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1.	The Soul Cannon of Reth'hedron
2.	Subdue the Subduer

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Comment by 35519

Really easy one. Drain his health down while you are in the air with your flying mount. Avoid meteors/fireballs.
The tactic I used is basicly staying in range, above him, flying around him clockwise while draining his soul. This way you will only take the shadow bolt damage (800ish). If you get cripple on you start going anti clockwise, so you dont run into the fireballs. The fireballs really hurt also dismounts you, and you die. Will take you a while till you suck his soul out, once hes on 1% hes starting to walk to the portal and leaves the place.
If you seem to take too much damage during an attempt you can flee away by just flying far from him.
Fun quest, good luck on it!

Comment by 54981

If you have more than 6k health, the shadowbolts alone WONT kill you. They are just there to scare you. However, dont get too close or else he will punch you and that is what can screw you.

Comment by Redcrosse

I was having a bit of trouble figuring out how to stay out of melee range while avoiding the fireballs when I noticed a pally in the area. He had the quest as well so we teamed up which made the quest trivial. With two beams he dies twice as quickly and if one person takes a lot of damage, they can fly away, out of combat, and heal up while the other person keeps draining him. I ran off at one point, landed and bandaged while the pally kept killing him. I flew back, helped finish him off and we both got quest credit.

Comment by 30667

If you are having trouble doing it solo, i recommend getting Mark of the Wild, Power Word: Fortitude, and Shadow Protection.

These together made him stupidly easy.

Comment by Sangre

This quest also rewards 500 Netherwing rep

Comment by 5883

-Fly to him, but stay far far away while still being able to use the soul cannon. The soul cannon has a range of 60 yards, which should be plenty. The key is to be 60 yards away from him, not 60 yards directly above him. If you are directly above him he will melee you and you will die.

-Activate cannon, dodge his fireballs with your flying mount.

- At no point should you ever get into his melee range, or he will hit you for ~3-6k. If this happens even once you are probably dead. Possibly in mid-air, and requiring a spirit rez. Stay in range of the soul cannon, out of his melee range. Basically just fly around while he follows you. Don't go too far though, or you will lose combat and he will reset. Don't worry about the shadowbolts, they won't kill you unless you get melee'd first.

- Multiple people can get credit for subduing him even if they aren't grouped. I started using my soul cannon on him when someone else already had him down to 50%, and I still got credit for it. I was not grouped with the other person.

>> LONG STORY SHORT <<
Activate cannon from 60 yards away, kite him around with your flying mount, never get into melee range, and avoid fireballs, don't be directly above him or you'll get melee'd.

Comment by 55234

A good starting point is somewhere beyond the reach of the regular mobs below (warlocks with imps). you don't really need to fly up and down, just find a comfortable spot where you can see him and not run into a tree/hillside

Activate the Soul Cannon, he doesnt really run after you, he just casts his shadowbolt and fireballs. just face him,
(1) when you see him cast, strafe to the left or the right, just keep strafing in a circle around him,
(2) he will also cast cripple which will slow you down, at which point he will take a few steps towards you. just move backwards or away from him,
and he'll start to cast his spells again. at which point, see point (1)
(3) when he's like 1%, he will start walking towards the stone archway at the end of the stip, just follow behind him he'll eventually go into it and disappear

Comment by Seany

If you're a mage who does the tanking duty for high king Maulgar, just chuck all your stam gear on before you do this quest.

Very fun.

Comment by P51mus

So far, this quest seems to be more of a fight to try and get him to NOT evade bug than any actual challenge. He's evade bugged on me at least 10 times in a row.

I'll be in range of him, he's tossing fireballs and shadowbolts at me, soul thing is draining his life...BAM evade bug. Again.

It seems like him trying to go over obstacles on the ground can cause him to evade bug, getting slightly too far away for a second can cause him to evade bug, sneezing causes him to evade bug....

Get someone else to attack him too, so that if his attention bugs on one person for some reason, he doesn't reset.

Comment by Suhov

He evades like shit... :/
So, make sure you fly in circle around him. I got 6,5k HP and at the end of battle got 2,3k Left.

Comment by RobMelendez

Remeber, if you're a warlock, to use your Demon Armor rather than your Fel Armor for that little shadow resist.

