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Terokkar Forest Vessels of Power Olemba Seeds Stymying the Arakkoa Thin the Flock Unruly Neighbors The Firewing Liaison Thinning the Ranks Fel Orc Plans Timber Worg Tails The Elusive Ironjaw WANTED: Bonelashers Dead! Torgos! Speak with Private Weeks Who Are They? Kill the Shadow Council! Olemba Seed Oil And Now, the Moment of Truth Arakkoa War Path Stymying the Arakkoa An Unwelcome Presence The Firewing Liaison What Happens in Terokkar Stays in Terokkar An Unseen Hand Vestments of the Wolf Spirit Patriarch Ironjaw Welcoming the Wolf Spirit WANTED: Bonelashers Dead! Torgos! Speak with Scout Neftis Who Are They? Kill the Shadow Council! Strange Energy Clues in the Thicket It's Watching You! By Any Means Necessary Wind Trader Lathrai A Personal Favor Investigate Tuurem What Are These Things? What Are These Things? Report to the Allerian Post Report to Stonebreaker Camp Attack on Firewing Point Attack on Firewing Point The Final Code The Final Code Letting Earthbinder Tavgren Know Letting Earthbinder Tavgren Know Speak with Rilak the Redeemed The Eyes of Skettis Seek Out Kirrik Veil Skith: Darkstone of Terokk Veil Rhaze: Unliving Evil Veil Lithic: Preemptive Strike Veil Shalas: Signal Fires Return to Shattrath The Skettis Offensive Missing Friends The Tomb of Lights Vengeful Souls Recover the Bones Helping the Lost Find Their Way Before Darkness Falls The Infested Protectors Cabal Orders The Shadow Tomb Taken in the Night For the Fallen Terokkarantula Return to Sha'tari Base Camp The Dread Relic Evil Draws Near Digging Through Bones Fumping The Big Bone Worm An Improper Burial A Hero Is Needed The Fallen Exarch

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Comment by 13521

3 wave of birds, like 2k hp each.
Then a the boss bird, chillable and rootable so I was able to solo as frost mage. Melee crit me for 2k, plus some sort of ranged attack that tickles.

Comment by Humbaba

You must complete Veil Shalas: Signal Fires and a quick follow up trip to Shattrath in order to start this. It was easily done with an enhance shaman and a warrior as well as with an enhance shaman and a frost mage.

Comment by swotam

This is not an easy one to solo unless you have decent crowd control available. The regular spawns are easy, but take a little time to get down. The boss who spawns hits very hard, so if you are still clearing the regular spawns when he shows up you will have trouble unless you trap him or immobilize him. Best bet is to get someone to assist you as it only takes a couple of minutes to complete.

Comment by Cesar

Soloed with 64 mage, close one.

Comment by Mandalore

I just solo'ed this quest, but I had luck on my side. While fighting the last wave of spawns, the Avatar spawned and evade bugged. I was fighting him on the slope that leads towards the quest giver. After a few minutes, he will respawn by himself and you can kill him easily.

Very nice quest rewards. =D

Comment by Krakotoa

Note to Mages: You frost nova and Dragon's breath him. He's really easy, he hits hard, but with those two he shouldn't hit you more than once or twice.

Comment by 15564

Beware though, he seems to break CC quite easily. 2 times got out of my trap in some 2 seconds

Comment by TheUz

About the Encounter:
It is important to note that you have a limited area in which you are allowed to fight. If you walk too far from the quest giver you will fail the quest. This means limited kiting. I would say you should try to stay within a 20 yard radius of the quest giver. This is a multiple wave event and you will have 5-10 seconds of rest between each wave.

The Opponents:

There are 4 waves of enemies:

Wave 1:
2 Birds 1300-1700 health – Melee attacks for 350-700 on 0-1k armor
Wave 2:
2 Birds 1300-1700 health – Melee attacks for 350-700 on 0-1k armor
Wave 3:
3 Birds 1300-1700 health – Melee attacks for 350-700 on 0-1k armor
Wave 4:
1 Bird 10k-12k health – Melee attacks for 1200-2500 on 0-1k armor
This bird also has a pushback ability with about 2 seconds of cast time.
The pushback does no damage
Multiple pushbacks can lead you far enough from the quest giver to fail the quest

My Experience:
I soloed this quest as an elemental mage at 70. I would rate the encounter as moderately difficult because of the limited area in which to fight. Still, I would strongly suggest that this quest be done in a group.

