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1.	Help Mama Wheeler
2.	One Demon's Trash...
3.	Declawing Doomclaw
4.	Warn Area 52!
5.	Doctor Vomisa, Ph.T.
6.	You, Robot
7.	Back to the Chief!

Storyline
Netherstorm Distraction at Manaforge B'naar Measuring Warp Energies Naaru Technology B'naar Console Transcription Shutting Down Manaforge B'naar Attack on Manaforge Coruu Shutting Down Manaforge Coruu Shutting Down Manaforge Duro Shutting Down Manaforge Ara Sunfury Briefings Outside Assistance A Dark Pact Aldor No More Socrethar's Shadow Ishanah's Help Deathblow to the Legion Manaforge B'naar Bloodgem Crystals High Value Targets Shutting Down Manaforge B'naar Stealth Flight Behind Enemy Lines A Convincing Disguise Information Gathering Shutting Down Manaforge Coruu Return to Thalodien Shutting Down Manaforge Duro Shutting Down Manaforge Ara Kick Them While They're Down A Defector Damning Evidence A Gift for Voren'thal Bound for Glory Turning Point You're Hired! Assisting the Consortium Assisting the Consortium Report to Engineering Essence for the Engines Elemental Power Extraction Invaluable Asset Zapping Dr. Boom! Consortium Crystal Collection A Heap of Ethereals Warp-Raider Nesaad Request for Assistance Rightful Repossession An Audience with the Prince Triangulation Point One Triangulation Point Two Full Triangle Special Delivery to Shattrath City Pick Your Part One Demon's Trash... Declawing Doomclaw Warn Area 52! Doctor Vomisa, Ph.T. You, Robot Back to the Chief! The Archmage's Staff Rebuilding the Staff Malevolent Remnants The Annals of Kirin'Var Searching for Evidence A Lingering Suspicion Capturing the Phylactery Destroy Naberius! Curse of the Violet Tower The Sigil of Krasus The Sunfury Garrison Down With Daellis A Fate Worse Than Death The Unending Invasion Potential Energy Source Building a Perimeter Krasus's Compendium Torching Sunfury Hold Unlocking the Compendium Summoner Kanthin's Prize Ar'kelos the Guardian Finding the Keymaster Capturing the Keystone Run a Diagnostic! Deal With the Saboteurs To the Stormspire Diagnosis: Critical Testing the Prototype All Clear! Success! A Not-So-Modest Proposal Getting Down to Business Formal Introductions A Promising Start Troublesome Distractions Securing the Celestial Ridge The Ethereum Ethereum Data Potential for Brain Damage = High S-A-B-O-T-A-G-E Delivering the Message Recipe for Destruction On Nethery Wings Dimensius the All-Devouring

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Comment by InfinityX

This has to be one of the most interesting solo quests in the Burning Crusade.

When you start the quest, Doctor Vomisa gives you the Scrap Reaver Controller. When used, you'll gain the Scrap Reaver X6000 under your control, just like a hunter or warlock pet (not direct control, like Mind Control). The Scrap Reaver has three abilities at your disposal. All three abilities are on a linked 10 second cooldown. One ability is a two second stun, which isn't nearly as useful as the other 2 abilities in almost all situations. The second ability is called "Smash" (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=34618). It deals a large amount of instant damage, and causes a very large amount of threat, as the tooltip describes. You should use this as soon as the fight starts to be sure you or any allies you have helping you do not get aggro from Negatron. He hits extremely hard and should only be tanked by the Scrap Reaver. The Reaver's last ability is a self-heal, named "Repair" (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=34619). It heals 10,000 damage over 10 seconds (1000 per second), regardless of the odd/buggy tooltip. This ability should be used early, and not as a last resort after your Reaver is low on health. Be aware that Negatron has a 75% healing effect reduction ability called "Demolish." Try to time your repairs when your Reaver is not afflicted by Demolish.

This quest will take a few tries, so don't get frustrated if you aren't able to complete it at first. It's a decent challenge, but just be patient and get a feel for when to use your Reaver's abilities. Be sure not to walk too far away from Vomisa's console, or you'll lose control of the Scrap Reaver and Negatron will make a beeline to you, and he is much faster than players on foot.

Comment by dekz

Slam a couple of times at the start of the fight to give the robot initial threat. Then DPS whilst spamming the heal ability. Slam whilst the robot is above 40%, spam heal if he has less hp. You need to dps this fight, healers don't stand back and spam heal the pet, too much dmg to heal trough.

Comment by 13233

I only did one Smash at start and then spam heal... used KTM to control aggro and it was easy.

Comment by Vouz

Tip: Mages, dont summon your Elemental

Comment by 13075

Soloed him alone, just give him some slams and further more just heal your pet, and attack him urself also

Comment by Glassjaw

This quest is rediculous, it is impossible to get range as a hunter. I can't even get at shooting range unless he's doing his earthquake move which is not frequently. This quest is beyond annoying because of this, I've died 4 times now due to this bug.

Update: Can't even get range when he's earthquaking now, and my pet just random disappeared. Great! Love repair bills every 2 minutes.

Comment by 18085

Very easy if you have Improved Leader of the Pack, since the pet gets it as well. I only looked once near the end but I think ILotP heals it for 2400 or so everytime it crits.

Comment by Hellreject

This was, most lilkely, the best quest that I've encountered for a long time. Great solo potential if you use your Reaver the correct way.

Used slam and smash in the beginning, and as I was a warrior I had sunders up all the time and I never took aggro. That way both me and the reaver had max damage on the target. Used his healing ability like a madman, and had up Commanding Shout for the extra HP buff. Note that I was very careful when I applied sunders, as I didn't want to take aggro.

Too bad that the rewards didn't really benefit me in any way, except for the space helmet. That was great fun.

EDIT: This information is no longer relevant, as the quest has been changed several times since it's original posting.

Comment by 20474

Soloed it as an 69 Frost mage. Just smash once and then spam heal. But Frost Mages beware: I died two times because I summoned my Water Elemental. When it appeared the Scrap Reaver vanished and Negatron quickly killed me. So just stand back outside of his earthquake, spam heal and spam your nuke.

Comment by 21871

sadly for hunters we cant use our normal pet! also DO NOT FEIGN DEATH!! the robot well despawn and you'll have to start over again. i love this quest great fun!!:)

Comment by ilovemrdoe

It seems the Negatron targets the person on top of the aggro list, but for soem reason stays in melee range of the person in second place of the aggro list. I say this 'cos on most of my tries he stuck close to me while tagetting X6000 and then another try when an alliance strated helping he never pulled aggro but the Negatron after a while ran over to the alliance and stuck close to him, saldy the alliance got spooked and ran off, causing the X6000 to go out of range and despawn and the Negatron to batter him, then me :(

Comment by 6780

Soloable. Start off with his special attack so he gets aggro. Then just hit his heal whenever it comes up (but only if he isn't mortal striked). It may take a little while, but it is doable.

Comment by 22874

I am having a problem with this quest. Everything is going along fine, my Fel Reaver will be at half health or more, and once Negatron gets to about 10-15%, my Reaver despawns and Nega whoops on me. I've tried about 10 times, and everytime it's the exact same thing. I'm trying this solo, and the only thing I can think is if there's some sort of time limit? I know others have said it's been slow for them, but is my pally damage so low that I'm exceeding a time limit? So far it seems like I''m the only one having this problem...

Comment by edeen

I did this at level 69 with my hunter (Marksmanship specced).

First time I forgot to use heal (:D)

Second time I went out of range of the console, but hey..

Third time I made it.

Basicly, you will also need to DPS, since the robot alone doesn't do that much DPS...
Will take ages.

Tooltip of the heal is bugged, but heals 1000/s, and 250 if Mortal Striked.

Mortal Strike lasts 5 seconds, so if you pop the heal, and then the hostile robot MS's, the heal will do 5000 + 1250.

Summon your pet and you're doomed :D

Comment by Nimchip

soloed as a fury warrior, i followed what the above comments said:
first i used SMASH, then i spammed REPAIR regarldless if he had the debuff or not. I then started dpsing - never had to smash again, but other classes might need to be careful. Try not to HS that much and instead use slam or something. He took a while but he went down and i finished the quest. Just keep spamming REPAIR.

