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Shadowmoon Valley Spleendid! The Second Course... The Main Course! The Path of Conquest Breaching the Path Blood Elf + Giant = ??? Tabards of the Illidari Dissension Amongst the Ranks... Besieged! To Legion Hold Setting Up the Bomb Blast the Infernals! The Deathforge Minions of the Shadow Council The Fate of Flanis The Summoning Chamber Bring Down the Warbringer! Gaining Access Invasion Point: Cataclysm The Art of Fel Reaver Maintenance The Fel and the Furious News of Victory Illidari-Bane Shard Capture the Weapons The Hermit Smith Additional Materials Fresh from the Mechanar The Lexicon Demonica Underworld Loam Tear of the Earthmother Bane of the Illidari Quenching the Blade The Sketh'lon Wreckage Find the Deserter Asghar's Totem The Rod of Lianthe Sketh'lon Feathers Imbuing the Headpiece Thwart the Dark Conclave A Ghost in the Machine Harbingers of Shadowmoon Teron Gorefiend - Lore and Legend Divination: Gorefiend's Armor Divination: Gorefiend's Cloak Divination: Gorefiend's Truncheon Teron Gorefiend, I am... Enraged Spirits of Fire and Earth Enraged Spirits of Water Enraged Spirits of Air Oronok Torn-heart I Was A Lot Of Things... A Lesson Learned The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History Grom'tor, Son of Oronok The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered Ar'tor, Son of Oronok Demonic Crystal Prisons Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered Borak, Son of Oronok Of Thistleheads and Eggs... The Bundle of Bloodthistle To Catch A Thistlehead The Shadowmoon Shuffle What Illidan Wants, Illidan Gets... The Cipher of Damnation - Borak's Charge The Cipher of Damnation - The Third Fragment Recovered The Cipher of Damnation Karabor Training Grounds A Necessary Distraction Altruis Karabor Training Grounds A Necessary Distraction Altruis Against the Legion Against the Illidari Against All Odds Illidan's Pupil The Book of Fel Names Return to the Aldor Varedis Must Be Stopped Return to the Scryers Varedis Must Be Stopped Tablets of Baa'ri Oronu the Elder The Ashtongue Corruptors The Warden's Cage Tablets of Baa'ri Oronu the Elder The Ashtongue Corruptors The Warden's Cage Proof of Allegiance Akama Seer Udalo A Mysterious Portent The Ata'mal Terrace Akama's Promise Kindness Seek Out Neltharaku Neltharaku's Tale Infiltrating Dragonmaw Fortress To Netherwing Ledge! The Force of Neltharaku Karynaku Zuluhed the Whacked Zuluhed the Whacked Ally of the Netherwing Ally of the Netherwing Blood Oath of the Netherwing In Service of the Illidari Your Friend On The Inside The Great Netherwing Egg Hunt Enter the Taskmaster A Job Unfinished...

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Comment by sueyed

After returning to Wildhammer Stronghold you may choose one of the following rewards.

http://www.wowhead.com/?search=second+sight

Comment by 10524

Event bugs if you allready have a pet, dismiss it first
and if you have a funky UI that hides pet bar, might want to enable it

Comment by 16848

Since as soon as you get the quest he possesses you, only one person can have the quest at a time. If you have a group each person has to do this individually, the entire group does NOT recieve credit (unless they had it previously and failed somehow). Tested 4/1/2007.

Very easy to solo though.

Comment by 2165

If you are using UI addons to customize your actionbars etc, you might want to disable them for just this fight. Of course it's not nessecary if you can see the spell buttons that appear when you switch to his form, but in my case I had to disable my addon because it is hiding everything I don't normally use.

After I got the actionbar visible it was mostly a piece of cake, and if you fail just abandon and pick it up again right where you are standing.

Comment by 22771

One thing that may be confusing is all of the spells have the glowing box that suggest they are being autocast (or at least they did on my UI) but they aren't really. I'd suggest right clicking them to "disable the autocast", and then just cast them all whenever they are up.

Also, make sure you are doing melee damage to him, or you won't finish him off.

Comment by 1318_

When you accept the quest you'll get to control Teron Gorefiend and a pet action bar pops up. He has 4 spells he can cast (Haste, Unholy armor, Touch of Darkness, Death and Decay). Start the fight with turning on Haste and Unholy armor. Cast Death and Decay on Karsius and auto attack him in the Death and Decay cloud. After that just keep auto attacking him and recast every spell once they have cooled down.