I was able to use all of my crowd control abilities including Polymorph, Blast Wave, Frost Nova, Frost Bolt, and Cone of Cold. Having cold snap with three ice barriers made a huge difference as well. I fought him with 6800 health (add 3 ice barriers for nearly 10k). I did pop a potion mid battle but it turned out to be unnecessary, his attacks while very large were not fast enough to make his DPS as scary as his crits.

I would suggest that any mage who wants to fight him solo open on him with a polymorph to prep a larger damage spell as an opener.

Be prepared that all CC seems to break about 50% quicker on the big bird. Expect 6-9 seconds on Polymorph, and 5 seconds on Frost Nova.

Comment by Manas

good rewards..

Comment by CocoaSashimi

As a warlock, this can be soloed. I'm demonology-specced and level 67. The felguard was placed on aggressive. With the waves of birds, have the felguard attack one while DoTing and fearing another. Rinse and repeat for all the waves.

The last bird can also be feared; have the felguard attack, DoT him up, fear, and drain life.

Comment by 28140

soloed as a 66 frost mage

Comment by 31004

Soloed this as a level 64 affliction lock.

Just used my void, Corruption and Curse of Agony on each small bird, howled on the pack of 3, then fear kited the big bird around, pretty easy.

Comment by 31337_

Somehow i tought this quest spawned an elite mob at the end (maybe because it was blue item rewards or something)

But its just a regular monster, so its easily soloed by almost any class. I was warlock so i was kinda embrassed to have asked my guildie for help when it turned out it was just a regular monster at the end :)

Comment by 24732

Not possible solo as a enhancement shaman. :-(

But very easy in a team of just two.

Comment by 22932

I soloed him as a 70 mutilate rogue. The adds are all pretty easy and I just burned them down with sinister strike. I bandaged after the second group of adds because he comes right after the 3rd wave. When he appeared I just blinded him, finished off the last add, and went to work on him. He's not bad as long as you keep him stunned or use evasion to make sure he doesn't hit you. He was regularly critting me for 2k. I have good 70 gear and it took me 3 tries to get the strat down because he kept killing me with surprise crits. Don't let him hit you.

Comment by 30936

My bad, wrong post.

Comment by 31109

Just soloed this quest as a 66 Enchanement -duel wielding- shaman

Earth Elemental Totem makes this quest a breeze! Keep it healed and you're good to go.

Comment by 28771

soloable as a lvl 65 holy paladin...

Comment by 49348

I did this as a 70 prot warrior to gain some Lower City rep. It was very easy actually.

Comment by 50825

I was able to solo this as a 65 frost mage.

The birds on the first 3 waves hit pretty hard so kill them asap.

The final bird is the hard part. He was hitting me for over 1000 dmg. I sheeped him to start which gave my time to bandage. I then kited him arround while my frost elemental killed him, he dosnt have a whole lot of hp so it didnt take long.

Comment by Noise

Easy enough for a 66 feral druid withs a few buffs. During the 'boss' I popped out of bear once to heal.

Comment by 26336

The quest is fairly easy, but I failed it twice without understanding why at first. Evidently, you cannot fight too far from the quest giver, or you will fail the quest. Who knows why, but that seems to be the criteria. Anyway, the final bird is the only real challenge, and he hits for over 2k on cloth. He hits like an elite, but isn't labeled as one, interestingly.

Comment by Core

The consortium NPC nearby, Iz'zard, attacks the small birds if you're standing near him. He doesn't help you with the Avatar though, but you can use him to offtank one of the smaller birds.

Comment by 52473

Solo'd easily as a 67 feral druid. With the high crit rate in cat, and getting lucky on OCC procs, I could take down the waves really fast, which gave me 8-10 seconds to heal myself up for the big guy. With 14k armor in bear he barely touched me. I ended with about 7.8k HP (started with 10kish) in bear.

Comment by 54709

I completed this quest easily as a level 70 warrior. Using whirlwind, the first 3 waves were cake, and the last bird doesn't hit for much on plate. Just be ready to hit commanding shout if need be.

Comment by axellemaelstrom

this quest is very easy as it takes place in a town. so you can basically do a

/who Shattrath City

then spam whatever names that come up. get 2 helpers and you should be ready to go.

the level requirement is 62 instead of 63, but yes you need to finish Return to Shattrath quest chain(http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10889) first in order to be able to do this quest.

