Skull Lord Var’Ithrok Down – Order – Warhammer Online

Posted on November 15, 2008
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EA Mythic finally fixed the Order side quest for this boss so we went to go to Bastion Stairs, and pay a visit to old Skull Lord Var’Ithrok last night. We tried to get two groups through the prerequisite quests, but one of them had some one go afk during one so we only got one group up to the top.

If you are an Order player like me, and hadn’t done the quests yet since they recently fixed them. Here is what you’ll need to do courtesy of this thread here:

1. Find the clue. (http://www.wardb.com/quest.aspx?id=41233)
-Once you’re in the first room of the Path of Ruin, click the blue banner to the right to complete.
2. Speak to the wounded knight (http://www.wardb.com/quest.aspx?id=41234)
-After you’ve clicked the banner, a wounded knight will spawn. Speak with him to complete.
3) Speak to Grandmaster Kaarn. (http://www.wardb.com/quest.aspx?id=41235)
-Once you’re back into the room with the blue banner, keep going forward (right) till you are in the open area with the dogs. In the far back right corner you’ll see 4 daemons on a platform that is branched out from the open area. Kill all four of them and Grandmaster Kaarn will spawn. Speak to him to complete.
4. Collect 50 skulls of the fallen. (http://www.wardb.com/quest.aspx?id=41236)
-These skulls only drop off the mobs from first half of the second PQ. You’ll have to keep redoing the first half because those are the only ones that seem to drop them. Collect 50 skulls to complete.
5. The three steps. (http://www.wardb.com/quest.aspx?id=41237)
-Click your quest scroll (Myrmidia Strictures) at all three ledges/levels of the last (third) PQ.
6. Kill Kaarn. (http://www.wardb.com/quest.aspx?id=41238)
-Kill Grandmaster Kaarn. Turn in the quest at the NPC that spawns near the instance entrance.
7. You need to complete two quests before advancing through the portal.(http://www.wardb.com/quest.aspx?id=41206 – http://www.wardb.com/quest.aspx?id=41222)
-For Raging Bull, go through the left wing (Path of Carnage) and kill the last boss (Thar’Ignan). After you’ve killed him, run up to where he was standing initially and loot the spear. For Emperor’s Justice, go through the right wing (Path of Fury) and kill the last boss. (Lord Slaurith) Complete both quests in-order to go through the last portal.
8. Kill Var’Ithrok (http://www.wardb.com/quest.aspx?id=41239)
-After completing “Portal of Rage”, the quest giver inside Kaarn’s room will give you this quest.

We were getting bugged on step 3, as Kaarn would not spawn nfor us even after killing everything on the steps. So instead of two groups killing him, only one group was able to last night. Once you’ve done these quests you’ll be able to enter the portal at the very end of middle path in Bastion Stairs.

Skull Lord Varithrok - Warhammer Online

There’s some easy trash mobs pulls on the way up, and I guess Mythic hadn’t tested these with order players enough or something. The biggest hint was the fact that the trash mobs drop Destruction level 21 loot for us, making us worried that the boss was going to drop the same thing. Well we cleared the trash, and walked into his giant arena to gaze upon his GIANT self. This pic doesn’t do him justice as my dwarven self could fit into that guy’s hand. This is me taking the pic with him just entering the clipping zone.

The fight in general was pretty easy, but we just kept either getting unlucky on the silence or getting burst with dot/sunder at the same time.

Skull Lord Var’Ithrok has a few abilities

Sunder – Frontal/Rear cone aoe this attack hits everything infront and inbehind him simultaneously for 2-5k.
Single Target Dot – a single target Dot that cannot be removed. It ticked for 1.2k/tick on me.
Melee Range Aoe – Wether this is an aoe ability or an melee range dot we couldn’t figure out. The tank didn’t seem to be affected by it too much, but our White Lion was getting hit with it constantly. None of our ranged people got hit by it.
Cloud – Skull Lord Var’Ithrok drops a red cloud at random on people. At first we ran out of it, but then noticed it didn’t do any damage to us so we just ignored it. We didn’t really notice any increase in damage or anything. I didn’t even see me get a debuff when I was in it, perhaps its bugged for now?
3 Hound Spawns – Once Skull Lord Var’Ithroks hp went below 70%, every 15% or so he would summon a pack of 3 normal hounds. They usually made a bee line for our tank, but sometimes they would go to a healer or caster. Our tank could tank all the hounds, and the boss at the same time. Its important to get the hounds off the healers asap if they are on them.

So after much wiping from dumb mistakes we finally get to kill him, and I have to say his death animation was pretty funy. I thought it was cool how he got sucked into this gigantic portal. Which I feel deserves a screenshot of its own.

Loots was one single Bloodlord Flamerobe (chest) for our failure bright wizard. Also it dropped 1 Bloodlord Runecuffs which I already had, and some weapon that our Warrior Priest didn’t need. That was about it. All in all it was a fun encounter I think.

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