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Series

1.	The Eagle's Essence
2.	The Falcon's Essence
3.	The Hawk's Essence
4.	Return to Cenarion Refuge
5.	Chasing the Moonstone
6.	Vanquish the Raven God

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Comment by jef3189

This is a fairly difficult boss in my opinion and here is a good setup for the boss:

Raid Composition:
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-AOE class, preferably a mage (for counterspell on the cyclone)
-A resto druid to OFF heal (so that he can keep up the mini statues, explained in a sec)
-A priest to main heal (for shackles throughout the instance)
-A tank (either a feral druid/warrior)
-A Marks hunter (for silencing shot to interrupt his cycone)/ Rogue to kick
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Boss Abilities:
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Charge - He randomly charges a party member for about 1k
Spell Bomb - He will put spell bomb on a caster in the raid. If the caster does a damage or healing spell, it will cost them 1k life and 2k mana, knocking them back.
Cyclone - (INTERRUPTABLE) He will cyclone a party member for 8-10 seconds. (Curse of tongues may help, this is sort of like shadow power/charged fist in heroic mech and should be interrupted as often as possible)
Paralyzing Screech - AOE Stun that will stun everyone for 5 seconds, this is what wiped us half of the time. Be SURE the tank has full hitpoints before the screech, which you will see him casting. This ability is similar to "time lapse" for chromaggus, and the tank needs to be topped off before this so he can survive until the healer comes out of stun.

Finally, @ around 66% and 33% he will "banish" himself becoming immune to everything and about 10 birds will swoop in and circle the party. This is where a mage comes in very handy for frost nova. They will move around constantly, and each bird has near 12k hitpoints, so freezing them in place will help with AOEing them down. BE SURE you kill them as soon as possible because after about 1 minute the boss will come out of his "banished" form and continue his attacking the party.

**There are three statues of birds around the room that will come alive when activated by a druid's "Heal Over Time" (HoT). Usually you will need a druid backup healing anyway, so have him keep these birds up by using RANK 1 Rejuvenation and RANK 1 Regrowth.

General Strategy:
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You MUST have a two healers for this fight, it's nearly impossible to do this without a backup healer mainly because if the main healer is cycloned or spell bombed, the off healer (usually the druid keeping up the statues of the birds) needs to pick up heals on the tank.

Have your rogue/mage/hunter/shaman (if he is on DPS) interrupt the cyclones as often as possible. A cyclones healer and spell bombed off healer in combination with paralyzing screech is a most definite wipe situation.

It take a lot of coordination, and would not recommend "Pugging" , unless you have everyone on comms or unless they know exactly what to do.

**Note you need to clear the ENTIRE room before attempting the boss.

If I missed anything make sure you post it below. Good luck druids.
--FYI you can as of 5/21/07 pick HERBS in epic flight form.

Comment by Rasore

Does Swift Flight form REPLACE the old flight form, or do you get it additionally?

Comment by alhamira

i did it with no other druid in party and i'm feral, used the reju rank1 trick only during banish, and nuked him rest iìof the encounter, it have 230k life can't waste dps 4 keep the birdies on (just the 10% speed one)

Comment by 54437

It does replace the old flight form.

Comment by 54935

Did this with just me as the healer, kept all the birds up most of the time with rank 1 rejuv. Had a rogue for interrupting cyclone and a lock for AoE. Very easy when you get the hang of it. Does anyone have the exact buffs that the 3 birds do?

Comment by Yeoman

After few wipes used mages Amplify Magic spell on all party, and killed him at last. There is almost no spell dmg, only melee. So it realy helps on heals (+240 non improved healing, or +360 improved one).

Comment by 47163

The three spirits' abilities are as follows:

Eagle: Does damage to the boss; I don't know how much as I couldn't find it in my tooltip.

Falcon: Buffs the party with Speed of the Falcon, which reads "Movement speed increased by 25%. Time between attacks decreased by 25%. Casting time decreased by 25%.

Hawk: Buffs the party with Protection of the Hawk, which reads "Damage taken reduced by 500." Arthorn's Research given to you at the start of the quest imply that the Hawk "damages those who harm you," but this is how the tooltip reads.

