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1.	The Gods Have Spoken
2.	Convocation at Zol'Heb

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Zul'Drak This Just In: Fire Still Hot! Trolls Is Gone Crazy! In Search Of Answers Orders From Drakuru The Ebon Watch Crusader Forward Camp That's What Friends Are For... Making Something Out Of Nothing Light Won't Grant Me Vengeance A Great Storm Approaches Gymer's Salvation Kickin' Nass and Takin' Manes An Invitation, of Sorts... Darkness Calling Near Miss Close Call You Can Run, But You Can't Hide Silver Lining Dressing Down Suit Up! Our Only Hope The Storm King's Vengeance Infiltrating Voltarus Dark Horizon Reunited So Far, So Bad Hazardous Materials Sabotage Betrayal Parachutes for the Argent Crusade Pa'Troll Creature Comforts Something for the Pain Throwing Down Leave No One Behind Cocooned! Death to the Necromagi Skimmer Spinnerets Malas the Corrupter Crashed Sprayer A Tangled Skein Pure Evil Lab Work New Orders for Sergeant Stackhammer Trouble at the Altar of Sseratus Argent Crusade, We Are Leaving! Mopping Up Strange Mojo Precious Elemental Fluids Mushroom Mixer Too Much of a Good Thing To the Witch Doctor Breaking Through Jin'Alai To Speak With Har'koa But First My Offspring Spirit of Rhunok My Prophet, My Enemy An End to the Suffering The Amphitheater of Anguish: Yggdras! The Amphitheater of Anguish: Yggdras! The Amphitheater of Anguish: Magnataur! The Amphitheater of Anguish: From Beyond! The Amphitheater of Anguish: Tuskarrmageddon! The Amphitheater of Anguish: Korrak the Bloodrager! The Champion of Anguish Back to Har'koa I Sense a Disturbance Preparations for the Underworld Seek the Wind Serpent Goddess Setting the Stage Foundation for Revenge Hell Hath a Fury One Last Thing Blood of a Dead God You Reap What You Sow The Key of Warlord Zol'Maz Rampage The Gods Have Spoken Convocation at Zol'Heb

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Comment by g0urra

Previous quest is Rampage.

Comment by 182830

drop rate appears not to be 100%. They have 33k HP, hit for 1200 on plate. Stone-guys Immune to diseases, both not immune to snare.
Soloable as DK in decent gear\build.

Comment by 194659

Solo'd as a 78 Unholy DK, but it took about 15 Guardians to get the Unblemished Heart and they are very difficult to solo in this build. I was able to kill them each time, but I usually ended up in ghoul form before they went down. The Wardens are MUCH easier since they can be diseased. Only took 2 Wardens to get the Essence.

Comment by 189226

Very easy to solo as a feral druid in tanking gear, each mob barely took me down to 80%, despite them having 33k hp.

Comment by 178064

Easily soloed 7 Altar Wardens with my DK, but the other elites were immune to disease!

I barely scraped by killing 5 Guardians, rotating Gargoyle with blowing my ghoul up on seperate pulls.

Comment by 184853

Solo'd as a 78 Hunter, just put mend pet and misdirection on my pet and blasted away. Had to feign death once during each fight, otherwise no issue.

Comment by mrgamer

This quest can be soloed also as decent gear prot warriors, all the 2 kind of mobs can be stunned and deal full melee damage, dunno if they can be snared, but i suppose so (so gogo frostmages!)

The Altar Warden does full melee damage and a knockback, shield slam his haste effect and they're dead in a second

The Guardian of Zim'Rhuk does also full melee damage but they HEX (dealing 2500 MELEE damage on ability) you sometimes, this is not a spell, but a melee attack that can be missed/dodge/parried, so don't even bother spellreflecting... you can't avoid damage when hexed, so those mobs will be tougher than the Wardens

said that, i could kill 2x Guardians before eating, had not to eat at all with the Wardens, after 3 kills got the questitem

Good Luck!

Comment by Teazer

This quest is not soloable as a shadow priest. They are immune to both fear and psychic scream and their damage output is great.

Comment by 246209

Both quest mobs are snareable.
Easily soloed by a frost mage. The Altar Wardens are buffed with Whirling Winds, quite a fun buff to Spellsteal which makes it even easier.

Comment by Tidus

solo'd as affliction warlock with 1700+ dmg, warden is really easy but the guardians require you to have some luck as they hex you and are immune to siphon/drain ...

Comment by 247533

76 Frost Mage - Very Easy to Solo! Should have no problems whatsoever. Elemental helps too.

Comment by Nienie

Soloable as a holy priest, however the quest item is not 100% drop rate; it took 6 Altar Wardens to get the Gusty Essence. The Altar Wardens walk very slowly, any caster should be able to solo them. The Zim'Rhuk Guardians are harder, they will hex you into a frog for 2-3 seconds, if you cannot heal yourself, you'd probably want to get some help with them.

Make sure you get the blessings from Drakkari Offerings, at this point in questing, you should have plenty extra.

Comment by 176419

easily solo'd with a 76 feral druid - both mobs can be stunned if you need time to heal (but to be honest you shouldn't need to)

Comment by 232060

Soloed as a 76 Prot Paladin in Average gear.
Got Heart on second kill and the Essence on forth.
None of the mobs got me below 50% at any stage.

Comment by 249034

Easy to solo as an elemental shaman...however the wardens like too many other things in the game are nature immune...but they still go down quickly with melee (flametongue weap) and a fire(lave flow) frost shock rotation and searing totem

Comment by 249110

Can be hardly soloed by a decend geared combat rogue. Cheap shop/kidney shot/killing spree/evasion/nuke/pot..

Comment by 174102

Very easily soloable as a level 77 affliction lock in 4/5 S4.

Comment by xymera

Guardians at 60,45
Wardens at 72,58

Comment by 250156

Soloed as a lv76 elements shaman. Both of them kiteable by using frost shock/earthbind totem. Altar Wardens immunes to naturedamage so use Lava Burst not Chain Lightning. Good Luck.

Comment by 250295

solo'd as 75 affliction warlock. The guardians are not hard,kite them but have trinket ready for the hex.they are immune to drain-sihpon life so u need to be extra carefull and keep distance.i died one time because of that.
the wardens are very easy,same tactic but u have nothing to worry about.kite and tank drain life if necessary.
the drop rate is realy retarted tho,i killed around 10 guardians that took me almost half an hour :S

Comment by dustdog

got heart of guardian on 3rd kill; died twice. avenging wrath makes all the difference in the world at 77.

Comment by 110005

Easily soloable as a frost mage. Mobs are snarable.

I actually got 3 of em at one time and use fully talented blizzard to kill em, be warned the Guardians Hex you so that could get you in trouble, keep as far away from them as u can.

Comment by 250555

Solod as 75 fire mage, but i had to use a healing pot

Comment by 250496

Solo'd by a 77 DPS-Feral druid in bear form, quest gear, no problem. had to bash and heal once, other than that, it's cake.

Comment by 42221

Guardians at 60,45 -

Cake as Boomkin lvl 76 Rootable, stunable

- Wardens at 72,58

Immune to our nature spells, but slow moving, can moonfire to death while running in circles =)

Comment by 88175

Enhancement shaman, you can do it without totems, but they help a lot. Just keep wolves and SR for each one and you'll chew through them like cheese, no need for heroism. I was able to down two wardens before my wolves disappeared.

Comment by 245519

As a fire mage i had np at all taking out the Wardens, but those guardians with the hex its impossible for me to do.

