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Comment by 15777

Terestian Illhoof is an optional boss located in Karazhan. It is located in the library, after the Curator and before the Shade of Aran.

To get to Terestian, find the suspicious bookshelf and open it to reveal a secret tunnel. Terestian is located at the bottom of the tunnel along with his little friend, Kil'rek.

Terestian has a few notable abilities
Sacrifice/Binding - Occasionally Terestian will sacrifice/bind a member of the raid. This causes the player to be incapacitated and puts a dot on the player. The binding can be targetted and damaged. This binding is therefore a priority for the entire raid when someone is being sacrificed. The binding seems to drain health from the player to Terestian but I am not completely sure about this. It is possible to Divine Shield out of this debuff and therefore it should be possible to Ice Block out of it as well.

Kil'rek - Kil'rek is Terestian's little imp buddy. Just ignore it.

Mark of Flames - This undispellable debuff makes the target take 500 more fire damage. If this lands on a target that is being fireball volleyed by the infinite imps, it can cause them to fall over very quickly.

Infinite Imps - Terestian will constantly summon imps during the fight - about one every half second. They deal light to moderate damage and have around 4-5k health. Our raid just waited until there was 8 or more of these imps before we AoEed all of them. We had to AoE phases during the course of the fight. It is also conceivable that you can put two dpsers on these imps full time but we didn't try that.

The kill order was Sacrifice/Bindings -> (Imps if 8 or more) -> Terestian.

The important thing in this fight is deciding when to switch to killing the imps. Too soon/too often and Terestian gets more chances to kill the raid. Not often enough and the imp will overwhelm the raid.

Comment by 11200

He's been buffed today and is now pretty angry. No more first try.

Hit points have doubled.
Imp damage increased.
Mark of flame damage doubled
Sacrifice damage increased by three times, impossible for one healer to heal.
Sacrifice shackles now have three times more hit points.
Imp buddy buffs illhoof and needs to be nuked over and over (respawns after 30 seconds or so).

You might also consider taking down imps constantly one by one with melees now.

Comment by 11200

We got him now. Have your mages buff dampen magic (except mt). Have a warlock spam seed of corruption on the imp pet, you won't need bombing at all.

And, most importantly have EVERY damage dealer make a /tar demon macro for those shackles, immediately announce the shackles when he starts casting "sacrifice". Nuking them down as quickly as possible with burst dmg is the key to this fight, its much like jindo's totems, just faster and more evil.

Comment by 27891

He's very challenging in his new incarnation. The biggest problems are probably dps on the chains and uncoordinated AE.

Have your Mage tell your lock when to begin seeding, then have your lock tell your Mage when to AE (when he has 3-4 up). Neither should take damage, ideally. Having decent-to-high FR on your Warlock is also helpful.

With chains all dpsers should stop their cast when they see him casting Sacrifice so's not the be hampered by the GCD. Rogues save energy etc. Everyone hits it hard and fast (shocks, sw: death, etc etc). use /tar Demon Chains

Ignore the imp. He'll probably die at some point anyway from the AE but he's just a distraction. Have something (VW, hunter pet) tank him.

Comment by SilverKnight

Without doubt Terestian Illhoof's most dangerous ability is his Chains of Sacrifice, which quickly kill a player and simultaneously heal Illhoof himself. As soon as the chains hit, all DPS needs to instantly switch. Don't finish casting your fireball first: switch. If the whole raid can reliably DPS the chains down as quickly as possible, the rest of the fight will fall into place without too much trouble.

Full guide for dealing with this and also the imps etc from the fight:http://www.bosskillers.com/cgi-bin/bbguild/index.cgi?action=view_guide&guide_id=36

Comment by Russta

To go along with Paladins and Mages being able to bubble and block out of sacrifice, if a Rogue notices Illhoof's target change to him (meaning he's about to be the chosen one), he can vanish out before it lands. This is very tricky to pull off and shouldn't be relied upon as it requires your global cooldown and immense concentration but it IS possible.