Comment by Zurr

i found this quest a bit annoying.

if you fly too low you risk getting aggro from the casters,
fly too high you end up getting hit by his melee just to stay in casting range.

Comment by 56961

You don't have to actually "beat" this guy. The quest only calls for you to get him to go thru his portal. I found that if u hover over his portal, and wait for him to walk near, then shoot him with the cannon, and start kiting him back, he will eventually step in. Quest Complete! ;-P

Comment by 57298

I tried to kite him into the portal, but it didn't work. I did find a nice bug that made this quest even easier. just hide behind the wall of the portal like i did in the pic.

Comment by 21672

Easiest way to do this quest after it took me about 4 maybe 5 tries to do it is to wait until hes is close to the portal. Activate the cannon and hide behind the pillar ( i found the right side if your behind the portal to be the easiest one to use) Make sure you have LOS on him or your be subject to his attacks. He will stand there while you drain him and you wont take damage. But you have to make sure LOS is the issue the cannon will still work however

Comment by 17335

Confirmed, although i kept myself out of LOS, he was in front of the portal and i hid behind the right pillar, he just kept trying to cast Cripple on me while i slowly drained his life away, but when he got to about 5% or so he started walking along his normal path, so i had to follow him until he got to 1%.
Awesome! :3

Comment by Joebob785

All you guys talking about hiding out of line of sight are missing the best part of the quest. If you just continuously strafe in a circle around him the whole time, all the shadowbolts he throws at you will keep following you around. I think I had like 5 or 6 little purple skulls chasing after me at one point (with riding crop), and I found it hilarious. Of course when he cripples you you won't be able to out-fly the bolts, but they don't hurt too bad. Quite funny indeed.

Comment by 6531

i guess this is impossible to complete with fight form

Comment by 60974

Please elaborate a bit on this technique. either this bug has been fixed, or I am not exactly understanding. i am behind the pillar, still with LOS to have him in the 'beam', however, he has no problem hitting me and targeting me with all his attacks.

(by the way blizzard: was it really needed for an attack to have a knockback effect when you are in the air?)

Comment by 7599

I got lucky on this quest. I forgot that I had it, and was just doing "Disrupt the Twighlight Portal" when some alliance group did it. I got credit from quite a long way away.

Comment by 60629

well, I had almost given up on this quest, as I do not have coordination to fly around this guy (i kept accidently flying right over him, which = death, or fly too far away, which = he resets his health, while trying to dodge his attacks). as someone mentioned, i tried the trick behind one of the pillars, didn't work for me..he still hit me, except he would knock me back off the cliff, (which, if you fall off the cliff behind the pillar, you WILL have to spirit rez). so I decided I would try one last time...i didn't want to abandon this quest, as I spent quite a bit of gold on the mats for the cannon. here is the thing: in the photos someone posted one that appears they are not flying, but have landed on TOP of the arch way. they are still flying; when the beam is active, your mount has the appearance it has landed.(ie-wings at its sides) took me a bit to figure this out....probably will not for most of you, but it did for me.

so, yeah...start off above the archway, just above it, so you are flying. as soon as he is coming, fly forwards just a bit to put him in range. click the beam, back up so you are directly above the arch way (as in the pic posted) do not land, as landing will break contact with the beam. as soon as you are above the archway, sit back, relax and wait. none of his attacks will hit you (as many have said).

I know most of what I just said has been said, but I thought maybe I could clarify some of it, as I had read and reread everything posted here, and still could not get it to work, just hope this helps someone, because if you got as frustrated as I did at first with this quest, well....yeah..

Comment by jrpheonix

ALLY KILLED THIS GUY AND ME (HORDE) Got CREDIT!!

WOOOT

Comment by Daego

Better be good on your mount, real lucky or practice alot before you start the attack on this guy. One screw up and your done :(

Took me an hour and half, died a bunch and repair cost got expensive.