Comment by 203775

Not hard as a balance druid..
In mostly lvling/northrend instance gear.

t4 equiv badge gloves and Idol of the unseen moon.

Gaurdians...

Root/moonfire/insects
Trees and starifre at low hp.

Altar wardens:

Good old fashion walking around backwards spamming moonfire = victory

Comment by 26387

Warlock Tips / Advice:

Guardian of Zim'Rhuks are not fearable or drain lifeable. However your Voidwalker should be able to tank it, if you watch threat.

Altar Wardens are fearable and are therefore a complete joke.

Have fun.

Comment by cruadin

For shadowpriests,
Guardians are pretty hard, they hit like a truck, but are slow. Just kite them and keep dotted. The only problem is polymorph, just wait till it's gone, shield up and run away. Can't be feared.

Wardens are much easier, dots, mind blast and mind flay, if they are close just psychic scream and finish them.

Comment by spinkler

I think it's worth noting that these mobs can be snared. Easily soloable by an arcane mage by keeping Slow on the target.

Comment by 238805

Solo'ed this easy as killing a standard mob, as a lvl 78 BM hunt.

Comment by Envictus

Don't attack Wardens when a Scion is near, even though they are both passive, the Scion will add if you are fighting the Warden.

Comment by spity

easy to solo whit 76 frost mage but the drop rate of those items is low i had to kill around 15 off each

Comment by 38585

Solod this quest as a lvl77 arms warrior and simply outdamaged them (be sure to have Sudden Death). The golems are a bit harder I think. I'm a warrior in mixed Season 2-4 gear with a De-Raged Waraxe as my main hand weapon. Items and abilities that helped through the fight were:

You have about 3 mins cooldown between each mob, but that's the price to do it alone. I died 2 times on the whole quest. Good luck to everyone.

Comment by 253359

All range classes + DK can solo this easy. i did it with my SP lvl 77, and the gardien are immun ageinst fear

Comment by Alzira

Very easy to solo as a BM hunter, just let you're pet tank, keep mend pet up and pewpew. And on top of that, they're even slow/stunable and thus kiteable.

Comment by 218061

Able to solo this as ret paladin in tanking gear

Comment by 64608

Key tip for Spriests since we're so squishy (and anyone really): as you kite, spam left and right strafe back and forth as you run in a straight line. It creates inefficiencies with the mob's pathing, allowing you to gain distance on the mob... much more so than normal running.

Comment by 233364

Easily soloable by prot warriors. I have mostly crafted tanking gears plus few instance dropped ones, I had no trouble killing both of them. The wardens are extremely easy, the guardians can be a little annoying but still not hard.

Comment by 68432

Moonkins take care with the wardens they are nature immune so you cant root them.

Comment by 99969

Easily soloable by a 77 Prot Pally. I just used Seal of Light and Judgement of light. The stone guardians hit a bit tougher/hit harder as when they hex you it does around 2300 dmg but I didn't have to heal myself at all fighting either one.

Had to drink/eat in between mobs and use Divine Plea while fighting or I would be OOM.

Cheers!

Comment by 158743

reminder for boomkins, guardian's are rootable, so pieces of cakes
but warden is immune to nature spells,therefore no wraths, roots, typhoons
my way to kill them is SF->MF->treants attacking them, keep moving to max. range then SF ag, use MF whenever dot is gone
if there is no other mobs, u can also use starfall, stun can be applied to them
goodluck

Comment by 255333

Soloed as a Fury War @ 78 with blessing of Zim'Torga 3k ap 16.8k hp. Just pop recklessness and get a good Deep Wounds tick going and then in need of health I used Lifeblood and Enraged Regeneration. If you need more health a Runic Potion is always useful.

Edit: Wardens don't hit nearly as hard and didn't have to wait for CD's

Comment by Darkz0r

Yes, it is soloable with class with , though it's way faster to do with a partner. I myself as a frostmage did it with a feral druid. Quick, and I got no damage in any of the fights.

Oh, if you can't find Har'koa from the ruins, try Zim'Torga, at least I found him there.

Comment by 249147

I just solo'ed this easy as a 77 arcane mage. You can slow and snare both the guardians and the wardens making it easier for a frost mage. You can kite the guardians pretty easy and it seems like the wardens are slow to begin with, that once you put a slow on them by the time they get to you they are probably almost dead. Be careful with the wardens, like another post says, if a scion is close they will enter battle too. The wardens are also a bit easier for mages since you can spellsteal the +movement +cast speed buff from them.

Comment by 239295

Good note for mages that are kiting these, get the Zim'Rhuk buff first it helps alot with downtime

Comment by Haahdek

Piece of cake for a lvl 76 Blood Death Knight. Keep healing yourself as needed and you got no worries

Comment by Auristil

Frost mages: They are not immune to your snares.
Just don't let the guardians hit you :]

Comment by 258392

Pretty easy, did it with 2 people. 76 dk and priest.

Map of locations!

Comment by 74972

As for Mages trying to Solo the Altar Wardens, spell steal their Whirling Winds buff, it increases your run speed and cast speed...

Comment by 204807

_--Soloed as 76 Ret Pally--__

Had S2 chest/Helm/Sword and a mix of quest reward blues/greens.
Tips:

-Energy Management is very key here, so don't be silly and use consecration!
-Use Seal of Command instead of Seal of Martyr/Blood.
-He is immune to stuns, so don't bother with Hammer of Justice.
-At around 85k-87k health he will stun you, so before he reaches that I suggest casting Divine Plea.
-Fire Resistance Aura for sure.

Just remember to maintain your energy, and use Flash of Light when Art of War is up!

Hope this helps!

Comment by 259536

Lvl 77 Hunter with gorilla, no thunderstomp, very easy with area buffs, killed 5 of each, done

Comment by 260089

done solo with holy priest lvl 76 , well at least 1 part of it

Comment by 32540

Confirmed easy solo as an SL/felguard lock.

Unblemished Heart of the Guardian - 1st kill
Gusty Essence of the Warden - 2nd kill

Comment by kcz421

Soloed on my 79 frost mage.

Guardians are just a smidge tougher because they cast a polymorph-whammy spell that lasts a few seconds. Just long enough for him to catch up to me. Focus on frost nova and slowing spells. Item dropped after 3 or 4 mobs. Guardians hit pretty hard.. 4K+ on cloth. Yow. (I accidentally aggroed a second guardian and my pet was dead... it didn't end well that round. haha)

Frost mages with the elemental pet will have an easier time since it's a second frost nova and dps.
Fire mages can *probably* do this but it will be much tougher. I know my fire mage can't solo elites at all. Just frost nova and kite - but be careful, guardians are all over the place.
Arcane mages pretty much kick butt all around, so do your thing. Slowing spells and spank... not much else to it for ya.

The wardens are easy as heck, anyone with slowing/kiting cabilities can do them. Item dropped after 4 or 5 mobs. Just avoid the scions... if you focus on the wardens on the outside walls, you should be safe.

As someone mentioned above, spell steal from the warden. Nice buff.

Comment by 258302

Solo'd as 77 Unholy DK. Use ghoul and heal after every fight, easy.

Comment by 152825

soloable as a 76 Frost Death Knight - go frost presence and make sure your diseases are up all the time and then just spam Death Strike for healing .. pretty easy :D

Comment by 239900

Soloed as a 76 BM Hunter. kept my distance using all my cool-downs and occasionally healing my pet, wasn't really a problem but it would be easier and quicker to 2-3 man the quest.