Comment by Rizzu

it would work if you could use potions while stunned ;D, however because it is, you're virtually helpless unless you can break it with a bubble or a iceblock

Comment by 39221

If you have a destruction warlock with 2/2 Intensity and 3/3 Nether protection, and a pally this fight becomes a lot easier. Have the pally give the warlock concentration aura, and the warlock hellfires everything. Having a dedicated healer (same pally with blessing of light) would be good. This way the imps get taken out, and the bindings as well. --> constant hellfire with no interrupt.

Comment by 17810

We use a Warlock in FR gear to Hellfire down the Imps (And Kil'Rek). She holds aggro and it works well.

Last night we had a healy Priest and a Resto Druid (me) for the sacrifices. Both myself and the Priest would HoT ourselves just when the timer would run out (I'd only do a Rejuve and maybe a lifebloom), then I'd get ready to use Regrowth + Swiftmend then another Regrowth on whoever gets sacrificed. (I dunno what the Priest used). If you keep people clear of the Green Glyph on the floor, you can quite easily see and heal whoever gets Sacrificed. Try and make sure everyone is on max hp just before the sacrifice, too (bandages wont work since most people just get interrupted by imps or what not).

Anyway, killed him and won my Nature's Sustenance Belt =)

Comment by Uoyredrum

Have your MT tank Illhoof next to the circle in the middle. Have your offtank in DPS gear (dont even bother with a shield) next to the circle tanking Kil'rek in def stance (DPS tanking basically). Have a warlock with FR gear stand near Illhoof where the imps spawn and spam hellfire. All of the DPS should focus on Kil'rek to weaken Illhoof and switch to the Demon Chains when they pop up so the sacrificed person doesn't die.

When the imp dies, Illhoof gets his debuff where he takes more damage focus fire on him unless Demon Chains come up. They always have priority over everything, DPS-wise.

Just repeat this the whole fight. It's healing intensive, but if everyone focuses on what they're supposed to be doing, it's easy. I highly reccomend you make three seperate macros for this fight:

/tar Demon Chains
/tar Kil'rek
/tar Terestian

There's so many enemies on the screen these macros are very helpful for targeting and sometimes necessary. Make sure your warlock has the correct spec for the fight and enough health/fr and it's still pretty easy even with Illhoof being buffed. Also, make sure even the tank turn and attack the chains when they come up. The faster the chains die the better. They do about 1600 dmg/sec so it burns mana fast on healers if they don't go down quick.

Good luck to everyone.

Comment by Anarki

Today my guild wen't in and did this guy easily, our setup was the following (which is pretty standard in Karazhan):

1 Holy Paladin
1 Resto Druid
2 Rogues
2 Warriors
1 Mage
1 Warlock
1 Hunter
1 Enhancement Shaman

What we did was having the Warlock lifetapping whenever he needed mana to keep up constant Seed of Corruption and with AoE support of the mage to keep the white imps down.

Let me priortize again, it is vital to keep the white imp population down to a minimum.

Make sure the paladin is giving Concentration Aura to the Resto Druid and the Warlock. The Warlock does not need any specific specc (however Afflication is probably bets for overall raid dmg).

When you engage Illhoof he will have his orange imp friend with him, Kil'rek. Upon the death of this imp Illhoof will take additional dmg (200%) for a period of time and after a while, he will resummon it.

Upon starting the fight, Illhoof will summon two portals which will spawn the white imps that we talked about earlier in a constant stream.

Whenever a specific period of time has passed Illhoof will sacrifice a player in the raid (like Dire Maul East or The Botanica), this player will be capsuled in an attackable unit called "Demon Chains", upon killing these Demon Chains the sacrificed player will be free. The sacrified player will take alot of damage over time and will require immidiate healing.

The lines of actions your raid must take to kill Illhoof are as the following;

Start the fight by taking offtanking the orange imp while your raid takes the orange imp down to 20-25% health. Leave the imp at that point and DPS Illhoof until he sacrifices someone. When he does, kill the Demon Chains and after that full DPS on Illhoof since he takes extra dmg. Keep up the DPS on Illhoof until he orange imp spawns again, take it down to 20-25% again and wait for the sacrifice, when the sacrifice is over you DPS Illhoof until the next orange imp spawn.

Hince and repeat.

But remember, the Mage and Warlock should focus on keep _ALL_ the white imps down.

