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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 The Skybreaker Orgrim's Hammer The Broken Front Your Attention, Please Borrowed Technology ...All the Help We Can Get. Poke and Prod That's Abominable! Against the Giants Basic Chemistry Coprous the Defiled 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 Get the Message The Ironwall Rampart Before the Gate of Horror The Guardians of Corp'rethar Shatter the Shards 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 It's All Fun and Games I Have an Idea, But First... Free Your Mind If He Cannot Be Turned If He Cannot Be Turned The Shadow Vault The Shadow Vault The Duke Exploiting an Opening Securing the Perimeter Set it Off! A Short Fuse 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 Sindragosa's Fall Where Dragons Fell Time for Answers The Hunter and the Prince Knowledge is a Terrible Burden Tirion's Help Tirion's Gambit 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 sicc

Ground level 59.2, 71.5

Comment by 181351

These rider quests are strange, they are phased when you enter the area the mobs are in. People not on the questline will not be able to help you, heal you, or hit the mob. Very irritating if you can't find a party on the same quest.

Comment by 18004

2 manned, Prot warrior and feral druid. with normal questing gear.
easy peasy

Comment by djsixpack14

Solo'd as 80 Protection Paladin with a little bit of heroic gear and T6.

Comment by djsixpack14

Finishing all three of these quests leads to The Fate of Bloodbane.

Comment by nim998

Solo'ed at level 80 as a Frost Mage shortly after hitting 80 in mostly Heroic and 10-man Nax gear.

Hardest rider by far for a Mage to solo. Burn any pots you happen to have. Right before you pull him clear as much of the area as you can with an AoE pull then get right on him, don't even stop to loot. Everything in the area respawns in about a minute so even with the lead time you're going to end up dealing with multiple adds. Use pet novas and whatever else you can to keep them off you. Also you must save blink for his Death Grips.

I'd also highly recommend the fallowing for all three riders...

Fate Rune of Nigh Invincibility - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43094
Fate Rune of Baneful Intent - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43090
Fate Rune of Fleet Feet - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43135

Comment by picro

People there have done quest line, will be able to help !

Comment by 236299

Just did this with myself (shadow priest) and a ret pally. I had to heal him, but it worked out. Only had to use one mana potion.

Comment by nicholasjong

Very hard to solo due to the following reasons
1. He hits hard, about 1600 or more on 20K armor
2. He has the dancing rune weapon ability
3.The mobs around him respawn very fast. Respawn timer is about 1min or so, making kiting him extremely difficult.

As a quest geared blood death knight, I died twice trying to solo him. The first time was due to lack of preparation and the second time due to adds. I was able to beat him the third time. And here is what I did.
1.Got the buff items from the Bone Witch.
2.Killed a few mobs around to make sure that I had 100 RP, a ghoul and horn of winter buff.
3. Used Dancing rune weapon at the beginning of the fight.
4.When he summoned his dancing rune weapon, I used frost fortitude, I didn't have Lichborne anyway.
5.I moved to a place a little southwest of the furnace thing on the ground to avoid adds.

PS: pardon my poor English please...

Comment by 249188

To do the 3 "boss" quests, members of your party have to all either be on the quest or have done the quests. This is a new feature blizzard put in where anyone not up to or past the quest chain will phase out of the area. So before you get a group together, make sure they are all on this quest or have done it in the past, otherwise you are gonna be in a situation where they cant see you or help you.

Comment by 263741

Very easy for any prot paladin. The summoned runeblade is registered as undead, so fear it as soon as it spawns (easier if you have the instant cast glyph). Just make sure you are far enough away from adds so the blade won't run to them.

Comment by phenoix63

IMO hardest one, his runic weapon hits hard. I just popped Army of the Dead for this one, and dpsed him down, quite simple.

- Level 80 DK w/ Heroic Gear

Comment by yatima

have to do the quest Second Chances first, which is available only while doing the daily (!) quest Intelligence Gathering.

