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1.	Need More Info
2.	No Rest For The Wicked

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Icecrown Honor Above All Else Curing The Incurable Defending The Vanguard Scourge Tactics If There Are Survivors... Into The Wild Green Yonder A Cold Front Approaches The Last Line Of Defense Once More Unto The Breach, Hero Once More Unto The Breach, Hero The Scourgestone The Restless Dead The Purging Of Scourgeholme The Stone That Started A Revolution It Could Kill Us All The Air Stands Still Into The Frozen Heart Of Northrend The Battle For Crusaders' Pinnacle The Crusaders' Pinnacle Orgrim's Hammer The Broken Front Takes One to Know One Poke and Prod That's Abominable! Against the Giants Coprous the Defiled Basic Chemistry Sneak Preview Chain of Command Cannot Reproduce Retest Now Not a Bug Need More Info No Rest For The Wicked Raise the Barricades Bloodspattered Banners Blinding the Eyes in the Sky The Ironwall Rampart Before the Gate of Horror The Guardians of Corp'rethar Shatter the Shards It's All Fun and Games I Have an Idea, But First... Free Your Mind If He Cannot Be Turned The Shadow Vault The Duke Opportunity Establishing Superiority Blow it Up! A Short Fuse Parting Gifts An Undead's Best Friend Honor is for the Weak From Whence They Came Seeds of Chaos Amidst the Confusion Vereth the Cunning New Recruit The Vile Hold Generosity Abounds Matchmaker Stunning View The Rider of the Unholy The Rider of Frost The Rider of Blood The Fate of Bloodbane Eliminate the Competition The Bone Witch The Sum is Greater than the Parts The Art of Being a Water Terror Through the Eye Find the Ancient Hero Not-So-Honorable Combat Banshee's Revenge Battle at Valhalas Battle at Valhalas: Fallen Heroes Battle at Valhalas: Khit'rix the Dark Master Battle at Valhalas: The Return of Sigrid Iceborn Battle at Valhalas: Carnage! Battle at Valhalas: Thane Deathblow Battle at Valhalas: Final Challenge Where Are They Coming From? Destroying the Altars Death's Gaze Spill Their Blood Jagged Shards I'm Smelting... Smelting! The Runesmiths of Malykriss A Visit to the Doctor By Fire Be Purged Killing Two Scourge With One Skeleton He's Gone to Pieces Putting Olakin Back Together Again The Flesh Giant Champion A Voice in the Dark Time to Hide Return to the Surface Field Repairs Do Your Worst Army of the Damned Futility Cradle of the Frostbrood Where Dragons Fell Time for Answers The Hunter and the Prince Knowledge is a Terrible Burden Argent Aid Tirion's Gambit A Tale of Valor A Hero Remains The Keeper's Favor Hope Within the Emerald Nightmare The Boon of Remulos Time Yet Remains The Touch of an Aspect Dahlia's Tears The Boon of Alexstrasza Hope Yet Remains The Will of the Naaru The Boon of A'dal Light Within the Darkness

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Comment by 26478

Sort of an annoying quest. Entrance to the vault area for this quest is about 51.9, 32.9. You gather the pieces of his remains from crates around the room, but they all have a 2 minute duration. Clear the room first, then loot the pieces. They form a quest item that does not have a duration.

Alumeth himself is substantially more difficult than most of the other group quests in Icecrown. Immune to snares and stuns, melees cloth for 4.8k, mind flays for 3k, shadow word: pains for over 1k, fears, heals, and mind controls.

Bring a tank and some healing, you'll need it.

Comment by 97256

Very annoying quest, especially with mana users.

Entrance is at 52, 33. The Crystal Altar you summon Alumeth is at the middle back of the vault at 51, 27.

You have 2 minutes to get the four pieces and then combine them or they despawn from your inventory. They are soul bound and must be gathered by one person. Once made, Alumeth's Remains stay in your inventory until he is summoned.

As you enter the vault area, the Heart is in a chest at the front end of the table on your right, the Scepter is in a chest at the other end of that table on your right, and the Robes are in a chest against the back wall to the right of the Altar. The Skull is in a chest against the left middle wall.

You do not have to clear the entire room. Clear enough to get to the four chests first and only then gather them. The Cult Researchers cast Mind Blast that does an aoe knockback and shadow damage, and Wail of Souls that does about 20% mana burn per hit over a several seconds (you can easily go OOM).

