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Comment by 1007640

As alliance you have to kill this guy as a part of the legendary quest A Change of Command.
He is in Krasarang Wilds, but to kill him you need a group of players.

Anyone knows how many players you need? Is it like a 5 man group, or more like when you raid Orgrimmar with a 40 man group?

Comment by 1059064

For the casual PVP/PVE player, this guy does not drop any loot, give any reputation, or complete any achievements. He is just an Orc with a lot of health.

If you still choose to fight him, ensure that you keep an eye on your buff bar for TWO "debuffs", one is a knife lodged in you and the other is a bleed "debuff" that will eventually stack high enough to kill you in one tick. These two buffs can be clicked off at any time.

Kill this boss for bragging rights or for the legendary quest that can only be unlocked after completing the Sigils quest.

Time = wasted.

Comment by Voxxel

Killed him with a 9-man pug:

1 tank (druid)
1 healer (druid)
7 dps (mixed)

It took a long time and some were died and corpserun but it is definitely doable by a team like that. Bring more DD to speed it up.

The one and only special ability was the Bloody Knives. You got a special button to press but beware, don't do it on low HP since it deals a lot of damage to you. Otherwise the fight is pretty simple and straightforward.

Loot was = 0
Auto-accept quest = 0

Comment by Ftyvdryhc

he has 119M HP in Live.. my self and 24 other killed him last night, it we going well till a do gooder pally decided to start healing him...

How he went unnoticed for so long by 25 people is beyond me...

Can confirm no loot no achievement.. still we pissed off the horde

Pro Tip take the graveyard and have a few people stay outside to keep it, it really helps for corpse runs..

Comment by Spicywiener

If you attempt to kill this guy and your group is wiping DO NOT run away. He will haunt you for life. I was in a small group and we were farming rares when some one had the epic idea of trying to kill this guy. We went in and surely everyone started dying. I managed to stay alive through intense self healing and decided i was gonna live to fight another day. I ran out of the building and he had reset. However i kept getting the bloody knives debuff even when i was out of combat. It was quite annoying as i kept dying aimlessly while I was mounted or killing other stuff. I even got one shoted few times while corpse running which was a first for me and was very funny the first few times it happened. The only way i could get rid of this curse was to charge in and engage him once again letting him melee me to death. So if you do wipe on this dude don't try to survive. xD

Comment by Krixooks

Warlord Bloodhilt has moved from Southern Barrens where he was involved in Horde quest chains at Desolation Hold, to the Horde fortress at Domination Point in Krasarang Wilds where he is the target for Wrathion's Alliance champions in the legendary questline.

His Alliance counterpart is High Marshal Twinbraid (also originally from Southern Barrens).

On the arm of his throne, lies the book "Battlelog of Warlord Bloodhilt"-

Page 1.

Goblins and elves. These creatures are the very embodiment of selfish pride and narcissism. Not an hour passes I do not question Garrosh's acceptance of their aid in this assault.

True, the spell breakers have been invaluable to our defense strategems. And Gallywix's forces have proven an amazing counter to the gnomish inventions being thrown at our walls daily. But I do not trust them. And though they live and die for the Horde, they have given me little reason to trust them.

Page 2.

I caught one of the elves deciphering a mogu artifact the other day. Was his information shared with me? No. Though I am sure Lor'themar has a full account of these ancient writings. The mogu did not leave behind pots and pans, they left behind weapons and ancient power.

And the goblins! Every time I turn around I catch one or two trying to build a new type of bomb. How we have not exploded yet is a mystery to me. Gallywix keeps providing us with new recipes for chemicals that will help in the war but I know he is learning more than he is letting on.

Page 3.

I will not suffer subversion in my ranks. If these activities continue I may have to start "dismissing" a few key culprits.

Comment by 781377

If you are familiar with Isle of Conquest, this is just like taking down the opposing faction's boss. Even the keep has the same layout.

You really only need 1 tank, but you need a lot of dps and plenty of healers so you can get this done in a timely manner. It's a race against the clock because once the opposing faction catches wind of you're trying to do, they will be pouring in and wreaking havoc on your raid.

