 2 a DPS race, you will need a counter-intuitive Rage use. Only use Rage for Maul in phase 1 (as all damage there is magical anyway) and only for Ironfur in phase 2 (as you rely on steady damage and survival there).

11. Which Affinity to take without Ekowraith is up for debate. Balance Affinity only helps with the mentioned legendary chest. Both speed and healing are super important; you need to see where your playstyle actually has the biggest trouble here. I would say go for Restoration without Eko, as you can cover up speed with food / Sephuz / etc., but you have very little ways to boost recovery.

12. The usual routine (Bear Tartare, grab adds, dont blind them while they are far from each other) applies very strictly here. You don't have any room for error in this challenge.

All together, this should work. Don't give up easily, and repeat until the entire rotation is on a reflex. Helped me. In this challenge, quick reaction to the dangers is more important than tactical thinking.

Kommentar von CommanderLex

For any Blood DKs that are still attempting this challenge:

I completed it with an equiped iLvl of 920. My legendaries were Insigne der Großen Armee (due to a lack of better alternatives) and Verderbnis des Seelenschinders. The second one (in combination with the T20 2set Bonus) made all the difference. It made the damage component of the fight completely trivial, so trivial in fact that I brought Variss down before the 2nd Infernal could spawn. Kruul also became a non-threat and the only things that would cost me the victory once I reached him were me getting smacked off by the Infernal, the Nether adds channeling on Velen or me failing to interrupt Kruuls heal.

For real, if you have 2 T20 items and Verderbnis des Seelenschinders, USE THEM. They made all the difference for me.

Good luck against the Highlord, DKs.

Kommentar von alpanhell

It's currently bugged, if Kruul gives you the debuff that heals him (you miss the interrupt) the orbs don't clear it anymore.

good job blizz, release Mage Tower for a month yet add a bug that makes it much harder. I'll never understand how they can constantly add bugs to content that's been out for awhile.

Kommentar von Rytram

Just completed as a Guardian at 936 ilvl. I wasn't all too familiar with the Guardian class until I started doing the Mage tower recently.
I didn't use any type of buffs (potions, flasks, drums, food) other than the Repurposed Fel Focuser item (boost to main stat and health).
I was using Luffa Wrappings, which I luckily received from my weekly mythic cache. It was the only Guardian-specific legendary I was wearing. The other legendary was the helmet for Feral, which I used for the ilvl.

Talents were: 3-1-1-1-2-2-1

TLDR:
Phase 1:
Activate Incarnation, spam Thrash while circling Variss' DnD on the ground, interrupt his leech ability, Moonfire Variss and the eye adds.
Group up the other adds in order to aoe them down. Always have one of Velen's healing orb up at all times for emergencies. Use the 2nd or 3rd to help with adds and your heals.
Kill all adds before Variss dies including putting the Infernals in a down state.

Phase 2:
Have Ironfur up at all times, preferably 2 stacks to have a higher uptime. Use your other defensive abilities as well for Kruul's Annihilate ability.
Make sure to interrupt Kruul's Reflection ability.
"Kite" Kruul around the platform leaving some distance between you and him. Never stop moving. Spam Swipe, make sure to have 3 stacks of Thrash debuff on Kruul as well as the Moonfire debuff.
Jump out from the spot where Kruul will be landing in order to prevent getting slowed (main reason why you want to have some distance between you and Kruul).
Stay close enough to Velen when the adds spawn in order to group them up to aoe. Use the healing orbs to help with add killing.
Again, never stop moving or the green puddles will kill you fast as well as a high probability of getting knocked off by the Infernal's Slam.

I started the scenario with Incarnation because I did not want to deal with many Infernals during the Kruul fight. I had two for the Kruul fight. I could've killed Variss with just one spawned, but I wanted Incarnation to be ready again sometime during the Kruul fight, so I eased up on the DPS.