Alumeth is a level 81 elite with about 260k hp. He melees, casts Mind Flay for about 3k damage per tic over 5 seconds, and Dominate Mind (psychic fear) randomly.

Comment by 250874

This guy is a shadow priest. And like it was said above he does heal. but it gets substantially worse sub 30%. Tried to down him with a prot pally and holy pally duo, but once we hit 30% he enraged and started casting much faster causing his healing to output our dps.

Comment by 157389

Two other fun details you may find useful:

This is available prior to level 80. I can confirm availability at 79.
Alumeth also casts Mind Control. Bring a dispel... or two.

Comment by 259747

Beware with a Warlock in the party

Immediately after our Warlock got Mind Controlled, we got a Howl of Terror into the Researchers. That ended badly.

This is probably an issue that can be had with a Priest and Psychic Scream as well. A Shaman with Tremor totem would help in these cases.

Comment by 274167

Leads to Ironwall Rampart

Comment by 144901

tried soloing as a blood DK in tank gear and frost presence, blue quest and a few rep + normal dungeon drops.

got him to 30 % or so but then i died, saw it early on i wasn't going to make it. was just hoping i could burst him down but failed.

used runesword + army of dead for the super zombie army, that's the burst i was hoping would do, he wasted a lot of stuff on them, renews got a few ticks in for him because of me being overeager and not saving an unholy rune for the plaguestrike.

overall it was a fun challenge but as of now, i dont see myself doing it without some massive upgrade in gear.

totally duoable with say a shaman with tremor totem and heals.

Comment by 52634

2 manned today with a Blood DK and a shadow priest in holy gear. Doesn't seem to MC if there are only two people, which is nice. I threw my shadowfiend towards the end, and he tried to MC the fiend.. So it looks like when there is a third entity he starts to MC.

Just a heads up others that tend to duo.

Comment by 106571

I decided to give this a try. Almost 30 minutes later I came out victorious. Holy paladin using 2 lay on hands 4 bubbles 1 avenging wrath and a lot of divine pleas.

I have gear from Naxx but it is probably doable at lower gearlevels if you have the patience and don't make any mistakes. I was specced in prot instead of retri but I think that going down retri instead will be better for soloing this because of more crits and cheapers heals.

Comment by Rammstein

Leads to The Ironwall Rampart

Comment by fireforge124

After first completing the quest, it opens up this identical daily:
No Rest For The Wicked

Comment by 34002

Alumeth must have been nerfed.
I did this in 3 man group and he went down in like 20 seconds.
Cant recall exact hp ,but it was something around 80k.
Propably soloable now.

Comment by Dyaus

As of 3.08, he now has 104k HP. Mindflay ticks for about 1500 instead of 3k.

I was barely able to solo him as a Naxx25 geared feral Druid. Things I learned that helped:

He spawns right after you use his remains. However, if you stealth as soon as you're done channeling, you can get your opener.
He is susceptible to stuns, immune to Maim. Pounce and get some good bleed damage going, then switch into Bear.
Save Berserk for a fear. You could wear a PVP trinket to break two, but I just ate the second.
Use Bash on his first Mind Flay, Barkskin on the second.

Comment by 258269

Which quests exactly do I have to do in order to be able to get this quest and its prerequisite?

Comment by rosencrants

Solo'd this guy as a prot warrior in mostly 25man gear. He can be stunned but interrupts don't seem to work.

Comment by Whiterock

ORGRIM'S HAMMER Quest Tree From Whiterock
Give + to 12/29/2008 Rammstein and 01/16/2009 fireforge124 aswell.

