Just did this quest with 3 priests.&nbsp As long as everyone has the Eye of Divinity and are all ready to do this quest (There is one before it from the same person but you just have to talk to her again to complete it).&nbsp Just assign one of the priests to be running around healing the pesants, removing disease, killing the skellies, etc.. while the extra priests sit on the quest giver and do NOT move.&nbsp They can heal the pesants as well but you will fail if any of the priests heal eachother.&nbsp Very, very easy this way and it gets 3 people thier staves much faster then waiting the extra 4 hours.

I�m going to reinforce a lot of what�s been said already, but also provide my observations, what you really should be using to complete this quest, some information about my gear/stats, and reinforce how manageable this is to do without help. It�s not easy, but not nearly as overwhelming as it first appears

First off, know that Oil of Immolation is complete trash. Don�t even contemplate using it. You will be AOEing skeletons down like a mage with only one Rank 3 Holy Nova. I repeat, this spell will one shot every skeleton within range. Let 5 or more collect on you and then AOE. If you nova but missed one, just shield and let them collect on you for the next 30 seconds or so. As soon as they eat through your shield, drop all of them. You�ll be surprised how much time you�ll spend not being attacked and able to concentrate on your heals if you do your best to maximize the amount of skeletons killed per Nova. With Oil of Immolation you have to worry about your health, skeleton adds constantly swarming you, and getting your heals interrupted. With the AOE you will cast it once and clear the screen. I would guess I killed about 2-3 of these skeleton packs per wave, instead of getting swarmed and waiting for them to take damage from oil. If you�ve seen the video you know what I�m talking about. Personally I made managing skeletons my priority so once I wiped a cluster I could concentrate on heals.

Second, Decursing is your priority- purple then green. Throw a Renew on anyone that has been cursed. There, I�ve just explained 80% of this test. Personally I used rank 6 renew. I can�t testify if that�s the most ideal rank, but it worked. All over this page people will advocate different ranks. Rank 6 is certainly high enough, but if you�re having mana issues try down-ranking. The cursed peasants will, for the most part, be the only peasants needing your attention. If none are cursed you should just wait for someone to drop below 50%. For the most part you wont need to throw heals on non-cursed peasants.

Renew is your best friend. I cast flash heal (rank 5) less than 5 times the entire encounter. Once you clear skeleton packs you will be surprised how little damage the peasants take from the arrows and you can fully concentrate on decursing and renewing those peasants. Renew is plenty of healing. It�s fairly easy to click through them, inspecting their health, giving priority to the ones who get diseased.&nbsp

With that said, I would highly recommend downloading a mod called Tiny Tips.

http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/addons-4397-1-tinytip.html 

It basically allows your tooltips to appear on whatever you mouse over. So you can see a peasant�s health by just mousing over them instead of clicking. This way you can quickly scan the group and see who�s taking the most damage (hint: usually the guys glowing or getting shot). With their health bars hidden you actually can see the animation which will be a good indication who should be getting heals. Regardless, you�ll be surprised how little healing they�ll actually need once the skeletons are off your rear.

As far as buffs go, I wouldn�t really stress out over them. The most important consumables are major mana pots. Use the first one early so you�ll have time to use another one at the end if you need. Personally, I was only self buffed, had MoTW, with Nightfin Soup and a Mageblood potion. No AI from a mage, or Paladin Blessings or Auras (although, if you could get a pally to give you a 15 minute blessing of wisdom, that would probably be a huge help if you�re struggling with mana). Mana regeneration is infinitely more useful than +healing (not helpful for renews and flash heals) so get your highest INT and +mana/5 gear. Honestly if you think you need more buffs/consumables you probably just need more practice, save your gold.

I was fairly well geared for this encounter, but not compared to a lot of people. I went in with 3k health, 5.5 mana, +41/5. Not amazing, but substantial

If you download Tiny Tip, Decurse /Renew in a timely fashion and Nova to maximize skeleton kills you�ll have a much easier stroll to Benediction. The respawn on the quest giver is apparently only 15 minutes now, so do a number of dry runs to calm your nerves and know what to expect. Good luck!