Also, make sure you clear the mobs surrounding the area as you can pull aggro.

Comment by 49966

Altar Wardens are Melee Only. Stay out of range and they can be taken down by any ranged class eazily.
For Gaurdians, have your insignia/medallion equipped. The hex is what can seriously mess you up. Other than that its melee only.

Comment by 261706

Solod easily as a 77 BM Hunter with a gorilla. Misdirect your gorilla, send him in, cast mend pet right as the fight begins, go through your rotation and use intimidate so you don't pull aggro. All you have to do is keep mend pet up and they'll die pretty easily. Feign Death if you pull aggro, cause they DO definitely hit hard.

Had to kill 3 guardians, and 4 wardens.

Comment by 21871

This Quest is easily soloed as a Hunter, Both the guardians and altar wardens are slow so their easily kited. also there not immune to Concussive Shot or Wing Clip, just in case they do get to close. Make sure you have a lot of aggro on them so your pet doesn't start tanking they hit hard and your pet can only survive a few of the hits.

Comment by 260893

Completing this quest opens up http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12730 Convocation at Zol'Heb from Har'koa (huge snow leopard at Zim'Torga).

Comment by 112951

As a shadowpriest 77 with ZA/t4 and some new quest rewards i had no problems with guardians, just fear them one time and they die fast.
I had very much problem to find a tactic to solo the wardens cause i tried earley in the morning and hard to find a group:(
So the best way to kill them is start at maximun range (shadow reach talent could help) and pop up shield waiting till weakened soul finish his cooldown. Then cast as always Vamp touch and embrace, SW: Pain while running back (no dev plague they are immune to disease) and mind flay to kite him a bit. If u are lucky u are able to cast also mind blast before u become polymorphed and mob is at 50% of his HP. So u have just to pop up shield renew and 2 or 3 flash heal and try to apply constantly on the warden your dots and shadowfiend too. It works and i finish fight with 1-2k HP (i have 13k HP total and 4,6k armour) and also have to wait the cd of shadowfiend so i dont recommend at all to soloing this quest: i died twice and have to kill 4 mobs to loot.

Comment by SpoonPower

I just solo'd the elites for this quest as a level 78 combat specced rogue with decent gear, when I didn't have cooldowns up I kited the mobs with crippling poison, deadly throw and throw until kidney shot was up again. The Alter Wardens was even easier than the Guardian of Zim'Rhuk's because those could be gouged/blinded. :)

Comment by 236996

soloed as a 77 holy priest. The fearable elementals were easy, but the other guys I had to kite around and around one of the pillars, keeping prayer of mending and shield up. Thankfully the second one dropped the quest item.

Comment by 165360

Totally soloable as Unholy DK, they never got me past 30% hp, no need to kite any of the mobs, used when possible and if got hexed or made the minion tank it meanwhile.
Also :ed before battles.
No need for potions or anything except bandage after fight.
Drop rates are kinda low.

Comment by 75650

Feral Druid Tips:

I am 79 feral druid and I haven't gotten under 50% health (22.1k health pool) fighting either the wardens or the guardians.

The Altar Wardens are immune to: Fairie Fire, Infected Wounds, Thorns. So just keep that in mind. Barkskin + hots + back to bear for works if you really need it but you probably won't. Good luck!

Comment by 281816

Solo as a 77 unholy DK

Guardians - they are level 76 and 77 elites. I started with a 77 got agro, built up rp summoned gargoyle and took it down. They dont hit that hard if in decent green and blue armor, however they do have a crit that can hurt. Can be painful to miss a Death Strike. Was usualy at half health at end of each fight with the 77 elites. The 76 elites I would do after doing a 77, while I was waiting on the gargoyles cooldown. The 76 elites did not require the gargoyle to help take down fast. It did require a bandaid between each fight. I was unlucky on the drop rate, I had to kill 12 of them before it dropped.They have an ability that transforms you into a small little frog or something, that was a pain.

Wardens - I only saw 77 elites. They did more damage then the Guardians, so after killing the first one I waited for gargoyle cooldown to finish. The knockback realy wasnt a problem. I didnt need any pots, but had them at the ready. Got luckier on the drop rate with the Wardens, it dropped on the second one.

Neither the Guardians or Wardens seem to have as many hitpoints as other elites of the same level, but they can crit for comprable with other elites. You can take them down fairly fast.

Comment by 88677

Solo'ed as lvl 79 unholy dps DK in all quest gear. Stayed in blood presence and just kept spamming Death Strike when ready. Waited to attack each one till health was above 95% and bone shield was available.

Note that the warden guys occasionally will turn you into a frog, and if there's nothing else to beat on, they'll beat on you while frogged (which in my case meant the pet ghoul took a bad beating). Took about 6 of each one to get the items.

Not too bad to solo, but having to be up in their face definitely makes it a bit harder to stay alive. Ended up with 40-50% hp on most the fights.

Comment by mindhacker

Pretty easy to solo this with a Frost Mage 76, just start with a good range, and slow them down, they wont even touch you.

Comment by 285080

Did the quest solo as a just turned 80 affliction warlock. The Guardians were trouble. After a few deaths I found a way that seemed to work for me. Note while siphon life and drain life wont work on him, haunt will still heal you.

What I did was make use of our new spell Demonic Circle:Summon. Id scout for a Guardian where I had plenty of room, usually on the perimiter of the area.. and Id drop a circle. Once my circle was down, Id go NW of my circle in relation to where the Guardian was. Then Id pop trinkets cast Shadowbolt, then Haunt, then UA at max range, as he's runing Id run passed him to where he was originally standing while casting Corruption and CoA, usually at this time he would hex me as I had agro, and then he'd go to my pet. Once I got out of hex Id be where he was originally standing and he'd turn back to me, Id use the summon circle and port away once he was close, then repeat casting shadowbolt, haunt ua etc. Here's a crude map so you can see how I did it.

The Pull:

_______north
________|
________|
me ---- guardian --- East
________|
________|
____Dem. Circle

After Casting first round of spells: ( ->-> denotes run to the east )

_________north
__________|
__________|
guardian ->->->me --- East
__________|
__________|
_______Dem. Circle

Once in the middle ( guardians org. spot ) and the guardian is on you, port to your demonic circle and unload on him again.

Usually I found after my initial pull and loading him up on dots, as I was on my way to the center he would hex me as I had agro, and turn to my felhunter which was handy as it would buy me time coming out of hex as my pet would lag behind bitting him in the rear. It usually only took me the initial unloading during the pull, then a port and a second round of unloading dots on him and then he would die. My felhunter died nearly every pull tho but I only had to use a HS once. They move really slow so you can kite them fairly easy too and when they get too close just use your demonic portal to get distance again, JUST MAKE SURE YOU ARE WITHIN RANGE OF YOUR PORTAL!. They do hit hard, I was getting hit for about 2.2k using just fel armor and cloth gear @ lvl 80 but with 13k hp you can take a few slaps, the hex seems to do about 3-4k nature dmg at the end of its duration tho.

I had tried using the Void Walker tanking technique as mentioned earlier and it was pretty useless, a single corruption was taking agro away from the VW along with constantly healing him, not to mention he would hex the VW and run to me and the VW would have trouble getting back in time to retake agro..

Hope this helps.

Comment by wheredidhego

I was able to solo this at level 76 as a combat spec rogue.

Comment by Revived

I solo'd them.
Enha shaman 78

Comment by skeightmachine

After gathering the quest items I went to turn in to the quest giver. He is invisible to me...

