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Comment by 40787

Theka the Martyr patrols around a room full of Scarabs. The Scarabs do not aggro unless you attack them.

This is a pretty normal battle. However, once Theka is near ~20% health he uses the ability Theka Transform, with which he becomes immune to both Shadow and Physical damage. Soon after this he makes the nearest Scarabs aggro, usually on the lowest group member (Usually around 5 Scarabs, so be careful if you're cloth). He stays immune for close to 30 seconds so just kill the scarabs then pound him.

Comment by Icemelt

If you're a rogue doing the scarab quest, it's worth a try to take this guy out. If you die, you'll take rez right by gadget anyway, so be sure to finish the quest before you try.

I faced Theka with a 45 rogue, mace (combat) spec. If you know how to stun lock and stop slow casts, you should be fine. I cleared the East corner of scarabs. This completed the quest for me after about 12 kills. (use a 3-off, 1or2-on distract pull method to grab one (possible 2nd) with garrrot and pull back to your corner. The entire time you are killing the scarabs, you must watch Theka's counter-clockwise rotation so that he doesen't see you fighting. Once you get the entire corner clear, ready up and start.

I started with a KS reading above that he didn't call for scarabs until later on, I stun lock him near his tablet (a clickable piece of stone with writing near the center rubble) until he unlocked. At that point I pulled him back to the corner where I'd been killing the scarabs before. Gouging for points and energy, blinding for bandage, even took one health potion that I "probably" didn't need, but I managed to down him taking my time.

He didn't call for any scarabs. This may be due to the fact that I may have had him stunned when he was suposed to. He also did not cast the "Immune to Shadow and Physical" I was only ever using melee so, not sure how I stopped that if it exists.

Battle stats (since I have very average gear)
Damage Taken: 3066h
Self Heals: 1952h (at 45% and 14% health - ban/pot)
Damage Done: 9548

Comment by Valdan

I submitted a screen shot as to where to stand to make this easier. The scrabs is what makes this a pain for me at lvl 53 not bad but a cloth wearer I would feel for even at this lvl. I soloed at 53 rogue and the picture will give u an idea where to stand and you can pull the scrabs 1-2 at a time. then kill him as he comes around.

Comment by 51041

Easily soloed as 52 Moonkin.

Go behind the northern wall and clear the Basilisk, Scarabs, and two Trolls (one is wandering).

Pull Theka behind the wall. I kept him rooted with moonfire and insect swarm dots with an occasional starfire. I don't think he even hit me one time. No scarabs were called. Very easy.

Comment by Thottbot

Whats with this guy? i was killing with a group and he went immune for well over 5 mins... how do u get him out of it? he eventually snapped out and we killed him.. but dont know how! Help!

Comment by Thottbot

Yeah, he's immune to melee. You have to finish him off with magic. You can also stun him before he puts up his shield and finish him off that way. Hope it helps.

Comment by Thottbot

Theka's immunity is apparently on a 5-minute timer. We fought him long enough for Vanish timers to reset. 2 hunters (lvl 50), 2 rogues (44, 49) fought him like this: stunlock him until he's down to 25 percent health. He'll (insta) put up his shield, so off-tank him to the pets. Then hunter soaks damage, feigns death, bandages. Repeat on 2nd hunter. Then rogue dodges, parries, soaks damage, vanishes, bandages. Then repeat on 2nd rogue.

Comment by Thottbot

1) get him to shield
2) All Party stop attacking
3) the Party member with aggro, Run in and around the stone Ruins untill hes health goes up to 75% ( after 3/4Mins )
4) kill him

Completed this With me a 49 rogue n a 47 rogue.

gl

Magixx
Shadow Moon

Comment by Thottbot

Priest's who have holy attack spells such as smite, will be able to penetrate his shield. As well as any paladin's who have holy spells. Easiest way i've found is to keep aggro off of a priest and let them attack with their holy spells. He dies fairly quick by doing this

Comment by Thottbot

I soloed him as a lvl 48 Troll Rogue. I fought him twice, the first time, I got him to 30% health or so fairly easy with Cheap Shot, Ripostes, and kicks. than he went immune and I had to vanish.
I lucked out because vanish wore off in a few seconds becuase he had poisoned me. Which made me change my approach second time. That time, i swtiched instant poisons to deadly poisons (DOTs) and kidney shotted him around 30%. Also, I loaded him up with 5 combo points and used rupture on him in case he did get his immune up (which he didnt). Went down and I grabbed the tablet. (Also, I did use my Helm of Fire on him).

