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Comment by 6934

Keli'dan is the final boss of Hellfire Citadel: The Blood Furnace. The start of the encounter involves your party killing his 5 caster mobs first. These have relatively low health so they go down fairly quick. Keli'dan himself will then become attackable and the fight becomes a traditional tank, heal, and dps. He has three special abilities:
1. An aura reducing shadow resistance.
2. AoE shadowbolts
3. A close proximity AE that will melee and anyone else close need to run away from. Very similar to Herod in SM, he too becomes invulnerable during this time. You'll know this is coming when he yells "Come closer!"

Comment by skitzosmeagol

This boss is relatively easy as long as you heal up for those -shadow resistance aura+ shadowbolts combos and also you must get out of the way when he says "come closer" otherwise death is heading your way. My friend 4 manned him all of them were 61 from what he said.

Comment by Fungal

Could an Admin remove the Shattered Halls Key from this loot table, he no longer drops it in Live, you now need to do a quest involving killing a Fel Reaver ( https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10758 )

Comment by 12903

The small cracks in the boss room with blue lights, gives a 30 second buff that increases attack speed(ranged and melee) and casting speed by 33%. Rage of Magtheridon.

Comment by 6780

2 phase fight

Phase 1: 5 casters
Abilities:
1.) Shadowbolt
2.) Shadow damage debuff. This needs to be cured as it drasticly increases damage done by shadow damage. (1k or so)
Leave 1 sheeped so you can regen mana prior to the boss.

Phase 2: Boss Time
Abilities:
1.) Shadowbolt volley. Nothing you can do about it. Just heal through it and bandage up as needed.
2.) AE explosion: Watch for the red evocation spell effect. He will also yell "come closer". Just run away.
Simple tank and spank aside from his explosion.

Comment by 2018

I tanked him last night, 61 druid with crap gear. He is fairly simple, just avoid him when he yells "Come closer...feel the burn!" Other than that he does bounce around a lot because the best thing to do when he yells that is to get far away from him. So just let the tank regain aggro and commence the beatdown.

Comment by 12903

Heroic:
Same abilities, a bit more damage and when he does the "come closer" aoe fire he pulls all the ranged close to him. All run out, rinse and repeat.

Comment by 18504

Heroic mode: obviously the easiest boss I´ve seen for long tome. What is pain in the ass are the thrash mobs (Felguard Annihilators) before him. They hit very fast and hit for 5k for well geared tank, 13 000 on clothie, critted me for 23 000. You have to tank 2 of them at the same time, can be feared (probably also banished but we did not had lock with us). They can hit clothies with "pummel" when they are in medium (non-melee) range, also for 10k. Fear is your friend, but feared mob is randomly hitting (one-shot killing) clothies. Even two superbly geared healers cannot keep superbly geared tank alive when both mobs are hitting him. Thanks Blizzard, consider nerfing thrash mobs on heroic here and making bosses harder instead.

Comment by 20710

We were having some issues with the Felguards before Keli'dan's room, so we pulled a sneaky trick. We shielded our tank and had him Shield Wall and run in. Our Mage pulled the Felguards and kited them upstairs. Everyone ran into Keli'dan's room, and died there. Our Shaman Ankhed and rezzed the group, and our Mage ran back and ran through Invisible. We got a kill of Keli'dan without having to do the 3 pulls at the bottom of the ramp.

Group setup: Mage, Warrior, Resto Shaman, Shadow Priest, Rogue (Me).

EDIT: This was on Heroic, but I guess it would work for normal, although it wouldn't be needed.

Comment by 53404

He also drop DPS leather in this new patch. nice looking and stat=)

Comment by Wizardwiz

Did a 2k shadowbolt volley on me, i'm lvl 60 tank. That pretty much wiped us when he then started hammering me.

Comment by katinicsdad

Here is a little something that you might want to keep in mind when fighting this guy: "Stay in the room with him!" After my group killed the casters guarding him, our tank rushed into the room and the rest of us stayed outside the door using our ranged spells. We had him down to almost no, health and then our tank died. When that happened, because we were outside the room, he ran back to the center of the room and was back at full health and all of his casters respawned.

We revived the tank and stayed in the room with him on the next try. Easy kill.

Comment by Domje

i'm a rogue and I was outrolled by a hunter on my shadowy embrace shoulders. Happens every time. 8|

Comment by 82298

He's not to hard on heroic, nor are the adds that you have to kill before him.

We did it today, with a Prot Warrior, Holy Pally, Feral Druid (Dps), Mage and a Rogue.

The felguards before him can be blinded. So each pull we blinded one, than used cyclone on them til they were dead.

The boss does hit alot, expecilly when he pulls you closer and you don't run out of the way in time. Almsot killed the mage in one hit.

