Quick Facts

Series

1.	The Lifewarden's Wrath
2.	Freya's Pact
3.	Powering the Waygate - The Makers' Perch
4.	Powering the Waygate - The Makers' Overlook
5.	The Etymidian
6.	The Activation Rune
7.	Back Through the Waygate
8.	Reclamation

Storyline
Sholazar Basin Need an Engine, Take an Engine Have a Part, Give a Part Venture Co. Misadventure Wipe That Grin Off His Face Kick, What Kick? The Great Hunter's Challenge Rhino Mastery: The Test Dreadsaber Mastery: Becoming a Predator Dreadsaber Mastery: Stalking the Prey Rhino Mastery: The Chase Crocolisk Mastery: The Trial Some Make Lemonade, Some Make Liquor Still At It Crocolisk Mastery: The Plan Dreadsaber Mastery: Ready to Pounce An Offering for Soo-rahm The Bones of Nozronn Crocolisk Mastery: The Ambush Rhino Mastery: The Kill The Taste Test In Search of Bigger Game Sharpening Your Talons Securing the Bait A Mammoth Undertaking Post-partum Aggression Playing Along The Ape Hunter's Slave Tormenting the Softknuckles The Wasp Hunter's Apprentice The Sapphire Queen Flown the Coop! The Underground Menace Mischief in the Making A Rough Ride Lightning Definitely Strikes Twice The Mist Isn't Listening Hoofing It Just Following Orders Fortunate Misunderstandings Make the Bad Snake Go Away Gods like Shiny Things Making Peace An Issue of Trust Back So Soon? Returned Sevenfold The Lost Mistwhisper Treasure Forced Hand Home Time! The Angry Gorloc Lifeblood of the Mosswalker Shrine The Mosswalker Savior A Hero's Burden The Fallen Pillar Salvaging Life's Strength Cultist Incursion Exterminate the Intruders Weapons of Destruction The Lifewarden's Wrath Freya's Pact Powering the Waygate - The Makers' Perch Powering the Waygate - The Makers' Overlook The Etymidian The Activation Rune Back Through the Waygate Reclamation

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Comment by muarfy

You'll control a Titan's "weapon". You have 5 abilities : cleave, electric discharge, heal, evocation and "divine shield".

I suggest you start from the bottom of Avalanche and climb it killing the mobs on your way, so you get used to your abilities by the time you arrive to the last guy.

Killing the 200 undead should be easy, you can pack them and spam cleave, or if you have enough mana and won't have health problem you can use the electric discharge.

For the 3 named ones it would be useful to clean a maximum the area around and only concentrate on them. Be sure to heal yourself and use evocation before every boss and DONT use evocate during a boss, you get hit 5 times harder during the evocation.

-Bythius the Flesh-Shaper is wandering in the bottom right part of Avalanche, he has 2 elite dog helping him but it's the easiest one to kill.
-Urgreth of the Thousand Tombs is in the middle left, not really hard too. More health than the other one but he is alone (not counting little undead around him). He does an AE attack, just step back a few seconds (maybe a few evocation ticks can help if you are not attacked by small undeads)
-Hailscorn is standing just above Urgreth. The hardest to kill. He sometimes raise skeletons to help him, more often than you can do you electric discharge thing. Moreover, since he has a lot of health and hits quite hard, I suggest keeping your mana to heal yourself and only spam cleave until it's over.

The "divine shield"-like removes you from combat and resets any fight in progress, the mobs will stop attacking you. It's more like a self divine intervention actualy

Comment by Wikt

For Bythius, I just spammed Colossal Strike (Cleave)
Against Urgreth, I spammed the cleave and walked out of the AoE attack. Worth saving the Reconstruction (heal) if you get a tick on you.
Against Haliscorn, I just held on to Cataclysm (the AoE) and hit it every time the swarm of undead appeared and mashed Colossal Strike otherwise. He didn't cast the swarm about as often as I had Cataclysm up to kill it.

Bunching up the undead for Cataclysms makes the 200 Scourge requirement easy and fun to get and the helms are a very nice reward for all the fun you have with Etymidian.

Comment by 187895

Bythuis is easy. Spam Colossal Strike, heal if you need to.
Urgreth, spam Colossal Strike. Run out on the AoE and heal/evocate (evocate while out of the AOE) as needed.
Haliscorn, spam Colossal Strike. Use cataclysm when he summons the group. He does not hit hard. Keep your back to the wall, he does a wing buffet.

If you need to evocate so you can heal, you can drop off edges and not take fall damage.
If you die on the avalanche, you will rez at the gy.
If you run off the avalanche, you lose the summon.

Comment by Joana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58ivsgqbzrk

Comment by Tro44

This was So Epic.

Blizzard should make this into a Daily!

Urgreth of the Thousand Tombs was the hardest IMO, because he hit hard.

Last Boss was easy, cause adds can be one shotted by AoE.

Comment by 8153

Don't make the mistake I did of using his invincibility ability while fighting the tougher undead. They'll try to attack a few times then reset with full health. Not sure why this ability was added since all it will usually do is put you in a worse position to deal with an overealming situation.

Comment by 75675

this should really be a 2 person group there is no exp from the kills so just make it easy for yourself

team up with some on before or spam in /1 or /y as u cant select the person once on the "weapon"

Comment by Ultronis

For Bythius, just run up and cleave until he dies, maybe having to heal once or twice. If for some reason after healing twice (getting a ton of unlucky parries/dodges/misses) you're still running low and he won't die before you do, just run sideways while spamming cleave and he will probably never hit you.

For Urgeth, he hits quite hard, your best bet is to just kite him while cleaving (it has a surprisingly long range), very easy to do because of how slow he is. His one spell hurts a lot but it seems he never casts it if you're using the kite method .

For Hailscorn, just stand there and beat on him, using your aoe whenever it says he summons so and so. Other than that, you might only have to heal once.

Great end to a very fun quest chain.

edit: Also the divine shield-like ability, while saying you cannot cast abilities under it still allows you to use your aoe, good for it you make a mistake on any of the three bosses and want to clear a space out so you can re-summon Etymidian. Also you cannot click it off.

