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评论来自 6934

This is the third and final boss encounter of Auchindoun: Mana Tombs. He's a lot harder than the previous two, so don't slack off. He starts off with two Ethereal orb non elite mobs and will spawn more at certain intervals throughout the fight --- kill them asap. Near the end of the fight/when he dies he will spawn Ethereal Apprentices, these need to be killed right away as well -- they're caster-like in nature. This is a very fun fight, but it can get hectic if you're not careful.

评论来自 MirkoSC

Last boss in Auchindoan Mana-Tombs. The fight is him and 3 etheral essences, which are humanoids, but immune to any form of crown control. It's recommended to have at least a level 64 tank, to use spell reflect as he is all magic damage.

We had 2 hunters pet tank 2 of the essences and kill them all one at a time. After they die, they turn into another form, who pump out high damage but are very squishy. Wipe the 3 of these, and then focus on the boss. He'll spawn more as the fight goes on, burn them down as they pop up. Make sure DPS self heals, and all healing stays on tank. It's a fun fight, and the first challenging instance in the outlands.

评论来自 ModX

Took him with 2 Warlocks, Warrior, Rogue, and Druid.

He starts out with 3 adds. You need to kill the adds ASAP as they spawn casters if you don't. When you kill the Adds you DPS down the Prince. He will periodically spawn adds (~15 seconds), and casts a full repertoire of spells. Tank was using Spell Reflect every time it was ready. Rogues are able to Cloak of Shadows out of his frost nova.

Got the mail helm from him :(.

评论来自 14566

Nice detailed strategy from the WowWiki:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Nexus-Prince_Shaffar

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJRgqAmKLhY

评论来自 15958

ModX said it well. This fight is all about killing the beacons as fast as possible so they do not spawn caster adds. If you can consistently kill the beacons within 5-10 seconds after they spawn, no casters spawn and this is an easy fight. Make sure to kill the first three at the same time rather than sequentially.

评论来自 16911

This fight is incredibly easy if you have a hunter. The prince usually has 2-3 beacons with him before you begin the fight. Have the hunter target and attack a beacon while everyone else waits back at the entrance to Shaffars room. Once the beacons and shaffar aggro the hunter, have them FD. A successful FD will instantly despawn the beacons. At this point you can engage Shaffar alone.
He will continue to summon beacons randomly through the fight, but they are fairly easy to kill.

评论来自 6780

Abilities:
1.) Mage spells: He casts frostbolt, fireball, and and blink
2.) Summon Ethereal Beacon: He starts with 3, and will spawn another every 10 seconds. They will cast arcane missile. They have few hit points, but if left up long enough they will spawn an elite.

评论来自 Hack

Just killed this boss now thanks to some of the advice above. Noticed he tends to Frost nova and then blink (as you would expect) but you do appear to be able to influence where he blinks.. eventually I had him him blinking from one part to another back and forth, both within striking range.

评论来自 Leandro

His casting time on fireball & frostbolt is 1 second so it's pretty hard as a tank to get Spell Reflect off. I wait until he uses his frost nova since he seems to always cast at that time whether or not the nova actually snags your feet. Confirmed last night that the reflected spells do no damage to him (or if it does it isn't shown) but they do save the tank from ~1500 damage.

评论来自 10076

We're working on him on heroic right now, and he's a total nightmare. The adds have significantly more health, and transform into their caster form much faster. As a hunter, I opened aimed shot, auto shot, multishot, then steadyshot spam with pet helping (the fastest dps i can do), and the beacon still transformed at 40% (and full healed).

It seems the only way to kill him is to fear what you can, and focus on him while eating the damage they do. We then wiped on adds, ran back, and finished them off.

评论来自 danox

We have killed him on heroic few days ago... i must say was realy instane fight... as im healer was a big challange. Never fought that hard encounter as this one is.
The only one working strategy we have foung is completly ignore adds and nuke him down as soon as possible.
i think with Frost and fire protection potions on party will be much easyier but still you need to down him in 2 min so good luck
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/9867/wowscrnshot021907230626dq2.jpg

评论来自 26697

totally sick on heroic.
adds have way to much hp, and transform way to fast...
i'd say, needs some balancing..

