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Comment by 51192

Unlike other level 70 instances, Magisters' Terrace will have epic loot from the last boss even on normal mode; when set to heroic, all bosses will drop items of epic quality.

Comment by charminultra

Kael'thas didn't die in TK. If you're in Shattrath's center area after a group downs him there's a whole scene with him talking to A'dal saying that he will return. Just an fyi to any naysayers.

Comment by 83214

The difficulty level of this instance will be around that of Shattered Halls and Shadow Labyrinth.

Comment by 128099

How much reputation will you get for a full run through Magisters' Terrace ?

Comment by Conceited

The large groups of Trash in this instance are the hardest part.

If you come across groups with the Ethereum/Etherial looking humanoids they should be CC'd or Killed first. The blink around and cast a high damage arcane explosion which can wreak havoc on your group/healers.

Also note the Warlock mobs often have a Succubus with them that will seduce people, namely your tank causing all aggro to go to your healer/dps. Kill/CC these top priority as well.

Comment by 129576

The lack of good tanking gear in MT makes me sad (except that really disgusting trinket)). Most of the other gear looks really, really nice though. Can't wait to see it, PTR is being silly on my computer this time around.

Comment by 33682

I just finished Magister's Terrace on normal mode on the PTR. I thought it was a very fun instance, and that blizzard has definatly learned lessons of what works and what doesn't. I didn't complete the quests, so those are omitted. As I said above, our clear gave us 1495 reputation with no quests completed.

TRASH

I'm going to sum up the trash pulls to say that there are several groups of humanoids containing warlocks, physicians, ethereals, and demon pets. We had 2 mages, so its safe to say this is a cc intensive instance, like many before it. Most of the pulls are concentrated before the first boss, and between the second and third bosses.

Some trash pulls are of Wretcheds, just before the first boss. They're quite easy to kill and don't do much.

There are several arcane robots who cast a chain arcane lightning. This spell affects 3 players standing closes to him, including the tank, but doesn't go farther than that, so have your healer stand at max.

Many of the mobs will throw a bomb at the party which will create a large semicircular dome on the ground. Anyone standing in the dome will recieve a debuff that reduces spell damage by 75% and healing by 75%. You'll see these orbs often during the isntance; just move out of them. If your tank is tricky, he can move the caster mobs into these domes to reduce their damage.

Watch out for Succubi, who inconveniently seduce healers. We also found that the warlocks were the hardest hitting mobs in the instance. Warlocks are immune to seduce as well.

BOSSES
The first boss, Selin Fireheart, is like Kalithresh from SV. At certain points he'll channel a nearby crystal, which the players must quickly destroy.

Following that boss will be a hallway with single pulls of mana worms, leading up to a hall with DOZENS of mana worms. So it's an AOE room, just don't pull multiple packs.

The second boss is an arcane elemental, Vexillus. When one of his adds is killed, he puts a debuff on the killing player increases damage done by 50% but deals 300 damage per second (thanks Chrmunch). I dont think there's a way to remove it; the player will do lots of damage until he dies. When the boss gets low he Overloads and AOEs the whole party.

The third boss, High Priestess Delrissa, is like Moroes. She comes with a full party. All of the members are fully cc able and they can all be stunlocked, including the priestess. Loot appears when they're all dead. When we encountered her, she had a Shaman, Warrior, Hunter (with ravager pet) and Rogue. The rogue can gouge, the shaman can heal, the warrior can mortal strike. Good luck! You'll need to use every power at your party's disposal.

Following her there is one pull until Kaelthas. For those of you who are wondering 'how can 5 people defeat a 25 man boss?' HE HAS REZ SICKNESS LOL

Kael'thas Sunstrider is really really hard. I personally think he's too hard for a normal mode boss. I think his encounter design is very fun and shouldn't be changed at all by blizzard. It's the first 3-dimensional fight in the game.

Kaelthas fight consists of two phases, from what I could tell. The first phase, you dps him until he summons a phoenix friend who moves slowly and casts a hellfire on the ground. We had one member kill the phoenix, which then spawns an egg. The party then switched to damaging the egg until it dies.

At 50% Kaelthas will pull all members to himself, throw them in the air, and cast Gravity Well, which gives every member super-fast flying powers. He also gives every member a 400 damage per tick dot. Five large orbs also spawn that move about the room and hit party members for 2000 damage per hit. MOVE AWAY FROM THE ORBS Move away from the orbs. Oh, and another tip is move away from the orbs. So it's hard to heal through. At some point he gives himself a debuff which causes him to take 50% extra damage. Good Luck!

VERY SPECIAL NOTE
Blizzard deserves special mention for adding the Orb of Scrying between the second and third bosses. This is one of the coolest things in the game. Using the orb hides your UI and shows you a cut scene (reminiscent of the starting zone cut scenes) in which you get to look around the 25 man dungeon, see the Dark Naaru, the Sunwell, and Kiljaeden himself. I'm one of the players who will never see inside this dungeon otherwise. We've been hearing about the sunwell for a year now, and at least the rest of us get to see it, not just the raiders. I like it!

Comment by Backmask

Before the boss "Vexallus", there are 3 - 4 Non-Elite mana worms in the small hallway on the way to him that increases your damage caused by 1% for every one killed. (Stacks) And in the main hall that Vexallus is in, theres 4-6 groups of these mana worms with around 10 or so per group. The buff lasts only 20 seconds though. (Each worm only hits for about 130-200 on leather)

Comment by jimmyman

hey guys, i haven't ran this yet but the patch just came out today (6:35pm California) and it's still downloading, but i believe when it's done i'll run it and come back to let you know how easy it was :P

Comment by 134198

Anyone know if there is going to be a key required to enter the instance on Heroic? I know you have to complete the quest and kill Kael on normal before you can enter on Heroic, but the rep vendor (from what I can remember) doesn't have a heroic key for purchase. Does completeing the quest give you an item that goes on your key ring? It would make sense that it doesn't require a key because it's the only 5-man in the new zone and why make us buy a key for one instance.

And also, it would be the only instance where an honored rep is not required for the Heroic version, as someone said about 1400ish rep per clear, you could get through once and complete the quest, then go on heroic right after. I don't know how much rep you get for completing the quest to kill Kael, but I imagine it wouldn't be enough to send you into honored. Just an fyi and if someone has some numbers on the rep for the quest that would be great too

Comment by 120142

It was mentioned that this is on par with other lvl 70 instances (like steam vaults), but I just want to be sure of something.

For heroic difficulty, what specifications are required for a tank? (I'm pally, but for all classes, would be nice if anyone knows).

I'd assume 102+ avoidance, and 485-490+ defense, but how much HP would be recommended?

I just ask because I don't want to get reamed if my hp is not enough... some of these pulls are pretty big, and I bet will hurt on heroic.

Thanks in advance.

Comment by 56506

The difficulty level of this instance will be around that of Shattered Halls and Shadow Labyrinth.

No.

I beat this dungeon with some friends on the first day. My repair was 28g. I'm a tankadin with all epics, and I've 1-tanked Karazhan. We wiped so hard, so many times that it was quite insane. Most, maybe all of our team had tons of epics on and plenty of experience under the belt (1-3 years of WoW). We did win.

Next time I went with a different team of guildies, we got to Kael but people were literally tired and just tired of wiping. We didn't finish (repair=23g). We probably had about 60 epics amongst us and our Kara teams make nearly all of Kara look easy even when we have less than 10 on multiple bosses.

This is not on par with SH or SL. I'd rather do heroic SH than this place since I would, unquestionably, wipe less, if at all.

Most or all of my group will not be returning unless the place is nerfed. The gear isn't worth it since we get relatively free epics and badges from Kara and heroics.

Good luck and feel free to burn me for sucking or whatever.

Comment by 140393

This comment will save a lot of people lots of badges and gold.

Kael-Thas IGNORES FIRE RESIST, I had approx 270 Fire resist and in 10 attempts and 2 kills I did not once recieve even a partial resist.

The summoned phoenix's fire damage can be resisted however.

For a time frame, it took approx 100 minutes the first run, and 20-30 minutes was just learning the kael fight.
The 2nd run was much quicker about 70-80 minutes, cleared to kael in about 50-60 minutes, wiped several times on him (3 first timers, learning the fight) got him down after 3 attempts. The person above is right, as long as you move out of the way of the orbs (only 3 of them now, and only 300 arcane dps from gravity shift), you will be fine, (orbs deal 2000 arcane damage if your within approx. 5-10 yards). If you wait out the gravity shift kael-thas will be stunned for 5-10 seconds and take extra damage, burn him down during this time, then he will gravity shift again, rinse + repeat.

On regular this instance is not as hard as everyone says as long as you have the proper group make-up, imo heroic SL + SH are harder, just because SL has limited CC options and the 7-8 man pulls in SH leave you multiple mobs to tank. Healer(shaman/druid are best because they have an easier time healing multiple people and DoT effects.) and 3 CC (rogue,hunter, mage) all work well as 95% of the mobs are humanoids and of course a well geared tank is required.

When pulling groups containing warlocks, always take out the imp, then lock to avoid him nuking everyone with fire damage.

The 2nd boss fight can be simplified by splitting the party into 3 groups, Tank/melee fight where boss stands, 1 range dps goes to the left of the hall and only they kill the "pure energy" spawns, while everyone else stands on the right of the hall avoiding the AoE, this simplifies healing for the fight.

Mages can also spell-steal the spell haste effect from the magisters in the instance.

Comment by 24364

As a warrior tank atm is it just me or does this instance doesn't drop ANY real tank loot, exept the trinket and the ring, for warriors? No real armor to be found here... what a shame that there are like 3 paladin plate items there...

Comment by 82795

This instance isn't very difficult for a T5-T6 group. I can't really say much for lower geared people however.

We rushed through normal mode then ran Heroic mode soon after it was released. The only problem we ran into was the 2nd boss. Wiped on him 2-3 times because we were playing it wrong. On normal mode, you can just zerg down the 2nd boss with whoever killing the adds to get a huge damage buff. This does not work on heroic because the damage is just too intense for your healer.

The adds spawn based on the boss %, so you can control when they appear. We beat on the boss until the first adds spawned, had the tank hit one, and a warlock hit the other. Waited for the debuffs to clear, then continued on the boss. It took a bit longer than it did on normal mode, but it was pretty clean cut kill.

As for Kael'thas, the only thing we noticed he did differently than normal mode was he casted a Pyroblast. We didn't notice a shock barrier (like in the true Kael'thas encounter), so we just had a mage counterspell it as soon as he casted. For the phoenixes, we just had the range kite it as they killed it. No damage ever landed on people.

I would suggest 2 healers for the final boss though because the AoE damage during Kael is kinda painful. Maybe just a hybrid aka shadowpriest, elemental shaman, boomkin, or something of that nature.

Comment by NightmareMJ

A little warning, the Magister mobs have a stacking spell haste buff(10% cast speed increase per single melee attack made against them.) which can devistate something fast if they are not counterspelled/kicked/pummeld/shieldbashed or stuned. My advice is to but your sheep or strongest CC on them and kill the last. You cannot do this in blues as a tank if your dps is even slightly better geared than you.

Comment by 110252

Ran this instance Last night and while we were clearing the groups before the third boss a http://www.wowhead.com/?item=35516. Very nice little bag too bad it is unique:o(. Saved me 300 gold on the AH though.

Comment by 108026

What i believe that happened on Kael thas is that while you defeat him and take Verdant Sphere from him , u stole his essence of power that he managed to drain from the Tempest Keep thus weakening him massivly. Also his current master Kil'Jeadan must be the one who in some way managed to reanimate Kael'Thas deafeted body and turn him to what we know as "Fel Kael'thas".

Comment by 133472

Mages will want to use their Spellsteal ability liberally in this instance. The magisters in here have a permanent buff that gives them a 10% spell haste buff each time they cast a spell. While the permanent buff cannot be stolen, the spell haste buffs can be. Each stack of the buff needs to be stolen separately, however. I believe that it lasts about 20 seconds.

Also, the warlocks have a Fel Armor buff that can be stolen that adds +250 spell damage. Just be aware that stealing Fel Armor will overwrite Ice/Mage/Molten Armor, so be sure to reapply that when the 2 minutes are up.

I would assume that these buffs can also be dispelled/purged, so keep this in mind if you don't have a mage in the group.

Comment by teranoid

The difficulty level of this instance will be around that of Shattered Halls and Shadow Labyrinth.

I wish it actually was. Thanks to the second last pull alone, anyone without an optimal group with 3 CC or outgears the place won't have much luck.

Quick edit: to ease the pain, bring a mage.. but not just for polymorph. Have them spellsteal the Seal of Wrath from Blood Knights. Their 1200 damage on every attack works on spells too.. and every tick of arcane missiles, meaning 8000 more damage per cast of arcane missiles. Confirmed to also be working with Arcane Explosion, but not Blizzard.

Comment by 75573

For the record, regular Magisters' Terrace gives full rep all the way to Shattered Sun exalted.

Happy instance grinding!

