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Comment by Jagger1

It used to be common to see people LFG for this... it'd get raided at least once a week, now it's slightly less common... and there's currently a bug that won't let me search for it with the new tool even though I have the quest.

Comment by 49346

Hes At cordes 27.0 74.0 and you well need a big group for him at least 2 groups for 5 68 or higher to beat him..

Comment by 50808

We did it last night, It was really hard but fun, its a good thing the grave yard is close. We had 9 ppl and 5 of them were 70's. We will be trying to get a raid together to do it again today!!

Comment by 49508

This quest pissd me off alot and the killing the Banshee Champion is a pain in the ass if u dont have a healer, healthstone, potion, and a tank. so dont be freaked tat u die once fighting him. my group died like 3-5 times fighting him and it pay's to get the item and either use them or sell them for some good cash

Comment by 100498

Since the latest patch, this quest now rewards 14,300 experience and 500 rep with Stormwind

Comment by 64664

Is it still a Raid quest now, or can it be done solo?
I have this quest in my log for ages now, never found anyone to raid it up with.
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Ok, just tried this as a lvl 67 protection warrior. Easily got myself killed very fast.
He still spawns the legion of skeletons that will simply overwhelm you.

Pretty weird that you can actually solo a raid quest where the target is marked as a Skull, but can not solo a raid quest where the target is simply level 62.
Fair to say that you still need a big party to get this quest done. Worth the trouble? If you have TBC, nope, not at all. :}

Comment by 92167

In December 2006 one poster noted that it is "slightly less common" to find a raid for this than it used to be. Well, one year into TBC, I can tell you, forget about it. Unless you have a guild at your beck and call, it isn't happening. You can spam "LFG Nathanos Blightcaller" all day long. All you will hear is crickets.

It's really too bad that by "adding content" via an expansion, Blizzard ends up de facto "removing content" because no one bothers with the old difficult quests anymore, unless they can be soloed.

Comment by pangeltveit

i did it today as a lvl 56 pala. 1st i got help by a lvl 61 and 60 charracters. then on of them invited 1 70 character. then we didnt do it. then another 70 came and we still didnt make it... then 3 more 70 came and we barely made it... so u need many people to do that one... aftervards we went to sthratholme and did it in record time and i got plenty with great stuff! so i was very lucky tonight

Comment by pangeltveit

and if u are his target, he can blast you with 1,5k every 1 minutes

Comment by 64664

Tried this some time ago in patch 2.3 with my level 68 protection warrior. Could run away just in time before i got killed by him and his spawns.
So yea, it is still a Raid quest. Sweet rewards as shown in the quest log, though ofcourse useless after the first few quests in the Outlands.

Comment by 108320

NOTE: 1 hunter MM i belive 70 1 paladin holy/prot and 1 hunter 57 MM took him out ... paladin tanked the skelly's and dog's while both hunter's layed on the dps = 1 dead old world raid boss trio'ed! also note both 70's are kara geared and the 57 is semi twinkey

Comment by dewmguy

we just downed him today. It took about 25 minutes to collect enough help.
70 Fire mage, 70 warrior, 70 holy paladin, 70 enhancement shaman. wiped once.

These hard quests are some of the heart of the storyline. Its sad to see people ignoring it just to slave their lives away doing dailies to fly at taxi speed. Pathetic IMO.

Comment by 138638

what!! quote"it's sad to see people ignoring it just to slave their lives away doing dailies to fly at taxi speed" unquote that is where you are wrong that gryphon/wyrim are important to warcraft history and there are bigger impacts on warcraft hitory now look at kael'thas illidan etc

Comment by 139584

had 5 70s with me. and a 68. did this while i was 58. easy as cake. :]

Comment by Ulukai

First off coords are 26'74 in the Eastern Plague Lands, for those without coords its directly north of the Undercroft and south west of the Fungal Vale.

Reward was 14300xp and 1k Argent Dawn Rep which makes it worthwhile, the only problem is getting a group, if your in a good friendly helpful guild you should manage.

Secondly i can't stress this enough, healing makes absolutely no difference on him summoning skeletons, i don't know we're this rumor started or it could be that it was a factor in the first few months of wow being released.
If you don't believe me ride by and aggro him then look round and you'll see him spawn skeles, he spawns them every 8 seconds or so.

And if your interested in how we did this, was me healing 62 shammy (ele spec), 70 palla tank, 1 mage 1 rogue and a boomkin all 70 and a 60 boomkin, 70s we're mostly in blue with the odd pvp epic.
Nathanos went down in around a minute, followed by his dogs, mage decided to tank one of the blighthounds -.- but even then i only had to throw the odd healing wave on him, the pally who was mostly in blues didn't even need healing, the battle took about 2min.

