It is strongly suggested that you bring a 5 man party for this quest.

There are serveral tactics to handle this quest, a good tactic would be to move everyone onto the lower part of the mountain. The tank should now pull him down there and turn his back towards the brick wall of the mountain (to avoid being knocked off) and the rest focus on DPS (some might have issues with the add spawn, if you wipe on the add, try focusing the dps towards them as a priority and then continue on the demon).

I know many of you are highly interested in the 16 slot bag given by this quest - The chain is fairly long and starts in:
Horde: Fallen Hero (Swamp of Sorrows, questname "The Disgraced One")
Alliance: NPC in Nethergarde Keep (Blasted Lands - sends you to Fallen Hero)

Chain:
1.The Disgraced One (Given by Fallen Hero)
2.The Missing Orders
3.The Swamp Talker
4.The Stones That Bind Us (Given by Fallen Hero)
5.Heroes of Old
6.Heroes of Old (Reward: Shard of Afrasa)
7.Kirith (level 55 elite. Given by Fallen Hero)
8.The Cover of Darkness
9.The Demon Hunter (Loramus is at 61,66)
10.Loramus
11.Breaking the Ward
12.The Name of the Beast (Talk to Lord Arkkoroc. He is inside the Temple at 76,42)
13.The Name of the Beast (Kill Hetaera)
14.The Name of the Beast (Go back to Loramus)
15.Azsharite
16.The Formation of Felbane (Galvan is in Stanglethorn)
17.Enchanted Azsharite Fel Weaponry
18.Return to the Blasted Lands
19.Uniting the Shattered Amulet (Kill Sevine, Grol and Allistarj using weapon given by Galvan)
20.You Are Rakh'likh, Demon (Rakh'likh can be found around 47,23 Blasted Lands)

- Merowlin

It should be noted that you get all of these quest rewards you don't have to pick just one.

3 rewards (and you get all 3)
- Demon's Blood (trinket, 5def, 10shadow, hp rege)
- A 16 slots bag
- A resist necklace (10fire, 10shadow)

You know, all the people saying "it's easy to duo/ solo" at level 70 are missing the point that this is a quest you're supposed to be doing in, say, your mid-50's.

Well, YEAH, if you're about 10-15 levels higher than the average quest-doer, of course it's gonna be easier. And if you're a warrior it's gonna be easier than a soloing squishy whose attacks he's immune to, go figure.

Not a helpful comment, so much, though.

Just took this guy down tonight with a 5 man group. He was pretty hard but not as hard as some people are saying.

Group composition - Me - 60 Warrior (prot spec), priest (shadow spec), warlock (using imp), mage, druid. Between us we had about 6 epics - all in pre-MC and in most cases pre-Tier 0 set gear.

So, how did we do it?:

1) Preparation. All casters had a couple of mana pots, health pots. Priest was SS'd, warrior and druid healthstoned. I used dense sharpening stone, strength, agility, spirit scrolls, elixir of superior defense and the usual priest and druid buffs. My gear is reasonable for a non-MC warrior, 5k health unbuffed.

2) Tactics. Summon Raz, warrior taunt him off whoever he goes for, everyone jumps down the hillside to the rune together, taking care to heal once down as the drop can take health off. Warrior tank him with back to hillside so that when he performs his knockback you don't get smacked off the side.

3) Weaken. Use Fel Salve at the start of the fight as you wont get time once his adds pop up. We got the warlock to do it as his spells weren't doing much damage.

4) DPS. Warrior sunders to 5, and everyone lays into him. Mage using arcane missiles, warlock shadowbolt, druid and warrior hitting with large pointy things.

5) Add 1. At 50-60%, Ilifar turned up, and the druid tanked him in bear form while the lock and mage brought him down. I got hit with a knockback here but with my back to the wall I just bounced off and didn't get hurt. Taunt Raz back onto warrior again and continued.

6) DPS 2. With Ilifar dead, I'd tank dps'd Raz down to about 45% in the meantime. We carried on with DPS til he got to around 20%. (Had to re sunder around this point.)