Comment by 55743

I just wanted to do this quickly so followed the strat from top of portal but died a couple of times. So practiced a couple of different things
What I found was get ur mount in a position to attack him with the soul cannon make it so u can back up over the top of portal so ue still siphoning but he can't see u and walah he ees no more u may hay to follow him in the last bit as he walks away and breaks the summon pick him up and he has no more fight in him walks straight to portal swears he will get u back and gone I sustained no damage whatso ever quest complete
Hope this helpful to u ppl who just want to finish quick

Comment by 36866

A little confusing, at first. Tried the "fly around him in circles" method to no avail. Tried the "hang out above the portal" method....again, to no avail. Hit him with the beam when he's right in front of the portal, then fly back through the portal and hide behind the right hand pillar of the portal. Try not to break LOS, and if in the right position, you'll take no damage what-so-ever. I posted a screenshot of my position....worked like a charm once i figured out the correct positioning!

Comment by Jakobud

If you look in the screenshot I posted above you will see that I am flying (although it looks like my mount is landed, but in midair) on the RIGHT side of the portal out of Line-of-Sight. I am also very close to the top section of the portal, which allows me to avoid any of the dismounting meteors that fall from the sky.

It is easy. Simply wait for him to path by, zap him with the item, then quickly fly into the same position. Then just sit and wait and you shouldn't take any more damage.

Comment by maranzano

you can do this quest naked,so even if you wipe there's no malus of the equip... XD

Anyway, the strategy "fly around / far from him" works better of anyone. if the ray interrupts, don't worry he doesn't regain life.

Comment by 69137

Wrong, wrong wrong wrong, wrong wrong wrong wrong. It looses some of its effect without the music in the background or being sung to tune. The little bugs and tricks you folks are flaunting as the easy way to do it. Dont work. Ok follow along with me, they dont work.

Comment by Mairin

Did they hotfix this or something? Did it a couple of weeks ago as my hunter, LOS'd him behind a pillar no problem at all. Tried it just now on my priest and his dismounting meteors are crazy now and appear to totally ignore LOS as long as you're mounted, dismount you and blast you back wards off the cliff/into the ogre pat or forwards into the shadow guys or him.

edit.

nvm I got it after another try but it seems you have to be MUCH more precise now than last time I did it.

Comment by holmcross

I went behind the Portal as the screen shot suggested, and he simply chain casted cripple which never hit me. He did not go into Evade, and he didn't advance on me and attack. Easy as pie.

Comment by Malfious

Just fly around him using the strafe keys. Died once due to me going too close to him, nearly died second time because of fireball knocking me off my mount, but used feign death. Like previous posts say, avoid his fireballs if you have crippe on by flying the opposite way

Comment by 82238

With the strafing strategy is concerned i get the problem, that he is hitting me even though I'm way above his head. Dodging his fireballs, is one thing, i can manage that, but i can't dodge his crunching damage. I assume, though, that this some sort of bug, as no one else here have mentioned it.

Comment by 84464

If you die in mid-air and have to spirit res, it is best to wait for the resurrection sickness to wear off as it affects the damage of the Soul Cannon, bringing him down to only around 75%.

Comment by smoo

Wait for him to come close to the portal. Start channeling, land on the portal (most possible distance to him), channel and wait. Repeat.

Comment by 47175

The hard part I found with this quest was his crippling debuff. The slowed movement I can cope with but the -50% stamina is a real bitch as when the debuff wears off your max hp goes back to whatever it was but your current hp stays the same.

After 2-3 cripple attacks I was down to like 10-15% hp and had to fly away to eat. In the end I accomplished the mission by using the portal to get out of LoS as a number of people have suggested, it worked first time (hovering just above the portal) so I'd advise giving that a shot if you are having problems :)

Comment by 87662

the hiding behind the pillar/gateway does not work anymore i believe,i tried it several times in several different spots including the one in the picture.

Comment by 13465

na it is still working, try and see :)

Comment by 65452

The soul cannon is not usable in flight forms.

Comment by 57421

I am not sure how this worked out, but there was a Horde already killing the Subduer guy, and when he died I got credit. I didn't land or do anything at all!! Very easy quest *giggle*

Comment by 104481

You don't have to fly around to avoid anything. Stand on top of the portal at 8, 43 and nothing will hit you there!

Comment by 107527

See screenshot. very easy to do without getting hit once. just wait on portal til he shows. then get close enough to zap him with cannon and move toward either pillar and stay behind it. He will never touch you once and you can stay there til quest is complete.

Comment by 40722

The above methods are unnecessary. Since I couldn't figure out how to bug it i had to figure how to do it legit.