Comment by fleetfoot

Very soloable, did it as a 70 demon lock, just smashed slam in the beginning and then applied agony, corr and immolate all the while smashing the heal button. Had to soulshatter in the end to reduce aggro from me, but other than that it was a breeze. Very fun tho.

Comment by Shicken

easily solo'd as a 70 holy pally. used my 2h to do light dps(only kind i have)

smash once, keep smashing till he's at around 60% then spam repair. when negatron gets to about 10% and if the fel reaver is still at 30%+, spam smash to kill.

Comment by gulgar

i'm having the same issue with the robot despawning when negatron is @ 10%, and then he woops on me. I assumed it was a stealth patch that blizzard did.

Comment by 26106

i've killed negatron, but was not able to complete the quest.
bugy or something special to do?

Comment by 26925

rewarded with 11g 48s at lvl 70

Comment by Owel

I was able to solo this q as a lvl 69 warrior just sundered and demol shout, keep healing robot and use smash when ur bot has over half hp

Comment by 26481

Robot seems to go offline every time you get the mini-boss to 20% now. Not very cool when you spent all your mana keeping your pet topped off and spamming slams imho

Comment by koshi

Definately solo'able, did this with a cb/prep/hemo rogue. Just keep spamming the Fel reaver's heal and you should be ok.

Comment by 25141

A tip for hunters wanting to solo this, if you get charged at any time during the attempt you will want to reset it because from then on Negatron will always try to be within melee range of you even if you did not aggro him. To avoid this, I used Smash first thing to get aggro on the robot, then ran away to approximately 30 yards and started firing away. I kept Hunters Mark and Scorpid Sting up the entire fight. I also used Misdirection + Distracting Shot onto the felreaver pet to make sure I never pulled aggro. Between 30-35 yards away is the "Sweet spot" where Negatron will not charge you and you will be unaffected by the earthquake. By the way, try not to go out of 35 yard range because everytime I did that the pet despawned and Negatron came after me. Good luck.

Comment by 6225

Will be much easier if you get a healer pal so you can get the robot to slam while he heals it.

Comment by 26020

as a 70 UD warrior MS build, all i really did was 1 smash a repair then another smash followed by all repairs and it worked well. i did auto-attack which helped a little but when he was at 30 percent i popped recklessness and it was over.

Comment by 31458

Solo'd it as a resto shaman at 70. Took forever to kill him, but auto-attack, searing totem, and flame shock finally did the trick. You could probably keep the robot up forever as long as you use his repair ability enough, so don't worry if your DPS is low. I popped Bloodlust at 30% or so and noticed that the robot benefits from it also.

Comment by Gantor

Solo'd as a 70 fury warrior on the second try. I used Repair whenever the healing debuff wasn't on the robot. When it was, I used Smash. It ended up being close, though... my robot died when Negatron was at about 8%. I managed to finish Negatron off just in time.

This is one of the coolest quests in the game imo.

Comment by 30769

Hunters, you can use Kill Command for the robot :D

Comment by 35202

Did it as 70 Warlock on the third try. During the successful try, I slammed only the first 2 times und then continued only repairing. Could go out full on damage without getting aggro. My Pet Reaver was at around 35% when Negatron went down.

Make sure to stand close to the Negatron yourself, or else he will charge you. His Earthquake does only little damage and is nothing to worry about.

Comment by 29652

Easily soloed on PvE servers..

A real gank magnet quest otherwise.

Comment by 21877

I just found out that you cannot just let the robot solo the whole time due to some time limit. Damage must be done to Negatron by you or another player on this quest. I'm a holy priest; I tried to solo heal the pet while it tanked. I was only healing and doing no damage myself. It was working fine until Negatron got down to about 15% then my pet despawned, leaving me as the only target. I didn't last long. After another try with the same result I was forced to find a group to finish the quest.

Comment by Helmet

warlocks be adviced that you can use health funnel on your pet, giving it just a bit extra hp :)

Edit:
Mind you that this comment was written when patch 2.0.* was still running, during this time one could easily solo this quest, however this quest changed in a patch after (2.3 if I recall correctly) which supposedly made it near impossible to solo.

Comment by junga

This is the most funniest quest i've ever done :)

Very easy quest, use 2 slams and dps! use repair when ur pet need heals etc :)
I would like to do it again ;)

Comment by 27991

"oh easy quest!! I have solo it lvl 69 frost mage, Look i rulzzz!"

Clearly not. This quest is incredibly based on luck. If you want to do this properly, then get 2-3 people to help you out. I do not see how people can say this is soloable, its soloable down to luck. I have tried 5 times solo, and its failed. I get a lot of misses, and dodges, 10 seconds for a miss? Is this exactly "soloable". Its not. The robot despawns after 2-3 minutes.

"all i did was spam heal!!!" - Err, the mob does mortal strike + earthquake, god knows how you kept up the healing on this.

This quest is not the funniest quest in game, id rather run naked in my back garden than call this quest "fun". It is a headache, just get a group if you wish to get this quest done first time. However you might be lucky and get 10k crits each time, and your robot dodges a lot of the mobs hits. Though for me never happened once in the 7 tries.

Comment by 41188

The smash did nothing to hold aggro.
The robot was a LOT higher than me in KTM and the damn thing kept aggroing me anyway. The repair-function seems out of order. Not once did I see my robots health actually rise.
All in all making this quest damn hard.

Comment by imrielle

Just soloed this as a Balance spec'd druid, it took two deaths to figure out how to do this alone.

Started off with a Slam to generate agro, followed by Repair. I found that alternating Slam and Repair works best - the stun is useless. I spammed Starfire for slow but noticeable DPS (3k crits, better than Wrath for this as you don't want to steal agro. He hit for 4k on my druid.)

It is of note to say that Force of Nature (Treants) do NOT hurt your control of the robot, so feel free to summon them. It is also of note to mention that it is a waste of mana to heal the robot using your own spells, 99% of the heal is wasted, as it just doesn't land on the robot.

Comment by 13225

I see no way to control him ? where are the controls? There is just a switch on and wait for death ...... My party member took control next time and all was well he had the tabs. I may have been blind. :)

Comment by 34773

i just did this quest once and i could not turn it in after a clean, successful attempt, in my second attempt i experienced the hunter distance bug, is it a bug or am i doing something wrong? hmm. trying a third attempt now.

Comment by 46634

Smash heal smash.
Smash heal smash.
Smash smash smash!
Heal heal heal!

Comment by 10379

Did it alone as a fresh lvl 70 shadow priest. Actually pretty easy when you know what you're doing. I used the robot to tank, while I did the dps. Used only 3 smash (or whatever the name of the attack - not the stun) just to make sure robot kept aggro. Rest of time I used the repair (heal) thing on him, while I dotted and mind flay the big guy. Sent shadow fiend to get mana back, and voila! :)

Comment by 45072

tried soloing this as a 70 holy priest in my dps gear, the robot kept aggro easily, i just alternately used smash and repair, occasionally healing the robot, and keeping SWP and holy fire on negatron, but the damn robot despawned when the elite was at 10%

retried with my healing gear on and a 68 druid in the group and downed him easy

Comment by bennetta

If you're a Warlock, you can use health funnel on your bot to regenerate his health. It won't regenerate very much, but hey if you want to, go for it. This might be useful so you can spam more smashes instead of heals to keep aggro up, especially if you're Affliction specced and want to dot up Negatron.

Most mechanical mobs are immune to "life" effects such as siphon life and drain life. I guess it's a bit tough to siphon the life out of a machine. Anyway, he's not immune to either, so siphon/drain away.

Comment by 49719

68 hunter, tried 3 times, my robot was disappeared when the big one's health reduced to 3%. Last time i've kited it for a while, finally killed it.

Comment by 1291

Soled as Mut/Combat rogue. Used smash only once, then nothing but the healing ability afterwards. Unloaded on the guy without feinting, never once did I pull aggro off it, hence only one smash should do it, then just spam its heal.