7) Add 2. At this time, Felcular appeared. We got the druid to tank him and self heal while the rest of us continued to smack Raz. Mana was low here, the priest had all but run out, so I whacked on shield wall, healthstoned, and bought the priest some mana up time. 10%

8) Finish him!. Our druid died then, but we'd held them off long enough. Execute along with the support dps finished Raz off, and I dragged Felcular off our warlock. With only one target left, he quickly went down.

9) Victory! )

48,23 to teleport to the top of the mountain.

That fact seems to be sadly lacking in these comments.

For anyone without coordinates, the mountain is the Rise of the Defiler, and the NPC who teleports you is around the base.

AFAIK he will only drop the quest item since you can only get that with the amulet you get from the Fallen Hero of the Horde (Swamp of Sorrows). He is a VERY tough guy to kill. A group of level 60s got wiped a couple of times. He is immune to all warlocks DoTs (all curses, corruption), banish and fear. He also resisted everytime shadow burn. I was only able to hit him with Shadow Bolts. The other problem is that he kicks the tank hard. If the tank is kicked out of the mountain it is pretty much over. The guys he spawn are also immune to pretty much everything, but don't have too many HPs.

For those who don't know, this is part of a very long series of quests. Please read my comments under the quest "The Disgraced One" quest for complete quest line. I also posted all the items you get at completion. You get 3 items after this quest, plus 2 more on your way to this quest.

The Usher that summons you to the top of the mountain is located at 48, 23.

This is a quest in a chain of 23 that runs pretty much all over the map.
However, it all starts with the Fallen Hero of the Horde.
(Hat tip to Xeir for the initial connectors between chains.)

Technically, it's four chain quests that tie into each other:
Chain 1:
1. Fall From Grace
2. The Disgraced One
3. The Missing Orders
4. The Swamp Talker

Chain 2:
1. Petty Squabbles
2. A Tale of Sorrow
3. The Stones That Bind Us
4. Heroes of Old
5. Heroes of Old

Chain 3:
1. Kirith
2. The Cover of Darkness
3. The Demon Hunter
4. Loramus
5. Breaking the Ward
6. The Name of the Beast
7. The Name of the Beast
8. The Name of the Beast
9. Azsharite

Chain 4:
1. The Formation of Felbane
2. Enchanted Azsharite Fel Weaponry
3. Return to the Blasted Lands
4. Uniting the Shattered Amulet
5. You Are Rakh'likh, Demon

Completing the entire chain gives you the following:
103,685XP at appropriate level
Shard of Afrasa
Enchanted Azsharite Felbane (Dagger, Sword or Staff)
Necklace of Sanctuary
Demon's Blood
Demon Hide Sack

Ok we found the best way to kill him.

We had 6 people, a 60 warrior and 60 mage, 57 warrior, 57 rogue and 57 priest.

The trick is:

Get everone on the lower part of the mountain. (the bit that you step on the rune to get teleported down)

Get the main tank to pull raz down to that bit, and have the MT stand with his back facing the mountain, that way when Raz kicks the tank, he doesn't fly off the mountain, he just slides up the wall and back down again.

Secondly, when Raz summons his bodies, get everyone to focus fire on them, kill them, then get back to Raz.

We killed him twice in a row this way.

Hope this helps.

Cheers people, and good luck!

Everyone who has the quest, up to this point can go up top. Those who do not have it can not get up top.
If your group is comprised of either I would suggest pulling him all the way down bottom. He has a knockback effect that'll blow your tank off the mountain if your up top.

To Pull him down, run backwards (facing him) down the North slope hitting him all the way down (you maintain agro/kiting by doing this).
Remember to send a healer with the person that is going down, 'cause those falls are 1500hp+ falls (3 falls), and he's hitting you too.

Start pounding him. At about 70%hp he spawns an add, kill it! It's an Elite (hits like a lvl60 Elite, but has the hp of a regular mob). After the add is killed, continue on him until he dies. Now another lvl60 Spawns from his corpse, kill it!

Loot, return to quest giver and get rewards.

Once Quest is handed in you lose your Amulet to teleport up.