Comment by 139381

How can you wipe a bunch of times? I am a holy paladin with mostly kara and tier 4 gear along with the rest of my group of guildies, and we didn't wipe once on normal. The only touble that we had on herioc was the third boss. On herioc i was healing the warrior tank and myself from the casters. It's hard but i don't understand how you can wipe a bunch of times with at least Kara gear. Heroic is worth doing for the fact alone that each boss drops an epic and you get more rep. All in all a good job by blizz (PS.. I just wish there were some vendors nearby...)

Comment by Tarrek

I ran this for the first time today with 4 guildies and a random tank (elemental shaman, demon warlock, survival hunter, holy priest and feral druid), and didn't find it that hard. We wiped twice, once on the first trash because of a misjudged patrol, and once on the trash just before Kael because a mob got loose and killed the priest. Only CC we used was freezing trap, and banish on the succubi when applicable. We're roughly Kara geared.

It's a fairly compact instance with few trash pulls between bosses, which is welcome. If you're comfortable in most heroics you won't have a problem with MgT.

The hardest trash pulls are the groups of blood elves, which may contain Blood Knight, Mage Guard Physician, Warlock and/or Magister.

Blood knights are paladins. They hit fairly hard and cast Holy Light to heal themselves. I don't know if they use it to heal others as well.

Mage Guards put a dampening field on a random player (purple bubble on the ground) that reduces magic damage done by 75% and healing taken by 75%. Just move out of it. They also use an ability called Glaive Throw that deals damage to up to three targets and stuns them for 2 seconds. They use this fairly frequently and seem to favor targeting the healer.

Physicians apply a poison DoT to their target and heal themselves and other mobs.

Magisters cast frostbolt, fireball and arcane nova. Arcane nova is an aoe that also interrupts spellcasting, so healers should stand away from them. They have a undispellable buff that reduces their cast time by 10% each time they successfully cast a spell. That effect is another buff, which in turn IS dispellable.

Warlocks come with either a succubus or imp pet. The imp has about 3k hp and should be killed first in packs that feature it. The warlock himself casts shadowbolt and fear.

Some times you have an Ethereal mixed in as well. I didn't see him do much more than cast arcane explosion and die fast.

Which order to kill them in depends on your group. We CCd the mage guard and focus fired the physician, then killed the blood knight. Those three seem to be part of every group, while the others only appear in some groups. If you have a shaman you don't have to worry about the warlock since tremor totem will take care of the fears, but another group composition might want to CC or kill the warlock earlier. Likewise, if you don't have a shaman or priest to dispell the magisters spellcasting buff, you might want to kill or CC those, as their dps becomes rather brutal if the buff is allowed to stack up.

Overall I think Blizzard has done a good job with MgT. It challenges peoples' ability to play as a group, but it's not hard, at least not on normal. I plan to try it on Heroic tomorrow. It's a fairly tight and quick instance, with few but fairly complex trash pulls between bosses, so it doesn't feel like you're just wading through trash forever like in Shadow Lab for instance.

Comment by 117977

It is good to note, the mage knights that is noted to cast a -75% spell/healing effectiveness barrier, also debuffs caster mobs inside the field. A possible experiment would be to LOS pull the pack with a mage knight, and have the healer stand where you would like to tank the mobs. At 2 runs, i have noticed the healer being the main target of the debuff barrier. It may be the intended way to tank the 4 caster pack, which has a high chance of slaughtering a druid tank,

Additionally, the warlock hits the hardest and are fire spell damage (as kael is too), bringing fire resistance would help, http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31074 is a nice chain quest reward, worth bringing into the instance.

p.s. holy paladins have a problem healing the last fight due to constant moving required, aoe damage to everyone, and high damage electric orbs that chases and strikes players (like the fire elementals in the 2nd boss of mechanar). But, a prot pally with its AoE tanking and fire resistance aura imho should be... godsend!

Comment by 98678

I'm glad they did make this a bit harder than the other heroics. About time we get a more challenging 5 man. Since the nerfs, most heroics can be done naked.

It can be done on normal mode easily without CC if you take a capable paladin tank, or anyone who can tank multiple mobs, and a decent healer. It's like any 5 man. Certain configurations work very well, but just about any can do an instance provided there is a healer and somebody to take the damage. I've seen heroic SP tanked by an elemental shaman, other heroics done with two shadowpriests healing, etc. Get used to the pulls and this will be quite doable regardless of your class/spec.

That said, take a mage if possible, warlocks are nice to have for some CC, and a shaman's grounding totems can be very useful. Especially on heroic.

Comment by lagmoose

I did this place for the first time, last night. Went with a druid tank, warlock, resto shaman, rogue and DPS warrior. Probably not the smartest thing to do considering all the CC that was needed. We wiped a few times on the pulls that were 6 to a pull. (Unluckily one pull we had two Blood Knights and another 2 locks...) Only made it past the second boss and just gave up because everyone was in the red.
The loot so far looked pretty good and I think I'm going to keep at this place until I get the Phoenix pet from Kael (I'm a sucker for in-game pets) what sucked was the nearly 30g repair, but hey, it was 30g well spent imo.

This place is hard. I mean, HARD. Especially with someone who doesn't have much in the way of end-game epics. I'm sure everyone who's decked out in BT/MH loot would take this place like a breeze, but when I ran it last night, I'd keep seeing tons of people running back from the graveyard. I actually applaud Blizzard for this 5-man. It's what I've been craving for. It shows you can have a tough, but fun, dungeon with a 5 man limit. I'd take 5-mans like this over 25 mans any day.

Comment by Stoan

I did the instance on normal with a Prot Pally, Holy Pally (me), 2 Elemental Shaman (1 backup healing), and 1 Hunter (CC duty). Wiped about 6 times, once before the priestess, on the pre Kael pull, once on Kael, and 2 other times because of LoS issues.

You will want CC for this place!!

And Kael was easy, though most of us died before we killed him. The two shaman didn't get away from the orbs. Don't bother trying to DPS during this phase, just run away. After he is done, blow him away, he went from 50% to 5% between the first and second orbing. I died because of some changes to the UI I didn't catch (selfcast button + macro = no heal to myself).

All and all the loot we got pretty much sucked, I think we sold all of it but the trash mob bag that dropped.

Comment by 59603

Believe or not, we did this place in normal with virtually no tank, setup: Moonkin druid (partial tank), rogue, hunter, holy paladin and warlock.

Comment by 33153

Warriors: Make sure you have your spell reflect button handy, because it is going to be useful for the entire instance.

- trash can be reflected (Magisters, warlocks, imps, i'm not sure if the naga can be reflected, never watched for damage)
- Kael's first phase fire balls can be reflected as well

Comment by Oriden

The abbreviation for this instance is MrT. Use it foo!

Comment by 47151

We cleared half the instance (up to 3rd boss) on heroic yesterday, then ran out of time and came back later that night with one person swapped out. After clearing the repops up to the first boss's room, we found that the door next to where he stood had closed again and we had no way to open it. (Usually it opens when he dies.)

Didn't have time to wait for a GM to respond to a ticket, so I'm not sure if it's something they can fix or not.

Comment by bananastand

As far as I could tell from running it on my warlock the only regular mob that cannot be seduced is the
Sunblade Magister http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=24685

The ones I verified that can be seduced are as follows
Sunblade Blood Knight http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=24684
Sunblade Warlock http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=24686
Sunblade Physician http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=24687
Sunblade Mage Guard http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=24683
Coilskar Witch http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=24696
Ethereum Smuggler http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=24698

Also the succubus demons that can be enslaved are pretty stout, you may just wanna offtank another mob with them rather than fumble around with their seduce. But I should mention I have only tried that on regular and not heroic.

Comment by 43327

Reputation after revered seems to be a bit inconsistent. It seems only the humanoid packs & Kael'thas give reputation, but none of the other bosses or trash.

At least, when I was running heroic mode, I was going to hit revered with Vexallus, but I didn't get any more rep until the packs before Priestess Delrissa (who didn't give rep either).

Not sure how rep in normal mode works.

Comment by Kallikrates

I can confirm that the Sisters of Torment (Succubus) are Enslavable on Heroic.
They do at least twice as much damage than on Normal as well. I have seen her Lash of Pain crit for 3K+, so unless you are really low on CC I recommend just using her for DPS.

Comment by kris12456

our group found it helpful to have a spec'd and geared healer (we had a priest), and then a person who could heal if needed (boomkin). Especially on the 3rd boss, our priest died and then the boomkin did fine healing.

Comment by 104793

After just running this instance on Normal, I can say with no hesitation it is harder then most heroics I've done and even early Kara.

There are multiple mob types within they instance, focusing heavily on casters and a number of healing mobs. Mage Guards, a warrior type mob, are perhaps the most common and feature a grenade like move that places a Magic Dampening Field on the ground. Its basically a large purple bubble and not much of a problem. Just step out of it.

Magisters are another common mob, but can be rather nasty thanks to the fact that they have they ability to increase their spell haste with each cast. Safe to leave till last, you should still attempt to keep them CC'd or face rapid fire frostbolts when you get to them.

Physician's are melee healers that feature a poison dot and Prayer of Mending. Try to focus fire on these mobs and get them out of the way early. Light armor means you can clear them out rather early on.

Blood Knight's are paladin mobs that drop seals on you, which I sadly neglected to take a note of during my run. They also cast a rather powerful Holy Light spell that heals most mobs for half their health in a single cast. Focus on these mobs when they are in a pull and lay them out FAST.

Warlock's come with imps and for the most part we saved them for last, keeping them polly'd or trapped. They use a Immolation ability that ticked for around 600 every 3 seconds. Be sure to keep notice of they imps as well or they'll jump onto healer. They're not elite, so if you have a hunter or lock with you, just have them send their pet after it and kill it in while you deal with the other mobs.

The Succubus, who's name I sadly forgot, is NOT with the Warlock. Its is an entierly seperate mob. They don't hit hard or have any real spells except for a seduction that will pull you out of the fight for about five seconds. Easily broken, easily killed.

There are a grand total of three sentiel type mobs in here. They have a lot of health, but in terms of sheer physical damage don't do that much on our feral tank. Their biggest threat is a chain lighting type move, but these guys can be handled pretty easily.

A naga is also part of the pulls, Coilskar Siren I believe it is called. She uses a chain lighting move that hits they entire group and does decent damage, but it uses this ability less then some of they other casters in here use there's.

Perhaps the most dangerous of the mobs is they Ethereal Smuggler, which loves to blink into the middle of your group and spam Arcane Explosion. Take this mob out FAST or your going to have your healer struggling to heal everyone or dead within a few seconds.

First boss is rather easy, an almost blatent rip off of final boss of SV's, but far weaker. He will melee and uses a life drain from time to time, but neither of these are particularly powerful. After a few seconds, my best guess being 15, he will run to one of the nearby fel crystals and start draining from it. Destroy the crystal or he will unleash a wide area AOE manuver for about ten seconds. But its damage is actually rather weak, about a thousand a tick, and can be healed through if your healer is on the ball.

Boss two is in a room with multiple non elite mana wyrms flying around. Pull the wyrms first and AoE them all hard and fast. They drop no loot and only give one rep, but you'll still want this hall clear. The boss itself is similar to Curator in Kara, unleashing a small ball of energy called Pure Energy every few seconds that does damage to everyone around it. These have minimal health and were able to be killed with one shot. But when they die, they give they're killer a debuff that cause's 300 arcane damage every 3 seconds and I believe increases arcane damage. At 15% the boss begins to Overload, sending out bolts of lighting at they entire party. Kill him FAST and hard or you'll see players dropping around you.

Boss three, the hardest I believe, is similar to Moroes in that she comes with four mobs. These mobs are random with each fight. Priestess herself is a healer and should be focused on first with the others must be cc'd. Most also have cc abilites and can prove to be rather annoying. If you don't kill them all, they will all respawn and you'll be forced to fight them all all over again.

Final boss, Kael, is rather annoying, but after Priestess I found him to not be so bad. For the first half of the fight he will use Flamestrike and Fireball, along with a weak melee move. His biggest threat however is the fact that he will summon a Phoenix, which NEEDS to be kited away from the party. All ranged DPS should focus on the Phoenix to kill it quickly. Once dead, it will spawn a Phoenix Egg. Kill the egg quickly or the phoenix will respawn. He will resummon, but you SHOULD only see one or two through the first 50%. Phase 2 is similar to the fight in TK, in which he will use Gravity Lapse to send you up into the air where you have to swim away from a trio of orbs floating around. These orbs do MASSIVE damage and will hurt if you don't keep away from them. Ranged DPS is a huge help, as you can weaken him during the course of Gravity Lapse. Once Gravity Lapse ends, he will weaken and be stunned for a few seconds, allowing melee to rush in and wail on him. Once its up, he will use Gravity Lapse and you have to wash, rinse, repeat until dead. Please note there's an orb behind him you can use to port out.