The Crusaders' Pinnacle* 1)Preparations for War
|->The Skybreaker(A)* The Shadow Vault*
| |
1)Orgrim's Hammer------->Opportunity*
|___________________________________________
| |->2)Mind Tricks |->D)Blood of the Chosen
3)The Broken Front |->D)Slaves to Saronite |->2)Joining the Assault
| +3)Avenge Me! |->2)Get to Ymirheim! |->D)Assault by Air
|->D)Make Them Pay! D)King of the Mountain |->D)Assault by Ground
|
|------------------------>1)Good For Something?
1)Takes One to Know One 3)Volatility-->D)Volatility
3)Poke and Prod 5)Green Technology
|________________________ 6)Fringe Science Benefits
| | |->D)Riding the Wavelength: The Bombardment
3)That's Abominable! | |->D)Total Ohmage: The Valley of Lost Hope!
|->D)That's Abominable! |
| 4)Against the Giants
5)Sneak Preview |->4)Coprous the Defiled
|->5)Chain of Command |->4)Basic Chemistry-->D)Neutralizing the Plague
|->5)Cannot Reproduce
| 5)Retest Now-->D)Retest Now
|
5)Drag and Drop-->D)Drag and Drop
|->5)Not a Bug-->D)Not a Bug
|
5)Need More Info----------------->5)No Rest For The Wicked
| |->D)No Rest For The Wicked
| |
7)Raise the Barricades----------->8)The Ironwall Rampart
|->8)Blinding the Eyes in the Sky |
| D)Keeping the Alliance Blind |
| |
8)Bloodspattered Banners |
|_________________________________|
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9)Before the Gate of Horror
| \
9)Shatter the Shards 9)The Guardians of Corp'rethar

Amped for Revolt!(doesn't work/exist)
Quest Zones:
1)Orgrim's Hammer_____2)Ymirheim_____3)Broken Front_____4)Mord'Rethar_____5)Aldur'thar_____6)The Bombardment_____7)Valley of Lost Hope_____8)Valley of Fallen Heroes_____9)Corp'rethar
D)Daily
*Click to see more info about that quest-line.
The Icecrown is done! Leave your comments/sugestions at my comment in Icecrown zone. Thanks everyone who helped me to make it via comments on wowhead and in-game pre-quest tracking.

Comment by 308722

Solo'd as a 80 Blood DK. I threw down Army of Dead, raised by ghoul and put up Horn of Winter before I summoned him. I filled my rune power and finished him quickly with Dancing Rune Weapon while the ghouls still had the aggro.

Comment by Shivacode

Solo'd very easily as a Naxx25 geared prot pally. Took a bit of time, used LOH though honestly I could have gotten away with NOT using it if I wanted. Only annoying bit is the Renew. Just use shadow aura and go to town on him, his melee is weak and probably won't hit you much. Cleanse his Shadow Word Pain as soon as it goes up and he's a joke.

I still recommend bringing a DPS to speed it up, but really not necessary.

Comment by hevgirl

Just 3-manned with Ret Pally (myself), Rogue & Prot Warrior.
Went down in less than 30 sec, totally not like the other 5 mans in icecrown! lol
I probably could have soloed him without any trouble at all.

Comment by 389435

Soloed as a Blood DK, very easy. Pop army of the dead, summon the guy, then beat till dead.

Comment by 66849

The 2 minutes duration on the various parts you need to combine seems to have been removed.
Even though the tooltip still says that the parts begin to "deteriorate" or w/e, I've been having the skull in my inventory for approximately 10 minutes now and it's still there.
So now it's easier to do this quest without getting frustrated because some of the parts disappear while you're running around and killing mobs/collecting the other parts.

Comment by 400722

Thanks for the comments above.

Wanted to solo on my lock. Cleared the room and then ran around and looted the boxes for body parts. Made

Note: Once you combine the body parts, you can loot again (or have another party member loot them). Multiple tries is helpful. is consumed when you summon the boss.
I gave it one try, died and when I rezzed just combined the body parts in my inventory.

I'm afraid I waited too long and there were respawns when I started the boss encounter. He feared my felguard into the mobs and that was all she wrote.
I'll try again soon, this time I'll full clear the room first. :)

Comment by Uoyredrum

I just solo'd this as a fury warrior in tanking gear 1st try (although it was very close). I had about 30k hp unbuffed full naxx tanking gear. The thing about soloing him is that if you time it properly you can make him do a LOT of damage to himself. He casts mind-flay at fairly regular intervals. With a normal shadow priest (a player) spell reflect only reflects a single tick...on Alumeth it reflects the entire flay. You'll see it work if you notice he is shooting himself in the face with the beam. Spell reflecting the SWP is also a good source of damage but reflecting mind flays is much more reliable. Keep using BT on cooldown, shield slam, keep sunders up and TC/Demo of course, use any CDs necessary. The fight was close for me but going into the fight I didn't realize this about mind flay, so going in with that knowledge it should be doable with lesser gear.