Comment by 53425

Solo'ed as a 68 BM Hunter.

Before the fight started, placed a Freezing Trap, and started the quest. Trap would immobilize one of the first flight of birds, cat and I would DPS the other very quickly, then switch.

Second flight, pure DPS, took a bit of abuse. Finished this just as the third flight was starting.

Third flight I set down another Freezing Trap, sent cat on two birds. Was difficult for him to gain aggro on all birds throughout the fight for some reason; I usually had one chasing me.

Boss bird hits hard as aforementioned, however my Freezing Trap recharged midfight, when cat got down to about 10%, I placed one (I also got the full 20s duration), and bandaged cat, then continued fight.

Note that using Feign Death resulted in the birds flying and waiting outside of the 'acceptible' radius for the quest, resulting in failure, so don't use it (I tried this three times, same result happened all three times).

Comment by 54681

Soloed with a lvl 64 protection Paladin, just AoE grind them :p

Comment by 43109

Soloed with a lvl64 demonlogy warlock, none of those birds can be feared, first 3 waves every bird hits 200-500+, last bird hits 800-1000, but fear and dots. Peace of cake.

Comment by Ziir

Soloed this as a 68 affliction warlock so I didn't have Felguard like the one above me. Took me a few tries but it was easy when I figured it out.

It hasn't been mentioned yet but the waves are timed. That means the next wave and the avatar WILL spawn whether or not you've cleared the previous wave.

Before the fight, have a healthstone and voidwalker. Yes, I know he sucks but you need him for the shield. Having netherweave bandages are very helpful as well.

On the first wave, send voidwalker to one of the birds and just dot it with corruption and then drain tank the other bird. They die fast so don't bother with UA, just corruption and CoA was enough. The drain tanked one will die fast and just as you are finishing off the other, the next wave should spawn.

Again, same tatics. On this wave, I couldn't kill off the second bird because I wasn't as fast about it as the first time, so when the third wave spawned I have three at full health and one nearly dead.

They hit kinda hard for having such low hp, so I instant HoT the four and the low health one died. Stick corruption on all three and then I feared one, voidwalker on another and drained the last. Voidwalker was nearly dead so I sac'd him.

Then the avatar spawned so I feared him. DC one bird, shadowburn the other and drained the last one down and healthstoned. Feared avatar again and hit it with corruption and bandaged myself to life tap cause I was low on mana. Then from there on it was just simple fear and dot.

It was challenging but it's also a great example of being able to use all of your skills to beat an encounter. As you can kinda tell, I panicked when I had the avatar spawn and three birds coming towards me so I did what I could to burn them down asap.

Comment by 64110

yeah, it's truely the most challenging normal quest in this zone. My prot pally got owned hard doing this, most likely i didn't spam consecration enough so i got overwhelmed by the little birds. The avatar critted me hard, harder than anything else so far including elites - around 1.2k. Anyways, it takes a lot to own me normally, kudos to birds ;).

Comment by fighterpilot2k1

The small birds are manageable but the last one (the big one) is a pain. Warriors can use spell reflection when ever he tries to use his spell. I got owned the first time but the 2nd time a 70 horde warlock helped me.

I just typed /followme to the horde and he followed and help me and im alliance.

Comment by 25975

I just did this solo with my 64 lock. It Was tough, and I was killed by the last wave of birds, but managed to kill them all. I used my soulstone, revived the felguard, and to my big surprise, the quest was not failed, but all the waves of birds were killed. Only the big guy was there. I had no aggro, so I waited until my HS/health pot timer was up and killed him got the quest.

Comment by 67187

hard soloable as lock 66lvl

Comment by 76735

Soloed by level 70 retribution paladin in greens.
I died a couple of times caused I used divine shield on the last boss and healed my self. Third time I used avenging wrath along with LoH when my hp was ~1k and done before avenging wrath even fade :D GL to all of you

Note: I don't know why but the consortium npc didn't helped me.

Comment by Delhomme

Was able to solo it as a frost Mage at 67, using Frost Nova with Cone of Cold on the first three waves, critting for about 1.1k, was able to finish them off pretty quickly. Sheeped the Avatar when it spawned, bandaged trinketed and summoned my Water elemental, and was able to DPS it down fairly quickly.