Remember to position your raid mostly to the behind of Illhoof, near the two church-look-a-like windows. This is done so the white imps doesn't spread out too much for the Warlocks Seeds of Corruption to hit.

Comment by 47631

Raid :
- 3 healers
- 1/2 tanks (2 is better though)
- 1 warlock (with high +fire dmg) or even 2 or more ^^

MT takes Terestian where he is.
All the raid near the green circle of sacrifice.
MT builds aggro on the imp then Terestian (if only 1 tank).
When imps begin to spawn, the real fight begins :)
The raid has to dps slowly (the MT has 2 aggro to build) at the beginning.
The warlock uses hellfire so that he can have Terestian, Kil'rek, the imps and the demonic chains at range. With a destru warlock or a paladin with concentration aura, he can spam his hellfire during the entire fight. He doesn't need a lot of heals, that's quite easy and a lot more mana efficency than the seeds and it takes aggro on all imps very fast. To add, it makes a constant dps on the demonic chains ^^
Everytime Kil'rek dies, full dps on terestian. When it respawns, have ur warlock stop dps so that he doesn't aggro it and when the MT has built again his aggro on it, let's spam hellfire again :O
The key to this fight (when imps are under control thx to the warlock) is to burst dps the chains when someone is sacrificed. Keep ur trinkets up for that, cooldowns, etc.. Have someone with poisons or mortal strike on Teresetian, it helps too.
Quite easy fight ! If u don't succeed : lack of DPS or ppl don't react fast enough to dps the chains.
Another thing too, sometimes the MT get caught in the chains. Of course, Terestian starts killing your raid. So, when it happens, have really full dps on the chains and have someone that can taunt Terestian (pally, warrior whoever.)

Comment by 51110

We used the warlock strategy on the IMPs tonight, our first night. Killed him 2nd attempt. Thanks for the advice. :D

Comment by 24656

Is it possible to use limited Invulnerability Potions to break the Sacrifice?

Comment by 54785

Our guild has skipped him, until the nurf. Now he's free loot. Like the rest of kara.

Comment by 55109

Is it possible to use the dwarf racial, stoneform, to get out of the chains? Similar to the garrote off Moroes.

Or is it just bubble and iceblock?

Comment by 52770

Hehehe Only Nether Protection !! i was all the times immune to the imps firebolts:)) that was reaaaally fun :))

Comment by 40986

Our group usually has 2 locks, consisting of myself and another one. Raid just DPS's Illhoof, while either myself or another lock casts constant seeds on illhoof, so they explode almost instantly. Only time we switch this up, is when illhoof sacrifices someone, at that time, the whole raid dps' the chains.

Comment by supernovah

The best strategy to this fight is two rogues, two locks, druid tank and warrior tank then 2 mages and some Pro Healing.
Two warlocks should endless Seed of Corruption the summon imps. the druid can DPS Gear bear form tank kilrek when he spawns to save the casters, and the rogues can super quickly own the shackles as these heal Ilhoof.
Strategy is to tank Ilhoof at the end of about a 15 yard line where he stands. Casters should stand on a spot to attract the imps about 15 yards from the tank to the left of the summoning circle ifront of ilhoof and the DRUID tank should tank Kilrek when he spawns halfway between.

DPS Kilrek down to about 20-35% (depending on your guilds control over their dps) then wait for a sacrifice. As soon as sacrifice pops, kill it: you now have 40s to kill kil'rek and own Ilhoof with the extra damage buff. Repeat as necessary and save Kil'rek if you get a sacrifice just before you are planning to kill Ilhoof. No timing involved, just quick switching of targets.
It is reccomended to make a macro to target Kil'rek for DPS and "Demon Chains" which port a player to them every 40s (an obvious cast by ilhoof causes this sacrifice)
Also during the non full DPS time on Ilhoof, any meelee can be dpsing him down including the druid tank being careful not to agro

Comment by Jeearr

Is it possible to have a prot paladin do the adds? They have +90% aggro with that 1k dmg aoe and consecration.