Comment by 284873

Hi, I had no problems at all soloing the Elites, As a lvl 76 Mage.
You can slow them, makes it a lot easyer.
You get the Drop after 4-5 Kills. Good Luck!

Comment by 228425

i have done this quest has a hunter beast mastery lvl 77

Comment by 258799

Soloed this as a lvl 6 paladin, used bubble and nuked ´em down.

Comment by mwmw

lol a easy Q i soloed it as lvl 76 BM hunter i only died once when i fighting 2 guardians '-.- but anyways if you are well geared you can do this Q easy

Comment by georgemarvin

Solo'd this quest as a level 76 Holy Paladin. No problems. I didn't even have to bubble up. Each one pretty much exhausted my mana, though, so I had to drink to replenish my mana between battles.
Notes: The Wardens are immune to the Gnomish Lightning Generator.
Don't get low on life before healing when you're fighting the Guardians, because they always turned my character into a frog the instant after I began the Holy Light spell. I just hopped around a few seconds, then began the spell again the instant my character became human again. They evidently have a timer for the polymorph, because the second attempt to heal always worked.
Had to kill 3 of each to get the quest items.

Comment by 258857

lvl 80 BM hunter can solo this fairly easys

Comment by Frankup

If you've soloed quests that recommend 2 people, you should be able to solo this. The recommendation should be 2, not 3. Makes it seem harder than it really is.

Comment by 279932

Soloed as a 76 Unholy DK. Keep diseases up and death strike as needed. Use all your CDs, don't forget about trinket, icebound fort., and bone shield, they're important. Good luck.

Comment by 290384

Yep, they can be Deep Frozen. I just keep rotating my Elemental and Mirror Images with my bubbles to keep myself alive, worked pretty well.

The drop rate has been fail for me. Killed 12 of the Wardens before getting a drop.

Comment by 293887

Solo'd on a 77 Orc Shaman just keep wolves goin for each and its a piece of cake

Comment by 91976

If you are a balance druid, the guardians are not immune to snares. The wardens, however, are immune to nature spells, but they move really slow so you can Starfire/Moonfire -> Cheetah -> Starfire again. It's annoying, but taking 1 hour to find someone to help you is even more annoying.

Comment by 241762

Coords - Guardians - 60,45 ( heart ) // Wardens - 72, 58 (gusty essence}

I just solo'd with Unholy DK in Frost Presence. - Attacked with my minion and kited w/ chains of ice, icy touch, death coil and blood boil, jumped in with death strike for healing. I died the first time because I ran him right into another Guardian (dumb). He annoyingly turns you into a toad occassionally. It took 4 kills to get the heart. After I died, I was OK for the next 3, anywhere from 1/4 to 1/2 health left, but my minion died 3 out of the 4 attempts.

I used the same strategy with the Wardens, got the essence in 2 kills, and amazingly ended both fights with close to full health on me and my minion.

- MorgulKnight

Comment by 217332

Gusty Essence seems to drop ONLY if you already have Unblemished Heart.
At least it did for me. I've smashed 7 Altar Wardens and got zero Essences. But as I got my Heart from ZimRhuk Guardians, Gusty Essence dropped from second Warden.
Wowhead lists Essence droprate 28%.

Comment by tommy5547

Yes, totally soloable. Hunter 79 (would easily work as a lower lvl too).
A little kiting with Intimidation and concussion arrows did it. The guardians dont like the snake traps either. :)

Comment by 131549

Soloed as an 80 combat dagger rogue. Some additional info...

Pick up one of the troll area "buffs" that benefit your toon before doing this...I had the one that grants +245 ap.

I also only picked on 76 leets vs. the 77's in the area. Got the Unblemished Heart after 4 kills, and the Gutsy Essence after 3 kills.

Comment by morituri

Can be soloed as hunter. Mine was marksmanship lvl 78 at the time. Only greens and a couple of blue gear items.

Can use Frost Trap to aid, but really not necessary. I used Concussive all the time while kiting. Plus the harder-instant shots, like Arcane and Aimed. Then a finishing Kill shot. Took around 1 minute each kill. Pet never died.

Had to kill 4 Wardens for the drop. But only 1 Guardian.

Comment by Langmans

Solo'd on my 78 retri pally without any intellect on gear. Used Medallion of Heroism next to Bubble and Holy Light x 2. Didnt even need to use Lay on Hands.

Comment by keenoblade

easy soloable as a dk it was easy its just the Umblemished heart of the Guardian would like never drop for me buy=t it was still easy

Comment by 299777

You better be lucky because with the 25% drop rate the item has I had to kill 5+ or so in both of them.

Comment by Okrim

Easily soloable as level 77 moonkin.

Guardians are rootable. My glyphed roots can absorb 6k dmg before breaking, that's 2 spells, so reapply roots often.

Wardens are immune to nature spells. So you can't root them. But also, they are very slow. You can get 3 starfires in before they come to melee range if you are lucky. They buff themselves with buff that increases their movement speed by 25%, and then they move at little less than 100% speed. Use travel form, reapply moonfire and do starfire or two when you get far enough. You can also use starfall, but be careful to not pull other mobs. Don't do treants before you've casted starfire, as they will pull aggro and die. And non aggroed treants will take 40% hp off the mob.

Comment by 52637

pretty easy to kill Guardian of Zim'Rhuk as a feral druid... dit it on lvl 76... bounced, 2x shred, mangle (cat) then switched to bear... couple of mangles and mauls.... then did a bash and healed self and back to bear... guess u know the rest... kept faerie fire and demolizeing roar up all the time.... didnt use any trinkets or berserk...

now there is a different story with the Altar Warden... same gear, same as much busted up and etc..
altho i didnt heal myself any time and the fight was quick it was a lil bit harder than with the Guardian of Zim'Rhuk's... used all my trinkets and berserk, its immune to faerie fire so dont try... altho can b stunned... it does pretty much dmg so b careful... im not gonna post the tecnique here cause it dont matter how u do it aslong as u do as much dmg as quick as possible.. and if ur getting low on hp just pop into travel form and run... the warden is pretty slow..

hope this helps

Comment by 69611

Managed to solo both as a level 77 TG fury warrior, required enraged regen and a health pot.

Comment by 307049

I actually found Peeveepee's comment useful, as Altar Warden is actually immune to disease.

Comment by 53862

This can be soloed as a 80 Shadowpriest. They are immune to fear, but not to the Mind Flay snare. I recommend at least 1600+ spellpower and 250+ haste. Shield, VT+VE, MB, sw:p, flay, flay, MB, repeat except for VE. You should be able to bring them down within 2 rotations, if not you may be in trouble.

I'd be wary attempting this at anything lower than 78. One resisted/missed spell is all it can take to break you.

Comment by 185623

Hunters, Altars are very easily kitable as they are slow as a snail, and are not immune to any movement imparing effects

Comment by 286102

Decently geared 80 mutilate rogue. Half blues half epics. A bit of a chore to take down the stone guardians, but pretty easily doable, just follow up with a bandage afterwards. The wardens are probably soloable as well, but from my experience it seems like they have too many hp, and as for rogues, most fights like this come down to a race between who can kill who the fastest. It's more possible with evasion and perhaps using a pot, etc. You could use every trick in the book and not have a problem winning, but as for being able to consistently farm them to take them down until you get the drop, that might take some time.