Comment by njtwkr

Walked backwards while fighting Urgreth and he didn't cast his AoE :)

Comment by 152670

Like all the other "get in a vehicle and kill elite mobs" quests, unless you are an extremely competent player, don't bother. It's not worth the dozens of gold in post-death repairs. If you have any doubts that you are a highly capabable player, give these vehicle quests a miss until you have honed your game skills; BG practice may help if like me you find you are dying quickly on all these quests.

And yes, I tried the tactics listed above. You need to be fast on your fingers if you are to use them successfully.

Comment by kcz421

I was half-expecting Hailscorn to be tough, but he only did the rez thing twice, both times my aoe CD was up.

Bottom line for all of them is spamming Cleave. For the last boss, spam Cleave and just use the AOE when he calls up the skellies.

"Wikt" has the best strategy; I did exactly what his strategy suggests and everything was perfect.

I would add, just clear up the mobs around the bosses and walk backwards out of the aoe on Urgeth; heal/evocate while he does his thing. Knockback from Hailscorn didn't seem to have any effect on health.

It's really not a difficult fight, have fun! :)

Comment by ClockworkAvatar

I must be doing something wrong, 90% of my attacks are dodged, parried, or miss altogether. I'm a hunter, as so my melee weapon skills arent at max, I'm hoping this does not some how factor into it.

Comment by 261538

This is a very easy quest once you get the hang of it. But to save you the trouble of having to do that, I did it for you. Heres how.

BEFORE every boss fight, lure the area around each boss and use your AoE power to kill pesky mobs. Once thats done, heal yourself. After you heal use your mana regen power. This way you start every fight with 100% HP and Mana. You can also leave & re enter the vehicle but thats no fun. :P If you lure the boss while you're prepping you can use your bubble. You will lose all agro, even from the boss.

FIRST BOSS: Nice and easy, all you have to do is spam your cleave. Heal when neccesary... never over 30k HP. Avoid your AoE like the plague.

SECOND BOSS: More of the same. Spam cleave, avoid AoEs like the plague. He will channel a spell that does very high damage. You will be warned. THIS SPELL KILLS. RUN FROM IT. Once again, conserve your mana. Heal ONLY below 30k HP.

Third Boss: As with the other two bosses, spam cleave. It costs no mana.. mana which you defenately need for this fight. He will summon an undead army.. the second he does that, you can use your AoE. In the time that I was able to kill him he only managed to pull off two summons. If you conserve your mana and use it only for heals you will be fine.

Comment by MarkusBest9

This is probably the funniest quest ever. A must do.

SMASH!

Comment by 185039

This "weapon" needs some hit rating ASAP.

Comment by Conal

For me, Urgeth was actually the hardest to kill because of the amount of damage he does, and the fact that I was stupidly tanking him head-on (don't do it). After dying twice I came back here to re-read the suggestions because I'd remembered someone suggested something about getting near (between) Urgeth and the ledge he's overlooking and fighting him there.

Tilgare suggested:

What I did for Urgeth was I got him to the edge near the ramp so I could drop down when he started to channel and then I kited him back up so I could drop back down the next time. Worked like a charm.

Factsfountain suggested:

It's easy to deal with the second boss if you kite him to the edge of the cliff that has the ramp under it. when he starts casting the AOE, just drop down quickly and you'll be out of range of his dark energy attack. you can even evocate during this time, then charge back in. I barely even had to use the AOE to kill him except towards the end.

The first thing I did was clear all the Scourge mobs near Urgeth. Second, I ran (haha, as fast as the Etymidian can run) to Urgeth and positioned myself between him and the ledge he's overlooking (in other words, I faced Urgeth with my back to the open air behind me). I hit him with Cataclysm first and then spammed Colossal Strike. I forget the correct amount but Urgeth hits you about 5-6 times before he casts; the split second I saw Urgeth casting his AoE, I dropped down backwards off the ledge and healed and restored mana. Urgeth didn't hit me with his AoE because I was out of range; and by the time he got to me I was at full-health and nearly full-up on mana (Urgeth came down the ledge after me as I expected him to---he did not run back to his original spot and heal as some people have mentioned).

I repeated the same attack plan where I was now standing, simply because I was near another ledge and could drop down to avoid his AoE a second time. So, I hit him with Cataclysm and then spammed Colossal Strike until Urgeth started casting, dropped down (again, backwards) off the ledge, healed and restored mana. By the time Urgeth got to me again it only took one more Cataclysm and a couple of Colossal Strikes to finish him off.

A huge thank you to Tilgare and Factsfountain for the advice; a nice reward is waiting so this quest is definitely worth doing...good luck.

PS Sorry for the lengthy post; just trying to help. ;)

Comment by mattmojo2

Not sure if its a bug or intentional, but you can use your flying mount while on the titan's shoulder, so if your titan dies, you can fly away rather than being owned by the ghouls or bosses.

Comment by 261100

you can group up before invoking "Ery..." and it works like a charm

Comment by azinja

I have to say that Hailscorn was without ANY doubt the easiest of the three. I probably had it easier since I'm a blood specced Death Knight. Whenever Hailscorn called forth his frozen corpses my Cataclysm not only killed them all off, but also granted my Etymidian 400-500 hp/kill which practically got him back to full health.

I was dreading the last fight due to the comments here (especially considering that everybody think the first 2 are easy, while the 3rd is hard), but I really had a much harder time with Bythius and Urgreth than with Hailscorn.

Comment by 231977

So, did this quest remind anyone else of that episode of Dexter's Laboratory when they brought Mount Rushmore presidents to life? xD

Comment by 120303

Epic quest to end an epic questline - definitely one of my favorite quest(lines) in the game so far.

Comment by 26542

retarded quest, much like the quest with the giant in zul'drak, unless you need the rewards abandon it, you will save yourself a lot of time and xp loss.

Comment by 188301

the whole thing is easy if you know how to do it, but if you dont know the boss fights, you can make some mistakes. the first mistake is to not read but just use evocate while a boss is smashing away at you, the second is that you should run away from urgeth when he is casting the aoe (he is still the hardest boss, the only reason i killed him was that there was another guy with this quest but i did make this mistake), the third mistake is to not use your aoe when the frostwyrm uses his undead spell, he is too weak to kill you so u can just save mana for when he uses undead spell. fourth is to wait until the last possible second to use divine shield-if you know your beat, use it cause when the "weapon" dies, you will get one-shotted.

p.s, idk if someone clarified this, but someone at the top of the chat thought cleave took away mana....it does not!

