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Comment by 4851

man does this guy kick hard!

Comment by Grados

This boss spawns after you activate the 6 statues on the floor above him in the correct order, along with a large snake statue used for a quest - https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/object=148838

He wanders around the pool at the bottom of the room, and as far as I've observed he's just a basic tank and spank fight - the only danger is that the various other trash mobs with him will also agro if you pull him at the wrong time.

Comment by 10732

He looks like the big trolls in ZG, but red/yellow.

Comment by bloodseek

He does have a nasty upper cut that sent a mage I was partying with flying. Other than that, he's a normal tank n' spank

Comment by Cross88

He used a move on my party that sent everyone way up into the air, high enough to cause damage upon landing. My health was low enough so that I died when I hit the ground.

Comment by Mtxdew

He is the object of the paladin quest for horde. (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/quest=10593)

Comment by 108241

The switches order are shown when you click on the altar on the bottom. The green lights show the order and it'll always be South, North, SouthWest, SouthEast, NorthWest, and NorthEast.
The altars can be activated by one person, or each party member (if you're in a group of 2 or more.. ) can stand by a switch and take turns activating them in order.
After activation, you can either jump down to the boss area or take the stairs (I tend to get lost, so I just jump down. You'll lose around 15% of your health)

It'll probably be best if you clear a bit around the bottom altar, and the three murk worms in the middle unless you want a number of adds when you fight the boss.
You absolutley should clear a bit if you have a lower level (like level 45) jump down from the switch because the monsters on the side will be aggroed. (and they'll run to the person who aggroed, dragging all the other monsters in it's path x_X)

Comment by atlas

53 assasination rogue/53 feral/resto druid duo.
finished the druid quest without having to run the instance at all. sneak in, assasinate, sneak out. dungeon crawling rules!

Comment by drame

in my eyes hes a troll that have taken a few to many https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=8410 ;-D

Comment by 165002

Ok, please tell me what is this guy yelling when he gets attacked? Because all I understand is: 'I feast on your balls!' :P

Comment by Killfido

Lol, I'm sure it's "I'll feast on your bones" XD

Comment by 225598

ok serously now how do u activate the statues. ive been running some friends though and i have no idea where to go. i can handle every guy there i just need to know where to go. anyone got any tips. im learning this maze slowely but i dont know where to go. help ..

Comment by 216897

he probably was on micheal vicks football team and took a little too much of the steroids.TROLL ON ROIDS!

Comment by Snickler

Statues activated in the order (cardinal directions)
S
N
SW
SE
NW
NE
Soloed as a 52 feral NE druid.

First time he threw me up, I didnt expect it, and died.

Second time, got him to 50% HP, shadowmelded and regained HP/MP since I was just about dead.

Third time, I knew the tricks (third times the charm) So I charged him every time I was thrown up, and when I got low HP, I popped out of bear, healed up, and went back in. Didn't use any pots, but I did use lifeblood(rank 3) which is the heal from herbalism, I only used it to be sure I won, but I think I would have killed him without it.

Edit:

Lol didnt even have my druid quest, my group disbanded after the last boss, but didn't do the statues, so I soloed all of it for the loot. Got my bracers, but now I have to go again for the druid quest.

Comment by exowizard

eaisly kill with 3 lvl 48s. we was getting reddy when he was coming up 2 us without the adds on the brige down. like i said easily killed with a 48 mage(i think is was) 48 pally and 48 warrior(me)

Comment by Rarehunter

A good thing to note about this boss is that he is stunnable, so a druid with Brutal Impact shouldn't have a hard time soloing him.

Comment by 293127

I solo as a level 62 BE retribution Paladin and Lay on Hands save my liv

Comment by 161327

When I tried to solo Sunken Temple with a level 52 retribution paladin and reached Atal'alarion, I was quite surprised to find out that this boss takes the full duration of Repentance. The whole 60 seconds. And since the cool down on Repentance is already 1 minute, there is no way you cannot solo him as a retribution Paladin. Just DPS him the way you want, cast Repentance, heal up and wait for some mana regeneration. By the time he wakes up, Repentance will be ready for use again. Stay clear of consecration as it will break Repentance.