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Comment by Thottbot

when he becomes immune to melee attacks just use your ranged :P .... i solo'd him and it workd like a charm.. just keep some distance and use the pillars to block his magic!

Comment by Thottbot

soloed him as rogue

when he turns on shield blind him then run around pillars avoiding him until shield goes off

Comment by Thottbot

Easy solo with a hunter if you have to, as I did. Ditch your pet. Hit monkey. Mount up and ride in. Find a corner, FD and wait for everyone to clear.

Get back up, summon pet, and fight. When he goes immune, the key as a hunter is to keep a scorpid sting on him and keep pet healed. Mix in some eyes of the beast kiting if your pet is fast and you'll use less mana healing. After a million years, finish him off.

Mount and FD works well for getting to hydromancer V too, but turn off autopotion if you use it. I got off a good FD, but then for some reason autopotion decided to stand me up and swig a pot, wasting the pot and getting me killed to boot.

Comment by Thottbot

He's immune to shadow damage. So as a warlock it took me a while to figure it out. Then my pet and my immolate finished him easily. =)

Comment by Thottbot

there should be a laugh-track for this fight if you solo it as a rogue

here's what you do:

- he's stunnable at first, so beat on him as much as you can, fight him however you've solo'd elites before. For me, this involves something like this: cheap shot, backstab, gouge, backstab, kidney shot at half-2/3 energy, pound pound pound, gouge, backstab, ss, gouge, backstab, kidney shot, etc; rinse, repeat.

if I've been unlucky, at some point, I must either use the kidney shot, extended gouge (5.5 seconds with talents), or blind to bandage myself; if I'm lucky, I don't have to do this until the point where he shields - he is blindable in this state, so save it until then. blind him right when he shields, bandage yourself, and run to the other side of the little ruins that he wanders around, from him. keep those in between you and him, for around 3-4 minutes, and you'll see his shield go off, then go over and beat him up.

if you used your blind, use sprint instead, and get around to the other side of the ruins from him, and keep him on the other side. it's not that hard, just tedious. once he unshields, you can then run over and gouge him or use your kidney shot to bandage yourself (or by now your blind may be back up).

good luck

Comment by Thottbot

I noticed that serpent sting also works. When we did him we didn't notice this at first, but later on I noticed that my serpent sting did damage him, so the other hunter used it too. This way the fight was easy

Comment by Thottbot

Me (50 rogue) and a 49 shaman beat this guy a couple of times pretty easily. Shaman just saves as much mana as possible for when he goes melee immune, then he "nukes" away... pretty crummy drops tho (some silk cloth and silver both times :p)

Comment by Thottbot

WHERE the hell is this guy i cant find him any where plz tell me

Comment by Thottbot

okay guys, im in the instance right now and Theka the Martyr is apparently walking around the scarab room. apparently my party killed him, i didnt noice, and didnt get the tablet drop from him for 'the prophecy of mosh'aru', but hes WALKING AROUND THE SCARAB ROOM you really cant miss him (unless youre me, reading tbot and missing the kill entirely lol)

Comment by Thottbot

I've solo'd him as a level 52 Rogue.