This instance is, for my group anyways, INSANE in difficulty. Most pulls are four to five man pulls, with the last pull before Kael being the worst. Almost every mob in this instance is in one group right inside the doorway for a grand total of six elite mobs (Smuggler, Blood Knight, Magister, Warlock, Siren, and Succubus), seven if you count the Warlocks imp, in a single pull. It took us six times to push past that single group, less then it did to get past Priestess. This instance requires heavy CC and a lot of luck. Be careful and don't give up on it. This place CAN be beaten.

Comment by Exin

1; nuke crystals en boss
2; nuke adds, iceblock -> nuke adds, clos..
3; CC adds, en dps..
4; p1, kill birds dps boss; p2, dps boss, avoid circles

Comment by EdgeReaver

I completed it on my rogue last night, with a mage, warrior, priest, and warlock. The hardest part was the 5 pull boss. We had the shaman, the hunter, the rogue, and the MS warrior. We ended up banishing the hunter, sheeping the rogue, and sapping the MS warrior. Then, we just killed the shaman, then the priestess, MS warrior, rogue, and then hunter.

And you have to think of it as a 5v5 arena fight. Like other's have said, they have a wacky aggro table (If one at all), and act like players (CCing, etc.)

Kael was fairly easy, you just have to burn the phoenixes down ASAP, while doing lots of DPS on Kael. Kael didn't even do the pyroblast, since we got him to 50% quick enough. But if he does do it, you'll lose your tank, so get him to 50% quick.

Comment by 107380

i did a heroic today and the Brightscale Wyrm's gave 2/3 rep per kill but im a human.
im already into revered so. yeah did they fix that last night in the patch anyone know?

Comment by 142453

I am currently Exalted and Brightscale Wyrm still gave me reputation all the way up to that point.

Comment by 123491

Don't know if anyone mentioned this or not here, but there's an easy way to avoid bubbles in the last fight with Kael.

When he casts the gravity lapse, fly back all the way to the door you entered in. Not just you, the entire group. This way, the orbs won't go into all different kinds of places, they will all come towards you. When they start getting close, fly over/under them so you're in the right part of the open area where Kael is. Have your range DPS get a few hits in while the bubbles come in, when they get close scatter. By this time you should be back on the ground. Keep doin the same thing until you get him down. Hope this helps, or isn't already mentioned lol.

Comment by chonchu

Some tips for the heroic version.

We brought a druid tank, survival hunter, ret pally, ice mage and healing druid (myself).
CC helps a lot here but the key is quick thinking people. The trash can goes from a smooth pull to a nightmare in a couple seconds if a tank or healer get stunned so make sure everyone is watching everything. Quick spells like scrater shot, frost nova, repentance and hammer of justice saved the day a lot of times.

First boss
We had intense DPS so on first boss we ignored the crystals. We burned him ASAP. He died after the 2nd cast of arcane explosion after draining the 2nd crystal. It was easy to heal just with DoTs.

Second Boss
We wiped a couple times until we got it right. The key here is go slow as possible. Everyone pretty much auto-attacked and wanded the boss the whole fight. The boss hits very hard and the "flares" almost kill everyone when they pop out (you get 02 of them on heroic). Once the flares are out, everyone kill them ASAP and stop DPS so the healer can cap everyone again. Once everyone is full health, a couple auto-attacks and more flares come out. If you zerg or DPS too hard the flares will come out when people is low health and you will see everyone dying at the same time.
We made a rotation for the mage and paladin to kill flares and bubble/ice block to remove the debuff (I dont remember if it actually removed it or not)
At 20% we ignored the last couple of flares and burned him down while I popped tranquility. Its a nightmare to heal this fight. had to spam heal the tank to keep him up while using HoTs on people after the flares and they used bandages too.

Third Boss
On this fight we got: Shaman, Warrior, Rogue and Warlock.
Wiped a couple times too until we sorted out the best CC.
The Shaman was always healing a lot so we used wyvern sting as inicial CC and cyclone from the healer until the main boss was dead.
Theres not much to say here. Face it like a arena fight. The tank used full DPS gear in cat form. Everyone used their "survival" skills the best they could to keep them busy, kitted or stunned.
We decided to sheep the warrior to avoid the mortal strike. Rogue was in the ice trap. Warlock was free but the pet got killed by the hunter.
The start is the key to burn the main boss since all CCs are up. Once the CCs start to break hell gets loose. After the main boss we killed the shamman to avoid loosing more buffs and the heals.
At this point healing on the group was very intense. DoTs were not working so I had to spam regrow on people non stop. Once the shamman died and people started to focus on the warlock everything was easy since the other two guys were CCed.

Final pull
The tank got two mobs, 3 CCs up (Wyvern Sting, Ice trap and sheep) and pally kept one busy with stuns and bubbled when he got low on health while everyone else killed the tanked ones. Not much to say.

Final boss
The high DPS helped here because he didn´t cast the pyroblast (we wiped 02 times on the 2nd phase - but in all 3 attempts he didn´t cast the shield+pyroblast), so DPS him as hard as possible.
For the healers: spam heal your tank. The damage is insane. He´ll melee and the fireball will always hit between 5 or 6k. Everyone else taking damage from fenix should bandage. Once you get to phase 02 is almoust a win fight.
Once he blast you into the sky, everyone should run back to the entrance of the room and take a look at the bubbles. Theres no rush here so take your time to avoid them. Its easy to heal the damage from the energy field (300 damage per second) but if anyone gets near the bubbles its almoust a instant death if they´re not at full health.
Melee is almoust useless at this point. All you need is a ranged and a healer since he´ll just keep you in this phase forever.
Slowly the hunter killed him (mage got killed by a bubble).

Comment by 133454

Bring a mage, no matter what you do. The large array of buffs that can be stolen, combined with polymorph, and ice block, make them valueble members of the party. The list of things they can do are as follows:

Spellsteal

Sunblade warlock: fel armour can be spellstolen.'

Sunblade magister: enchantment of spell haste cannot be spellstolen, but they can steal the individual buffs of 10% increased cast time indefinetly, preventing loose magisters from going crazy with damage, and similarly jacking up their own.

Blood knight: Seal of wrath can, should, and MUST be spellstolen by a mage. non heroic, it adds 1k holy to every cast made(including each tick of AM), and 1.5k in heroics. o matter what spec, have them steal this and start spamming arcane missiles for crazy high damage. As in greater than shade of aran damage.

Other uses:

AOE
Interupts using CS
Sheep
Able to soak at least 3 waves of pure energy due to ice block when facing vex. Frost mages can ice block twice, after a 30 sec interval, making them able to soak everything if the timing is right.

Comment by 96000

do u need good gear or what?

Comment by skoorb

is it possible to zone into this instance on Regular under 70? Such as 68-69?

Comment by 60735

A Shadowpriest can be good here, with mindcontrol they can use warlocks in there for pretty nice damage.

Comment by weezel

Finally exalted. Never going back there :) Ended up buying both shields and all four necks :D

Comment by 62244

I have heard from some better players then I that this instance gets easier on heroic mode and completing it on normal is the real challenge. I am not sure if this is true because 1: theyre better then me, and 2: that just doesnt make much sense to have a easy heroic and a hard normal. But it could be a challenge for less skilled player so they can get easier epics in the heroic mode.

Comment by 163952

Today found out something really useful and I couldn't find it posted here so here i go.

If u die at the last boss in the beginning of the fight don't be lazy and corps run, because you can jump from the balcony sort of thing at the start of the instance and you will be teleported right to the fight. Don't know if it works on other bosses.

Comment by 83214

Once patch 2.4.3 is released, Magisters' Terrace will get nerfed, like removing the stun component of the Sunblade Mage Guard's Glaive Throw. For more information, go to http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html, though this can change over time.

Comment by 83214

When patch 2.4.3 is released, this place will receive a series of nerfs, like the slightly decreased damage done by Sunblade Warlocks and decreased arcane damage per second in Phase 2 of Kael'thas Sunstrider for normal mode only.

Source: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

Comment by 126756

I got keyed for heroic mode a couple days ago but I'm not sure what type of gear i should have. I'm an arms warrior, i got 6 epics (two are s1 and two are s2) with a red belt of battle. I have capped 1500 AP and have a 26+% chance to crit and 43% damage absorption. I'm sorry to basically list my stats but I just would like some info/feedback. Thanks..

Comment by 99328

A note to bear-tanks: During the Air Phase, nothing really stops you from dropping out of bear to help the healer deal with the ticking damage (which can add up!) with a few HoTs. Leave yourself enough mana to pop into bear when you drop to the floor again, and you will have saved your healer some effort and mana that they'll certainly need to heal you through the intense melee portions of the fight.

Comment by 169906

Magister's Terrace was fairly easy with the right group! it drops some awesome gear for people that just reached 70! + epics in reg! I kno a lot of people already kno the loot because it is "old" BUT for you people that just reached 70 heres some advice...

FIRST your gonna need atleast 2 cc in this place because u wouldnt want a tank with 5 guys on him! So keep your maximum at 1 dps that cant cc...

As an enhance shaman atm i am usually the ONLY non cc class in here

My group set up is usually...

Prot Pally...Or Geared warrior that knows how to tank multiple enemies without having the healer getting aggroe

Resto Druid/HOly priest because in this instance your gonna need some hots especially Kael!

Rogue ofcourse for your cc

Mage or lock for cc because mage can sheep/counterspell and locks can seduce and curse of tongues making the casters in here harder for them to cast

and last but not least you can have a dps that cant cc...

Comment by Sardon

Little advice to warlocks, and groups with warlocks. If you're smart, Warlocks can easily be 2-3 forms of CC on most of the humanoid pulls in here.

First, the Succubus in the instance shouldn't be banished, they should be enslaved. Haven't tried on heroic, but it works on normal. They deal about 800-1200 damage to the mobs, and can easily off-tank a mob.

So with the Succubus you can CC two mobs at once, as for the third, after making sure you have PLENTY OF ROOM you could fear them, and toss a CoEx on them so they don't aggro more.

But yeah, always enslave the Succubus, they have insane DPS for pets. Plus a 6-second stun, which is supposed to be a seduce, but seems to persist through damage.

Comment by 179632

If you happen to die in the fight against Kael'Thas, you should release and run back. Once back in the instance, buff up and eat to regain health and mana fast, because Kael'Thas will then summon you back into the fight so you can fly around with the others and help out.
This only happens in the second stage of the fight, where he periodically, twice, unless I'm mistaken, pulls all party members to him and releases them flying, but is, nonetheless a very handy feature for those who don't feel like running all the way back to the encounter.

Comment by fenom

how long will this take for an average group? I was thinking at least 2 hours because it is one of the harder 5 mans, but some of the comments make it seem like it is less of an endless grind of trash mobs that some of the other 5mans are.

Comment by 184179

This dungeon is very difficult to do, so prepare well before going in. I have only gotten to Princess and we wiped with the hunter at 5%.
You need wicked CC and Tank. I would say Mage, Rogue, Hunter, Druid/Shaman, Paladin.
Most any other group can do it if they find a way but the dungeon is not too be fooled with.

Comment by 129638

I did this instance with only one CC (me) and the last hard pull was extremly difficult. Good thing we had some ppl that were into raiding andhad some pretty good gear and wear basicly boosting us. So we made it after a few wipes. Basicly our plan was DPS like hell. And it workedtho nobody really belived it did. Sadly my Hauberk of the Warbringer didin't drop :(

Comment by 77123

Hi there,

Am I good with this gear to the heroic difficulty?

http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Arathor&n=Vikthorya

They said to me ingame, that I must be full epic to become "useful". Can you guys comment this?

Thank you,
Vicky

Comment by Quintana

As of the latest patch this place along with most other heroics have become trivial. It doesn't really matter what type of group you bring anymore, and crowd control is a non issue due to the trash dying so fast.

Comment by Frind

This instance is one of my favourite heroics. Fast, epic loots (I mean EPIC!) and a bit challenging. Clever way of making bossfights aswell (speaking of the 2nd boss, Vexallus).

Comment by airtonix

I got invite and on the first pull I made every one wipe because I trying to watch the TV at the same time. Bad idea.

Isn't this a given with hunters?

Comment by siscorskiy

How much rep is attained from a full clear on normal?

Comment by Lanceler

Easily 2-mannable (spelling?) with a prot warrior and a resto shaman, for those of you who still wants that sexy blood elf orb or mount. :)

Comment by 90610

not to hard of a solo for hunters, just need t5 2p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_-ZWdT8BOw

Comment by zeus13

how i do to get there?

Comment by 286255

Anyone tried soloing heroic MgT on level 80? I'm going to try, maybe will bring a healer. I'm feral tank, wish me luck.

Comment by Hotmilk

Magister's Terrace does not require level 70. I've run guildies through it at level 66. This requires the aid of a warlock, since at 66 they cannot use the portal from Shattrath or be summoned at the meeting stone.

Comment by 293020

Can be soloed with an 80 prot warrior with heroics/naxx gear, and tier 7: http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Los+Errantes&n=Drithenthor

Easily two manned with that warrior and an 80 holly paladin with heroics/naxx gear and tier 7:
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Los+Errantes&n=Lachimera

We do it in about 30 minutes.