Comment by 52432

I was easily able to main heal him (non-heroic)

63 paladin 6119MP(w/ buffs)
382 heals
160mp5

Make sure your group backs out when he does his fire chant.

For anyone else reading, he doesn't attack immediately when you attack his minions in the circle.

Pretty easy.

Comment by 72780

Can the annihilators be trapped by a hunter? Or just slowed and kited? We used the kiting method and it worked fine for us. A warlock makes it really easy, but that's no fun.

This boss is very very easy, even on heroic. As long as you get out of AOE range, there's nothing to worry about. We actually had our shadow priest and rogue die on the first AOE and me (feral druid tank) a hunter, and a paladin healer had no problems taking him down. Healer wound up at half mana. Didn't drop my shoulders though...

Comment by 43910

On heroic, this boss is easy as poop, but the thing here is that his AOE does about 9-10k dmg, and he will show _NO CASTBAR_ when casting it, so run like hell after he draws you near! (He shouts something like "Come closer.. and burn!")

Channelers barely do damage, and the boss damage is rediculously low. If you can run out in time for the AOE, easiest heroic boss ever.

Comment by 79023

When u get a chance look down to see the super-sized pit lord with channelers kinda like the boss party-mate said it was a boss for 25-man ...
kewl sight tho=D

Comment by 103534

In heroic mode, if you are having problems with Keli'dan the Breaker, try this strategy. Make sure you do all the proper preparations, such as shadow resist aura with a pally or prayer of shadow protection with a priest. Also make sure all debuffs are cleansed before the boss fight. (A good way to do this is cc one of the mobs until all debuffs are removed, and then kill him).

After the warlocks are down, have your party surround the boss fairly closely in the middle of the room. This includes ranged and casting classes. Let the tank get a good amount of aggro (7-10k threat on Omen threat meter). Have the tank face the boss away from the group, and his shadowbolts will not hit anyone but the tank.

When Keli'dan yells, "Come closer!..." have your whole group run out, including the tank. Once he does his aoe attack, everyone run back in. He should follow the tank when everyone runs out, and follow him back in as well. Rinse, and repeat.

Be warned - this is not a short fight if you do this correctly. You will be running in and out 6-7 times during the fight, slowing down dps considerably. The important thing about this fight is not burning him down as quickly as possible, but making sure you stay alive the entire fight. Do this, and its gg and hello badge + epic :)

Comment by dusksong

I don't see this pointed out anywhere, but I found it interesting how remarkably easy it is to solo-kill heroic Keli'dan in an emergency situation for any ranged class with means to heal themselves. As a balance druid with my battle rez down and a dead party at 50%, I was counting on a wipe... But strafing around the edge of the room maintaining moonfire and insect swarm on him did the job. He didn't get any melee in and lifebloom/rejuv ate up the shadowbolts. My HoT/DoT combo probably simplified it with never needing to stop moving, but I can easily see affliction locks, ele shammies and shadow priests pulling this off as well. Real simple kill, I've had more trouble with elite mobs in group quests. ^_^

Comment by Thottbot

he won't come out of evok till you kill his guys, they arn't hard . WHen he does come out he will do aoe corruptions and his main attack is when he says "closer, come closer". He does an aoe flame attack that HURTS. Get out like bats in ZG. Right back in, he is soft otherwise.

Comment by Thottbot

1) pull the adds back to the corridor with a LOS pull so they stand close to each other and become tankable
2) massacre adds
3) run back in the big room. healers and raged stay grouped (shadow bolt volley cannot be avoided afaik, but needs aoe heal). melee run away from the boss when he yells "come closer"
4) loot

Comment by Thottbot

If you don't have a priest in your group to dispel the debuff here is an alternate strat.

Mark one of the pre-boss adds for chain fearing by a lock, or very slow dps by your MT, keep the add out of action until the debuff wears off - then own the boss.

Enjoy your lewts!

Comment by Thottbot

Easy as hell

like the easiest boss fight iv done in outland

First kill all those elites that charge at u then Just dps him, get main tank on him and make sure when he bows down..move theh hell out of the way, hes about to do his fire aoe, which is very nasty . (move back about 10 ft or more)

Done!

Enjoy teh loot

Comment by Thottbot

The Shattered Halls Key --

Begins @ the black temple in Shadowmoon Valley, you must kill the Smith to gain the starter for the quest, ends up w/ you killing a Fel Reaver in Honor Hold and forging the key. As far as we've seen the smith drops the key Everytime.

Comment by Thottbot

Heroic is not the same as normal - L2READ?

Comment by Thottbot

killed him he was easy got nice elemental shaman boots or pvp, were an upgrade for me as resto.

Comment by Thottbot

by far the easiest boss in any of the heroic instances.

