I am trying to complete the Tauren Heritage armour quest line and got stuck.
The quest to kill the big malevolent spirit is roflstomping me. The guides all seem to be aimed at Druids and they say to go Balance spec. But my Tauren is a rogue (freshly dinged 51) in not very good gear (although gear seems to matter less here).
Only way I’d managed to do any sustained damage is to hide in Baine’s tent, run out and shoot off 2 or 3 pistol shots and run back into the tent and use Crimson Vial to heal up again. This has 30 second cooldown and needs 3 or 4 goes to heal me up. So this operation takes a few minutes. Each assault does 1 or 2 thousand damage which would be ok if the spirit didn’t have 531k. I don’t want to spent 500 minutes doing this.
Any other tricks that you might know of?
PS, I’ve done all the other Heritage armour quests for the other races. Only Heritages I need now are some Allied races and will level those soon.
I am not. I don’t really know the class that well. I can check that out, it might speed things up a little.
Although I don’t think my strategy is viable. Not only does it take too long it is prone to deaths as the spirits does massive bomb type damage.
None of the other Heritage quests had anything remotely this nasty. I thought these were fun side activities.
This is like some Mage Tower level annoyance.
The core of Outlaw is to spend combo points to trigger restless blades, which reduces the cooldown on a number of Rogue abilities.
I have not done the Tauren Heritage questline but if the damage is area of effect damage as opposed to a direct targeted attack, feint incredibly useful for mitigating that damage - and also benefits from cooldown reduction via restless blades.
Take the Elusiveness talent to add regular damage reduction to Feint and Evasion.
Make sure you’re also running your instant poison and either numbing or atrophic depending on your talent choice.
If you’ve enough talent points Recuperator can help somewhat with sustain, while Slice and Dice is maintained via cut to the chase.
For solo play Riposte in the Spec tree can make Evasion add more DPS as well via Main Gauche.
From the guides they seem to have changed the mechanics somewhat.
An Ancient puts down a circle which apparently used to protect you from this big attack. But no longer does for some reason.
Not sure if bug or intended.
I don’t think any amount of playing rogue well will get this done. There is some trick to doing it that I probably won’t manage without some workaround.
I have no idea what the quest is like, but the best I can offer is get heart of azeroth and azerite gear with healing traits like self reliance. Unlock essences as well simply because it would shoot the heart’s level to 50 and allow use of all azerite rings. You can try and get the first essence as well to see if it works but there’s a chance it wouldn’t.
Lock your level if you’re afraid you’ll outlevel it, heart of azeroth scales to level 60.
Thanks for the advice but that sounds like too much effort for a fun side project. This isn’t a big deal it was just something I’d have quite liked to have done. If someone had a trick to doing it then that would have been nice but I’ll be ok with not doing it.
If I can’t figure it out soon, it’ll just go into the unfinished pile along with Insane title (I ain’t going to get that done before I retire in a few weeks).
There is no trick, but if you’re underleveled or undergeared even for that fight, the spirits will absolutely destroy you.
I had the same problem with my feral druid, doing the night-elf heritage set.
Nothing in these quests warns you that you need to have semi-decent gear appropriate to the level these were intended, because the scaling is absolutely whack in these quests.
I don’t remember this quest line. But I checked on my Night Elf and it says they’ve done the quest. I did it on a Demon Hunter though and in Tank spec so that makes things easier.
I did struggle a bit with a robot dog in the Gnome one but I went and got some gear and it was fine.
Also I just downed the Malevolent Spirt too.
How I managed it on a poorly geared, poorly played level 51 rogue.
Start the fight with a few Saber Slashes and Pistol Shots.
Vanish, mount up and fly above the carnage.
Wait for the Blue circles of Buffing and land to recieve Buff.
Repeat til 5 stacks.
Land by the Malevolent Spirt.
Spam Saber Slash and Pistol Shot for a few seconds then Dispatch to end.
Vanish, mount up and Fly up high.
Do the blue circles of Buffing again, you’ll heal up and Vanish will Cooldown in this time.
Repeat til done. Will take a while, each attack is 20 - 40k damage.
You said it yourself, you have low gear. I found the Blood elf one bad because I was behind on gear due to quick levelling. I’d just wait until you have better gear, although in the end i bought some stuff from the AH.
Gear and class skill aren’t really the issue for this fight. You need a strategy / trick to do it. Better gear and class knowledge would be of use if the fight was me getting the boss to 30% and failing. But I was getting the boss to like 90% in 10 minutes then failing. Better gear and skill would get me a bit further a bit faster.
Thankfully I figured one out (see post above). The issue is the boss is constantly doing massive AoE bursts. I could survive for only a few seconds. I read wowhead and other guides and none of them had any ideas on how to avoid this damage.
I have no idea how I would have done this fight on a Warrior as they don’t have Vanish to mount up and fly above this massive damage.
With a pet class I might have hid in Baine’s tent and sent in my pet to fight, die, revive, repeat. This might have worked, over some time.
A class with good healing might have been able to pop in and out of Baine’s tent more often.
I did this on my Tauren druid (Feral). And I dont exactly remember the fight - but I think I brought phials and eventually managed to get through the quest to unlock the set. It’s just to repeat over and over again until you got it.
Although even back in Vanilla we had Mr. Smite the pirate in Deadmines. So I guess it depends on your rogue spec.
But a sneaky sneak-sneak rogue wouldn’t make much sense as a Tauren for sure.
Saying that I’m more in favour of loosening race/class restrictions these days. Let the players choose their role to play.