Comment by 261215

Soloable as a 80 Unholy DK , the hardest is the Unholy one , died once but after that I kited him around , avoid the Zombies and Death Decay . The Blood and the Frost is much easier .

Comment by Mumpley

After both questchains that Gattam posted are completed Keritose Bloodblade in the Shadow Vault will give out Parting Gifts which begin this questline.

Comment by 33832

I solo'd all 3 of them as a holy paladin.

Frost was a simple tank'n'spank fight. Holy shock/Exorcism/Judge/Concecration/Shield of the Righteous whenever cooldown is ready. Sacred shield + heals to keep yourself alive.

Blood's rune blade is stunnable and disappears after a while so use HoJ if it's up, it also counts as undead so Holy wrath can also be used as a stun if mana allows. I found it much easier to tank them 'till they disappear rather than doing 12k damage on something when you need all your damage on the elite.

Unholy was a challenge, but I managed him first try. Just avoid Death and Decay and run like 50 yards away when he starts to summon zombies, Holy wrath if they're closing in on you and get away from them again. Keep trying 'till you down him.

Comment by Spyker

Very easy quest, soloed by an 80lvl tank DK(Unholy). Just spam the Death Strike and use Anti-Magic Shell if casting.

Comment by Liax

Killed him solo as enhancement. in half epic half blues and no enhancement glyphs.

Used foodbuff and 3 runes from the witch. used fireelemental + dogs and simply nuking him down asap. have 31.5% dmg reduction from armor, and this was enough, that the dogs and the rune kept me up while i could use all MW for LB damage, getting him to 3% before dogs died.

The key is pure DPS + hp pot if needed.

Comment by Darkcaporal

Soloed as Holy Pally, didn't break a sweat.

Just keep judging wisdom and use Seal of Wisdom, spam Consecration, Holy Shock, Sacred Shield, ignore the runeblade, it will die in your aoe. Your insta cast flash of lights from your holy shocks will keep you up.

Comment by 82645

soloed as a protection paladin with heroic gear. took 4 minutes

Comment by 44090

I failed to solo this as a retadin. He hits way too hard, for 4k on me.

Comment by 316389

Soloed as Protection Warrior. (Naxx 10 gear)

Was pretty basic, used commanding shout to put me at 30k hp. Popped Shield Wall and Last stand near the end, as it was getting to be a close fight. Ended with 8000hp.

Seems immune to stuns.

Comment by 92899

Solo as demonology Warlock.
Let the Felguard tank and heal with Health Funnel.
Dot Baelok with Curse of Agony or Corruption and mind your aggro!
Let the dancing runeblades hit you. They will die itself and you will survive it.
Use bandages, healthstones and pots or Drain Life. (or Lifeblood if you're Herbalism like me)
Use Demon Armor, it helps.

Just be patient and don't start Shadowbolting him unless you know for sure you are gonna win.

Goodluck soldier!

Comment by Zetsuei

Solo as a Hunter.
Send in pet with MD, lay a trap down to freeze the dancing runeblade.
Keep mend pet up all the time, if pet gets around 20% distracting shot and deterrance tank til he gets up.
Repeat til hes dead, will take a few tries but it is doable.

Comment by 328108

Can someone tell me what quest stack i need to do, to get this particular quest line?

Comment by shrander

Very easy as an 80 frost spec dk with quest gear (no purples, mostly level 80 quest blues). The spec I use is 20/80 using glyph of rune tap and a healing clicky, giving you lots of self heal goodness.

1. Start the fight away from wandering adds.
2. Wait until he summons the rune blade and summon ghoul
3. Take enough damage that your death pact will give you a full heal then let the ghoul take agro for a sec.
3. Start casting army of the dead, once this is fully up you will have greatly reduced damage and they will take the agro of his dancing run weapon.
4. Sacrifice the ghoul, you're back to full health.
5. ...
6. Profit!

Seriously, once you have army of the dead up, it becomes a straight tank and spank, I don't think I even used death strike once I had the army up, and he was dead in about 30 seconds.