Comment by kt0rse

Level 64. BM Hunter soloed just now.
I searched all day for people for this quest but no luck so I wanted to try and solo it.
Killed the first two waves pretty easy, in the third wave
I freezed one bird and killed the other two then the avatar showed up,
fear avatar>kill the remaining bird>heal pet>send pet on avatar>intimidation+bw>feign death>heal pet>hypnotist's watch/bladefist's breadth/berserking/rapid fire.
Pet (winterspring owl) almost died in the end but pulled it off just in the right time.
Hope some hunter finds this useful if not being able to find a group.

Comment by 94134

Soloed as a lvl 65 Balance Druid.

- used my cc to the max: always one mob hibernating, another one rooted...
- used my treants on the nonelites who werent trapped and helped them
- when the elite arrived, i rooted him (better idea is to make him hibernate cause he got spells...) and cleaned the rest of the nonelite mobs.
- After that i healed, innervated and fought the rest of the battle with mana efficient spells and a rooted elite... guess who won :-)

CC is quite important in this quest... easier quest for hunters, warlocks, druids and mages...

Comment by 89805

Don't know when it got changed, but as of 25.11. 2007 the avatar of Terrok is not elite and this quest is easily soloable...

Comment by 105304

Since you dont leave Shattrath you shouldn't have any problem finding help.
A lvl 70 warlock came directly and helped me finish it quickly.
Did this as a lvl 63 feral druid.

Comment by 104192

just did the quest, 65 feral druid, dire bear form, swipe attack all the first waves, when the last one cames, use hibernate heal, dire bear and charge, etc, used hibernate twice

Comment by kjeksomanen

Solo'ed as a L64 Frost mage.

I just frost nova'ed the first waves and after that just frostbolting them down one by one. The wave with 3 birds I did almost the same, but used a cone of cold at the end.

As for the last mob; I simply popped water elemental, trinket and berserking (I play a troll) and nuked. When I got aggro, I used all my instant casts, then I ice blocked, got out of ice block quickly, frostbolt and then instant casts again. Blink, scorch, dead.

Kinda hard if you're not into kiting, but it only took me one try :)

Comment by kinje

Easy tip for beating the quest: The actual objective is to kill the Avatar of Terokk while the quest is active.

I tried it once on my 65 Afflic lock, failed, and died. The little birds despawned, while the avatar hung around. So, I ressed up, took my time eating, resummoning my pet, buffing, etc. Then I pulled, kept the mob feared, and dotted it almost to death. When it was at about 10%, I accepted the quest, which spawned two more birds, which I ignored. Very shortly thereafter, the Avatar died, I got credit for completing the quest even though waves 2 and 3 hadn't spawned yet. Feared, turned it in for my reward, and ran out of the zone 'til the birds leashed.

Comment by 117298

Well I was kinda lucky, even though I am a Frost mage i was in no way ready for this quest. I was not buffed or anything I made it to the third wave and then got dropped by the last one, But out of no where a Hunter from the Horde started helping me out. I died but he still killed so i got complete. I would have liked to thank him but i am Alliance. and he was horde. This happened on Manneroth

Comment by 115424

Soloed as a 66 BM hunter fairly easily. He hits pretty hard, but the pet takes most of the damage. Keep healing your pet and pound him.

Comment by infernalx

Soloed as a Lvl 67 shadow priest.. Did it by dotting each bird with SWP and VT and wand them to save mana, once the boss bird came out just dotted, trinketted and sent my shadowfiend. Just fear whenever the spell is up and take a time to heal, shield when mind flaying and you'll be fine.

Comment by 130377

soloed as 64 frost mage.. he hits hard, but kinda easy anyway :)

Comment by 131419

Soloed as 65 holy pally, as long as you have an aoe (like consecration) you can easily take out the waves with a few moments rest in between. The boss is the hard part, good to have a trump card like a stun or bubble.

Comment by Solution

I was able to solo this as a level 65 protection warrior. I just thunderclapped each wave as they appeared while spamming Devastate and Victory Rush when available. Due to my relatively low damage output I did have several waves pile up on me-- had to pop Retaliation, but it bailed me out pretty effectively.

The avatar mob was hitting me pretty hard, so I used an Intimidating Shout + Heavy Netherweave Bandage to recover some HP and finish him off.

