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Comment by 612033

I have an inkling that this is an achievement along the lines of I've Had Worse. For those who don't remember/weren't around, when it first appeared on the PTR it required you to:

Defeat the Black Knight in 10 minutes while wearing all blue items, before 3 Volcanos erupt, while everyone in the group has at least 1 stack of Spurting Blood and there are no shamans or paladins in the party but before you spend at least 1000 gold in repairs wiping to the Black Knight.

When it went live, it had the requirements that it does now. The current description of this achievement indicates that it'll probably undergo a similar change.

(Note: In case this is the case, and it's different on live, as of the 4.3 PTR on 10/13/2011 it requires the group to kill 8,675,309 Twilight Sparks and then defeat Archbishop Benedictus.)

Comment by Yuke

Going by the Original probably placeholder criteria,
All 5 members of the party need to kill 1,753,061 sparks + 4 more
OR if your healer is a pansy and doesn't like killing things (less healz more pewpew, I always say!)
the tank and the DPS would need to kill 2,191,327 sparks + an additional spark

however, if this does make it live, ~~Ibetitwont~~ I forsee the Tank and Healer keeping the Bishop busy while the DPS run around spamming AoE like the good ol' WotLK days

Edit: It now calls for only 10 dead sparks, meaning it requires only 0.0001153% effort of the original.
imo, still too high, needs a better nerfing

Comment by ItZMuRdA

Very easy achievement, perhaps the easiest of the new 5, imo.

Once Benedictus enters his Twilight phase, about halfway through the fight, Twilight Sparks will spawn around the room, some can be melee'd from the inner platform, others you have to use ranged abilities or walk down to hit, just make sure not to stand in the bad stuff on the ground for too long at once, as the damage from it stacks up.

We got it on our first try without much extra effort, just requires a little bit of running around before you kill him off.

GL!

Comment by 837109

A hunter in the party can do this in about 10 seconds; I do it just as a habit now for every group I'm in. Just nuke them with an arcane shot or something, the crit most geared hunters have is a 1 shot on these.

Comment by 137994

Sparks appear around the lower level surrounding the platform about a third of the way in to the fight. Easy for ranged to kill them. The lower level will also be covered in purple smoke that can easily kill a player. Other than that it's a piece of cake to get.

Comment by 1085019

it's a realy easy achievement just w8 untill the boss get's in shadow form then it will spawn orbs around the boss area just kill 10 and nuke boss :

Comment by spectre289

Seems that you don't need to kill the boss, I killed 10 sparks before dying yet still got the achieve.

Comment by Jaydeetoo

In soloing this boss, you can kill the 10 Twilight Sparks, wipe, res, then kill boss AND then get the chieve.

Good thing too, because after wiping, the Twilight Sparks already slain do not respawn.

Comment by Dust

Don't let everyone's comments about how easy this is make you overconfident. Even as a level 100, you'll take a serious amount of damage that can be potentially fatal if you aren't keeping an eye on your health and using whatever dmg mitigation and self heals that you have.

Whack Benedictus down to 50% or so in health to make him cast this irritating shadow spell that turns everything purple.
At this point, you must run OFF the center platform and run all around it targeting the various sparks that spawn.
Kill ten of the sparks.
You may now safely down Benedictus for the achievement.

Comment by Elzaro

Easy achievement, but a possible bug currently in 6.2. I had to reset the boss twice before the Sparks actually spawned when he transitioned to phase 2.

Comment by Tynael

As of 6.2, I had to reset the boss in order to get the phase to activate, it could be a bug.

Comment by Zintarian

If anyone is trying to do this achieve in Legion still here are a few things to keep in mind from my own experience.
1. You have to get the boss to second phase. So you can't 1 shot him
2. You cannot use the soft foam sword toy here.
3. You have to kill 10 adds in phase 2 and then kill the boss to get achieve.

I did the following as a BM hunter:
Stripped naked, equipped weapon and one piece of clothing because I found I needed the stamina. The second phase has a constant damaging effect. If you are naked, you are going to get hit really hard. So, I found that I need a little more stamina and with my Exhilaration heal, healing potion, and pet's spirit mend ability I was able to survive the second phase. With more or less healing your mileage will vary. Remember though that the more gear you have the harder you'll hit and the more chance you have of killing the boss in the first hit. So, start small.

good luck!