Obviously this strategy requires that you don't have AoD on cooldown, but if you do, go do one of the other three for this quest chain (the frost dk is probably the easiest, i killed her without even a ghoul, death strike and rune tap were enough) and come back.

Comment by 333502

As a death knight it was quiet easy. Go in frost pres. use army of the dead, let them attack and dont take aggro from them, use icebound, pet, dancing rune if youre blood.

Comment by Uoyredrum

Solo'd as a prot warrior in full naxx gear. Very easy, his main damage he will deal to you is from Draw Soul which deals a bit over 4,000 damage each time he uses it and heals him for the same. He will also cast dancing rune weapon. The weapon uses blood strike and it IS stunnable, but despawns after about 20 seconds. Not really a huge threat. I killed the first couple, then ignored the rest because they dont really do a lot. He has a somewhat slow melee swing, hits about as hard the unholy guy. Nothing too special. A bit harder than saph but easier than Rokir.

Comment by 339924

Most definitely doable as a 80 Ret pally in quest blues, some greens. Just make sure to kill the Dancing Runeblade of his as soon as it pops up, and the rest is cake. Just heal yourself when you reach about half health.

Comment by 353947

Very Soloable as a demo spec Warlock.

1. Begin fight with cast of Curse of Weakness. And keep the curse on throughout.
2. Stay out of his cast range for Death Grip. (Max range for casting Immo, or Corr.)
3. He still hits very hard so after casting your DoTs maintain your pet's health.
4. Whenever he casts his Dancing Runeblade let it come to you, and fear it. The length of the time on fear will cause it to do no damage and fail epicly.
Rinse - Wash - Repeat.
Bandage when necessary, pref. after dancing runeblade and when your pet is at good health. Keep your DoTs hot and burning.
Don't forget your Healthstone.

Comment by Pyro26

ok so how do you start the quest chains from Vereth the Cunning?....

Comment by 353947

if you look to the NPC's link, at the very top right-hand side of this web page, in the "Quick Facts" box dubbed (plainly) as "Vereth the Cunning", it links to another page with a lot of information about the quests given and what precursors lead to what chain qsts. But because I called you out on your laziness or inability to research... here is the precursor qst: http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=13155

Comment by 365306

Soloed as a lvl 80 Blood specced Dk
used army of the dead first , which took him down to a little lower then half health, then i kept attacking him, but he used dancing rune weapon , so i used icebound fortitude and a attack power trinket, then i used mark of the blood, then used death pact and killed him :]

Comment by Anguta

It is possible to solo these bosses, but you need to pay attention to what you are doing.

here is what i did:

1. Horn of Winter
2. Bone Armor
3. Army of the Dead
4. Fight!

with the 3 starting things you can create a 6 or 7 man group for a short amount of time. long enough to do these quests but you have the 10 min wait for the army cool down.

Also as a tip for unholy.

Use Death Pact. it can heal you almost half your Health and if you build right you are without your ghoul for 30 seconds.

Comment by 369293

I'm an 80 Affl/Demo Lock, Gear is 70 Epics, 80 Blue, some crafted epics.
Found this guy pretty tough to solo initially, he did imba damage to the voidwalker, and the axe thing was a pain interrupting me.
What you need to do, is send your voidwalker in Keep a Curse of Weakness on the guy, and keep fairly close to him, use corruption, Drain Life, and keep your pet healed with health funnel. Curse of Weakness is the important key here, without it, he'll take your pet down faster than you can heal and dps.
If you keep close to him, your voidwalker should take the aggro from the dancing weapon as well, (which doesn't seem to do much damage), leaving you free to keep Corr, drain Life (and the new purple firey spell thing) on him. You don't need to run about here. It'll take about 5 mins or so to down him, and you'll still have a full health bar at the end, and barely break a sweat.

I found all 3 of the Riders Quest Bosses are Soloable if you use the right techniques. Do it wrong, they are damn hard, and you die quick. Do it right and they are very easy.

