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Comment by 474

Also, don't forget that it is doable with other priests in the party. For example, one priest would be moving to heal the peasants as they walk their way towards the safe zone while the other # of priests will stand at whatever location they please to heal the incoming peasants that walk to the exit. The priest that is only able to move is the one who started the quest.

The spawn timer was reduced by a significant amount, presumably to around 10 minutes now. I'm not sure on this, though.

Comment by halldorr

You NEED the EoD, it was changed a patch or two ago. While I can't find it mentioned specifically but was probably stealth nerfed in 1.11.2 when they fixed another issues with Spectral Essence: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/patch1p11.html as I couldn't see them with my Spectral Essence equipped.

Comment by 5577

The quest is fairly easy to do. I recommend failing it once so you get a feel for what's going on. It's basically a more complicated version of the triage quest you did to get your bandaging up.

There are several methods that are available online for how to complete this quest, but let me say what worked for me:
1) 60 Feral Druid in bear form at the cave entrance who was kind enough to go /afk there while he made dinner
2) In order: Full rank renew on purples, abolish greens, ~half rank renew on injured.
3) If your bear form druid friend is taking significant damage, through him a heal or full rank renew.

When the skeletons attack you, there are significantly fewer arrows flying through the air. By leaving the bear at the entryway, he will pick up all of the skeletons and keep them for quite a while making keeping up the peasants significantly easier.

Using this method, I blew 1 mana potion and the Mar'li's Eye. I was in all 5-man blues, except for 1 piece of prophecy and my wonderful green gloves (and Mar'li's Eye... and the friendly ring of the Bronze Dragonflight)

Comment by 9997

Few things that helped me complete the quest on my 1st try.

1) Get tinytip: an addon that allows you to see the health bars when you scroll your mouse over the peasants. For some reason you can'y use V, shift-V, or control-V to see the health bars anymore. I've read Dev's posts that say the will address it in an upcoming patch, but they haven't yet.
2) Oil of Immolation: there's no cooldown & with these the Skellies go down quick.
3) Holy Nova rank 3: in case you run out of Oil of Im, but it drains much needed mana. Mana conservation was the toughest part for me
4) Renew Rank 5, Flash heal Rank 4: You don't need full ranks for peasants they don't have much health
5) Well placed PychScream: If you get overwhelmed by Skellies & you need mana for peasant heals
6) Wand: Takes down single skellies in 1 hit usually
7) Respawn of quest NPC, if you fail, is much quicker now : used to be over an hour. Now it's no more than 30mins.
8) Net videos of the quest: found lots of great ones
9) Cure 1st Heal 2nd: Make sure you cure the peasants 1st, then heal. The diseases they get will wipe them out quick.
10) Peasants will die: Don't worry if you loose 1 or 2 in each group.
11) Have a couple mana potions & use the 1st one as soon as your mana is @ 50%: That way your cooldown will be up when/if you run out of mana
GL!

Comment by Raydawn

Okay, first, I used only four spells. Holy Nova Rank 6 for the skellies, Flash Heal Rank 4, and Renew Ranks 9 and 6.

The Peasants: You cannot use the "V" key to see their health bars. I tried this every which way. Instead, I use the AF Tool Tip mod. This brings the tooltip (with hp) to your mouse pointer, so you can scan across the wave of peasants and see their health without moving your eyes to the lower right corner. The gauntlet of skeletal archers tend to focus on 1-3 targets, and you can see their arrows sticking out so that helps you decide who to heal as well. Begin healing with Renew unless the peasant is very close to death. Use Renew 9 if they're getting beat up a lot/diseased, especially if they are members of a "fresh" wave. Use Rank 6 renew for "stale" peasants who are diseased or hurt. I used Flash Heal only if they were very low (followed up with a Renew 9) or if they were being fired out by lots of archers and diseased, etc. I think I used disease cure only twice out of nervousness, so I'm sure it's not very necessary. Use your best judgement once you get a feel for the event.