Comment by 71536

basically 2 tanks warriors or druids. doesnt matter. (prefer druid for tanking kilrek so he can dps the chain as well). Warlocks either 1 or 2 doesnt matter. Put soc in the boss every second and have special healer on him. I prefer lock to do aoe since they have infinite mana. Aoe mage really cost their mana but overall depends on ur strategy. Since people will dps on the boss soc will explode very faster (no need fr gear). Heal everyone that trapped in chain. Pally can use divine shield and mage ice block to avoid demonic chain. DPS chain faster so illhoof not get healed. Overall dps is the main point in this fight.

Comment by 17989

If you have a BM hunter with you, my pet just managed to tank Kil'rek ezpz, without any points in the fire resistance training.

Just sayign, could help you.

Comment by ANTRagnarok

note for druids:
you can use Barkskin to reduce sacrifce damage from 1500 per sec to 1200

may keep you alive :p

Comment by Rajunkajun

Trying my hand at writing a single macro that will target the mobs in kill priority:

/target Demonic Chains
/stopmacro
/target Kil'Rek
/stopmacro
/target Terestian Illhoof

In theory, you should be able to click this macro and always be on the correct target. I haven't had a chance to test this yet, so any feedback would be appreciated.

Comment by Abron

Is there any possible way to reduce the healing on illhoof from the Sacrifice effect?

Comment by 47926

Forgive me if this seems obvious, but does anyone know if the Demon Chains are classified as a Demon and if Paladin's can use Exorcism on them?

Could be a real-quick macro for Paladin's:

/tar Demon Chains
/cast Exorcism
/startattack

Comment by 70510

i'm a warlock, and my guild is currently doing kara
at a time i will be doing the imps, since i'm the only dedicated warlock atm(the others are either craptastic or not level 70 yet)

i was wondering how much fire resistance i need and if seed of corruption damages demonic chains?

Comment by Erycius

Can someone give me some advice on how to quickly target the player that is being sacrificed? I'm main healer but sometimes I'm really too late on starting the healing on the sacrificed player.

Comment by 56159

Another minor strategy suggestion. We had an odd group last night (mage without special FR gear, no warlock), and one thing that seemed to help was having our two Hunters spam Snake Trap. The extra targets drew the attention of imps, etc. and the various poison effects were also helpful.

Comment by 86407

10 man boss.
took us 4 tries to kill him.

Grp 1. 2 hunters, tank, main healer and mage.
Grp 2. Shadow priest, Demon lock, Pally, Shaman and druid.

Lock casts seed on the boss non stop with pally conc aura. 365 FR and the imps hit you for about 50each. passive healing from shadow priest is enough to keep him up. AoE doesent effect the demon chains.

Grp 1 tanks boss to the left next to the green circle so lock seed tags all imps. If you tank him to the back wall imps will run to healers. tank him close to the green circle but not on it so that main healer can heal whoever gets put in chains. As soon as someone is in demon chains all bar lock, main tank and main healer attack the chains. Pally, ice mage can shield/ice block out of chains. High dps on boss is a must. after 10 mins boss 'enrages' and wipes raid. Lock seed should do at least 700+ damage on explode else it wont be enough aggro to get imps off healers. As long as locks FR is high enough you can have dozens of imps and they will hardly make a scratch. but I wouldnt go in with less than 250 FR

'enrage' = casts 6k+ shadow bolts on everyone constantly.

Comment by 89693

As of Patch 2.2 They changed the names of Demonic Chains to Demon Chains so for when people get sacrificed all dps should make a macro called /Target Demon Chain

Comment by Turbine

While the primary thought about this fight is the use of a warlock will make this fight cake, but I will be the first to say a mage with 5 points into magic absorption with 260+ fire resist gear is amazing. If you don't have any warlocks but you do have a mage willing to drop into arcane a smidge, go with this route.

Stock up on heavy fire resist gear and enjoy nearly infinite mana regeneration. The fight becomes trivial at this point. This entire fight is focused around two things: Adds, and the demon chains. Make a macro:
/target Demon Chain
And now that you have targeting the chain down, the mage will deal with the adds by running in, waiting for 6 imps to engage, and lighting up. You never want to kill them TOO fast, or else you effectively kill your mana batteries. If things ever become too sticky for the mage, he can run OUT of the room and Line-of-Sight the little imps while he uses an evocate.