Lonefox (Bladefist)

Comment by 372379

Simple to Solo as a 51/0/20 Blood DK in PvP Gear ( http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dragonblight&n=Laralae ). Kill a couple of mobs as stated to build up 100 RP, use Horn of Winter, Pop Army of the Dead, pull mob, cast Rune Weapon and beat down. had him down to 15% by the time my army died and it was a simple after that.

Comment by 360723

guy was cake for me meta warlock. as his frost sister sent in felguard, ag, corrup, immolate, do one health funnel. he spawns the sword focus felguard on it and dot it up until it dies then have him back on bae

easy fight. well at least when u have a felguard lol

Comment by 166910

I was able to solo him as a unholy/blood DK - i went into frost and had out my ghoul. Used Death pack once, used Rune tap a few times. also used AOD to get aggro off of me to bandage..
otherwise, he's just a tank n spank :) good luck =D

Comment by dyingcrow

Soloed as an 80 boomkin with 25 naxx gear, but not easy. He and the dancing weapon do serious damage and the only good opportunity for heals is when he casts something, else no chance at all. Run and heal when you're 10k hp left, 1 rejuv and 3 lifeblooms will do. Had to use it 3 times, barkskin helps but can only be used once. Have a pot handy just in case...

Comment by 423135

I was able to "duo" this as a disc priest with a shadow priest helping me (i'm alliance, he is horde). We both needed the 3 guys for this quest line killed. This guy was pretty easy, I held primary agro with a random death grip on the horde. The rune weapon didn't cause any threat to us what-so-ever. I did the usual smite, holy fire, etc and he died without a fuss.

Comment by 365423

Easy as pie affliction lock in mostly blues and few crafted epics, ebonweave set and titansteel blade. Just like frost, hit him with curse of weakness and keep it up. The dancing blade is just an irritant, never causes much damage and seems to die real quick, fear and forget. The real annoying thing about the fight is the death grip, just run to where your spell bar goes red, when your out of range for Corr, curses etc but your health funnel is still in range. Between 36 yd and 45 yd. I healed the VW most of the time, walked forward a few steps tossed in a haunt and Corr, stepped back, healed VW etc etc. Fear +/- dancing blade as needed. Omen is key for aggro management.

Frost and Blood are like killing murlocs in Elwynn Forest. Unholy has killed me 5 times.......

Comment by sopor30

Soloed as a ret.
19.5k health
Wearing mostly item level 200 gear.
Had to pop LoH, bubble, and a health pot, but had 10k health left when he died.

Comment by xsandx

Soloed in Feral bear , with almost Full HP bar ^.^

Comment by esajin

I just soloed the three "Rider of..." quests as a holy priest with good gear (emblems of conquest epics). You might wonder why I write this guide, well, it's a pain to find a group for those quests, because priests only bother questing when there's no one else to run instances, which makes this quest essentially impossible to get a group for except once in a blue moon.

The key to do this is to understand their respective core abilities and play accordingly. Each of those went down first try, except for the Unholy one who took me two attempts, because I was not prepared.

Baelok <rider of blood> will summon a dancing blade, has a death grip and a draw soul ability.
_death grip: pulls the target into melee range -> don't try to kite him.
_draw soul: drains life and heals back up in a frontal cone -> unimportant when soloing him
_dancing rune blade: the blade will be a pain in the butt at first, until you realize that it's essentially an add that can be killed, and that will grant you a spirit tap buff on death.

Frankly this Rider was just asking for holy nova spamming together with some lightwell tanking.
So step 1, kill the horsie (can be tanked with power word: shield and burnt down with a glyphed smite quite fast)
Step 2, lay a lightwell, wait 1min30 or so, don't drink from it yet
Step 3, pull the bad guy and smite him while refreshing the lightwell renew. He hits priest cloth for 5.5-7k (as all riders) so be steady on the lightwell refreshing, remember the hot is cancelled when he hits for more than 30% of your health. Don't worry about losing dps while clicking the lightwell, just remember you can click it while casting other spells, it won't interrupt you.
Step 4, once he summons the first dancing blade, pop your shadowfiend and mash your (glyphed) holy nova key. You will outheal the damage and you won't be interrupted because, well, holy nova is instant.
Step 5, the dancing rune blade is dead, you gain spirit tap, repeat to step 3. Put a new lightwell back up as soon as it's off cooldown.
Step 6, loot.