I managed to do complete this quest with a level 60 Hunter. I am a level 60 Mage. Yes, we two-manned this it IS possible. Here is our strategy:

1) Travel to the mountain called Rise of the Defiler in the Blasted Lands and look for Runes of Defiler around the mountain.

2) The person with the quest [me] unequips all armor and purposely dies. Come back to the Rune of Defiler with the ghost [that you can only see when you are dead] and ask it to teleport your entire party to the top of the mountain, where the boss spawns. Thus, the hunter is teleported up with me to the top of the mountain. I'm still dead so I find my body [at the bottom], ressurect and equip back all armor.

3) The hunter looks down the mountain and locates the Rune of Return. He drops down to the Rune of Return and then drops down to the next ledge and STAYS there. Meanwhile I leave the party and go to any Rune of Defiler at the base of the mountain. Just step over the rune and you should be teleported up as long as you have the amulet. [If you are in party and trying to teleport via Rune of Defiler, it will not let you].

4) Once the mage is up there [and the hunter is waiting on the ledge], make sure you both have full mana and health. The [frost]mage casts ice barrier and mana shield on herself. Right click the altar to summon Rakh'likh. Once he appears, the mage locates the Rune of Return quickly and jumps down using Slow Fall [reagent: light feather] as she falls. This prevents the mage from taking any damage from the fall.

5) Now the mage is on the ledge with the Rune of Return. The mage targets Rakhlikh at this point, while he falls down the mountain after her. The hunter is still waiting on the next ledge below the one the mage is on, but he is still out of range so he can't attack. Therefore, the mage MUST maintain the aggro by casting ARCANE MISSILES as soon as she can [the only spell that works on him]. Once he is hit by one missile, quickly fall off the ledge down to the ledge the hunter is waiting on. The mage should still have the effect of Slow Fall, so this fall should still do no damage. Note: if the mage fails at maintaining aggro, Rakhlikh will return to his spawn point on top of the mountain, while evading any attacks along the way.

6) At this point, the hunter is in range of Rakhlikh and takes over. The hunter's job is to Kite [luring the mob around certain area while maintaining distance and aggro, and receiving little to no damage] him. As someone said, Rakhlikh doesn't have ranged attacks, so kiting him should be easy. The hunter makes sure to have Aspect of Cheetah on and Arcane Shot [RANK 1]. He starts by using Arcane Shot to maintain aggro. Now, he is still on the ledge, so he makes his way quickly down the rest of the mountain. If you're facing away from the mountain, there is a slight slope on the right. The hunter should receive little to no damage from going this way, rather then dropping straight down [and losing an adequate amount of health].

7) At this point, everyone should be on the ground at the base of the mountain. The Hunter makes sure to use Arcane Shot [rank 1] whenever he can. The mage leads the hunter along the most straightforward path to NETHERGARDE KEEP, taking care of any mobs along the way. Since the hunter is on Cheetah, he will be concussed if anything hits him. There should be hardly any mobs anyways, since the mountain is very close to the path.

8) The hunter continues to kite Rakhlikh and follow the mage to Nethergarde Keep. Continue on to the town. There are some guards along the way that will help kill Rakhlikth, and when you reach town, there are tons of guards that will go on him. The hunter still kites him around town, but gets in any shots that he can while the mage gets in Arcane Missiles whenever she can.

9) At some point, one of Rakhlikh's adds will spawn, but it is slow and you shouldn't have to worry about it as long as the hunter is still kiting. It seems to disappear after a while. With the help of the guards and mage and hunter doing any damage they can, Rakhlikth will eventually go down. A second add will spawn when he is close to dying, but again, don't worry about it until Rakhlikth is down. If anyone dies, come back as quickly as possible Rakhlikth will still be there as long as he is fighting the guards on him.

Note: if you fail at attempting this, Rakhlikth will take 5 minutes to respawn.

Good luck, and I hope this was useful.

Razelikh can be kited all the way to Stonard for those looking to solo this quest. While immune to all snare/slowing effects a simple speed enchantment or arathi basin foot armor reward will prevent him from gaining ground.