The skeletons: I used Crystal Charge, made from the red and yellow power crystals in Un'Goro crater. I didn't use Oil of Immolation because I wasn't sure if they were on the same cooldown as Major Mana Potions, so I didn't risk it. When they are grouped up, a crystal charge or holy nova is great. When my cooldown for the Crystal Charge (1 min) was still going down, I was forced to use Holy Nova. I used Rank 6, but Rank 5 MIGHT work. Wanding is key. It took usually 1, sometimes 2 hits from my Bonecreeper Stylus (which is why I say that Holy Nova Rank 5 just might do enough damage). This works especially great if you can see a lone skelly running down to you and the overall health of the peasant wave is good and you can just wand him as he comes. Resists stink, and sometimes you have to let a skelly wail on you while you throw some renews around.

Extras: I used 3-4 Major Mana Potions, I honestly can't remember. Use them early, so the cooldown ticks while you fight. I also used Lesser Mana Oil (8mp5) on my weapon. I'm sure some Nightfin Soup (8mp5) would be a big help as well. I didn't use Demonic or Dark Runes, but I'm sure those would help too.

Good luck!

Comment by 66873

You can use Shift-V to have the peasents heal toggled on. It helps immensly

Comment by 128588

Attempted as shadow and failed hard. Respecced Dics/ holy and paid a paladin to kings me and get Conc aura and completed with losing maybe 2 peasents. VERY easy as disc/ holy with even mediocre healing gear, as shadow it's near impossible.

Comment by 125110

Ultera is 100% correct... real easy like he says :) cheer's man :)

Espíritu of shadowsong - Divine retribution now the proud own'er of a wikid staff :p with 81+ heal on it :P

Comment by Saberia

How to do it after patch 3.0 at level 60:

Patch 3.0 removed downranking of spells, so instructions that tell you to use lower ranks of spells are now pointless. Good thing that came with 3.0 is achievements, because of them guilds are running pre-tbc raids again for fun, and I just used that opportunity to get Eye of Divinity for my freshly leveled level 60 priest.

Reagents needed: none. This quest is extremely easy, no need for any potions and extra buffs.

Gear needed: anything will do, but I suggest to stack as much spirit as you can. I did it in level 57-60 tbc greens "of the owl" and "of the prophet".

Spec needed: I did it as discipline with few points in holy without any problems. Key talent is 3/3 Meditation to regenerate as much mana as possible, Improved Renew might also help.

Now, the quest. Go to EPL, find NPC that gives quest. Press "Shift-V" on your keyboard, so you could see friendly health bars, it will help you a lot.

During the quest you will get few waves of friendly peasants, all are level 51-53, being shooted at by undead archers, also sometimes groups of undead spawn and run to melee peasants. Peasants also have diseases that does damage over time. You need to escort peasants from cave entrance to their despawn point, which is a little bit behind quest giver. When wave of peasants is close to despawn point, next wave of peasants will spawn.

Things to do:
- Whenever a new wave spawns, run towards the cave. Quickly heal up peasants that are on low health and put Renew on them.
- Abolish diseases only from peasants that are getting attacked. Don't bother with diseases on other peasants, its a waste of time and mana as diseases don't do much damage.
- If a peasant is being attacked by one archer, put Renew on it.
- If a peasant is on low health, use Flash Heal to heal it, don't bother with longer heals as Flash Heal is more than enough to heal a peasant to 100%.
- When a wave of melee undead spawns, stand close to peasants and do a Holy Nova once. That's enough to kill undead.
- When peasants has passed quest giver npc, quickly heal them up and put Renew on those who are getting attacked, then forget about them and run back towards the cave to deal with next wave.
- Don't worry about saving mana, as every time a wave despawns you get lots of mana back.

Comment by 241707

I did this today, failed on the first time though ...