The best strategy is to get a raid group going and have everyone meet at the graveyard directly outside of the keep. You need to take control of the GY before you start, and if there's a lot of players of the opposite faction running about doing dailies, it's not a bad idea to try and leave a few players to defend it until the boss gets relatively low. If you don't do this, anyone corpse running will be running across the entire zone just to get back.

Boss hits only moderately hard on a tank (have your tank wear their PVE gear, not their PVP gear) and it's very even, no major spikes. Most of your healers will be focused on healing everybody else, because he does AoE damage occasionally to the raid. He will also put a debuff on a random player, that ticks for increasing amounts of dmg unless that player clicks on their special action button (it's called "Get it out!" or something - the idea is that there's a knife in them and they need to pull it out). That is probably how you will lose some of your dps - people not paying attention to that debuff. It will keep increasing in dmg with each tick to the point where you won't be able to heal through it. So remind your DPS! Also remind your ranged people to stack up behind the boss with the melee. If you remain at ranged, he can charge you for extra damage.

If you get opposing players coming to mess with your raid, three things will help you: 1. Get control and keep control of that GY outside so people can run back faster, 2. Pull the boss to one of the sides of the room so that enemy players can't just stand on the stairs below and snipe players. Forcing them to come all the way up the stairs in order to get line of sight will allow your DPS to just turn around and take them out fast. Which brings me to 3. Enemy players need to be taken down ASAP. Have your DPS stay alert to quick turn and burn on players.

We killed the Warlord on US-Khaz Modan (alliance) the first day of 5.1 with a raid of about 30 people (nobody was on the quest, we were just messing around). By the time people get around to getting this quest, the average gear level will be quite a bit higher and you could probably get away with bringing much fewer. The Horde players that came to defend wiped us a few times, along with people not understanding the debuff, but once we figured out to leave a few people outside defending the GY, it went fine. We notified them when the boss was at 25%, to allow extra time for them to fight their way upstairs to us.

Comment by jaspercheyney

Just killed Warlord Bloodhilt with five Guild members

1 Tank (Blood DK)
1 Healer (Resto Druid)
3 DPS (Affliction Warlock, Frost Mage, Balance Druid)

It took us about 10 minutes and is quite difficult to heal just make sure that you interrupt his move immediately after the charge, more importantly make sure that you click the Extra Action Button you get that will hit around 112k every 2 seconds it will remove the dagger from you.

He rewards 506 Reputation @ Honored with the Black Prince upon kill with the 15% Guild Battle Standard - w/o Human Racial

Hope this helped!

Comment by madman18

this guy seems to take 50% reduced physical damage or something my DPS was worst EU throughout the whole fight, can anyone confirm?

Comment by Starbar

Have to agree with madman18 on that, i just killed him with my guild and I seemed to do 50% less dps than i normally do. I am a WW monk.

Comment by deathonabun

We just did this on Stormreaver-US with only 4 people. A DK tank, a warlock, a shadow priest, and a resto druid. It took a while, but we just stacked up behind the boss, used the extra action button when it popped up, and slowly whittled him down. We were fortunate in that no horde intervened.

Comment by ssithl

Facing him on Azjol , not yet tested the physical resistance issue , but peeps will be happy to know he's not PvP flagged and as such by himself won't cause you or yours to be.

Comment by Entilzha2161

Be sure to capture and post guards at the graveyard and tower, especially the graveyard, as with most group comps you can only afford to bres the tanks and other people will probably die - it's a LONG run back without the graveyard held

Comment by galious

Got a few things to add about this beast:

He'll do this charge if everyone is not grouped up. So stack everyone on him for a good time.

Also noticed if he doesn't charge, he didn't use Choke 'em Out. Not sure if it's a 100% thing, but he didn't use it on us.

Otherwise, just a tank, spank and pull the daggers out as soon as possible.

Comment by Drakonis7

Just killed this one in a 3 man group:
- Druid tank (me)
- Mage
- Priest healer.