Used lots of cooldowns, but it was a pretty painless experience overall.

Comment by Robotusch

Possible to solo as Enhancement Shaman at level 65, though I was cutting it very close. I was using mainly green/blue quest rewards.

Dropped Strength of Earth, Healing Stream and Grace of Air totem and kept up Water Shield.

The initial wave of birds were easy enough, a stormstrike + the odd windfury proc was usually enough to take out a bird, with earth shock added for extra damage where required. I was able to eat/drink between waves, though I didn't loose too much hp until after the third wave.

The avatar hits relatively hard, around 700 pr hit, but I was able to outheal the damage done. He did get me quite low towards the end, and then a healing pot came in handy. I finished the fight with just over 200 hp, surviving thanks to a luckily timed pushback giving me some range to throw in a quick heal, followed by a parry & dodge.

Want to play it safe? Bring a friend!

Comment by Skreeran

Gah, hardest non-elite level 65 I've fought yet. He really should be elite. He hits hard (even through plate) and has more hp than any non-elite 65 I've encountered thus far.

Comment by 145277

I was able to solo this as a lvl 65 feral druid. I stayed in bear form for the entire fight. Mauled/mangled down the waves of trash and ended up starting the fight w/ the avatar at about 70% hp. Finished the fight against it with ~1300 hp left. I had to use almost all my cooldowns, and war stomp really helps. I popped a super health pot at the end because i was down to a few hundred hp, but it wasn't needed. Still good to have though.

This fight is very solo-able for feral druid lvl ~65, decently geared.

forgot to mention, with demoralizing roar on the avatar at all times, it hit me for between 400-600 a pop.

Comment by 129446

Just did this solo as a level 65 sub rogue, no special gear except questrewards really.
The birds in the 3 wave's dies very fast but they do quite a bit of damage. Nuked down the 2 first waves, popped evasion on the 3rd wave with 3 birds. After they were down I was at 40% hp, so I blinded the "boss" and first aided (max rank), then shadowstep, popped AP trinket, hemospam until 5pt rupture and then a 5pt kidney. After kidney wore off, prep > new evasion and he died during that. Doubt I would be able to do it without the dual evasion cause he hit me for about 1300 a pop the few hits he actually got in + that knockback (undodgeable since its ranged) for 450dmg. Could also have used a pot if he got me lower, but wasn't needed for me at least.

You will also get 3-4 seconds of eating between the 3 first waves, wont be a lot, but everything helps. Good luck.

Comment by 42580

Just did this as a 66 Enhancement Shaman...

I laid down my Earth Elemental Totem on the 2nd wave so i knew it would last tild the big guy.

I also laid down a Magma Totem, Grace of Wind, and a Health Spring one. I have very crappy gear w/ like maybe 2 blue pieces, but was fairly easy when my elemental died I popped my AP trinket and Shaman Rage and commenced to beat that A**, and won.

Comment by 107873

Quite easy because it is in Shattrath; Lots of 70's is walking around, offer them a coin and they sure will help you out :)

Comment by veno3

65 Sub Rogue - Impossible to solo.

The waves hit for 300 each and do a debuff reducing all damage you deal by 50% so its impossible to get them down on time.

Even using evasion,healing potion,nightmare seed and dynamite every try for 9 tries i was still dead whenever terrok appeared(Saving prep,bandage and blind for the boss)

Save yourself the trouble and just ask in shatt /1

Comment by 153714

66 BM hunter solod, didnt realized i'd have attackers, but kept up just fine. the waves come fast so be ready. a random alliance lock (im horde) showed up and helped kill the last wave and "boss" for no real reason. good reward.

Comment by 163081

I just did this quest as a 70 shaman and received 19g 80s. I can't say I did it solo since a 65 rogue took a couple of stabs at the Avatar. :)

Comment by 131549

Tried to solo this as a L66 combat dagger rogue, was hacking on the 3rd wave when the boss showed up, game over.

Ran back, waited, asked a L70 riding by if she would help...and she did! Made short work of all birds, picked up Choker of Bloodied Feathers and a nice gold reward as well!

Comment by Prixis

Very easy with 70 affliction lock. Used voidwalker for agro for the little birds, soc on one coa on both= dead. Avatar, fear, dot up, drain life, dead in a few seconds, no damage taken ether.