Comment by 193408

This instance, nerfed since 3.0, can be easily solo'd by a Paladin tank in at least half T7 gear.

A good mat/loot farm

I have yet to test on another class, so if anyone has any insight, please add it.

Comment by 324199

Soloed normal version at 80 as a PvE arcane mage some time ago. Reasonably challenging and caused quite a few deaths. Would expect it to be easier now that I have better gear though arcane barrage nerf might hurt alot.

The big trash packs can be quite problematic, especially the one before KT. Sheep one mob, slow another and nuke a third down, moving asap to the fourth. If required, use mirror images to distract them. At the trash before KT, I had to use everything I got and kite, kite, kite and kite.

First boss. Keep kiting him. Try to nuke as much as you can in the beginning and then focusing on surviving. Run up the stairs, jump down, repeat works to some extent. Nuke the hell out of him when he's draining an orb.

Second boss. Keep kiting him as much as possible. Stay at maximum distance, kill the sparks and ice block when the debuff gets too high. Full nuke when he reaches the critical point and stops chasing you.

Third boss was the hardest or atleast equally hard to the second boss. I think it was because of my setup - warlock, rogue, warrior, shaman. I sheeped the warrior, barraged the imp, slowed the shaman, frost novaed the rogue and with a lucky counterspell on the shaman nuked Priestess down. After that I kept as much CC up as I could and killed rogue -> shaman -> warlock -> warrior.

Kael was, as expected, the easiest boss. With mage armor and fire ward up, nuking him from a distance (he doesn't melee if you attack from a distance), I could get him to 50% really fast. I killed the phoenix before this, but I think I could've ignored it and instead nuked Kael down faster. Second phase was also easy due to my resistances and instant arcane barrage. Relaxing fight after all those before this one.

Comment by 299649

Is it possible to solo MgT as a lvl 80 prot pally with naxx/badge equip in heroic mode?

Comment by 332502

does anybody know where this place is at, i would have had the quest, but, i never bothered to do it, so i totally forget now, lol, ahd 2 chances to do it too, i made a dk when i got my rogue to level 80, lol :)

Comment by Crowax

Soloed most of it in heroic mode on my feral druid yesterday. It's not that difficult when you know what to do.

Trash:

absolutely no group was a problem.
try to kill Blood Knights first, they are the most dangerous mob there. Bash when they cast holy light to speed things up. Physicians can be annoying too with prayer of mending, but not as bad as knights.

Selin Fireheart:

He's total pushover. Easiest kill in instance, mangle + maul + lacerate. When he drains a crystal and begins aoe, pop barkskin, if needed also survival instincts and frenzied regen. Berserk to speed up boring kill.

Vexallus:

Difficult fight. Kill the sparks ('Pure Energy' if u want to macro skills to them) asap, they hurt. There will be 2 sparks each 15% of Vexallus' hp, each periodically hits for 1-1.5k (~~I suspect nature damage~~ it's arcane, could just have looked it up here :P). This is the key to victory. Beware, you HAVE to target them directly, no aoe works, nor glyphed maul. However, if spark is the target of glyphed maul/mangle in berserk, it still hits the boss. Build up you rage, save cooldowns for 2nd or 3rd set of adds. When this comes, pop all cooldowns and trinkets you have and hope you will kill him before sparks kill you.

Delrissa:

I had this setup:
rogue, warlock, mage, warrior.

Which was kinda lucky without shaman. I still wiped quite a few times by a combination of slowing effects and mortal strike. This was when I tried firstly rooting warr or rogue. Then I just started in bear (for having enrage - 20 more rage at start), waited for rogue to kidney shot me, popped all cooldowns after (to assure im not stunned for long during berserk) and opened up on rogue. Delrissa couldn't outheal my damage on rogue (and she was trying hard), so he went down. Killed warr only few seconds after (glyphed maul and bear mangle in berserk are a blessing xD) With these two downed, rest was a cakewalk. Primal tenacity is a godsend for this fight.

Kael'thas:

I didn't manage to kill him =/ All the time i was making mistakes - it was late night and i was sleepy ;-)
Basically the strategy would be to nuke him to 2nd phase asap. When he summons phoenix, bear -> pop cooldowns/trinkets -> berserk and kill it asap. With berserk, you'll keep hitting boss all the time. When bird is dead, kill the egg and continue on boss. There's where all my attempts ended...pyro xD More dps needed from my side - i'll try opening on him in cat today with replacing some of my tank gear for kitty pieces.

Added 1.4.:

Kael:

Downed him! I was using feral staff from VH heroic before, now i luckily got the one from KT in naxx10. Strategy was basically what I advised. But you have to pay attention to positioning - his flamestrike still hurts a lot. You have to stand on either left or right side at max melee range and move to opposite side when he casts it in order to dps him fulltime without sudden dramatic changes in your HP.

Delrissa:

No setup is problematic, got a few upgrades. No primal tenacity and it's still ok. I just beat on them until healers (delrissa + shammy) run oom.

All in all - pretty challenging instance and a lot of fun to solo. Try it out ;-)

Edit: my armory - Enyo, was exactly what i had equipped at the time of writing

Comment by nosataru

I found the whole place pretty easy on regular as an 80 feral druid (Naxx 10 gear: 32k HP, 34k armor, 35% dodge, 4.5k AP). For the first boss, just burn him down. You can kill the crystals, but either way works. He doesn't hit hard.

I'd say the second boss is the hardest. It's really just burning him down. Save your barkskin for when you get about 3 sparks down. Most of the damage comes in the 3-5th spark. I was hitting 12-15k maul crits on him. Lacerate ticks for over 3k.

3rd boss is a joke. Just kill the healer if he's there (Apoko). The rogue can be annoying and the goblin/engineer hits pretty hard. Then burn the rest down. I killed the 2 trash pulls before him. Just kill the Blood Knight first, then the rest. Stay inside the Mage Guard dampening fields when they cast it. Another trick I found, was you can swipe the group if there's a warlock, and get the imp to about 1 swipe from dead (20% or so). The BK will heal the imp, and you should be able to kill him before he gets another heal off. You could also root the mage guard if you're having trouble with trash, but I never had to.

With Kael, it's pretty much the same strat. Burn him down, kill the phoenix and the egg, and stay outta the fire zones. When the phoenix came out, I tried to kill him next to Kael so my maul would still hit him (unless I got a fire zone right on him). The only problem I had was once when he went to phase 2, the phoenix was still up and I couldn't get him down without getting hit by the orbs. Occasionally, I have to run a little ways away from Kael, barkskin and heal up. His fireballs miss you more often than not. In phase 2, I just run(swim?) back to the back and heal up. Once the orbs get close, swim back to him and dps him down. Phase 2 is by far the easiest part. The constant damage spell barely scratches me.

The whole place takes me just under 20 minutes. I've tried heroic, but the 2nd boss is where it gets hard. Took me about 10 runs for my Phoenix Hatchling, not to mention I made a few hundred gold and a couple stacks of voids/large prismatics.

Comment by 337837

Easily soloable as an unholy deathknight, in both tanking and dps spec, trash is the hardest part imo. A little write-up on how to pull it off without a lot of trouble:

Gear etc:
Always use Frost Presence, except on Kaelthas.
On trash, I'd recommend full tanking gear at all times, esp. the larger pulls. I usually throw my ghoul on the Blood Knight (casts pretty big holy light heals), then dps down the squishy casters to reduce the incoming damage, strangulate/deathgrip/mindfreeze the healer when needed. Make sure you have some space to move, the Mage Guards cast a Anti-Magic zone that will greatly reduce your healing and AoE capabilities.

Sellin Fireheart:
This guy is easy, both in dps and tanking gear. Throw on your diseases, start whacking death strikes, or if your gear allows it, mix in a bit more dps. You can choose to save a pestilence and use it when he starts leeching a crystal, and dps it down, or just ignore it and continue on him. Anti-Magic bubble sufficiently reduces his overload-like ability after the crystal is drained. No need for AotD here.

Vexallus:
So far, I've always used tanking gear and frost presence here, a decent HP pool may help a lot. As mentioned before, a slow tactic may work for you, but is now needed however. Start dpsing him, kill the first 2 sparks yourself, giving you increased healing from Death Strike. Let your pet kill the second set of adds, he will likely die shortly after this, no worries though, summon a new one if you have the time. On the third set of adds, make sure you got some runic power and some runes ready, use Anti-Magic bubble, and kill the sparks while it's active. You can then choose to kill the 4th set of adds and nuke him, let your new pet kill them, or just completely ignore them and dps him down.
Timing here may need some practice,it is definately doable though.

Between Vexallus and Delrissa can be some annoying trash pulls, note that you only have to kill one pack in the room after Vexallus, you can jump up the ridge by using the tree as a stepping stone and skip them. Kill the robot, then walk along the side of the pavillion and kill one of the packs in the back, don't forget the 2 mobs in the small room behind it.

Delrissa:
Use frost presence and tanking gear here, although dps gear may very well work. A pvp trinket or human racial can also be a great help to prevent you from being cc'd while Delrissa heals.
You will need AotD here to make everything a lot easier. Also, being able to control your pet's stuns is a great help. Use AotD on a safe distance from the pack, deathgrip in Delrissa herself and start nuking her. Using Gargoyle may help a lot here, though you cannot control which target he will attack. Use Mind freeze, your ghoul's stun, and if needed Strangulate to make sure she does not heal, and dps her down fast. If possible, save Strangulate for Apoko, if he's there. After this, it should be easy, Warlock Salaris has a priority after Delrissa, the fears can be quite painful.

Kael'thas Sunstrider:
Use full dps gear and blood presence here. If you somehow managed to have AotD up, use it, but it is not required. Slap on diseases and start dpsing as much as you can, keep yourself up, but mixing in scourge strike with death strike helps getting him down a lot faster, you don't really want him casting pyroblast. When the phoenix spawns, use pestilence, put your pet on him and throw in a few strikes if he comes too close to Kael. At 50%, try to get yourself to 100% hp, go into frost presence if your hp is not high enough to stay alive during air phase.
During air phase, keep your pet on him at all times, use a cycle of Icy touch and Blood boil to dps and generate Runic power for deathcoils. Once he goes back into weakened state for a short while, hit him as hard as you can, and try to get some hp back.

General tips:
Death pact can save you a LOT of trouble when needed, don't be afraid to use it.
Pots can help if things really go bad, it's always cheaper then a 10% repair.
Bring wotlk food, or use single mobs like the robots to get your hp back up
Use your cooldowns, Anit-Magic bubble is quite overpowered in this place.
With a cycle of Death & Decay, Bone Armor and Horn of Winter you can generate and maintain 100 runic power out of combat, if you're having trouble, this can help with a gargoyle on pull.

Have fun farming him!

Comment by 332107

Can a lvl 80 solo this?

Comment by 311531

How many normal runs do u need to do for exalted?

Comment by exowizard

What do ya know? EVER BOSS IN HERE IS UGLY! Blizz what have you done to our once handsome prince?and every other Boss in here! 'cries'

Comment by Arovei

As a side note, you can fly to the Isle of Quel'Danas starting at level 65, and you can zone in to MgT on normal difficulty by 65 as well.

Comment by 258919

Priestess Delrissa (second to last boss) is completely avoidable. Just wipe out one side of mobs in the courtyard she's in (make sure you don't pull the boss mobs) and hug the wall around until you get to the tunnel behind her. Kael'thas is at the end.

Course, if you can't beat her Kael'thas is going to be tough, but if you just want the quick achievement it saves a minute or two.

Comment by 317134

If anyone else is wondering if you can solo the normal version to farm the phoenix pet, go ahead - I already knew hybrids didnt have any problems soloing it, but it's easily possible to do it as a rogue as well (as well as any other class I'd guess).

Wiped once on the 2nd boss (make sure to kill the sparks) and once on the last one (make sure to kill the phoenix so it doesnt spam fireballs on you during p2).

Took about half an hour the first time, I'd guess it'll take 20mins when you've done it a few times.Gear-wise I have full t7.25, and a few ulduar loots, in case you're wondering if you can put out enough dps to do it yourself.

Comment by 178348

A dual spec protection/retribution paladin can solo the heroic version of this instance without too much trouble.

A little about my gear and spec:
I'm 0/59/12. I took as many solo survivability talents as I could, though I main tank instances with this spec (not any very difficult content). I have the Seal of Light and Divine Plea glyphs. I have a few pieces of Naxxramas (normal) gear, but the rest is all BoE/5-man (heroic).

Note:
Stay as protection until you get to Kael'thas Sunstrider. Keep fire resist aura up at all times and try to keep your buffs on. Read more below...

Tips:
Trash
Fire resist aura, kill any and all magisters before they get too many stacks of their buff. Other than that, nothing really poses a threat. Blood Knights? should die second, but if you don't mind the occasional heal, it's not a problem.

I kill the following trash:
2 mobs at entrance, 2 pats at entrance (only if I aggro by mistake), the group just outside of Selin's room, all the trash in Selin's room, the trash on my way to Vexallus... and I think the only other trash I kill is the sentry after the room just before Priestess Delrissa (wait for the pat, run to the left, go behind the tree and hug the wall behind the bushes), and the group right before Kael'thas Sunstrider.