The priest and mage both died once on our kill.
The mage ghost-ran back, and I ressed the priest.
Took us about 12-15 minutes. (2-3 Time Warps)

Make sure you click the special action button when he throws the knives.
Straight after, he'll do choke 'em out on a caster. I interrupted that cast with skull bash
Bloodthirsty Strike and Coup de Grace didn't seem to harm me much.. Perhaps 10% HP.

Comment by darklordbalkoth

This boss can be soloed by a Monk tank with decent gear (pending no horde interference)

Killed him earlier today with my 515 BM. However did have the 25% damage and healing buff for the majority of the fight as well as all raid buffs and feast, but no flask/pots.

Make sure to have the healing brews talent as it works wonders against this boss, with all buffs it was giving me a 111k heal every 18 seconds. Added in with the self healing from expel harm and Chi Wave and the Shield from Guard it is very possible to do this fight never dipping below 50% HP. To be safe when I'd hit 50% I'd pop my tiger to tank for a few seconds while I healed or use Fortifying Brew for a bit more mitigation and self healing.

Comment by CyberForte

As of 5.3, his HP has been nerfed to 11.7mil instead of 117mil. Should be much easier to kill now.

Comment by Netherheal

As of Path 5.3, this guy currently has about 11.74 Million health and is easily killable by a small group of around 3-4 people.
I killed him as a Holy Paladin with the help of a Protection Warrior a Frost Mage and a Restoration Druid without any problems at all.
Decided to go with only 1 dps and 2 healers just to be on the safe side but it is easily 1 healable.

Comment by tikki100

Since the arrival of patch 5.3, this guy has been nerfed by -a lot- down to about 11 million hp. You're easily able to do him 4-man (In my case 2 dps, 1 tank and 1 healer) and should have no real worries. He's almost as easy as a rare! :D

The hard part, though, is getting the 4 persons together to kill him! Good luck :)

Comment by 930321

Since his health has been significantly nurfed I was able to solo this on my 510 Survival hunter~

The tactics I used were quite simple.

You will need
- 1 turtle pet (for the turtle's 50% reduced damage ability)
- Glyph of Mending
- The Exhilaration ability.

Luckily since this guy is situated in Krasarang Wilds, you can use Domination Point Commission to buy some Mercenary Contracts.

The ones I purchased were...
- Mercenary Contract: Priest
- Mercenary Contract: Paladin
- Mercenary Contract: Druid
- Mercenary Contract: Warrior
- Mercenary Contract: Mage

I also bought a feast but you could easily just buy some food from the AH.

Now that you have all these buffs you can go to the boss.
Obviously, clear all the mobs up to the boss.

Send your pet to the boss and stack up really close.
If you stand far away the boss does an ability called Chock em' Out which will kill you.

Do not pop stampede or Readiness at the start.
But pop all other major DPS CDs.

Make sure to refresh mend pet at all times.
When your pet gets slightly low health he will use his shield and Cower.

During this time his health will raise up to full.

The next time your pet is low health use Exhilaration.

The next time your pet is low health use Stampede.
If taunt is turned on with your other pets they will taunt the boss and thus giving your pet time to heal up a bit.

The next time your pet is low health use Readiness and pop Exhilaration again.

IMPORTANT: when the extra action button appears MAKE SURE to remove the dagger from yourself.

By this time for me, enough DPS had happened and the boss was dead!

If something goes wrong and your pet dies just use Deterrence and res your pet.
When your pet is up FD immediately to get the aggro off you.

Luckily it was dead before I had to this :3

Pretty much all it is is a DPS race.

GOODLUCK!

Comment by akrueger

As with the nerf on 5.3, this kid is soloable by a mistweaver monk. Just did it with some talent tweaks and some cooldown timing. Soloing it is easier as brewmaster tough since you don't have to worry about mana.

Comment by 973701

Can't believe that a dps spec monk & hunter can do this solo, I tried using my blood dk with 505 ilvl and just couldn't heal enough to survive. Anyone managed to do it with a DK yet?