Comment by Sihmm

This chain begins differently depending on whether you're Alliance (A) or Horde (H):

Alliance - starts in Wildhammer Stronghold from Zorus the Judicator:
1. (A) A Ghost in the Machine
2. (A) Harbingers of Shadowmoon
3. (A) Teron Gorefiend - Lore and Legend

Horde - starts in Shadowmoon Village from Chief Apothecary Hildagard:
1. (H) A Haunted History
2. (H) Spectrecles
3. (H) Teron Gorefiend - Lore and Legend

At this point the chain splits into three parts which can be done in any order (and by both factions):
4a. Divination: Gorefiend's Cloak
4b. Divination: Gorefiend's Truncheon
4c. Divination: Gorefiend's Armor

After collected Gorefiend's stuff and returned it to the spirit, you will get:
5. (A) Teron Gorefiend, I am...
5. (H) Teron Gorefiend, I am...

For this final quest, Gorefiend becomes your "pet" and you control him using a pet bar. Having used him to kill Karsius, you return to Zorus or Hildagard to claim your reward. Choose from:
Evoker's Helmet of Second Sight (cloth DPS headpiece)
Stealther's Helmet of Second Sight (leather melee headpiece)
Druidic Helmet of Second Sight (leather magical headpiece)
Stalker's Helmet of Second Sight (mail +AP headpiece)
Shamanistic Helmet of Second Sight (mail +dmg headpiece)
Overlord's Helmet of Second Sight (plate DPS headpiece)

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Comment by azeral7677

How do I complete this quest if I died the first time? I had no clue wht was going on please don't tell me that I'm screwed.

Comment by Sunglass

One of my party didn't attack Karsius the Watcher immediately, and he despawned. It was probably only 30 secs or so before it happened. No big deal, but we all had to wait 5 mins or so before we could go again.

It's been said before but remember to dismiss your pets before trying or you won't get a pet bar for Gorefiend and will need to abandon and start again.

Comment by 53340

Make sure you dismount before accepting the quest, if youre mounted you cannot attack and cant be attacked thus just wasting time and causing you a headache.

Comment by vexis58

I did this quest in a group today. The other party members can't help you at all, but if one person succeeds, all of the group gets credit for it!

Comment by faultycurve

You CAN be affected by a Warlock Imp's Blood Pact while polymorphed into Teron Gorefiend.

Comment by 81927

Make sure you are not on your mount when accepting this quest...it will be bug if you do.

Comment by 111549

Did this quest yesterday. When first person picked up quest and completed, the party did not get credit. Only let one person pick up and try quest at a time. About 3rd time through I decided not to abandon after I failed. While other person was doing quest they defeated him and I also got credit.

As for the cooldowns, like everyone else has said..use them as soon as you can.

Comment by 168739

If you are a druid doing this quest do not try to switch form or else the quest will glitch up and you'll have to abandon the quest and start over.

Comment by 204419

after the fight teron leaves your body,mounts on his dreadsteed,thanks you and tells you you two are going to meet again..
ahh my awesome druid,friends with an evil man who slaughtered thousands and aparently released death and decent BT loot to the world.2 sides of the coin i guess..

Comment by 213817

This was probably the most fun quest I have every done besides the one in SHadowmoon where u turn into a Fel Reaver

Comment by 234863

On 2/6/09, could not engage him when in a party with others (had not completed quest yet). Dropped party and could fight.

Comment by 288509

I picked up this quest twice whilst on my flying mount, and I was unable to engage Karsius. I tried without being mounted and it worked perfectly.

27 / 04 / 09

Comment by Powerage

Still bugged when you take the quest while on flyer 8/12/09

Comment by davepoobond

Still bugged as of today while on flyer.

Comment by 469038

Still Bugged while having a pet summoned. Playing on my Dk and had my ghoul out. Wasn't able to attack him and after waiting for so long without doing anything he vanishes and your stuck in the lame Teron form until you commit suicide. =P

Comment by taurolyon

Yep still bugged if mounted.. Karsius despawns after about 90 seconds of not being attacked... I was able to use my hearthstone however and break the debuff, then fly back out there..

Comment by 505896

Confirmed... the quest is still bugging if you get it while being mounted. Abandon the quest - dismount and take the quest again. Worked for me.

Comment by 426436

I accepted the quest while still mounted,and i was unable to attack karsius in the first 30 seconds.Then i got unbugged and started fighting.Also i was able to use my "Ferocity" trinkets - Blade fist breath and Ancient draenei war talisman

Comment by xavier999

If you fail the quest Gorefiend will despawn then respawn in a few seconds. When he respawned for me(and before I even accepted the quest) he used his haste spell for some reason (I could hear him cast it then see the buff on him). When I picked up the quest again the haste ability was already on the 3 minute cooldown, but I didn't have the buff. I had to retry the quest about 3 times (because I hadn't read the tips on here :P ) and each time he respawned he used his haste spell and it was on cd when I started the quest. Finally I just waited a few minutes after he spawned then accepted the quest and it was off cd and worked just fine. Just something to be aware of.