I had bear helping, encountered 4 skeletons in total.
Since Blizzard removed downranking and made buffing stupid, renew isnt very useful here.
I used only flash heal and cure disease. Heal all who go ~50% health and cure all as possible.
I based my gear on manaregen, in total I had ~700 spellpower and 210 mp5 in combat.

Edit: I didnt use any addons here, just wanked shift+v to see green clouds and their healthbars.
Only sad thing about their hpbars was that they bounced alot.

Comment by 178494

Did this quest several days ago solo as lvl 80 shadow priest. Can't say it was easy (failed two times), but on my third try I haven't noticed at first that I've already saved 50 peasants (felt more like 30).

Flash Heal, Abolish Disease and Holy Nova are the spells to use. Forget about Renew, even though it seems useful at first with HoT effect. Using wand on skeletons if they spawn in small groups (2-3) might be more mana efficient, if peasants are already far from cave and you can kill mobs before they do some real damage to the peasants. Mana wasn't an issue though, I believe I didn't use Dispersion.

I believe it was said before, but I want to stress it out one more time: Holy Nova won't heal peasants, it's only used to kill skeletons (who have 84 HP by the way).

Shift+V to check health status of peasants and Shift+V again to hide health bars to see if anyone is diseased. Since health bars will be jumping on your screen, it's better to keep them off most of the time.

When peasants reach quest giver, drop your last Abolish Disease and Flash Heal on them and run back to the cave. Even if one peasant in that group dies, it will be better than losing five peasants in the next group because they're diseased, being attacked by the archers and melee skeletons.

No buffing was necessary to finish the quest.

Build 14/0/57, haste at about 4-4.5%, spirit at 550+, 16,000+ mana, one mp5 item (Band of Neglected Pleas).

Edit: Purged. Well, I do understand that no one cares about my personal experience on this quest, but I was sharing my thoughts on how to do it. Where all those brainless haters come from? There must be a special hell for them too I bet.

Comment by barooboodoo

I was curious, are there any quests like this for the other classes? I know there's the hunter one that's sort of the alternative to this but any others?

Comment by 318637

It's a very bad idea to bring friends to help on this quest. I tried it solo a couple times and kept going oom. When my friends showed up to help, "The Cleaner" spawned: 666k health, was hitting me for about 3-4k each swing. Ended up dying instead of simply failing the quest.

Comment by TweetyGirl

I recommend going Holy if you have the option to. You don't need to, as I completed this quest as Discipline, but Holy Concentration would've been a massive help.

Comment by 292720

This quest is EXTREMELY easy. I did it yesterday on my soon-to-be 60 twink priest, in blues from leveling. Duel boxxed my friends pally next to me so I could get Wisdom & Conc Aura. Just used Renew, flash heal, abolish disease, and holy nova to kill the skeles. Only had to use 1 Mana pot. Best of luck ;)

Comment by neoreaper

respawn is 20 mins. thought i didnt need wowhead's advice but, it really burns my mana.

Comment by 380141

You will constantly see peasants with half health walking along, but resist the urge to heal them unless you see those bars dropping. If they arent being hit, they won't die and do not need to be healed. Don't waste your mana. Only heal critically injured mobs.

It's okay to let a couple die, you shouldn't exceed more than about 5 fatalities with the above strategy.

As a side note, for disc priests, flash heal is far cheaper than renew, especially if you have the glyph of flash heal. HOWEVER, on the two peasants who are surrounded by the purple glow at the beginning of each new wave.. renew them. They're gonna take damage the whole time and you'll end up having to flash heal them more than once. Just renew.

Took me two tries, I failed on the first one due to going OOM because I didn't know what to expect.

By the way, "The Cleaner" showed up when I had finished the quest and stood on the path ominously. I didn't know what it was, so I shielded and attempted to holy fire it. Big mistake. He rushed me (I'm a level 76 disc priest) and then immediately tore through my Power Word: Shield in a single hit, but most of that hit was absorbed. I then immediately shielded again and ran. He sprinted to me again and slammed through the shield in another shot, and I managed to bail off the side of the cliff, barely escaping with my life.

