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Comment by 3693

Soloed her and her friend Morta'gya as a 52 mage, though I probably could have done it a couple levels lower. Key to know is that both of them exclusively use shadow magic. If you can make or get a couple of Greater Shadow Protection Potions you'll be just fine.

Comment by darla

Destruction lock 52 soled, fear other elite and nuke Qiaga the Keeper, use Mana Potion ShadowGuard and healtstone ^^

Comment by lollersk8r

Soloed Qiaga and ran from the second as a 49 enh dw shaman. Clear the stairs and pull, keep grounding totem up and los as much as possible. Jumping onto the rail will los the two casters, took a while but it's doable with knowledge of how to los.

Comment by gtajedi

solo'd as 48 combat rogue. Using dual deadly poison. sap'd other elite, used evasion and adren rush at the start, CS>5cp rupture>5cp snd>3cp evis = dead

used adren rush so I could build up poison early. other mob woke up so I had to use a superior heal pot, she runs at low health so watch out, but i just evis her, looted and ran. couldnt vanish cos of SW:Pain dot.

Comment by Alderaan

Quiaga and Morta'gya are 50 lvl elite, but there is also a Vilebranch 47 lvl.
So take into account that you have to kill all 3 at the same time, because they aggro on you.

Comment by HunterOfWhelps

Didn't pull the elites when I killed the non-elite on my 50 spriest
MC'ed one and let the mobs nuke each other down to 30% health, then feared and dotted 'em up. Used mob's renew on myself when mob SW:Pained me. Longish fight when done that way but reliable and simple enough

Comment by 68997

Would love to know how to solo this as a 54 Warrior. 2 level 50 elite casters is too much to take.

Comment by moocow

Note that she runs when low on health.

Comment by Inkadog

As a lvl 50 BM hunter she is not hard even without any potions- IF you take the time to clear the area. This is essential.

Make sure the stairway is cleared and that you will not have any respawns eating you from behind.
Step up to the very top of the stairs and pull the single Vilebranch Soothsayer that stands infront of the two elites. This mob is NOT linked to the two Keepers (Morta'gya and Qiaga), but be careful.
Once this mob is down, focus on Qiaga while trapping Morta'gya. (You can make her come to you if you LoS her by running down the stairs after placing the trap at the top.) A second trap can be dropped just under Morta'gya's feet.

You should be able to kill Qiaga and loot her, and hopefully Morta'gya as well.

It is worth noting though, that if you manage to kill only one of them, you'll have plenty of time to run back to your corpse, eat, drink and re-clear stairs if you have to - before the second Keeper respawns.

Good luck!

Comment by Kryz

As of 2.3, the mobs up here are no longer elite.

Comment by Liri

Shes located at the top of the temple stairs 48, 68

Comment by LoKHor

All three quests at Jintha'alor can now be soloed. Vile Priestess Hexx may be a pain with the frequency with which she hexes, but you no longer need a party to do everything up there.

Comment by 64664

At PvP servers this was very hard to do in the first place as an alliance. There's a hordy town just around the corner (at the back of the mountainrange).
In addition, the mobs were very hard to kill for it's level (44-50ish for going to ZF). And the respawn was pretty fast as well.

Gonna try it for the first time solo on my Shaman, shouldn't be too hard if they aren't elite anymore. :}

Comment by majlis123

Are there a Instance/Raid In Hinderlands ?!?!?!?

Comment by 154438

My 46 shammy soloed the mallet thing ^_^

Comment by Thottbot

Coords: 48, 68

Comment by Thottbot

Get the mallet from her to get it sanctified into the Mallet of Zul'Farrak (So that u can fight one of the instance's many circumstantial bosses).

Comment by Thottbot

is he elite? do i need a group to kill him, is so how many peps?

Comment by Allakhazam

She's 50 Elite not 52 non elite

Comment by Allakhazam

Weird...in the screenshot this mob doesn't appear as elite? Solo'd both her and the other elite on my 49 warlock, was a royal pain.
Had a VW sacrifised (DS) for the health regen, kept dotting and fearing both and using the pillars up there to break LOS to get them closer. Took around 6-7 minutes, gah. Also used 4 Heavy Runecloth Bandages, 2 healing pots, 1 mana pot and a healthstone. Not something I'd do again.

Comment by Allakhazam

Solo'd Qiaga, 55rogue ... sapped the other elite, didnt aggro the guard mob, looted mallet less than 60 seconds before server reset ... whew

Comment by Allakhazam

I don't have the quest and it dropped normally for me

Comment by Allakhazam

but where in jintha is the altar?