To avoid getting knocked up in the air, fight him under one of the cavities in the wall surrounding the pool.

The only real problem is the 3 elites-pull at the boss in the middle of the hall. They are linked.

Comment by axellemaelstrom

Solo'd by a 47 semi-twinked rogue.

he is stunnable and can be slowed by crippling poison.

you need tons of bandages, gouge, run, rouge, run, kidneyshot once in a while for some burst dmg, try to always keep 5 points on him so that when gouge fails to land, you can kidneyshot right away, if kidneyshot misses too, evasion right away, you need to be fast because he can kill you in a few seconds.

http://www.imagedump.com/image.cgi?file=549939.jpg

In the picture I was sub-spec'd, I tried later a combat spec and found it much much easier because my base dodge/parry are both higher and my gouge almost always land.(19 expertise + capped hit)

ok i made a video of soloing him at 47, check it out if you are interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_O9nZmbNvc

Comment by xzbbzx

I just soloed him as a level 52 feral druid. Easy combat, just make sure you're not in the reach of other mobs, so it's just you and him.
When you get low on health, use nature's grasp, get out of bear, heal yourself, moonfire, bear and continue combat. I had to get out of bear twice. On the second time, I used Innvervate just in case I had to get out a third time.

Also, be careful not to be too close to the wall or he'll hit you up in the air, and you'll land on the floor just above, and probably aggro any mob there.

Comment by Thottbot

Where is this guy i wanna kill him can somone please post where to find him?

Comment by Thottbot

What is the order of the statues that you have to activate to get him to appear?

Comment by Thottbot

i *think* its

south
north
southwest
southeast
northwest
northeast

think being as loosely defined as possible....

hes a punter, and he punts high, so if your not kept above half health theres a good chance it'll kill you. he also changes targets on the punt, so healers beware. hits hard, stuns...

theres 3 snakes in the pit that you can, and should clear before he spawns. i didnt bother clearing the bottom circle of mobs, and they didnt come into play.

Comment by Thottbot

its the right order above.

Comment by Thottbot

I'm a 59warrior did him with 60mage no problem, but he does punt high :) alot of fun :)

Comment by Thottbot

Does this guy drop Putrid Vine for the A Better ingredient quest ?

Comment by Thottbot

yes he is supposed to yes

Comment by Thottbot

i tried to solo this guy (feral druid). i managed to clear everything in order to activate the snake statues.

in one run i was able to get him to 20%ish. then he got some lucky crits and owned me. i asked a friendly druid to come help. he healed me. he died. :)

ps - when he punts, feral charge in the air works wonders.

Comment by Thottbot

I had at him twice last night as a 59 feral (kitty biased) druid, once solo where I had him down to a sliver of health but then he back-to-backed me with a special attack and a crit. Was pretty sure I'd succeed a 2nd time but a friend joined me and he was no problem at all for the two of us.

I'm not even sure whether he tried to punt during either encounter (he did do some special attacks that might have been punting), but here's what I did as a precaution. For the solo fight I backed up into one of the grated archways down in the pool and pulled him with feral faerie fire. With my back to the grate and arch overhead, there was just no place for me to be punted to.

With the duo we pulled him back into the hall and fought with our backs to the wall there.

Incidentally, he's just straight physical damage so not really anything you can do with resistances/absorb potions to help.

Comment by Thottbot

60 feral/resto druid, decent gear. I tried soloing him and got punted almost onto a platform. That would have ended badly, I'm sure. But I died instead. :)

So, I invited my 53 druid friend to heal and and it worked out just fine. Backed into a grate and didn't get punted once. I just wailed on him and down he went.