Comment by 61784

70.40 35.29

Comment by 290256

the best q i ever dot this thing is really powerfull GOOD LUCK :P

Comment by Jushak

As I actually managed to die once during this quest due being careless, and after reading the other tips for this quest, I decided to add my own ways of finishing this:

Urgreth of the Thousand Tombs:
* Beyond doing melee damage he also has AE attack that will quickly kill you if won't move out of it. If you're a bit slow to react the first blast will hit you, and as such I'd advice healing before you drop below 50k HP. Once out of the AoE use the mana regen ability until he's almost close enough to hit you.

Hailscorn
* This one has two abilities it seemed to use in row: First knockback, then add summoning. The way I dealt with this one was the opposite that Dosvidaniya suggested: Instead of standing back to a wall, I made sure I got knocked down. When he did the knockback I would first regen mana to full, then heal myself. After that I would wait until both Hailscorn AND the adds were in range and use the AoE to get rid of them and the random mobs around where you landed. Don't mind the random adds you get knocked in - they die along with Hailscorn's adds and as you heal to full after each knockback you should never be below 30% HP anyway. About the only thing you can do wrong here is to use AoE too early and get ripped to shreds by Hailscorn's adds.

Buthius the Flesh-Shaper
* This one has two adds. Just get all three inside your frontal cone and cleave-spam them to death. Heal if necessary.

Comment by 291065

Omg I tried to kill Urgreth like 10 times, died failed.... This helped a lot, his AOE attack is killer!

Comment by heponton

Be very sure to make sure you do not leave the zone when fighting Hailscorn, or you will lose Etymidian, and die a rather hilarious death.

Comment by Winternyght

what I really am curious about is do I get to keep the vehicle once I turn in this quest? Now that I know how to slaughter these things, I might want to come back. it's not difficult to find a helm at least as good as you get from the quest, so I don't really need to turn it in. But I want to know. Does anyone else know?

Comment by 291954

Died a couple times trying, not worth the repair bill. Abandoned.

Comment by 288045

Against Haliscorn. I suggest you face your back against the mountain the entire time since he does a knockback. Soon as you are low on mana turn him over and let him launch you off the clift. Then Cataclysm any adds you might have aggroed and mana up. You WON'T lose aggro and you DON'T take fall damage. you'll have a full heal and 100% mana. Easy fight and you won't have to conserve mana at all. go nuts

Comment by 285372

Pretty fun quest. Probably the best in Northrend, aside from the Undercity quest.

Comment by Viserate

This wasn't too hard. Kiting Urgreth worked wonderfully. Took 2 tries, but after I got the feel of kiting that slow golem, it worked fine. And I might add a spiffy helmet to boot. Thanks for the strategies.

Comment by gfxdave99

Also, you can do this as a group quest. I was getting annoyed with it and I ran into somebody else trying to do it at the same time so we grouped and with two Etymidian's pounding on them at the same time they went down hard and fast.

Also for Urgreth of the Thousand Tombs its essential you back way the hell up for when he pulls his AOE because if you dont it will kill you.

Comment by Alisson

My thoughts on the objectives:

Killing 200: Easy. They do as much damage to The Etymidian as the level one critters do to you. Just herd em up and use the discharge power.

Bythius: Pretty easy. Just use cleave and the occasional discharge, he should be gone in no time.

Urgeth: I found him the hardest be far. When he's using his dark power, stay back, it's a good time to use evocation. Otherwise, he does the most damage on his own, so you'll need that mana to heal. This battle is all about timing.

Haliscorn: Doesn't do a lot of damage on his own, but summons an army. It may have changed since muarfy did it, because the armies were less frequent than the cooldown on static discharge for me. I originally went with his strategy, but found the army did substantial damage. I recommend simply using cleave until the army is summoned, then discharge it before they have a chance to attack. Repeat as they spawn, and he shouldn't be too Hard.

Comment by bluspacecow

I too had lots of trouble with Urgreth

Until that is I realised one thing : He can't hit you with his AOE if you're on the ledge below him.

I gave it a go : I would start off Colossal Strike to pull him. Then I would position him so that when I strafted left I would fall off the cliff.

I would keep spamming Colossal Strike and when he started doing his AOE shadow thingy I would leap off the cliff. While he wasted his time running down I would pop my evo and heal then run up to meet him. You don't want him to get too far away from you or take too long to run down as I've had him reset when he's too far from me

Wash , rinse repeat

Comment by 100547

rtomioka said:

I found that for Urgreth of the Thousand Tombs all I had to do to avoid him even starting to cast is was to walk in circles the whole fight and just cleave him. soo easy. didnt even cast the aoe.

Confirmed! Worked excellent, just keep running around so that you keep Urgreth in movement, and he wont cast :)
Before I read this I was like "how the hell am i gonna take him down!", but with this method it worked like a charm.

Comment by 120936

Quite possibly one of THE most awesome quests ever. I hit level 80 after this one.

Comment by laughingnome

Lucky for me, I saw two others doing the quest and they appeared to be helping each other so I joined in. After that they hung around to do it again so I got credit on the third boss and also helped me on the second boss, then I helped them out again so we all got the kills we needed. Saved me lots of time and trouble trying to figure those other bosses out, the first was hard enuff for me!

Comment by Grakkh

I'll say this... the titans sure didn't design Etymidian with the expertise stat in mind. Bythius and Urgreth must've parried half my Colossal Strikes.

Aside from that, it's fairly simple.

For Bythius, it's just spankage, and heal yourself once during the fight, you shouldn't need to evocate.

For Urgreth, run away IMMEDIATELY when he starts casting his AOE. This also gives you enough time to cast a heal and evocate. You'll need both, as he deals heavy damage and you'll need to cast Cataclysms to deal damage back.

For Hailscorn, it's simple, just time Cataclysms so that you do it when he spawns the adds.

Comment by sk8nguitar

You are all way over thinking these, I did it with no problems.