评论来自 27500

On heroic burned him down in about a min and wiped to the adds

评论来自 27846

Very tough on Heroic. If our mage wasn't Frost we think we might have had it. FroMage/Spriest/MS War/Holy Priest/Resto Sham.

Got him to 10% like 3 times but the healing just got insane. Do it before the POM nerf ;x

评论来自 24522

Heroic:

Spriest, Lock, Mage, Warrior and Holy Paladin.

Warrior tanks boss, tries to atleast, priest/lock/mage went all out. Fearing the adds as they spawned. Got him on first try even thou the warlock managed to die at 40%. Don't know how blizz want's the fight to be but just kill him before the adds kill you and you'll do fine ^

评论来自 17357

Just finished him up on heroic, and I agree, you really cannot kill the adds in good time. It's best to just burn him down.

评论来自 32613

Prot pally, mage, lock, spriest, and resto shaman
All were standing really close to the tank, and went immediately all-out on the boss, when there were too many adds, the mage and lock just AoEd them, and continued to dps him down afterwards.
We had frost resistance totem and fire resistance aura up of course :P
Done it this way with relative ease, still hard, and can't be done with all setup, but maybe it helps a bit.

Oh, on heroic of course :)

评论来自 32673

What a beast on Heroic. Our group was: prot warrior, marks hunter, fire mage, shadow priest, enh shaman. Priest healed most of the instance but we found the shaman worked better on this fight, because the novas limited his dps on the boss. Tank wore a fair amount of FR gear and after half a dozen tries we got the "just dps him down and ignore the adds" method to work. Overall a very tough boss, one of the toughest heroic bosses I've done yet.

Note: adds don't despawn, you'll have to run back and clear them, but they are pretty easy without the boss.

评论来自 41072

I'll agree that this boss is very difficult on Heroic.

We found ourselves too light on DPS to fully burn him down, as our group was a Prot warrior tanking, Holy/prot pally, Holy/disc priest, Arcane mage and Destruction warlock. What finally worked for us was to have both pally and priest heal while the 'lock used Seed of Corruption on the boss and DoTs on the boss and adds as well as hopefully killing some beacons before they turned into elites. The used AE now and then to help with adds, but focused on the boss. We tried to all hug the boss to keep everything tight so the seeds and AEs could kill off as many adds as possible but as the fight went on things got spread out and almost went to hell, but we got him down despite losing the priest at the end of the fight.

I doubt that this is so much a good strat for him as it is a way to compensate for a lack of 3 DPSers who could burn him down fast enough. Both burn-down and add killing strats had failed for us so this provided some of the benefits of both.

As a side note, we didn't get killed by the adds after he was down, since their numbers were under control thanks to the warlock's efforts.

评论来自 Darkwell

Post 2.1, 05/22/2007

We just did Shaffar on heroic, got a drop not in the Wowhead loot tables. Can't link it, cuz its unknown :S

But, the stats are as follows:

(epic)
Shield
4668 Armour
115 Block
+30 Stamina
+22 Fire res
+22 Shadow res

评论来自 47790

Just killed him on Heroic post 2.1 patch (Lightninghoof) and got the same shield =) finally, a level 70 Skullflame model!

Stats:
http://ravens-fury.com/files/upload_img/1179912822.jpg

Looks:
http://ravens-fury.com/files/upload_img/1179913211.jpg

评论来自 34876

On Heroic it's possible to make this an endurance fight with the right setup. We had 2 druids, 1 rogue, 1 holypriest, 1 warlock and everyone just killed the adds until he went oom at which point he was at ~50% hp (by tankdmg and soc) then just burned him. This method worked best for us and seems to be by far the most "secure".
By the way: every add gives 4 rep with consortium :).

评论来自 h4rr0d

just managed to kill this bugger on heroic, group composition was prot pally (me), enh shammy, rogue, frost mage and priest, after several wipes we tried the 'all near tank nuke boss with all you got' strategy and it worked, we died along with boss, but he was down
btw, adds do not despawn, so you will have to kill them after rezzing

评论来自 gerbano

Just killed him on Heroic mode. The party was composed by a prot Warrior, a Warlock, a Priest, a Mage, and an Elemental Shaman.

The beacons spawns the adds much faster than on regular mode, so we just ignored them until they turned into adds to dps them and not waste mana half-killing the beacons and still getting the adds with full health.