Comment by sixnine

Well this just isnt happening for me...

If I use Smash then Heal the timer runs out...
If I use smash then heal, heal, heal and smash when i have a reasonable amount of health I still run out of time...

This quest is horrible =/

Onto my 5th try...
6th...
7th

Nah screw it this is taking the piss -.-

Comment by Jezalov

Negatron kept following me, so I couldn't shoot him, I had to stand and melee him >.< Very annoying quest as a hunter, though pretty fun

Comment by Tunguska

I solo'd this on my hunter (MM). Just remember no pet. What was weird is that I never pulled Negatron onto me even with a long string of crits. I did use a mana pot, but other than that, it wasn't at all bad to solo.

Comment by 1587

Surprised nobody's mentioned this yet. The name of this quest is a reference to the Isaac Asimov science fiction story, "I, Robot".

Comment by Drelf

I did this as a feral Druid in cat form and with significant dps. This was easily soloable and at the end of the fight, neither I nor the robot were below 90% health.

I did a slam to generate aggro then spammed repairs. I used my normal dps attacks "mangle" that can normally take the aggro off a tank. The robot didn't lost aggro once.

The robot didn't get below 74% health. There was no chance to lose this battle and at no time did I need to heal.

Comment by 149

Very easy for my Ret paladin. Started with Smash, then used Repair until Negatron died. I just stood behind Negatron attacking for the extra damage boost needed to kill it. All in all, easy to solo.

If you have the ability to do this quest, DO IT NOW! Come patch, he won't have Repair, so you'll actually need a group.

Comment by Suhov

In 2.1. he no longer have repair ability.

Comment by 25329

well after the 2.1 patch this should be signifgantly harder to solo....
u cant repair annymore.....so u actualay need a grp to dps him down before the robot dies....sad but thats how it is

Comment by 13189

This quest was changed in patch 2.1

You can no longer use the "repair" ability. You will now need a group to complete it. (Confirmed by a GM)

Comment by Drelf

Apparently the repair function has been removed as of 2.1.0. Have not confirmed this though as I have already completed this quest.

Comment by 57225

patch 2.1 removed the repair ability. really suck now.

Comment by bennetta

I seriously doubt this quest is soloable for anyone because, as mentioned, the robot pet's repair ability was removed.

A 70 mage and myself did help a 70 hunter with this quest out last night, however. Both the mage and hunter were all epic'd out and I'm a level 68 shadow priest with moderate gear for my level. The mage and hunter both dps'd the robot and I strapped my rather gimp healing gear on and I spammed heals on the robot while he held aggro. It was tough and I ran out of mana at the very end, but we did it. Prayer of mending really helped us get through Negatron's aoe.

The bottom line here, I guess, is that it's no longer soloable, but you don't need a full 5-man to do it, either.

Comment by Najcc

In your face, Blizzard. Just soloed as a 70 mage in my pve gear (spellfire + spellstrike). 33/28 scorch spam spec. Spammed the robot's threat/damage ability as often as possible and he kept barely ahead of me on threat the whole time. X6000 died when Negatron as at like 11k or so health. Trink + pom+pyro, fireblast, blink, scorch, blastwave, arcane explosion, and he was dead. He did hit me twice, for 1600+ and 1400+ though. Shoulda fraps'ed it.

Comment by skylight1

I cannot stress how easy this is. You complete the quest wether your robot lives or dies. Kite the boss back to Area 52. Let the guards take care of him. Watch the guard's hp and gg. Easy blue reward and a good 13g. (Rougly 15k xp)

Comment by 23043

anyone have coordinates?

Comment by 57225

The quest giver is just east of Area 52 half way to the bridge on left side of the road.

Tried kiting Negatron to Area 52 but he either resets or catches up and kills me! The fel reaver toy despawns if you go too far from the goblin and there does seem to be a timer on the fight. Me and another priest tried healing through it but after a while he just resets.

I ended up asking for 2 other ppl to help (1 extra dps would've been plenty) and got it done easy.

Comment by Marudas

I did this quest last night (6/20) with a hunter helping me. I took control of the Scrap Reaver (Holy Paladin) while the hunter did DPS. Overall not a difficult thing, Smash (The aggro/damage ability) is very nice to use at the start of the fight, at least a few times to build up aggro. However, i dont think Slam is as useless as some people make it out to be. To ease the pain of healing this robot, I used the slam to interupt Negatron's channeled ability, Earthquake. It seemed to help.

The other thing to be aware of, is the seeming glitch with Negatron. He seemed at first that my hunter had pulled aggro, because Negatron started advancing towards her, But aggro was still on the Scrap Reaver. Negatron just kept sliding at her, which was a pain in the ass due to the range factor needed as a hunter.

Lastly, If your healing the Reaver (Since the Heal function has been removed) always check to make sure he isnt "Devastated" when you do so. It's Icon is the same as Mortal strike, and the effect is simmilar (75% Reduced effect from healing).

EDIT: Coordinates are 37,63

Comment by 22114

Just soloed this with the new Scrap Reaver that has no repair ( patch 2.1 ). So it *is* still possible to solo it. But depending on your class and spec you might not be able to.

I have about 800 spell damage and 11% crit. Finished the fight with 1000 DPS (including the pet damage). I made liberal use of mana pots. You will run low on mana so life tap/evocate if your a lock/mage. It still wouldn't hurt to bring mana pots since you don't want to be spending much time getting mana and not DPSing.

Being a shadow priest I produce a ton of threat and the reaver was able to hold aggro. I never used stun because the 4000 or so damage plus threat from smash is too good. And it will add to your DPS since what you want to do is DPS as fast and as hard as you can before scrap reaver dies.

I barely made it out. The scrap reaver died when negatron was at 1% and I managed to live long enough to squeeze out a victory.

Comment by 22114

Sorry double post

Comment by Drakee

spoof of will smiths movie I,Robot

Comment by 73537

Frost Mage - Soloed... Kinda lol. Others may try Tho using my same Dynamics.

Materials Needed: Swiftness Potion.

*Note: I'd say health potion but the swiftness pot kills the CD. <3

Start the quest, When u start it, throw up frost shield... Back up to the torch right next to the road. Then spam ur pet attack button so that ur pet moves to Negatron the second he pops aggressive. Let the pet smack him a bit, then using Ice Lance, you hit em once or twice.

*Note: Ice Lance is a low DPS insta cast spell, I use it to create LOW hate. You'll see why in a minute.

Then stun negatron with the pet, and start bookin towards Area 52. Make sure, however, you make sure to ice lance when u think you might deagro the guy. To assist with that, JUST to make sure, I pulled out my water elemental. Also, if negatron got too close early, since my ice lances are so low DPS, and my pets hit pretty hard, my pet would pull him in the opposite direction giving me more head start. Between your travels from the initiating the quest, to Area 52, you'll notice negatron is one fast motha fu<ka. So when u think hes getting kinda close for comfort, pop that swiftness pot. It will put u to a running speed, I thought, was the same speed (%50) or a TINY bit faster... I don't know, I didn't care... He was fast, so i got fast.

Upon entering the town, you are NOT out of the clear. The guards who are "Agents" as the last part of their names, will NOT help you... So don't hang out around them thinking they will... It is the Brusiers that run in to smack megatron. SO, I ran through the doorway closest to the Gryphon master (Still had swiftness up) Forward, then taking an immediate left across the bridge that heads to the engineering supplier, agroing the brusiers around me... (CONTINUE ICE LANCING AS NEEDED, YOU CAN LOSE AGRO EVEN WITH BRUISERS BASHING HIM!) Then i continued into almost a square by taking a right running to the other bridge.

**Note Somewhere in town between the agroing the guards and going across the OTHER bridge to the inn, i Ice blocked... When i ice blocked, I allowed the bruisers to get agro, so i stayed Blocked the full duration**

Now if you're lucky, as I was, Allies AND horde in town see this going on and are like "DAMN I WANT TO KILLZ THE BOT!!!!" And help you out...If not, well, you got cold snap, Ice barrier, and Ice block with the water elemental for a short distraction to keep ya goin. Just keep agroing all the bruisers u can, cus he swats em down. GL

*NOTE: Used Ice Lance btw if you didnt catch it, because it does low dps, and causes the lowest amount of threat while i was moving, needed to make it easy for the guards to pull hate off me.*

Comment by 72483

The quest name is a reference/pun to Isaac Asimov's work "I, Robot".