Bythuis - Just keep spamming Colossal Strike, make sure you are also hitting his dog things to so they go down. I didn't have to heal but was very low so throw a heal if you want. I Didn't use anything else this fight beside Heal and Colossal Strike

Urgreth - Again spam your Colossal Strike. When it says "Urgreth begins to emanate a powerful dark energy!" and he starts channeling his AoE spell, take a few steps back and hit your evocate. If you have little skeletons on you dont worry they arent strong enough to kill you while evocating. Then throw a heal after if needed, spam Colossal Strike and repeat.

Haliscorn - Probably eaiser then Urgreth TBH. Aggro him then back up against the wall and spam Colossal Strike. When he summons the pack of undead use your AoE spell and keep Spaming Colossal Strike. I didn't have to heal or evocate once on this fight... just Colossal Strike spam, AoE on group... simple.

Also after each boss I simply dismissed my Titan thing and re-summoned it with full mana and health. You can heal and evocate if you want, but just saves a little time.

Comment by 247025

I tried to kill Urgreth 20 times. None of the above worked. I ended up abandoning the quest.

Comment by Planky

After having so much trouble with Urgreth, I finally found an easy solution.

Backtracking and running circles around him has been mentioned before .. but neither had worked for me ( Died 10+ times ). So found a very easy way to do it all:

You approch him from behind, do NOT have your back to the cliff. From here you SPAM 'Colossal Strike' while walking backwards and around .. as long as he Hits -> Runs to you -> Hits etc etc you will be fine. When the warning pops up 'Urgeth begins to emanate a powerful dark energy! you should allready be out of range as you were backtracking the whole time. After his first tick .. which might still hit you backtrack a little more so you are just out of range and use 'Reconstruction' and 'Titanic Surge' for your hp/mp needs. He SHOULD come at you while using the latter skill. So you will need to start backtracking again while spamming 'Colossal Strike'. I had to do this twice, as he used his special attack twice .. but after the 2nd I spammed 'Colossal Strike' + 'Cataclysm' and he should go down very easy with you having approx 80% hp left.

Goodluck ; >

Comment by fireproof52

The only boss I had to heal on was Urgeth. On Bythius, just spam cleave, easy. For Hailscorn, face away from the cliff, and when he summons the skeletons, use AoE.

For Urgeth, when you see the yellow letters, back up, take a few evocate ticks, and then use Reconstruction before he starts hitting you again. Again, spam cleave.

for the 200 scourge, if you have more than about five, use AoE, otherwise, spam cleave. Every once in awhile a group of about 10 runs down the mountain, perfect for AoE.

Comment by fistup

Fun fact: if you /dance while on the giant's shoulder, you'll continue to dance as you go around killing everything.

Comment by 313951

The whole quest is easy just AOE a lot and juse evocate till you can heal or do a AOE. Than i went up to the last two guys and find my self some problems. But after 1 time i did get it.

Urgreth of the Thousand Tombs: Just nuke the hell out of him, wen he is going for his aoe walk back and evocate a bit untill he is done. So you can keep aoe'ing him. Prefer to keep 50k+ health since he hits kinda nice with his aeo and you can get hit if you aint get away as soon as possible.

Hailscorn: He looks though, and he is if you do it like i did! First time i didnt aoe at all since i read something about that up here.(thanks Muarfy!) He will kick youre ass that way.
Just keep him moving around and Aoe him when possible. When he uses Wing Buffet, start evocate, so you can keep aoe'ing him. Easy as that.

gl

Comment by 144646

I found that Hailscorn was the easier.
I put my back to a wall, Spammed the cleave, AoE'd when he spawned.
Didn't need to heal or regain mana in any way.
Also, Do NOT use shield, it de-aggro's him and he heals fully.

Comment by 97666

This was by far the funniest quest in all of Northrend so far :D

Comment by Afoxi

Watching 6 Titans queuing up to kill the boss is rather hilarious.

Too bad they don't have dance animations.

Comment by Stigmata

Fun fact.

You can make yourself dance while on his shoulder.

I thought it fit the mood of mass destruction.

Comment by Jawajoey

The strats have been covered, but I must add: do a /dance as soon as you get in the vehicle. I'm undead, so I was rockin' out the entire time.

Comment by 335152

Can we do the quest for fun after we complete and turn it? because this quest is really fun even the quest reward is cool

Comment by Ozbaab

In the Hailscorn fight I recommend using Catalysm whenever u can against the angry skeleton mob. I didnt need to heal once!

Comment by 355091

As Of Latest Patch Quest Gives 32400 Exp And 20 Gold 40 Silver And Your Choice Of Gear ;)

Comment by fmneto

This is actuallyl pretty easy.

For the three named mobs all I did was activating the shield ability before approaching them, using the AoE damage to clear the area and leave only the main mob, spamming cleave and healing when necessary.

In the case of Bythius, killing the dogs first made it look like just another scourge minion with lots of hp.

Comment by matte92

Dont use the Divine Shield thingy when u are fighting bosses then u will lose aggro and they run to original spot and fully heal... Dont know what happens when u use it on ordinary mobs but u wont have to if u dont sleep infront of the comp...
The walking back when urgoth uses the dark magic worked got hit one time (he used it twice so two times) and evocated/healed. But hailscorn was harder cause i didnt have mana when he summoned the skells died one time on hailscorn second time i was a bit more careful with my mana then he wasn´t a problem. All in All it was a rly fun quest/quest line

Comment by TCHJ3K

Fun quest once you figure out what to do on each boss.

Bythius: Stand in front of him spamming Cleave, use your AOE when it's available
Urgeth: Strafe around him spamming Cleave, use your AOE when it's available
Hailscorn: Walk backwards spamming Cleave, use your AOE when it's available

Urgeth won't use his AOE attack when he's moving, making him pretty trivial. And for me Hailscorn only did his summoning thing twice, both times right after my AOE was available.

After that, just run around like an idiot aggroing as many undead as you can and then popping your AOE until you get to 200 kills.

Fun quest, nice reward, great way to finish off your tour of Sholazar.

Comment by 364198

I am on this quest right now and not one of these comments helped me at all! The Second guy is the hardest. I have died more times then I care to share with you! the brighter side is that you can go right back there with no problem. No taking ten or trying to find your body! but Urgreth is the worst!