Tank, priest and warlock were on the boss during the whole time while the shaman (me) and the mage took care of the adds as they spawned from the beacons.

Around 20% everybody zerged the boss. We took him down without any deaths. =)

Also, having a decent fire resistance (from totems or pally aura) makes the fight a lot easier. Frost damage hurts, but it's way easier to sustain than the fire stuff.

评论来自 69476

So I did heroic Manatombs today. 1st of all it is a much harder than Ramps, BF, SV, Mech and a bit harder than UB/SP. The 1st boss caused a few problems due to some disorganization at the start and the fact we were rolling over the trash initially. I recomend a bit of SR in your weekest slots for him. Second boss is ridiculously easy for a heroic, however don't have any melee dps in front due to arching strikes (cleave) it one shotted our rogue for around 13500dmg we still had no issue taking him out.

So know what you really want to know how hard is Nexus-Prince Shaffar he is hard the only method we found that worked was the fear and burn method.

Druid, Demo lock, Shadow priest, Resto shammie, Rogue
I the druid pulled him into a cubby hole behind him to his right for LOS reasons. we then started the burn popping heroism at 95% the lock feared 1st with priest in between etc. It is really the only way to do it we all survived the death of the Prince but the adds got us at the end we had perhaps 12 left.

Biggest thing if u are looking to down him go with 2 fears really really good dps and preferably an off healer as well Spriests work best as they fear/DPS/ and shadow heal.

We tried the kill the adds as they spawn dps the boss between method. I was taking to much magic dmg from the boss as well as the dps to much dmg from the adds for us to make it work.

You also can't pull him to the escort start room and expect the NPC's to help much. they will help but its L64's beating on a 72 not much happens they don't due much to the adds either. And in the process of getting there about 4 beacons change.

It takes the beacons approx 5 seconds to change and they have about 9k hp.

评论来自 67395

I have found the easiest way to go about fighting this boss is to all group around the tank.

Strat for normal:
Down the first set of beacons while tank gains agro on nexus-prince, then all concentrate dps on him after beacons are down, have 1-2 burst dps watch out for other beacons which will spawn and burn them down, now the reason why you have everyone group up by the tank is so a mage or warlock can easily aoe down adds if they spawn from beacons. I have had this strategy work every time.

Strat for heroic.
Down the first set of beacons while the tank gains agro on nexus-prince, then all aconcentrate dps on nexus-prince after the first set of beacons are down, after that ignore all beacons and as they spawn into adds use AOE fear from a warrior or a priest to fear the adds while you dps down nexus-prince. After nexus-prince is down you will generally have 8-12 adds up this is generally tricky to down them all with out experiance doing it this way, continue fearing them and just down them one at a time. Even if you wipe on the adds they will despawn and you can still loot prince!

IMO this is the easiest strat for downing this boss.

评论来自 57103

we did him today with

1 feral Druid
1 Frost mage
1 affliction lock
1 Holy paladin
1 Beastmaster Hunter (me)

we let the lock tank the prince what i kinda easy coz hes doing only magic dmg and no melee ;D
me the druid and mage nuked the first 3 adds
then the mage switched to the prince to DPS it me and the druid were killing adds
around 20% we stoped killing adds and we all nuked the boss
He went down prety easy but we were all kara/craft able epic geard

评论来自 43910

We did this on heroic, pretty tough fought.
Imo, the best is to have a warrior tank the boss and all the adds and nuke down the boss.
We had a warrior, druid, mage, paladin and warlock to do this.

Healing was tough, but with an innervate from the druid and a mana potion, we just killed him as I ran oom.

评论来自 76912

This is a really hard boss also on normal :S

In oure group we had 68 prot warrior, 33/22 disc/holy priest with +500 healing (lvl 64). 70 rogue (41 sub dunno where he putted the rest of his talents). and a 67 bm hunter and a 65 warlock.

We killed the 3 first add's but we simply couldnt do it :s oure best attemt was on 40 % hp where I (The priest) had to use SS also..

I dont think it helped a lot that oure tank used reck and then went into defensive stance..

anyways I think this is 1 of the hardest bosses also on herioc's :s

评论来自 10238

did this yesterday (heroic run). first time we tried the "nuke him down as fast as possible" no good, next time we went for his adds. it was so omg uber easy. really no pain at all. resist totems + grounding + ofmg wf that kills his beacon if both wf hits crit. we did this easy as pie.

i advise nuke his adds. when he goes down to 20 nuike him. forget adds. we had to deal with 4 adds when he was dead. not a big deal.