Here's the trick
The pillar (obelisk) stones with 4 mobs channeling some spell around them, kite him to one of them. In order for him to get to you, he has to go around the stones. So what i did was just kite him (in circles) around those stones. It keeps him out of melee range, and when i was crippled it bought me enough time to move out the way.

Hopefully that helps.

Comment by adashiel

The first time I did this one, which was shortly after 2.1, it was by teaming up with another player. We weren't in the same group or even the same faction, but as mentioned above, we both got a complete when Reth'hedron went through the portal. Neither of us used any tricks. We just flew around and zapped him.

I did this on a second character today, but there was nobody to team up with this time. So, I decided to try hiding behind the portal. It worked, but not exactly as I planned. I was a little slow getting behind the pillar (and I went to the left side), and was actually dismounted. However, instead of falling to the ground, I sorta stuck to the side of the portal, hanging seemingly in mid-air. It looked like I was stuck to flypaper. My cannon continued firing, however, and the quest completed without me taking any damage. I was even able to mount up from that spot. It was pure luck, and I doubt I'd be able to reproduce it if I had a thousand shots at it.

Comment by Xythros

LOL confirmed just fly behind the right pillar.. That was easy :D

Comment by thycondrius

LOL works fine, this tactis is very good :)

Comment by azek

This quest is a breeze if you have the 310% speed mount with the 10% trinket :|
Wow... If you happen to have those, just fly above him (but not straight above) in an anti-clockwork motion. That's it.

Comment by Lopen2

VERY buggy try not to get him by any thing stay in the open

Comment by Desecration

Just flew round him (just over his head height) about 20 yards to the side of him, when he does cripple, just change your direction. Did this until 1% when I unluckily got hit by a fireball and got dismounted. I kept the beam up (frost nova'd all the mobs) then I had to take a health pot and a fel blossom to absorb some damage , he walks over to the portal and bam done. Easily done, I just messed up at the end so the last part shouldn't apply to you, but do be aware that if you get dismouted towards the end, the mobs on the ground (the non-elite anyway) don't hit very hard and if you can keep yourself alive for an extra 10 seconds then you don't need to redo the whole thing. Took me a few tries to get it right (got hit by him the first 2) but after reading about staying out to the side of him it was an easy quest to do.

Comment by 131487

I have a much easier way of killing him.

All you need to do is flying near him, use the Soul Cannon thing. Once you start, go to the gate where there Orc's all around it. Stay on your mount though. Just fly behind the gates pillar. Basically, get out of his los.

And sit and wait til he's close to dead. And boom, quest complete. :)

Comment by 89649

I take it back I had to use my slow mount so he wouldn't disappear but at the end when he hit 2% he started to walk away and i was about two secs from writing the nastiest ticket to a gm but didn't reset so i just put it back on him just in case all he did was walked back to gate and disappeared and completed

Comment by zeophian

I'd highly recommend bringing some SR gear with you. As a priest i had my own SR buff and had my cloak and Illidarian neckpiece. But you could use anything with SR. It usually has stam too so it works well.

With 175 i only lost a total of about 3k health and resisted all but 1 cripple. That was right near the end anyway when he was about 5%.

Comment by 139533

Died a few times trying, but then went behind the right pillar and had him down without taking any damage at all. Uploaded a screenshot of my location.

Comment by 4545

Did this with the "behind the pillar" suggestion.... 100% works! Done first try :P

Comment by 35757

Confirming the LoS trick still works; was a bit confused by the descriptions of how to do it (partly because I didn't believe it could be that easy after the other posts about dodging and what attacks he uses!), but decided to give it a go.

Used the soul cannon on him as he was approaching the portal, then just flew through it and hid the other side. And that's absolutely all you need to do! The cannon is a channelled attack; not something you keep having to fire, so you really do just use the cannon, fly through the portal, hide behind the pillars and watch as his health ticks down!

Don't panic if you see him start to cast something; he kept trying to cast cripple on me, but kept failing because of the LoS issue. Fun, easy quest!

Comment by eskilajnen

I can confirm that "Hang above the portal" trick still works, made the quest extremely easy.

Comment by Moonshadow101

One thing: Getting off your mount doesn't necessarily end the fight, especially if you do it at the end when he begins his march towards the door.