Comment by Zelleon

OK, so all these things were very helpful and thank you all for them, however I would add one more thing before future players act like me.... Take off the Spectrecles and put on your helmet... the armor is needed, and quite helpful. lol

Comment by Gambolputty

When turning in the quest, Zorus tells you: "Should you ever find Teron Gorefiend, destroy him."

If you are wondering where to find him, he is the fourth boss in the Black Temple raid. There is no followup quest.

Comment by Netspook

4 years later, and the bugs are still there.

Before accepting the quest:

Dismount, and dismiss any pet.

If the bugs kicks in, you will have to wait for several minutes till the "posessed" buff's cooldown is gone. And another minute or two before the spirit respawns. Abandon the quest and retry.

Btw, there's no "pet bar" during this fight, as some previous posters said. The spells you use appears on a bar that replaces your bottom left default bar.

Comment by 789594

For the people like me that did this over and over wondering where your melee is...

Before you accept the quest, drag your auto-attack out of your bottom action bar if its there, to a top one where you can drag it back down. If you were bugged like me, Hotkeys 4, 5, 6, and 7 should be lit up with your 4 CDs available. When you try to drag down your auto-attack to the bottom action bar, hotkey 1 lights up for your melee.

I tried this quest six times before I figured it out. Sheesh.

Comment by 116782

Druids be sure to drop out of flight form. Screwed up first time and got him to 477 health then became wisp. Had to wait it out and redo. No problem then.

Comment by 865076

The skills you can use are: Touch of Darkness, Unholy Armor, Death and Decay and Haste.

Comment by endersblade

This quest is STILL freaking bugged. I just attempted it on my 85 hunter. At first, I didn't dismount or dismiss my pet. So it bugged. Tried again, I couldn't auto-attack. It took me three tries, with some serious luck on crits to finally get this guy down using only the two attack spells.

I also noticed that I NEVER got to use the haste ability - the Spirit would apparently use it as soon as he respawned from my previous failure, and it would be on CD the duration of the fight.

Kinda sad that blizzard can't bother to fix this quest, it's actually a really cool chain, and some good lore besides.

Comment by crystalmatrix

The attack key and right click attack will bug out occasionally and not work. So you are probably getting beat on while you wait for the debuff to expire as we speak. Nothing to do but wait it out, trinket or cloak of shadows does not remove the debuff.

I tried adding autoattack to the a different hotbat, but that didn't work. I did right click on one of the ghosts that attack at ranged and my autoattack started working.

Abandon the quest to try again. Don't worry the NPC will show back up after a minute or two.

Comment by 526949

After about 10 tries i summoned pet and killed Karsius that way. May work for warlocks too if cant get autoattack to ever work.

Comment by Destler

Still bugged as of 12-19-2011. I saw some druid guy complete it right before me, but for the life of me I could not understand how he was able to auto attack. The "1" key doesn't seem to work and you can't left click to autoattack. I sent in a ticket.

Comment by 831763

As of 21/12 - 2011 autoattack still doesn't work, but if you time the use of your skills correctly, it's still possible to complete the quest.

Comment by Ludovico

This quest is still bugged, but now differently. This was on a Feral Druid:

In caster form,
Not Mounted,
No pets,
Default Blizzard UI on.

Auto-attack was on a side-bar, but it would not function. Button #1 did not function and I got a message saying: "You can not attack the target while pacified". Tried various tricks and died several times, but finally discovered a work-around.

Get right up to Karsius and then target him, try to initiate a melee attack by right-clicking on him. If you do not swing at him, untarget and repeat. You need to do this quickly or he will de-spawn. Eventually, you will take a swing at him and then the buttons seem to work as advertized.

Comment by 923311

To get the auto-attack working, right click him before the battle begins. Took a few attempts but finally got him :)

Comment by 921728

Ok, a new year (2012) and yet the bugs on this are still there. I tried all that was mentioned here to get the "auto attack" key 1 to work. It never did for me. I cleared my addons, wtf and logs; I made sure I was not mounted; I am a lvl 85 warrior tank/fury, tried both; did not attack him with auto-attack first, just moved close and let him get the first hit; cleared my action bar of all commands; went to interface and enabled only default action bar; no pet, no macros; not in a group or raid; and wearing green area level gear. Completed after multiple attempts. btw, if your "pet" dies, then just run over the little bridge (east of alter), the debuff is cleared, the quest resets, abandon the quest, go back to alter and in about a 1 min, "Ancient Shadowmoon Spirit" appears (after a "warrior charge" sound occurs) back at the alter. The only way I finished this was by carting him around the alter, he is slow, waiting for spell cd's to clear, stand, cast, and run. Rinse & repeat. Doing it this way, I more than survived the ordeal (17K health left) and he went down. What a pain.

