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Contents 1 Lyceum of Abhorrence 1.1 Trash Mob's 1.2 Named Monsters 1.2.1 Essence of Fear 1.2.1.1 Strategy 1.2.2 Gnillaw the Demented 1.2.2.1 Strategy 1.2.3 Gnorbl the Playful 1.2.3.1 Strategy 1.2.4 Vilucidae the Priest of Thule 1.2.4.1 Strategy

Lyceum of Abhorrence

This zone is located on Fear Tainted Island in Tenbrous Tangle. Use the cloud station by HoS to fly to Vultak and then to Fear Tainted Island.

Quests in the zone: Amygdalan Invasion, given by NPC Zhivaz Ne'pasdar, who stands up on the rocks by the cloud station on Fear Tainted Island. You must speak Dragon in order to receive the quest. Let your RL know if you are on the quest prior to raid zone in.

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Trash Mob's

The zone has a pattern to it that must be followed to get to the named's. First all the trash mobs must be cleared in the first room and the 4 rooms to the right and left (2 on each side). Once those are all cleared, the golems in the first room become active. Once those are killed, the Essence of Fear becomes attackable in the first room. The first room has 4 orbs in it that radiate an AOE Fear. The only 2 places to avoid them are in the center of the room or in the hallway. We prefer to fight him in the hallway. Once the Essence of Fear is dead, the two passageways deeper in on the right and left side rooms will open. The left side leads to Gnillaw the Demented. The right side leads to Gnorbl the Playful. Once these are defeated, there are some trash mobs in the hall that leads to Vilucidae.

Make sure you bring lots of mana regen potions/poison as the named's here have loads of health and the fights will last well over 7 or 8 minutes. We recommend going high mitigation in the MT group as it eases the healers job and allows them to handle their mana much more efficiently.

Mob Name	Mob Health	Auto-Attack Type	Combat Arts	AOE Timer	Special Notes
Thulian Fear Devourer	125,000 or 360,000	Crushing - 1500	Stunning Cry - Single Group Crushing Stun		These are in the entrance hallway and on the right and left side of the first room - They come in groups of 4 (or 5 deeper in the zone), 2 (or 3) with the lesser health, 2 with more. Take out the lesser first.
Guardian of the Sanctum	680,000	Slashing - 3000			He's in the middle and is grouped with the 4 Fright Knights.
Thulian Fright Knight	75,000	Crushing - 1200	Stunning Cry - Single Group Crushing Stun
Essence Protector	1,105,000	Crushing - 2000			He is a single Amy that roams around the center of the room.
Gasping Fleshrender	405,000	Slashing - 3000			He paths just inside the doorways (left and right) of the first room and between the groups of two rooms.
Tireless Fear Touched Mobs	164,000-250,000	Slashing - 2000			These are groups of 3 inside the rooms through the left and right door after the main room  - Need to proxy pull them into hall
Fear Tainted Feaster	550,000	Slashing - 1500			(Not sure where this guy is)
Thulian Fear Guard (group)	330,000	Crushing - 2000			These are in the main hall and become active after you kill all the side room mobs. There are 2.
Thulian Fear Guard (single)	415,000	Crushing - 2500			There are 2 more of these, but they are not linked. Make sure you pull the last one into the entrance hallway.
Eye of Thule	1,500,000	Crushing - 1500	Gaze of Writhing Agony - ST Mental DD (1750 dmg)		There is 1 mob like this just inside each room with the named's.
Thulian Fear Keeper	160,000	Crushing - 1750	Stunning Cry - Single Group Crushing Stun		These guard the hallway that connects the two rooms with the named's.
Thulian Fear Devourer	180,000	Crushing - 3000	Stunning Cry - Single Group Crushing Stun		This is a group of 8 heroics on the stairs that lead to Vilucidae's room
Protector of Fear	1,170,000	Crushing - 3000	Stunning Cry - Single Group Crushing Stun		There's 2 or 3 of these inside Vilucidae's room - They can be single pulled. Once they are dead, Vilucidae goes into the pit and becomes attackable.

• - Damage is the maximum damage it can do to a lv70 character. Those with good mitigation or resists will get hit for less. Those under level 70 will get hit for more.
  

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Named Monsters

Essence of Fear

• Mob Health: (73 Epic x4 Named, Approx HP: 2 million) [1]
• Melee Attacks: Auto-attacks with crushing and mental damage (4500 dmg)
• Special Attacks:

1. Fear's Grasp - Mental AOE Fear and power drain every 30 seconds

Strategy

Ok, he is supposed to have a power drain and an AOE fear. However, when we took him down, he only cast it once and that was on a single target (who resisted it). So, I don't know if he was bugged that night or if they've changed how he operates. We don't fight him in the room. We pull him into the hallway and then begin the long process of beating the snot out of him. If he does happen to do the AOE fear every 30 seconds or so, we just have the healers joust it. Everyone else crouches.