Comment by Thottbot

me (lvl 54 fury warrior) and a friend of mine (lvl 53 feral druid) killed this guy together

i started off by using deathwish + recklesness against him and when deathwish ended i began using shield and tanked him the usual way while my friend just kept me alive

Comment by Thottbot

I just soloed him as a 60 restoration druid wearing mostly blue feral gear. The whole ordeal took me roughly 30 mins, with all of the statue popping and such included. The trick is to pull him under one of the little archways in the water so his knockback doesn't do anything to you. He hits pretty hard, but not really anything that hard if you're in bear (I had 9k armor). Never had to pop innervate or NS, since he's stunnable. Long fight, but doable.

Comment by Thottbot

just did a 3-man druid group on him. 2lvl 55 and one 48. one of each spec. no deaths. not hard at all :)

Comment by Thottbot

Soloed as a heavy resto (0/10/41) druid in feral blues and healing epics. Took maybe 5 minutes. Pulled him into an alcove to avoid the knockback. Between bashing to deshift and heal and frenzied regen I kept myself alive long enough to finally kill him. Didn't need to use NS or innervate.

Comment by Thottbot

ST

whoever designed it should be fired

Comment by Thottbot

did it as a lvl 68 mage with my lvl 50 druid friend

the boss does 650 dmg a hit on a lvl 68 mage with 60 pvp set and epics

my friend druid got killed in 10 hits from him ( bear form )

this mob cant be soloed at lvl 50 for sure

Comment by Thottbot

harlan is right :

Sequence is

South
North
South-West
South-East
North-West
North-East

Enjoy and good luck

Comment by Thottbot

how do u get up to the statues to click them

Comment by Thottbot

Just two-manned him and the statues with a 53 war and 52 priest.
A few of the pulls were pretty hard, but we made it and completed the quest.

Comment by Allakhazam

Did they change this recently? All the statues have 2 elites and most have grubs as well. The ones with the two elites can be solo'ed as a 60 druid by pulling one at a time, but the others with the grubs are linked and I can't do them.

Or is there some other trick to activating the statues?

=A=

Comment by Allakhazam

We did this with two feral Druids (60 and 56). Stealthed around and got the statues turned on in no time, then dropped down from one of the statue platforms in cat form with no damage or aggro taken and quickly re-stealthed.

Clearing the pool is not necessary, since Atal'alarion can be easily pulled without adds when he is approaching the stairs -- just be aware that there is a slime that occasionally comes down the stairs.

I pulled Atal'alarion and switching to Bear form (with just 5440 armor) backed to one of the gates as far as I could go while my friend healed. We tried him with Bear + Cat at first, but it didn't work out. Bear + healing worked like a charm, though.

There are a few pointers we discovered while on this adventure of ours:
- Atal'alarion's attacks affect everyone around him, not just the one he's targeting. This is pretty much why it didn't work out with my friend being in Cat form: Atal'alarion hits hard, forcing the druidling to heal not only herself but the tank as well while switching forms back and forth = mana gone.

- The healer should keep a good distance to Atal and the tanker, preferrably backing to one of the other grates in the room and peeking out when you need to be healed. It sounds weird, but works.

- Backing up in a grate saves you from being thrown up in the air, but it doesn't stop him from stunning you. After you've been stunned, he turns around and heads for your healer, so this is something you need to be prepared for in case it happens. You healer will probably have to switch to Bear before you can catch up with Atal'alarion and re-gain his attention -- this is why it was a good idea to have your healer near one of the other grates.

I hope this helps Druids interested in some solo/duo Sunken Temple adventuring. It's pretty fun to do it that way.

Comment by Allakhazam

Figured i'd finally do the damn quest, even though i didn't need the rewards.
This is how i did it as a 16/3/32 specced druid: (weird spec, i know. pretty personalized after my gear)

Went down first to kill the three mobs there, which was the hardest part of the whole "run".
All three hitting on me at once made it rather hard to time healing and cast it before entering bear form again, but I made it out of it easily and alive.
Then stealthed back up and activated all statues without any aggro at all, except for an annoyingly quick oozeling or two from behind when stealthing.