Minimum Requirements:

1 mage
260 fire resistance
5/5 Magic Absorption

Recommended:

1 mage
300+ fire resistance
5/5 Magic Absorption
3/3 Improved Flamestrike
Blast wave

This does not mean our frostie brethren are in a worse position to execute this than fire mages! Any mage will do, but the point is to remember even if you do not have a warlock, mages WILL make this fight just as easy! AoE is their bread and butter and they're very good at it!

Comment by 79144

Even as Demo warlock its easy to AoE the adds. Just pop out a fel hunter for +70 resists, and soul link. I took very little damage even with only 70 fire res, but dont let the imps build up, my seed of corruption was getting delayed alot by the knockbacks, almost to the point where i -couldnt- cast it.

Downed him in 3 minutes 30 seconds. My fel hunter was still alive at this point even though it had received no heals.

Comment by 94351

We had many problems for slow dps (and slow dps on demon chains) and Terestian healing himself and killing us with sacrifice.
But then we succeded with:
Group 1: a warrior protection tank, shadow priest, affliction warlock and 2 holy paladins.
Group 2: holy priest, warrior in protection gear, 3 random dps.

All the raid members must be near Terestian, and near the circle of sacrifice in the floor. The main tank gets Terestian, the second Kil'Rek and both tanks keep those demon on the warlock's AoE (Seed of Corruption) so imps from portals, Terestian and Kil'Rek get damage.
Terestian doesn't make AoE attack, so keep the paladin healers on him in melee combat (when the main tank has gained a bit of aggro) making judgement of wisdom and refreshing him with seal of crusader. Every time paladins can, they MUST cast consacration and holy wrath.
When a party member is sacrificed, all the healers start to heal the sacrified player and all dps (and the warlock) shot at the chains. Even paladin healers can make an occasionally divine favor -> holy shok on the demon chains.
Keep in mind that AoE attacks (Consacration, seed of Corruption) DON'T HIT the demon chains.
Dwarven Stoneform, Paladin Blessing of Protection DON'T WORK on the sacrified player.
Use Divine Shield if you are a paladin, but keep in mind that he has 5 minute cooldown, so be ready to heal other pally with bubble in cd.
With concentration aura, paladin AoE the work of the warlock is easier (paladin's AoE distract imps for 1 second, making easy for the lock to cast Seed of Corruption). With shadow priest, judgement of wisdom everyone has mana to fight.
For the healers: keep everyone alive, but keep an eye on the warlock, and don't forget to heal the main tank, so when demon chains pop in game you can cast your healing spells on the sacrifed raid member.

Comment by 94302

this fight is about two things mostly ..

1. AoEing the summoned imps ..

2. Nuking the chains ..

AoEing the imps is relatively simple if you have a warlock .. much more easier .. but a mage can easily do it with no prob's at all .. ^^

the other part that stands as an issue to most guilds doing this boss for the 1st time (inexperianced) .. is nuking the demon chains ..

it is very important .. that the chains are nuked in 3 - 4 secs .. they must be downed very fast .. taking a long time on a chain will ensure that your healers OOM faster and the sacrificed unit is .. well .. sacrificed XD ..

dps on the boss shouldn't be an issue .. when he lil' buddy dies .. you gain 15% more dmg on illhoof .. so .. gg ..

the other detail i want to talk about is ..

macro's are a +++++ in this fight !

having two macros ..

1. /target Demon Chain >> spam this macro throughout the whole fight .. while casting .. hitting .. w/e .. you'll target the chains automatically once they're up and NUKE asap ..

2. /yell ZOMG .. I'm Being Sacrificed .. HEAL ME .. >>> this is when you're being sacrificed .. it helps healers + DPS units notice that you're being sacrificed .. it helps .. ^^

if i ever played a healer char. .. i'd enlist several macro's that help .. but unfortunatly .. i'm still addicted to my mage and NEVER played a char. except him since i started playing wow .. lewl ..

Have fun downing this boss .. ^^

Comment by Devin

Well, I was the only warlock in every Karazhan run I got involved. I am a (fire) destruction warlock with Demonic Sacrifice talent. I sacrifice felhunter before the fight begins, to get the mana regen buff, and don't use mana potions or Life Tap even for once. Just spamming Seed of Corruption on Terestian. Rest of our guild focuses on killing demon chains immediately and then imp boss and then, finally, Terestian. One of our healers, usually a paladin one, is assigned to the one in the chains and not caring about the other members most of the time so he never gets oom.