EDIT: Not as bad as I originally anticipated. From my initial observation the wardens seemed much tougher, but I just took one down with minimal hp loss and the item dropped. Perhaps not as bad as I thought, but I'm not going to test to make sure =P

Comment by 109903

its a relly easy quest for an frost mage. u can solo them easy ass hell.... just do frostbolt(frostfire) and they will be slowed and just frost nova so they will stop. just as i sayed easy ass hell.

Comment by 196243

I soloed this quest as a 78 Marks Hunter. Just don't aggro more then one at a time.

Comment by 104949

Soloed both as a 77 51/17/0 Undead Warlock. Had all level 70 epics. Heres how:

Warden

Very easy, got out with more then 50% Health & mana didnt even drink between fights.

Got the quest item on my third try, which makes its a 33% droprate i guess

Guardian - Immune to fear, Drain life, Siphon Life & any fear affects

This guy was MUCH harder. Usually I cut it real close with less then 500 health left. Died about five times.

I survived off of Haunt.

Use your Voidwalker, sacrificing him at the last second, because when he hexes you he will attack your Voidwalker reguardless of your threat.

Hits HARD 1500-2000 on me, a clothy

Pull him with a soul fire, then as hes running toward you do this:

Haunt --> Unstable Affliction --> Immolation --> Run back while casting instant dots(NOT SIPHON LIFE!) ---> Shadow bolt --> refresh your dots ---> Repeat(will probably need to healthstone/Sacrifice after refreshing dots)

I would not attempt this quest if you do not have haunt

Got the quest item on the seventh try... i really hope your alot luckier then i am...

After killing the same mob so many times i now believe that the fight is based upon the amount of shadow trances you get, you need at least 1 to win the fight.

This quest ended up not being worth my time however, i had alot of fun.

Good luck...

Comment by Robgar

don't forget to mine the guardians for that little extra loot.

Comment by 231753

It may be immune to life draining mechanics or similar which makes them immune to devouring plague, but I'm 100% certain these mobs are not disease immune. I kill them quite often as a death knight as they're a decent source of eternal air.

Comment by 115135

The wardens are actually doable as a pretty badly geared 80 holy priest. I used Smite, Devouring Plague + SW:P for damage and feared + bubbled whenever possible, also a couple arcane torrents for extra stunnage and mana.

Guardians on the other hand..find a friend.

Comment by 231258

If you are a priest and trying this, don't waste mana casting Devouring Plague on the guardians, as they are immune to it.

If you are a disc priest, you can solo this. I just did it at 78. The Guardian's hex will interrupt your casting and destroy your shield, so you need to make sure you keep Prayer of Mending up at all times. Before starting the fight, cast a shield on yourself. Wait about 15 seconds and then pull so you'll be able to instantly refresh your shield when it gets knocked down. After your next shield is destroyed, use Pain Suppression and renew.

Your main method of damage will be Shadow Word: Pain. There might be time for some Holy Fire or Penance, but the primary thing is just to keep yourself alive while your dot does its job. Spam Flash heal while you wait for your shield timer to refresh. Remember to use your trinkets and Shadowfiend.

As a final note, be sure to get Blessing of Zim'Rhuk (91 mp5) and Blessing of Zim'Torga (10% to all stats) before you do this quest. They both stack.

Comment by arjung

No warlock should be having problems with these guys. They move SLOWWW, pull one to the road and dot and run thats it.
oh and shadowward.

Comment by 323980

Haven't seen anything as far as this goes for DK's but, it was easilly soloable as a 79 Unholy DK in DPS gear with Frost Pres. Just alternate Death Strike into your rotations in favor of SS and SS when your health is in the green. As always, remember the trinkets and IF. Easy enough to farm.

As to the drop rates- took a couple kills for the heart and about 5-9 for the other one.

Comment by Emmanuell

Soloed as 78 ret palla with blue tanking gear

Comment by 103551

Totally agree with peeveepee. Tho, im paladin with good ol' s2 gear, they hit kinda hard, but sooloed whole q anyways. Cant understand why ppl get minus votes for peeveepee :b

Comment by 125795

a part of a bigger chain:
1. Strange Mojo
2. Precious Elemental Fluids
3. Mushroom Mixer
4. Too Much of a Good Thing
5. To the Witch Doctor
6. Breaking Through Jin'Alai
7. To Speak With Har'koa
8. But First My Offspring
9. Spirit of Rhunok
10. My Prophet, My Enemy
11. An End to the Suffering
12. Back to Har'koa
13. I Sense a Disturbance
14. Preparations for the Underworld
15. Seek the Wind Serpent Goddess
16. Setting the Stage
17. Foundation for Revenge
18. Hell Hath a Fury
19. One Last Thing
20. Blood of a Dead God
21. You Reap What You Sow
22. The Key of Warlord Zol'Maz
23. Rampage
24. The Gods Have Spoken
25. Convocation at Zol'Heb
26. Unfinished Business
27. Gal'darah Must Pay

Comment by subwaves

as a 76 full frost with pre-wrath epics I managed to kill aprox 2 guardians before I had to drink. Vs the Warden I got em down with about 10% mana usage pr and 0 hp loss. Easy as mage

Comment by 140776

For an Unholy Death knight, this quest is very easy.

The Wardens are not immune to disease as they were before, and I was able to kill both kind of mobs easily, even without frost presence.

Don't let the 3 player suggestion fool you.

Comment by 257742

you really can take them down so easy as a Death Knight at lvl 77
so dont worry about the requires 3 ppl

Comment by llangevi

Spriest here. Maybe I jt suck, but the guardians - forget it! Can't solo these guys as a clothie priest for the following:

You bubble, you move, and you get turned into a frog with no bubble and you get down to 20% health easy - you try to heal and bubble, but then another frog. I got 3-frogged in 30 seconds, and got killed several times.

I got help and finished it. The wardens, no problem. But that darn spell of being turned into a frog every 0 seconds really did me in.

Comment by 269640

Entagle roots work

Comment by Aislinana

I soloed the Wardens fairly easily as an enhancement shaman by using some of my cooldowns - you could also Frost SHAWK and earthbind kite, but waiting a little for your Shamanistic Rage and Spirit wolves to be up and using Maelstrom Weapons quick heals is lot faster.

Comment by 165016

Just a tip, if u are a lvl 76 mutilate rogue, which has full quest gear, and this is the only quest left in Zul'drak, and u can't find anybody, JUST PASS IT.....

Comment by 86590

The Guardians were easy as an 80 Destruction Warlock in mostly heroic gear. Just Chaos Bolt, Immolate, Conflagrate, start kiting, drop CoA, Corruption and keep running while you redo spells as they come off cooldown. Didn't even get hit.

I imagine pretty much any Warlock spec can do the same kind of kiting.

Comment by 233928

Easily done as a lvl 79 Frost DK, end game ( not raid ) gear.

Don't be afraid to solo this one at upper levels if you aren't a pur DPS.

Comment by 353256

Found it very easy to do this quest alone at lvl 75. Maybe because I am a hunter, but still.. there's no need for 3 ppl to do it. Love kiting. ^^
ps; attack the lower lvl mobs, even easier to kill..

Comment by 228855

Just to add: DK lvl 77 blood spec can take These enemys easy as hell with frost pres

Comment by 343685

un%^&*ingbelievable. on my 21st guardian of zimrhuk kill and STILL no quest drop. i thought blizzard fixed this kind of crap?