When all six were activated I simply jumped down into the water and threw a few spells on Atal'alarion before meeting him in bear form.
Pulled him quickly into one of the "bevels" (not sure that's the right word, but you'll hopefully understand ^_^) to avoid being thrown.

Took some time to kill him even with a few epics and the rest being superior, but of course I am geared to be a kitty so I do lack strength.
The whole fight was steady and went well, and I walked out of it happily finished with the quest, and with a polearm worth a few gold to vendors =)

Hope this'll help a few of you ;)

Comment by Allakhazam

He spawns as soon as you click the last snake statue.

What I did was first clear the top, then I set my group up at his spawn point, and I (the druid) clicked all of the statues, went cat (to avoid fall damage) and jumped down after the final statue was clicked.

Again, if you don't know, the order of statue clicking is:

South, North, SouthWest, SouthEast, NorthWest, NorthEast.

Comment by Allakhazam

I soloed him without a hitch as a 60 feral druid (14/32/5) with some PvP gear, mostly blues with a couple epics.

-The Below South, North, Southwest, Southeast, Northwest, Northeast order works witout any issues.

-Getting the statues done was fairly easy, the statues that had the slime and the elemental could be pulled spereatly and killed no problem, and all the rest could be done without killing a single mob. To do the remaining four just position your self carefully next to the statue out of agro range while taping it, and if possible use Soothe Animal on all beast mobs before doing so.

-At that point the Guardian spawned and I jumped down to the bottom, and healed/buffed, then pulled him under one of the arches in bear form as to avoid the toss. I waited until I was at half health, Bashed then Healed, and then built up my rage so I could use Frenzied Regen the second time around. I repeated this cycle about two times, and then at about 10 percent health he started beserking unexpectedly and he nearly killed me (I had about 2 percent of my health left) . Make sure you have near to full health before he reaches 10 percent, becuase chances are that you wont be able to get another heal in at this point, and you probably wont want to cut it as close I did.

Hope this helps, and have fun :)

Edited, Oct 29th 2006 at 1:07pm PST by MFunkey

Comment by Allakhazam

I can't believe it. I'm level 58 druid and my level 70 hunter guildie mate helped me all the way through, just as we activated the last statue she was disconnected.

D'oh, so I thought, I'll give it a go. We had cleared the stairs, altar and pool so it was just the boss, I stealthed in kitty form to the statue and clicked on it, hurrah quest completed. Didn't even have to engage. Woot!

Comment by Allakhazam

soloed as 60 drui for that new druid quest chain, just stand under a ledge so you cant be thrown up

Comment by Allakhazam

he looks fun to fight...

Comment by Ardensus

South
North
Southwest
Southeast
Northwest
Northeast

Comment by GaiusFalkus

S>N>SW>SE>NW>NE

Solo'd him as a BWL-geared 60 rogue with my back to an alcove, no special pots or buffs. He's stunnable, so pop CD's and use every stun you've got to AVOID his damage, which is super high compared to the other bosses in ST. (~500 normal hits, ~1,000 crits) If you have any extra avoidance gear in your bags, use it.

Comment by SamuraiJakkass86

56 Feral druid here. Just attempted a solo of this. It did not go well.

I was able to activate all the statues, only had to kill 1 swamp thing + 2 slimes (the other mobs weren't close enough to aggro, or I could use Soothe on them). The boss itself was easy to pull - he frequently moves out of pull range of the surrounding trash mobs. I also pulled him under the archway so I couldn't be punted onto one of the ledges. That worked pretty well.

The problem is that he hits like a truck. Took only about 10s before he killed me, and I was only took off maybe 10% of his HP. Definitely do not recommend trying to solo this at 56.

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