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Kommentar von Belazor

Downed on EU-Bronzebeard Jan 4th 2007 by 16 people.

Whether or not the rumours about him only spawning the Skeletons if somebody gains HP are true, I cannot say. We repeated it several times how you shouldn't heal/Crusader/etc, but the Skeletons came fairly quickly.
They are level 58 Undead non-elite, so you can safely ignore them unless you are prepared to sacrifice some AoE'ers (Mages/Pallys, etc). They don't bring the casualty number up by too much, so you can safely DPS him away without worrying about getting aggro from them.

Kommentar von 6757

Don't heal. Healing spawns many, many magic immune skeletons.

Don't heal.

Don't heal. (Get it?)

Multiple tanks (or one very well-geared tank) are important as healing will usually cause unmanageable zergs of skeletons.

Try to kite or offtank the adds -- Druid running in Cheetah with PVP set bonus is one way for a flawless kite.

Kommentar von Popcicle

When pulled at the right place, the dogs can come seperately. Try getting the left dog when he is furthest away from Nanthanos.

Also, warriors with second wind should watch out, the heal spawns the skeletons.

Kommentar von 49977

I just did it 3 man today.

lv70 hunter (me), lv70 rogue, lv57 priest

Healing seemed to have absolutely zero impact on whether or not skeletons were spawning. However, proximity to his house did.

I pulled the dogs off and kited them for about 10 minutes to kill them both. Even if you pull Blightcaller with the dogs, he will leash but the dogs will keep coming. Mobinfo estimated them to have around 28.7k hp each. Not too bad.

After dogs were down, I started to kite Nathanos. He has a 41 yard ranged attack which has a cast time much like multishot, if you keep him moving, he can't shoot. Once I pulled him away from his house, say about 1/4 the way to Corin's Crossing, he stopped summoning skeletons, from there it was just an AoCheetah kiting with the rogue following him and beating his face in. I even got some renews and a heal on me with no skeletons spawned.

Kommentar von 15632

Lore tidbit: It was Sylvanas Windrunner who personally approved Nathanos as a Silvermoon Ranger. Since he has served under her so admirably in life, it is no coincidence that he became her personal champion in death. :)

Kommentar von Thottbot

tloc 27,75

Kommentar von Thottbot

we did it with only 12 peeps and 2 tanks yesterday although we whiped 2 times because of the dogs, the best thing to do is nuke 1 dog at a time and then go for blightcaller himself :P

Kommentar von Thottbot

ROFL.. do NOT have priests use holy nova... wow.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Holy Nova doesnt gather aggro.

Kommentar von Thottbot

The easiest way to kill Blightcaller is to bring a raid group of 10 people.

3 Tanks
3 Palladins
2 AoE
2 DPS

Have tanks take on each of the dogs and Blightcaller. One Pally should be assigned to heal each of the tanks. Use rogues or some other DPS to take down the dogs one at a time then Blightcaller. When the pallies heal they will be targetted by spawned skellies. Have your AoE's take care of the pallies so they can focus on healing the tanks. Using priests to heal can be done but they will be targetted by the skeletons and will significantly raise the chance that you will wipe.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Forget what that tool above me said. This fight is incredibly easy if you just don't heal at all. Have everyone all-out nuke Blightcaller. When someone gets high on agro they can use agro reduction to bounce him to a new target, but he should be dead in under 30 seconds.

It is INCREDIBLY important to not have any raid members gain a single point of life. This includes, but is not limited to:

direct healing spells
heals over time
bandages
health pots
Drain Life
Vampiric Embrace
Crusader enchant
Lifestealing enchant
Demon Armor
any health-per-5 items
Lifegiving Gem
weapon procs that grant health
Darkmoon cards that grant health
ANYTHING THAT WILL MAKE YOUR HEALTH GO UP, EVEN A SINGLE POINT.

After the Blightcaller drops, the dogs follow pretty eaisily. You can offtank or kite them if you want, but it really isn't necessary. I recommend 10-20 people, but be careful of PUGs because some idiot always forgets about the one single rule of this encounter.

I did this about an hour ago and wiped about 4 times before killing the guy. Even after spamming raid chat with the specifics of the no healing rule, someone would Drain Life thinking it didn't count as a heal and all hell would break loose. I have never had so many face-to-desk moments in such a short time.

Kommentar von Thottbot

...unless you were all wearing tier 2/3 gear and got a little lucky.

We beat him tonight with a group of 15--about 5 o6 of which were not level 60. The trick is to just nuke the hell out of Blightcaller and ignore the dogs. We first tried to get two warriors to pull the dogs away and nuke him with the rest. It almost worked, but we wiped.

Then we tried the same thing again, but a druid used tranquility and there were immediately about 20 skeletons running around. Insta-wipe.

So third time we just nuked the hell out of him and he went down really fast.

Kommentar von Thottbot

it is completely possible to 5 man him. And he does spawn skellys when you heal. maybe he still does wen you still dont, but as soon as you heal he will spawn some

Kommentar von Thottbot

no way can u 5 man him at time of post bs,we had 8 and 4 70's, 4 56+ and was still tough.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

How hard does this guy hit, how many hp, any special abilities circumstances etc?
The quest description to kill him says..raise an army. Is that really the case?

Kommentar von Allakhazam

16 man PUG, headed by the Sen'Jin guild "The Newfallen" (about 10 of us). We pulled the dogs by themselves, then just DPSed the hell out of him. If it was DPS, we dropped it. One main tank, one main healer making sure he stayed alive. Our healer did HoT so there were more skellys then needed, I'd recommend just large chunk heals, but he fell before any of us did. Then the skellys wiped us ^^ And the two whorde didn't help either, but they fell nicely, adding a bit of honor to the kill ^^

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Did him with 15 people. Not everyone was 60. Wiped 5 times.