Sapph <rider of Frost> is horribly easy to solo. Basically the same tactic as with Baelok, except you don't even need to holy nova.
Abilities:
_Chains of Ice: trivial damage, non-trivial snare, you can't kite him.
_Hungering Cold: he will cast it just when you summon your shadowfiend. Just dispel asap it to free your pet otherwise you won't get any mana back.

All in all, same tactic as Baelok, except you will only need to holy nova when the lightwell is out of charge and on cooldown. Note you could also outheal his damage and wait for the lightwell cooldown to come back up but this will take longer. The easiest of the three.

Rokir <Rider of the Unholy> is a bit more tricky. There are two ways to do it.
First is plain and simple kiting. Just remember your Kiting 101 course you took along the way to 60 back in vanilla when you soloed Princess Theradras. Only this time you have many additional kiting tools. Use those of your preference, but keep casting at him for unlike the ugly Princess, he will reset if you don't take any harmful action at least once every 5 seconds. Plant a rotation, keep a lightwell around and remember to use it each time you go through that corner. Keep abolishing his diseases, they hurt. Shadow Word: pain, Devouring Plague, holy nova his adds once in a while (that's a guaranteed surge of light proc), instant smite on the move, all those can be combined. The adds don't proc spirit tap.

Second is PVP fighting. Consider this like duelling a very noobish melee class who never interrupts, stuns nor snare you, but with 120k hp. Go deep disc PVP, use PVP gear, kite him in between summons and nuke him straight each time he calls his army of the dead.

Comment by RabbleRouser

Soloed on the first try as a level 80 Protection Warrior in a mix of blues and ToC 5 man epics.

Pull the horse away solo and burn it down, it's not that much of a challenge. Shield Slam will dispel it's stacking buff making it much easier to handle.

As for the rider, I only used Enraged Regeneration and Shield Wall, not Last Stand and no health potions. Save Shield Block for when he summons his Rune Blade. Also note that the blade is stunnable. Keep him disarmed as much as you can, and keep Thunderclap and Demo Shout up on both him and the Rune Blade.

Comment by vektor

To clear things up, the questline needed to get rider quests: Vereth the Cunning, after this line he gives 3 simple quests to do (bomb abominations, throw rocks, kill gargoyles), then 3 rider quests become available. These are really hard quests that require a good gear or a party.

One thing to consider, that you must ask people before inviting if they have these quests, because if they have done it already or didn't get them they won't see you and riders, their location has phased. (Phasing)

actually I soloed them all as prot warrior in 187-219 gear (green-toc(h)), but this one was really fun, because after I killed him his blade still was hitting me and I was at 9k hp and somehow it managed to one-shot me, don't ask how, I don't know, my combat log is turned off.

by the way, there is absolutely no need to kill any of their horses.

Comment by 104192

he can't be stunned but his dancing runed weapon can, he can be disarmed

Comment by 434941

ALL THIS INFO IS WRONG,....
I have just got two people to help me kill all three one was out of my guild and the other was random and both had finished the quests you can get outside help

Nastya lvl 79 druid, Bloodhoof

Comment by 34511

Allright as a fury or arms warrior with good epics, it's not soloable. Couldn't burn him fast enough, on top of that that bastard heal himself...

Comment by chimeras

Just soloed him with a lvl 80 Surv Hunter in good epic gear.
1. Misdirect on tank pet from the rise behind the fire well (no adds)
2. Burn him down til the pet loses aggro
3. Cast Freezing trap when the dancing blade spawns
4. Volley him and the blade down the rest of the way
(first attempt out in the open was a complete flop.)