Comment by 67891

Don't wander too far away from the quest giver, the Scrap Reaver will despawn, and Negatron will kill you.

Comment by Gann1

Soloed as a resto shaman. I kept searing totem down, healed the reaver, and used Smash every cooldown. Not too hard.

Comment by 82140

easy to solo at lvl 67 warrior

Comment by 58865

Getting really annoyed at this quest, killed the damn robot twice with my holy pally, second time with an undead rogue adding some dps to the robot.. But can´t finish it.

Comment by 17244

A HUGE tip for hunters!

Most pet abilities like Kill Command will show that they are active during the fight, however when you try to use them they will display "You don't have a pet."

However!

It seems healing pet abilities do work - namely, Leader of the pack, and more importantly, Mend Pet works!

Comment by redandgray

Painful lessons:
* If you are healing the Reaver, you have to target Negatron in order to perform any of the pet attacks (e.g. Smash).
* Healing the Reaver gave me aggro even after using Smash 3 times.
* Negatron charges when you try to run away.

Conclusion: not solo-able.

Comment by 75850

did it with my 68 retri paladin with help of 70 druid i healed while robot and druid attacked never used slam. when out of mana druid gave me mana buff i waited till mana up then same tactic when megatron down scrap reaver had around 20% health

Comment by 96706

Just soloed as a 70 Feral druid in tank gear. Had around 19k+ armor, 15k+ HP, 30%+ dodge. I just buffed up with everything I could lay my hands on (pots, scrolls, spells), summoned him, went bear and took the agro. I periodically used the slam ability for the DPS and then immediately growled to get agro back. I had to use frienzied regen with a full rage bar during the fight, and when things started going pear shaped again I used slam to dump all the agro on the pet and then shifted out to heal right back up. This technique seemed quite viable. Rinse and repeat. The pet had about 45% HP left at the end. Each slam was doing around 3500-4000 damage with Nega having some 110k HP so using the twin tank technique worked well and we outlasted him.

Comment by lcbagna

To avoid problems with this quest is requested a very good healer and a DPS.

Me, an elem shammy lvl70 (but still light geared), and a shadow priest lvl 70 failed it three times cause we hadnt enough mana to heal and dps. When a true healer came helping us we did it very easy.

Negatron has an AOE ability called Earthquake who deals damage in a short range...casters have to stay away from him. Let your Scrap Reaver getting aggro before do some DPS and use his Smash ability on every cooldown if you dont want have Negatron on you...

Comment by 41100

Prot warriors can solo this as well.

Negatron is tauntable. Use the robot's smash ability whenever available (every 10 sec), and when he gets aggro, taunt Negatron back off him.

If you get low health, let the pet tank (let him get a few smashes in and dont taunt) so you can bandage up (wait til right after an earthquake to bandage).

Remember to keep demo shout and thunderclap on Negatron, keep him fully sundered of course, and the pet can benefit from battle shout.

I was able to solo it without needing to health pot (i think i bandaged 2 times) or shield wall or last stand, but i did not do this quest as a fresh 70. If youre taking a lot of damage, use your first health pot early and let the pet tank when needed for bandaging. You may be able to get a 2nd health pot in, and if it's really close at the end, shield wall and last stand.

Comment by 73568

I was pretty disappointed as well to see the heal button missing now... I have done this quest twice on other toons in the past, and thought I was having UI troubles until I checked wowhead here and saw that it was changed in a recent patch.

Solo'd tonight as a shadow priest however. Reasonably well geared, about +750 shadow damage. I was able to just spam the pets smash ability every time the cooldown was up, while at the same time DPSing the reaver like I would any normal mob - SW:P, VE, VT, Mind blast and mind flays. The vampiric healing kept the little reaver up, though I finished the fight with only 5/100 hp left on him and had to use a mana pot as the fight was pretty long.

Comment by 68759

couldnt solo it! went till 30% of his life about 6 times and then i got help from warrior and warlock! easy one!

reference to I, robot

Comment by 90006

I haven't seen anyone sayng this but maybe i've missed it (37 comments atm =>) The quest's name is a quote to I, Robot a collection of sci-fi short stories by Isaac Asimov. Which was recently adopted in 2004 in a film with of the same title starrign WIll Smith. (though it's not an actuall adoptation it sure does have a lot of quotes)

Comment by siggboy

Soloable with a hunter. Here's what I did:

1. Put a freezing (slowing) trap slightly up the road towards Area 52.
2. Take control of the pet robot, wait for the reaver to appear, target him and spam the bot's slam attack as to grab aggro immediately when the reaver turns hostile.
3. Run back behind your trap and shoot the reaver. If you've placed the trap far enough up the road this will despawn your mechanical pet and the reaver will aggro you.
4. Call your own pet now. You can use it to temporarily distract the reaver if it gets too close to you/starts hitting you. It will also allow you to feign death once without having the reaver reset. He will pwn your pet quickly but it allows you to get some distance.
5. Run towards Area 52, lay a second freezing trap along the way. Sometimes the reaver will not even trigger the trap because he's ran past it before the 2 second trap delay is over. Make sure you keep aggro on the reaver (shooting him once with Arcane Shot was enough in my case).
6. Shortly before I entered Area 52 I had to pop a health potion as not to die. Your mileage may vary.
7. If you get the Area 52 guards to aggro the reaver you're pretty much sorted. If you die your ghost will spawn directly in front of the town gates, just run back in and res. The reaver will still be there, fighting the guards. Keep assisting them. As has been correctly mentioned above, the goblin "guards" (Netherstorm Agents) will not help you, but the two elite ogres in front of the Arena vendor building will. So make sure you get the reaver into their aggro range. Feign Death as soon as you see them aggroing the reaver.

Optionally you can use speed buffing measures (nifty stopwatch, swiftness potion, even cheetah aspect), your mileage may vary here. If the freezing traps trigger and you use your pet/FD ability smartly it is possible to get to Area 52 without any speed boosts, however.

The reaver killed at least two guards, and two players who jumped in to help. All in all, it was pretty priceless to watch him cause havoc in the town while shooting him from behind.

Highly recommended ;-).

Comment by 110653

I just soloed this today as a lvl 70 Warlock, after 5 tries.

Blue Equipment, with Frozen Shadoweave set on. Affliction Spec

As the fight starts, Negatron immediately aggros your pet. I opened with a Smash, and kept repeating Smash as often as the cooldowns let me.

Smash has a 10 Second cooldown.

I popped Immolate, Unstable Affliction, Curse of Agony, Corruption, and Siphon Life. ~9.5 seconds worth of spells.

Then I went onto to Heal my pet the way that warlocks do, which is a 10 second channel. I popped Smash as soon as the Heal started, and again after it ended.

Rinse and Repeat. Usually I wait until my DoT's have run thier course before I re-cast. With the Exception of Siphon Life, I didn't bother this fight. You're going to be almost constantly channeling health into your pet, so you don't want to interrupt your cast to reapply dots. Negatron WILL eventually win via attrition this way, so you have to do as much fast damage as you can.

An additional note. You should always keep your pet in between you and Negatron. The reason for this is your pet healing spell has a low range in comparison to everything else. If you are too close to Negatron trying to heal your pet, you will get interrupted with the Earthquake spell that occurs, and be stunned for several seconds.

It was a very close fight, with my pet on its last sliver of health before Negatron finally bit it.

Comment by Euros

The warlock's 2/5 T5 bonus will work on the scrap reaver

Comment by 118697

Not soloable anymore as you cannot heal the scrap reaver.
Heals land but the scrap reaver won't recieve any health so it's just a waste of mana.

Comment by papercup

Just dragged this guy into area-52 and had him despawn at 5 percent. :(

Comment by 122795

Just solo'd it, 17/44 Fury Warrior. Tossed on my tanking gear, kept him on me most of the time and passed him to the reaver whenever i needed to bandage, easy as pie.