Comment by Allakhazam

I just killed this and Morta'gya. 44 warlock with a 60 priest backing me up(from outside the party) with rested xp, I got 3180 xp for EACH of them. (1590 normal) made me quite happy ^_^

Comment by Allakhazam

She is a level 50 elite and so is her best friend. This is definately a group outing if you are below 50. Take along a couple of friends.

Comment by Allakhazam

Drops "Mallet". Used in Mallet of ZF.

Sacred Mallet

Comment by Allakhazam

Do you need to be on a quest to get the Sacred Mallet drop, or is that just something he drops normally?

Comment by Allakhazam

Duoed this with the help of a 60 friend. Hammer dropped as it always does but both I and the other guildie I was with was able to loot it. Everyone gets a mallet so don't worry about competition over it.

Comment by Allakhazam

As of 2/24 neither her, nor her friend are elite, just ran my 70 war all over her cause i knew i was forgetting something in ZF all this time

Comment by Totodile

In Classic WoW, the Sacred Mallet drops for everyone in the party.

Comment by Melanholic7

Well,barely killed her as 2 priests lvl 48. Hard fight cause heals. need mana burn probably or using silence/fear.

Comment by Zhenocnra

Qiaga the Keeper can cast:
Shadow Bolt
Renew
Shadow Word: Pain

From what I've seen, she does NOT pull with the non-elite mobs around her and vice versa. If the other keeper is alive with her, she will pull with that other keeper though. I suggest having shadow resistance as it will definitely help keep her shadow spell damage at a reasonable level. It's easier to just tank the shadow damage rather than her melee damage if you're a caster. She melees for around 400 non-crit or so each strike from what I've seen.

If you're having a hard time finding people to group up with, she can probably be killed with two minimum if she's alone. If her partner is up though (the other keeper), that's another story. Any kind of spell interrupts and CC will help when fighting her and/or her partner.

I got lucky and the other keeper didn't spawn as quickly as Qiaga. As a level 45 frost mage, I was able to get her down to 25% alone before she almost killed me. A nice and friendly orc warrior that was nearby helped me finish her off though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXj-Jbu6wfY

My gear and talent spec at the time: https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/gear-planner/mage/undead/Ai0K_wU1AjMTA1EQHwEnOQIp10MmmQerBSclBiWkBxuGCFChCRNzCicjCxTBDBoNDQsEDityDxuNEB4iER1bEh1a

Comment by cptmyname

Managed to solo her as a level 50 rogue. It wasn't easy, it cost me a shadow protection potion and a major healing potion, but I managed to do it.

The hardest part of the solo is getting Morta'gya out of the equation, you have no chance 1v2 against two casters. My trick was to kill all the trolls and pups nearby to clear a path away from the pyramid, and then kite Qiaga as far away as possible after sapping Morta'gya. Since Qiaga will constantly cast shadowbolt, you need a short CD interrupt to keep her moving, kick is perfect for this. If you manage to get far enough away with Qiaga then when Morta'gya recovers from CC, she'll simply reset after deciding you've gone out of range (you need to be QUITE far for Morta'gya to reset) leaving you to fight Qiaga 1v1.

With Qiaga isolated, she's still a pretty tough solo. A rogue can lock down her shadowbolts but her corruption can't be stopped and will lay steady shadow damage on you. A cheap shadow protection potion goes a long way towards helping you survive the damage, at least early in the fight before it wears off (A greater shadow protection potion would probably last the whole fight, but also cost 10g lmao). The corruption will also more often than not get in the way of you trying to bandage so I never even bothered trying to do any gouge/blind/bandage combos, it never worked in my unsuccessful attempts, I just relied on avoiding damage early on with the shadow potion and evasion, then healed myself with the major healing pot when I needed it when we were both on our last legs. She can also cast renew on herself, but since you can't stop it you might as well just consider it an extension to her health bar, she'll probably only cast it once before one of you dies anyway. I wouldn't say it's worth using wound poison to reduce its effect, you'd get more mileage out of trying to maintain a 5 deadly poison stack on her for steady damage for the entire fight.

I realize this is a pretty rogue specific solo strategy, but eh whatever. Kiting elites away from their backup until they reset is a great strategy any time you have to fight an elite with adds.

Comment by manswaggle

I solo'd as a typical siphon life/almost to Ruin warlock. level 48. Fear the healing one, burn down the one with the hammer. Succubus for dps. Shadow ward, health stone, health pot, death coil all used. Just make sure you keep fear up on the other one. Use curse of shadow so you don't get 50 resists in a row and get hammered down on.

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Qiaga the Keeper

This NPC can be found in The Hinterlands (3).

Qiaga the Keeper

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