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Having a melee-heavy group with a Protection Warrior tank is the key to breezing through this achievement with ease. Melee classes have the easiest time polishing off their shades, but the Protection Warrior is what really trivializes the DPS requirement. Spell Reflecting Volazj's Mind Flay will cause him to take ~18 000 damage for every Flay you send back at him.
Assuming you take 30 seconds each to handle the Insanity phases, and your Warrior reflects a Mind Flay every 10 seconds, your four non-healers need to put out only an average of 1348 DPS.
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Achievement Points10
Achievement
Volazj's Quick Demise
Defeat Herald Volazj in Ahn'kahet on Heroic Difficulty in 2 minutes or less.
Volazj's Quick Demise is a 10 point achievement in Lich King Dungeon. Its criteria ask you to defeat 1 creature in Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom.
How to Earn
WhereAhn'kahet: The Old Kingdom (entrance in Dragonblight at 28.5, 51.8)
CreaturesKill Herald Volazj on Heroic Difficulty in 2 minutes or less.
How to Complete
1 criterion from the current game data.
Defeat these creatures (1)
Kill each creature listed.
- Kill Herald Volazj on Heroic Difficulty in 2 minutes or less.
Details
- Category
- Dungeons & Raids › Lich King Dungeon
- Points
- 10
- Faction
- Both factions
- Requirements
- 1 criteria line
- Instance
- Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom
- Instance type
- Dungeon
- Expansion
- Wrath of the Lich King
About Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom
Azjol-Nerub was an empire of great strength when the Lich King arrived in Northrend. Despite ferocious resistance, however, Scourge forces managed to overtake the subterranean kingdom and slaughter its inhabitants, the nerubians. Scarred by years of war and abandonment, this vast domain is now occupied on two fronts.
From the in-game Adventure Guide.
Where to Earn It
Volazj's Quick Demise is earned inside Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom, a dungeon. The entrance is marked below.
The entrance to Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom is in Dragonblight at 28.5, 51.8.
Entrance 28.5, 51.8Dragonblight, from the game’s own world map art. The framed marker is the Adventure Guide entrance.
Part of
Meta achievements that count this one among their criteria.
- Glory of the Hero 25 points
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Other achievements in Lich King Dungeon.
A Void DanceDefeat Zuramat the Obliterator in The Violet Hold on Heroic Difficulty without killing any void sentries.10Abuse the OozeDefeat Sjonnir the Ironshaper in the Halls of Stone on Heroic Difficulty and kill 5 Iron Sludges during the encounter.10Ahn'kahet: The Old KingdomDefeat the bosses in Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom.10Amber VoidDefeat Ley-Guardian Eregos in The Oculus on Heroic Difficulty without anyone in your party using an Amber Drake.10Argent ConfessorOn separate visits to the Trial of the Champion, get credit for defeating Argent Confessor Paletress after suppressing five different memories of the past on Heroic Difficulty.10Azjol-NerubDefeat the bosses in Azjol-Nerub.10Better Off DredEngage King Dred in Drak'Tharon Keep on Heroic Difficulty and slay 6 Drakkari Gutrippers or Drakkari Scytheclaw during his defeat.10Brann Spankin' NewDefeat the Tribunal of Ages encounter in the Halls of Stone on Heroic Difficulty without allowing Brann Bronzebeard to take any damage.10Chaos TheoryDefeat Anomalus in The Nexus on Heroic Difficulty without destroying any Chaotic Rifts.10Consumption JunctionDefeat Trollgore in Drak'Tharon Keep on Heroic Difficulty before Consume reaches ten stacks.10
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Edit: This post is now for historical information purposes only. This method was hotfixed as of 9th December 2008's Tuesday maintenance and no longer works.
(Don't downrate this or half the comments below won't make any sense about a LoS method!)
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Tank the boss at either of the 2 pillars behind the boss and have everyone stand next to the pillar as well. When the boss casts Insanity (5 second cast), all players run around the pillar to line-of-sight the boss.When the cast completes, assuming all 5 players were out of line of sight, everyone would briefly see 4 images of their party members for 1 second, and everyone exits the Insanity phase instantly (the images kill themselves). So Insanity pretty much does nothing, and you can kill the boss easily within 2 minutes.
Note you may need to LoS Insanity twice.
Did it tonight with Prot warrior, Ret Pally, Enh Shammy, Holy Pally, and myself(FG/ember lock). What we did was pop heroism instantly at the beginning and burned him to about 45% before the first insanity hit, and then used that same heroism to burn through the first insanity as fast as possible. We then pushed him down towards the second insanity, and as he was casting it, our Holy pally(who I had soulstoned) DI'd me. I broke DI once he had cast, and had no adds. Our pally rezzed and had no adds. The other three only had to deal with two adds each. Killed him with about 25 seconds left.
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