Benediction - The Balance of Light and Shadow

[Bonappetit 2]

FEW TIPS: 

- Don't bother with Oil of Immolation, it shares the CD with mana potions (bug)

- Get a friend to stand on top of the cave, he can mark some mobs he finds that are close to dieing and count the deaths for you in case the reset is needed

- As already mentioned, go with a 5/5 Spirit Tap talent and bring potions, runes and mp5 food (I even bought some inte/spir items and some inte elixirs, should be more then fine with 6k mana)

Goodluck!

 

Edited February 4, 2017 by Bonappetit

[Fattydorf 0]

I haven't tested it, but if you download Decursive this macro could potentially make it easier for you to dispel the mobs:

 

/run TargetNearestFriend() if UnitName('target') == UnitName('player') then TargetNearestFriend() end
/decursive

 

In theory you could spam that and dispel all of them pretty quickly.

[Maxvla 0]

Priests on Darrowshire are so terrible at this quest. Been trying to do this for almost a week now, but every time I arrive the NPC is despawned. What's worse is they come up here solo, so if they get in trouble they just fail and despawn. They need to bring a friend to interrupt the quest. 

[rprimora 0]

Finally did it the other day! I will share my experience with you in hope I help someone.

Spec:

You have to spec Spirit Tap since killing the skeletons will return your mana. This is a very important talent. Also if you can try to spec Mental Strength for greater mana pool.

If possible, try to get as much buffs as you can. People are usualy fine with buffing you. Make sure you ask for party buffs because they usually last twice as long.

Consumables:

• Mighty Trolls Blood for health regeneration. The fight is pretty long so it makes a difference. This is cheap on AH.
• Elixir of Greater Intellect. If you can't get mages buff than use this.
• Major Mana Potion. This is a must. You will need 2 of these for successful run. You can buy them or do DM tribut run. Use them as soon as you can so they restart the CD. Don't use them when you are on 5%. Use the first one when you are on 60% and the second one as soon as it is on CD.
• Stratholm Holy Water to kill skeletons. This will one shot them. I think you can use this 2-3 times on a successful run. This one saves mana. Use it on CD.
• Demonic Rune/Dark Rune. This is awesome since it does not share CD with Mana Pot. I did a Scholomance run for dark runes. Make sure you reserve these when you get into group. Mention you need them for priest quest. Most people will let you take them in this case(they fetch a good price on AH). Same goes for using as for Mana pot.

Dont come to do the quest without consumables!!!! There are probably people who did this without consumables but there are also people who fel from 4th floor and lived(not too many of those). Also worth to note is you might not be doing this on your first try so make sure you stack those consumables.

From heals you will need:

• Flash Heal Rank 4 - emergency heal. Use this when they are below 50%. After you pop a flash heal apply renew immediately.
• Renew Rank 6 - use this between 50% - 90%.
• Desperate Prayer highest rank. You can afford to drop to 10% health one time in this fight with this spell. Don't forget about this spell!

Killing skeletons.

You will do so with either Stratholm Holy Water as soon as it is on cooldown or with Holy Nova. For the Holy Nova try to use the rank that one shots the skeletons. Since this spell benefits from +Healing I cannot tell you which rank to use. You will know this best. Try to stack some skeletons on yourself so you don't use Holy Nova on 2 of them. That's a waste of mana!

Dispelling! This is your real enemy here. It is not the archers and it is not the skeletons. It is diseases. You will see that the NPC has disease by the color he gets.

PURPLE DISEASE

If he is purple than dispell ASAP! The purple diesease is the worst as it takes 20% of health per tick. This disease will be applied on 2-3 NPC-s as soon as the group spawns and will not appear again so, as soon as you see that the group is near the light and it needs no more healing, run to the start 'cos chances are another group just spawned and the disease is already ticking!

GREEN DISEASE

The second one will color the NPC in green and this one takes 5% per tick. This one is not so dangerous but as soon as you dispell it the better. As soon as you dispell check if the NPC has renew and if he doesn't you know what to do. Make sure you use Abolish Disease since that will leave a buff that will tick and clean any disease for a small period of time. This is extremely useful! This disease will be applied at all times.

One of the more annoying things about this quest is targeting. You can turn on friendly nameplates with SHIFT + V. If you have an addon that also displays debuffs on the plates than that is cool since you can see who you can target. 

I completed this with only 2 dead and I didin't have mana issues at all.

I hope this helps and good luck.