We had no interference from the horde, it was around 9pm but we don't have a massive horde pop on turalyon, and i would think a decent player could solo him at 70 with some work.

For a level 55/60 Group i'd advise 10 to 15 people.

Comment by 18504

Doable in 2 ppl, for example war+priest lv 70.

Comment by 166994

did this with 7 people, 3 lvl 70's, and im a 57 rogue :P whiped about 8 times but did it in the end :)

Comment by 36048

Slain with a holy paladin and a BM hunter. Just DPS him and kill the skeletons after his death. Note that dogs are immuned to all CC (traps/fear...).

Good luck !

Comment by 66948

Soloed as a Lv70 protection paladin in a mix of blues and epics. Resisted the plague auro from the hounds most of the time and the adds hit for nothing. When I got low I used figurine of the colossus to heal to full.

Comment by 130374

Is there a horde counterpart for this Quest chain?

Comment by Valdan

Much to my disappointment after completing the quest a poster said 1,000 argent dawn reputation I jumped all over it. So we knocked it out and turning it in at Stormwind resulted in these results: 5700 Experience and 137 Rep. with Exodar. Now I'm a 68 Holy priest and to not get the rep after all I went through with the killing of this mob and to get what little reward, I must say I am very disappointed. I will open a ticket to see if something went wrong. What happened to this quest? Did they downgrade it?

Comment by 180940

thats right 2 manned it, a 70 pally tank and me a 57 holy priest , i died twice cause of those damn skeletons but we killed him the first time , 2MANNED IT. strategy , kill the dogs first so the skeletons will be gone so u can focus on him

Comment by 202002

So whoever said if you kill the dogs first the skeletons will be gone was very wrong lol they kept coming even after the dogs were killed.

We started out with a 70 shadow priest (who attemped healing it), 57 feral druid, and a 70 fury warrior. We wiped first try, then the second try we decided to do the dogs first. Got one dog down, wiped. We went back, got the second dog down, and then wiped again so we only had Nathanos Blightcaller left. We got another 70 fury warrior to join us who helped out the group to get him down. It was really easy after that since neither of the dogs had respawned yet, just had him and the skeletons to deal with. I am sure if the other warrior had joined sooner, we would have been able to take him down with the dogs, as well. Good luck.

Comment by MrMathers

Solo'd as a lvl 70 BT/Sunwell geared prot pally. This is not easy. Single pulled and killed each of the dogs. Reset Nathanos. With Ret Aura, Blessing of Sanctuary, Sporeggar Shield(w/ Thorium Spike) and Darkmoon Card: Vengeance I spammed rank 1 Holy Shield til the about 12 adds had accumulated. I threw in a couple max rank holy shields and most of the adds just killed themselves. On the pull I judged wisdom then just stacked Vengeance and judged on cooldown. Popped my Figurine of the Colossus twice. Only real problem is the Physic Scream. Sent me running in fear directly away from him and with my back turned I took a lot of damage. Got him to 19% when I bubbled and bandaged/1 Holy Light. I didn't see it in the previous posts ( aside from the mage being able to use fire aoe's) but the adds are immune to Consecrate. Pretty retarded that any undead mob is immune to holy but those are the breaks. His shout makes it really annoying to stay on top of him, but just keep chasing him.

Comment by 222627

Just finished this one last night. We had a 6-toon raid group. 3 70's - all casters, the rest were 60 +'s. We attacked everything at once. 3 of us died, but we killed everything within less than a minute. We didn't expect to get him down the first try. Nice surprise for us all. This was a fun raid - my first raid group.

Comment by sdkphoenix

King Varian Wrynn now gives this quest.

Comment by Ujajimuna

As of patch 3.0.2, questgiver is King Varian of Stormwind.

Comment by 30597

10-28-08

I was going back and doing all quests I missed for the Loremaster achievement and this was one of them. I tried to solo him just for kicks (70 Warrior) even though I had a feeling it was suicide. Sure enough, I could only get him to about 60-70% before biting the dust.

Asked guild to see if 3-4 more people were able to come and help. A ret pally came over before anyone else could. I was sitting down to get food buff when he stormed in. I just sat there lol'ing at him.

Pally solo-ed Blightcaller, and dogs, with 40% health remaining. GG ret.

Comment by 54791

Solo'd as a 70 shadow priest, kite kite kite.

Comment by 250355

I love that this quest is one of the first quests you get as a newly accepted into the Alliance Death Knight, and not one of the rewards is usable by a DK.