Comment by 146994

Soloed him as an enhancement shaman, not much trouble. just tremor totem, Feral spirit, and a purge for when he renews.

Comment by Azuron

Soloed him as a retadin in mostly ToC normal/hc epics without too much hassle only bubled once cuz i slacked healing, dispel his dot and interupt the mindflay wich dose a good bit of burst dmg but nothing too deadly just trow a HL after one and ull be fine. Should be soloable even with lower gear just takes longer and more atention, keep SS up and Flash on Art of War to keep ur health up.

Comment by Ronogrinn

Soloed with a lvl 80 demo lock fel guard tanking it just dot and HF/DL back and forth and keep dots up if u pull aggro pop soul shatter and slow up on DPS last to spells i got him with was incinerate soulfire all in all easy

Comment by 447904

Soloed as a shadow priest with +-219 lvl gear. With all buffs on (including very usefull shadow protection) it wasn't hard to kill him. Just dispell his dots on you and don't forget to use Vampiric Embrace so you get enough healing.

It is not really hard, just mind your cooldowns... they can come in handy! Good luck...

Comment by gretten

I couldn't solo this guy as a Destruction specced warlock (0/13/58, raidgeared), so I switched to my PVP spec (0/17/54) for Soul Link and Nether Protection, worked like a charm. Had to blow healthstone as well as a health pot. I found out that running away while he was casting Mind Flay and then stunning him after to get some extra nukes in worked perfectly.

Comment by Wither

Soloed as elemental shaman with ilvl 200 gear. He hits quite hard so alternated between flame shock + lava burst and healing wave. Kept tremor up to avoid fears and purged him when he does renew.

Thunderstorm can help interrupt his mind flay and get some breathing room. Popped bloodlust at 40%.

Comment by Yuksu93

"Cause there ain't No rest for the Wicked, Money don't grow on trees, we got bills to pay, we got mouths to feed, there ain't nothin in this world for free..."

Comment by Hypokill

Solo'd as a 80 DK with few pieces of raiding T9 and around iLvl 200 gear.

First thing I did was pop Army of the Dead and got him down to about 15,000 life before the entire army had died. Popped Mark of Blood ASAP for the quick heals and tried to keep my anti-magic shell up while he was mind flaying, also remember that interrupt spells don't work against him.

And watch his DoT's, he got me right at the end (I had 3k life left when I killed him and anti-magic shell was on CD, killed me with his dots that tick around 1k.)

Mind Flay hits for 1500 per second, btw.

Comment by Btjee94

as a DK ( blood dps specced ) with tanking gear ~35K Unbuffed it was very easy, just pop your army just pop hysteria while your army is up then spam death strike when you get aggro and (s)he will be down in no time,

btw it was full T6 priest set right ? :P

Comment by 460825

Very easilly soloable as a Level 80 Discipline Priest in mostly 232/245 PvE healer gear. No consumables used. Didn't even bother to pop trinkets. Only two real tips is to use Fear Ward and to dispel offensively when he does a renew on himself.

Shouldn't pose much of a problem even for a priest who isn't very geared yet. Picking up some Fate Runes might be a good idea if you're less geared. :-) I did have to heal myself quite a bit though, but weaving in some damage dealing and some DoTs wasn't too hard.

A full 5-man party for this is definitely overkill.

Comment by 483130

The title is a reference to the song "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked" by Cage The Elephant
Props to Blizzard for using Indie music connections :]

Comment by alexwow

one-manned as arcane mage with a gearscore of 5717:
1) summoned him
2) popped mirror images
3) popped Icy veins, trinket, arcane power
4) AB spam to death whilst he was busy with my mirror images.

Comment by 349242

Duo'd at level 79. Prot Paladin and Shadow Priest throwing out heals. He's fully stunnable now. Cake walk

Comment by vartsika

he was very easy as 80 lvl prot warr about 219 i level i didnt pop even 1 of my cds

Comment by hascat

Easily solo'd as a BM hunter in T9. The mind flay thing he hit my bear pretty hard, but mend pet offset that enough that I was able to DPS him down before my bear died. Bear was at 25% or so health when we beat him.

The other tricky bit for hunters trying to solo this is the mind control or fear or whatever it is. My bear came very close to running into some of those mages, which could have been a real mess. Clear the mages near the crystal before starting (if they've respawned) and try to fight him there.