After dying about 4 or 5 times, I found a successful combination:

Poison both daggers with Deadly Poison.
Stealth and Cheap Shot him, then Sinister Strike for the first round of bubbles.
Slice and Dice to raise your DPS (Don't Blade Flurry, as this will draw Scarabs into the fight.)
Use Evasion if you have to (I did).
Use Sinister Strike exclusively, keeping yourself at 5 bubbles, but leaving enough energy to Kick him every time he tries a spell.
When he's down to 30% and about to shield, Kidney Shot him.
Immediately use Adreneline Rush and then Sinister Strike and Eviscerate to take his health down as fast as you can while he's stunned.

If all works well, his health should be under 15% when he comes out of stun. At this point, he doesn't bother to use his shield, and you should be able to easily finish him off. I didn't have any health potions, and didn't need to Vanish or bandage during the battle.

Comment by Thottbot

45 druid soloed him.... not immune to charge bash and root so pretty easy... long ass fight tho! :)

Comment by Allakhazam

To clarifty...

Hebecomes immune to all physcial attacks, you have to nail him with magic.

Comment by Allakhazam

He's immune to shadow damage as well as melee.

Comment by Allakhazam

Fought him today. His immunity to physical attacks wore off after a few shocks with a 6 second delay between them, so I'm guessing the shield only lasts for 30 seconds or so.

Comment by Allakhazam

Tried to solo him today as a 51 rogue (Krol blade, Joonho's mercy both with lifestealing). Used a +50 agi buff from Blasted Lands. Easy enough until 30% when his invulnerability kicked in. I thought maybe deadly poison would work... nope. Then I thought I could kite him around until it wore off.. no, although I only tried once and I think if I'd used the Geometry alittle better I could have.

Anyway - Not very Rogueable.

Comment by Allakhazam

Just Soloed as 53 rogue easy enough Kidney Shot Technique works well

Comment by Allakhazam

Make sure you have a mage with you to kill him, as he gets immune at about 30% of life left.

Comment by Allakhazam

It's possible to solo him with a rogue, or in a party with a rogue but no caster. Just make sure you are maxed on combo points when he gets close to 30% health, then hit him with kidney shot. Even if you can't kill him before the stun wears off, he doesn't seem to get his immunity and is easy to finish off.

Like other posters have pointed out, though, he doesn't have any regular drops so you might as well pass him up.

Comment by Allakhazam

When I went to Zul'farrak some days ago, he dropped The Minotaur]. As he is not listed there, I guess the Drop chance is quite low..

Edited, Wed Jul 13 14:29:12 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

This meanie dropped Gut Ripper and nothing more for my party.

won with 91 roll ;)

Comment by Allakhazam

easy kill as a 60 shammy, just use totem defences etc.
His droprate kinda sucks though, he hardly drops anything better then normal mobs, SOMETIMES he drops a green or blue, but he's not worth the trouble :o

Comment by Allakhazam

he's in the room with all the scarabs

Comment by Allakhazam

I killed him as a hunter while my group tanked him i shot a few DoT spells at him and he went down

Comment by Krytture

Solo'd as a 52 BM Hunter
Very easy, pet didnt have a problem at all, and Serpent Sting hurts him through his enrage.

Intimidate, BW, RF, Aimed Shot, got him to Enrage fast, then just kept Serpent Sting up and Healed the wolf a couple of times.

Comment by Avious

<Classic SOM 2022>

This was easily solo-able as a level 47 Combat Rogue. As others mentioned, you can beat on him easily using Evasion and Adrenaline Rush with a couple of bleeds and kicks until he get to about 30% HP. Once he's at 30%, he gains an Immunity, but this can be countered by just using Blind on him once he gains Immunity. Once he's blinded, use Bandages or Healing Potions and Sprint away if he gets close. I ran circles around the pillar in the middle of his area and was able to evade him and also Gouge him if he got close. I only had to run for about 1 min until I could damage him again. His Immunity phase honestly seemed to be shorter than 1 min, but I played it safe since others said it could last up to 3 mins.

After that, it's quite easy to kill him once his Immunity fades, again, it's super helpful to use Kick and Kidney Shot when needed. I had double Instant Poison and Vanquishers Sword/ Sword of Omen when this was done.

Hope this helps!

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