Comment by PocketFox

Confirmed on 7/03/08 that the "LoS behind a pillar" trick still works. Was even easier this time than the last time I did this quest and used the top of the portal to break LoS.

Comment by Allakhazam

did they nerf the LOS thing? ive tried hiding behind pillar twice and got hammered both times.

- scratch that got it to work third time but i literately had to be "in" the pillar lol

Edited, Jul 19th 2007 1:44pm by jodieann

Comment by Allakhazam

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/5317/hidekq6.png

enough said

Comment by Allakhazam

Omg Did it at the first try!
This is not hard at all. Just circle around him using strafe and mouse button 2!
just can understand how come ppl can beat this easy Q!

Comment by Allakhazam

Tried this one-shot without even looking here. Basically tagged him, and circled around him while using both keyboard and mouse for easy strafing movements. I was in the dangerous red zone, about 10% health, once he decided to flee thru the portal. If you got stam buffs, or health pots, it'll be a good idea to bring along. Even if you die once or twice, the cash reward should be enough to cover you, as long as you don't take the spirit healer.

Awesome tanking helm, too.

Comment by Allakhazam

Died maybe 3-4 times before looking on here lol Shouldve taken off mi items and i'd advise others to do so although with this method you will suceed and wont take any damage unless ofc you dont outrun his first hit.

1) Stay/fly near the portal as shown in the screenie in the below posts (thanks for showing that :D)
2) once hes in range, fire the cannon and slowly move to the back of the portal as he follows you, make sure your ehind the portal and at the top not! in the middle. Your mount'll look as if hes sat down but the cannon will still be firing. Don't actually sit on the top of the portal, fly behind it.
3) Wait for the channeling to finish, yes it takes a while and he'll keep firing at you but will not hit :P
4) Chanelling will cease, he'll whine about it and slowly walk into the portal and then you'll have a complete.

Good luck :P remove yer gear first ;)

Comment by Allakhazam

Bring him near the portal.
Walk with your fly mount on top of the portal and he cant hit u there.
less than couple minutes to finish this one.

Comment by Allakhazam

This quest is incredibly easy if done with the Line of Sight trick mentioned.

Comment by Allakhazam

If u really want an easy way then do it with a friend or two.You can bolth chanell and you don't even need to be in a party.

Comment by Allakhazam

+550 rep (Human) Netherwing

Comment by Allakhazam

Just did this using the tip about hiding behind the pillar and going out of his los, works like a charm :)

Comment by Allakhazam

Behind the pillar is a fantastic tip...works like a champ

Comment by Allakhazam

what are u guys talking about? this quest was easy as feck ;D just dodge the balls and channel the cannon...

Comment by Allakhazam

Those tips about the LOS really helped. Thanks guys! :)

Comment by Allakhazam

behind the portal trick = perfect

'nuff said.

Comment by Allakhazam

December 30th, 2007. The bug still works, just stood there on my mount behind the pillar and watched the b4stard fry!

Comment by Allakhazam

I tried the behind the pillar method and failed. The channeling ran out at 70% then I re fired and got taken down and died, attemp #3

Comment by Allakhazam

An easier way to do this quest is to wait until Reth'Hedron is close to the portal. Once you pull him quickly fly back behind one of the pillars of the portal. Make sure that you are still in range for the Soul Cannon, but be sure to be out of LoS. Make sure he can't see you and you can't see him. Once out of LoS he will just stand in one spot and try to cast shadow bolts and his cripple spells continuously.

Comment by Allakhazam

This quest is easy as pie...

Fly to the portal where he paths. Move towards him and use the cannon...fly to the top of the portal stone and move to the back side of it so the stream cuts through the top of the portal to him. Make sure you are as low as you can be, basically landing on top of the portal. He can't touch you and you just have to wait out the timer on the cannon.

Notes of interest: You have to stay mounted to use the cannon. If for some reason you get dismounted and you are on top of the portal stone...run off the back right corner (as you are facing him) and run to the ledge...you will go out of combat at the ledges edge. Just watch out for pathing mobs on the ground, if you see one...just wait on top of the portal until out of range and good to go.

Comment by Allakhazam

dont bother with this or the prequest - the rep&money compared to the effort sucks big time its not worth to do this....