Comment by tompatomp

Soloed as frost mage, 911 frost damage, level 70.

All I did was standing at max range to avoid charge, using the reavers ability that does 3k damage + threat, and spammed frostbolts with icy veins x2 + trinket. My Reaver-pet died when boss was at 8% and I had to summon my elemental for the last 20seconds and kite the Reaver around a bit.

Wouldn't recomend to solo this unless you have 700 spell damage or more, I used mana gem + mana pot, but it was rather simple.

Comment by Fomorx

As a 70 holy priest I just grouped up with a 70 rogue. The rogue used the remote control after which I could heal the scrap reaver. I tried solo before, but it didn't allow me to heal him then. Also, he is buffable, the extra health might just cut it.

Anyway, I had to use a mana potion and some cooldowns, but he went down. Scrap reaver was at 10 pct though, very close fight but fun if you manage it with 2.

Comment by 81359

Just solod this as a 70 shadow priest. Tried the method of healing the reaver but i went oom too fast, so, while the controlled reaver was still alive i just ran to A52, spamming dots on Negatron, then ran inside the room with the Ogre guards.

Luckily he started casting earthquake and by the time he was done the guards had taken aggro. Since the reaver despawned i was able to shadowfiend and just do as much dps as possible. When he died i got credit for the kill.

Comment by hockit

Soloed as a 70 resto druid in mostly pvp healing gear. Tree of life, spam hots, moonfire/wrath a few times, and every 10 seconds switch back to the scrap reaver and use the slam ability. Should take about 4-5 minutes.

Comment by drame

ATTENTION: EASY SOLOABLE DID AS LV 70 ROGUE

1: pull him
2:RUN!!! to area 52 city
3: sit back and enjyo gaurds killing him and maybe a few ppl joins and dies

Comment by 105928

A few notes for shaman doing this quest:

The scrap reaver is affected by totems and bloodlust/heroism, so you can use those to buff the reaver and make it easier. The greater elemental totems do not count as true pets, so you can use them and not lose control of your pet reaver.

Comment by 141951

For what it's worth, the pet is (under certain circumstances) unnecessary for this quest.

Did it today with a friend (resto shaman, 1200 healing); I am a prot pally with 13k hp and a decent amount of avoidance. My friend's UI mods wouldn't let him bring up the pet bar to use its abilities, so it did very little damage, and died even with both of us healing it.

Once the pet died, I picked up Negatron, and tanked him until he died. I had no trouble keeping him aggroed, though the shaman died due to a charge/earthquake. He self-rezzed, and easily kept me up the rest of the fight. It took 12 minutes due to awful tankadin DPS, but we could have gone on quite a bit longer with no trouble. All I did was judge Wisdom on Negatron, seal Wisdom on myself, and keep up Holy Shield and Consecrate, with the occasional Avenging Wrath thrown in. I ran out during the Earthquakes, and just waited for him to come to me afterwards.

He was only hitting me for about 500 damage a shot, although his Demolish (basically a Mortal Strike) was good for about 2k damage. Demolish doesn't stay up for long, though, so it didn't impact the heals on me much at all.

I'm not at all suggesting that this is the ideal way to do it, but having a tank around is very handy if your pet goes down during the fight, or if you are somehow unable to use it (like we were).

Comment by Aillen

compensation is now 11g 48s

Comment by 118228

As a holy paladin with a smittering of kara/S1 and some blues, you should be able to solo this.

I put blessing of light on my reaver and spammed flash of light. Had to use a couple of potions and lay on hands at the end but the baddy robot died first ^^

Comment by 74126

reference to i robot

Comment by 144425

69 prot pally here

They must of nerfed this, as he leashes near the top of the hill near area52. Also was immune to the snare effects of my shield.

ED: The little robot can still be healed/buffed

Comment by ytrill

70 hunter (non-standard BM spec, 48-13-0). I can confirm these techniques work to "solo" this quest as of 9-16-08. I'm ashamed to say it took me 4 tries, and I almost didn't attempt the 4th time because of incorrect info from a guildie that the Reaver had been leashed and would no longer enter Area 52. Here's what I learned:

1. Make sure to place your first Frost Trap in the Proving Grounds, very near the western border where it turns back into Netherstorm general. Because of the geometry of the kite, it worked best when I placed it off the road slightly to the north. This is important because when this guy decides to come for you, he moves out, and it's a beeline...slowing him down while maintaining agro is key to getting to Area 52 in one piece.

2. After placing your first trap, get on with the quest quickly...but not too quickly. It takes several seconds for the quest to set up once you activate the controller, and you don't want that first trap to expire before it can do its job. On the other hand, you want your trap cooldown to work for you so you can set another trap on the way, so timing is critical. On the 4th try my pet bought me more time than I deserved, because I misjudged the timing of the CD and wasn't able to set a second trap.

3. A tough pet is a boon here, buying you time. (I had my cat, but I should have brought my bear.) Also, FD early if you need to...once your pet is gone, you want the CD to run its course ASAP, because you may very well need it again.

4. I believe if you can get 4 bruisers on him and stay alive to put damage on him, he's definitely done. I accomplished this with only the first 2 ogre bruisers on him, plus a couple of players in town who couldn't resist helping.

I basically blew one poorly-timed health pot, FD'd twice (once on the road to Area 52 and once when I over-agroed in town), and had to bandage up twice. My pet took one for the team; that's what they're for, I guess.

I hope this helps. This quest was just about as much fun as I've ever had in this game!

Edit: I forgot to mention that I'm sporting exclusively quested greens/blues. Based on the bone-headed mistakes I made on a SUCCESSFUL attempt, I believe any 68-70 hunter can do this.

Comment by vetisnox

Now soloed this as a 70 affliction warlock, 1st try.

First I let the pet get aggro first, and then I applied UA, Corruption, Siphon Life, and Haunt and refreshed those as necessary as well as smash when it was up. I managed to kill him with the pet having about 10-15 % of its health left.

Comment by 66767

I "soloed" this today on my hunter. The funny thing was that I wasn't the one who started the quest. A 69 alliance pally came and he started the event. We got to an "understanding" with /commands (/wait, /go, stuff like that) and we just hammered away at him. I nuked him down pretty fast (T5/6 geared) and I also got credit for the kill). Pretty fun :)

Comment by Thornaxe

I had some problems with this quest today, i couldnt get Negatron to engage my pet, he went after me regardless of how little i did (curse of elements, a whopping 1 threat), and proceeded to beat the crap out of me. I'm not sure this quest is working properly as of 3.0.2, but I could be mistaken.

Comment by 207341

Not sure if this quest is working, but for me, I tried once to kill him and all was going well, as ab Afflic lock I had dots on him and the robot was doing his job, suddenly when Negatron got to about 5k life left my robot despawned for no reason, I wasn't running about and was well within range.

I died and came back to try again, this time the robot took 1 hit and despawned, tried a 3rd time, same thing....

Not sure whats going on but Negatron wins this round!

Comment by 236734

Very easily soloed this guy today as a holy pally. Pretty simple tank and spank. He hits fairly hard but very manageable as plate wearing healer. Just don't forget to heal the pet and keep aggro on yourself.

Comment by 188301

this quest is waayyyy too hard! i am a lv80! 80! and i tried 3 times to kill this idiot. using both the srapbot-then when he died my special TANKING pet (i'm a hunter), and could not get him down past 27k before dieing ug!

edit: idk what happened with me last night but i logged on in the morning and tried again-and bam! he got powned...musta had aspect of the viper on or something.

Comment by 258919

Even without the repair, it is soloable as a 69/70 healer. Since your attacks really do nothing to the boss, just make sure the robot stays above 50% as much as possible. Bring some mana potions if you can.

I had a 70 healer help me and it was quite easy. You can also use bandages on it.

For all classes: Use smash whenever you can. Don't bother "stunning" it, as it does minimal damage. It's a decently long fight but not too tough if you have a healer.