Comment by Rasore

When you complete this quest you are offered another 'Eternal Vigilance' which basically says 'speak to the NPC again' https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=11011

This gives you a new Essence-infused Moonstone, so that you can forever summon that boss in the future. Making Druids a fantastic choice to take along to Heroic Sethekk halls for the extra boss

Comment by 47163

Shaman cannot dispell negative effects from a party member.

Additionally, I believe the Feathered Cyclone effect can only be dispelled by Mass Dispell, and is really not worth the mana cost.

Comment by 10334

This boss does drop a Badge of Justice and is pretty easy. 3 badges makes sethekk not a horrible choice.

Comment by Cidrei

Completed this tonight on the third attempt using the following party:

Tree Druid - Me. Main heals and off statue duty.
Feral Druid - Tank. (Guildie)
Balance Druid - Off heals and statue duty. (Guildie, and not actually on the quest.)
Arms/Fury Warrior (31/30) - DPS. (Guildie)
Affliction Warlock - DPS and AoE.

jef3189's write-up is an excellent guide, so rather than rehash that, I will note some things that helped our group finally down the Raven God.

-According to our warrior, the cyclone spell is *NOT* pummelable, so don't count on that to stop it.

-For the druid doing statue duty, it is highly recommended to create three macros that will automatically target and cast either Rejuvenation(Rank 1) or Regrowth(Rank 1) on them. This will eliminate the need to find the statues amongst the chaos, and your spells if not hot-keyed. The statues are named Hawk Spirit, Falcon Spirit, and Eagle Spirit. For example:

/target Hawk Spirit
/cast Rejuvenation(Rank 1)

-Spell Bomb will ruin your day if you're not paying attention. For the druid spamming statues, it's extremely easy to get hit multiple times before you realize what's happening. The effect only applies when the spell lands, however, so spells with longer cast times can be timed to land just after the debuff fades.

-This one may be obvious, but a cycloned target is immune to everything. Don't bother to heal or innervate someone in a cyclone, for example. This could be very easy to miss if you have debuff filtering enabled.

We fought Anzu in the room where you summon him, and so had to deal with the adds as well. It was a hectic fight, but once we had our strategy down, no one died. The guild members were all on Ventrilo, the warlock was not. However, with a little practice, Anzu should be a fairly straight-forward encounter. He dropped a Band of Frigid Elements for us.

The fight was frustrating, but can be fun once you work the kinks out. The spells and bird adds, while inconvenient, are not make-or-break unless you have a string of bad luck, so even groups with a less than "optimal" makeup should give it a go.

Edit: Make the item link look better.

Comment by Rasore

I found a way to make the fight easier.

Once you have cleared the room, have everyone return to the previous one, then, activate the orb, and run out to the rest of your group.

After a minute Anzu will spawn, as do the totems but he does not automatically aggro.

I was able to stand in the arch of the door and activate the first 2 totems (the right hand one starting to do damage to the boss) and he does NOT aggro.

this means a druid can regrowth (as it last 21 seconds) 2 of the totems before the tank pulls.

Comment by 11375

We did it with non-conventional group....

Druid (me as tank)
2 x mage
1 x rouge
1x pala (holy)

We clear all instance, then we summon raven god... we just pull him on stairs (where passage is opened after u kill Ikis), and no adds come... Classic tank & spank....

few facts... it does drop Badge of Justice and it has his loot table... so extra boss....
when u got your flying form, u get moonstone again forever, so that really means 3 bosses in sethekk halls, if u have druid with moonstone....

Comment by 58387

Do you need to be doing Heroic Sethekk Halls to complete this quest?

Comment by 31097

Finished this tonight, and one shotted Anzu. Our guild clears KZ and Gruul weekly, so we're geared fairly well for this. Group makeup was as follows:

Prot pally, combat rogue, affliction lock, resto druid, and me (feral druid). I alternated between dps and tanking for the instance. I started as dps on Anzu, and ended up being an offhealer.

Pulls of 2 or 3 were fairly straight forward. For packs of 4 of the sethekk, I would tank the first to die, pally would take two more, and we'd keep one feared. The key thing is to make sure the scryers die first, shadow mages second (because of the debuff), and talon lords third. after that priority, the rest doesn't matter much.