Comment by Allakhazam

Anyone noticed the buff icon below Reth's picture? Not the Subdue Cannon, but picture of some dude. Cannot take screenshot yet but very strange...

Comment by Allakhazam

i tried this a bunch of times. at first i did it from too high up and died (i was naked so it was ok). i don't really get the mechanics of this but you really have to do this at his eye level. i finished at 35% in full armor with Dreaming Glory and stam buffs. tough but definitely doable.

Comment by Allakhazam

Good God I HATED this quest. It took me five or six tries using four different strategies before the one I found on the WoW Wiki finally worked: fly near the top of the portal, grab Reth'hedron, then quickly land near the back of the portal to break los. You can just sit there perfectly safe from anything he throws at you.

So who wants to start a pool on how quickly Blizzard will "fix" this "bug" and force you to do the stupid strafe/circle/wtf-ever method?

Comment by Allakhazam

I had a go at getting him to pull to the pillar but kept breaking the channelling, so in the end I just spammed the 'q' key and strafed around and around him.
If you get too close he can hit you for 3k, otherwise you are taking hits in the region of 6-700 from his shadow bolts, fireballs are easy to dodge.
It was close but in the end he gave in and quest completed.
So strafing works.

Comment by Allakhazam

There is a way to accomplish this quest. Fly around the top of the portal and activate the Soul Cannon when Reth'hedron is close to the portal. Then fly to the top of the portal and land on the back of it. You have to make sure you aren't too far away from Reth'hedron or he will continue on his normal path. When you stand here, the fireballs and shadowbolts can't hit you.

Comment by Allakhazam

Ah, tricky quest

Takes a few tries, but the most important thinngs are:
- Keep out of his melee range
- Doge the fireballs
- The higher you fly, the harder is gets; stay at eye level

Comment by Allakhazam

September 13, 2007 and the LOS trick still works.
After I died a few times before looking here. I even died in the air and had to spirit rez because there was no way to rez, my body was too high.

Comment by Allakhazam

nope... in fact i kept gettin knocked off my mount... it wasnt until what 3 tries before i came to the forum and got the LOS tip worked for me and i ddnt even go behind the pillat... he dismounted me and i kept channeling safely, every now and again id get hit with shadow damage but the los tip made this Cake! -thnx!

Comment by Allakhazam

Yeah this quest is a breeze. Soul Cannon him and go on top of the portal, strafe back and forth if necessary to dodge the fire bomb things, else you can just stand there and drain him.

Comment by Allakhazam

I just did it and died a couple of times trying too. best way i found is nudge your self up against the pillar in the general area shown in the picture a few posts back. and then strafe to the left, use the cannon, strafe back behind the pillar and the sit back and laugh at Reth'hedron as his health goes down.

Comment by Allakhazam

Did this rather easily without the line of sight trick as a holy paladin. Just put up concentration aura and healed myself while the soul cannon killed him.

Comment by Allakhazam

On the surface it may look hard. But this quest is very easy once you get the hang of it.

Get pretty far from the guy and hit the cannon to start the stream. Then just fly in circles around him. Even if you accidently go too far you can restart the stream before he regenerates his health back.

Comment by Allakhazam

VERY easy methoid that worked for me:
I went to top of the portal, the left corner as you look out towards him.
Jump slightly so you are airborne as it considers you not mounted when on the ground for some reason on this.
I used a /target reth game macro to target but click works fine.
I put the cannon on a skill key so I could see when in range.
As he comes towards the portal target him, you can just barely start the cannon before he turns away, if a bit late fly out start, flay back to over portal and it keeps going, turn to face him is a bit helpful.
I then held down the RIGHT mouse button and hit left and right arrow keys to strafe from end to end of the top of portal. A constant back and forth movement and not one thing hit me, no attempt to dodge as the moving kept me out of spot they were going.
I did this over the portal so I wouldn't have to deal with locals in case of dismount.