Comment by Ariztophale

I did the quest today, feb 6th 2012 and succeeded. I dismounted and dismissed pet and companion. However, Teron died during the fight but I returned to my "spirit form", and was still being attacked. So I called my pet and he killed Karsius and the quest was completed. Very weird...

Comment by longjourney

Well, as hunter it is doable as for some reason Call pet is possible while pacified (came as surprise to me). Here's how I did it (being level 85 though)

Dismounted and dismissed pet
Accepted quest.
Used all other NPC abilities except key 1 (auto attack) as it was bugged for me and resetting it did not help.
Used abilities as soon as they were off cooldown except Death and Decay..
I tried to stay out of melee range when possible, so did only a couple Death and Decays for the sake of keeping distance.
Without auto attack working Gorefiend's death is inevitable so he does die but at least Karsius has got more than half of his hit points peeled off by that time.
Then summoned my regular dps specced pet (tanking pet will help a lot at completing this at lower level. Or spirit beast with healing ability. You are pacified but your pet isn't so it will execute any command you give it)
Got credit for quest completion when pet killed Krasius..

Comment by 897054

Just tried it for the umpteenth time. Tried everything mentioned. Can't even attack. They just stand there looking at each other and eventually the boss disappears. I'm left standing as a ball of energy waiting 4 minutes. The auto-attack option didn't work for me (target and attack, clear if nothing happens-target again). No response. Cancelled and waited 10 minutes after the fight to reaccept. Same problem. Very frustrating.

Comment by 961125

My melee attack doesn't work! So I have to use other abilities but I run out of mana before the guy dies. Hate this quest. When I run out of mana he has about 1/4 hp left.

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By Ludovico (2,211 – 1·5·19) on 2011/12/26 (Patch 4.3.0) Report
This quest is still bugged, but now differently. This was on a Feral Druid:

In caster form,
Not Mounted,
No pets,
Default Blizzard UI on.

Auto-attack was on a side-bar, but it would not function. Button #1 did not function and I got a message saying: "You can not attack the target while pacified". Tried various tricks and died several times, but finally discovered a work-around.

Get right up to Karsius and then target him, try to initiate a melee attack by right-clicking on him. If you do not swing at him, untarget and repeat. You need to do this quickly or he will de-spawn. Eventually, you will take a swing at him and then the buttons seem to work as advertized.
Last edited by Ludovico on 2011/12/26 (Patch 4.3.0)

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Merum on 2011/12/29 (Patch 4.3.0)
Tried this four times before noticing this comment. Hitting esc to deselect and trying to auto attack again worked for me. Thanks for saving me a (bigger) headache!

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inusfan on 2012/01/10 (Patch 4.3.0)
This worked for me too! Thanks!

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Asmor on 2012/02/12 (Patch 4.3.2)
Worked for me as well! Escape and then re-select him!

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dythe 20 days ago (Patch 4.3.2)
This also worked for me. Thanks so much for posting this. The quest is impossible to
complete without getting the melee to work.

This worked for me as well.

Comment by MABGamer6407

Def 1 of the top fav quests Of all time. who does't want to be a villain above all else the first death knight, other then The Lich king (who you play as In Icecrown at some point in a simler quest chain). Not only was the Quest a great experience, an 1 of few that let you use a pet Bar like command in BC but tells you how Blizz worked hard to get this battle Look Great. Its def worth your while for any 1 even at 85 To do This chain, as no mater your level, Using Gorefiend Can be a challenge an His Hp is Not the same as yours so the fights the same no mater your gear.

thanks Currently and a few others Of pointing out The bugs. I Do recall some bugs when i first dd this a while back, Then i Came on my Tank specced War and The Bugs Did get me a few times. Even to the Point that even tho he Despawnd, Karsius WILL attack your spirt Form so quickly Get to a ledge nearby and get far from him. I did't realize this and died a Painful dazing death from him. i also did't realize if you wen't out far enough you turn back to normal so i waited the 4min thinking i was stuck like this for a Bit. it took me a few Trys till i finally can Do this Fight with out 2 much trouble.

Comment by kabian

As of April 7, 2012 make sure you dismount or else you will have to wait for the debuff to wear off before doing it again. This is quests is really annoying because auto attack is bugged and if you don't dismount you just wasted 5 minutes.....

Comment by 984030

Nothing has worked for me to get this quest to work right. I go in without my mount. The auto attack doesn't work. I just can't get him killed before Teron dies. Then after that, I can't do anything. I have probably tried about 20 times, same issue every time.
Can't get past this, so whatever quests may follow in the line to help me finish Shadow of the Betrayer, I can't do. Pretty frustrating.