Comment by 358001

Soloed as a lv 77 shadow priest with all lv70 kara gears.
When dealling with the guardian it's a little harder. just stand at max range and beggin to dot and mind blast , mind flay.
do as much dmg as possible before he comes near you, then you can start to dot and run and heal. use pvp trinket and healing potion if necessary. keep renew and prayer of mending , shield up as soon as it passed CD time. heal yourself! dont be afraid. you wont die if you heal soon enough and keep dots up.

btw: i have imp Vampiric Embrace

Comment by 291917

Solo'd as a 75 DK, If u got Drakkari Offerings u should get the Might blessing. I made sure my bone shield was up all time, as the ghoul uses Gnaw (chew's off a limb and stuns tatget) i picked up all the DPS i could do. But good idea to have potions. Regarding drop rate, if you are lucky u will get it in first drop, normally will nto take more than 3-4 mobs like in my case.

Comment by 259567

Not too bad to solo as a an 80 Enhancement Shammy with fairly lousy gear. I died a few times, but that was more from attracting aggro from multiple things than being beaten to death by one of them.

I pretty much meleed the crap out of them using Stormstrike and Lavalash with earthshock thrown in everytime the cooldown was up, and a lightning bolt everytime maelstrom was full, and a shamanistic rage when my mana was low. I just threw down Strength of Earth, Windfury, Healing Stream, and Magma totem. Sometimes I'd send in my spirit wolves, but that wasn't wholly necessary.

The guardians dropped what I needed fairly quickly after a few kills, but the wardens took forever, probably 8 or 9 kills to drop what I needed.

Comment by captain1031

LvL 77 Blood DK soloed wardens no problem. No need for pots or rune tap during fight. Gear isn't great but gets the job done. Got the gusty essence on the 3rd kill. The Guardians were about the same as long as the polymorph wasn't doubled up. Took 5 kills to get the heart. Wiped once on guardians due to polymorph one after another. Other than that, it was easily soloed

Comment by 379265

Wardens took me about 5 kills before the drop...isnt that bad.

Comment by 333467

The Guardians are without a doubt the most annoying mob I have ever encountered. Trying to take one of these down by myself as a Fury Warrior makes me want to destroy my furniture. Keeping my fingers crossed that I'll dodge a "Whammy".

If there's a tip I'd like to point out, it seems the mobs are divided into level 76 and 77s. The level 76 one has 1300-1400 less HP to deal with.

Comment by 235826

Solo able as 76 Blood DK

Comment by 372759

Easy with Unholy DK 76 lvl :P

Comment by Verloren

Soloed easily as a 77 beast hunter, wolf pet. Just MD your pet and go to town. Both mobs are stunnable (intimidation).

Comment by 367379

soloed this as a MM hunter, just misdirect your pet pop all your cooldowns and nuke them down. I couldn't do this with =out the spell lick your wounds.

Comment by 306052

Its fairly easy if you're a snare class or can cc and heal for a bit. As far as I could tell, they can be snared, and I assume also cc'd. I as a balance druid just starfir, roots, starfire, roots, refresh dots, starfire, dead. Didn't even need to heal, but they do take a chunk out of yer mana.

Comment by 131581

Soloed by lvl 77 prot pally. no we're not overpowered and yes we can do everything solo.

Comment by vaultraider

Soloed as 78 Combat spec undead rogue, with fist weapons, decent gear.

For Both I did the same...

Poisons on each, buffed with +10 to stats.

Garrote, Trinket, sinister strike till full 5, evasion, killing spree, trinket, kidney shot, adrenaline rush, continue to spam sinister strike and eviscerate, worked well, only once lost more than half life, drops were within first 3 total.

Watch out for frog transformation with the Guardian, and Warden has knock back abilities.

In all, not that difficult compared to other group quests in area.

Comment by 216065

Really easy quest as balance druid(moonkin \o/)

Boomboom + dots -> root -> dots + boomboom -> root -> dots + boomboom -> loot -> quest completed

Comment by 429508

Level 80 Warlock (moderately geared)... I think this strategy will work for just about any warlock.

(I am affliction speced)

Basically, I attacked with my void walker. And kept a very modest level of dots on the targets.
Curse of Weakness, Corruption, and haunt in my case. Used a threat level meter. (Omen) The key is to never draw more threat then your void walker. I just kept health funneling my void walker whenever it's health got to about 3000. Health funnel draws a lot of agro, but if you don't dot too heavily your pet should generate more agro then you do. Just keep your pet alive and bleed them down slowly. Remember you can use Soul Shatter to lower your threat if necessary.

Comment by 342954

Level 77 Resto Shammy.

So far I've only killed the Guardians, but I find the best way to do it is Frost Shock kite him. Also, use Searing Totem, as it will either eat the Whammy, or he'll cast it on you and go to attack it. It's a pretty long fight with decent reg dungeon gear. Oh, and make sure to use Riptide if you ever get hit by a Whammy. You'll probably want to bring a mana pot just in case. Oh, and don't try to do this near any Frozen Earth. You'll most likely end up dying.

Ok, the Altar Wardens are really easy. Just Frost Shock kite them. Personally, I switched over to my main spec, Ele, for this so I could throw in a few Lava Burst while kiting.

Comment by Sakuria

The "Altar Wardens" are easy to solo as a 76-78 Shadowpriest ... I keited em around, even with their speed buff they are still 25% faster than their normal speed which you can still outrun ....

The "Guardian of Zim'Rhuk" are more hard to solo as a Shadowpriest in the range of 76-78 ... Its possible but I would not recommend it at all ...

I tried 13 times before I keited one succesfully down ...
For those get help from a Melee class

Comment by 384071

Ridiculously easy as a frost mage, they move so slow when chilled you can stay at range the whole time.

Comment by 96324

A funny thing - as a warrior, you can spellreflect the knockback the Altar Wardens do so they will be knockbacked.

Comment by ellmo

Soloed as lvl 76 Elemental Shaman.

This quest is perfectly doable, but by no means easy. You have to be careful and you need some proper gear.
I had to kill about 20 god damned guardians to get the heart. I died proprably about 10 times on them.
The Essence dropped on third kill. Never died on the wardens, nor was I ever near dying.
Both types of elites are very slow, so you could probably kite them, but I didn't.

If you're interested in some kind of hints...

When fightning guardians:
When you pull them and they are coming close, just push them back with thunderstorm, as it is quite possible they'll cast whammy as soon as they reach you, so you minimize the damage you take. Otherwise keep Fireshock up on them, smash with Lava Burst whenever ready, and be sure you keep yourself alive with adding Lesser Healing Waves to your cast rotation, try not to stay below 2k life, because an unfortunate critical hit from the guardian will kill you, as they hit ca. 1.0 - 1.2k dmg normal on my armor (12 k).
Whammy ( 2.5-2.7 k nature dmg) will also instakill you if you stay below that threshold.

If you pop Bloodlust you can kill two guardians one right after another with ease.
With good spelldamage and crit rate it is possible to kill a guardian with almost no health loss and without being whammied even once. But it does not happen to often,

And here's an important piece of advice: I died a few times on those trying to kill them faster by skipping a few lesser healing waves. Don't do it. It never worked the way I wanted.

When fightning wardens:
As said before, these guys are a joke, they deal about the same amount of melee damage as guardians, but they don't have anything near as powerful as whammy at their disposal, so you can basically slaughter them. They can only push you back from time to time with ~1.3k damage. Normal spell rotation with a few LHW here and there, and you're done.
As a matter of fact, I think the wardens are among the weakest elites to be dealt with... and soooo slow.

