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Darkmaster Gandling
Darkmaster Gandling - Scholomance
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Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for the Darkmaster Gandling encounter in Scholomance.
Course: Advanced Studies The recent defeat in Andorhal has put Darkmaster Gandling in the foulest of moods. Pupils who dissatisfy the headmaster will be removed from class to perform lab work... or become lab work.
Encounter Facts
In the game's encounter order for Scholomance, Darkmaster Gandling comes 5th of 5, after Lilian Voss.
- Instructor Chillheart
- Jandice Barov
- Rattlegore
- Lilian Voss
- Darkmaster Gandling
Instance Entrance: Western Plaguelands
Scholomance entranceThe Scholomance entrance is in Caer Darrow, Western Plaguelands, at 69.0, 72.7 on the Western Plaguelands map.
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Incinerate
Gandling deals Fire damage to his current target.
Immolate
Gandling burns an enemy for Fire damage, then inflicts additional Fire damage every 3 sec. for 21 sec.
Rise!
Gandling summons a legion of Failed Students to fight for him. The students swarm the area, fighting anything they can. While channelling this spell, the Darkmaster takes 50% less damage.
Failed Student
The Darkmaster raises the bodies of failed students to attack players.
Harsh Lesson
Darkmaster Gandling teleports a random player to one of his study rooms for a harsh lesson!
Study Rooms
Expired Test Subject
The Darkmaster keeps these former test subjects in the nearby rooms. They attack anyone who enters their rooms.
Fresh Test Subject
The Darkmaster keeps these subjects alive in the nearby rooms for testing. Each test subject suffers from Explosive Pain.
Explosive Pain
Gandling's experiment inflicts excruciating pain on the Fresh Test Subject. Dispelling the effect from the Fresh Test Subject unleashes an explosion of magical energy.
Ability Spells
Every ability the Adventure Guide lists for Darkmaster Gandling, with its spell's school, cast time and duration and the description the game gives it.
Immolate
Fire · 2 sec cast · Lasts 21 sec
Burns an enemy for Fire damage, then inflicts additional Fire damage every 3 sec. for 21 sec.
Rise!
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 26 sec
Summons a legion of Failed Students to fight for the Darkmaster. The students will swarm the area, fighting anything they can. While channelling this spell, the Darkmaster takes 50% less damage.
Explosive Pain
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 1 sec
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Drops
Loot the dungeon journal lists for this encounter in Scholomance.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
What Each Drop Is
The Darkmaster Gandling encounter lists 15 items in the dungeon journal, item levels 23 to 39. Equip slots covered: Two-Hand, Hands, Waist, Trinket and Shoulder. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Headmaster's Will Two-Hand (Staff), item level 39, requires level 35. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 140g 30s for it.
- Gloves of Explosive Pain Hands (Mail), item level 39, requires level 35. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Haste. A vendor pays 29g 73s for it.
- Incineration Belt Waist (Cloth), item level 39, requires level 35. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 29g 84s for it.
- Lessons of the Darkmaster Trinket, item level 39, requires level 35. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Haste. A vendor pays 18g 5s for it.
- Price of Progress Trinket, item level 39, requires level 35. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect. A vendor pays 18g 5s for it.
- Searing Words Trinket, item level 39, requires level 35. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Critical Strike. A vendor pays 18g 5s for it.
- Shoulderguards of Painful Lessons Shoulder (Plate), item level 39, requires level 35. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 42g 63s for it.
- Tombstone Gauntlets Hands (Leather), item level 39, requires level 35. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 29g 52s for it.
- Gloves of Explosive Pain Hands (Mail), item level 23, requires level 17. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Haste. A vendor pays 9g 44s for it.
- Incineration Belt Waist (Cloth), item level 23, requires level 17. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 9g 47s for it.
- Lessons of the Darkmaster Trinket, item level 23, requires level 17. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Haste. A vendor pays 73s for it.
- Price of Progress Trinket, item level 23, requires level 17. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect. A vendor pays 73s for it. Equip: Price of Progress - Item - Proc Mana Energize.
- Searing Words Trinket, item level 23, requires level 17. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Critical Strike. A vendor pays 73s for it. Equip: Item - Attack Crits Proc Agi.
- Shoulderguards of Painful Lessons Shoulder (Plate), item level 23, requires level 17. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 14g 15s for it.
- Tombstone Gauntlets Hands (Leather), item level 23, requires level 17. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 9g 37s for it.
Read from the current game build's item data. Listed prices come from our latest US Auction House scan; a drop that binds when picked up never has one.