Phase 1:
With Incarnation up, this phase was easy. Spam Thrash on Variss while running around the outer edge of his DnD. Moonfire Variss and the eyes, spam Thrash, and interrupt Variss. Use Mangle for more DPS after interrupting then run out and wait for adds to cluster together. Incarnation should still be up to Thrash the adds until they're dead. Keep using Thrash while running around Variss. This also damages the Infernals and put them in a down state much faster.
Keep interrupting and killing the adds until Variss is dead.
One thing to note: if adds are about to spawn and Variss is about to die, hold off on killing Variss until adds are killed, including the Infernals. This makes the 2nd phase much easier at the start.
Important things to consider is to group up the adds that spawn so they can be Swiped/Thrashed. Use the healing orb only if things go haywire. I always had one up at all times and used the 2nd or 3rd one that spawned to help with add killing and emergency health. Frenzied Regeneration and Barkskin should keep your health up for the most part until the 2nd orb spawns.

Phase 2:
With all adds done for the time being, spam Thrash, Mangle, and Swipe while "kiting" Kruul. You never want to stand still to DPS. This allows you to avoid the Infernal's Slam ability as well as being able to see when Kruul will jump to you, allowing you to jump and move out of the green stuff faster (Seems like jumping right before Kruul lands on top of you will not slow you down while inside of the green stuff). Even then, running around will likely prevent you from being in the green stuff depending on the jump distance between you and Kruul.
Always make sure to interrupt his Reflection ability; otherwise, you might as well restart the scenario.
Make sure to be in the vicinity of Velen, but not too close in order to group up the spawned adds and aoe'g them down while still "kiting" Kruul and avoiding the Slams.
Make sure to have Ironfur up at all times (2 or more stacks will allow you to have more time to DPS the boss) and use your other Defensive abilities for Kruul's Annihilate ability. I had 3 stacks on me before he died.
During the fight, your Incarnation should be ready to use. Activate it and just spam Thrash while still "kiting". Kruul should be dead before the buff runs out.

Kommentar von alpanhell

I don't know if someone actually mentioned this or not but it seems to be a pretty important piece of information. This scenario isn't the same for all the tanking specs.

For instance, the Aura of Decay is bigger as a Guardian Druid than it is as a Blood DK. Also, and more importantly, the Nether Horrors stop moving when they start channeling on the Blood DK scenario and they keep moving while casting on Guardian Druid. On Warrior they don't channel at all.

Really think these Mage Tower Challenge wowhead guides are %^&* tbh. It's total crap that they don't allow comments (my apologies to the few that actually do).

Most of these challenges once you beat them on one toon it becomes easy on others doing the same one (because you know the challenge then). Not these "tanking" ones because they have subtle and important differences.

Kommentar von RoninDeathKnight

I created following macro for the eyes

/cleartarget
/Target Tormenting Eye
/cast Moonfire
/Targetlast target
/case moonfire

For inquisitor and Krupp
/cleartarget
/Cast Skull Bash
/use Drums of the Mountain
/Use Potion of Prolonged Power
/case Moonfire

You can use gliders also to avoid dying when otherwise thrown off the platform.

There are good videos out there now about kiting and staying away from things :-)

Kommentar von jenrai

Completed a few days ago after ~30 attempts as 927 Prot Paladin - Brustplatte der goldenen Val'kyr and Sephuz for legendaries, 875 Shock Baton and LFR Kodex der Risswelt for trinkets. I was mostly able to avoid getting knocked off, but I had trouble with Velen and adds and taking damage in general ( I am not a good paladin).

It got a lot easier once I started ignoring the eyes unless i happened to be beside them and had a spare Judgement, and once I stopped being so stingy with interrupts. Don't be afraid to use them, we have enough that you should have something up when he casts drain life. I also don't usually run Seraphim and I kept forgetting it had such a short cooldown. Use it too! And don't worry too much about saving orbs for Kruul - it's better to use them when you need them, and the fewer adds you have when he comes down the better. I messed up and didn't have an orb available when he dropped, so i just stunned him and popped drums/pot. At that point there was so much going on that I stopped worrying about when he was casting Annihilate and just tried to keep some kind of mitigation rolling at all times. With three charges of shield, Guardian, AD, Tyr, and BoP, you've got almost a full minute of damage reduction and if he's not dead by then you've probably been knocked off the platform already.