1. Just died
2. Tried to aoe skellies, doesnt work
3. Killed one dog
4. Killed the other dog
5. Killed the boss

Did take too long, just max dps on him.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Downed him today with 16 people all blue's 4 deaths 6 skele's spawned even though my healing meter had everyone at 0. Anyway took about 20 seconds after that took about a minute to kill dogs and skeles... easy as pie just nuke don't worry about kiting anything

Kommentar von Allakhazam

we had 37 ppl 60% were 60...half died.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Nathanos Blightcaller is located in Eastern Plaguelands at Loc (26,74) at a small farm.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

He spawns a couple dozen high level skeletons. You'll need a pretty decent sized raid to do this successfully.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Well this guy was easy as pie with about 22 people in the raid group. 12 of them were lvl60. 2 groups tanked the adds and others just nuked the hell out of him. About 8 people died :D

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Just did this with 13 of us. Found out that if you go along left side of dogs you can pull just them and then that leaves Blight all by himself. Made things alot easier so I would suggest someone else trying that next time.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

It is clearly said in there that what makes him spawn skellies is any HEAL that lands on a party member. Not any spell that lands on him. Between others the spells restoring "X health every Y seconds" like Demon Armor and everything are ALSO considered as heals. Therefore, take them off before engaging. Also don't cast drain life spells.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

According to a comment under the quest to kill him, Ordnung muss wieder hergestellt werden the skeletons are spawned at set points in Nathanos' health. The poster suggested 1 group tanks Nathanos, and everyone else deals with the adds as they pop. I'd suspect Tuld's comments below about spells always spawning skeletons, and melee less frequently, was because spells do more damage per hit.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

10 manned him tonight on Kul Tiras, with a PUG. We wiped once per dog, then wiped several times on Blightcaller himself before managing to down him. The one horde PC we saw was content to sit and watch.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Heres how we killed him with 15 people:

Rule Number One: NO HEALING!
People think its any spell that hits him spawns skeletons. its not. its any heal that lands on a raid member.
That includes Direct heals, Heal over times, bandages, pots, life stealing enchants, warlocks demon armor, ANY drain life spell. etc etc etc

Anytime someones health goes up during this fight, skeletons spawn, more heals = more adds. so no bloody healing!

Rule Number Two: Ignore the dogs (for now)
You dont need tanks to keep them busy, or hunters to kite them, you'll get to them before they can do any serious damage.

Rule Number Three: NUKE Nathanos!
EVERYONE, and i mean EVERYONE DPS Blightcaller as fast and hard as you can. he's only got about 40k health, and drops FAST. Trust me, 15 downed him in under 30 seconds.

And after he's dead. deal with the dogs, and whatever skeletons you have (cuz you're bound to have at least one fool who does some healing)

Honestly, if you follow these rules, very few will die (only one died on our last attempt) and you should have no more then 4 skeletons running around.

Hope this helps you out

Kommentar von Allakhazam

just nuke him down, we did it with 20ppl
(mostly lvl 60), everyone nuked blightcaller,
and he died whery fast. no problem at all.

Edited, Sun Jun 19 20:59:24 2005

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I sincerely doubt that the skeletons are spawned based on his health or based on healing spells. It is possible that any spell cast will cause him to spawn skeletons but this is very unlikely. I attempted to pull him to tirion (Didn't work btw, Tirion just sait there as if nothing was happening) by hitting his hounds with rank 1 moonfire. By the time i reached tirion, about 10 skeletons were with them and I got owned in about 1 second. I did not at any time hit him with a spell, so I doubt anything really has to do with the skeleton spawning. Its psossible that he spawns skeletons at set intervals of time but tahst about all I can think of.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

If spells spawn skells evry time and melee doesn't, how is it with ranged attacks by huntresses? I mean, this could be a good fight for a major huntersgroup, as the pets can tank one skell each and the huntresses keep shooting at nathan. But when each ranged hit spawns two skells this tactics won't work either. Just wondering and planning to do the quest tonite, if I ever find a group strong enough...

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Use purge on skellies! ;)
Enjoy!

AshBlower

Kommentar von Allakhazam

or so.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

5 manned him last night
All 60's...
Me (mage)
Warrior
Resto Druid
Pally
Rogue

All T1, not hard at all.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

OK ppl, here's a question to those that have already downed this fella

My guild tried to take him down, we were 10. We first somehow only pulled the dogs and took care of em. Later, we tried the fella himself but failed miserably. Yet, we are pretty much certain nobody used ANY healing sorta !@#$ that was mentioned on the websites.

So, I decided to make a test: when everybody went away and postphoned the quest, I spammed Frostbolts at him just by myself. (Im a mage and only had my Arc Intel, Mage Armor & Dampen Magic up) Wonder what happened? The guy did spawn about 6 to 10 sekllies and I was raped right there.

Ok so the question is if the guy spawns em no matter what? And what the f*ck can we do? *And do the skellies disappear once he's dead?

Thanks in advance ppl, Peace out...

Kommentar von Allakhazam

We downed him with 15 just recently. I swear to god, he must've summoned about 20 skeletons. We had no healers other than a pally, and suffered 4 deaths.

Kommentar von Firewalker

Killed him today, in Classic. We brought 12 people, with quite crappy gear. Two mages had a LIP, to handle the adds (which came in huge numbers). We all died but managed to kill him. Everyone got credit, even those who released spirit and were at the graveyard.
He doesn't drop a scourgestone, so equip another trinket, if you have one, that might be more useful. Even Luffa can be useful, since the dogs can apply a rend effect.

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