I don't have neither a decent amount of fire resistance (only Blood Elves' racial, which is 5 points to be exact) nor Nether Protection talent to become immune to fire damage by a chance. So I guess your warlock also wouldn't need.

Have fun!

Comment by 42766

This is a simple fight for Rogues...

Use wound poison to lessen his healing during demon chains

Have your tank, tank illhoof so that the tanks back is too the door (on top of the circle, near a side). This allows you to attack demon chains from behind (e.g. backstab), decreasing the duration its up. Using the macros metioned in other posts simplifies targeting.

Elixir of Demonslaying (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=9224) is great for this fight too.

And oh yeah, you'll probably take little to no damage the whole fight. Does it get any better than that.

Comment by 43910

A paladin tank and a single moderately-geared (blue with a few epics will do fine) warlock are all you need for the little imps. Pally judges and seals wisdom on Illhoof and keeps swinging at him all the time, while simply spamming consecrate on a position where it picks up all the imps. When there are like 8-12 imps up, have your warlock SoC them to death. He should never pull aggro off the imps if the pally tank has RF on and spams consecrate enough.

Comment by 88528

If you're having problems with clicking on the demon chain, or just want to do it easier, make this macro:

/target Demon Chains

Comment by GenericNPC

Out of 43 posts I didn't see this mentioned.

So in case you mages didn't know, you can Ice Block out of Demon Chains. :]

Comment by 125719

This fight is very dependent on AoEing the Imps. Warlocks/Mages are the best for this job, but having a DPS warrior doesnt hurt at all, for Whirlwinding will do alot of damage on these little beasts.

We had an OKAYLY geared warlock for our AoE and we got him to 26% when we wiped, but thats only because our warlock only had like 2 epics. So, if you have a good warlock/ and or mage, your good to go, seed of corruption FTW.

Comment by 88101

Sacrifice spell

Comment by 118751

For the record: Adds are immune to Fear.

Comment by 147435

One very important aspect to keep in mind:- Seed of corruption explodes immediately if cast on illhoof himself

This will boost up the DPS done to illhoof, his companion orange imp and other imps. it will also save healers from getting agro

Comment by 145840

Done this multiple times as a fairly well geared Prot Paladin. We only had two hunters and a holy paladin do aoe them. Hence I tanked up to 30 imps, easy due to healers focusing on me and everybody stacking on me, hence no imp outside concecration. We had to AoE only a few times, ignoring kill'rek entirely.

Note: With (about) 600+ spell dmg and a fair amount of HP / Avoidance, concecration DOES work to tank and kill the imps.

Comment by 124740

Last night my guild downed him and i disconnected 3 times all after a warlock use seed of corruption,so i'm assuming that can cause you to get disconnected if one or more SoCs do the damge after the DoT part is done =) anyone else have this problem

Comment by 171977

our group took him whitout lock easy as pie ;)

Comment by 160129

Just since it hasn't been said yet, Kil'rek is not immune to stuns. It's a bit useful to know when for some reason you don't have an OT for the fight.

Comment by 58191

As a Hunter, I like to use Multi-shot to help out with the small imps, especially because my guild doesn't always have AOE spam available in the form of two warlocks spamming SoC. However, using MS so much during the fight means that I take a hard hit to my mana, which is already not that deep of a pool to begin with.

What I found that works really well on this fight (and not just for a Hunter, but any mana using class) was a trinket combination of Power Infused Mushroom and Darkmoon Card: Madness. The Mushroom gives me an extra 200 mana every...10 seconds I believe, plus every little imp I land a killing blow on gives me a buff from the card, and considering I can land a lot of KBs on the imps thanks to MS I can keep:

+35 Agility
+35 Intellect
+70 Attack Power
+35 Stamina

Up the entire fight. Of course, not everyone will have access to the Darkmoon card, but the Mushroom trinket you can get from a quest in Zangarmarsh. That Mushroom is quite useful as a grinding trinket, but on this fight it's great for the mana return...allows me to keep up Aspect of the Hawk longer and not have to use Aspect of the Viper as much.