At the end, we all felt that feral dps is not useful in this fight. I expect that we'll be back in there daily to try for the mount (and the heroic badges don't hurt either), and I'll be packing some balance/healing gear for the next run at Anzu to have a large enough mana pool to more effective offheal when the resto druid is cycloned. The rogue also noted that the cyclone is very fast, and hard to interrupt as a result. The safe bet is to assume that at least half of them will get through.

Comment by Draconax

Just did this fight last night for my epic flight form. Was actually quite easy after the recent retuning on the fight. Had myself, feral druid tank, rogue, elem shaman, and a mage. I made macros to regrowth each statue, which made things MUCH easier imo. I would simply toss some hots on the tank, do a round on each statue, then head back to the tank for 20 seconds. I find it much simpler to use regrowth over rejuv, because of the extra 9 seconds. The banish phase seemed very simple, I barely saw anyone's health move at all during the time, even the aoeing mage. Also note that the spellbomb is now a curse and can be removed, which is a huge help as well.

Comment by FroRev

You really need a druid on statue duty in addition to a main healer. The fight was too difficult for our resto druid to solo-heal, so I (a feral druid) put on my healing gear and played as a secondary healer. Keeping HoTs on the statues was my priority, and throwing occasional HoTs and decurses on party members was secondary. We had a warrior tank and two frost mages. The fight can be rather long, and I chugged at least three Major Combat Mana Potions (I gave my Innervate to the main healer).

Comment by 30187

IMO this is a stupid easy boss for the reward. Completed it on the 1st try with the following group

MT: Prot War
DPS: Rogue/Hunter
Heals: 2 Druids (1 Resto/1 Feral)

First things first, all of the regular bosses do not need to be cleared in order to do this boss. Just clear the room that he is in.

He is mainly a tank and spank boss except at around 66 and 33%. There are 3 bird statues that spawn when he spawns, a Falcon, Hawk, and Eagle. When he reaches both 66% and 33% he spawns a group of birds, so bring to life the eagle statue that does about 300 dmg a sec. In between these percents, keep to life any of the statues you want. To do this I suggest the druid(s) make macros to cast Rank 1 Rejuv on whatever statue. After the 2nd group of birds, just dps him down and collect your rewards. Have fun.

Comment by Rasore

Ultimately this fight has been massively nerfed in the last patch, resulting on him being, in my personal opinion the easiest heroic boss available.

He has less HP, he hits for less, the summoned birds during his banish also hit for less and have less HP. tactics are exactly the same as above, you will just find that it does not strain your group anywhere near as much (or at all) than the original fight did.

I still do heroic Sethekk regularly, its worth it simply for the chance of the mount, as well as 3 badges in a really short instance.

Comment by 18541

We did this with vl 69 pally healer, warlock, rogue, druid tank and me.
im feral druid, but in healing gear i have 1300 healing, 10k mana, and it was doable for us. Warlock aoe, pala healing tank, while i lifebloom on party needing it, and rejuvenation rank 1 on the birds.

Comment by 116119

is it possible to do this as stealth run, rogues and druids? :)

Comment by nolfclvr

Looks like from the whole quest line, you receive 2210 rep with CE

Comment by 50559

I tanked this for my druid friend and as a Prot paladin, this fight presents some benefits and new challenges.

Consecrate and Retribution Aura make tanking the birds a breeze and when the stun occurs, solidifies my threat.

Judged seals on Anzu count as spellcasts each time I swing. Whenever I was cursed, I had to be very careful to stop autoattacking until it was removed. All in all, a very fun fight.

Comment by 53307

after farming Anzu for several times.
i recommend casting level 1 regrowth on the statues.

lv1 regrowth 2sec cast, 21sec effective, no gcd trigger.
lv1 rejuvenation instant cast, 9sec effective, gcd trigger.

the total cast time is more or less the same, and you ll have more time for healing the group or throw some dps, instead of keep rej. spam on the statues.

Comment by 146558

There is no need to break a sweat for this quest, it was very easy.
We had an ideal group for Sethekk Halls.
Druid (me, feral, tank)
Priest (healer)
Mage
Warlock
Hunter.

