By far the most difficult quest I have ever done. Some quick tips are:

Be dueling a warlock that you trust immensely while fighting Solenor, if you can keep him wing clipped, have aspect of the cheetah up at all times, you don't have to kill beetles. The reasoning for the warlock is for Curse of Recklessness (no fearing from Solenor).

Simone's pet doesn't need to be killed, but you need to loot her head before he kills you.

For Klinfran, if you are specced for Scatter Shot, you can kite to different ends of the Burning Steppes then use Scatter Shot and go the other way. He is leashed to only Burning Steppes, so no Redridge/BRM.

Solenor - A nice little tip for Solenor is when he starts off, drop a explosive trap and have him run into that. Then wing clip him and bolt outta there. The trap should to AoE damage to everything around him, and if you have curse of Recklessness on you, you shouldnt need to worry about the fears, so for the time the explosive trap lasts, you should have no problem with the bugs either. Just unload into him for when you can, but be sure you have a few mana pots on you and a shadow protection pot on you to keep the damage off you. Once the bugs start poping, and your trap wears off, when he's wing cliped git up volley rank 1 when you have all the bugs in a group. this should finish off the little suckers with use of the least mana as possible. This guy was the biggest pain for me personally, but that really just depends on what you're good at.

Artorius - The main problem you WILL run into here, is getting around corners, and mana. So, when you start a turn, any turn at all, be sure to hit him in the face with a concussive shot, but dont get too far ahead of him in the process. Also, keep rank 1 arcane shot out like Kaenos said, and hit him with that every now and then between serpent stings to stay on his aggro list. I only shot him with the sting once every 3-5 seconds, because if you spam him, it will only stack up to 5 times, and your just wasting mana. The main thing to remember here besides the wait time on serpent sting is that rank 9 serpent sting DOESN'T work. One of my guildmates found this out the hard way, and only did minimal damage to him. This may have been updated in 2.0.1, but to the best of my knowledge, stick to sting rank 8.

Simone - Basically easy to kill, i got her pet down first, and the killed her, but as long as you have nature protection pots and some mana pots on you just in case, you should be able to kite her around, even without killing her pet if you want to. Having another hunter follow you around with aspect of nature on is really good, because that allows you to keep aspect of the hawk on, which can really add to your DPS.

Klinfran - Best thing to use here is rank one for wing clip. It gets the job done without wasting mana. The strat here can really be based on your weapon speed. Since each weapon has a specific attack speed (2.4s or whatever) once you scorpid sting him, you run up and attack him for 10 seconds. Your weapon can help time this, because if you have a 2.0 second attack speed, just hit him 5 times, wing clip and start running away. Try not to use raptor strike, because this fight is gonna be the longest one, and you will need the mana. When the fight starts off, hit him with concussive shot, frost trap, whatever you got to slow him down, and once he enrages hit him with scorpid. Then, start the attack cycle of running up, hitting him so many times, wing clip, run away, wait for enrage, and hit him with scorpid sting again. From there rince and repeat for roughly 7-10 minutes. Keep some mana pots with you for this fight specifically, and be sure to have a tuber or two for some health incase you slip up and he nails you once or twice. when you get far enough away from him after wing clipping him, you can hit him with an auto shot or two to add to some damage, but never try to aimed shot him. Also, don't use counterattack if it comes up. Imp wingclip can be helpful, but keep in mind you need to wait 10 seconds after you wing clip him for the enrage to come back up, and if you counterattack him, hes only stuck in place for 4 seconds, so he will be charging at you for 6 seconds, until he enrages, which most likely means hes gonna enrage within your minimum range. The most useful thing to use if this does happen though is scatter shot, then get away from him and hit him with a scorpid sting. You might get hit once or twice, but you should be able to survive 2-3 hits, and then just pick up where you left off and learn from your mistakes.

You cannot have any sort of help at all. If a player besides yourself either buffs, heals, or attacks while your in combat with the demon he will call you a coward and despawn. There is a exploit where a shadow priest can heal you using vampiric aura or something and it will heal you for 50+ every few sec. But its not that great. The only way players can help you is taking out the adds, telling other players to go away and buffing you before the fight. You can group up with players but set the loot for free for all, ive had a issue where i couldnt loot the head. Im still on this quest and it takes a lot of time to get the strat down for all these demons, its about timing and a lot of mana and healing potions.

I was in the middle of this quest when the 2.0 patch came out,&nbsp I killed the one in winterspring and UC before the patch, then after I killed the one in Silithus and BS.

For you hunters doing this quest after the 2.0 patch, it is much easier.

Silithus:&nbsp You can now lay traps in combat (with a 2 second arming time)&nbsp The explosive trap will do the trick for the little bugs.&nbsp Just set one down every once in awhile and try to lure them all toward it.&nbsp Still might want help to clear out some of the extra mobs and keep them off you.&nbsp I used 1 shadow protection pot and some bandages.

Burning Stepps: Seems that scorpid sting doesnt drop his frenzy anymore,&nbsp if you have tranq shot, its not really much of a problem (except the fact that tranq shot has a 20 second cooldown).&nbsp What I did was aspect of the cheetah/ice trap kiting.&nbsp I ran him along the road.&nbsp Just spawn him, then lay an Ice Trap and aimed shot and dps him alittle until he gets there,&nbsp then run max range and wait until the trap breaks,&nbsp right as its breaking I used concussive shot to slow him down and just auto-shot him until i could lay another trap (30 second cooldown FTL)&nbsp then let him run over the trap and repeat.&nbsp Very simple but takes quite awhile.