Selin Fireheart
Use fire resist aura. He won't do much damage to you at all, but make sure to interrupt his drain life/mana attacks or the fight might take a while. If you pull him without killing the trash in his room, all of the mobs in the room will aggro. I usually kill them before pulling him, but it will go faster if you can survive doing that.

Vexallus
This guy was hard until I learned the strategy. Use whatever aura you want, ret might be the best choice for this fight. The trick is to manage the adds. You see, each add gives you a stacking buff. It will increase your damage dealt, but it also does damage to you. And I believe the adds come out at certain %s of his health, but I'm not sure. (Might want to check his wowhead page using the links at the top of the page.) Anyway, start attacking and kill adds as soon as they pop up. As soon as your health is dangerously low, bubble, cancel your divine plea, and heal up. Toss on divine plea and repeat. Use your lay on hands if you need to. Viola, he's dead.

Priestess Delrissa
This is a fairly easy fight. You don't even have to clear trash in her room. Just try to stay alive and kill what you feel is highest priority. You could use fire resist aura for the warlock, you could use ret for a melee heavy group, whatever. I usually use ret and kill 'em all.

Kael'thas Sunstrider
Respec to ret. Use fire resist aura, seal of light, sacred shield, and use Avenging wrath at the beginning of the fight. The trick to this fight is to get him in phase 2 before he hits you with a pyroblast. The first time I tried this as ret, and for all consecutive attempts as ret, I've never had him even attempt to cast pyroblast. However, if he does, just bubble before it hits you. When he spawns the bird, kill it as soon as you can. Kill the egg, too. After you start floating around, just take it easy. The hard part is over. Heal yourself up, if you're low on mana then just use judgement for a while.

Good luck on the mount and pet!

Comment by 13521

80 Prot pally/ret offspec Heroic MgT soloing guide:

You don't really need stellar gear, I was able to do it first time I tried with a mix of 10 Ulduar/25 naxx.

1. Trash - as prot, kill the healers first, use your interrupts; as ret, repentance physicians, Art of War whenever it's up. Clear a path from the instance portal to Vex, you'll use it later. Much of the trash after Vex can be safely skipped.

2. Selin Fireheart - easy as either prot or ret, save interrupts for when he gets a life drain off on you. Don't bother killing the crystals, you'll resist a lot of the aoe. I have yet to die by his hand solo'ing

3. Vexallus - hardest boss to solo by far. I tried many different strats, but I wanted one that didn't rely on LoH or bubble - rather I wanted those as emergencies in case I screwed up execution or got unlucky. Best way is to take him down as ret with a kite strat. On engage, pop wings, dps him fast until first spark spawns. Since he stands in place when summoning sparks, you can get a good lead on him quickly, then pop off a Holy Light or two to get healed back up (make sure you are using instant FoL on Art of War and keeping SS up). By popping wings immediately, bubble will likely be up if you screw up along the way. Keep moving back to the start of the instance - the sparks are much slower than Vex and will never catch up with you (unless you get yourself stuck in terrain along the way). Continue dps'ing and backing up, and when he pops a new round of sparks get some range and Holy Light back to full. If you do it right, when he overloads you'll have full health and at most two sparks and no debuffs to deal with. If you get in trouble during overload, pop a health pot or use LoH or use bubble wall.

4. Priestess Delrissa - I do her as prot, longer fight but I have yet to die solo'ing her as prot. You can either grab a mage guard for the healing debuff bubble or just faceroll it. Don't bother clearing the trash, they don't come into play, engage her and her pals where they stand. Save your interrupts for when she's low on hp, or just let her run oom. By the time she's oom you've probably killed one or two other mobs. Alternative strat is just to ignore her and kill whatever add you feel is most dangerous, again just running the priestess oom.

5. Kael - I tried this both as prot and as ret, I find it easier to get done as ret. Use fire resist aura. The key to this fight is get him to 50% w/o any phoenixes up, then it's just dodgeball. One possible ret strat is simply burn him down to 50% before he casts pyro. I tried this and got overwhelmed by phoenixes, plus the problem with this strat is if you get a flamestrike in a bad spot, then you have to back away or die to phoenixes plus flamestrike. Strat I use now is simple priority - kill phoenix when up, dps kael. He'll usually be at about 60% when he pyros, simply bubble thru it. Either way, make sure you open with wings and burst as best you can before a bird pops. Once he's at 50% you're in gravity lapse phase. Deal with any remaining phoenixes first (they don't respawn if you kill the egg in time), then just dodge the arcane spheres, heal when necessary, and dps Kael when you drop on the ground.

Enjoy your solo farming!

Comment by Valdaimon

I am looking for a good BC dungeon to run for gold and greens for enchant mats. Does anyone know if this dungeon is soloable by a 80 DK?

Comment by 430416

Easily soloable on heroic as a Naxx geared Enhancement Shaman. I use a standard 16/55/0 raid spec. Standard raiding Glyphs, nothing special. I've been coming here daily for the last month or so for the mount. Usually takes about 20 min with select trash packs taking up the majority of the time. Here's how I go about it:

-Entrance- Enter the zone, Kill the first 2 mobs as you come out of the walk way. Be mindful of the pat and make your way on the right side hugging the tree to the last pack before entering Selin Fireheart's room. Depending on the make up of the pull, you may want to pop your Puppies to burn through and heal up heavy incoming damage. If a Sunblade Blood Knight is present, Hex or burn him first making sure to purge his seal which deals roughly 1600 holy damage.

-Selin Fireheart's Room- All three pack's in here must be cleared or they will pull when you engage the boss. I do this by Hexing one of the melee mobs and LOSing around the corner. When the mobs come around, drop Stoneclaw and Magma tot and burn through the melee first, then caster's. Repeat until clear.

-Selin Fireheart- This boss is crazy easy. I pull him right where he's standing, pop Puppies and burn. Dont bother switching to the crystals, just burn him down. Between Pups and the occasional instant healing wave, you should have no trouble with this guy.

-Hallway to Vexallus- This generally takes the majority of my time in here. The Brightscale Wyrm's can and will kill you if you do not take care when pulling. To avoid having to drop an elemental, this is how I handle these pests: Pull one or two groups with a simple shock or Lb, drop Stoneclaw and Magma tot and run back towards Selin's room. Once you see that the Brightscale Wyrm's have killed your Stoneclaw, drop another Magma with an Earthbind and proceed to kite until they're all dead.

-Vexallus- Another easy fight. The first couple times you solo this boss you may want to pop heroism/bloodlust just incase. To be honest though, its not really needed. Drop tot's, pop Puppies and pull him. I usually don't even have to insta heal myself on this fight with the healing from my Pups so if you feel you have a nice health cushion, feel free to use Maelstrom on bolts. Stay on the boss the whole fight and he will drop rather quickly.

-Hall before the Inner Courtyard- This hallway has 2 Sunblade Sentinel's. Depending on your RNG, these guys can deal a ton of damage in a very short period to the point where you cant get enough Maelstrom stacks to heal up in time. If you're up to it, feel free to kill them. I skip them by hugging the wall and waiting for them to pat by me then running by them.

-Inner Courtyard- Despite the mass amount of mobs here, you should only need to kill one pack if any at all. Mind the pat, run up from the hall where you will see one pack to your left and one in front of you surrounding a fountain. The method here is run right between the two packs and move left. If done right, neither should aggro. If one does, move directly into them, drop Stoneclaw and pop Puppies if you have it up. Assuming you made it past the first two packs, run to the left wall and hug it. You should see the last pack standing between you and Priestess Delrissa's room. You can squeeze by this pack by hugging the wall around the tree to the bush line. Jump behind that and run right while hugging the wall. When you hit the corner, jump and continue to move. The mobs seem to aggro depending on which mob is closest to the back. I find that Ethereum Smuggler's almost always aggro. I would wait for your Pups cooldown before attempting to run past these guys incase you pull. After that pack you have a Sunblade Sentinel that you can either kill or skip using the same method as with the other two.

-Priestess Delrissa- This room has a ton of mobs around the sides but you will not have to clear them. This fight is the only one that can give you any trouble in this instance. I find the combination of Eramas Brightblaze, Warlord Salaris and Kagani Nightstrike to be troublesome. Any combination of stuns and MS will be a huge pain here. Depending on the make of your instance this may be a breeze or suck badly. Here's how I go about this:
Position yourself in front of the group, drop your tot's keeping Earth free. After dropping tot's I move forward slightly and drop Earth Elemental. That will aggro the whole group. Pop pup's heroism/bloodlust and burn Priestess Delrissa being sure to purge her Renew and interrupt her heals. Once she's dead, your kill order should look like this depending on who's up in your instance: Warlord Salaris, Eramas Brightblaze, Kagani Nightstrike, Ellrys Duskhallow, Zelfan, Garaxxas and finally Yazzai until he Ice blocks. You can safely save Apoko for last since he runs oom rather quickly.

-Kael'thas Sunstrider's room- One pack here. Hex, LOS, burn. No big deal.

-Kael'thas Sunstrider- This fight is rather simple. Once you hit phase 2 it's pretty much over. I position myself right in front of him, drop Grounding and the rest of my tot's, pop Puppies and pull (if you have heroism/bloodlust up, use it now). He doesnt melee too hard at all. You wanna make sure to interrupt his casts right away though. A few seconds into the fight, drop Fire elemental and continue to burn ignoring his phoenix add. When drops his AE, move out and interrupt his next cast so he runs over to you. If you have the dps and Shamanistic Rage, you can out heal the AE damage and stand in it if you like. Once he hits 50% he moves into phase 2. Dps him as much as you can while avoiding the spheres. Surviving the air phase is more important than dps. Your elemental will be beating on him while you're in the air so focus on keeping yourself topped off and dpsing when you can do so safely. He will drop, hopefully you'll get a new mount and thats all folks.

Comment by Kyrane

As an 80 off-spec boomkin in gear for healing ulduar 10/25 i solo'ed all of this on reg only dying once on the 2nd boss. The final boss is by far the easiest boss due to the fact that he does very little damage that can't be healed through, and with insect swarm, and moonfire up on him he was dead in minutes. And i only bothered killing the Add the first time.

@Valda if your a blood tank possibly if not 2 man.

Comment by evgueni72

Wowhead needs to update this: I went into Magister's Terrance as a 68 rogue. Of course, being 68, once I saw 70 elites, I ran back outside, but I was able to enter as of 68

Comment by 236957

About getting there...

Death Knights knows the FP on the island.

For thoose who want to boost their alts.

:)

Comment by 309391

A Nice Tip for the Fight Against Vexhallus for Heroic soloing purposes:
All of his attacks are arcane based, you can buy cheap green gear with "Of Arcane Protection" from AH.
If you replace 3 pieces of your gear you will be able to resist 75% of his attacks.
I solo the whole instance on heroic on my Prot Pally, this makes the fight trivial

Comment by 129446

Quite easily soloable on heroic by a 80 survival hunter in 226/232 gear, simply by brute forcing. I run with my wolf pet, seeing as my main tactic is to kill the bosses before they can do much harm to me or my pet. Since non-BM pets do terrible threat and using a tenaciy one doesn't really increase their surviveability by much, I guess any pet will do as a meatshield.

Almost all the trash can be skipped, by dismissing pet, running trough packs and feign. I'm already exalted, so the trash is nothing but a waste of time.
The trash I do have to kill, is all the undeads infront of first boss, the mana-wyrms infront of 2nd boss and the 6-mob pack infront of Kael.

Selin Fireheart - MD pet, go all out. FD when aggro and keep nuking. Eventually you will overaggro pet, start kiting by running up and down the ramp. Well timed disengages will make it so he will never be able to hit you. Ignore the tank when he channels, with enough dps he will be down before finishing channeling the first one.

Vexallus - I completely ignore the orbs this fight and just brute force it. MD pet, blow all cooldowns (Rapid Fire/trinket/CotW) and he will drop extremely fast. My draenei racial is enough to keep me up from the random damage taken. If non-draenei a healing pot might be handy for doing it this way. His melee hits on pet seems extremely weak and with 3/3 avoidance my pet takes minimal damage (guessing the orb damage is counted as AoE), so a simple mend pet mid fight is more than enough.

Priestess Delrissa - On my first runs I would spend a lot of time doing this the 'right' way, using all my cc's. Just ignore it and place an aoe freezing trap infront of them all for LnL-proc. To be quite honest I usually don't pay attention to what setup I am facing, since they all drop like flies. If any of the adds are pet classes, you should one-shot the pets first, then go all out on the priestess. She only has ~40k hp and usually only gets a shield off before dropping. Kill whatever you want next, once the priest is down the fight is already over. Keep kiting around the frost trap and when it expires drop a new one. I see many people have issues with soloing this boss on heroic, maybe they didn't try brute forcing it. Never posed any threat to me at least.