Comment by 111391

More like Terestian "Illegitimate Child" Hoof

Comment by 165735

The new dispersion talent for shadow priests can be used when you are sacrificed to reduce the damage you are taking until the chains are killed.

Comment by SeanDamnit

Solo'd as a 80 prot pally in heroic/naxx10 gear.

The imps were too much of a problem - the fire bolts are small in damage and mostly mitigated by just using Fire Resist aura, but they add up fast and conc doesn't take them down quick enough. Illhoof also casts Shadow Bolt often, which does a good chunk of damage.

I originally though I'd need shadow resist or fire resist gear to do this, but I found out you can kite Illhoof out of aggro range for his newly spawned imps, thus taking them out of the picture.

First, clear all mobs between you and Curator's room
Pull Illhoof and RUN up towards Shade's room (clear this beforehand as well)
Bubble then jump down to the ledge/stairs just past Curator's room and wait for Illhoof to come to you.
From there you can take him down easily using shadow resist aura. He will bring the first wave of imps with him, but they can be taken care of easily. Make sure to always have Holy Shield and Sacred Shield up - you shouldn't need to heal more than what JoL is providing.

There were some interesting side effects doing this, however. For one, by the time he reached me, he had spawned 3 Kil'reks. And yes, that damage debuff Illhoof gets when you kill Kil'rek does stack if you kill more than one, but you really don't have a lot of time to take advantage of it. Also, after I killed him, the Imps never stopped spawning, and would aggro me from about where the Spell Shade mobs start all the way up to the Chess room. They will only stop spawning with a soft reset. To get around this, I had to clear all trash between Illhoof and Chess, and they'll stop aggroing once you get into the Chess room.

All in all, pointless to do this for any other reason other than saying you did it. And, well, I did it.

Comment by Trocal

This is just another "i just soloed this"-post, i know.
HOWEVER
I will give some tips for death knights who want to try soloing this boss.
Look up my armory if you want: Search for Fráil on Dragonblight. Armory link seems to mess up at my á
I have 30,1k hp with my tanking gear and as blood specced. The buffed improved death strike is great and really keeps you alive

Basically, all you have to do is keep all mobs in front of you, focus on Illhoof, keep diseases up on him, use Pestilence to spread and spam Blood Boil. Migate damage as good as you can. Ignore his big pet imp.

The recently buffed talent Improved Death Strike is great and really keeps you alive (heals me for 4,2k)
Spell Deflection is also pretty good here.
Bloodworms will take some damage for you (they will only survive a single hit)
Icebound Fortitude is a must along with Anti-magic Shell some times.
Rune tap is also really good.
You have an awesome heal in your death pact. Couple it with vampiric blood when you feel for it. Just remember summoning your ghoul and saving 40 runic power for it.

There may be more to come. This is just what i could think of.
I didn't notice sacrifice (maybe because of bloodworms getting caught instead. Confirm please)

Comment by Keiser

This fight is very simple for a Retribution Paladin, easier than I expected. Seal of Command's new cleave plus a constant flow of imps guaranteeing a 4 target Divine Storm means everything dies and you pop to 100% health every 10 seconds. Here's a flow chart to demonstrate how easy this fight is.

Kill Kil'rek----->Kill Illhoof

Comment by 613319

Can also be done with a Feral Druid (Bear) solo easily.

Minimal effort needed. With ICC25/Badge gear, I did not have to use any Cool downs except berserk(I was getting bored). Keep Kil'rek down, using standard bear rotation. When Kil'rek is down, keep standard rotation on Illhoof. Don't worry about the adds, your swipe as the filler will take them down eventually even though they do little to no damage.

I am not bragging, just letting it be known that Bears have no problems with this boss going solo.

Comment by 423742

soloable by an icc25 geared shadow priest. just dps'd down kil'rek and got right on illhoof and then rinse repeat. didnt have a chance to get the chains off.