Moral of the story: Do not ^&*! with The Cleaner.

Comment by 208468

Dont be put off doing this at 80 by the comments, it is stupidly easy.

I didnt have the health bars showing or anything, just clicked on them to see health, you can see the diseased ones, they have an aura.

Only used renew and holy fire.

It didnt seem like i had saved 50, but the quest completed so i cant complain.

Benediction still looks great, time for the Prophecy set now.

Comment by Moethetroll

quest one-shotted by a discipline preist in molten core epics. fairly easy, just throw a renew on each peasant and dispel the deseases. Penance dominated here, those that went low went back to full health in a second and a bit.

Comment by 458849

Getting the Eye of Divinity was much easier than this last part. I have yet to complete this quest with my level 61 priest. I do know that you have to solo it...tried with help doesnt work they can't see the peasants. Also mana is important but you can't downgrade your spells for mana conservation. I also switched to Holy from Discipline and to tell you the truth I thought Discipline was better cost less on mana 153 for renew vs 300 mana and I didnt run out as quickly. But then again I have yet to finish the quest.

Comment by Hoegen

We decided to do a MC for fun, and the eye dropped, naturally we had to get our lovely priest her Benediction.

Went to strath, talked to the questgiver and started. The first try was a pretty horribly failure with party members summoning the Cleaner and general chaos'n confusion. I asked them all to leave me be for a moment as I waited for the NPC to de-spawn.

About the fights.

Several villagers will emerge from the cave entrance, basically you wanna keep them alive.
I only used: Flash heal (This was my main resource of keeping those scrubs alive), Renew (Just to keep villagers topped off as a new group spawned), Abolish disease and Holy nova for those pesky skellies.

Yes, the villagers are under constant attack from skeleton bow-men/women, so you wanna keep them topped off with flash heals, it can be hard to see who needs healing, so I shift+V'ed periodically to keep better track of it. You don't wanna let Shift+v nametags up constantly though, as it makes it very hard to spot who needs Abolish disease, so I would tab it on and off about every 2 seconds to abolish those who needed it. Don't be cheap with those abolish diseases, its only 400 mana, and if you don't dispell it, the dot will finish them off in a short amount of time.

So yea, you keep up the villagers with flash heals and abolish, follow them a little while as they will move out of range if you remain near the cave. Some skeletons will spawn, attacking the villagers, if its 1-2 skellies, wand them, if not just 1 holy nova will finish them off.

Mana WAS an issue, I did oneshot it after that first try, but only with 1000 mana left when it said "completed". I have a mix of T8 and T9 gear, disc specced. I imagine this fight is alot easier as shadow, dispersion would have made it easy to just spam those flash heals, the villagers don't need any real healing (Max hp of 3k). Bring some Mp5 food, maybe a flask, and just try it a few times to learn the battle.

Hope this helps any future priests.
(PS, level 80 ofcourse)
(This SHOULD be an achievment! My hands are still trembling from the stress of keeping those worthless villagers from meeting their early demise)

Comment by Blackhide

Completed this yesterday on my priest. He was wearing all heirloom items, some outland quest blues with the best enchants I could get.

One-shotted it as Shadow, used one mana pot and dispersed twice. However I feel I was very close to failing, in all fairness. Probably had RNG in my favour. As mentioned use renew on low hp peasents, and cure the diseased ones. I used holy nova when skeletons spawned, that seemed to kill them in one hit.

Comment by Yevon

Very quickly, for the quest to protect the NPC, it goes much faster if you have the talent Empowered Renew. While it is true if you cast Renew tick DOES scale down due to their level, the empowered renew DOES NOT SCALE DOWN, think of it as a instant heal for them.