Kael - His biggest damage is obviously his fireballs, which of about 50% will completely miss, in some cases I've had every single fireball miss, and this is with 0 fire resistance. What works for me is having pet taking half the damage, and me the rest, so simply don't feign when you overaggro pet. Blow all cooldowns at start, with my gear/spec he goes below 50% before spawning the first phoenix. I am guessing it is timed, since I've never ever had a phoenix spawn. Phase 2 keep pet on boss, and avoid the orbs like you would at 70 (they still hurt). Spam instants while flying and he should drop very quickly.

No mount for me yet, but at least got both pet and orb. =)

Comment by 455122

What do I need to Do or have to go into heroic difficult?

Comment by redraven937

Just ran heroic today as a Retribution paladin, all prepared to make extensive use of Divine Shield, Lay on Hands, switch to my tanking spec/gear, and so on. None of it was necessary. I breezed through the instance without using Divine Shield or Lay on Hands once.

Gear = Furious PvP gear, Relentless offpieces. Ironsoul as a weapon.
Buffs = Righteous Fury, Sacred Shield, Might, SoR for trash and SoV for bosses. Flask of Lesser Resistance and Drums of the Wild.
Spec = Full PvP, 7/13/51

Selin - Blow him up. Cleanse the Drain Mana effect, as he will steal more than Cleanse costs.
Vexallus - Kill the first four orb spawns, then accidentally blow the boss up because you deal 100% extra damage.
Priestess Delrissa - Even getting the shaman healer, rogue, etc., this was just a matter of using all your AoW procs and waiting until all the other healers run OOM.
Kael - DPS the boss, use AoW procs. Once a phoenix is up, continue DPSing the boss until it gets close to you, then run away a bit before killing it + the egg. Kael never got a chance to cast Pyroblast. In the air phase, just swim around casting Judgement every 7 seconds.

Overall, it was significantly easier than most of these other posts seemed to indicate, especially on Vexallus, although I still had 700 resilience and about ~140 resistance to all magic from the flask + drums (I am an alchemist as well) so that probably made the DoT from the orb adds moot. In any case, neither the pet, Orb, or mount dropped, but I made roughly 65g from cash drops and selling the epics to vendors, so it remains a pretty profitable "daily quest."

Comment by Repaxan

For hunters, with the correct BM spec, even heroic mode is a cake walk to solo at 80. You don't even need 2T5.

Tip for the solo runners, at the bridge at the beginning of the instance, you can look off the left side to see what the Delrissa fight is. If you see more than one melee, just give up and leave, and wait for it to soft reset and look again. It's not going to be possible with more than one melee.

Comment by 444157

Soloed Heroic as a Warlock a few hours ago.

Tried it yesterday, got up to Delrissa, couldn't kill her. Tried it today and cleared it.

Spec was http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#I0grburhoVZ0GfhkAdics0z:ojwzV0.
Unbuffed stats
Damage: 2541
Haste: 509
Crit: 501
Hit: 370
Stamina: 1170
Int: 1087
Spirit: 453
Armor: 2133
(gearscore is 4867, mainly 226-232 ilevel. 3 pieces of t9 232, 1 t9 245. Engineer/Scribe)

Used Demon Armour for the trash and Delrissa, Fel armour for Selin, Vexallus and KT.

TRASH

The trash is a big slog, I died a lot before getting used to them, and then died a couple of times when I got careless. Damage is pretty heavy. Don't fear, Death coil carefully.
Basically, I sent the FG in, dotted everything then Life drained my target. Keep the FG health up with health funnel.

Priority is Blood Knights>Physicians>Warlocks>Mage Guards>whatever.

Blood Knights need to die before they can heal, DC can work as an interrupt but it can cause other mobs to add. Dotted, Immolate, then spammed Incin to kill them before dotting everything.
Physicians can cause problems with PoM and Inject Poison. If you've dotted everything, PoM will heal enemies for a ton, and Inject can inflict some big damage.
Warlock Immo and Incin spam hurts.
When Mage Guards put down their dampening fields you need to move yourself, the FG and any mobs away from it as it will reduce Corruption healing.
Keep the succubus banished.

BOSSES
Selin: easy, put the FG on him, dot and Health funnel. Let him break shards.

Vex: Not too hard. Make a "/petattack " macro like you did at 70. Keep the FG on Vex, but spam the macro when the adds spawn. Keep CoW and Corr on Vex, Health Funnel constantly. Damage incoming on the FG can be a lot when he's killed a few, just keep on funneling.

Delrissa: Very hard, took me ages to get it. I had Salaris, Eremas, Yazzai and Zelfan on my kill. (Had Apoko, Eremas, Ellris and Kagani on the day before. CC on me was too much to deal with on that setup)
Dotted all free mobs with CoE and Corr, Life drained in between. FG was on Delrissa. Banished Zelfan, feared Salaris (don't DoT him so Fear doesn't break). Eremas, Delrissa and Yazzai were free. You'll be trying to outlast them to drain their mana. Used the FG on my kill, kept it on Delrissa. Anguish was off so it didn't get aggro because keeping the FG up was too hard in addition to everything else. Eremas was doing the most damage on me and those knockdowns/interrupts/stuns were a pain. Yazzai's spells were hitting me despite the level difference.

Used a HS, Runic Healing Injector, Deathcoil and Battlemasters trinket.

After a while, Eremas died first, then Del, then Yazzai.

Kaelthas: Not too bad.

Put the FG on him, keep it healed to full HP at all times.

When the Phoenix spawned I dotted it. You can kite it to reduce damage I suppose but don't forget the FG's HP. I put the FG on the phoenix too, but it might not be necessary. Spam Incin on the Egg.

P2 is a cinch, dot and put the FG on KT, avoid the orbs, blah blah blah just like 70.

Got the pet from KT, no mount though :(

Comment by 468477

Just wrote a guide for everyone to solo this place if you're interested follow this link then just click a box on the video with the bosses name you wanna see the guide to and a video soloing :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn3lDBcZXVQ

Comment by 96803

Soloed the entire instance as a Frost Mage in full S7 gear.

First boss you can pull him out to the start and nuke him, he'll run back and give you time to get ready for when he returns. Repeat until hes dead, you'll have to swap aggro with your images and elemental.

Second boss put up Mage Armor, nuke and spawn your images, once he brings in his adds move further back in the room and spawn your elemental. Once the adds kill your images and he spawns more on your elemental, move further back again. This is the only challenging fight, I use Cold Snap on occasion just to get another Ice Barrier.

Third boss I found that it makes it very easy if you keep one of the Mage trash mobs with you, you can spellsteal a casting buff they put on themselves until your reach 200% casting speed. It lasts 30 seconds and should be long enough for you to drop a boss in no time at all, just CC and root the others, had no problem.

Kael is laughably easy, go all out at the start and just free cast and move around while he puts you in the air.

I just want to point out had it not been for my 2.3k health from my gear this will be very challenging for a Frost Mage, but you can infact solo this.

Comment by Kakashi11

One of the best instance endings ever.

Comment by 130170

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8G3-38d688

Elemental shaman solo guide. The most parts are simply nuke it to death. It's pretty easy in ~255 ilvl

Comment by 418571

A full clear of Magisters' Terrace on normal mode will net you 1655 reputation with the Shattered Sun Offensive. Soloing MGT on normal mode shouldn't be a problem for most classes (if not all) at lvl 80, and is probably the most efficient way to increase your Shattered Sun rep (supplemented with doing the dailies each day of course). As a fury warrior, I could clear normal mode MGT in about half an hour, also netting myself roughly 100g per run. Happy farming!

Comment by Vindaloo

Have they recently changed the mechanics on the third boss Delrissa? I solo farm normal on my Mage and I thought I was just unlucky with my Mirror Images aggroing the mobs behind me. I usually invis past most trash to reach this boss. After the first wipe I made sure the Mirror Images were casting on the bosses but I still pulled trash behind me. On the third attempt I cleared the two packs and the large guys before engaging. When I died I saw trash run back to the previous room with the fountain! This boss triggering any way back trash for anyone else?

Comment by 578977

Super fast and easy as duel spec arcane / frost mage.

Blink past the first 2 guards, invis, run to boss room. Kill adds.

First boss: Spec arcane. open up on him until he gets close, pop your images/CDs and then just use standard arcane rotation until he's dead. Difficulty: 1/5.

Head to the second boss and just blizzard the adds down.

Second boss: Spec frost. might be doable as arcane but I don't know if the adds are immune to it. Use your icebarrier, pop your elemental and send it to attack the boss. Pop icy veins/mirror images and frostbolt the boss. Two adds will spawn to the side of the boss, just icelance them down quickly. You'll have to do this for about 2-3 waves and each time you kill the adds, you get a stacking debuff that increases your damage. The boss should die in about 3-4 frostbolts when you get the buff. Difficulty: 1/5.

Blink past the first mechguard, invis once you get to the courtyard and head to third boss.

Third boss: Spec frost. Use your icebarrier, pop your elemental, range frostnova the boss/adds and blizzard them down. Once the nova breaks, pop your images, nova, blink and blizzard them down. Finish off the remaining boss/adds with frostbolt. Beware of fear, you might have to deal with addition adds. Difficulty: 2/5. Can be 3/5 if they dispel your icebarrier and or fear your pets to aggro additional adds.

For the adds before boss, sheep mage, kill warlock first, nova the melee(consort, naga, and paladin) then finish off melee and mage. You can chain spellsteal the mage and have fun with .5s frostbolts after getting 20 stacks of buff.

Last boss: Spec arcane. Use Fireward, after the first pyroblast hits, pop images/icy veins/arcane power and dps boss until dead. If the phoenix spawns, just kill it and then kill the egg. When floating in the air, keep moving and stop to cast AB1-2x and then ABr. Difficulty: 1/5 without phoenix. 2/5 with phoenix spawn.

Overall, it should be a quick 15 minute run.

Comment by Frugle52

Managed to solo this as rogue. Full ilvl 264 gear. Was pretty easy except had some problems on Kael until I realized how to kill him.

Comment by 407664

The trick to fighting Kael as a death knight is fairly simple.
Interupt as many fireballs as possible, when he spawns his phoenix, pestilence the diseases to it, and nuke down fast, then kill the egg. At 80% use your ghoulds, these will take the damage from when he uses pyro-blast. Once you get the the 'floating' part jsut keep your diseases up, then proc out when you land .

GL and have fun.

Comment by 250295

Warlocks can solo it in Hc mode, preety much easy in Affliction build.
dots, kite,run,fear, ect ect ect
You dont even have to worry about kael's pyroblast. He'll prob be dead before he cast it.
Happy mount farming :D

Comment by 126137

Pretty easy for a Warrior to solo. Done it both as prot and fury.

Comment by kinigit

Just soloed Heroic with a survival hunter with standard DPS raid spec and alternating DPS pet with a poorly specced bear I have had sitting in my stable for a year.

Really just CCd and kited. Reminded me of the good ol' days of heroic 5 mans in BC. Pretty fun to solo. Took two tries each on Priestess and Kael.

Priestess fight is really kiting the whole pack while taking them down one at a time. You can probably burn one right off the bat (I chose the ethereal). Don't down Priestess first, there is a bug that may cause her to not drop loot (happened on my reg run to unlock heroic).

Kael is really straightforward just burn the phoenix if one spawns and avoid the orbs when he turns your world upside down.

I had the orb and the mount drop on my fist heroic run. Will probably farm reg for the pet just because it is much faster.

(Also, Bag of Marbles works on him - I used them on my first attempt and decided to save them after I saw the fight and I realized I can burn him down without them)

Comment by 415677

Soloable as an elemental shaman. In T9/T10. I've also done it in my PvP gear which isn't even relentless. Trash is probaly the hardest of this instance when soloing. Just hex when needed. Alot of this is skippable at level 80.

Comment by kinigit

Just soloed Heroic on my Combat rogue. It was more challenging to solo as a rogue than my hunter.

Most trash in the instance can be stealthed around or sprint past them and vanish when you get close to where you want to go.

Selin Fireheart: Trash has to be cleared because attacking selin pulls the trash in the room. This is an easy fight. Just spam you DPS rotation and blow a few cooldowns.

Vexallus: Trash also has to be cleared. Try to only pull one group of Mana wyrms at a time. They do about 200DPS each but add a group and you are looking at a few thousand DPS on you quickly. Forcing you to blow defensive cooldowns and even a corpse walk.

Vexallus himself is the most challenging fight for me. However, i did not burn down the adds (which may have been more effective) I used Drums of the Wild and lesser Resistance. Burned him down using a my standard DPS rotation but did not blow my cooldowns until the end of the fight. If you DPS him too fast in the beginning he spawns adds faster and their damage stacks you quickly. So I found it better to DPS him until he got to about 25% then blow my cooldowns to kill him before the damage he and his adds were doing crushed me. You need to use all your defensive cooldowns during the last few seconds on this fight.

Priestess: You do not have to clear the trash in the room, they do not agro (hunters and kiting classes do)

I accidentally facepulled when I was approaching her so I hit all my cooldowns when her gorup agroed and just killed them as fast as I could one at a time (blade fury was up). Blow your defensive cooldowns at the beginning of this fight because you are taking the most damage when her party is all alive.

