Building a Heroic Army

Just got this achievement as a 660ilvl arcane mage, here's my advice:

- Loot the Suramar treasures for the 500 ancient mana cap increase. I'd recommend bringing at least 15 withered to your runs.

- Run the normal mode version of this scenario a couple times to get most/all the upgrades for your withered. (A 400+ score ensures the reward chest will give enough ancient mana to rerun the scenario)

- When running heroic world tier mode: bring as many withered as possible, remember that there's no time limit, so wait for cooldowns between pulls, because your withered WILL die to the added legion monsters and hard mode affixes.

- The arcane shades are the big bosses of this run, so pop everything so you can burst them down before they wipe your army. If you can't beat them yet, increase your ilvl more before rerunning.

- Avoid setting your withered to attack in the big open rooms, because they will literally pull everything.

- you ONLY need to amass 200 score. For context, a full clear of this scenario amounts to 700~ score. this means you can literally focus on clearing the first couple main rooms (do NOT bother with the side rooms & mini bosses in heroic world tier mode. full clearing up to just before the central room of the ruins should net you 200 points, you can then fail the scenario and still get the achievement. I would not advise going any further in the scenario because the stealth boss will likely eliminate your withered army almost immediately.

Fortunately there's no daily/weekly lockout on rerunning the scenario and no further achievements beyond this. Running this a few times on normal first can also net you up to 8 Toys which is a worthwhile bonus.

Edit: Since finishing the Suramar Campaign I can no longer run the scenario multiple times a day. Even after the 15 minute debuff expires. Not sure why it works like this.

How the hell are you supposed to do this when the white ghost elites insta-kill your entire army when they die due to their death AoE on heroic world mode? It's not like you can tell them to go wait further away.

Completed at 740 with around 100% vers. I didn't bother upgrading my withered and used the minimum amount of mana to start the event.

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• Go slow and play it safe.
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• Use your AoE abilities to tag mobs and hold agro. They'll one shot your withered if they get agro.
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• Take the summon demon ability from your artifact weapon and ensure it is up for every Volatile Wrath. Blow up your demon when the Volatile Wraith gets to about 30% HP to instantly kill it.
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• If any of the mobs are empowered with the ability that does damage when they die, then make sure to CC and kill them within 8 seconds to disable that ability.
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• Avoid all the side rooms which require you to have previously empowered your withered to enter. Stop before you get to Leystalker Dro as he will likely kill your withered.
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• After reaching a score of 200, go back to the entrance and talk to Thalysssra to end the scenario. The achievement pops when you open the chest afterwards.
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