Comment by Whiterock

CITADEL FOOTSTEPS Quest Tree From Whiterock

N)Blackwatch<--The Shadow Vault {H}*-->The Duke*
| The Skybreaker(A)* | | Orgrim's Hammer(H)*
| | | | |
| 2)Exploiting an Opening(A) 2)Opportunity(H)
| 2)Securing the Perimeter(A) 2)Establishing Superiority(H)
| 2)Set it Off!(A) 2)Blow it Up!(H)
| |__________________________/
| |
| 2)A Short Fuse {H}--------->1)Parting Gifts
| 2)A Voice in the Dark {H} |->6)An Undead's Best Friend
| 2)Time to Hide {H} |->6)Honor is for the Weak /
| 1)Return to the Surface {H} 6)From Whence They Came / /
| 3)Field Repairs {H} \_____________________/__/
| 3)Do your Worst {H} | |
| 3)Army of the Damned {H} 6)Seeds of Chaos 6)Amidst the Confusion
| 2)Futility {H} \ /
| |->4)Sindragosa's Fall(A) 5)Vereth the Cunning
| |->4)Cradle of the Frostbrood(H) 5)New Recruit
| | 7)The Vile Hold
| 4)Where Dragons Fell {H} |->7)Generosity Abounds
| 5)Time for Answers {H} |->7)Stunning View /
| 5)The Hunter and the Prince {H} 7)Matchmaker / /
| 1)Knowledge is a Terrible Burden {H} \_________/_____/
| | \ |->7)The Rider of the Unholy
| 1)Tirion's Help(A) 1)Argent Aid(H) |->7)The Rider of Blood /
| | / 7)The Rider of Frost / /
| 5)Tirion's Gambit {H} \ / /
| 2)The Fate of Bloodbane
8)Where Are They Coming From?
| |
8)Death's Gaze 8)Destroying the Altars
|______________|
|->8)I'm Not Dead Yet!{H}
|---------------->8)Spill Their Blood
8)Jagged Shards /
|->7)The Runesmiths of Malykriss /
7)I'm Smelting... Smelting! / /
\_________________________/____/
| |
8)By Fire Be Purged 8)A Visit to the Doctor
/ /
8)Killing Two Scourge With One Skeleton-->8)Let's Get Out of Here {H}
8)He's Gone to Pieces
8)Putting Olakin Back Together Again
8)The Flesh Giant Champion
Quest zones:
1)Unique zones_2)Icecrown Citadel_3)Valley of Lost Hope_4)Sindragosa's Fall_5)Icecrown Citadel(outside)_6)Weeping Quarry_7)Malykriss_8)Fleshwerks
N)Not-needed
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 258919

The toughest of the three, definitely. Took me a fair number of attempts as a bear tank in quest gear.

Start with some HoTs, go in cat form and rip him with 4-5 combo points. Use CDs liberally to keep between 50% and 100% health. Use Survival Instincts last (I had the glyph) and go into Cat Form for another Rip or a Ferocious Bite.

Always keep Lacerate/DemoRoar/Mangle up. I finished him off with about 600 hp on my self, and his blade killed me. Don't bother killing the rune weapons.

Comment by error10

Everyone seems to have an opinion of which of the three is the toughest. I think it varies by class and spec, and to a lesser extent by player.

On my shadow priest, this one was the most difficult for me. The other two were so easy as to not even be worth commenting. This one was a challenge: I died on the first attempt, and got him on the second.

This is how I did it: Started with PW:S and waited for the debuff to wear off. Opened with Vampiric Touch, Devouring Plague, SW:P, Mind Blast, and Mind Flay spam. Refreshed VT and DP as necessary and kept PW:S up whenever possible. When he summoned his weapon, I hit Psychic Scream to fear it. When it came back, I switched to it and killed it. Shifted out to heal with a Renew and Flash Heal at several points. (Remember to put Shadowform back up!) At one point my health was getting low so I hit Dispersion (the shadow priest's OH $%^& button) and healed up. He summoned another weapon so I feared it again, but by that time I had him low enough to finish him off.