Comment by 270815

i found out that he dose knock you backwards hehe just turn your back on the mountain and also easy way to defeat him is to walk in cyrcles do that you only need to heal you once (least i did) and you can use yer mana to AoE the skellies

Comment by 116570

Hailscorn:

If you just stand on the mountain and when he wing buffet you then, just use your evocation, and after that heal or, heal and use evocation, mobs he spawn is np with AOE Charge thing, if you then get down cause buffet, kite him up to the mountain again, he's eZ mode.

Urgreth of the Thousand Tombs:

Here's an smart idea to keep your mana up on this one, when he uses his Shadow thing jump down on the mountain, and use your heal there-after you might wonna use evocate or using evocate first to make sure you got mana, and then heal. Make sure you get up on the mountain again so you can do it the next time he channels shadow thing.

Bythius the Flesh-Shaper :

I didn't rlly find any challenge to beat this one, he does low damage, if you just take his dogs first and then after take him, as a pala i could just use divine shield if i felt off, and then re-use the item. But this one arent so hard so just use cleave and Charge, this would clear the dogs fast and a good dps, but save mana for at least one heal, i would prolly like have 100k mana left to heal, then evocate get low to 30% And then heal again, just to save mana for another heal!

All-Round pretty easy with those tacts!

Comment by 369220

I was 70/75 quests completed in Sholazar before I started this chain (Horde). This chain put me over the required number of achievements for the Basin achievement, neat!

Comment by 372144

Very fun, easy quest. Hailscorn is the easiest, for me atleast. Just keep Cleaving him, when he summons the skeletons pop your AoE. I had enough time before he summoned again to use my AoE..if not, wait a few seconds.

Bythius was simple. Be sure to kill the dogs first. Get the adds (dogs) and the boss together and use Cleave to bring them down fast, leaving the boss alone. Just heal when needed (30% HP should have you need to heal only once.)

Ugreth is a bit of a challenge, if you don't know what you're doing. Just like Bythius, pound his taint with Cleave. When the screen shows yellow text, GTFO of his AoE range and use Heal/Evocation. His AoE can easily 3-shot you.
Once the AoE drops, go back in and spank him, just rinse and repeat.

Comment by Conal

Jumping off the cliff is unnecessary and time-wasting.

Maybe for you...but I don't play your game so don't insult mine, please. Remember the old saying: Different strokes for different folks.

Comment by Ashaniel

hailscorn was my hardest but i found that if i wedged up against the wall and spammed cleave and hit the aoe when undead were brought out i healed at about 50% and killed hailscorn shortly after that : )

Comment by 314476

Hailscorn is actually incredibly easy:

He raised skeletons about three times, everytime he did I used Cataclysm. Other than that I just spammed Cleave.
As said, Hailscorn doesnt hit for very much, it's the skeletons that deal most of the damage. So GL ;>

Comment by suchy

I suggest taking off your gear (before fighting that 'of the thousand tombs' big guy).

Comment by Uinri

I would like to add that if you step back to heal/evocate when the second boss AoEs, The order at which this is done is important. HEAL FIRST, then evocate. I did it the other way around for a couple of times and my repair bill was 10g. Otherwise everything else of this quest was quite enjoyable.

Comment by arnavkumar

I just got to this quest.. and after the announcement of the new expansion, this seems to be a bit connected... coz of the name of the spell and the name of the expansion... I could be wrong though...

Comment by Guanyin

I had most trouble with Urgreth of the Thousand Tombs, untill I figured out why.
As soon as he casts his AoE, step back and immediately restore mana,
interrupt as soon as the spell is done.
Several tips given here, like jumping off your giant and resummoning don't work,
you will have to redo the entire fight.
I have been restoring and healing, don't use too much of your own AoE,
it will consume too much mana.
Bythius the Flesh-Shaper was easy, so was Hailscorn (gonna name my kid
after him one day, the name sounds awesome xD)

Comment by 322002

For Urgreth of the Thousand Tombs (which I found to be the most difficult one to kill out of all three) I constantly walked backwards. He will cast his AoE, but because you are maintaining yourself at max distance while using Cleave, you can quickly turn around and avoid being hit even by one tick. During the time that he's doing that, you can heal or evocate--its your choice.

And yes, I did read all of the previous comments for advice and this is what worked for me. Those who said that they did _____ and _____ and did not have Urgreth cast the AoE, it's purely a matter of luck, not technique.

Good luck.

Comment by EllieBelly

Had little trouble with the dragon, just used the AOE when it summoned the minions and healed when needed. Spammed cleave on the guy with the dogs, healed when needed. However on Urgreth the only way I got through it was to group up with someone else on the Etymidian. I tried it with a level 80 rogue helping me but then he just spammed the living hell out of that shadow thing and we both died. Totally not worth the effort involved, IMO. HIGHLY suggest going about this naked, I dropped about 6g in repairs before I realized htis. Duh :)

Comment by 469896

Very easy.

Bythius: Take out the two dogs, then tank n' spank. Use your AoE when it is available as it does considerably more damage than your cleave.

Ugreth: Be ready to strafe out of range of the AoE and tic a bit of mana or heal if needed. Then just cleave him down. Don't forget your auto-attack.

Dracolich: Walk the dragon back one direction until skele's are summoned. AoE them. Walk it walk the other direction until skele's are summoned a second time. AoE them. Dragon will be dead before third summon.

Easy peasy.

Comment by 459574

Hailscorn is pretty easy. Keep using Cleave... When it summon the skeletons, use Cataclysm. Back to Cleave, when skeletons, Cataclysm. When Hailscorn throw you away, use evocation. Don't turn your back at a wall.

Comment by Redwolve

OK YOU PEOPLE ON ARE SOME SERIOUS CRACK I DID THIS QUEST 3 TIMES AND FAILED, EASY THIS QUEST ISNT EASY , DO YOU HAVE TO BE LVL 80 TO DO THIS AND HOW DO YOU BEAT SOMETHING THAT HAS TWO DOGS AND HITS FOR 10K OF DMG ON EACH SWING ?
WRONG !