Comment by 102199

Solo'd on 69 unholy DK with decent gear today:

.. I set up for defense -- mediocre defensive gear: 10.2k armor / 10.8K hp / 328 defense using frost presence
.. weapon was the decent Crystalforged War Axe -- sharpening stone & elixirs of Major Agility / Major Defense were used
.. no ghoul pet was up -- see prior posts if you don't know why

.. I began by letting the X6000 get aggro for a few special hits (no stuns) while I performed standard melee
.. after 3 special hits I started doing genuine DPS
.. before very long I took aggro from the X6000, which was down to around 25% health; the reaver was at about 50% then
.. using Death Strikes and potions I kept myself up between stuns until he was at about 5% health -- I hosed this up a bit, and if I'd been paying a bit more attention and using my Rune Strikes he would have been dead already... so I continued on as a zombie letting the X6000 continue with his special attacks
.. soon the reaver was dead and I was allowed to turn in the quest before the zombie time even expired

I hope that info is helpful for someone. A non-unholy DK might have an easier time with this fight (I've not tried the other DK specs) since they might have other things to help compensate them for no pet DPS.

Cheers.

Comment by 162091

For any Death Knights out there trying to solo this..... mark of blood is your friend. if you use the pet to tank him, mark of blood causes negatron to heal your fel reaver for a good bit every hit. I just solo'd this with my fel tanking and me beating the crap outta negatron.

worked like a charm.

Comment by 320059

I tried a few different tactics to solo as an 80 Druid. Eventually, what I ended up doing is letting the robot tank while I had my toon stand bank (away from the beast's AOE) and heal (HoTs with a healing touch every once in a while) and throwing in the occasional moonfire. The robot kept aggro easy enough with it's big ol' slam attack.

Comment by 337604

Possible reference to the Will Smith movie "I Robot"...if it hasn't been mentioned....

Comment by Meghara1

As a resto druid (80) I decided to just heal my pet and let him kill it. Was all good until a member of the opposite faction came up to help me...and got the tap on the mob somehow...and it didn't complete for me >.< Unsure why this would happen with what others have said about it completing for them...but it did *sighs*

Comment by Blackboy0

I'm guessing this is named after the movie I, Robot

Comment by 358164

Soloed this quest as a 70 resto druid.
Just wanted to say that if you dont do any damage to Negatron, you dont get the quest completed. I managed to kill him just healing the pet, and didnt get the quest. Afterwards, I tried again droping a moonfire and couple spells at the end, and completed the quest.

Comment by Etreum

Pet is worthless. No aggro whatsover. Even if I am not attacking the darn thing goes after me and it hits like a truck.
I ended following the advice of Siggboy above and kitted him to the town. Even like that, it killed my pet and I was within 130 health of dying again, even though I took a health potion and bandaged!

Comment by 315994

just did this on the 3.2 ptr (i was bored) and easily soloed him as lvl 80 belf pally, even though the fel reaver pet died half way through ended up around quarter health with under 2000 mana after healing myself and the pet a couple of times
did it just for the rocket helmet reward on the next one in the chain

Comment by gfysprez

Where to start,
Date: July 6, 2009
Version: 3.1.3

Negatron is cheating!
The Hunter's mend pet ability no longer works - definitely bring friends unless you can heal the robot and still hit Neg

Good Luck

Comment by 152785

Dammm I cant atack the machine i summoned can any one help me

Comment by 333840

If you have some http://www.wowhead.com/?item=38577 , you can make your fel reaver dance! :D Pretty funny imo, it looks like its working out.

Comment by Flakgun

Hunters, if you are attempting to kite him back to Area 52, and he get's too close pop deterrence.

Comment by 449835

Annoying, annoying, annoying, NO idea how you can maintain enough health to complete this quest. A total FAIL, now that Blizzard has taken the repair away.

Comment by Pyronhell

Soloed it today, my rogue and the robot. But I used the helmet and it killed me lol

Comment by Sleutel

Easy solo for an 80 Prot Warrior. I only noticed a single MS-type strike get through, and it hit for about 800 on plate (about 25k armor in the Block set I was wearing). A few AOE hits from the Earthquake AOE were under 200 each.

Comment by 115013

Soloed as a semi-geared 68 holy pally. Required the use of a level 45 mana pot however between keeping ret aura up, judging light and healing the pet and myself via beacon of light, I was able to stomp every cooldown and keep the pet up. The boss has a nasty habit of charging you and using earthquake when you out distance his initial earthquake.

Comment by 30174

I hadn't seen it mentioned, but hunters: You don't have to use the useless scrap reaver. Use the controller, dismiss the reaver, and tank away with your favorite pet. _Much_ easier that way.

Comment by MarUlberg

If you miss the "Just stay nearby! The controller is tied to my console here, and if you get too far away, the robot will cease to function." part, just kite him to Area52 and you will get some help by the guards ;)

Comment by 219207

solod with lvl72 blood dk with tank gear/spec

just watch that you dont pull the aggro from the robot thing you control and use the stun option when he does his small enrage thing

also throw mark of blood on megatron after the pet has lost about 10% health and then its a dps race

Comment by 35666

As of Patch 3.3.2
Solo'd with 70 Enhancement Shaman - spammed the pet robot's damage dealing/threat causing ability, dropped totems including Fire Elemental, dps'd as per usual and healed the robot pet when he started getting low. No real issues, but took a mana pot to keep healing the pet bot. He died when the big Fel Reaver had about 1k hp left and I smacked him good and that was that.

Comment by 523885

Solo it today as a 74 BM hunter, after some failed attempts. Finally, I put my own pet on "aggresive" before taking control of reaver pet, start the quest, put the pet reaver to "stay" near console, take 30 yards up to Area 52. "Hunter's Mark" up and engage with "Smash" abillity of pet reaver. "Scorpid Sting" up (all the fight) and spam "Steady Shot", careful not to overaggro. Never touched reaver pet ability "Slam", just keep pressing "Smash" every time available. When reaver pet dies (that happens - like it or not) the robot was at 65k hp. Call my pet, press "Mend Pet" and "Feign Death" in the same moment because pet cannot gain aggro otherwise. Nor "Intimidation", "Bestial Wrath", "Kill command" or "Misdirection" will help. When he turns to pet, I jumped and run at maximum range and continued with "Scorpid Sting", "Mend Pet" and "Steady Shot" till the end. It looks like in some point (happend also in previous attempts) robot start to hit harder, and I need to use "Last Stand" when I saw the hp of the pet decreasing very fast although for the most part of the fight mending was keeping the pet almost at full hp (1030 per tick).

Comment by 554807

This quest is plainly terrible, but with a lv80 hunter on beast mastery I got a way to do this... Just start the quest as you normally would. Halfaway though the test robot quit on me and my real pet magically took over. I got a tank pet, though it didn't pull the aggro away, but since the robot was gone I could safely feign death so my pet was forced to take over. After that a normal fight for me. Of course I had a gearscore of 4916 at the time (addon)

Comment by 621151

Easily soloable by 73 shadow priest.

Let the pet tank, and spam the smash ability when able. Keep your shield up on it whenever possible. You can even heal (I didnt need to though, the pet ended with like 20K HP).

Get to max DPS range to avoid AOE dmg from Negatron, and then just keep the DoTs up, and mind flay and mind blast. Use Dispersion when out of mana, and a mana pot probably wont be out of the way. Did it without though.

Comment by Etreum

I tried to solo it today with my enhancement shaman (69).

The bot was immune to earthbind totem and frost shock. He hit me a couple of times, once with a stun while I was trying to kite him back to town. We were 10 yards away from the town and I set off earth elemental totem.

I did not die, but I was not able to have him come into the town to have the guards help me. Maybe they changed something?

Comment by 630222

I have try it solo as 68 rogue... No way. Ur robot is going down much more quickly then the enemy.

Comment by 29281

So another 'solo' for the pile. L71 druid, dual spec feral/resto. My initial attempt was to let the bot take aggro, then go cat and do dps. That kinda worked, but there are two problems. First is that the earthquake he does will kill you if you don't heal after it. Next is the fact that you won't be able to dps enough to kill Negatron before the bot dies. Which means you have to go bear form and taunt him off the bot. However you still are taking a lot of damage. This didn't work out for me. Neither did kiting to town since he hits hard, and charges if you get ahead.