First of all, I used the spells flash heal and renew 2 ranks below highest. I also used 2 mana pots and 10 oil of immolation.

What I did was that I changed the key binding so when I pressed TAB I switched friendly targets. That way it was faster and easier to see the ones with the plague. I mainly used renew on those above 40 % and flash on those below.
I think maybe 8-10 peasants died during my try.
I also got a mod that made me move the unit frames down to the bottom where I could easily see them.

Did it in my 2nd try.

Solo'd this on my first try.&nbsp I credit the video posted above http://youtube.com/watch?v=uBBpn02s9yk&search=world%20of%20warcraft%20benediction
thank you!

When I arrived at the site (20,18), I had the eye equiped but didn't see the quest giver.&nbsp Figured someone must have gotten there within the last 2 hours and I'd have to wait.&nbsp For the heck of it, I re-equiped the eye, and suddenly there she was with the quest.&nbsp I know I wasn't mounted when I first equiped the eye, so not sure why this happened, but fyi.

Holy Nova being so early in the talent tree now (1.10) really makes this easy.&nbsp Rank 4 one shots the skelies.&nbsp I used 5 oils, 2 easythrow dynamite, 1 major mana potion.&nbsp Buffs were my own + 2 potions (intelligence and armor prot).

About 1/3 of the way thru the fight you'll feel&nbsp a little panicky with so much going on.&nbsp Take a deep breath, renew your target, holy nova when you get nervous, and you'll be fine.&nbsp

Well. i finished this quest yesterday.

I got the Eye of Divinity the day before that and omg did i try alot of times

its a very hard quest.

But once you try a few times you get the hang of it.

The Tecnique i used was Bring a Paladin with you in this case it was my boyfriend.

and have him stand infront of the cave with retrobution Aura on. OBS! Do not be grouped. if you are you will DIE in one second.

i used rank 3 Renew & rank 3 holy nova.
try to move around alot and be very fast with casting cleanse desease & Renew on Purple & Green deseases they will die quickest

have alot of Patience & take a big breath before accepting the quest It will run smooth

Good luck!

After getting myself all buffed up I mounted up and started riding towards the quest point. Paying as much attention as you do while riding on the road, I crashed straight into the scarlet pat.&nbsp Seeing that I had already changed all my hotkeys in preparation for the quest my chances of surviving there pounding with rank 5 renew and rank 4 flash were slim.&nbsp So after a quick run back to my body I thought I would give the quest a go anyway. I buffed myself with +imp fort, +spirit and imp innerfire filled, my mana (but 6300) and begun the quest.&nbsp I didn�t use any other players as target dummies, and found it only necessary to pop 1 x combat mana pot.&nbsp The way I found best was to stand in the middle, btw the cave where they spawn from and the priestess, with holy reach I had no probs getting heals to them.&nbsp The �v� trick didn�t work for me �even after cheeking my key bindings. The way I found best was to assign hot keys to 1- renew
&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 2- flash heal
3- abolish Disease
4- Oil of whatever
5- PW shield (for you)
6- renew Rank 9 (for you)

Stand in the middle and use your �target next friendly� �shift + tab for me- and the necessary hotkey making sure you keep renew on yourself and shield when needed.&nbsp Standing in the middle I also found the priestess ( quest giver) healed me. I finished the quest with mana to spare and now have a nice new toy to play with�
Eldalie 60 Dwarf Priest

Okay, first, I used only four spells. Holy Nova Rank 6 for the skellies, Flash Heal Rank 4, and Renew Ranks 9 and 6.

The Peasants: You cannot use the "V" key to see their health bars. I tried this every which way. Instead, I use the AF Tool Tip mod. This brings the tooltip (with hp) to your mouse pointer, so you can scan across the wave of peasants and see their health without moving your eyes to the lower right corner. The gauntlet of skeletal archers tend to focus on 1-3 targets, and you can see their arrows sticking out so that helps you decide who to heal as well. Begin healing with Renew unless the peasant is very close to death. Use Renew 9 if they're getting beat up a lot/diseased, especially if they are members of a "fresh" wave. Use Rank 6 renew for "stale" peasants who are diseased or hurt. I used Flash Heal only if they were very low (followed up with a Renew 9) or if they were being fired out by lots of archers and diseased, etc. I think I used disease cure only twice out of nervousness, so I'm sure it's not very necessary. Use your best judgement once you get a feel for the event.