Comment by Nobbel

500gold, rare mount, fun fights, done in about 1 or 2 hours depending on how long the chess event takes. 2 guides explaining how to solo Karazhan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTAZe7TAv2M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4q6BRvdFlE

Comment by Dalylah

As of 7.0.3:
For anyone who may have trouble finding the "suspicious bookshelf" it is currently called Disconcerting Bookshelf and is located in the room with the Homunculus (Homunculi? Whatever you call multiples of the white imps). Go in the room and look to the left.

Comment by Karian

Terestian did something odd the last time we cleared Kara. He respawned. Can anyone else confirm this happening?

Comment by childofnewlight

Reading through all of this I haven't found solid instructions as to where this secret door is. After having watched a good chunk of a Kara solo youtube video I found the door. I've posted some screenshots (pending approval).

The Guardian's Library is actually very massive and is more than the main room with the huge patrols. It includes much of the stairways.

To get to the secret entrance...

After defeating Curator head past him into the library.
Jump down or take the ramp into the library.
Head across to the ramp on the opposite side of the library.
Head up the stairs/ramps. You will clear ~two rooms of adds.
In the second room, rather than taking a right and heading to another level/hallway go to your left.
Click in the middle of the huge bookshelf.
Follow passageway down.

EDIT: You will know you are in the room that contains the bookshelf-door when you see orcs and imps. This is the only area of Karazhan that contains this combination.

Comment by 38876

Marksmanship (7/31/3) Hunter.
Ballinhunts, of Kargath-US.
409 iLvl

Using a turtle as the "Go-To" tenacity pet, I find it easy to solo (duo really) all of the old content as an appropriately-spec'ed Marksmanship Hunter.

I advise the use of Glyph of Mending and Glyph of Misdirection as two critical Major Glyphs, the other choices are yours to make.

As has been previously mentioned, Terestian Illhoof is a pushover.

Misdirect your (tenacity) pet, and DPS him. You can ignore his cohort Kil'rek, unless you feel you need the added damage debuff on Terestian Illhoof, until the end. If you're fast enough, you can avoid the sacrifice! If you get sacrificed, just target the Demon Chains and have your pet kill them and proceed to win!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me in-game!

Comment by IhaveNoLife

If you kill this boss after pulling him too far out of his room, the portals he summons will not despawn. This will result in an endless stream of imps with a ludicrous aggro radius. The imps are trivial to kill, however if you happen to pass back through the area after killing Malchezaar, be prepared for a large amount of lag due to the sheer number of imps.

Comment by 1195644

Those imps, one of the worst mechanics ever. Give us a reasonable method to close the imp portal. The aggro is insane!

Comment by GhostQ

As of Patch 7.1.0 the "secret" entrance of Karazhan now serves as the entrance of Return to Karazhan, so I thought new directions might be in order to farm Fiendish Imp.

Enter Karazhan, go up the big stairs a few meters ahead, turn left and kill Moroes. Go back to the stairs and keep going for a few seconds, turn left, go up the stairs, go straight ahead till you see the Opera, jump down and go left when you reach the end of the backstage turn right and you'll see Barnes. Talk to him and start the Opera event, kill it and keep following the path, at the end turn left. And, ta-da you're back at the old "secret" entrance, or the location you enter Return to Karazhan.

After that climb up the stairs to the left and keep going up the stairs, then go straight and you'll see Curator to your left. Kill it and proceed through the library. After this point, it's pretty much one way, not many avenues to get lost it. You'll reach an area with ghostly wraiths, turn right as the path takes you and there will be a room with white imps called homunculi.

There's an interactable object called Disconcerting Bookshelf in this room, click it and a secret chamber will open, the boss is in there. The pet's drop chance is approximately 9%, and it has three breeds: P/P, P/B and S/S. Since most people go after the S/S breed because of the swapping ability, you'll have a 3% chance of per kill of getting it.

Best of luck to us all!

Comment by Tiefflieger

Entrance is at 37/22 of the map "Guardian's Library". The boss Shade of Aran is located on this map, too.

edit: Map link is currently (July 2020) broken. In the upper left corner the correct label "Karazhan: Guardian's Library" is shown, but the map image is incorrect. Correct Map image with wrong label "Karazhan: The Menagerie": http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=3457.9:370225

Comment by bongokhrusha

On the Guardian's Library map, the top left room has a bookshelf to click.

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