评论来自 skullzbh

defeated him normal mode and he was quite easy.

Team:(70prot-warrior, 66fury-warrior, 70resto-druid, 65fire-mage, and 70demo-lock)

went strait to nexus and totally ignored the beacons, as soon as they started transforming, first tank feared them, then 2nd warrior feared the, and then lock feared them, by that time we already slayed the boss and took care of those adds.

quiet an easy fight it was... didnt try heroic yet, we'll see how it turns xD

评论来自 MetallifukencA

Heroic
Warrior and Druid (me)

评论来自 114913

We tried him 3 times and this is what happend each try

"It has been...entertaining"

评论来自 93865

A novel strategy for this boss is to have a prot paladin tank the adds and have a warlock of any spec tank Shaffar by spamming Searing Pain. The paladin can hold solid aggro on the adds and indeed nearly solo them with Consecrate, while the warlock's low armor is irrelevant since Shaffar's damage is entirely magical. My group tried this strategy and met with success.

评论来自 93865

Shaffar pulls his entire room when aggroed, similar to Void Reaver in TK or Mograine in SM Cathedral.

评论来自 Shockna

This fight is downright stupid on Heroic. It's doable, but only with massive coordination and sky high DPS that you're almost certain not to get from a PuG. I've tanked all Heroics in game currently, and i'd rank Shaffar as harder than Kargath and Aeonus on heroic put together.

The bottom line is:

While doable, if this is the daily heroic, don't bother. The repair bills will radically outweigh any gain you get from the 2 Badges and 24.60 gold.

评论来自 40551

It makes me a little sad to kill him; I could just sit there listening to him talk - what a voice!

评论来自 91451

This boss is not a DPS race. It's a slow fight, unlike the previous bosses before him.

If you do not destroy the beacons fast enough you will eventually be overwhelmed with adds.

评论来自 62422

Just took Shaffar for the first time on our first time through on heroic 5/18/08, one-shotting, zero deaths, using the "slow & steady" Curator-style tactics. Group composition:

Prot pally (16.9k HP buffed; mix T4/T5 badge gear, wearing standard tank gear)
Ele shaman (8400hp, ~880 dmg 24 crit buffed with WoA, ToW totems down)
Frost mage (7800hp, ~700 dmg 25 crit buffed with WoA ToW)
Dest lock with Felhunter (9200hp, ~925 dmg 24 crit buffed with WoA, ToW)
Holy priest (7200hp, ~1814 healing buffed with WoA & Blessing of Kings)

Prot pally was two-boxing the Ele shaman, rigged to CL/LBx3 assist the Dest lock. We did the encounter without heroism which, in restrospect, was pretty dumb, because we didn't need it on Yor, and that guaranteed that Shaffar was a really adrenaline-pumping encounter. As a prot pally, let me say that it was... not pleasant to tank him, y'know, without any real spell resistances built-in. Spell reflect would've been a real beauty to use on Shaffar. To keep aggro used JoL and then alternated Seal of Vengeance (hard to stack with him blinking) and Seal of Righteousness, depending, and then flinging Avenger's Shield whenever it was up. No harm in casting while working on him. If I'd been smart I probably would've thrown a few heals on myself, had more than enough mana coming in.

Real hair-raising fight, so don't be discouraged if it takes you a few tries. This particular group had superb communication/have played together for years, and it was still insane. Had to blow Lay on Hands and tons of Super Mana Potions. All you've gotta do is just survive killing the adds long enough to take his mana to zero; since we were pummeling him any time we had a break in the adds, his health and mana were going down at close to the same rate, although we were getting a little overwhelmed near the end. Lived on healer at ~5% mana, rest of us out, most under 70% health, tank sitting around 30% health, and we still had an apprentice up. Shammies, make sure you save your heroism... prot pallies, feel free to go nuts casting... a few heals on yourself couldn't hurt, since most of the beacon aggro will be flying around beating on your DPS anyway, and Shaffar is going to be casting most of the time. Our priest also used Shadow Fiend almost right off the bat, and made good use of Psychic Scream.

edit: For the first three beacons at the start, we had the shammy go Elemental Mastery-->CL, which nearly blew two of them apart, on top of the pally's simultaneous Avenger's Shield, then one additional shadow/frost bolt polished 'em off.