3-manned him with healadin, prot tank (myself), and hunter. also witnessed 2 mages 2-man him when healer died, then i died.

got my boots, and he gives me a damn easy nether.

my favorite place to farm for nethers. ;D

Comment by Thottbot

i think WHA is one of best starter weapons so far till i hit 65 then u get event axe which is bettter o and woot resto shammy + wave - cres striders = me

Comment by Thottbot

I don't know about the rest you guys, but my group found this boss to be rather difficult. The issue was that we couldn't remove the debuff and as a result his spells hit frighteningly hard. When killing this guy, make sure you can get the debuff off before starting the battle.....else your dead.

Comment by Thottbot

Just did him on heroic. Warrior tank, shaman healer, rogue, hunter and me ~~the wishmaster~~ mage.

Kill adds, tank starts tanking, run from AoE, spam scorch, run from AoE... Suddenly something goes wrong and with boss just below 50% healer dies. We continue nuking, warrior uses potions and cooldowns. Rogue dies. Runf from AoE, nuke again. Hunter dies. He is a bit below 20%. Nuking. Refresh scorch, combustion, fireball... Warrior dies with boss at almost 10%. He casts bolt volley I'm at 2K HP. Fireball crits, fireblast he is in melee range and now he will.. No, he starts casting AoE. Getting max range, potion, fireball... 3K crit with 1.2K ignite, good, he is still far enough, fireball (crit again) he casts magic bolt on me, not time for fireball just fireblast, scorch... I was ready to use Blast wave as final desperate measure, when he died from DoT.

Comment by Thottbot

I did this boss today and it was really funny :) As a healer i found it quite hard to heal the dot everyone gets at the beginning of the fight.

First, we wiped, I used soulstone.

Second, we wiped, I used ankh.

Third, we wiped, other shammy used ankh.

Fourth, we wiped, me and other shammy ran far enough to reset the boss.

Fifth and last time we did, with the warrior already dying at 70%, the rogue and the lock tanked the boss (quite well actually :). Dropped the shoulders for the rogue.

Notice: Yes, if your group partially wipes, just run back the way you came from. If you make it far enough, the boss will reset!

Shizra, 63 Shaman (Nera'thor, EU)

Comment by Thottbot

Since I did the boss fight for the first time. I have come up with a tactic that should work.

Just keep on of the summoners at the beginning of the battle chainfeared, polymorphed or sapped (whatever you have in your party). Then regg and face both with full hp and mana.

Comment by Thottbot

its REALLY simple guys
ok, the adds...
hit one and ALL run behind and hide behind the pillars
when they come out to where u are, SMASH!

then smash boss, he's not that bad its pretty simple
tank and heal and dps lots
(as usual)

Comment by Allakhazam

Arg, I always see the stupid ax, never the leather!

Comment by Allakhazam

Killed him and got the Axe, of the beholder dude I got the gun so 2 more bars and ding 61...Ill have 2 new weaopns!

Comment by Allakhazam

Does he only drop Keli'dan's Feathered Stave on Heroic? Ok can he drop it in both? Need it for a daily...

Comment by Allakhazam

Is this the item?

Rainments of Divine Authority
Cloth Chest
122AC
+16 STA
+21 INT
+18 SPI
Red, yellow, Blue socket (socket bonus +6 Stamina)
+heal 61
Requires lvl 61

Found that on http://www.wowwiki.com/Keli%27dan_the_Breaker

Would love verification though.

Comment by Allakhazam

When entering the area make sure to sheep the different warlocks. Do not AOE. Focus fire on each warlock one at a time.

When the warlocks go down have the tank grab hold on him in the center.

Rogues need to run away when he yells: Closer! Come closer... and burn!, He'll preform a large AOE fire nova.

Edited, Feb 7th 2007 12:53pm by gotcow

Comment by Allakhazam

Caster Boss: lvl 63 elite in closed beta, is a red-skinned orc.
Mostly a simple tank n spank, casters should stay far away, and every 8-12 seconds he shouts something and uses a flamestrike on a radius about 20yards around him.
Think he dropped some cloth with +heal.

Comment by Allakhazam

easy boss, we sheeped a lock on the side and took all of them out (had a good tank), he is a fairly easy boss himself. He dropped the shoulders which are an upgrade from the green bandit shoulders I was using before.

Comment by HanzWermhatt

It is possible for this guy to go OOM. In that case, he still does his AoE and dispels any debuffs on him, but the attack doesn't do damage. Learned this in an HC when the DPS all died.

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After killing this NPC you will gain:

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- 250 reputation with Honor Hold
- 250 reputation with Thrallmar

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- 50 reputation with Honor Hold
- 50 reputation with Thrallmar

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- 50 reputation with Honor Hold
- 50 reputation with Thrallmar

Heroic
- 250 reputation with Honor Hold
- 250 reputation with Thrallmar

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