Hello everyone!
With the help of my guild stark industries, I was able to relive one of my favorite quests
in all of WoW, the epic hunter bow questline to obtain Rokdelar!
I want to use that as well as some of my other experiences in classic to make a little video
compilation of my experiences, HOWEVER, doing the quest showed me that there aren’t a
lot of live guides out there.
Most of them are from private realms so i figured why not, lets go very old school and
make a little guide for those looking for help.
Is it really needed, maybe not, but man was it fun to make a guide again and maybe it
will help someone out there that’s struggling with the quest.
The quest is obtained from the ancient petrified leaf which you can loot after defeating Majordomo
Executus in the molten core.
You have a 50/50 shot of having either the leaf or the eye.
If you’re lucky enough, accept the quest and make your way to felwood, coordinates
48 23.
The ancients will give you 3 different quests.
1 is purely for the quiver which you don’t need to do to unlock the bow.
It requires a Mature Blue Dragon Sinew.
You could farm blue dragons in winterspring for it which don’t have a great drop chance
or wait for the world boss Azuregos to be available in a future phase as he will have
a 100% droprate.
Then the other 2.
One has you pick up a Mature Black Dragon Sinew which has a 30% dropchance from Onyxia.
The other quest, the fun part, has you hunt down 4 different demons scattered across the
world.
Each of them has their own weaknessess, their own special abilties which you need to counter
with yours.
You can get buffs and all kinds of potions and enchants before the fight, but once you
pull...no help allowed.
This is a 1 on 1 challenge.
Even your pet has to stay behind as any spells or abilities done on you or the demon by someone
else has them despawn.
If that happens, it takes around 15 minutes for them to appear again.
You make the shopping list and preperation list as extensive as you like.
Scrolls, elixers, enchants, potions, healthstones, dynamite.
You name it, the sky is the limit.
I would personally recommend as a must have around 5 major mana potions, 1 greater nature
protection potion and 1 greater shadow protection potion.
For talents I used the 5 31 15 build shown on screen.
The gear is decent, a nice 6 out of 8 beaststalker bonus and I had my weapon enchanted with demonslaying
which looking back was a bit of an overkill.
Simone the inconspicious wanders around in un’gor and you’ll want to activate her
close to the Golakka Hot Springs, coordinates 36.
60.
This way you can stick to the edge of the lake and have a clear path to kite her in.
She has 2 major abilities.
One is Chain Lightning which deals a ton of nature damage.
The other is Tempress’kiss, which reduces your ranged attack power, forcing you to melee
in order to deal damage.
Your counter abilities are aspect of the wild which gives you nature resistance and Viper
Sting.
Normally viper string drains mana but on simone it actually sillences her, giving you the
ability to interupt her chain lightning.
Things like Scatter shot also work and a helpfull addon to keep track of her casting would be
ClassicCastBars.
You might have noticed that she does not come alone, she has precious with her but precious
isn’t a problem as they’re not linked to one another.
That means you can trap precious at the start and kite Simone away to the lake, making it
a one on one fight or mess it up like i do and just keep pulling simone with until the
hound leaves you alone.
Getting her to the lake and in a safe spot within un’goro is really the hard part of
the fight.
Especially if you decide to use a greater nature protection to absorb the damage from
her Chain lightning incase you mess up and she gets a cast off.
It’s a safety buffer really as with scatter shot and viper sting, you should be able to
keep it under control.
Wingclip her when you need to create some distance.
Melee incase you have the debuff.
Keep that chain lightning under control and you will win the fight.
Artorius the Amiable can be found in the northern area of Winterspring and you’ll want to
active him as cloes to the road you can.
I personally did it at coordinates 58.19.
His major ability is that when he gets too close, within 30 yards, he’ll put demonic
doom on you transforming you into a demon and dealing massive damage over time.
If this happens when he’s not near death, then your fight is over and you might as well
reset.
We counter this by kiting him.