评论来自 158519

I want the legs that drop for my druid in heroic and i was looking for a easy way to do this boss. I came across this post on the EU WoW Forum. I haven't tried it yet but will ASAP. If any lock can confirm this please post it about it.

" I'm not sure if this is already posted or not but I couldn't find it so I thought let's post it since it's a nice trick.
It's a trick only warlocks can do at the Nexus-Prince Shaffar. As you all know in the beginning he has got Ethereal Beacons around him. Now it's our job to make them dissapear! How?
Summon your Eye of Kilrogg, go to the Ethereal Beacons and right click one of them. And *poof* they're gone. These 2 (sometimes 3) won't come back. But during the fight there will come other Beacons.
Hope it helps the ones who didn't know this! "

It Works....Did it last night with two Hunters, Lock,and Healadin. Theres alot of trash in this instance , but sure once you do it a few times and get the hang of it. You can skip alot of mobs.

steps for last boss.

1st - have a warlock in your group
2nd - have the warlock summon the Eye of Kilrogg
3rd - Take the eye next to the three orbs by the boss
4th - the prince should desummon his adds

Note: the prince will still summon more adds as his health gets to be lower but the good part is that you won't have to worry about his starting adds.

I haven't tried it yet but im sure you can do the same with a hunter to despawn the orbs then FD to get out of combat.

评论来自 Marzilla

I did it with a Prot War in blues/heroic drops, resto shaman in blues/heroic drops with 1000 +healing, shadow priest, and two warlocks (casters were in half blues/half tier 4 level stuff)

They were able to beast the boss down extremely quickly, even though one guy was attacking the adds for a while (and failing to kill them)

I guess Wrath of Air + Bloodlust + Shadow Priest Buffs + Warlocks = Massive Damage

评论来自 74126

a reference to Jaffar from aladin

评论来自 130232

A strange thing occurred in normal. We were a pickup group, all around 64-66ish, and wiped the first 2 times (barely). Then on the third try we were marking the adds, and they were there at first, but then they disappeared leaving just Shaffar. Needless to say we killed him very quickly, but has anyone else had this occur? It was a complete wipe, I was thinking at first someone got luckily and survived leaving just the Prince, but the adds were there at first, then gone.

评论来自 105782

The easiest way to kill him is just to kill the adds when they spawn, ignore the beacons because it's hard to kill them in time and if you don't kill them within a couple of seconds they spawn full HP adds and you wasted dmg. Get the adds and then nuke the boss for a couple of secs and the adds again. Easy tactic for heroic.

评论来自 189841

Took him down with mage 70 epic gear, paladin tank, disc priest and warladin (lol?) was not a challenge ;p (the adds only have 3.5k life they die really fast)

评论来自 122372

Warlocks, seed of corruption works great here if you can spare the mana. Since you'll have a few people focusing on the boss, it will go off rather quickly (or follow up with a shadowburn, searing pain, w/e).

As has been posted before, good dps will have no problem with the adds. And if the boss is getting low, better to try and CC the adds and tear the boss apart before worrying about the beacons. Just understand that this heroic boss is no joke :D

评论来自 mdurrant

Duo'd with two 70 rogues. Was rough and 1 of the rogues died but it worked.

评论来自 221888

The Eye of Kilrogg trick doesn't seem to work with this boss anymore, at least not on Normal. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

评论来自 48835

It's interesting to note that Shaffar is one of the three Nexus-Princes in the game, the other two being Haramad (the leader of the Consortium, who has so many enemies that we don't actuallly get to see him in person) and Nexus-Prince Razaan out in Blade's Edge Mountains.

Judging by what I can see of Ethereal behaviors, it's possible to say the Ethereals are essentially like the Goblins in that their every action is fueled by the pursuit of money, wether legitimately or otherwise (especially otherwise, lookin' at you, Venture Co. NPCs). It wouldn't be much of a stretch of the imagination to say that the Goblin Trade Princes (example, Mogul Razdunk, the leader of the Venture Co.) would be the Azerothian equivalent of the Nexus-Princes.