The skeletons: I used Crystal Charge, made from the red and yellow power crystals in Un'Goro crater. I didn't use Oil of Immolation because I wasn't sure if they were on the same cooldown as Major Mana Potions, so I didn't risk it. When they are grouped up, a crystal charge or holy nova is great. When my cooldown for the Crystal Charge (1 min) was still going down, I was forced to use Holy Nova. I used Rank 6, but Rank 5 MIGHT work. Wanding is key. It took usually 1, sometimes 2 hits from my Bonecreeper Stylus (which is why I say that Holy Nova Rank 5 just might do enough damage). This works especially great if you can see a lone skelly running down to you and the overall health of the peasant wave is good and you can just wand him as he comes. Resists stink, and sometimes you have to let a skelly wail on you while you throw some renews around.

Extras: I used 3-4 Major Mana Potions, I honestly can't remember. Use them early, so the cooldown ticks while you fight. I also used Lesser Mana Oil (8mp5) on my weapon. I'm sure some Nightfin Soup (8mp5) would be a big help as well. I didn't use Demonic or Dark Runes, but I'm sure those would help too.

Good luck!

How do I get this quest?
when I'll have the 2 eyes, what will happened?

Benediction used to be a testament on your skill, because the quest is far from simple if done the correct way.
But nowadays theres no way you can fail it !
2 or even more priests can help eachother, and players without the skill to complete the quest solo now gets the best healerstaff in the game with little or no effort.

And to add insult to injury blizzard currently does not consider this an exploit.
(They are aware of the problem and are looking into it, acc to a GM on my server)
But ths was also the case with the hunterquest for a while (other classes killing the demons).
So hopefully the quest will be fixed someday.

I know i deserve the staff, cause i did it solo (on my first try even).
But how many bene-priests out there couldnt do the quest alone ?

So to all priests on all servers that did this quest the way its intended to be done, congratulations to a testament of your skill.
To all others, i pity you for not having what it takes to complete it.

Edited, Wed Dec 28 13:23:28 2005

just finished the quest. i failed it about 6 times and then finally another priest logged on in the same area to do the quest. she healed/cured the peasants by the cave and i stood still on top of the npc and healed the peasants that past her. we only let about 4 die. its much easier when there's 2 people! just remember that only one of you can move. the other priest must remain absolutely still on top of the npc. as stated before, both people must have the eye of divinity equipped in order to see the quest giver, the peasants and the ud mobs.

Actually, another guide suggests that you can be in a group, and thus benefit from auras, totems, blood pact, etc, as long as they stay ON TOP of the NPC questgiver:

http://wow.warcraftstrategy.com/db/article.asp?id=1188

I have done this quest at the 6th try. First 1-3 tries was not serious. One time I fall down from the hill and failed :) Because I am lazy I did the quest without oil of immolation and also without buffs (horde killed me at chillwind point so i have lost my arcane intellect buff) only fortitude and divine spirit. I have used 2 major mana potions, second wind trinket, rank 3 holy nova, rank 5 flash heal, rank 7 renew, abolish disease. Used fear to let more skeletons attack me at the same time later and nuke them with a single holy nova. There can be 2 different types of disease on peasants. The blue one much more dangerous, must dispell asap. My friend watched how I do the quest and he always told me when a peasant got disease therefore I was able to concentrate on their HP. It is also important to not escort the pesants all the way because the new wave of peasant will be killed by the blue disease and skeletons. Before trying to select peasants to dispell disease turn off their hp bar. Much easier to select the diseased ones like this. After the quest I went to winterspring to farm eye of the shadow and approx the 8th (lvl60)Hedarine Initaite or something like this dropped the Eye of the shadow. Now I am a happy dwarf priest :)

its possible for both of you to accept the quest. if for some reason the 2nd person isn't able to get it from the quest-giver, the 1st person should just share the quest and you guys will be good to go. good luck!