Comment by 446759

For the record, backing down the cliffs was the only way I had time to heal/mana regen while fighting Urgreth. The other two were a joke.
Demdiraatu the Explorer, lvl 77 pally

Comment by ethersturm

I don't know if I'm missing something, the quest has changed in 3.2 or 3.3, or if I am merely bad at the game, but Hailscorn was nigh impossible for me.

He was fine until he summoned his minions, but the AoE, whilst nearly killing them, did NOT kill them entirely. That left them to speedily whittle away my life, and before the AoE was off cool down, he would usually summon them again. Despite this, I managed to get him fairly low a few times, but even jumping down the cliffs gave me only about 2 seconds to regen mana and attempt to heal.

Perhaps this quest has changed, or perhaps I'm just doing it wrong, but I'm finding it to be impossible, and the amount of times I died and the waste of time I could've been questing for me was too much, and I abandoned.

Anyone else having a similar experience?

Comment by 495890

I also had alot of difficulties with this quest today. Remember doing it earlier on my other chars, and it was a breeze. This time, Hailscorn ate me up 6 times in a row while i was trying different tactics.

I ended up cheesing it out. As soon as he pops army, i use aoe, rinse and repeat, but the trick was, when i got low on mana and\or health, i jumped down the cliff for evocation. I had already cleaned there before the attempt, so i got enough ticks off to get a heal and another aoe, by this time, hailscorn went down like a bag of potatoes.

This is far from easy imo, and the quest had me twitching for a moment. Make sure you clean the ledge below, then slide down when your in the danger zone, be quick with evocation and heal since he will be on your tail fast.

Worked for me, cheers.

Comment by 497395

*The most obvious is urgeth, he is standing right by a cliff that lines down into several other cliffs, this design is so when he does his aoe you jump off, heal then restore mana and repeat on the way down, and conviently he is really slow making it to where you have enough time to do these things after you jump off.*

just wanted to say that I tried this multiple times, and it doesn't work, at least not anymore. As soon as you jump off to the lower level, Urgeth is back at full health/mana, and is no longer in combat with you, he doesn't follow you down at all. Still trying to figure out what will work. ;P Also tried just strafing, soon as I move a little bit away from him, he resets.

Comment by DarthOej

I'm thinking the reason the adds don't die from the AoE because of the AoE damage cap that came with 3.3. They probably overlooked problems like this.

Comment by 316829

As of patch 3.3, this quest is nearly impossible to complete due to new AoE system. Haliscorn's skeletons can not be killed with single spell, cooldown is way too long so you will die because of heavy damage.

Comment by 29066

A small note, as of patch 3.0.3 the quest appears to be broken as the aoe damage on your nuke does reduced damage as the number of mobs increases.

When attempting the dragon boss my aoe did 9000 damage when she summoned all the skeletons, or half the summoned skeletons total life. The frost dragon was able to summon adds faster than I could kill them, even attempting to kite the boss and adds waiting on a second aoe cool down.

Comment by Afflictzia

For some reason Cataclysm doesnt kill the scourges Hailscorn adds to the fight, very annoying since they hit for 500-1k each, the health on the Etymidian drops to zero in no time. I've even tried kiting him, if i turn my back ill get dazed intantly, if i dont i walk 1 foot a second, silly thing is i've done this several times on other chars which didnt have that problem.

Comment by Sazzie

After 45 min. and 6 attempts later. I give up!

Comment by 221913

I was able to kill Hailscorn. I will try to explain what I did, it actually turned out to be luck really.

I thought kiting him back and forth might help but eventually I had too many spawns on me and when I was near death the wing buffet knocked me down the side of the cliff, sure enough all the adds and Hailscorn started wall-walking down to me. This bought time for the aoe cooldown, once the mobs got to me I was able to kill them with the aoe and maybe a cleave or two.

Comment by 245029

When I did this quest yesterday, I had no trouble killing Hailscorn's adds with just one AoE, so I think Blizzard may have lifted the AoE cap for this quest. I might have added Cleave to the mix (not sure, forgot to check the logs) but I certainly did not have any problems. Main points are the basics: enter battle with full HP, clear area of scourge beforehand and keep enough mana to heal as necessary. I usually began casting Reconstruction at 40%. Note that I had to evocate once and at this time damage was very heavy. Still, ended with him dead and me at 35%, so I wouldn't call it exactly a close fight.

As usual, lag is probably your most dangerous enemy here. Good luck beating him, it's certainly doable now.

Comment by 535454

During Love is in the Air, You can AOE farm the mobs here for the Lovely Charms. Probably the fastest way i can think of getting them

Comment by 475607

As with many other quest-provided "vehicles," don't forget to begin your auto-attack by right-clicking on the boss as you fight it. The white damage really adds up beside your special abilities.

Comment by 201990

You know for a titan creation he seems a little weak

Comment by AlterMind

Urgreth of the Thousand Tombs was the most difficult to hanlde as far as I was concerned. He each time managed to inflict more damage with his AoE spell. The earlier advice here above didn't help me a lot as (1) there was no room left between the Urgreth and the edge of the cliff and (2) dropping the cliff would bring me in the area where Bythius is walking. So, instead, I didn't jump off but remained closed to the edge to fight him after cleaning the area first.
My strategy was to refill life+mana to start, avoid using any mana in fight and walk away as soon as he would start channelling his spell, and repair health 3 times (as I preciously preserved the mana herefor).

Comment by zerodefekz

Meh. They need to hit this particular quest with the nerf bat a few times.

Only reason why I was able to complete it, was because I had a friend of mine hang back and heal - this was even after using the various tactics described in some of the earlier posts (backing up against the wall for the bone dragon, backing up out of the AoE for the other guy)

Took me 7 tries to finally nail this. I cringe when I think about my repair bill.

Comment by Sparq300

I must say Urgreth was the hardest one of them three. The reason was because he continues to heal himself and can do a lot of damage with Shadow Barrage after just a few Mortal strikes.

I read some of the comments regarding kiting him and drop down the edge since he wont be able to hit you with Shadow Barrage but after second drop he would reset and go back to full health. I died many times before realizing.

What I did was started to his right and began to hit him and kite him to the edge right behind him its only a little bit higher than his starting edge yet enough to shield you from Shadow Barrage. Heal yourself once you drop down and fill up on mana as he begins to drop down. Keep striking him as you move back up again to the same edge and just repeat the process. I killed him on my first try.