Comment by 1128499

Easily soloable as blood DK in 513 dps gear just stand still dont kite and remove daggers in time

Comment by duranox

This should be soloable by atleast hybrids. I did this as a blood dk pre-nerf solo. Took forever but easy as hell

Comment by Coffeencakes

Pulled this guy with a spriest, lock, and mage. He died pretty quick. Lock blueberry tanked and spriest offhealed.

Comment by McGrignr

Not sure if this guy is mage-soloable at all. He wasn't affected by slows and he one-shot all three of my Mirror Images.

Comment by 522790

Just soloed as destruction warlock with ilvl 505. Just use healthstones and lots of embertaps.

Pull out the blueberry and grind him down.

Comment by fredosksimb

just killed him xD I have 2 say his skills ain't anything 2 brag about since I solod him a blood dk ilvl 488. using conversion and ams to avoid debuff never went below 25% hp took me 7 mins since I only do 30k dps ;D

Comment by Dervrak

Those that say this guy is an easy solo for a decently geared warlock are either full of it or I'm doing something very wrong....

My gearscore is 512 and I completed the "difficult" warlock green fire quest with only a few try's so I figured after reading the comments here that this would be a cakewalk to solo (since nobody on Borean Tundra seems interested in the wrathion questline after asking for help for an hour...).

After about 20 tries and 500G in repairs, I was sadly mistaken. The longest I've lasted is around 90 seconds and only managed to get him down to around 80% health.

I'm in destruction spec, summon voidlord, soulink and let voidlord attack. So far so good, for the first 30 seconds this works ok, I keep voidlord and myself healed with embers and healthstones. But then Bloodhilt starts dishing out too much damage for me to keep the voidlord healed, and if I try to resummon a fresh one, Bloodhilt aggros on me and does his insta-death strangle attack.

Perhaps if you really have soled this with a lock you could provide a detailed description of the strategy you used?

Comment by datgrl

This guy is in the large Horde building with the flag on it, 2nd floor, all by himself. If you have the Obsidian Nightwing or another 2 passenger flying mount, you and a friend can get past most of the stuff on the ground and take care of the guards inside easily. I haven't successfully 2-manned or soloed Warlord Bloodhilt but I wasn't sure where he was. Most of the info that shows up on the quest has to do with how to solo/duo. I thought posting his location might be helpful.

Comment by Callmerabies

I just solo'd him as a 512ilvl Guardian Druid. Basically I just hit my 4 spells over and over, and used my rage on Frenzied Regeneration.. Basically what you do for any fight lol

Comment by karaslbn

Soled as 538ilvl retri paladin, key was an Eternal Flame and Holy Prism as you need alot of healing.

Comment by Gamewizarddotexe

Soloed him as a 508 BM hunter. Used a tenacity pet (naturally), with the Spirit Bond talent and Mending and Spirit Bond glyphs. I stood behind him while my pet tanked, and kept mend pet up and used cooldowns as neccessary - my pet never dropped below 35%. Definitely stand right behind him, as the first time I did this he killed me with his uninterruptable choke move from across the room.

Comment by 183334

I just soloed this dapper fellow as a disc priest, purely in shadow gear. After several failed tries as shadow I came to the conclusion that disc would be better due to the high amount of healing needed as a cloth wearing class.

To beat him I tailored some of my spec and glyphs to provide, what I found to be, the most dps/mana return (I have low spirit, due to the shadow gear, so I was struggling to keep mana).
The core talents for me was Desperate Prayer - Mindbender - Divine Insight

I took Desperate Prayer in case things got hairy, but I suppose Angelic Bulwark could have worked just as well.
Mindbender provided a decent amount of damage, as well as some much needed mana regen.
Divine Insight is amazing because of the extra shields it provides, seeing as you'll be using penance a lot, but it also has a really awesome secondary effect because of Glyph of Reflective Shield.The amount of damage returned is nothing to scoff at, in fact it did more damage than the Mindbender.
The remaining two glyphs are Glyph of Smite for a bit of extra damage, and Glyph of Inner Fire for a nice increase in armor.