Comment by 85059

the prequest

A Warning

Comment by 550182

Easy as anything in 3.3.2 as discipline. Just bubble every mob and cleanse diseases. After the first set of bubbles wear off, apply a new set then run to the front for the next wave. Glyph of PW:S fully healed the mobs for me

Then again, I was running with 3.3k spell power, a regen flask and 29k mana, but didn't pot or hymn. Holy novaed skelles. You can toss fiend out an aggressive and it works fine to get like 6-10k back.

Comment by Zoer

will i be able to complete the quest if i bring a lvl 80 friend?

Comment by twilytgardnfaery

The Cleaner no longer extends the courtesy of waiting until you're done to come and own your face if you bring a friend, and he does not leave until you fail.

Comment by alyxmj

I tried this renewing, flash healing and dispelling/curing multiple times. Then I realized I was a disc priest and my best spell is shielding them!

Its instant, costs just a little more mana then flash heal and if glyphed for it will heal when you cast as well as making it great if they are just about to die. And of course it prevents them from taking more damage for almost the entire length of their walk. You can still dispell/cure or throw a renew when needed but shielding was by far the easiest way I found. Did run out of mana just as I completed the quest, but a random mob from below hit me in the middle of Hymn of Hope otherwise I would have been fine.

Some mobs do come up from the side if you dont kill them prior, but they seem to evade as soon as they really get close to me so just ignored them. Skeles that spawn you can easily round up and kill with a Holy Nova blast.

Comment by xenoblad

If a person fails this quest how long does it take for the quest giver to repawn?
I've been waiting for about 40 minutes and she doesn't appear. I hearthed to dal then I came back to see her there again. Is it that I also have to get out of the region for her to respawn?

Comment by Jornak

Alright, after dying two times because some damn mobs had spawned beneath the worlmap and continued attacking me from where I couldn't reach them, I organized myself an 80 Paladin who consecrated them away (it worked through the floor, nothing else did).

That Paladin also was the perfect trick to get the quest done.

I'm a lvl 60 holy Priest, with some dungeon blues (everything from Vanilla, it's a classic char) and a hand full of epics from MC and BWL. So mana was my main problem (healing AND killing the skeletons).

So here's what I did:
I used "Elixir of Draenic Wisdom" (Guardian) and "Elixir of Healing Power" (Battle) plus some random +spirit bufffood and Blessing of Wisdom from a Paladin. This way I had a regen of roughly 300.

Then I grouped up with my 80 Paladin lad and he placed himself next to the cave, with Retribution Aura activated.

This way the event was actually quite easy.
I had no problem healing the ghosts (used only renew and cure), although I had to use a mana potion. Maybe it would have worked without one, but I wanted to be safe. Now, everytime skeletons spawned, they hit mit once, got damage through the pally aura thus aggro from my 80 pal and attacked him, dying from the aura.

(I was, however, attacked once by five mobs who came out of the floor - must have been a bunch that had spawned there below the map. Thankfully, the paladin could kill them without causing the Cleaner to spawn, I guess, because it weren't mobs from the event)

Not having to deal with the skeles, I could cancentrate on healing and tada, quest done.
Good luck to everyone out there doing this quest! Despite dying because of buggs, I actually quite enjoyed it ^_^

Comment by 662328

is there an addon i can download or any way for the pesants to show up in healbot/grid? their healthbars with on are enormous and overlap over each other, and it's impossible to see which ones are diseased with those taking up half the screen. making me heal without an addon is like telling a long-distance runner to run a marathon without shoes.

Comment by 665977

Lvl 65 Human Priest
Holy Crap. I tried this quest probably 10 times with the advice here (renew, abolish, flash heal) and I always got close, but never could finish before 15 died. So I browsed the disc priest tree and decided to simply pop PW: Shield on everyone and Holy Nova the skeletons when they pop up. And every time you get close to the end of the run, she'll restore a good chunk of your mana. Its a good alternative that works if you're having trouble with the process you see through the comments here.