Comment by 326999

LF mage tips on how to solo these please

Comment by 54958

Just solo'd this as an average geared combat rogue (245 ilvl+) and used the following strategy..I failed a few times, due to improper planning but got on the fourth try I believe (Might of been the fifth, there was a few times I went in without CD's up like a moron). Make sure your nameplates are on, so you can see the runeblade come out. I also used Wound on my MH to cut his heals down.

Open with Garrote, or you could even just rush in there with SS.
Pop SnD at 2 or 3.
Evasion/Dismantle - Only one, doesn't matter which here.
SS spam until you see the runeblade.If you have the time, drop in a Rupture/Evisc before the next steps (I got a 5pt Rupture off)
Blade Fury when you see the runeblade up and Killing Spree.
The blade should be down, and the mob should be damn near dead.

I had to Cloak his cast after I popped Spree and then finished with an Evisc. Assuming you need more time, you can use Evasion/Dismantle depending on which you didn't use. This probably will be a lot harder for quest geared rogues, but figured I would try to help out the brave solo rogues out there. Or if your like me, anyone doing quest achievements and looking for tips.

Comment by 516096

it can be soloed if u are a dk tank in frost spec but u will have to use army of the dead and once the ary of dead has gone and u have about half of bar of health use your ghoul and kill it to give u health again thats how i did it :D

Comment by 27922

I soloed this as an arcane mage with almost full epics from heroics - about 4.2k gs

Start at max range and pop Icy Veins, AP, all your trinkets and Mirror Image, and keep casting Arcane Blast so long as your Mirror Images are up (he takes them down in 2 hits max, usually only one) As soon as he's onto your last Mirror Image hit him with an Arcane Barrage and start strafing away from him. The key to this fight however is blink - but don't blink yet, you should be at max range by the time he's killed your last Image. Arcane Blast 2x and then Presence of Mind, and if your missile barrage procs, use it, but only if he's about 10 yards away. Blink through him and hit him with another Arcane Barrage and a Fire Blast. Repeat with the blinking through him until he's down.

-Ice Block the Death Grip - luckily his missed me so I didn't have to do that
-Remember Dampen Magic vs his Draw Soul ability
-Hits around 2k a go on cloth

finished the fight with half health.

Oh and I was also using Tireless Starflare Diamond - these help SO much in soloing group quests, pick one up if you can, they really do make a difference.

Comment by Shuhrlocks

I just soloed this as a demo lock and beat him in a one succesfull try

Comment by glacialhawk

Seems like no one likes Northrend anymore after cata...

Well, 80 Frost Mage here in wrath dungeon heroics just solo'd; it was a very simple fight imo. Started off Frostbolt until he got to me. Blew images and IV and then burned him without having to use a second Ice Barrier. He does have a pull, like the abomination's hook. After he dies, his sword "Dancing Runeblade" will attack you; it has 12k hp, so nothing to worry about.

Comment by Reignac

Tip to any DK on this phase of the chain: use Control Undead on the horses nearby the three Death Knights you need to kill.

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=65wVbov76_k&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Ylnevaeh

I'm going to complain. It's 2018 and 4 (almost 5) xpacs into the future... 4 people in the zone and none of them phased with me, can't get a high level friend to come help because I'm phased, can't solo 40k elite because stat squish... and this should not even be a group quest now. Done venting!

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The Rider of Blood

Vereth the Cunning on the Rise of Suffering wants you to kill Baelok, the Rider of Blood.

	Baelok slain (1)
	Suggested players: 5 (1)

Description

Baelok is one of the few vrykul that I've ever seen rise through the ranks, and that was mostly accomplished through sheer brutality. If your competition ends up dead, there's far less to compete against.

When you join battle with him, spread out from your companions and keep your distance as much as you reasonably can. He will not hesitate to steal your life force for himself, so you will need to hinder his ability to do so as much as possible.

You have my confidence. See to it that he dies.

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Blood-Forged Circle			Grotesque Butcher's Pants
	Blood-Stalker's Cover			Breastplate of Splattered Blood

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

350 reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13163))