Kael'thas: Not too hard a fight. Pop evasion and burn him down. Use you other defensive cooldowns when the Pheonix spawn. Need to burn them down as soon as they spawn. Avoid his spheres. You don't need to push it to kill him while the spheres are up. Just avoid them. If you try too hard to DPS him you may get caught by a sphere and corpse run. DPS him when you can but mostly avoid the spheres. I would use Lesser Resistance and Drums of the Wild on this fight too.

His loot table is great. I have had little luck on my rogue (my hunter got the mount and an Orb on the frst run).

Good luck. Can be a challenging instance for a non healing low stam class like rogues.

Comment by pikamaster

wretched mob at the first boss give 11.25 rep not 12 each

Comment by 258919

Definitely one of the best 5-mans Blizzard has created. The music, the cutscene halfway, and the final boss (both lorewise and combat-wise) make this instance stand out from the normal gloom of other BC 5-mans (AKA Underbog, Shadow Labs, etc.). Also easily solo'd on normal by any tanking class, and pretty much any other class if they know what they're doing.

Comment by BethofHearts

Just soloed as Shadow priest most 251 gear. A lot easier than I thought it would be. Mind Sear most of the adds and dps the bosses like crazy. Tip for Sunstrider fight is to run to the back where the orb is on shapeshift. Cake :)

Comment by lemon031

Easy to solo as a well geared blood DK.

all the bosses up to the priestess are too easy to merit explanation.

at priestess burn down adds and then kill her.

burn KT during phase 1 and just stay alive the rest of the way. not much harder than that.

walk in the park

Comment by 106394

Today (27.07.2010) I managed to solo it for a 1st time as an affliction lock and I was dropped the hawkstrider mount. Interesting is the fact that I was dropped the raptor from zg the very same day =]

http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Neptulon&cn=Satanail

Comment by 138482

I tried using fish feast in here just for extra overkill but for some reason it wasn't visible. Is it because the item was added after TBC and doesn't work in the older zones?

Comment by kasuturo

Lvl 80 Hunters will find in this an excellent soloable heroic dungeon:

Boss difficulty is not that different to normal, except for their health pools.
All bosses drop epics, which are sold for good gold.
Trash is very easy to kill with care and a good tanking pet (and they drop a good amount of money too!)
The hunt for the Swift White Hawkstrider can go with some Reins of the Raven Lord farming for better chances of getting an epic mount and a good load of money everyday.

Comment by clavarnway

Easy solo as Demo lock.

Trash: Felguard pet. Use his Felstorm to take care of the few packs you have to fight, make sure you use some kind of AoE so you get credit for the kills, so you get loot.

Selin - nothing specific, just tank and spank.

Vexallus - Pop Meta, turn on Immolation Aura, burn down boss. Alternatively tank and spank with Felguard, and have Felguard pick up adds.

Priestess - Pop Meta, Immolation Aura, Hellfire, run in, use Felguard's Felstorm. They dropped in less than 10 seconds.

Kael - Tank and spank. Most of his spells miss due to the level difference. Use Drain Life during air phase if you need HP. Avoid the floating orbs.

Good luck on the Orb/pet/mount!

Comment by Kampiakseli

I writed this originally to Swift White Hawkstriders comments, but as it pretty much cowers up the whole instance I'll throw it here too :P Hopefully someone finds this useful ^^

Hey,

I thought that it would be kind to share my experience from MgT HC 4.0.1 soloing with fury warrior, as there isn't many posts about it here. Trash is pretty much easy in whole instance, atleast if you are careful with pulls. Im not saying it is faceroll or anything, but it is not very hard either. I'll put up little roundabout from one single run in here.

If someone is interested, here is my armory. I am using the normal fury DPS spec for soloing.

Trash before first boss is just joke. They don't hit anything on plate. Nothing special either. Just cleave/whirlwind your way to the glory ;)

Selin Fireheart
First boss Selin is pretty much straight forward nuke. The tactic i used was just to pop CDs at start and nuke his face off. That works like a charm, atleast for me. I don't suggest you to try kill the crystals, at this encounter. It really isn't needed. with my ICC10 gear I pretty much got him down while he was casting the siphon or right after it. So basically just nuke his ass off :P

Trash between Selin and Vexallus is the trickiest thing in this instance. This is the only place I've wiped here. If you are rolling with similar or better gear than me I suggest you to pull with ranged and wait for the pack to come after you. If you accidentally pull 2 wyrm packs at the same time it is highly advisable to watch for your health and pop Enraged Regeneration if needed.

Vexallus
This is also pretty simple fight. Just needs good DPS to burst him down at the right time. I recommend that you DON'T use CDs like Death Wish or Recklessness here. As they increases your damage taken. You can use them, but they are not needed. As of the fight Vexallus will summon two Pure Energy to the fight. The idea here is that you cleave the first two to get 2 stacks of Energy feedback, after that is done you should be able to just nuke him down, as they increase your damage done by total of 100%. That is all about this boss. Pretty simple fight after all.

Nothing special on trash between Vexallus and Priestess Delrissa. Just cleave through everything! And be careful with patrols and try avoid chain pulling multiple packs. It's not instantly wipe if you pull two packs, but it makes things very hard.

Priestess Delrissa
This fight is pretty simple, but can also be very very hard. Depends what opponents you have in this encounter. I suggest to pull Death Wish and Recklessness right at the pull and use Cleave > Whirlwind > Cleave to make heavy damage to many of them, after that it's pretty much single target nuking. Depending on the setup you get here you should first target Kagani Nightstrike(Rogue) or Apoko(Shaman). Rogue does nasty stun so he should be your primary target and then shaman because of his heal. Other guys are weak compared to these. Pretty easy encounter all in all.

There is only one pack of trash between Kael and Priestess. Nothing special.

Kael'thas Sunstrider
Kael is pretty fast fight, if it isn't you are not going to make it. Good point here is that you should wait CDs that you popped at Priestess to come off before engaging Kael'thas to fight. As you need to burst him down as fast as possible. As fury you should not get caught by Pyroblast. He shoul not even get to cast it anyways so no worries about that. The more important thing in this fight is Phoenix if you are not fast enough to pull him to Gravity Lapse, as he won't call Phoenix anymore at that point.

Phoenix
Handling Phoenix is pretty simple. If Kael'thas yells: "Vengeance burns!", you should start looking for Phoenix and kill it immediately. And when the Phoenix dies it will leave egg to floor. Kill that too. If you have good gear this shouldn't even happen.

Gravity Lapse
Kael'thas will pull you to his location and you start floating around. The best way to handle this encounter is to "kite" the bubbles away from Kael'thas and then go around them and nuke Kael. You only need to pull bubbles away once since Kael should be pretty low at this point. And as side note: you can't nuke through these bubbles because they do massive amount damage and atleast my gear isn't enough to sit it out and nuke Kael'thas while ignoring the bubbles.

That is pretty much it. I might have forgot/left out some points about the instance/bosses, but those are pretty much the things that I have to put attention while doing MgT HC! I wish all of you good luck with mounts! Still waiting my own to drop :P

- Kampiakseli

P.S. Sorry about the typos this post might contain. My mother tongue is not english ^^

Comment by wrakky

As a Shadow Priest in a combination of ilvl 264/251 gear I can run through Heroic MgT pretty quickly and skip most of the trash:

When you first enter use Mind Sooth on the 2 guards by the front door and all 4 mobs at the back which lets you run through the middle of them without getting aggro
For the packs of adds before Selin Fireheart I find it's quickest to SW:P them all and then run back and forth spamming Holy Nova so that Shadowy Apparitions proc fairly often
Wyrms before Vexallus just SW:P one of them and then run away whilst spamming Holy Nova or they could overwhelm you
For Vexallus I normally just keep dots up and Devouring Plague any Pure Energy once they start to spawn which 1 shots them and means you don't take any extra damage
All trash can just be avoided until Priestess Delrissa, just either hug the walls or run through the fairly big gaps between each pack
Priestess Delrissa can be annoying if you don't control the fight well enough

If either Eramas Brightblaze or Kagani Nightstrike are with her then take them out first as then can interrupt and stun
Cast Shadowfiend on your first target and then Fade immediately so you don't get any aggro from anyone
Silence Delrissa if you can so she can't heal
Nuke stunners first, then take her down, then deal with the rest
Her renew can be dispelled as well if you want to

Kael'thas Sunstrider is pretty easy, you'll probably spend longer listening to him talk than killing him

Comment by 704959

I have a problem. I'm trying to farm for the mount, but for heroic mode, it says you need to complete the "Hard to Kill" quest. So I looked it up, and found there's a chain quest you must complete to get to it. I found out where the quest givers were to start the chain quests, went to them, and for some reason I can't get any quests from them. I can't even get the quest "Magister's Terrace" from the Exarch on the Isle of Quel'Danas. Can someone please tell me why this is?

Comment by 338920

With the addition to Recuperate and changes to FoK, it's now soloable on an 80 Assassination Rogue as well.

General - I was able to solo this in a mix of BG pvp gear and badge gear fairly easily. Deadly poison on throwing weapons, the standard IP/DP on main/off hand. Take all the standard poison dmg buffing talents, and pickup Improved Recuperate. If you have spare points, a point or two in Deadened Nerves doesn't hurt either. Always start from stealth to take advantage of extra energy regen. Try to end every fight with a CP on your last mob, so you can pop recuperate and top off while you loot - if done right, you should be chain pulling the entire time. If the last mob happens to die w/o any cp on him, while PETA may not approve, a quick CS -> mut on a nearby squirrel will give you an easy 4/5 cp recuperate.

Trash - if you see a priest, take him out first as they heal. Same goes for blood knights. If both are present, sap blood knight and take out priest first (who has more instant heals), then the blood knight (whom you can easily interrupt). Mage knights can be annoying too with the magic dampening bubble, so he's usually the priority after healers. If he does get a bubble up, kite away from it or your dps (and the recuperate) will suffer. Standard opening is 2x mut on primary target, 4/5 cp recuperate, then go to town with FoK. Once the DP goes up to 5 stacks, they drop fast. Keep an eye out for pats, as they can chain-aggro nearby groups as well.

First boss - clear the room first, and then it's straight up tank n' spank. Standard rotations of SnD, Rupture, and Envenom works just fine, with a recuperate once you start taking damage. No need to blow CD's.

Second boss - clear the room first. There are a lot of trash here, but it's all melee dmg (i.e. you want to be facing them), and they die fast. I recommend pre-loading recuperate on the mobs in the tunnel, stealth up, and just unload FoK as you backpeddal. It takes two pulls to clear the room. The boss itself is not too bad - like others have said, save the CD for the last 50%, where the adds start to hurt. After the fight, there's a squirrel on the balcony if you need to top off. :D

Third boss - the entourage looks intimidating, but it's not bad. Take out Apoko first if he's there since he heals, otherwise just take out the Priestess first. Standard 2x mut, recuperate, and FoK works. No need to blow CD's.

Last boss - clear the room, top off your health while he gives his speech. This is a difficult fight if you don't know it, but fairly simple once you know the strat. The tricky part is the second half where he throws you up in the air (you can still swim around like it's water, but don't land or you'll be thrown up again), and creates giant purple spheres that will kill you fast if you stand in them. The trick is to save your CD's for the second half - use the first half to get a full recuperate going, and sit on 5cp before he goes into the second half (sneak in a SnD or evenom in the first half if you have spare energy/cp). Once he goes into second half, pop the trinkets and CD, and land a fully buffed rupture on him before he kicks you up in the air. At this point, your priority is to swim away from the spheres while rupture ticks on him (while recuperate keeps you up), and then swim back once the spheres are kited away to deliver the finishing blow.

Final notes - It takes me less than 10 minute for a quick run, and just over twice that for a full clear. the rep/time ratio is actually about the same, so if you're grinding for rep but doesn't yet have phoenix pet (drops from last boss), you might as well do the quick runs until it drops, then back to the full clear. Since you have a 5 instance reset per hour limit, 4 quick runs + 1 full clear works out perfectly.

Comment by kingbillyman

Just got mine today on my rogue very happy :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHAqj78bMUo
think I got it on my sixth run

Comment by wowogamer

At level 84 (and maybe also at lower levels) you can easily run past every group of mobs without aggroing them, on normal as well as heroic mode. Makes it a few minutes faster to complete the dungeon if you are just doing it for the mount/orb and not for the reputation kills.