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Gnillaw the Demented

• Mob Health: (73^^^ Epic x4 Named (Approx. HP: 2,800,000) ) [2]
• Melee Attacks: Crushing
• Special Attacks:

1. Stunning Cry - Single Group Crushing DD (2k, 4k if you're a mage) with stun - Seems to only do this 2 or 3 times during the fight
2. Gnillaw's Fear Strike - Slashing AOE with knockback (3k-5k) every 25-40 seconds

He comes with:

• 4 Newly Converted Droags
• Mob Health: 50,000

Strategy

The hardest part of this fight is the pull. The damage can be very spiky at first because of the 4 adds. We pull him into the hallway and do not fight him in the room. This negates the knockback as there's not much room to get knocked around in there. Once the adds go down, it's simply a stamina fight. You can joust the AOE, but it's ideal to heal through it as the longer the fight goes, the less of a chance you have to succeed. When he gets down to 1% health, he will heal himself back up to 25%. He supposedly does some very spiky nuking damage when he gets to 2% health, so go all out once you get him that low.

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Gnorbl the Playful

• Mob Health: (72^^^ Epic x4 Named, Approx. HP: 2,100,000) [3]
• Melee Attacks: Crushing (1500 - 4000)
• Spell Attacks: Heat, Mental
• Special Attacks:

1. Gaze of Writhing Agony - ST Mental DOT (2k dmg initial and 800 dmg every 12 seconds) on a 75 second timer
2. Focused Debhilitating High Beam - ST Heat DD (3000 dmg)

• He comes with:
  • Fearling Tot (x12)
  • Mob Health: 25,000
• Every 25-30 seconds he summons:
  • Gnorbl the Playful's Fearling Friend (x3)
  • Mob Health: Next to nothing
  • Auto-Attack Type: Crushing (5k dmg)
  • Special Attacks:
  1. Playful Taunt - AOE Taunt that will make you change your target from Gnorbl to them
  2. Fearling Friends Fearling Heal - 40,000 Heal when they die
  3. Fearling Friend - Crushing DD (10k-14k dmg)

Strategy

• Have a /target Gnorbl the Playful macro made. Gnorbl will cast a spell that will transfer target to his Tots and/or no one.
• First wave of tots are burned to death
• After first wave of Tots is dead, cease using any AoE spells. This includes dumbfires and pets that have AoE abilities.
• Target Gnorbl directly for duration of fight.
• Gnorbl will spawn more Tots. Mezzers will mez the tots. These will heal him if killed, so it is important to use your target Gnorbl macro so you do not kill the Tots by mistake.

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Vilucidae the Priest of Thule

• Mob Health: (73^^^ Epic x4 Named, Approx. HP: 2,800,000) [4]
• Special attacks:

1. Raging Blow - Frontal Cone Crushing Barrage (1500 dmg) - On a random timer

• Changes stances during fight
  • STANCE OF FRIGHT (offensive stance)
  1. Active between 100 and 75% health.
  2. 25% chance to double attack.
  3. Attack speed increased.
  4. Possible frontal barrage.
  • STANCE OF TERROR
  1. Active between 75 and 50% health
  2. Chance to reflect spells at their caster.
  3. Avoidance increased.
  4. Melee crit chance greatly increased.
  • STANCE OF DREAD (healing stance)
  1. Active between 50 and 25% health.
  2. In-combat health regen increased.
  3. Rispostes 25% of frontal attacks.
  • STANCE OF THULE (defensive stance)
  1. Active between 25 and 0% health
  2. Ripostes 50% of frontal attacks.
  3. Avoidance, mitigation, and magic resistance greatly increased.
  4. Cures all debuffs and DoTs from himself when he enters stance.

Strategy

• Mob will be fought at top of stairs, where Gnorbl was slain.
• Pet pull mob.
• MT will hold mob against the wall with its back towards the raid. Vulicidae does not have a constant AoE, however, he does have a strong frontal attack.
• If you get aggro, run to the MT immediately to prevent the rest of the raid from dying by the mob's frontal attack.
• Pay attention to the stances. The strategy for each stance is as follows:

   Stance of Fright - Offensive stance - barrage/AE - range attack/spells/ca only 
   Stance of Terror - Spell resistant, no casting. Big DPS stage.
   Stance of Dread - burn.
   Stance of Thule - slow and steady DPS.  It is hard for the MT to hold aggro in this stance.

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Credits:

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