Comment by 165027

just soloed as 65 Frost Mage. the big naughty birdy wiped me the first 2 times, then I devised a strategy that seemed to do the trick.

for the first 3 waves, frost nova them, and blizzard them. one channel of Blizzard will kill all 2/3 of them, and give you enough time to drink back to health. repeat until the large boss spawns.

as everyone else advised, poly the big one right away. you're now on full health and mana with all CDs up. pop Elemental, Icy Veins, Trinket and nuke nuke nuke. when he gets close blink and repeat, don't be tempted to iceblock even though he's one-shotting your shield, because your little wet pet will get clobbered losing you valuable damage whilst you're getting knockbacks.

a couple of shatter combos with fireblast and he's dead, I used Cold Snap so I could IV again, as the pushbacks really annoyed me. he died with me at 50% mana and health. easy!

Comment by 51322

Solo'd as 68 Hunter BM Spec - ended with dead pet and 500 life, but did it. Get help if possible.

Comment by 177587

Just solo'd it as a 65 Combat Swords Rogue after a few attempts, and it went down relatively smoothly. Single targetted the first two waves down as quickly as I possibly could whilst slightly backing away from the Quest Giver (not too far though), this bought me enough time to bandage to full before the 3rd wave of 3 birds, which was no problem with Evasion and Blade Flurry. After this wave was dead, I quickly Stealthed before entering combat and opened on the big birdy with Cheap Shot, Sinister Strike spam / 5pt Evis. Just be ready to health pot when you're ~2500 HP down, and possibly Blind and wait for Energy to fully replenish (probably won't have Bandage CD ready) if things aren't looking too good. I ended just 500 HP short of maximum Health.

Comment by 180477

Couldn't manage to solo as 62 aff lock, so i asked for someone to help in /1
Meanwhile 2 ally's (i'm horde) came by and started the quest with me giving them a hand. As i received a /thanks from one of them, i saw an opportunity and started the quest and got a good help from both of them ;)
Pretty odd, but also a way to do this quest..

Comment by 18431

easy solo for 68 prot pally.

Comment by 64110

Straight forward fight for a lock (I'm Demo). Set your FG on aggressive, use normal fear on a single bird & dot it. Your FG will be able to kill them on his own. Use Howl of Terror when / if you get all three on you, usually the last wave comes on you.

I'd suggest using Curse of Weakness on Avatar making it "easier" to tank for your FG and fearing / healing / draining when needed.

I was able to do this at 65, used healthstone & potion.

Comment by 152011

Soloed as level 62 Frost Mage. Hardly a challenge at all, contrary to the 70s suggesting there were problems. Have your Water Elemental "tank" and just take down the waves. When the Avatar comes, Polymorph it (be warned it won't last as long as normal,) and take your time to Evocate if required. Cold Snap, summon Water Elemental, throw Icy Veins and pop your trinket, then just DPS it down.

Easy peasy, not even 5 minutes.

Comment by 192756

For all the druids out there this is easy I'm 65 and just solo'ed this. Cat formed all the waves did them pretty fast got time to rejuv/lifebloom if needed ...When the Avatar Came out I Hibernated healed my self went Cat mangled Rake Luckily crit both got a nice High Rip on him ... didnt think it matterd tho and then Bearformed him to death pretty much had to bash heal at one point but still easy as a druid

Comment by 87150

Soloed this as a 65 feral druid. Killed the 3 waves in cat form and was no trouble at all. The avatar spawned as i was fighting the 3rd wave so you wount have time to heal up after the third wave. There is a 3-4 second window between the 2nd and 3rd wave so i suggest you cast regrowth and rejuvenation on yourself then.

The avatar can be stunned if needed to heal up,but all in all an easy fight.

Comment by 123301

People, I'm absolutely stunned!

So many people wrote that the waves are on timer and absolutely NOONE wrote exact timing!

Going to do this quest tomorrow. Then I will try to post exact data.

Comment by 227132

I died twice before I got the hang of it. Once you understand what to do it's quite easy to solo as BM hunter. Soloed it on level 64. What I did was put a frost trap in the beginning, and multishot. I killed the first waves of birds as quick as possible, as the "boss bird" came i used scare beast on him, bandaged up, used cooldowns(bestial wrath, rapid fire, trinket and so on), and just nuked. I also used intimidation, and mended the pet up a bit. It was low health by the end of the fight, but I beat it pretty comfortably - I didnt take any damage from boss bird.