Comment by buzzin6

Solo'd 77 combat rogue. Just waited for cool downs between mobs. Takes forever but is doable.
Evasion, trinket, Killing Spree, Ed rush, Blade Furry, SS, S&D, SS etc then Evis to finish.

9 kills on the Guardians to get drop. 7 kills on Wardens.

Comment by Richiebay

Soloed as a 76 combat rogue. Did cheap shot, stacked up comdos while mob was in stun (u are able to get all 5) after stun i poped Killing Spree and directly after spree i did kidney shot poped Adrenaline Rush and Trinket SS till stun ran out pop evasion and on gaurdian Cloak of Shadows (to avoid Hex) keep stacking combos till 5 use eviscirate he maybe hex u but if he does u should have almost full hp so np keep SS/riposting. GZ u soloed a 3-man quest

took me 5 gaurdians and only 1 warder

hope it helps =)

Comment by 370300

I soloed this quest as a 75 (not well geared) Blood Death Knight. The Alter Warden was easy and the Guardiens wasnt hard but soloable. I think everybody can do this with some healing potions

Comment by 454338

Easy as a 77 ret pally to solo took multiple kills of both the get the items to drop.

Comment by 297875

Easy mode as lv77 Frostfire mage. Spellsteal their buff, and as long as you keep moving away and keep up the frostfire debuff you should have no trouble.

Comment by kenace

soloed as a lvl 76 combat rogue, 1 sword in main hand and a dagger in off, mostly green gear, used a food buff for 300 extra hp nothing more, engage the mobs with a cheap shot, then wen u have 5 points use slice and dice then evasion, wen you have 5 more points used rupture the mob shud be now around 20% just use the rest of ur points to kidney shot if ur low on hp, sometimes popped adrenaline rush if my energy was getting low, but that was about it. easy

Comment by 126399

77 Frost Mage. For the wardens, start nuking at max range and spellsteal the buff when it casts it on itself. I'd be surprised if it even reached you, but if it does the movement speed buff you stole will get you back into safe range quickly.

Guardians require a little bit more pre-planning but are just as easy. Be ready for instant Hex, done at range, and that does a noteworthy amount of damage when it hits. Doesn't keep you hexed long, but it may be long enough for guardian to get into melee if you aren't at close to max range. I peppered it with ice lances, and fire blasts, while occasionally blinking, and casting a frostbolts when I could to keep movement speed debuff up. Keep ice barrier up to mitigate ranged damage and you're good. Happy Hunting

Comment by artog

Guardian of Zim'Rhuk (59,44)
- Not Immune to frost shock

Altar Warden (72,58)
- Not Immune to frost shock

Nuff said :)

Comment by Tresjin

How to solo as a shadow priest:

I just did it at level 76. It just involves a certain strategy when pulling. First, you need to have cooldowns up on both Shadowfiend and Dispersion. Then, you start the pull with Shadowfiend at maximum range. Apply Vampiric Touch and SW: Pain. Throw on Vampiric Embrace while you can, then try to get off a Mind Blast before you pull aggro off Shadowfiend. When you do, Fade and start running towards the ramps to the southeast. With luck, Shadowfiend will keep aggro another few seconds.

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7741/51544482.jpg

The key here is to make it to this ramp. Refresh SW: Pain and/or Vampiric Embrace on the run, as you don't want it leashing. Keep your shield up and run a ways up the inner level of the ramp. Use Dispersion if you have to for the damage reduction. Once you're a good ways up the ramp, hop down one level. The Guardian will now have to path all the way down to the ground and all the way back up to you. Mind Flay it. This *should* be enough time for you to kill it. If it hexxes you and manages to catch up again, you can hop down to the ground and Mind Flay once more.

I died a few times trying normal kiting methods, but once I took advantage of this two-level ramp next to the stairs, I could kill Guardians without significant risk as long as I waited for Shadowfiend cooldown.

For the other part of the quest, the Altar Wardens are absolutely trivial. They move slowly, they're not immune to Devouring Plague like the guardians are, and they're not immune to fears. Even better, they helpfully hit you with a knockback that keeps them out of range more and lets you Mind Flay them from a distance more.

Comment by Moongoddess

I just soloed this quest as a lvl 77 Frost Mage. Emencely easy, they can be snared, slowed etc..

Comment by Kayshin

Shadow priest (78):

Max range for VT, PW:S, wait till weakened soul is 10 seconds left, VT, SW:P, Mind Flay, Mind Flay, he should then hex you. PW:S whenever u can, refresh dots and just rotate MF and MB :)

Worked every time :)

Comment by 234837

Probably stating the obvious here but you I'm pretty sure, as the quest says, KILL GUARDIANS 1st; WARDENS 2nd. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the quest item will drop if you try to kill Wardens first.

Comment by 486749

This quest is not even a threat to dks... i was lvl 77 when i did this solo, and i didnt go under 90% health with any mobs. use vamp blood and mark of blood. you get over healed with every attack.. and even without those two skills, a blood dk wont go under 50% health on these mobs even with no resting time between them. "Death Strike" and "Empowered Rune Weapon" FTW

Comment by Jerodast

For the Guardians:
A nice kiting circle is the broken down wall to the north of the stairs (on the southwest side of the ruins). Run through the "window" from above and the Guardian will have to run around a bit to get down to you. Run back around to the top and repeat. Or use Tresjin's kiting spot above (haven't tried it but looks good).

This made it easy for me as a shadow priest. Shield went down once or twice when I got hexed but kept DoTs up and he went down in a minute. If you use SW:Pain only and never stop to Vamp Embrace then you'll probably get hit even less.

Comment by 451390

I was able to solo at lvl 77 as a survival hunter using a ferocity pet (wolf). I ranged between 1400-1900 DPS as a benchmark. I have a few heirloom items and some blues. If you have less dps/gear your mileage may vary but these tips might still be useful. Here are a few tips:

1. Only take on 1 elite at a time if possible, scout out the area to make sure you'll have room without aggroing other mobs
2. Misdirect on your pet, and get some good heavy shots to start the fight to give your pet a chance at keeping aggro... i used black arrow and explosive shot.
3. Hot up your pet at fight start. If you do this your pet should live and keep tanking for you.
4. If you draw aggro, lay down your snake trap to add that extra dps.
5. Kill shot is your friend! Use it to finish the fight off before the mob gets to you if your pet dies or you have pulled aggro.

Comment by 202564

Soloed this as an 80 elemental shaman, ridiculously easy.

Comment by idontplaywow2000

its easy for me to solo the Guardians as a ret pally with 14k hp buffed, throwing some heals in. what i dont like is the hex, deals 2000-3000 damage on impact. hit for 1000-1500 on plate armor (10200). Guardians have about 35,000 hp. -started casting a full heal at 50% of my hp. they hexed and 2 shots to the back killed me =(- so far i have 6 kills, 0 hearts. The Wardens have about 33,000 hp, hit for the same amount, dont hex, do a thunderstorm (knock back), fairly easy, 1kill 1essence.

-edit- 7th kill got me the heart. The cooldown on the hex (Whammy) is about 20 seconds.

Comment by 333518

Soloed as a 78 Destruction Warlock; send in your VW, Curse of the Elements, Corruption - NUKE. Use Shadowfury if any of them get too close. Use Sacrifice or Conflagrate to daze them if you need to. Shouldn't really be a problem if you have decent gear.

Comment by 443886

Totally soloable by a level 77 Paladin, make sure you Flash of Light to constantly keep your health up and you've got it.

Comment by 258919

Soloable as a level 75 feral druid, in quest level tank gear.

