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Comment by 12652

This guy was strange. First, he constantly summons shadows of random party members. they do a lot more damage than the copied! He keeps summoning them, so don't just tank them, they need to die. Around 20%, he summons and 'avatar' that hits really hard. Down Exarch first, and battle loot, because it's easy to wipe on the second guy (and he keeps summoning shadows until you kill him, so he needs to go down first).

Comment by 14586

This guy uses mortal strike on the tank, and creates a darkside of players. As he does, he deals about 3000 damage and knocks the player down. The darkside must be killed swiftly, as they can potentionally do much damage, depending of whom got cloned. At about 10-15%, he will summon an avatar of the martyred. This new add hits very hard, and also has mortal strike. Focus at killing Maladaar at this point.

Comment by 16487

This is a very easy fight once you learn what's going on properly.

Our group consisted of a Warrior, Priest, Hunter, Warlock and Mage.

Warrior's job is simple - tank Exarch. That's all he has to do.

Priest's job is obviously to heal. I was the Priest, and stood as much as I could in the open.

The other three DPS classes stood grouped together away from both tank and Priest. They pulled the Shades from me and killed them.

At 30% when the Avatar was summoned, we had the Hunter's pet tank it, and quickly killed Exarch. After that, get the tank to pick up the Avatar and kill it.

An easy fight that's only hard if you don't kill the Shades as they spawn. The positioning of the classes helped a lot too.

Congrats on your new loot. :)

Comment by Rinkotsu

If you are interested in knowing: This guy is wearing a recolored version of the Paladin tier 1, Lawbringer.

Comment by danox

He is realy easy on Heroic. You can nuke him realy fat... but remember the spawns. At 25% he will summon avatar witch is a bit harder than normal. Try your tank to tank both boss and avatar and nuke boss asap, than kill avatar... nothing special

Comment by 18513

If you have a feral druid, his clone's moonfire will hit for like 350.

Small consolation, prize.

Comment by 25080

Remember to check Avatar of the martyred for all loot.

https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/npc=18478

Comment by 36622

On Heroic, done by a Protection Paladin, Enh. Dual Wield Shaman, a Hunter, a Shadowpriest and me, a healing priest.

We got Shirrak on the first try, and Maladaar on second.

His abilities are like others noted the same as in normal mode, they just do some more damage.
Again priority on the clones.

Maladaar however, in addition to Ribbon of Souls, ranged shadow attack, and the Stolen Soul ability, he also periodically fears for a short duration.
This can be countered with a proper stancedancer, but it went alright for us too.

The Avatar he summons around 20% however does a powerful Mortal Strike ability, which hit our tank for 6k on 12000 armor.

Make sure you kill Maladaar and if you can, the avatar afterwards, but you can go for the Maladaar kill, wipe, run back.

Do not leave the avatar for what it is, it drops loot now too, and alone, it's an easy kill.

We got the Wave-Song Girdle and the Harvester of Souls and a Primal Nether from Maladaar, Will of the Fallen Exarch from the Avatar.

Good luck!

Comment by Tigraine

Pretty easy kill on heroic. Just make shure your tank can absorb some damage and has enough avoidance to survive even with a Mortal Strike on him.

Got him downed on first try with 2 Shadowpriests, Warlock and Resto Shaman

Comment by LoKHor

Much easier on heroic than the first boss, which took us about ten tries. Two shadow priests, a holy priest, an elemental shaman and me as a warrior tanking. I just picked up the avatar when he spawned and taunted the last shadow clone at the same time. The party finished off Maladaar while I held aggro on both him and the spawn. Shield wall helped a bundle and I popped Last Stand when my health suddenly plummeted. Make sure to keep demo and tc up and use all your cooldowns, because it really helps. I have about 12K armor and 25% block. My defense is still just under 490 but it didn't seem to make a difference.

Comment by 27927

It was an interesting fight. I strongly advise taking out the Adds as soon as they arrive just like you do against Sheffar. It will be fatal if Maladaar summons his minon while there are still adds alive because they automatically went after my healer and it was impossible to keep both the main tank and the off-tank healed (Especially with the mortal strike on the off-tank).

If you manage to take down Maladaar while his adds are still alive they will not fade, so unless you can SS or reincarnate from a safe distance you will need to run back and rest up before killing the adds and looting Maladaar.