Comment by Listy

Why the hell the developers haven't sorted out the bugs in this quest through all the patches I don't know.... as of 4.3.4 it's still bugged to hell as reported above. Doesn't matter if you log out and in, dismount beforehand, dimiss pets, companions etc. it's still a lottery if the attack button works or not..... more often it's 'not' it seems as I've not known one person it's ever worked properly for.

The easiest way to finish the quest (but also the longest way) if it bugs out for you is just to kite him round the pillar next to the altar whilst hitting the steal health ability everytime it's cooldown is up....do that until he only has a couple of thousand health left and then you can safely stop kiting him round the pillar and just use the AoE to finish the last few health off him.

Makes me really angry that after all the reports the dev team must have had about this quest being bugged all this time, that they've still not bothered to fix it.... this is around the 8th alt I've done this quest on and it's been bugged every single time. :-(

Comment by Aharding25

I did this quest in 2012 just now actually. The best strategy i found to use since auto-attack is broken is as followed:
Cast Death and Decay, and kite him in a circle inside the AE spell keeping him out of melee range. Spam the life absorb and the cloak when its off CD

Comment by 10drxtc

this quest is just pissing me off as the buttons seem to either not work or don't do much if any damage

Comment by DMT1

I can still confirm this is a bug May 2012. Had to do as Althes said to start Auto-Attack Right CLick on him. Thanks for the info.

Comment by Sizy

Easy to do for a hunter even with the bug.

1. Dismount
2. Dismiss pet.
3. Accept quest then use any attack
4. Keep attacking till your health dies
5. Then when you are back to yourself (little blue ball) call for your pet and it will attack and kill him.

Comment by MsBrightside

Okay, you have tried several times and failed. Short story is:
You cannot complete this without auto-attack, which is broken and does not work right.
So you have to close in to Karsius and press Right Mouse as much as possible, till "sword" cursor appers.
Now u have auto attack working.
Now do life drain and kill Karsius pretty easy.
Oh... and you have just released death incarnate once again... Teron Gorefiend has returned

Comment by TimeTraveler

If you don't have a pet to bring back into the fight, this dxxx thing is impossible. Have tried all suggestions. Not mounted, have no pet, no companion out. Right clicked at beginning of fight to get knife to show up, this was accomplished by re-targeting him several times. However, once I begin to use the buttons from provided panel, I can no longer hit him myself. As suggested I did not use ! as it doesn't work. The panel buttons are on cool down too long to make him go below 18, xxx before what's his face dies.

Then my own keys come back, which do not work at all, as I stand there ineffective for three minutes while he pummels me. At 17,xxx he disappears and I have lost again.

I am 81 Pally, this should be easy, any more suggestions ?

Comment by 716164

I would also like to add if you have any companion pets out dismiss them as this also renders the auto attack (Spell 1) not to work as your minion will not be able to melee attack.

I found this out after 3 fails initially. After dismissing my companion pet all worked fine.

Thank you for all who contributed here.

Comment by dc1brewer

Recap and some new info:

make sure you dismount and dismiss pet and companion before you take quest.

As soon as your Gorfiend pet is activated and your #1 action bar items are replaced with your new 'pet' spells, target Karsius and click your rightmost new button to put a slowdown buff on him.

I found that then running immediately to one of the lightning bolt spirits and right clicking on it will activate your autoattack - this worked for me several times in a row - nobody else seemed to have that consistent success in activating the autoattack - and it seems to stay active from then on throughout the fight as you select Karsius. Click the second new button to heal yourself. THIS IS A HUGE KEY TO STAYING ALIVE - if you do nothing else, concentrate on clicking the heal as SOON as it is available !

The second most important button to activate as soon as it is available is the damage spell - third button.

The lightning bolts do a lot of damage. I kited him over to the area just before the wooden plank bridge. I have no idea if this lessens the lightning damage, but it surely didn't hurt.

It might help somewhat reducing his melee damage if you kite him around inside the dot circle while it is active. But to repeat, the most important thing to staying alive is to activate your second button heal over and over as soon as it is available. I haven't tried this on a second character yet, but my impression is that using the heal immediately every time available may well keep you from dying and give you all the time you need to wear him down.

Further info. If your 'pet' dies, you can reset quickly by moving up through the rocks or anywhere far enough to get out of the active area - you immediately return to your normal form and all buffs disappear so you can abandon the quest and almost immediately start it again. You should wait for 3 minutes before reactivating the quest - it appears that the slowdown buff cooldown continues for several minutes and if you restart immediately, you will not have the advantage of intially putting the slow down buff on Karsius.