Comment by Catriona

As of the patch 4.0.1, this quest was still available if one had both Eyes. Obviously it's obsolete now.

Edited to stay in-date.

Comment by 698585

Completed yesterday as a 65 Disc priest with a 80 Tank DK and an 80 Druid, piece of cake. Just shielded all the peasants, diseases and arrows couldnt break the shields. Only one innvervate needed, and the Cleaner only was able to hit plate for ~20 dmg.

Comment by 346370

I tried soloing this on my 60 priest, I died during it and it marked the quest as failed. I abandoned it like I would any other failed quest, but Eris Havenfire was no longer there. I tried relogging but that didn't work.. is this one of those things where you only have 1 shot at it?

Comment by Jerodast

Completed this using only renews and holy novas. Main spec is shadow so I have mostly no-spirit gear but put on as much as I could find (+397) and switched to disc spec for the meditation. I felt like I had to constantly hit renew to keep guys alive so I wouldn't have wanted to lose time on dispersion.

Once renew was ticking it easily healed through diseases, so I wouldn't bother with curing.

Ran out of mana near the end and if I needed another wave I probably would've lost. With more spirit I think I would've been find. I also could've been more conservative with holy nova and made sure to get at least 3 adds with it every time (wand/melee anything less than that).

Didn't occur to me that shields would work on these guys, but that seems like a good option too if they're valid targets - instant protection and lasts for most of their escape.

Comment by Trezum

Took me some trys, kinda hard when you are a shadowpriest with no spirit you definatly have to go holy for this one XD

i used
Renew
cure disease
holy nova

shuld be a pice of cake if you have some decent holy gear XD

Hate the 15min respawn on the questgiver thou(Eris Havenfire)....

Comment by twilytgardnfaery

Wish they'd announced the removal of this quest before it happened. I was not pleased to log in at the quest giver to find her missing when the servers came up. Confirmation just adds insult to injury

Comment by 295599

NPC Eris Havenfire doesn't seem to be available anymore.
(So I guess I got ripped off 80g at the AH :P)

I have:

The eye of divinity equipped
The eye of shadow equipped

I do not see here anywhere near the cave. Doesn't seem like you can do the quest. Unless im missing something, benediction is no longer available.

Comment by 804257

Blizzard has removed it from the game only cuz the PL went from dead place to alive for Cata..

I find its lame cuz i was just gonna go grab the eye of Divinity, cuz i had the eye of shadow for a month Pre-cata Not knowing they would be removing this qst. Im unsure if there is a different way to get the staff. For Ex. Pallies no longer have to do their long qst chain to get their mount.

If anyone has and info on how to obtain the staff Please post it. Thx :)

Comment by jjanchan

The Balance of Light and Shadow is a Legacy achievement to be added in Legion that will be awarded those who complete the epic Priest questline to obtain Benediction/Anathema.

There is a similar achievement being added for Hunters that obtained Rhok'delar, Longbow of the Ancient Keepers and Lok'delar, Stave of the Ancient Keepers back in the day - The Ancient Keeper.

I'm sure it will be some recognition much appreciated by those who took the time to acquire these weapons!

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The Balance of Light and Shadow

This quest was marked obsolete by Blizzard and cannot be obtained or completed.

Save 50 Peasants before 15 are slain. Speak with Eris Havenfire should you accomplish this task.

You may view the Death Post to view how many Peasants have been slain.

	The Balance of Light and Shadow (1)

Description

You must do what I could not: Save the peasants that were cut down while fleeing from Stratholme.

They will walk towards the light, you must ensure their survival. Should too many fall, our cursed existence shall continue - you will have failed.

Every ability, prayer, and spell that you have learned will be tested. May the Light protect you, <name>.

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

	Splinter of Nordrassil

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(7622))

Guides

Hidden Secrets of Outland