For the fight, all I did was shielding his various abilities, making sure I was healthy and keeping the Mindbender on cooldown. I didn't use all the shield procs, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the mana for it, and I guess it turned out all right. Other than that I was obviously just casting Penance and Holy Fire whenever they were ready and to fill I hit the bugger with Smite, before I knew it he fell over.

Overall not what I would call a hard fight per se, but it will probably require a few tries to get the flow down.

Good luck soloing to all you other Priests!

Comment by 1147310

Managed to solo as a 524 BM hunter. Used my standard raiding talents (didn't respec to Spirit Bond) and a Ferocity pet.

Popped all my CDs at the beginning and made sure to keep Mend Pet up at all times (I also have the Glyph of Mending).

My pet died two times during the fight. For the first death, I used Heart of the Phoenix to insta-rez. For the second, I just hit Deterrence and then cast Revive.

Like other hunters have said here, just stay behind him, and Feign Death/Misdirection to keep aggro on your pet.

Hope that adds a perspective!

Comment by Licharthas

Message to any Blood DK's out there:

This NPC is easily soloable by our great tanking spec. When I first attempted to solo him I was in 524 ilvl gear. I easily dispatched him in 5 mins or so. Don't waste your time trying to find a group for the quest. Just take him on by yourself. Honestly the rares at Domination Point are more of a challenge. I recommend reforging into as much mastery as possible (assuming your hit/exp capped). This really helps your blood shield which is far better than extra parry. Make sure to Death Strike after he uses an ability you will gain a huge absorb. With 170% mastery I absorbed maximum of 1.3 million on my blood shield.

Good luck, FYI this is approved for BLOOD DK's only

Regards,

Licharthas

Comment by vmalakian

After the nerf, just killed him with my 514 Guardian Druid, just got there in stealth, then tanked the sht out of him like any other mob, took around 7 minutes

Comment by 1232905

I was able to solo Bloodhilt as an iLevel 536 Resto Shaman.

Comment by Tyrantor

This NPC was added in Patch 5.1.0, where he originally had 117m HP. As of Patch 5.3.0, this NPC's HP has been decreased to 11m HP, meaning he is soloable by some/all classes.

This NPC is the objective of A Change of Command, a quest in Chapter II: Wrathion's War of the MoP legendary questline.

He is located at coordinates 12.18, 54.76 on the map, or more simply, he is standing inside the - throne room - at Domination Point.

His abilities do not deal so much damage as listed above in the Abilities tab, for example Coup de Grace deals roughly 60k on plate, and Bloodthirsty Strike dealed roughly 90k on plate. I know not if this is a reduction in damage because of armor/plate wearing, or a reduction to do with the decrease in his HP, however I did note this.

To kill him as a Hunter/Warlock, let the pet tank and stand directly behind Warlord Bloodhilt, while DPSing him. To kill him as a Warrior/Paladin/DK, tank him directly and use self-healing abilities if/when necessary. To kill him as a Mage/Monk/Shaman/Priest/Rogue, information is not yet available for advisory purposes. For all of the above classes, be sure to Rip it Out! as soon as he casts Bloody Knives.

Let me know if there is any extra information this comment is lacking and I'll edit it in.
Thank you for reading this and I hope it helped.

Comment by Alendarzhana

I killed him with my DK 534 and a prot pally tanking. Without the pally i could not have killed his 11m health. The guards that u kill before u get to him give tokens that u can buy helpers with from lion landing right next to the fly. Make sure u open the contracts while still at lions landing and head to boss right away as u ll only have 20min buff. I overlooked that but with a paladin tanking i didnt seem to need it. Good luck!

Comment by aretmis

Couldn't find this in the posts, but if you're a class with a pet tank you might want to stand near the boss. This is mainly because of this ability Choke 'em Out!.
Should make the fight easier.