So I decided to try going tree and healing. I got the robot active and then clicked on STAY, then I immediately went to flight form and flew up onto the rock above the camp that has a long point. From there the robots were just below me, and this would make sure I didn't get charged or caught in the earthquake. Make sure to use the SMASH ability whenever it is off cooldown. The hardest thing was changing targets, since you have to select the boss to use the smash function, and you need to select the bot to heal it. So I made up a couple target macros to make it easier.

However, you need to make sure you do some DAMAGE to the boss. After a few false starts (trying to stretch the healing out since there is lots of damage) I made it through the fight, but I didn't get credit for completion. I tried again, and this time I hit him with an occasional moonfire. When I completed it, I got credit. So if you are going to heal the fight, make sure to do a bit of damage. I think I only did 3 moonfires, and one was at the very end when I dropped down when he was at 1% - just to be on the safe side. The boss will do a mortal strike (75% healiing reduction) so watch for that.

Comment by 495257

Even as an 80 lock in t10, this quest was a pain in the ass tryin to get in enough dmg to get credit for kill and not pull aggro, as a clothie, u die fast

Comment by Aletto

As of 9/18/2010, the Scrap Reaver can no longer be healed, making this quest even harder.

Comment by DanWildhammer

Absolutely rubbish pet, the smash does no aggro, I'm a level 72 arcane mage and when I do my 4x Arcane Blast fast Missiles, instantly get 100% aggro, smash nothing, ice block and smash, then smash nothing, pet is about as useful as a flying mount would be in a mine

Comment by Chiisai

In patch 4.0.3a, this quest appears to be bugged. When you attempt to use the controller, you get an error message saying "Requires Uncontrolled Scrap Reaver X6000", and there does not appear to be a Scrap Reaver nearby. I contacted a GM about this issue, and after a little investigation he confirmed that the quest was indeed bugged on all realms.

Comment by Palli

Confirmed..
As of 12/2/2010

This quest is broken :[

Comment by GreyPheonix

Still bugged as of 12/6/10.

Negatron is just punching away at the nether-storm rocket.

Comment by 737362

Ok I know this is gonna get rated down for me possibly being a complete retard BUT, where the hell is the Damn Uncontrolled reaver that you're supposed to take control of? I have searched the whole area, even tho it says stay within The Proving Grounds. And I cannot for the life of me find him anywhere ! Help ?

EDIT: Ok, Just saw the previous comments that I couldn't see a minute ago for some reason, and have realised that the quest is bugged =( Lame.... This never would have happened to Will Smith....

Comment by 737794

I managed to discover a bug. I used the 'pet' reaver to attack it, popped icy talons, then ran out of aggro range . Once Negatron killed the controlled reaver, it had zero interest in me and ran toward area 52. Usually the flight chief will yell that it is attacking the rocket and they'll all gang up on it and kill it. This particular time the flight chief was not in town for some reason or had moved, but he was definitely not there. I am writing this more than an hour later, and Negatron is still attacking the rocket without consequences. Each time I attempt to attack him, I get the old 'you cannot attack that' message.

While he is attacking the rocket, you cannot attepmt the quest again...because another mechanical reaver is not available. I tried abandoning the quest and picking it back up again, but that didn't work.

Just an FYI.

Comment by 700455

It was bugged for me yesterday, petitioned a Game Master about it, when I logged in a few hours later, they event was reset, and I soloed it on my 67 prot pally, dinged 68, and headed to Northrend.

Comment by Anmaja

Bugged for me as well. The reaver is standing in the center of area 52 (bladefist EU), but uncontrollable there because you can only use the controller in the proving grounds.

Comment by riaa

Can confirm it is still bugged with the Fellreaver.

Comment by 717796

I'm a lv-68 Warlock and I managed it the second try (after reading this forum for tips).
Just kept spamming SMASH and kept Health-Tunneling, while healing myself with one potion, one heathstone and one bandage. And never got any attention from the Big Guy.
Didn't think it was possible, but got him with heath to spare.

Comment by NecroBones

Still bugged. No scrap reaver around, and negatron is in the middle of area 52.

Comment by nmelcer

I might be retarded or my game is glitched, but where is the scrap reaver suppose to be? I can't seem to find him anywhere, tho the boss is spawning in the city. Does it mean someone else already is on the quest?

Comment by trizzet

I got tired of trying to get the quest to work and ended up kiting the reaver to the town and having the guards finish it off. I couldn't control the robot and do damage at the same time to the reaver, and I'm not even sure my holy shocks were helping the X6000

Comment by 338600

Nobody has mentioned that this quest You, Robot is named after the Will Smith movie I, Robot.

Comment by 815912

I eventually solo'd it as a L70 Holy Priest. Could not quite manage it as as Shadow ( best I did was get the big guy down to about 10% health before he finished of my robot and creamed me!) Once I changed to Holy spec and positioned myself properly I succeeded 2nd attempt.(see previous entries for tips) Good fun :-)

Comment by Fantasticphilman

As a Warlock, I followed Nico2000NL and Gizimomo's advice and spammed the heck out of health funnel and smash. Twice in row, however, I didn't get credit for the quest after the fel reaver was destroyed.

Turns out your character still has to personally damage the fel reaver a little. I threw one Immolate and two Shadowburns the third time around and got credit. Just a little FYI for you Warlocks! :)

Comment by 735207

The quest still isn't working quite right but at least it is working well enough to complete. The main problem is that the robot doesn't respond to the attack command about half the time. Once it does decide to attack Negatron it works okay. However, I got killed a number of times when the robot refused to cooperate. It then takes a long time for the robot to respawn so you need to be patient.

Comment by iamweaver

I wonder if I'm doing something wrong... on every attempt (3), the robot despawns when the Negatron reaches about 5% health, at which point I turn into Gnomish priestly goo...

Comment by 911189

Solo'd as a lvl 70 hunter today by kiting Negatron to Area 52. I know this strategy has been talked about already, but I had some trouble getting it to work. I died a few times before I figured out a safe way to kite.

First, I used Move To at the very start of the fight, to position the reaver pet near Negatron for the first attack while I stood well away.

Then, after the reaver pet died and my hunter pet had taken aggro, I used Move To to "walk" my pet up the road to Area 52 while Negatron chased it. Only took about 3 or 4 Move-Tos to go the distance. This way I never had to risk taking aggro myself and could stay far away from Negatron the whole time. My pet died a little ways from the city, but luckily it has Phoenix so I could rez it and keep going. (Might not have been necessary if I had been better about keeping Mend Pet up.)

I didn't try it, buy you could probably start kiting Negatron towards Area 52 with the reaver pet, at least for a little ways.

It was pretty satisfying to finally drag the big guy into town and then just sit back and watch as the Ogres had themselves a grand old beat down. Good times! :)

Comment by Priestzilla

I JUST got off from talking to a GM. As of today (2/4/12) the quest is STILL bugged and it's a "hot issue" that they are working on resolving.

Comment by 1000941

Okay, I don't have the repair ability. I only have smash and slam :/ Why is that?

Comment by 1006116

Uncontrolled Scrap Reaver X6000 is right next to the quest giver. Right click your controller and it will give you pet control over the Scrap Reaver X6000. The quest works as of today 8-2-2012.

Comment by janan2

I am a lvl 74 ret pali and I had several issues with this stupid quest today. I had no problems with finding the robot and he did attack when I hit the keys but I could not get him to stay (the follow key always stayed on) I could not attack along with my pet as I was too busy spamming his smash key. And I could not survive the attack after the pet died no matter what I did. I tried this several times and failed miserably. I have 3 quests left for the Netherstorm achievement and I need this quest and the subsequent one. Guess I will have to come back after I level a few more.

Comment by Eccentrica

Since the controls for the Scrap Reaver are terribly buggy and the option to heal it no longer exists (and as you can't buff player controlled 'pets' anymore), you MUST move the Scrap Reaver AWAY from the Fel Reaver once the Fel starts chanelling Earthquake.

This will give the Scrap Reaver a little longer to survive.