TLDR; it's possible to get him down even if you get sloppy and make a couple of mistakes. I've seen a couple different builds and strategies for him (kill eyes vs ignore eyes, seraphim vs last defender) so if you're not having luck try a different one.

Kommentar von kerrymayall

Prot Paladin. ilvl 930. Approx 80 attempts. Goblin Glider, Drums, Bear Tartare, Potion of the Old War

Legendaries: Prydaz, Pillars of Inmost Light (300% dmg to your artifact power on a 45 sec cooldown. Very useful against the nether horrors). They were basically the only 2 legendaries i had for Prot so that was what i used.

Ok, there are plenty of guides and Youtube vids for this fight, but I've come on here to say the real game changer for me was finally speccing into Seraphim after about 70 wipes. I'm not sure why i avoided it for so long, but i macro'ed it to my Avengers Shield and I noticed a big increase to my effective dps. I was able to get to Kruul with only 2 infernals up due to this dps output, and this makes that phase much, much easier. Most of your deaths in Phase 2 are going to be from the Infernal knockback, and if you have 3 or 4 of them up due to slower dps, it makes the encounter frustrating beyond belief.

- Take Seraphim if you aren't already.
- In phase 1 don't waste your time killing all the eyes. Just clear the ones at Velen's end and make sure you are facing the other end of the platform when fighting.
- You also want to make sure you are fighting the adds around the boss. So when the nether horrors start to come in, drop your consecrate on Velen and immediately head off to engage the boss (after checking your aura stacks have reset. hold back a bit if they haven't). Early on when doing this fight i used to spend too much time fighting the nether horrors while trying to clear all of the eyes. This resulted in a lot of wasted dps on the boss, and ensured i soon had 4 infernals to contend with.
-Phase 2: Whereas the first phase is mostly mechanics, the Kruul phase seems to be a bit more random with what can happen. Those blue beams that hold you in place for a couple of seconds can spell your doom if you are trying to get away from the netherstomp or the infernal smash, and there is not always much you can do about it.
- Basically, just keep moving sideways all the time and don't be afraid to move away from the boss for a couple of seconds just to take stock of the situation and check your defensive cooldowns/velen/avenging wrath. Tunnel vision will likely get you killed.

Finally, i would like to say that Deadly Boss Mods really helped. I disabled just about all the warnings except for annihilate and twisted reflection. and planted those cooldown bars right in the middle of my screen at a very large size.

Good luck to those still trying. This fight really is about putting out as much burst dps as possible during your attack windows.

Kommentar von l8rose

With less then a week for this to be removed, finally did the prot paladin challenge.
Didn't check how many tries in DBM but it took me about an hour and a half worth of tries (with the majority of being about 2-3 minutes each).

This was ridonculously difficult.

Worst safety dance ever.

Kommentar von Evilangelina

Just did this on my 937 warrior. My key to winning this was spell reflect twisted reflection and chain stun orbs, revenge the adds and nuke him. Legends were kj and beserker legs for the stats

Kommentar von Lethyria

I did the Legion MT Challenge with a crappy geared Blood DK at 951 ilvl, and it took me only 3 tries it wasn't even that hard tbh.

Kommentar von AdamTheFirst

Hi I was wondering if this quest still be completed in BFA?

NOTE: Character created in BFA so Mage Tower artifact challenge is not completed.

Kommentar von KKThankyou

I spend 3 hours doing quests to get the highlords return quest. this quest is removed from the game and the legion artifacts bear forms is removed as being exotic for those who made this quest back in legion. sorry guys :/

Kommentar von TheBigDeeb

All Tank Mage Tower Challenge in One Video :)
https://youtu.be/8lTMj-LqMXw

Kommentar von mufossa

Can someone confirm the status of this quest? I am looking to specifically get the artifact appearance for Prot Paladin (i don t care about the tier gear recolor). thank you!

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Ich habe ein Schreiben von Kor'vas für Euch und Anweisungen, wie ich Euch dorthinbringe.

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