Comment by neopatra

looks like it's now easy solo with good gear.
just soloed him with 568 ilvl destro lock.
I sent my void pet to tank boss, and just nuked him from behind. nothing special except that, he goes down fast.

Comment by Iceveiled

level 521 SV hunter. Switched my cat to tenacity for the extra survivability, used glyph of mending and glyph of spirit bond for extra healing (pet would've died otherwise). Took about a minute and a half to down him.

The first time he killed me with his choke when I was standing right behind him in melee range. The second time I was stacked right on him and he didn't choke. The positioning seems to be a little wacky so just keep trying.

Had to use exhilaration at one point as my pet was almost dead. Other than that, just blew all my cooldowns once I got a trinket proc and made sure mend pet was up. Easy fight.

Comment by iebe

After dieing continuously on my shadowpriest at 530 Ilvl, I decided to try it as discipline. Managed to get him low every time but died due to running oom. Then switched some talents and glyphs and managed to do it. So here's my setup as a priest:

Discipline:
talents:
- Mind bender
- Angelic bulwark
- Divine insight

Glyphs:

- Smite
- Reflective shields
- Inner fire

Comment by Zolgara

Killed this as a blood DK with 520 ilevel he does appear to have had his HP nerfed and he only ever used 2 abilities in the fight which were coup de grace and Bloody knives he seems easier to solo now i doubt i would have needed to be in tank spec

Comment by benx2011

I soloed as a frost mage. my ilvl is 556 for lower ilvl it may be tougher.

the boss cannot be

stunned
frozen

What i did was

start the attack with the pet. let the pet take some aggro
then put a dot on the boss, Living Bomb is better
then keep healing the pet with your Frost Bolt,
eventually you will gain aggro by healing the pet. he will attack you. then use Mirror image. He will start attacking the images. This is the stage where you can nuke him as much as possible.
when the images die, the boss will attack you. Try to kite around, Blink away, and nuke as much damage as you can. Don't worry about getting Chock cuz you are holding the aggro now. Your Frost Shield should last 2 or 3 hits. When your HP is below 50%, then use Invisibility. You have to be careful. Invisibility doesnt take effect immediately. If you do something, like you try to Blink away. You might break the spell before the boss lose aggro on you.
then the boss will attack your pet, stay at melee range right behind the boss this is very important because your pet is holding the aggro now. If you go like just 5 or 10 yd away from the boss, he will Choke yo.
keep casting Frostbolt to heal your pet while keeping Living bomb on him.
after the steps above, I dont know why I didn't gain any aggro even I spammed Frostbolt on healing my pet. so keeping your pet alive at this stage is very important. If your ilvl is low, you might have trouble healing your pet after it takes damage from Coup de Grace or Bloodthirty Strike.If the pets is dead, he will attack you and you have already used up Mirror Image and Invisibility. There is nothing you can do to lose the aggro even you re-summon the pet. And the boss hits really hard on clothies.
You can try using Ice Block and hope your pet will pick up the aggro. But be careful, if your pet is far away and the boss has aggro on it. As soon as your Ice Block disappear, you might get Chocked and it's game over.
when you have a dagger icon pops out, may sure you click on it asap to remove the bleeding damage.
so basically the main damage i dealt to him was from the pet and living bomb. yes, just attack him with living bomb. you dont wanna lose aggro by nuking him with other spells. just let Living Bomb do damage while you keep spamming Frost Bolt to heal your pet.

the whole fight lasted around 5 mins. for lower ilvl, it will take longer for sure. good luck

Comment by 1108543

after months of thinking this was impossible to do and because im rarely playing the game so finding groups were tricky, i decided to try and see how far i would get and first try on disc priest with average gear got him to 50% then after 5minutes of combat and using everything i had i killed him solo.

very surprised how easy he is.

Comment by Njasey

Well, no longer soloable. Punches out 15k crits + 30k from his special.

553 rogue here.

*waits for a random group to appear*

Comment by nykion

Patch 9.0.5
Easily 1 shotable at lvl 60
Drops nothing
Very slow respawn time

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