Tank, shackle, sheep, trap. And it does not even require that. But Anzu was a walkthrough. He does an occasional small hit to a random party member I think but I didnt see any visible damage inflicted, as I might've been busy tanking, but at 66% and 33% he goes banish and summons adds. When he goes banish you have ~5-10 seconds before birds come down, so you can get the spirits alive, or just wait for mage\warlock to AOE most of the birds, then try to awaken 1-2, because after the last bird dies, Anzu comes back from banish. They are not required and i found them no help at all really. Priest had no problem keeping mage alive during AOE'ing and I didnt take much dmg while tanking Anzu. He went down.

Comment by Hunterios

You will get in total of the whole chain:

109 gold and 70 copper.
+1810 rep with Cenarion Expedition.

Comment by 147551

Also with the Spell Bomb debuff he puts on people, it is a cure and it can be dispelled. I did it when i was helping out another Druid.

Comment by Uttermadnez

Guys consider this...the Eagle statue (please click and read) appears to have two methods of working:

using rejuvenation or regrowth will make the statue attack the boss once every 3 seconds.

using lifebloom appears to make the statue attack once every 1 second.

so my theory is for someone to test regrowthing the hawk and falcon, while keeping lifebloom on the eagle to triple its damage to the boss.

someone please try to confirm this.

Comment by honzus

Priest 1500 healing: it is possible to only have one main healer doing this, as long as you have some type of dps type that can offheal if necessary. The boomkin that was with us needed the quest done, and she threw in a couple heals on the statues to keep them going while I healed. I was cycloned twice, and we were fine, just gotta have a stable group. :)

Comment by 161066

/target hawk spirit
/cast rejuvenation (rank1)

Spam that and it'll be okay.

I did this quest on my druid the other day and found it quite simple. Had no problem healing the hawk spirit when Anzu went into banish.

Our setup was:

Druid tank (me)
Warlock
Priest
Shaman
Rogue

Comment by Allakhazam

im gonna get this no mater what the costs are...

9 xtra crit on leader of the pack 5+9=14 = pure pwnage

warr on my arena team allready has 34% he gonna get 43% O.o
....43% makes me sick

Comment by Allakhazam

Completed this quest on Hellscream at 15.50 just 8 minutes before the emergency maintenance. Server's first ^^

Edited, May 23rd 2007 1:51pm by Feolinn

Comment by Allakhazam

Any sugestions? You need all party? Can be soloed? etc...

Comment by Allakhazam

how do u know if ur your server's first?

Comment by Allakhazam

Does the druid have to be Revered with Lower City and able to unlock Heroic difficulty in Sethekk him/herself or can he/she just tag along with others keyed for that difficulty level?

Comment by Allakhazam

Damn it, had to work today.
wanted to be world's first :P

Comment by Sipder2

To complete Vanquish the Raven God you have to summon and defeat Anzu by using Essence-Infused Moonstone.
You get Essence-Infused Moonstone from Morthis' Materials in your bag.
Anzu is found in the chamber before the talon kings hall in Sethekk Halls Heroic.

Next quest: Eternal Vigilance.

Vanquish the Raven God WoW TBC: https://youtu.be/tGwaXWjSFmw

Comment by howa003

This quest is part of the quest line for the druid Swift Flight Form.

The first quest in this line is Morthis Whisperwing.

For whole quest line see Sipder2's comment or Wowhead guide.

Comment by oli5678

is there any way i can restart this quest again?

Comment by Bigman1182

Dont freak out if you dont find Essence-Infused Moonstone in your bags. It goes into your keyring.

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Vanquish the Raven God

Slay the Raven God and return to Morthis Whisperwing at Cenarion Refuge.

This quest must be completed in Heroic dungeon difficulty.

	Anzu slain (1)
	Essence-Infused Moonstone (1)

Provided item:

	Morthis' Materials (1)

Description

We must waste no time in dealing with the raven god. You must take the essence-infused moonstone to a place of great power in order to lure the god from the relative safety of the Emerald Dream.

Descend into the Sethekk Halls and set the moonstone in the clutches of the raven's claw. You'll find it in the chamber before the talon king's hall.

Anzu must be made believe that his followers have gathered to welcome him back into the world. Once he has manifested, show him no mercy!

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You will learn:

	Swift Flight Form

You will also receive:

	Idol of the Raven Goddess

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

500 reputation with Cenarion Expedition

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11001))

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