If you don’t know what kiting is or how to do it, i’ll link a guide in the description.
Aim of the game is to keep him at distance, dragging him along through the densely populated
winterspring until we reach the safety of the road and dont have to worry about being
dazed.
Alternatively you could also ask your friends to come along and clear the path infront of
you.
They’re not allowed to hit the demon, but they can clear the trash.
His weakness is Serpent Sting which deals a whole lot more damage to him then it normally
would.
Make sure to have aspect of the cheetah on and open up as you normally would.
Apply a hunters mark and cast your aimed shot.
Kite him to the road while keeping serpent sting up on him at all times.
Use Arcane shot rank 1 to keep him engaged and don’t forget that you have concussive
shot incase you need to run up a hill or get into trouble and need to slow him down.
5 seconds in between abilities is what i used so cast serpent cast, count to 5, cast arcane
shot, count to 5, turn around and keep hitting him, kite him along until the demon falls.
Nelson the Nice can be found roaming in silithus and you’ll probably want to activate him
as close to the gates of ahn’qiraj as you can since that place doesn’t really have
mobs to interfear with your fight.
This one starts off enraged which you need to nulify with a Frost Trap so make sure to
place one beneath him before you talk.
You can safely feign death to reset the fight and get a nice ranged start In my case another
hunter already activated him and we took turns trying to take him down, each using our own
plan of attack.
His major ability is Dreadful Fright which fears you and causes a ton of shadow damage.
You can use a Greater Shadow Protection Potion to absorb some of the damage but his fear
might still run you into the adds that he summons.
You can counter that with a warlock friend.
Not only can they provide you with a delicious healthstone, they can also make you immune
to the fear.
Challenge them to a duel in which they need to dot you with Curse of Recklessness Rank
1.
Keep the duel active and the curse will prevent you from being feared around which makes it
a whole lot easier.
His weakness is wingclip which roots him into place letting you go all out with ranged attacks.
The adds he summons should be killed with Multishot or get some engineering dynamite
to help you with some aoe power.
Personally I found that with the cheese tactic, the adds were a bit of a joke as they move
very slowly and you can easily kite them around in a circle while dpsing down the demon.
Our last target to take out is Franklin the Friendly roaming the south western part of
the Burning Steppes.
You’ll want to let him get close to the mountain and active him around coordinates
26 53.
This one in my opinion is the hardest out of all of them.
Not so much because of his abilities, but more because it’s a very long fight in a
very crouded area meaning that there’s a lot of potential for people to mess it up.
His major ability is an enrage called demonic frenzy.
If he’s in melee range while enraged, you’re pretty much dead.
Scorpid Sting is used to counter this as it removes the enrage and make him deal very
little melee damage.
Open up as usual, Hunters Mark, aimed shot, freezing trap, another aimed shot and you’re
fight can properly begin.
Use concusive shot to keep distance between you and apply Scorpid sting to remove the
first enrage.
At that point it’s a matter of finding your flow in the battle.
Swap between hitting him with melee and get ready to create some distance to not get killed
and remove his enrage.
Wingclip is of course a great help with this, use that time and distance to get a few shots
in.
Back into melee, use wingclip, create distance, calm him down, shoot him a few times and repeat.
Scatter shot and deterrence are your problem solving buttons.
If he enrages at the wrong moment.
The flow is a bit disturbed, then those 2 abilities can be life savers.
Do be warned, he can parry your wing clip, you can be dazed if you’re not careful.
Slow and steady wins this race as you can easily kite him around for 2 minutes and re-use
a mana potion.
Find that flow and your final demon will fall.
Earning you the amazing rhok’delar, Longbow of the Ancient Keepers and if you ask them
nicely, also the staff to go with it.
I so very much enjoyed re-doing these fights and i’m sure that there are people out there
with amazing and better strategies then I ever came up with.
If you got some tips for your fellow hunters, then by all means leave them in the comments
down below.
Thank you very much for watching everyone and until next time....see ya!