Even so, with a 74 hunter (non Heirloomed and still in Outlands gear) it took me 3 attempts to take it down. Once the Scrappy died, I quickly summoned my turtle, did my utmost not to pull aggro off it ever, and healed the bejesus out of it. Provided you stay within the Proving Grounds you will get credit for the kill.

Dieing before Scrappy and running back only result in Scrappy dieing before you can retrieve your corpse and the Fel will run into town. Once he sets off up the path he is no longer attackable.

Once you turn in the quest, take and turn in the follow up, look up. The celebratory fireworks are for you, kid. You deserve it.

Comment by Bogdanov89

Quest still buggy as of 5.4.1 - golem is missing it's self healing and the enemy golem hits for a lot plus has a ton of hp.

Either bring a friend, be a self healing class OR come back as a higher level.

Comment by 1438625

Solo'd on a level 69 unholy DK (without the bot's repair ability). Use smash on cooldown and do your usual rotation simultaneously.

Comment by poisonousfrog

The Garrison mission with the same name is here: You, Robot

Comment by 1440987

You, Robot http://youtu.be/X4_8Aautsa0

Comment by Snownoob

Just finished this solo as a level 70 hunter, basically stayed with the robot until it died, and got it down to ~25% health in that step, then just ran back towards Area 52 (to get the guards to help) with Aspect of the Cheetah, turning to shoot at it to keep aggro. Managed to get it low enough to kill shot to death just inside the Area 52 gate.

Comment by Boxofbeer

You, Robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXV9evR9nDE

Comment by wowhead100

The proving grounds are at 37, 63. The quest isn't marked correctly on the mini map.

Comment by Aurleis1

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

1. You, Robot
• Accept the quest, You, Robot, from Doctor Vomisa, Ph.T. at coords 37.2, 63.8.
• Use the Scrap Reaver X6000 Controller, you were provided on the Scrap Reaver X6000. This will allow the Scrap Reaver X6000 to become your pet (giving you pet ability bar), and summon Negatron.
• Use the Scrap Reaver X6000 to attack Negatron. When your Scrap Reaver X6000 dies, it will be up to you to fight off Negatron, who threatens to destroy Area 52.
• Once Negatron is defeated, go to coords 37.2, 63.8.
• Turn in the quest to Doctor Vomisa, Ph.T..

Comment by albinoette

Part 6 of a 7-part quest chain that will reward the X-52 Rocket Helmet (a toy in Legion that was formerly the X-52 Rocket Helmet).

~~Help Mama Wheeler~~
~~One Demon's Trash...~~
~~Declawing Doomclaw~~
~~Warn Area 52!~~
~~Doctor Vomisa, Ph.T.~~
>>You, Robot<<
(At level: Suggested Players .)
- It appears you cannot do this quest if someone outside your party is already on it, as I was given the error "Requires Uncontrolled Scrap Reaver X6000" while someone else was controlling one.
- Soon after using the provided Scrap Reaver X6000 Controller, Negatron (69 elite) will start running at you from the location marked on your minimap (near the bridge around 40.48 62.61). He stops just outside Doctor Vomisha's camp at 37.72 63.46. Watch for him to come running.
Back to the Chief!

If you are having trouble starting this quest chain, verify you've completed Consortium Crystal Collection from Nether-Stalker Khay'ji which, once complete, will let you pick up and complete Pick Your Part from Papa Wheeler.

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=fCBzYjZiubI&feature=youtu.be

Comment by ettalyn

If you are receiving the error message, ""Requires Uncontrolled Scrap Reaver X6000" make sure you are standing next to Doctor Vomisa, Ph.T. He is at 37, 63 under a blue makeshift tent. Also, you can damage the big Reaver with your own spells and receive credit for the quest.

PS Completed quest to receive the toy named "X-52 Rocket Helmet"

Comment by trophi

I wonder how 7.3.5 changed this fight's difficulty. Solo'd as a 75 Guardian drd with Resto Affinity. Similar to other guides, but I'll reiterate for those looking for post-7.3.5 guide.

Stand back 20+ yards (but stay in The Proving Grounds area). At this distance, you aren't charged nor hit by earthquake.
Use pet's Smash on cd (very important). Ctrl+4 is default keybinding. Have to have Negatron targeted.
Spam a low dmg spell, like moonfire, but not in bear form (you don't want aggro).
I threw some heals into my pet, but that's probably not necessary, because he was above 80% health when the timer for the pet wore off (3 min?). You can see the timer as a buff on the pet.
When pet is about to despawn, put up any hots and burst.
Negatron hits like a truck while enraged, so use big mitigation then. He only enraged twice while I was tanking. If he did another, I'd probably be toast.
Earthquake's damage isn't that bad, so you can shift out and heal yourself up during. It sometimes stuns, though.
Otherwise, do max mitigation rotation during enrage and pump damage otherwise.

Comment by deathlavitz

Since 7.3.5 I have learned one thing as a shadow priest, do not heal the pet, just shield it or you will die. Do not void form and dps it, you will die. Just shield the pet as much as you can and dps as normal without void forming. Light dps, shield the pet and spam the attack not the stun, you can stand far enough away to not get hit by earthquake, so you don't take damage and feel you need to heal yourself to pull aggro and die. Pet was at 70% hp after fight, so shield probably not even needed.

Comment by SkyLynx4

As a level 77 fury warrior without heirlooms I was able to do this after ~10 tries. Basically just dps it down, use CTRL-4 pet abilty on cooldown, ignore earthquake. My pet died on 20%, I had to use defensive heal to get through. Basically, luck.

Comment by Nomizak

This quest isn't bugged, but it is finicky. Just stand under the blue tent thing from the quest giver and use the item. Your mech should activate and a big enemy mech should be on your way. Then just kill the big mech after using the quest item on the small mech.

Comment by mechgineer

As a warlock, my Health Funnel was able to heal the pet. So my strategy was just to alternate Drain Life to heal myself and Health Funnel to heal the pet. I assume similar direct-pet-heals for hunters work the same. Just keep that thing alive as long as possible, stand out of range of the boss's Earthquake spell, and use the pet's Smash as frequently as possible. The more Smashes you manage, the more likely you are to win.

Comment by Leiloni

No longer has the self heal, just Smash and the stun. You cannot use your pet so if you're a hunter, go Marksman spec for this. Mostly just spammed Smash on CD and used my regular MM rotation (it does let you attack as of patch 8.1.5). The only thing that might make this easier is trying to stun the Earthquake - if you're too close this will knock you down repeatedly for the duration so you can't attack. Not sure what the range is but probably a good idea to range it if you can. :) Spamming Smash on CD my Reaver just barely made it out alive, so it was a close call but doable. Exhilaration does work to heal your Reaver.

Comment by datgrl

The Negatron is instantly shot down by the NPC's in Area 52 now, close to the entrance by the rocket. He also cannot be targeted once he gets up the hill to Area 52.

Comment by minttunator

If your class has a healing spec, it might be easier to switch to that and just keep the robot healed until he finishes off the enemy instead of trying to DPS it down yourself. Personally, I failed several times as Shadow but did it on the first try as Disc.

Comment by Gelious

Hello from Chromie Time. Did solo as 45 fury warrior. Use Robot's single damaging ability on cd and do all the damage you can yourself. Ignore stun ability. Enemy hits hard even on plate so you need all dps you can get from your helper in order to kill it before it kills him.

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You, Robot

Activate the Scrap Reaver X6000 Controller and test out its capabilities. Then give your feedback to Doctor Vomisa, Ph.T at the Proving Grounds in the Netherstorm. Deal with any problems that arise.

	Scrap Reaver X6000 Test Complete (1)
	Scrap Reaver X6000 Controller (Provided) (1)
	Suggested players: 3 (1)

Description

Doctor Vomisa, Ph.T. at your service. Here, take this controller. I want you to activate it and give my newly-invented Scrap Reaver X6000 a spin.

Just stay nearby! The controller is tied to my console here, and if you get too far away, the robot will cease to function.

Try out everything... I'll be watching and calibrating its servos based upon your test run.

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See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10248))

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