Comment by 206461

Solo'd as an 80 Ret Pally. Half t9, half ilvl 200 or less gear. Put on Kings, and Seal of Light, and used every Art of War to drop Flash of Light. No stuns, only popped Divine Shield. No fear. Perhaps they have nerfed him even further. Art of War and Seal of Light was plenty to heal through his melee, it was the Mind Flay which had me hardcasting the Flash of Lights without AoW. All in all, pretty easy. Never fell below 35-40%

Comment by 235370

I remembered this Guy from my other Characters which, most of the Time, gave me Nightmares.
My personal Advice as an Affliction Lock with Demon SubSpec ( 0|56|15 ) is to take it easy...

Apply a Shadow Ward on your Self then start the Fight with Curse of the Elements followed by Corruption & Immolate and then just Health Funnel your Felguard or Drain Life Alumeth depending on who he's attacking.

Didn't even had to use a Healthstone.

Comment by Bogrim

If you pull him into the back of the room, the fear won't last long enough for you to reach any of the mobs in the room. Note that the heal is a magic buff (Renew), which can be either dispelled or stolen.

Comment by 86590

Soloed as an Affliction Warlock (well geared, avg ilvl 245).

Simply used the VW, kept CoW up, spammed Health Funnel and used Haunt/Corruption/UA when I got some threat headroom. Took a few minutes because threat is a big issue when using the VW, but he went down without any major issues. His Mind Flay does hit hard, though.

Comment by Arixsus

Soloed this as a 79 Prot paladin. Was easy to get him down for the most part til about 45% then his self heals were faster then my damage output. I did have to use divine shield, and a pot along with along with divine protection. He is not immune to HoJ or Holy wrath so I used those every time they were up. towards about 40% I just spammed exorcism and burned my mana but got him down to 10k, enough to get him with HoW a few times and Avengers shield.

Comment by 798203

Just solo'd as a 79 enh shaman. Just popped wolves with bloodlust. used Strength of Earth totem, Searing totem, Healing Stream Totem, and Windfury totem. had windfury on main weapon flame tongue on other. didn't have to heal once. good luck! simple fight. has 104k like posted as a change in 3.08

Comment by 311320

you need Alumeth's Remains to awake Amuleth.

Comment by Claircy

Hp nerfed down to 104k.

Comment by selkie47

Everyone was stating that this is soloable without mentioning the part about how to SUMMON the guy. Look around the room (where you just were killing cultists for the 3 document drops) and you will see the boxes containing the items you need.

Comment by 1440987

No Rest For The Wicked http://youtu.be/UhVzJWwnGIs

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)

Comment by MHGaming

I couldn't solo this for the life of me what with Blizzard's decision to make enemies scale. Now I'm stuck waiting for someone else. Thanks Blizzard. Frost DK with full heirlooms.

Comment by BananaBomb

As of 9.0, this is how I "cheated" the elite quests in Icecrown.
Leveled in Nothrend using Chromie-time. Went to Icecrown as level 29 and had some real problems soloing with the 5man elite quests.
So I did some of the easier quests up to like lvl 35, when I had a handfull of the 5man quests,
I went to Stormwind, asked Chromie to take me back to the present.
Went back to Icecrown and one-shotted the elites, as the zone only scales to lvl 30.
Headed back to Stormwind and Chromie, turned the "timewalking" back on and turned in the elite quests in Icecrwon.

Comment by deepspace8

Being a Night Fae mage came in handy here

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No Rest For The Wicked

Koltira, aboard Orgrim's Hammer, wants you to slay Alumeth the Ascended at Aldur'thar.

	Alumeth the Ascended Defeated (1)
	Alumeth's Heart (1)
	Alumeth's Robes (1)
	Alumeth's Scepter (1)
	Alumeth's Skull (1)
	Suggested players: 5 (1)

Description

These fools have actually stumbled upon something that could pose a serious threat to our plans!

The leader of this particular sect, Alumeth, has ritualistically sacrificed himself and now his underlings are channeling power to his soul.

If he's allowed to rest, their efforts will soon transform him into a mighty adversary.

Combine his heart, skull, scepter and robes from around their chamber and use his remains on the crystal there.

Hurry, <race>! Destroy him before he becomes any more powerful!

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Polished Zombie Exterminator			Encrusted Zombie Finger
	Touch of Unlife

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13367))