Comment by Themen

For all of you people who want to know how much reputation each heroic run gives you, there are a total of 163 mobs or encounters that give reputation
77 mobs for 15 rep each
14 mobs for 12 rep each
4 bosses/encounters for 250 rep each
65 mobs for 2 rep each
3 mobs for 30 rep each
If you total that up, it comes out to a grand total of 163 mobs/bosses who give reputation and
2537 reputation that can be gained. Please do note that this does not include Guild perks, the human racial, or any buffs that may increase reputation gain

Comment by 781332

It shows u can only get into the heroic mode by doing the quest from the dreani , but u can also get the Hard To Kill quest from the Blefs in shat

Comment by 213034

Piece of cake for any lvl85.
I soloed almost every day in hero for the mount. You only have to clear the packs in the boss rooms except the third.
Selin Fireheart: Burn him down, period
Vexallus: clear the wirms with any area you have, take advantage of the buff and burn him to the ground.
Priestess Delrissa: the only annoying is the rogue's gauge. They died in 1/2 shots and the caster ones will miss 90% of the shots.
Kael'thas Sunstrider. gues what? burn it. If your dps is low you will enter air phase. get down to finish him or put some kind of dots.

The only one who get me bellow 70% once was vexallus in some bad RNG.

Comment by Nobbel

Solo guide:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g1Fg-9GfBs

Comment by Wowfan12

i cleared this dungeon two times seem to be solo able by an 85lv player. still no pet, no mount and no orb...

Comment by 101003

I just wanted to post this, I was soloing this as a pally tank in cata on a mount farm, and remembering that this instance was one of my favorites. You could still wipe with good players, the trash required good coordination and cc, what an awesome instance. And the PVP section-epic!

I am gonna say that when it was released it was the best instance I have ever run in 5 man, perfect. Visually stunning as well. Good job with this one. The downside is that when I look at this place it makes WotLK look UGLY.

If you are going to solo for rep, let me also remind you that those guys who cast the anti magic shield, that affects holy power as well (WoG) so if you pull the whole courtyard you're gonna need to keep moving or you can actually die.

Comment by 345030

At 85 you can pretty much walk straight through the instance and skip everything if you're careful.

The only mobs you really need to kill are the ones around Selin Fireheart (who are linked to him and will aggro if you don't kill them before engaging him) and the final pack of mobs in front of Kael'thas himself. If you have good AOE you can just ignore them and go straight for the boss - as a protection paladin it was quicker for me to just burn them down while attacking the boss. Also, if you leave the mobs at Kael'thas alone, you can attack him immediately instead of waiting for his speech to finish.

You'll probably aggro the mana wyrms in the hallway after Selin, but they die in a couple of AOEs anyway. The floating mana wyrms in the room before Vexallus won't aggro if you just run straight past them and avoid the patrol at ground level. Other than that, mobs have tiny aggro ranges when you're 85 so you should easily be able to avoid all the trash.

Start to finish, it took me pretty much dead on ten minutes from entering the instance to zoning out at the end. Not bad for a big chunk of Shattered Sun rep, a bunch of vendor trash epics from the bosses, and a chance at a rare mount and a pet.

Comment by blall

If your rep grinding then ignoring everything would be kinda silly, but then again at 85 it is silly to skip anything in here!

Comment by Balthana

I haven't seen this mentioned yet - Kael'Thas' speech at the end appears to be triggered by killing the group of mobs right before him. If you skip killing them, you can skip his speech and get straight to the killing. Since the mobs don't despawn for the fight, you can whip around and take them out while he's giving his death speech.

Comment by outplayd

The way I went about this was just doing a full clear every day farming for the mount, pet, orb, and hatchling. With the 10% reputation perk I was receiving 2769 reputation per run on heroic. Keep in mind I was killing every monster in the instance. An entire run took me no longer than 10 minutes as a combat rogue.

Comment by Boogf

Takes me roughly 6 to 7 minutes to solo this dungeon on my 85 hunter. Looking at a 4% chance to get Swift White Hawkstrider, a MUCH higher drop rate compared to all other rare mount drops.

Comment by Quinnlie

I don't know is someone else has already said this, but most of the BC heroics can be entered as early 68. I did them on my rogue with some friends.

Comment by Zaviothan

1 Full NORMAL Clear (All Trash and All bosses) as a Human with Guild rep perk yields 2k rep each run. (about double on HC)

PS: U can do normal until exalted.

Comment by whitedragon254

As of Patch 4.3, All Outland dungeons and Northrend dungeons will recognize Home Faction tabards added in Cataclysm. (Such as the Gilneas Tabard.)

Outland dungeons will continue to give the rep they gave before 4.3 in addition to whatever faction tabard you're wearing.

(An alliance character wearing a Gilneas Tabard in Hellfire Ramparts will receive 15 Gilneas faction rep per kill, and still receive the normal 5 honor hold rep per kill as well.)

Comment by DArcMattr

I was surprised when I entered this dungeon with heroic mode set, but the bosses were dropping their blue gear.

It looks as if the Outland dungeon quest retooling/resets makes it so you have to redo the attunement chain (Duty Calls, Severed Communications, The Scryer's Scryer, and Hard to Kill) to be able to run this in heroic mode.

Comment by 933205

To people who are farming this on Heroic for a chance at both the mount and the pet:

Don't let any half-dead mobs run after you.
I flew through Vexallus's room and killed the wyrms with the boss, but I ignored the one elf that was still attacking me.
I make it just fine up to the Priestess, and halfway through the fight a GIANT mob of the trash I walked around runs up to me, just because I had something chasing after me. I made it out fine, but if it happens to you, results may vary.

Otherwise, my fastest Heroic run was about 4:36. I say about because this was the same run where I pulled a third of the instance by accident as described above. The day before, the run took 5:15. I'm an 85 retadin, keep in mind different classes may take longer/shorter amounts of time for solo runs.

Good luck! I'm still working on my mount too :)

Comment by 1094585

how many times a day can you run MT? since 2013.. thanks for any responses..

Comment by aferris86

I think this took me between 5-10 runs, didn't really keep track.

But I just received this yesterday, boy was I surprised! It also let me get my albino drake as well ;).

So I was pleased.

aferris86

Comment by 165543

Soloed on a level 70-71 (dinged in the instance)heirloom geared brewmaster monk. This was the first run of MGT I did on any toon, so learning the mechanics as I went I killed all but the second boss in 1 attempt, and died once to pulling too many mana wyrms on trash. I CC'd the healers with paralysis and LoS pulled every pack of trash. Only the first and second bosses were immune to dizzying haze.

The run took 30 minutes and got me from level 70 99% full xp bar to level 71 ~60% full xp bar and I did not get any loot that was good for my class, however I got plenty of greens and blues to sell. The fights were fun and interesting to learn as I went because I didn't bother to read the dungeon journal before attempting them so all mechanics came as a surprise. I noticed some mechanics from this dungeon that were reused in later expansions such as the phoenix from Kael'thas being reused in Lost City of Tol'vir minus the killable egg.

Comment by 77560

88 Mage
in and out in 5 minutes
dropped the Hatchling on 3rd run
15 Minutes total

:-)

Comment by 1106042

well all epic loot is available even on normal, the mount and pet are not unfortunately. there is a 15 hour cool down on heroic dungeons , becomes very frustrating. I am currently testing the claim that magister's terrace gives rep till exalted on normal.. sincerely doubt this though.

Comment by Helikopteret

Entrance at 61.17, 30, 83

Comment by 1128387

For players below 70 keep in mind you can't enter the portal in Shattrath.

Comment by 30049

Just a little info...

Normal

You can enter this dungeon on foot at lvl 65.

You can queue this dungeon as specific dungeon lvl 68-75.

In the specific dungeon finder, this dungeon is yellow difficulty lvl 68-70 and green difficulty lvl 71-75.

You can queue this dungeon as random dungeon lvl 68.

You have to be lvl 68 to obtain the quests.

Heroic

You can enter this dungeon on foot at lvl 70.

You can queue this dungeon as specific dungeon lvl 70-75.

In the specific dungeon finder, this dungeon is yellow difficulty lvl 70-72 and green difficulty lvl 73-75.

You can not queue this dungeon as random dungeon.

See more in this guide.

Comment by 508201

One of the only dungeons I can find that has no ranged weapon drops at all.

Comment by Mascara

Oh the farming! >^.^<

I've been doing runs through Magisters' Terrace since I hot 90 recently. I have enchanting and mining(soon to be Enchanting/Tailoring).

A run through takes about 6 minutes! And each run you can expect:

80-140 Netherweave ClothNeatherweave Cloth
4-7+ Large Prismatic Shards
4-5+ Void Crystals
Vendor Trash 25-40g(depending on armor repair)
Phoenix Hatchling which has a 8% drop rate off KT, sells for 200-300g(on my server)

You can try and sell the mats but I've just been making Enchant Weapon - Mongoose

Comment by Merkilan

I made a guide to help direct new players to the dungeons and clear up a little misinformation. The level to enter heroic BC dungeons on foot is the same as to enter them in normal mode.

TBC Dungeon Guide

Comment by zybero

Reputation gains from a full clear on an Orc in a level 25 guild as of 5.4:

Normal Magister's Terrace - 1834
Heroic Magister's Terrace - 2753

Comment by Nozickii

Was it known that you can skip Kael's long talk at the end by simply running at him with the last trash pack aggroed?

Comment by moosandra

While farming at higher level:
If you want to skip the 30+ sec spiel on Kael'thas; aggro, but don't kill, the group just before him and just attack him, he becomes attackable right away if you have trash mobs on you.

Comment by Rkane

I just want to say, this dungeon is an excellent way to level from 72 all the way up to 77~ if you're bored of other methods.

Gives 48.7K exp for a clear, and a clear takes 10-15 minutes depending on class.

Comment by WoWGnGP

Magisters' Terrace Entrance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iliyu9OWojg&feature=youtu.be

Comment by wintermadness1

I found a way to make 1 (that's right, ONE) guild standard apply to the entire dungeon, all trash and bosses included.

Place your standard on the bridge above the Observation Grounds (the first area where you encounter trash), on the left-hand side. Go as far left as you can, onto the bushes lining the edge, and place the standard in the right corner of the furthest segment of the bushes. Coordinates are 37.67, 55.11

From here, the standard covers all trash on the bridge and in the Observation Grounds below, as well as Princess Delrissa; it also reaches Selin Fireheart's room easily. You can then kite Vexallus and all the Mana Wyrms into Selin's room. Lastly, pull Kael'thas' trash just into the hallway to get them in range.
Once Kael'thas is attackable, pull him from max range with an instant and run through the doorway. With luck you should make it through before the magical gate is impassable, and Kael'thas' dying monologue will complete with his death, and the reputation rewarded, while you're standing in range of the standard.

Additional note: You may be able to get in range by standing in the very corner of Kael'thas' room, but I have not been able to as of yet.

This makes the most difficult part of this rep grind just getting it all done in 10 minutes before the standard expires, and not out-ranging it for too long or it'll despawn.

Comment by nirv

So some people have said you need to be 65 to enter this dungeon on normal. Not true. It's 68.

https://i.imgur.com/HAdOZDm.jpg

Pretty dumb.

Comment by badfreddyboy

Tomtom cords:
Start by using flight point from Ironforge (Alliance) or silvermoon (Horde) to Isle of Quel'Danas

/way 61.17, 30.83 Entrance

Comment by Clawmarks

Okay, so my character is 25 and Chromie Time is set for Outlands, but Magister's Terrace is still not showing on my list for queue-able dungeons. Does anyone else have insight on this?

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Magisters' Terrace

Magisters' TerraceSelin FireheartVexallusPriestess DelrissaKael'thas SunstriderMagisters' TerraceIsle of Quel'DanasTempest Keep: The EyeSwift White HawkstriderPhoenix HatchlingOrb of the Sin'dorei

If Chromie Time is enabled, Magister's Terrace's level range is 25-50, but can only be queued if you're using Chromie Time on the Burning Crusade expansion. Check more information on Chromie Time in our guide!

Chromie Time - How Shadowlands Leveling Works and Zone Expansion Level Ranges

Encounters

Selin Fireheart – Once a respected captain of Kael'Thas Sunstrider's personal guard, Selin Fireheart has maintained an unswervingly fierce loyalty to his lord while losing his sanity. Selin has been seduced by the demonic energies of the crystals which surround his chamber, and cannot stop from reveling in their vile power. He will slay any who dare approach the Magister's Terrace and will drink the magic, life, and blood from their dead bodies.
Vexallus – An arcane elemental of unimaginable power, Vexallus was summoned to the Magister's Terrace by a trio of blood elves who were slain by the force of his arrival. The magical energy in the surrounding crystals resonates within Vexallus, and his being is in a constant state of explosive chaotic flux.
Priestess Delrissa – Delrissa is a shivarra priestess acting under the demon lord Kil'jaeden. It is Delrissa who revived Kael'thas Sunstrider after he was heavily wounded in an attack on Tempest Keep, and she has stayed in the blood elf lord's presence ever since. The priestess has a militant circle of loyal acolytes who serve her and will defend her at all cost.
Kael'thas Sunstrider – Once a true champion to the blood elf people, and a defender of the race's ancient heritage, Kael'thas Sunstrider has fallen prey to the dark influences of the demon Kil'jaeden while sojourning in Outland. At the bidding of his new master, the wayward prince returned to Azeroth and seized the Sunwell, hoping to use the fount as a means to open a doorway for the demon to this new and verdant world. Kael'thas is a brilliant tactician, a powerful warrior, and his veins burn with limitless fel magic.

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