The Descent:

The mountain can be safely descended on the northside. The first jump down, to the rune of return plateau, will be the only one to cause damage. Once there drink a potion to recover the lost health and tag Razelikh to maintain the kite.

From the rune of return plateau move to northern most edge. Avoid the rune itself or you will be teleported to the entrance of the tainted scar. You will be able to spot the next highest ledge, and land there by walking backwards off the plateau. Directly east of the ledge will be the obvious safe route down to the road. Be sure to tag Razelikh immediately after making the third jump.

The Kite:

Once at the base of the mountain the kite is fairly straight forward. Razelikh's only ranged attack mana burn is the best time to tag him. It is slow casting enough to tag and get out of range.

Illifar so long as not damaged/tagged will bug out at the zone change between Blasted Lands and Swamp of Sorrows. He will simply stand at the arch, but will aggro if you come into range.

Stonard:

Stonard's west entrance has 4 Stonard Grunts level 65. Two at the gate, and two patrolling both bunkers. Simply circle the north bunker until the guards have Razelikh's attention. These will more than enough to finish the boss.

However when Felcular spawns he will go straight for you. Retreat into Stonard itself and run past the blacksmith on the northside of the camp to the northwest gate. There two more grunts will finish him off quickly. Be sure to tag him once so you can loot him.

Level 63 Hunter using defiler's chain greaves without aspect of the cheetah used this method successfully, patch 2.2. Kept pet on Razelikh with growl disabled tagging during mana burn casts with distracting shot rank 6.

Good luck and happy hunting.

This is doable with 4 or more!
Ok this is what I did:

1) My warrior summoned him and Miklon lvl 57 druid kept healing me. The other members of the party Tanalin and Dynamitee level 60 warriors and FunnyBunny level 54 hunter stayed on the ground.

2) I kept aggroing him to follow me. I dropped off the mountain top to the ledge with the purple teleport symbol but stayed away from it.

3) I then dropped down to the next ledge (there is only one) and the hunter took over the aggro.

4) FunnyBunny then kited him around whilst we attacked him. He did spawn 2 addonds but we took them down as well.

5) He was kited around the small hill to the NE of where we dropped to the ground from the mountain. If you go around the hill you will pass some of the diggers and cross the path that leads to Nethergarde. Just keep him kited and the rest attack him.

6) This means that you can have as many people as you want attacking him once he hits ground level. if you fail, respawn time is about 5 minutes so buff up. In this instance only mikon and myself had the quest. Once you hand the quest in you can no longer teleport up the mountain to help other members unless you do not hand your quest in.

The rewards I got for this was nearly 10k xp though it is no good at my level, Demon's Blood trinket, 16 slot bag soulbound and a necklace with 10 fire resistance and 10 shadow resistance.

Hope This Helps.

Spartalin,
Level 60 Elf Warrior,
Love to Hurt You guild on Terenas.

This quest, although seamingly hard at first, was pretty easy once I found the right tactic.

I replaced my arcane shot with rank 3 arcane shot on my action bar.&nbsp Being it new years, I filled a festive mug, because those give you a Light Headed effect when drank.&nbsp That makes you slow fall for 30 seconds.&nbsp I transported up to the top of the mountain and summoned him.&nbsp After summoning I immidiatley drank the festive mug drink. Then I ran north and RAN (not jumped) off the mountain, and shot him a few times on the way down with Arcane and Silence Shot (hes immune to sdilence, but the damage keeps him aggroed)&nbsp I hit the spot with the return beacon, and kept running north.&nbsp Once on the ground I proceeded to kite him normally to Stonard.&nbsp Occasionally he casts Mana Burn, but if you stay far enough ahead of him it will cancel the cast, and keep him running after you.&nbsp

Once at Stonard, I kept aggro and let the guards beat him down.&nbsp He will summon 2 friends, but they last a max of 30 seconds.&nbsp I kited him through the inn, which gave me time to bandage and such, because of LoS issues.

Overall, if you can kite him to Stonard and keep DPS'ing him and keep aggro, you should be fine.&nbsp

I used 1 major mana pot during the whole thing.&nbsp Not too tough, but a good challenge for a kiter.&nbsp

Have fun!