After waiting so long for my eye of divinity and eye of shadow, I was relieved that this quest wasn't as hard as I thought.&nbsp Reading the posts on this page helped immensely. Thanks to all that took the time to post.&nbsp I failed on my first attempt because I wasn't used to healing targets who's health bars were moving and jumping around.&nbsp I was also a bit nervous and shakey.&nbsp Being calm and relaxed while doing this quest is a HUGE plus.&nbsp On my second attempt I was fully buffed up at IF then headed out to EPL.&nbsp On the road to Stratholme I got destroyed by the freaking crimson courier, so all my buffs were gone.&nbsp The event is on a 2 hour timer and I knew that I had failed it 1 hour and 50 minutes ago.&nbsp I wanted to make sure that I was there when the quest giver spawned, so I decided to not to go back to IF to rebuff.&nbsp To my surprise I completed the quest with only Power Word Fortitude and inner fire. My unbuffed mana pool is 7400. I used 2 Major Mana pots and had absolutely no problem going OOM. I also used about 12 immolation oils, and had my mechanical yetti fighting at my side. I used only renew rank 8 and flash heal rank 6 for the entire event.&nbsp It was ALOT of fun, and now I have a shiny new staff! =)

well i brought 10 oil of immolution, 2 major mana pots, and 2 demonic runes to do the quest with. i completed on 2nd attempt and, i also had AI buff, MOTW buff, Spirit and Stamina Buff, Mageblood potion ( 12 mana every 5 sec).

However.&nbsp useful spells:
Flasheal (rank 5)
Cure Disease
Renew (rank 7)
PW:S (rank 10)

Dont waste time healing yourself.. use Renew..

I did this alone.

Cleanse peasents fast, the purple-diseased ones will die pretty fast if you dont take care of them.. give them 1 cure, and 1 renew and forget about them. Also when 1 wave has reached the quest npc. throw a renew on the ones on low hp and forget about them. cause if you dont, the new wave with new purple diseased peasants will die.

before my attempts i watched some movies on www.warcraftmovies.com and read a guide from www.wowhealers.com to see what i could expect.

biggest problem was to target the peasants. i used the "v" key and had their health bars shown over their heads.

-Fuglerown 60 priest, Ravencrest, Alliance

Hello, what id like to share my experience with the quest and post some tips.
First of all, i failed couple of times, first expecting it to be a piece of cake, and later cus of the lack of focus!
here is how i did&nbsp it:

Build: 32/19/0
Mana pool: 7000 aprox, unbuffed that is.
Mana per 5sec: 30 aprox
Failed attempts: 4
Buffs used: Thorns, Inner Fire, PW: Fortitude, Spirit.
Oil of Immolation: 15
Greater Mana pots: yes greater - 4)

DO THINGS:

1. Waste Oils as they were conjured, everytime skeletons come.. Drink up!
2. Use Rank 7 Renew and Abolish Poison, nothing else.. you can test it for urself, but i wont recomend it!
3. Run BACK as soon as wave of peasants reaches the quest giver, but look at their hp and use common sence, meaning heal if really badly injured or diseased with less than 70% hp!
4. Healing urself shouldnt be a problem, i shielded up when getting near 20%, got my farmers to the NPC and threw in a greater, this way i had time to run back before next wave started dieing!
5. BLUE DISEASE > GREEN DISEASE > PHYSICAL DMG! Use this prio ranks
6. Run back to meet next wave as soon as you can, FIRST PEASANTS WILL BE DISEASED WITH BAD DIESEASE WHICH IS BLUE/PURPLE, heal them FIRST and asap!
7. Download http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/addons-3689-1-priest-quest-v110.html It will cast Renew/Abolish Disease, if peasant needs it when u target it. It DOES NOT WORK 100%, so keep an eye and cast what u think is needed!
8. PRESS V TO SEE HEALTH BARS, DONT EVEN TRY W/O

This might seem like a lot to remember but its not, you should get it after couple of attempts..