Comment by blacksirrus

As there was no "story" section at the top of this page, I thought I might as well add his backstory (or what I know of it):

Exarch Maladaar is the leader of a sect of Draenei "death priests" called the Auchenai Death Cult. Originally, they were apparently just a bunch of peaceful undertakers tending the huge amount of graves in Auchindoun.

During the uprising of the Horde and the invasion of Draenor by the Alliance Expedition, Auchindoun switched hands a number of times. Later, the Shadow Council even blew half the thing up by summoning Murmur. Some of the Auchenai apparently managed to survive, however, and are still watching over the most ancient section of the complex (namely, the grave of the naaru D'ore).

Not too long ago, however, Maladaar and most of his followers for some reason took up interest in necromancy (at least one of the cults members, Ramdor the Mad, was opposed to this and left the cult). At the time of the Burning Crusade expansion, Maladaar and the remaining Auchenai have retreated into the Crypts and are supposedly attempting to raise an army of the dead. Luckily, that's where our brave bunch of heroes steps in.

It can be noted that on another side of the Auchindoun complex, an eredar named Levixus is trying to summon another undead army for the Legion. He doesn't seem to mind Maladaar and his crazy gang of funeral directors too much, however.

Comment by Thottbot

Pretty easy fight, compared to the 1st boss in this instance. He spawns copies of a random party member now and then, kill those fast. At 20% health he makes a clone of himself, nuke him down, then the clone.

Comment by Thottbot

Standard warrior/rogue anti-casting tactics work well. His cloning isn't instant. We just took him down using shield bash and kick. He only got 1 spawn off plus the avatar, which seems to happen instantly. The group was 67 War, 67 Rogue, 67 Pally, 70 Hunter and 70 Druid. I wasn't able to find out if the copies are stunnable, but the boss' mirror image is not.

Comment by Thottbot

Druids: Tranquility.. it will last for a long time because of his casting time increasement.

Comment by Thottbot

1. Keep your ranged DPS and healer at max range to avoid debuff.

2. Focus all DPS on the clones as they spawn. You want to burn them down as quickly as possible.

At 15%-20% health he spawns his other half. Clones will still appear at this point, so watch for them. Finish the boss and then the other half.

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Comment by Thottbot

He's Cake if you know what you are doing.
i am a 64 Affliction warlock
1. he summons clones / adds. but they don't do the same things as you. they are Non-elite.
2. at 50% health (i think) he summons a clone of himself but way bigger. This Person is called Avatar Of The Matayed.
3. you must have 2 tanks, luckily we had two tanks (70 MT, 68 OT) MT goes onto maladar, Off tank goes to Avatar. Keep ALL DPS on Maladaar. if you lose to avatar itll be there once you get back.
4.you might want to prefer a lock, mage, hunter or any ranged dps for this fight to be on malaadar.

Btw....if you think Shirrak The Dread Watcher Is hard...

think again..
keep me at (+) please. i will be putting info as i do instances. and or raids. i will be putting up the notes of Shirrak the dread watcher in just a few minutes.

Comment by Thottbot

I wouldn't say that he's all that hard. You don't really need 2 tanks, as the above person said, as long as you have a tank who knows what he's doing. Focus should still be on burning the adds before they build up, but a good tank can hold aggro on both of them fairly easily as long as the DPS doesn't shift targets.

We downed him on heroic fairly easily by doing that with a druid tank, no losses, and no random aggro bursts from the DPS or heals. Just like Shirrak, he's simple as long as you know what you're doing. Other than that, above strategies work just fine.

Comment by Thottbot

sooooo ez

Comment by Allakhazam

If your group wipes while he's making clones of your party (as our group did) it's actually not such a bad thing. When you all come back you'll only have him to deal with because the close all vanish when you die.

Comment by Allakhazam

Drops from maladaar 10% of the time.

Strategy to beat him: tank focusses on m aladaar. The instant a clone pops, group focuses on clone while tank continues with maladaar. When Maladaar's second form pops, everyone unloads on maladaar then cleans up the rest.

Me 68 rogue against a 64 Druid who selected need. In party I congratulated & stayed classy. Here I'm gonna lay it out: to all you !@#$ face druids who roll on dps %^&*, die and go to hell or don't *!@#$ if we roll on leather gear with +healing on it. Get the point? We can't go as healers or tanks. So unless you're willing to give up your BoP leather gear with + spirit, healing, int, str, etc., don't roll on dps *!@# as your #1 priority. Wait for the classes who can only play as dps to obtain their dps gear, then you can have the luxury of stocking up on your own dps #$%^.