Comment by 941372

I did this on my 85 Worgen hunter. I didnt find out that button #3 was a healing button til i was almost dead. I set down death and decay as much as I could, spammed unholy armor too. Unfortunately, I died and couldn't attack in spirit form when I realised hey, maybe my pet could kill him! (he only had 10% of his health left) so I summoned my pet and viola! quest complete!

Comment by Direlamb

In 4.3.4, after multiple failures, this worked for me:
1. Select Karsius, press 1, deselect him, then right-click on him (to actually start auto-attack).
2. Don't run around, stand your ground (to keep auto-attack and D&D on him).
3. Press 4 immediately to apply armor, and then again every time its CD ends.
4. Press 6 immediately for D&D, and then again every time its CD ends.
5. Press 5 to heal when your pet bar health first gets low, and then again every time its CD ends after that.
Result: I beat him easily doing the above in a disciplined way.

P.S. You can try throwing in the haste button too (after the CD ends from its initial automatic activation), but I didn't remember to, and didn't end up needing it.

Comment by whichwitch

I finally finished this quest after several attempts. One of the other comments mentions targeting one of the attacking helper ghosts first and trying to auto-attack it. It worked like a charm for me, and I went to town.

Comment by dragon0042

Tried this as a hunter, no pet , original UI, unmounted, nothing, auto-attack never worked. Tried everything here, nothing. It finally worked , when the "pet" died, and before Teron despawned,
i called my hunter pet, it spawned and finished off Teron

Comment by 1025926

Dismount first, it bugs out the actions on your toon.

Comment by 1020400

Gah! Why hasn't anyone said this?

Here are some quick things:

1. The items rewarded won't show up on the quest log, only when you turn it in (No idea why it's like that...)

2. Yes, if you are mounted and accept the quest, you will be bugged but you can remove this bug off of you by using an ability. (Unless of course you're flying, then you're screwed.)

3. The items recieved are transmogabble! Woo!

4. If you do this quest and you don't have a lot of time, try not to die, if you do then the quest giver will take up to a minute to respawn (Maybe I'm just impatient...)

Other than that, this quest is just great! Hope you can find a transmog set to go with your item!

Comment by WizardDani

If you're a mage, cast Mirror Image just before ~~you attack Karsius~~ you are turned into Gorfiend's pet. They did the job for me.

Comment by dsiacono

as a paladin, this quest has more bugs than the cockroaches crawling around the zone.
here are the problems w/ the quest:
there was no pet to order to attack. (even tried my own but that didn't work)
there was no auto attack so only my mana worked.

i must've abandoned this quest 10x 'til i FINALLY slayed teron gorefiend & that was using everything quickly & clicking like crazy. there should be hotkeys to fight faster.

Comment by chrysophase

The hardest part of this quest was camping. People that don't understand the quest enough to win the final battle taking the quest giver away from action. You have to do three quests in order to get the final quest. Tough to do when you have multiple people removing him from action. Please people, learn your vehicle skills. Do that and it's not too hard.

Comment by phatcat

Hello again Rogues!
Stuck here while trying to get Stealther's Helmet of Second Sight!

Here are some tips for rogues.
For the last few years this quest is bugged and probably will never be fixed.
but you can get around this.

the best way is to have a Windwool Bandage or better bandage
during the fight you need to always make sure you are doing an attack, because it will be close!
in the moment you are less then 1/2 health QUICKLY, click on Teron Gorefiend, his portrait on default UI will be just below yours. now that he is targed use your bandage on him (I assume you have a button on your hotbar). Now, QUICKLY retarget Karsius by clicking him, now one of your spells should be off cooldown. you should be able to do this twice during the fight and barely make it out!

good luck rogues, and may the shadows hide you! .o>

Comment by Metzae

Before this quest will appear you must complete Divination: Gorefiend's Armor, Divination: Gorefiend's Cloak, and Divination: Gorefiend's Truncheon.

Comment by parkerj316

I will say this... it's a pain in the butt! lol I had trouble at first.. Seems like best practice is...

make sure your dismounted because it will shrink you and you won't have control
Don't charge in, the guy doesn't aggro unless you run up and attack. Take this time to read what your spells do.
The auto attack is a little bugged so deselect him, then just right click him and your guy will go into attack stance. Now you can run up to him to attack.
Watch and use the shield, heal, and the Death and Decay(the D&D is between a 1-2 sec cast didn't pay full attention to cast time, was too busy trying kill this guy) every time the CDs are up

It will come down to the wire but you will be good to go.. I did it on my rogue for the helm.. Awesome looking!

Comment by 1120908

For 5 minutes a spell is cast on you. Use the powers given; haste, absorb damage, death and decay, and attack. Use powers on cool downs. I had to fight him a few times to get the hang of it but shouldn't be a problem for more skilled players.