In short, I wouldn't mind seeing the Ethereals again if Undermine ever becomes accessable, or if possible, seeing a Goblin/Ethereal faction in the future.

评论来自 lapdragon

There's another "trick" for his adds if you have a hunter in the group - have the hunter shoot Shaffar with a normal shot, then once they all start moving, feign death. The adds despawn and Shaffar is there by his lonesome. Very handy for when you've got to do him on heroic :-)

评论来自 225551

Handy tip if you try solo this guy, clear the room.
Youll pull the entire room if you try to bypass 'm, same for Pandemonius.
Doesn't count for Tavarok, hes pullable alone.

评论来自 222832

Maybe a reference to Paul Shaffer?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shaffer

评论来自 152645

His "I have such fascinating things to show you."-quote is possibly a Hellraiser-reference.

评论来自 Lake8888

I managed to solo his Heroic version after 3 tries on my lv 80 prot pally.
For the 1st and 2nd tries, i tried to burn him down using max SBV and Lay on hands, but as with a few other TBC heroic bosses, Prot's DPS is just not enough. My best record using this method only got him down to 20k health, dying to all the frostbolt and fireball spam.

For my 3rd try, I simply put on my max stam gear, 2 pieces of Frost resist gear and Fire resistance aura. I ended up with 28k health, 130 Fire resist and 170 frost resist. The idea was to simply to survive and get him to OOM (which is one of the strats mentioned on this page)

I focused on killing all adds. Holy shield was dropped from my rotation to maintain sacred shield instead, since you're taking magic dmg only.

He got me down to ard 7k health when he OOMed, then its Ezmode time. He'll start to melee you, feeding your BoSanc. He still regen mana but he'll keep wasting it on more beacons(you should still continue killing the adds to prevent them from building up). You can slowly bring his health down from there on.

btw my health stayed between 7k~10k health for the whole of Ezmode phase due to seal of light so there was no need to use LoH. don't forget that you can bubble and bandage.

评论来自 Calum

As a Feral druid, I found it better to go all out dps on him and ignore the adds.

评论来自 Atlon

I just love this boss, his quotes and his wonderful voice.
I think that ethereals are one of the best creations that Blizzard had for Warcraft and Shaffar and Hamarad are the best of the best :)

评论来自 Flibble

Just solo'd in one try on Heroic as an Elemental Shaman (PVP welfare gear + 4 pc t9.5). Difficulty 1/10. Really.

Pop all cooldowns, including Earth Elemental. Burn boss. Chain Lightning and Magma Totem demolish his adds. You won't need a resist totem; Healing Stream is enough. Using Grounding Totem when it's up is not a bad plan, either.

评论来自 366773

The basic way to defeat this guy is this: assign each of the DPS an orb (marking with a skull, X, and moon is what my group did) and have the tank keep Shaffar busy during that time period, with the healer naturally healing the tank. The orbs only have about 3.5k HP, so any DPS worth their salt should be able to take them down quite quickly.

It is also important to take out the trash in the front of the room before you pull Shaffar, otherwise you're asking for a wipe.

Also be warned: when you actually engage Shaffar, he will become a Blink addict, making it frustrating for the tank to keep a hold of him. What makes this even more annoying is his Frost Nova. A warrior with the Warbringer talent is thus ideal for this encounter. Paladins and death knights are also useful, as they have reasonable ranged capability to hold his aggro while they are immobilized.

评论来自 513524

Just a little "easter egg"... the voice of Nexus-Prince Shaffar is also the voice of Prince Abdul Alhazred in the Windows version of King's Quest VI! Remember that game?

评论来自 Kaliopae

Just 3-manned him on Heroic.

It's important here to note the group. I was dps as a 70 feral druid in full Moonglade gear. We had a 70 warrior tank and a 70 resto druid healing. All three of us we wearing only gear we had collected from normal instances - no WotLK gear. So, we were in no way overgeared.

Having read the comments on here, we decided to try the attrition tactic. I used bear form Swipe at the beginning, then switched to cat once we were down to a single add. I spent most of the fight in cat form just dpsing the adds - they were spwning as fast as i could kill them. The tank was likewise on add duty, and so Shaffar was only taking minimal damage. Slowly but surely, his health went down. At the end I was using Maul (glyphed) to take down both the add and Shaffar. Took us 10 minutes, but we did it.