The Guardians were the easiest to knock out. Start as a cat and use Pounce (they are stunnable - can also use Bash in bear form). The only worry there is the hex, which causes a large amount of damage and you lose control for a short time. But, I only got hit with it once out of my 4 or 5 kills. Go to bear form after you hit about 50% and the rest of the time just burn him down.

The Wardens are a bit tougher. They have an annoying knockback that they always use, and they seem to be a good bit stronger than the Guardians. But, they were still beatable.

Neither mob is immune to Faerie Fire or stuns.

Comment by Sloppie

Solo'ed as 77 combat rogue. Died on the first try by the Guardian but it was a breeze after I found a better rotation.

CS > SS > KS> Evasion > A.Rush > SS > SnD > SS the rest.

Comment by kalisperis

Easily soloed with an Unholy DK level 77 in Frost Presence. Guardians are harder because of that transformation they cast, but I killed 3 in a row...Death Strike was enough for hp...

Comment by Lizzerazu

I did this quest as a lvl 76 Paladin with tank spec.
Had mostly blue items gained from dungeons and crafted.
Only the polymorph made it a bit difficult. Keeping Divine plea up, and stun when you need to heal. This easily kept me alive and after 7 kills (and 28k xp rested) i got the drop.

Comment by 254342

I would seriously like to gut punch whoever created this quest! Its not to hard to solo but the drop rate sucks! It took 5 guardian kills before one dropped the quest item and after 7 kills, I have yet to see an quest drop from a Warden! Why why why would they send you to kill elites and not make the drop rate 100%?

Comment by 528228

I was able to kill a Guardian as a lvl 74 Rogue which, according to all the above posts, means that with enough patience the quest should be solo-able even at this low level. It took some doing though.

I collected the blessings for the 10% buff, which I found out disappears when you die. I Used a Mutilate spec and created a macro that combines garrote with all my instant abilities so I can open the fight really strong.

(PickPocket + Garrote + Evasion + Berserking (Troll Racial) + Braxley's Backyard Moonshine)

With evasion in there this gave me a few seconds to get my rotation started without getting hit. After Hunger for Blood, Sn'D, and ColdBlood+Envenom it was a matter of praying that my daggers proc'd (mongoose and berserking) during my normal rotation. I had to use a healing potion and I was near death, but I did win.

Hope this helps someone, good luck!

Comment by 670792

Guys, I don't know why everyone is finding this so hard to do?
I just solo'd this as a 77 51/2/15 DK, in blood presence. And had no trouble what so ever, took me about 3 of each to complete and I didn't have to eat once or use a health potion. Maybe I got lucky, but personally I think this is an easily manageable quest to solo. The last two of the chain are a bit harder, the final dungeon quest of course being near impossible to do on your own, unless of course you have ALOT of time to slowly pull your way through Gundrak.

EDIT: I also only had Blessing of Zim'Torga

Comment by safetydance

Killed 8 of the guardians before I got the drop. Solo'd 2 at a time by a feral tank druid, just stay bear and slow dps.

Comment by 649457

i did this as a lvl 78 frost mage
with lots of blues and some greens with boa shoulders,chest and staff
wardens and guardians are easy if u have the water elemental on every fight
of course it's on cooldown if u don't have glyph which i didn't
The guardians are very hard as a frost mage without the water elemental
you just got to get them frozen alot and u should be able to kill the
u should keep up mana shield and ice barrier at all times
don't be afraid to use you ice snap if u are about to die
on the wardens it's a piece of cake really just frostbolt and kite
also blink would help a lot

Comment by 693144

solo'd as a 77 fire mage

just use mirror image so you dun take damage (i managed to kill 2 within 30 sec)

only problem is the cd of it.

Comment by 699237

Soloed as a 76 affliction warlock. Not easy but if you pay attention at your cooldowns and you don't have "dead times", can be done...

Comment by 738717

I soloed with my 76 lvl hunter, not easy but not too much either... But med pet used _alot_
Why telling this? Couse I would wanna know can I solo this or not...

Comment by 621428

i soloed it on my lvl 78 frost mage

Comment by Vaeku

Solo'd as a level 78 frost mage with the heirloom chest, shoulders, and staff.

Pretty easy quest actually, I started out at max distance, put up ice barrier, and just spammed frostbolt, launching an FFB whenever Brain Freeze and FoF were up. Also froze them with Deep Freeze and my water elementals freeze.

The Guardians might break your shield early so maker sure your snares are off cooldown or wait for your ice barrier to almost be off cooldown. The wardens are much easier, as they don't hit as hard plus you can spellsteal their whirling winds buff for extra cast speed.

Comment by 791449

Soloed this one with my lvl 76 Death Knight. Took me a while to finish this one. It's easier to attack the lvl 76 instead of the lv 77 ;-) Good luck!

Comment by 813949

As a level 78 Feral Druid I found this very easy to solo. I've focussed on getting Stamina and Agility as high as possible and a critical ravage for me is between 9 and 10k. That took 1/3 of the health of both the guardian and the warden. Both were no trouble after that I didn't loose that much health, I think the lowest I got to was 3/4 of full health. The wardens were easier since they kept knocking me back so all I had to was hit feral charge, ravage again and by that time I'd got all the combo points up so just used ferocious bit to finish them off. I stuck to cat form throughout the fight using rake and mangle where needed, no need to go into bear form at all.

Comment by 820169

As of patch 4.2 Suggested Players is wrong. You should be able to finish the quest with just you, or if a healer with no off-spec possibly 1 helper. I can solo it on every class I've rolled so far.

Comment by ohcrap

just did solo with lvl 76 disc priest in dungeon blues, go one at a time and keep pw: shield up and it is no problem

Comment by 859207

Shadow Priest
Lvl 75
quests-drop/instances-drop geared

Easily soloable with few shields and dispersions.
Vampiric Touch + Devouring Plague + Shadow Word: Pain + Mind Blast then spam Mind Flay are the way! ;)

Comment by fordahord

77 Fire Mage:

I'm gonna suppose this quest has been nerfed. I had no problems at all with the Wardens. The Guardians took some work -- turned me into a frog a couple of times -- but then I turned them into a pile of rocks...

Comment by Sutcliff

Level 75 Unholy DK, Frost Presence. Easy Solo, both items dropped after 3 kills for me. Take advantage of chains of ice & ghoul during this quest, it will help a lot. Used chains and Death Coil and Icy touch when at a distance. Death Strike when in melee range. I also used Death and Decay.

Comment by 1088631

For some reason the Guardians aren't dropping the item. I managed to get the essence of the Warden within two, but I've cleared the temple at least four times COMPLETELY now with still no drop.

Comment by 1440987

The Gods Have Spoken http://youtu.be/6oKIGBcIZ5A

Comment by Boxofbeer

The Gods Have Spoken http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk3AK6aaOQQ

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=9JMVNeutpSI&feature=youtu.be

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The Gods Have Spoken

Deliver the Unblemished Heart of the Guardian and the Gusty Essence of the Warden to Har'koa at Zim'Torga.

	Unblemished Heart of the Guardian (1)
	Gusty Essence of the Warden (1)

Description

The gods have spoken and we must heed their wisdom.

Travel north to Zim'Rhuk to destroy guardians there until they yield the unblemished heart. Travel east to the Altar of Quetz'lun and disrupt the altar wardens until you recover their gusty essence.

Deliver both to Har'koa and she will combine them into that which will compel late Akali's prophet to appear.

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/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12729))