Comment by salic

I'll give my advice for any casters trying this, made it remarkably easy for me (Destro Warlock myself):

1. Equip a fishing pole prior to the fight, used that to melee boss down to 50% (you'll be surprised how slow you dps with a fishing pole on)
2. Once he goes into shadow mode, just run to the edge of the center platform and kill 10 sparks around the room, don't go into shadow area if you can help it.
3. After you have 10 dead, just turn and burn.

Hope that helps, enjoy your 10 points!

Comment by eagleeye1975

Evidently Blizzard has put in something that prevents one-shotting multiphase bosses so you can hit each individual phase.
I hit the boss once and it put him exactly at 49% so i could get into Phase 2. I did this with my pet (MM hunter, turtle pet)... I had my pet on passive... growl off... Tapped growl on so my pet would taunt and attack once, and instantly put the pet back to passive.

Instantly at 49%... able to kill the sparks... done.

Comment by xezzu

This probably isn't the most efficient method, but since the last useful comment was from patch 7.3.2 I thought I would throw in my advice.

Even with no gear on, I one-shot the boss and, unfortunately, Soft Foam Sword doesn't work in the instance. What I suggest is for you to go in, start the fight, then afk for a bit. Thrall does a small amount of damage to Benedictus without taking any himself. Just wait for Thrall to push the boss to phase 2, kill the sparks, then finish the fight with one hit to the boss.

Like I said, this likely isn't the most efficient way to get the achievement, but at least you don't have to wait til the next TW Cata event to give it a try.

Comment by mrpoolman

Easily done using the Whole-Body Shrinka' toy.

Comment by kj6230

very straight forward at 120 DH.

Stripped all my clothes off. punched the boss, took a few hits to get him to about 50%.

He will cast a spell which will turn the area purple. you will see the enemies around the room you need to kill, equip a weapon and get your 10 and then kill the boss.

Comment by Andrissus

Level 50 DH (pre-patch). Unequip all gear, no buffs. 3 hits to Benedictus to 49%.

Purple spawned on outside of the center ring. Equip MH weapon, ran around the room and killed the 10 purple orbs.

Kill Benedictus. Profit.

Comment by Arksa

Okay, it's still possible in 9.1 on lvl60

Done like most of the other commenter before me:

Comment by plethorex

Extremely simple with the right tools:

1. Leave all your gear on, no res sickness, no pre-planning needed
2. Use Whole-Body Shrinka', causing your damage output to be ridiculously small
3. DPS the boss until he is below 50% health, it took me around 12 hits
4. The adds will spawn on the outside ring of the platform, I ran around and killed every single one after removing the Shrink buff from the toy
5. Kill boss

Done.

Comment by bloodshy

This can still be done with absolutely zero prep, wearing full gear, no rez sickness, and without owning a Whole-Body Shrinka'. (Although, make sure you aren't wearing any gear that procs or reflects damage.) I didn't know what I was in for, so I just watched at first and noticed Thrall was whittling down the HP on Benedictus. Thanks, Thrall!

Next step, waste some time: I looked up how to get the achievement on Wowhead, found some quick options, but I was committed to taking the easy way out. I got some food and watched an episode of something or other.

Eventually Thrall stops helping because he's in agony or something. That's fine, because the Sparks have appeared! There's purple stuff all around and the Twilight Sparks are on the outer ring of the room. Kill ten (or more to be safe) then kill Benedictus.

I don't recommend doing it this way unless you're dead set on being lazy.

Comment by Dinkie86

Just did this achievement at lvl 70. I just let thrall slowly get him down to 60% health, as i took the beating from him. killed the 10 sparks, then shot him. its a slow process, but works.

Comment by jlandeen

@ lvl 70 the only way to do this is the World Shrinka toy w/ no armor and weapon on. Beat up boss till he goes to phase 2. Take off toy effect by right clicking the icon and run around killing 10 of the sprites.

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