Goodluck!
Zelisha Frostwhisper EU/ <3

I can't seem to get the V key to display health bars of peasants after 1.11.&nbsp Anyone else have this problem?

Here is an movie i found about this quest, i never done the quest, cause my priest is only level 31.

But i think this will give an nice overview of what to do.. =)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6603992279488261529&q=priest

on my third attempt i died on the last wave of peasants. i was so steaming mad because i got that close and died i was about to log out when a pally nearby started to rez me it said "quest completed". remember you can still die, as long as the right amount of peasants cross the line, or 15 dont die. my problem was i ran out of immolation oils on the last wave of skeles

and i wanted to give you my "expertise". I wanted to do this quest alone so i tried it with my "ordinary" gear on me and no buff/help other than what i use normally (inner fire and fortitude + some food buff and ungoro crystal buff).

i did 15 tries without oil of immolation (I was using various bombs and other gadgets) and i just couldn't handle all the skeletons (i kept dying).

I gave up. I went back to town, grabbed herbs, asked an alchemist friend to make "oil of immolation" for me and went for a 16th try. Did it easily with very few peasants dying.

So, my advice is : go try it without anything to "get the hang of it". When you fell comfortable, go to town and come back 2 hours later later with 20 oil of immolation (i used 12). You'll succeed easily.

First try today, failed it.
Mostly because the health bars over the heads was jumping around all the time, extremely annoying.

Anyways, now i know what its all about, so cant wait until next try ^^

I have the eye equipped and still can't see the quest giver...

I'm at the correct coords and I have been camped there looking for her for almost two weeks with no luck.

Is there ANYTHING AT ALL that I could have done to make the QG not appear?

What should I do?

got this on my first attempt!

used:

+25 int pot
+250 armour pot
12 imo pots
1 mana pot
1 hp pot
1 demonic rune
desperate prayer
and LIGHTWELL 2 charges of it

I'm a pretty gimpy priest with only blues and, clearly, a strange talent spec and i still managed to pull through.

* yeti didnt seem to help out much, imo pots should be enuf to kill off the skellies

Good luck!

This quest is really easy, you just need the right potions and the correct technique.

Oil of Immolations you need like 25
Abolish disease when they turn purple and green
only greater heal when they are at 25% health or lower otherwise pop a renew on them to off-heal while your busy on other dudes.
Holy Nova(if your holy spec'd like me) on skeletons if you are out of oil of immolations or you dont have the skeleton's agro.

Brotherbaine
63 Human Priest Zuluhed Server

Found my own answer.

The quest must be done alone and any outside player interaction will result in immediate failure.

http://www.koaworld.com/articles/link.php?id=19

Thanks Khaz!

Edited, Tue Aug 23 15:27:34 2005

What's the Death Post that the quest talks about?

Just finish this quest.. and I didn't even use holy nova.. just plain old oil of immation, SS.. and major mana potion.. it is not that bad.. just remember renew and cure disease.. and you will be alright.. Very happy to finally get my staff

spectral essence does not work there any more sorry.

sugestion if any of the guilds get a extra eye they will just let rot give it too a preist that already has the staff too help others do it latter :)

[]people come and people go in time [/]

so having some one who has all ready done it there with a eye too help is a big pluss.

hope that helps

Just finished this quest by myself with the help of the siggestions here.

I used Oil of Immolation I had 12 (helps conserve mana)
Holy Nova Rank 2
Flash Heal Rank 4
Renew Rank 6
Flask of Distilled Wisdom (was worried about running out of mana)
Major Mana Pot 2
Abolish Disease

I failed the first couple of times until I realized I did not have to escort them all the way. I escorted them just to the NPC quest giver and made sure noone was diseased and ran back to next group. I also used a bird's eye view. It made it easier to pick the diseased from the crowd to cure. The last attempt was so easy I couldn't believe I finished. :)

The hardest thing for me was using the individual Abolish Disease. I am so spoiled with Decurse that it took some getting use to.

I am on a high population server, and it seems with the recent influx of eyes of shadow the NPC is always down... anyone have coordinates where the NPC is so I can be sure I'm in the right area?