Comment by thisguyyouknow

If you looking for the beginning of the quest chain that leads up to this, read this comment...

http://www.wowhead.com/npc=21797#comments:id=986003:reply=157100

Good fortune to you.

Comment by Tigronn

so i follow your silly guides and i still die, why is that? too low lvl?

Comment by 1204697

As i figured out, the last spell (haste buff) can be bugged if u try multiple times. But u can do it without haste buff if u always recast armor at the same moment its cd ends. Next priority is cast life steal, and last is dnd. Basically u hit him to the death with auto attack, and start to spam armor a bit before its cd is over. Remember dnd is not instant spell (its not like dnd of death knight class) so if u c armor cd ending soon don't risk casting dnd.

Comment by thaia

Had my nerves tested with this quest today.
My findings: If you can not auto-attack, try moving closer. Worked for me.
If you retry the quest and the 3 minutes cd is on cd, you can just wait until it's ready because you won't engage automatically. But be careful, as the mob will despawn after a while (seemed like a minute or so).

I gave up on the quest eventually, after the three minute-thing was still on cd when I accepted the quest even after a server reset(!).
But then I saw someone doing it without any problems, who thankfully accepted my group invite. Still running around as an ugly orc though, even after restarting the game. This is one hell of a quest.(##RESPBREAK##)524##DELIM##thaia##DELIM##

Comment by LentzRose

I talked to a GM about the quest he was very rude said that Blizzard doesn't care about broken BC quests that I should deal with it and move on he said the quest is in fact broken because the ghosts do a lot of damage and told me good luck on trying to get a GM to help fix the problem

Comment by SoCalWoWGal

Note: According to 6.1.0 Known Issues - Updated 2/20/15 -

•The quest "Teron Gorefiend, I am" is much more difficult to complete.

Comment by 908617

I think this is the most difficult, non-instance quest I've ever had to do in WoW. :(

Comment by sivla

people fail this quest because of the auto attack bug. basically you are not doing anything...and he will despawn and the character you control will appear to die. You need to press escape if you are not auto attacking him, you have like 30 seconds to get some auto attacks on him, or like i said despawns and off you go again and again.

There seems to be a really big issue with druids having an even difficult time doing this quest. Especially the pacified bug, where it wrongly claims you are pacified.

This zone has always been very bad for it's bugs, but 8 years of neglect and non fixing and this is what we have...even worse when your doing the lore master achievement.

Comment by 1254769

I managed to kill him by lining up my spirit (where your character stands before you become Teron Gorefiend) where Karsius spawns, I then had Teron Gorefiend die, and the moment Gorefiend died I spammed an attack button, and Karsius did die by my character's attack instead as my character came back from the spirit form.

Comment by Valdrab

There's a million comments about dismounting and auto-attacking - none of them useful. I get killed by Karsius all the time, tried it twenty times and the bastards wipes me like I'm NOT a 76 Fury Warri.

Comment by 1476651

OK I have tried this quest numerous times, and hadn't been able to complete it, but I finally found an easy way to complete this quest after the squish.

How to:

Obtain a Goblin Dragon Gun, Mark II (5x Ghost Iron Bolts, 8x High-Explosive Gunpowder)
OR
Something that works similary. (AoE, cone effect that deals moderate amount of damage.)

Start the quest and position your character around where Karsius spawn. (IMPORTANT!)
When Teron Gorefiend takes over your body, use the Goblin Dragon Gun, Mark II and Karsius should die instantly and your quest will complete.

Upvote if it helped you.

Comment by JTSkibbles

It was kind of funny, I got PKed while fighting Krasius. Someone just walked by and killed my little spirit ball self. The funny part is, I stayed Gorefiend. I was walking around as the 'pet' looking at my own dead body as if I weren't dead XD Interesting little glitch?

Comment by JTSkibbles

That was strange XD I just had a glitch where after I lost the fight I remained the wisp with Karsius attacking me and I couldn't fight back.

Comment by dshiryu

This quest is so bugged that there is even a bug within a bug, after about five tries I managed to complete it. Based on the previous comments I did the following: cast haste before the fight, cast Death and Decay first, cast shield on cd, cast heal on cd, press Esc and click again to be sure the autoattack doesn't bug and that's it.
The catch is: after a very close fight and being close to death several times, making the add reach 50% made it die somehow.

Comment by Daichin

Beat this is a 71 Shaman by dropping fire elemental totem before the fight. It did most of the damage. Teron dies very very quickly in the fight, and I found that haste is bugged and started on cooldown (therefore cannot be used in the fight). I'm not sure you can beat this right now without being 'creative'.