Im sure there is a altenative strategy, but this one worked well for me.

Comment by 123301

Lvl 64 combat daggers rogue.
I have very decent gear for the level. 7k hp + best weps. The only possible way to solo is this:

1. SS spam on first 2 waves (2 birds + 2 birds)
2. then Evasion + Blade Flurry on 3rd wave (3 birds)
3. Health Pot + Vanish before last boss. Trust me - you need to keep him stunned. And use Rush + trinkets to kill him fast!

Several notes:
- be fast. Waves are coming in 10-15 secs time so you will not have time to eat
- have good gear. Either I am not lucky or this is a bug but these birds do LOADS of crushing blows. And this is not good.
- bring friend. This quest is a gift for two and a nightmare to solo.

Good luck -)

Comment by gothnate

Soloed as a 63 Death Knight Unholy spec. Between myself and my ghoul, it was fairly easy. Just kept all diseases up and used Death Strike when it came up. Used a potion once.

Comment by Tantou

Solo'd as a 66 Death Knight. Had trouble the first time..

Main trick is to hit 'em with something before they get you with the 50% damage debuff.

Comment by ereshkigaal

I tried asking ppl for 30 minutes but nobody wanted to help,
so I try to solo it today 64 Combat Sword Rogue with food and scroll stamina buff and wound poison.
my gear is decent, not too good, not too bad, although my stamina is only 6200k
It's pretty hard, I almost died on the 3rd wave so I popped the health potion,
and when the big bird is coming I blind it and put some bandages,
after that it's Adrenaline Rush , Evasion, Bladefist's Breadth, Blade Flurry.
Success with very minimal health left :)

Comment by 336650

Soloed as level 68 Holy/Disc (+Spirit Tap) priest. Didn't find it too hard. Minions can be killed fairly quickly with Smithe, Holy fire and Shadow Word: Death combinations.

Start pre-shielded, target a minion as soon as they appear and start with Holy fire - if you're lucky and it crits you can take it out in one shot, otherwise finish it with SW:D, then kill the other with Smithe (don't bother to DOT the minions, not worth it).

You should have killed wave 1 well before wave 2 arrives. Reshield and repeat same strategy for wave 2. Same thing for wave 3, but one additional minion to take down (if you want, you can DOT one with SW:P while you kill the two other for an easy final blow)

Now Avatar. As before, reshield after wave 3 and wait for him. DOT him (SW:P and Devouring Plague) and start away with Holy fire and Smite. Your shield won't last long, he hits quite hard. When shield collapses, and if you still have the WS debuff, cast a renew to mitigate melee damage (if you're herbalist, use your recovery skill for this too). Reshield as soon as possible and don't be afraid to pop a GHeal while shielded. Keep blasting him and keep the DOTs going and he'll go down. Priority here is *keeping your health UP*, with any mean available: spells, abilities, potions, anything. Mana shouldn't be a problem. If Avatar doesn't crit too much on you, you'll make it.

Comment by tommy5547

Piece of cake as a 68 Retardin anyway. Birds just had about 1300 HP tops. Took them up and even got time to drink between battles. Using Art of War-instant Flash of Light, the avatar was just as easy.

Comment by 380599

Solo'd as a 66 pally with no problem. Just save your mana untill the last mob because the first 3 sets are easy as cake. I had to use Lay of Hands because I didn't have any mana for Holy Light, lol.

Comment by 340373

Counts towards Terror of Terokkar.

Comment by 65960

A little point to note before accepting the quest from Grashna:

The first wave starts attacking as soon as you accept it!

Kinda embarrassed myself the first time I took it, as I wasn't really paying any attention at the moment, and the quest failed on the very first wave before I had a chance to get moving. The second time, bah, it was mighty easy, although the main mob did take longer than I thought it would. Just be sure you're ready to go before accepting it.

Comment by 283267

Soloed as a 69 hunter healed pet twice (68 bear). Hunters 66 and up should be able to solo this fairly easy

Comment by 352569

I just killed all of them alone with my balance druid. The boss was a little hard but i healed and used innervate then spammed wrath until it died.

Comment by themacone

Solo'd as a 66 ret pally. Popped a super healing potion during the fight when the boss came.

Used consecration, exorcism, crusader strike, diviine storm on the waves.
Used above and Hammer of Justice to get a bit of damage on the boss.