Comment by Allakhazam

was on my rogue ... solo grindin and saw someone spam for a priest for this place... and i asked hey what's the min lvl? i kinda knew 63 was too low but figured what the heck they might have some 70s or something ... asked and they said 63 was fine enough .. invited ... we had a 67 druid ( tank ) two paladins ( like 66 or something ) and a 68 hunter. one of the paladins helped me off heal.

well we wiped the first try on the first boss... i suggested that we fight him at the top of the stairs ... work very clean. then we made out way to the last boss... downed him first try and he dropped the staff, they let me have it ^^.

we only wiped the once.

Comment by Allakhazam

Druids have every right to dps gear, as long as they are spec'd that way.

Yes we can fill in a variety of rolls, but our talents determine what we are good at, a feral druid with good gear dps very very well, and guess what? they can off heal and tank if need be? why even take a rogue when a druids available?

You ignorant people don't see the big picture and think because its a hybrid you get preference on drops, he was there and has equal right to call need.

Comment by Allakhazam

My groups stratagy that was effective even with my lower level priest(62) as main healer...

Main tank hold Maladaar(obviously), as stated, his damage is not too terrible. Just popped a few renews through most of the battle. All out DPS Maladaar at start until he starts pulling shadow adds of party members on you.

After adds come focus all DPS on them, leaving the tank to wear down Maladaar.

Do this because you can drop them fairly quickly leaving them one at a time, rather than ending up with a group of them to deal with.

After the 20% mark and he pull out his 2x size avatar, have an off tank get on him to keep him off the healer/dps and go all out on Maladaar. He will still pull a shadow add or more depending on how fast you can kill him. The avatar does some stiff damage, but after Maladaar is dead, dropping the avatar is pie.

Hope this was a help for a full strategy on him, worked for us:

62 priest
65 warrior
70 pally
70 mage
70 druid

all of which were not geared in anything epic whatsoever ^^

Comment by Allakhazam

dropped fetish of the fallen
trinket
equip:increase atk pwr by 56
use: the next opponent killed within 10 secs that yields honor or xp will restore 900hp

Edited, Jan 24th 2007 3:27am by BIGDUBBA

Comment by Allakhazam

he makes a copy of whoever the ribbon goes towards (their class)

he made a copy of me, and i freeze trapped the priest haha

Comment by Allakhazam

He does a spel on the Target that does damage, but global his damage on the Warrior isn't much. He also spawns adds 2-3 times in the fight, they do insane damage, and are immune for most of the slowing spells, so kill em a.s.a.p. At 20%, he spawn an extra add, 66-67 elite, that does also alot of damage.

Btw, wacht out for the packs before Exarch Maladaar, they do Souldrain = 1000dmg a second.

Edited, Jan 22nd 2007 3:03pm by marvjoris

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Exarch Maladaar

Auchenai CryptsShirrak the Dead WatcherExarch MaladaarExarch MaladaarAuchenai CryptsAbilities

Soul Steal: Creates a Stolen Soul of the targeted player (a non-elite shadow of the same class) that will attack the group. They will most likely aggro the healer(s) immediately, and DPS must kill these off quickly. The darkside can not be polymorphed, feared, shackled, or counter-spelled (may be immune to other crowd control measures); however they can be feared using the Paladin's "Turn Undead" ability. The player whose soul is "stolen" by this effect will receive a debuff decreasing all damage and healing done by that player by 50%.

Summon Avatar: At 25% health, summons an Avatar of the Martyred with a Mortal Strike that hits for around 2500. Regular melee for about 1500 damage.

Ribbon of Souls: Randomly targets a party member and casts Ribbon of Souls, hitting for around 1100 shadow damage.

Soul Scream: Fears everyone within a 10yd radius. Lasts 2-3 seconds.

General Tips

Use of and Tremor Totem can help mitigate effect of the AoE fear.

It is recommended that you have an offtank to take care of the Stolen Souls and later on the Avatar of the Martyred.

Stolen souls should be focus-fired by the group.

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After killing this NPC you will gain:

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- 250 reputation with Lower City

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- 80 reputation with Lower City

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- 80 reputation with Lower City

Heroic
- 250 reputation with Lower City

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