Comment by Arthonor

The adds deal the most dmg. I tried to kill em off first, but ran out of mana, and can not reach them with autoattack. Only 1 add alive. I engaged "boss" but it takes too long to kill him, and I died since I do not regain mana.
With just a little mana regen, this would be the way to do it. but now I don't know.

Comment by rameymj

Completed 7/21/15: wife actually discovered this.

Keep up 4, 5, and 6 when they come off CD. With your mouse over opponent, rapid alternate between 1 and right click, repeatedly. (I think this rapidly turns on and off autoattack.)

Didn't move from initial spot, but make sure that the first ring from #6 includes where he will stand as he advances on you.

Comment by Boxofbeer

Teron Gorefiend, I am... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xci_Dzxocp4

Comment by Aurleis1

Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9sfxu_XjmE

1. Teron Gorefiend, I am...
• Accept the quest, Teron Gorefiend, I am..., from Ancient Shadowmoon Spirit at coords 58.2, 70.8 (Altar of Shadows).
• Defeat Karsius the Ancient Watcher, while controlling Teron Gorefiend.
• Travel northwest, to Wildhammer Stronghold, at 36.6, 55.4.
• Turn in the quest to Zorus the Judicator.

Comment by 1561563

Encountered a strange bug with this quest.

Defeated gorefiend, he started spouting his babble about being released etc, but suddenly I was falling from a CRAZY height and fell to my doom. Died. Had to run 3000 miles back to my body, only to find that since I had died from the fall, I had to do the quest again. Abandoned the quest, accepted it again (as clicking the guy would do nothing but give me a prompt of "Teron Gorefiend, I know of him, yes....")

Once abandoned, the quest became available again, I beat him, I didnt fall this time, and quest completed as normal...wierd. Anyway...

Should note - Alliance hunter, I hadnt dismissed my pet first, but I didnt have any problems there. I wasnt mounted.

- L

Comment by deviXD

I did this quest on my druid lvl 100 and i received Stealther's Helmet of Second Sight instead of Druidic Helmet of Second Sight. I had no choice to pick up what i want.

Comment by Decrepify

This quest is laughably easy after the squish. The monster died in two button presses in the vehicle.

Comment by punksoul

Alliance Version: If your looking for the quest rewards for transmog purposes, and you didn't quest in shadowmoon valley previously, the initial quest is picked up at Wildhammer stronghold from Zorus the Judicator. Complete the quests he gives you until ultimately he sends you to another NPC end up picking up another 3 quests, (Divination: Gorfiend's Cloak/Truncheon/Armor). Tip: make sure you are wearing the cool ghost shades or won't be able to kill the quest objectives.

Comment by bookworm13

You did what? FOOL!

You must right this wrong. After all, it is your fault.

It's my fault? Who sent me on this damn fool quest? Who is the more foolish, the fool or the fool who sent him?

Comment by Ehawen

So maybe this is because TBC Classic, but I really struggled with this one. Here's what worked:

AOE Dot immediately (and every time it's up). Make sure he's right in the centre.
Armor
Lifesteal for both damage and to heal yourself.
HASTE (the last one that has a 3min cooldown and isn't available until near the end of the fight).
Continue repeating 1-3 whenever they're up.

GG EZ

Comment by ElmaSaenji

So, you are here because of the Mage Tower, yeah? :)
To get this quest with any new alt you shouldn't do the full quest chain. Just go to Zorus the Judicator / Chief Apothecary Hildagard and do (Alliance/Horde):

To get the helm with max possible item level use Chromie Time on the second character and use party sync with that character. Get you reward after that step only.
Remember, that character must have "Divinations" quests completed.

Links

Teron Gorefiend, I am...

The Ancient Shadowmoon Spirit has used you as a pawn! Now that you have collected the items he required, he has revealed himself to be Teron Gorefiend. To break free of his possession, you must do his bidding and slay Karsius the Ancient Watcher.

If you succeed, return to Zorus the Judicator at Wildhammer Stronghold.

	Karsius the Ancient Watcher slain (1)

Description

With Gorefiend's items restored, there is but one last piece to this puzzle: A host.

<The ancient shadowmoon spirit's lips curl up to form a wicked grin.>

Surely you did not believe the fairy tale that I told you. The Altar of Shadows is my prison. Without your help, I would have been stuck here for all eternity. Now, I will take over your body and you will destroy my captors and break these bonds. Refuse and we will both be stuck here forever.

Teron Gorefiend will be free!

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Evoker's Helmet of Second Sight			Overlord's Helmet of Second Sight
	Stalker's Helmet of Second Sight			Shamanistic Helmet of Second Sight
	Stealther's Helmet of Second Sight			Druidic Helmet of Second Sight

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10645))