Comment by Allakhazam

One Hint: fly naked :D

Comment by Allakhazam

Druid can not do this quest if you only have {Swift} Flight Form, i talk to GM and he say that i have to buy regular fly mount for this stupid quest. And also skyguard and Ogri'la booming daily quest you can't do it with druid {Swift} Flight Form. QQ Bliz

Comment by Allakhazam

Took me about 4 tries before hiding behind the pillar trick worked just as described I found that the right pillar ( if your behind the portal) is easier to do than the left. Dont get dismounted as the cannon only works when your on your mount

Comment by Allakhazam

it's pretty tough, you have to circle strafe. The shadow bolts are dodgeable, but you have to keep out of range of them for a very long time. I recommend strafing with the keyboard and mouse. At 0% health he stops attacking and runs into the portal, takes until you have about 20 secs on the cannon.

Comment by Allakhazam

This is in fact not difficult.. I did as I read in one post here... Just fly around him in a circle. it's really easy!

Comment by Allakhazam

as described by SRWallas, wait for him to get near portal,. get near him a bit, use the cannon, QUICKLY go to the back of portal, then wait...

Comment by Allakhazam

Just wait for him near the pillars/portal, engage combat and fly over the portal and then behind it, as shown in the screen, he won't catch you.. easy quest ;)

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/2109/subduelk2.jpg

Edited, Aug 1st 2007 1:00pm by Wylpyper

Comment by Allakhazam

hiding still works extremely easy ty

Comment by Allakhazam

Yep, still works if you hide behind the pillar, but you have to litterally be IN the pillar. Try getting up behind it as close as possible before the fight so that you can make sure you're really getting in there (half my mount disappeared), then as he gets close, move out from behind the pillar a little, zap him, then get behind it again really fast. None of his hits should get you and the cannon does 2k+ dmg to him every second or so.

When he's down to 1%, he starts to walk away, then comes back and tells you 'I'll be back', then walks into the portal. Have fun!

Comment by Allakhazam

Stamina buffs would help some but you can't use health potions while mounted. As for doing this naked I wouldn't. Without my armor I'd lose about 2000 health and when I finally completed this I too was under the 10% health.

Fire balls he tosses at you are easy to avoid but the shadow skulls he tossed are like heat seeking missiles that can cripple (slow) you as well. The pain part of this for me was when you die since it's a mounted quest it makes it hard at times to get your body back and you have to take a spirit rez, I had to twice. Wasn't really worth the rep for me since two eggs equal what this quest gives.

Make sure to get Disrupting the Twilight Portal quest when you do this because the Deathshadow Agents are right there as well.

Comment by Allakhazam

An human mague was doing it, I was flying waiting and completed when he finished :D

Comment by Allakhazam

THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE WORST F**KING QUEST EVER MADE. The difficulty of this quest in a scale of 1-10....I would rate it as a 50.

Edited, May 24th 2007 11:20pm by icepack

Comment by Allakhazam

But when he runs away ... you have to go with him and not break channeling. It kept resetting on me until i figured this out. When his health is low he will run away, go with him, he will then turn around and go into portal. I did not go with him and had to start over a couple times.

Comment by Allakhazam

This quest is only made to press "Abandon Quest".

Comment by Allakhazam

As of this point, druids in flight form cannot channel the soul cannon. We CAN however get credit for this quest while grouped with another player who has a mount... Just thought I'd leave this small tip in case anyone else ran into this problem and didn't want to spend the 200g on a flying mount for no reason.

Comment by tandain

Portal trick still works as of 11 February 2022

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Subdue the Subduer

Illidari Lord Balthas at Dragonmaw Base Camp in Shadowmoon Valley has tasked you with using the Soul Cannon on Reth'hedron the Subduer in Nagrand.

You must also return the Soul Cannon.

	Soul Cannon (Provided) (1)
	Subdue Reth'hedron the Subduer (1)

Description

<Balthas holds up an alien looking device.>

This is a soul cannon. Its effects are devastating when attuned. This one is attuned to my blood. The same blood flowing through the veins of Reth'hedron - my brother. Aye, his misplaced allegiance will be the end of him.

Take the cannon and fly to the Twilight Ridge in western Nagrand. Locate Reth'hedron and fire! You must stay on your mount and within range for the effects to take hold. Stand your ground against him and he will have no choice but to flee!

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Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Horns of the Illidari		Illidari Lord's Tunic
	Illidari Rod of Discipline		Legguards of Contemplation

You will also receive:

	Illidari Lord's Tunic		Legguards of Contemplation
	Horns of the Illidari		Illidari Rod of Discipline

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

500 reputation with Netherwing

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11090))

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