Just make sure you take gear off before beginning this quest since repair bill will get huge after a few deaths.

Hope this helps some people.

Comment by 486559

I nearly punched through the screen in frustration trying to get this one, there should be an Achievement for downing Ugreth! After dying for the 50th time, I tried all the falling off the cliff tricks, but he healed every time I got away from him.
So instead of going down, I went up. Kite him, walking backwards up the hill, around the track, but keeping a safe distance from Hailscorn. His AoE attack won't affect you if you're slightly above him, but if you're lower, it'll act like a daisycutter. I only had to heal myself once, no need for the mana regen or shield.

Comment by 532444

Worked on urgeth for over an hour. He was the hardest of the three. Grouped with someone that was working on same quest and killed him in five minutes

Comment by Umega

Me: Hey Etymidian, what does Cataclysm do?
Etymidian: Can't remember, though the titans said something bad might happen if I used it. But what the hell, we're fighting evil scourge here!
Me: Ok! *Clicks Cataclysm*

*Somewhere in Azeroth*
Deathwing: ROOAAARRR! FEAR ME MORTALS FOR I AM FREE!
Level cap raises to 85, Elemental planes rip open, Ragnaros launches an attack on Mt. Hyjal, Greymane Wall falls apart and the Forsaken invade, parts of Azeroth get major flooding and a big volcano erupts at Kezan and the goblins flee.

*Back in Sholazar*
Me: Hmm nice explosion.
Etymidian: Yeah nice and sparkly.

Comment by 616136

I just did this quest and did not have any issues with Bythius or Hailscorn. (The tip to stay against the wall and spam the melee weapon both worked perfectly for Hailscorn, ty).

Ugreth however was ridiculously difficult for me. I can't believe no one else had difficulties! I tried some of the tips on here... nothing worked. Falling down the cliff usually caused Ugreth to reset not to mention aggro the re-rezed Bythius so I do not agree that the quest was set intentionally for you to fall down the cliff. It is extremely hard to step outside Ugreth's AOE (which causes a great amount of damage per hit) without actually turning around and running away from him... stepping backwards doesn't usually get you out of the way fast enough. If you turn around and run, however, you risk him resetting as happened to me several times. I eventually got him by using Ety's Cataclysm (AOE) sparingly (costs a lot of mana) and just spamming the Cleaver (melee) as much as possible. Run away only to get mana and be careful not to run too far.

Comment by 487694

A strategy I found useful with Urgreth was to walk away on the AoE (walking through him is just as effective as turning and walking away, and reduces the risk of walking too far if you retrace your steps the next time), restore mana up to around half or higher if you have time; turn as he comes back to hit you, then heal whilst in combat. I managed to finish him off with Cataclysm when he was stoking his third AoE. Admittedly, this was about my eighth attempt.

Comment by 626876

Ok, so while you're fighting the 2nd boss it's a bit tricky.

Use skill 1 to fight him, don't bother using your 2nd skill, the AOE blast. When he starts casting his hard hitting AOE, run away, you'll get hit on the 1st blast, heal yourself, and then start doing Evocation. Once his AOE stops, re-engage him. Rinse and repeat guys.

Comment by lastbornnobody

X-perl shows Etymidian as a paladin. Maybe thats why he's so strong.

Comment by 588966

ive have read lots of posts for this wuest and talked to plenty of people who had problems with it but i found all 3 bosses to be easy...very easy....all i did was make sure i had full health and mana when i headed into the boss fights...on the first boss i spammed cleave and when he was at about half health i healed and used aoe and spammed cleave some more..nice and easy...the second boss spam cleave heled once in the middle and used 2 aoes taking the time while he was casting his aoe to get some mana...simply walking oout of range when he starts to cast works perfect...for the third boss i didnt heal even onc ei spammed cleave and used aoe when he spawned his mobs...he spawned mobs 3 times last time was right before he died and i had low health so i bubbled and left area when bubble wore off i could regen mana and heal...best tip i have is to make sure clear area around bosses before engaging and make sure you have full health and mana before engaging

Comment by 159803

Bythius - I started off with my AoE, then just spammed cleave. The cleave killed the puppies eventually. I healed once and never needed evocate.

Urgeth - Again, start with AoE to clear the adds and do some damage to him. I just ran a little bit up the hill when he used his AoE and got off as many evocate ticks as possible, then went back and attacked him where he starts (or close to it), making sure I had enough mana to heal if necessary and using AoE if I grabbed any adds.

Hailscorn - Heal wasn't necessary, but I liked being able to use it. I was able to use AoE every time the adds were summoned, which kills all of them instantly, and when he did wing buffet I could get off a couple ticks of evocate.. giving me the freedom to heal if I needed to (or just wanted to), and making it so having my AoE available wasn't an issue.

I don't think the stuff in bold has been mentioned (but I don't have the patience to read all 128 responses), and this was from doing the quest in 3.3, so it may be a little more up to date than some of the replies :)

Comment by 592942

The original cliff trick didn't work for me today, he just kept resetting after the second cliff. On my Warlock, it worked like a charm. After reading the comments here (again), I engaged him, walking backwards spamming Cleave to the cliff directly 'above' him. Then walk a few steps past where you can climb onto it, keep attacking til he channels, then dropped down and healed/evocated (whichever I needed), and it worked. Took 4 'cliff tricks'.

Comment by 597717

Looking for tips on how to use the Etymidian. It is supposed to be a powerful weapon but is constantly getting destroyed by Urgreth. Can anyonbe give me a tip or two?

Comment by Zhawq

This quest is easy, but not as in 'Easy easy', or 'easy Easy'...

In reality this quest, like many other quests, involves a certain amount of luck to succeed. It means you may - and probably will - die a number of times, especially when fighting the bosses. Your level has no impact upon difficulty whatsoever.

To take off your gear (weapons included) before engaging in fights with the bosses, is very good advice!... (volunteered by Samitch)

Comment by HeadbanD

Bythuis - spam colossal strike and cataclysm when its up, heal yourself when you get low may have to do it several times.

Urgeth - spam colossal strike and cataclysm when its up. Most important is to run out of the shadow barrage (heal up and restore mana during this).