GG Blizzard

Comment by 240252

This quest is "yellow" for me at lvl 59. Everything I'm reading says that if you're buffed, know what you're doing and luck is on your side, you *might* be able to solo it at 70. I'm also reading that often it takes, at minimum, three 68-70 people to do it safely (and relatively quickly). So why is this quest available at such a low level? Yes, I know the point is to get a raid group together. But like other people have stated, tried it recently? So, sadly, I've had to abandon this quest in search of slightly easier targets. An NPC that isn't even (likely) soloable at level 70 is probably not the best quest target for someone who is under level 60. Just sayin'.

Comment by 277966

Soloed as level 80 warlock destruction fire spec, mostly northrend blues. first I killed 2 dogs and killed myself. then came again and killed Nathanos at the first attempt. i used felhuner for the bonus damage buff, and 1 healthstone. I ignored the skeletons and when Nathanos died they killed me (but quest completed).
looks like currently any 1-2 level 80 can complete it with no truble.

Comment by 129446

Very easily soloed by a 80 BM Hunter (cat pet). He died so fast that he only got to summon 3 or 4 skeletons. Nuked him down then took care of dogs after.

Comment by 299718

Level 80 hunter MM spec'd here, just soloed 2 min ago. All I did was hunters mark and dps him. Did not pay attention to the hounds at all and just let them attack me while I cast steady shot and arcane shot at nathanos. At about 8k health I cast shadow meld and hounds and skelitons went after my pet. I cast one heal on my pet and used my trinket which gave me a 1400hp instant heal. I then continued to steady shot, aimed shot then arcane shot and threw down one volly attack and I killed him. At that point my pet got killed and hounds and skelitons are on there way back to you and the fun part begins. Stand there and take it till you are dead, realease, head back to your body, rez, quest complete.

Hope that helps the hunter class a bit. good luck

Comment by 78426

According to the PTR patch notes, the skeletons that are summoned will not be immune to AoE in 3.0.8:

Conquered Soul of the Blightcallers are no longer AE immune.

Comment by 64664

As a level 70 Protection Warrior pre-heroics geared I couldn't kill it. Simply got my face hitting the floor pretty fast.

Now as a leel 80 Protection Warrior pre-heroics with about 23k HP it was a joke. He barely took 10% from my life away.
The thing that hits the most is actually the part where he will fear you for a couple of seconds and you'll be standing with your back against the mobs. But even then they didn't do much damage.
Really easy.

Probably even more faster and easier for a Protection Paladin because of the many mobs hitting you, the chance of proccing Recknoning is enormous.

Also keep in mind that attacking him will put you in PvP mode. So make sure there aren't any hordies nearby.

Some funny thing I noticed about the dogs is that they have buff that tells it does xx damage to allies. So it should damage the other dog, because they are allies. But it doesn't. So the tooltip seems to be incorrect.

Comment by dsrbo

We have done this quest today (patch 3.0.3 - one day before 3.0.8 was released in EU) with a group of five characters:

level 70 protection paladin
level 70 holy priest
level 70 frost mage
level 70 frost mage
level 70 elemental shaman

Here are a few hints for those who still want to do this quest:

Pull the dogs: you can pull the dogs without pulling Nathanos Blightcaller. The dogs are easy to kill, and quickly downed.
Pull Nathanos: it does not matter where you pull him. The number of summoned skeletons will not differ. Whatever you do, pull out any damage you can to kill him. The longer he is alive, the more skeletons will appear and those do not despawn if Nathanaos dies.
The skeletons summoned: those only have ~ 900 HP, and do not hit hard. But if there are 40 around, you will very unlikely survive. You can not kill them with any AOE spell, and it seems Holy Shield does not affect them either. Every skeleton has to be killed one by one.

Order Must Be Restored

This quest is no longer available within the game.

Assemble an army and travel to the Eastern Plaguelands. Launch a full assault on Nathanos Blightcaller and any Horde filth that may attempt to protect him.

Keep your wits about you, <name>. The Horde will defend the ranger lord with their very lives.

	Nathanos Blightcaller slain (1)

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Do you know how many ranger lords exist in this world? How many human ranger lords have ever existed?

Nathanos' accomplishments were unprecedented. He was a tactical genius, responsible for Alliance victories spanning a decade of conflict.

And now... the champion of the Forsaken.

No. This cannot be. Order must be restored.

Gather an army, <name>. Return to the Plagues with your army and destroy the Blightcaller.

I wish you luck, <name>. Truly, you will need it for this battle.

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You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Gorewood Bow		Stormrager
	Sacred Protector

You will also receive:

	Gorewood Bow		Stormrager
	Sacred Protector

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

500 reputation with Stormwind

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(6187))

Order Must Be Restored

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