As a group our dps was lacking, but he can definitely be done the long way, as long as your healer has enough mana regen.

评论来自 70999

His adds give 21 rep each, and will spawn all the time, making him the best way to farm rep if you can tank him and just kill adds. Easy way gaining Exalted in some hours.

And before downrating, just try. Its not for every class, but if you can its awesome.

评论来自 Stjimmy

Amazed nobody commented on this yet.. I came on here for advice soloing him at 80, but no..Got a corpse run instaed :/

Don't aggro him without clearing the entire room. Because they'll aggro once you aggro Shaffer.

Edit: Thanks for the downrates on correct useful advice. -_-

评论来自 205739

same voice as malygos. same voice as liquid snake.

评论来自 Prebez

4 maned the dude. Wiped like 6 times. Never got a load of the adds. They seem to be the key to a successfull fight here.

4 stupid lvl 62 guys just being stuborn got him in the 7'th try. We had to corpse run back to get the adds and the loot though ;-)

Mitigation and healing was INSANE! ;-)

评论来自 406368

安全第一 and 扫除竞争者 are two new quests added in patch 4.3 to the 泰罗卡森林 area, and can be acquired from and returned to 工匠莫法鲁斯 inside of the 法力陵墓 dungeon instance, which is a representative for 星界财团. He is located in the northern-most instance portal, inside of the 法力陵墓 itself. It is highly suggested to pick up 错综复杂的样本 from “杂学家”玛姆迪 right next to 工匠莫法鲁斯 before clearing this dungeon.

In 安全第一, players must happily kill 10 Ethereal Crypt Raiders, 5 Ethereal Sorcerers, 5 Nexus Stalkers, and 5 Ethereal Spellbinders (links to each inside of the quest link) in 法力陵墓. All of these are mobs that are usually packed in mixed groups of 2-5 together, so if players are near the level for this zone, they should be careful of mixing pulls from other close groups as they may end up pulling 10-15 mobs in a single room at once. Some of the mobs are only located in the room just before 节点亲王沙法尔.

For 扫除竞争者 players must acquire 沙法尔的裹布 by killing anti-Consortium leader 节点亲王沙法尔 in 法力陵墓.

Players DO NOT need to be in Heroic mode in order to complete these quests.

With both guild perks 声望阁下, players will receive 275 reputation with 星界财团, and 1 guild rep (2 with 尊崇公会战袍) per quest.

NOTE: As of this time few of the tooltips, quests, or Quick Facts have been updated linking items/NPCs/quests together. These are single quests and as yet do not have any associated chains or quests thereafter. Will continue to scan for changes and update as needed.

评论来自 brionl

Mmm, Ethereal Bacon...
/drool

评论来自 Eillesthis

Under his portrait when you accept the quest or examine your Quest Log:

He is powerful, resourceful, and heavily guarded. Beware.

评论来自 907211

I was farming 星界财团 reputation, just standing afk and waiting for some 虚灵学徒 (25 rep with 声望阁下 in heroic) and after some time, maybe 1 hour, Prince was died. He yelled: I must bid you... farewell. So you can't farm your reputation from neutral to exalted in one day.

评论来自 pipilas

does anybody knows if there is any kind of gear to look like him or like any of this ethereals?for any class....thanx in advance

评论来自 Mystiey

Dialog-

As you come near:

Nexus-Prince Shaffar yells: What is this? You must forgive me, but I was not expecting company. As you can see, we are somewhat preoccupied right now. But no matter. As I am a gracious host, I will tend to you... personally.

During the fight:

Nexus-Prince Shaffar yells: An epic battle, how exciting!

Nexus-Prince Shaffar yells: I have such fascinating things to show you.

End:

Nexus-Prince Shaffar yells: I must bid you... farewell.

评论来自 Nerothia

No one ?.. Seriously ?.. How old am I ? Aladdin - prince Jafar guys ! Even the deep voice with the irony are the same !

Here have a look and get ecstatic with my comment ^^

评论来自 vindurza

That shaman hat is not a 12% drop

评论来自 Yotingo

If you're farming Consortium rep (and are a higher level), don't kill this guy. Just stand there and let him whale on you. Every so often he summons adds that give rep when they die, and as far as I can tell, he keeps summoning these forever so long as he's in combat.