Hailscorn - spam colossal strike, save your cataclysm for his ability called "raise the frozen undead".

Comment by Whiterock

Force of Nature Quest Tree From Whiterock
S)Force of Nature
j)An Issue of Trust
j)Returned Sevenfold──>k)Salvaging Life's Strength
k)The Fallen Pillar
l)Cultist Incursion
/ \
m)Weapons of Destruction m)Exterminate the Intruders
\ /
n)The Lifewarden's Wrath
o)Freya's Pact
p)Powering the Waygate - The Maker's Perch
q)Powering the Waygate - The Maker's Overlook q)A Timeworn Coffer
#)The Etymidian
#)The Activation Rune
r)Back Through the Waygate
s)Reclamation

Legend:
S menas Skippable
# means Other Zones
* means another Quest Tree.

Comment by rah55

Heal, heal, heal against bosses. Increase mana in between and cat the little suckers. Died once getting the hang of it but after, no problem. Fun to have the little suckers crowd around you and blow them all away. 200 happens pretty fast.

Comment by Zoomar

I found that all of the other comments were extremely useful, I did it exactly as suggested and with patience, made it (just barely) -just thought I'd add a few more screen shots....but of the area and the actual Bosses that you have to look forward to exterminating. Hope it helps. (if it loads them up) lol.

Comment by 819963

I killed Hailscorn using just button 1.

Comment by 725312

As a level 85 Frost DK, it was faster to do this quest without the Etymidian at all. Simply make sure not to pull too many little guys at once, and clear the area around the bosses before engaging them.

Comment by badmoons73

read all the comments and I had no trouble whatsoever with this quest. 79 prot pally. spammed the first spell a lot and the second one every once in awhile. when doing hailscorn save the second spell for when he calls out his army, does it like 3 or 4 times. the hardest part was finding the bosses.

Comment by 718694

have they fiddled around with this quest? because I run away from Urgeth's spell, and when he comes back after he finishes casting, that's when he gets me and reduces my hp to about a quarter. I never used to have trouble with this quest.

Comment by Tigerflame

"...One of the most destructive forces ever created by the titans..."

If this is the best the Titans can do, Aman'thul will be a breeze.

Comment by CalaelenDT

Tried doing this quest today, but something seems to be wrong as the game will constantly disconnect me when I'm controlling the Etymidian. Sometimes instantly upon relogging, sometimes after a couple of seconds, but the frequency is so high it's making the quest impossible to do.

It only happens when I'm controlling the Etymidian, so the issue seems to be related to that.

For anyone attempting this quest and experiencing the same, I suggest not bothering with it unless you desperatly want the helm reward, as it's too much of a pain to finish it with constant disconnects.

Comment by borcar

This was not too hard after reading some comments. I started off at the base level in the avalanche and cleared the bottom with the AOE effect. I then fought the first guy up the hill using the first two buttons.

Second guy i cleared the area with the AOE then dismounted as an 82 BM hunter and fought Ugreth with my turtle and weapons. Not hard at all.

Last guy used the quest guy and his AOE plus the first attack button only.

Comment by multiversekyle

I had trouble with this a while back but it seems to be fixed now because I had none of the problems I had before. The strategy that got me through it was: spam his melee attack, use the AoE on the adds when they show up, heal yourself if you get below 30k health or so, and regen mana if you get low. Really wasn't that bad at all and actually pretty fun quest. I almost skipped it after the trouble I had last time, but I'm glad I didn't.

It may be important to know that the once you locate the first boss and knock him out, the other two are up the hill from there. Hailscorn is at about 70, 34. Bythius the Flesh-Shaper wanders between about 70, 38 and 74, 41. Urgreth of the Thousand Tombs is at about 70, 37. Urgreth took the longest, but I wouldn't say any of them were difficult. The hardest part was walking around at the end trying to get up to 200 minion kills so I could leave.

As of right now, you have everything you could possibly want to make this quest super easy: melee, AoE, healing, mana regen, and even a spell that protects you from all damage for a few seconds... they nerfed this one up good.

Comment by 1108224

The scourge count as defeated if you kill them without Etymidian's help.

If you're completing the quest chain after opening the waygate for quick Uldum -> SW transport, the bosses go down much quicker without him.

Comment by Aeduera

If you're doing this at Level 90 for Loremaster, it's far easier to just AOE everything down on foot, even the bosses, which come up as raid level, go down after a few hits. You don't need to be on The Etymidian to get credit for the kills.

Comment by kerrymayall

Seems to be completely trivial to do nowadays. I recall dying a few times when i did this during Lich King days but i was able to saunter through this barely taking any damage just now (on a Level 70 toon with the new level scaling in action).

Comment by T666

garbage instructions by all commenters

fly to the avalanche north of map and right click the omega rune in your bags when you are on ice to summon the vehicle

trash mobs:
spam 1 and 2

leave vehicle and fly close to each boss to resumon vehicle full hp and mana just 20 sec cooldown

urgreth:
spam 1 and 2 until he casts aoe then move 10 yards and cast 3 to heal. easy boss

hailscorn:
fight him with back to wall to avoid knockback just spam 1 until he sumons small mobs then use 2 to kill them all. cast 3 to heal when under 50%. easy boss

bythius:
spam 1 and 2 until he dies. cast 3 to heal if need. easy boss

Links

Reclamation

Go to the Avalanche in Sholazar Basin and use the Omega Rune to deploy Etymidian. Use him to slay 200 Scourge Minions, Bythius the Flesh-Shaper, Urgreth of the Thousand Tombs and Hailscorn.

Speak to the Avatar of Freya in Sholazar Basin when you've completed this task.

Scourge Minions destroyed (200) (1)

Bythius the Flesh-Shaper slain (1)

Urgreth of the Thousand Tombs slain (1)

Hailscorn slain (1)

Provided item:

	Omega Rune (1)

Description

It is time, <name>. The Etymidian is one of the most destructive forces ever created by the titans and I am loathe to unleash him in my lands.

There is little choice, however. Our enemies have forced my hand and the fury of the titans will cleanse all.

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Gaze of the Punishing Construct			Helm of the Avenging Protector
	Headguard of Vast Destruction			Helm of Towering Rage
	Greathelm of the Titan Protectorate

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12546))