Be sure to pretty much hug the quest giver to eliminate the possibility of failure.

Gained 16.5k XP (feeling normal not rested) and 550 rep with lower city.

Comment by Darkuus

Soloed as a lvl 63 blood death knight. Just kill the birds until boss comes, then die. Go back the boss bird should still be there. Summond ghoul + rune weapon, attacked until 2000 hps, accepted quest finished him of and u complete the quest!

Comment by Afilo

As a shadow priest I had particular trouble with the fact that you get no health in return from your damage through Vampiric Emprace.
I had to use my shields of every cooldown to end up with 60% hp in the end.
I died in my first attempt while being overconfident that I would receive health and realizing my mistake too late :-)
66 shadow priest with heirlooms and dungeon gear.

Comment by 197854

This does count torward the quest Achievement Terror of Terokkar

Comment by agoldengrl

Not too terrible as 65 Boomkin Solo. When last bird came, just kept on Lifebloom. Had Natures Grasp activated, when that was done, only had to entangle root him once. Used Starfire and Starsurge when it was up. Good to go!

Comment by sniperdude

It took me 3 tries with my 63 paladin. I lag and get killed being in Iraq... But its not to hard if you use exorcism on them and judgement to keep mana up.

Comment by 391009

Just soloed this quest as a level 67 fire mage, no heirlooms.

To be fair, this quest DID took me unprepared. I had no idea that it would begin immediately, and the waves found me unbuffed (no molten armor/arcane brilliance) and even with some spells on cooldown.

The fact that mostly surprised me was that those early birds had really low health, but hitted quite hard. I opened with an overkilling and unnecessary castingtime-heavy spell, wasting time and taking quite a bit of damage.

However, after understanding what was going on, some AoEs (especially blast wave to slow the little groups of birds as soon as they approached, and Dragon's breath) on the next waves dispatched them quite easily.

After That, The Avatar of Terokk wasn't much of a problem, with Mirror's Images up along with Mana shield.

As long as you keep your defenses up, have a potion ready in case of emergency, and pop mirror's image against the Avatar, this quest should be fairly easy to solo as a mage.
Warlocks, Hunters, Pala and probably other classes shouldn't have problems either, but in any case I DO recommend bringing someone along. It is soloable, but it also does have some risks, and it probably isn't worth dying for a quest so short and quick to do.

Comment by 811177

Tried to pick this up on hitting 62 for the nice neck but needed to complete Return to Shattrath 1st.
Easy on L62 Combat Rogue, just cleaved waves picking up some S&D/Recoup & 5pt Evised avatar.
Generous timing allows one to restealth each wave.
Maybe has been nerfed in 5.0.4.

Comment by 572487

Just solo'd this as a lvl 65 ret pally and it was laughably easy. I can't imagine this being a challenge for any class that is lvl 65, but should be especially easy for mail and plate wearers.

Comment by 1440987

The Skettis Offensive http://youtu.be/GOyCKXU9T1s

Comment by Syanah

Surprisingly simple to solo as a level 63 brewmaster monk, with no heirlooms. For the first few waves, I just used keg smash and it wiped them out completely. Used Touch of Death on the boss, and finished it pretty quickly.

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Comment by Boxofbeer

The Skettis Offensive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjrz7OQhvxI

Comment by Aurleis1

Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faadKe1M9B0

1. The Skettis Offensive
• Accept the quest, The Skettis Offensive, from Defender Grashna at coords 52.0, 20.6 (Northern Shattrath City).
• Kill the waves of the Minion of Terokk.
• After several waves, the Avatar of Terokk will appear, kill it.
• Turn in the quest to Rilak the Redeemed.

This quest is part of the achievement, Terror of Terokkar.

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aWGcnNJBsU&feature=youtu.be

Comment by archdruidbook

Y'know it's pretty weird that Terokk's minions can apparently just fly into Shattrath and attack some random arakkoa with no response from the city's defenders. You'd think A'dal would smite them instantly or something.

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The Skettis Offensive

Hold off the attackers and speak with Rilak the Redeemed.

	Attack thwarted (1)

Description

Skettis has waged war on us! Have you gathered enough strength to help with Shattrath's defense?

Hold off the attackers!

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Necklace of Bloodied Feathers			Choker of Bloodied Feathers

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

500 reputation with Lower City

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10879))