UC:&nbsp This one I did before the patch,&nbsp but was easy, i did it without any special buffs.&nbsp Aimed Shot the pet, then immediately concussive shot the demon,&nbsp then just a simple kite of the pet (with aspect of the cheetah) you might need to re-concussive shot the demon.&nbsp After the pet is down you can begin melee on the demon,&nbsp Every time she started casting I ran back and viper sting (silences her).&nbsp This might be dificult now because viper sting now has a 20 second cooldown as of the 2.0 patch.

WS: This was the easiest demon,&nbsp just use one of the above strats.&nbsp Simple kite with rank1 arcane shot,&nbsp this only took me a couple of minutes to kill.

All this talk about mana doing this quest. Just use mana oil on your weapon if you have a low spirit gear. If you realy want to get your mana up there use: Mana oil, Nightfin Soup, Mageblood Potion= Mana no prob

Seems now after the 2.0 patch, if you have tranq shot you must use that to drop frenzy on the mob in BS,&nbsp scorpid sting doesnt work anymore.&nbsp Not sure if it will work if you dont have tranq shot.&nbsp It doesnt really matter because you can drop traps in combat now so i just pritty much dropped a freezing trap, ran max range, waited until the trap brok and concussive shot him, then kited until i could drop trap again and repeat.&nbsp kite him back and forth on the road, works great.

Before you can do this quest you must first be in a Raid that finishes the molten core.&nbsp There will be a Leaf that drops and then you can use it to wake up the Ancient

Simone - I used Dream Dust on Precious, Had a Hunter friend with me FD during the duration of the fight with Aspect of the Wild up, leaving me with Aspect of the Monkey. Freeze Trap, Aimed Shotted then Conc Shotted Simone, leaving Precious to get trapped... and then Melee'd Simone down (once Precious unfreezed, I used Dream Dust) Loot the Head, FD or Kill Precious with a friend :)

Klinfran - Major Mana Pots & Demonslaying Pots FTW (I've heard he's now bugged post 2.0.1 - so I'm not sure)
Freeze Trap, Aimed Shot, Let him Freeze, Auto Shot, Scorpid
Now, I didn't get a special weapon, I used Thunderwood Poker & Bone Slicing Hatchet (Both with +15 Agil on them) I melee'd about 3-4 times, Wing clip'd, and strafed away.. I listened for the Enrage roar, Scorpid, Melee 3-4 Hits, Wing Clip, Strafe, about 7mins later... loot your head [NOTE!:: Do not get overzealous just because he's low health... keep the cycle up till he's dead or you can/will get killed at 1%]

Solenor - I had a guildmate Warlock friend cast Curse of Recklessness on me during the fight, if your in a Duel - Solenor registers your duel partner as a threat to you and will not despawn if you cast during the engage. I used Heal Pots, and Greater Shadow Prot Pots, Aspect of the Monkey incase the Bugs caught me. Unloaded bullets into him through various attacks (Aimed, Arcane, Multi, Serpent) then run up and Wing Clip! rinse, repeat, and be careful... his head will be yours!

Artorius - He was my bane, you have to be careful with him, set him up at the bottom of the hill of his patrol path... get 2-3 friends and Add Distraction Insurance, Aimed, Serpent, then take off on your run.. I used the jump shot method... ran him to the road, then headed towards South WS.. all the while jump shot, Arcane Rank 1, jump shot Serpent Highest Rank.. shoot him ever 3-4 seconds so he doesn't Evade bug.. patience will grant you your stave!

You're not grouped? Could other people help you kill them? Or do you HAVE to kill them alone, even if you're not in any type of group?

&nbsp When you down Simone the Seductress and Klinfran the Crazed use MAGIC DUST (it makes them fall asleep). You will find it in Westfall and it will drop from DUST DEVILS.

&nbsp For SIMONE you need this to put her pet to sleep while you take care of her. After that you have downed her you can FD and the pet will stop fighting you or you can have your m8's jump in and take care of him, you will not lose loot (loot MUST be set on: FREE FOR ALL, on all of the demons).

&nbsp When you fight KLINFRAN in BS you can just put him to sleep when ever you need to heal up, use BANDAGE not potions. This will make the fight a joke :). Just take it easy and get your timing right on him.

Good Luck m8's!

I found personally the best strategy for all the bosses are having a warlock close for blood pact and health stones, a priest for resurrecting incase you die to increase amount of tries before despawn, and a hunter with track humans on to watch for opposing factions to despawn the demon intentionally. It is also very important that your group watches for additional mobs and aggros them with a single shot and kite them away from your path one additional mob can equal game over.

Solenor- The best strategy used for solenor I foudn was the set of ruins of the AQ gates by the western part of his path. Spawn him and kite him up the ruins, wingclip him at the middle of the ramp to the East of the ruins near where you spawn him. At the topmost edge wingclip again and jump down. (This forces the bugs to walk around and you can easily turn and pelt him with auto shot and AOe the bugs with volley when they do come. Repeat this tactic from level to level until you are back on the ground and repeat usually by time your back on the ground he is almost dead.

Some notes about this quest: 1) Solenor's chill from Frost Trap isn't working. 2) Klinfran won't unenrage. 3) It is possible for 2 hunters to group up and have a more experienced hunter kill the demon and the other loots.

how do you get to Vartrus the Ancient or make him appear?

Do u have to do anythin special to get the quest?

K... well, I know where I'll be for a while lol

if you are able to kill her b4 the felhunter if you do this and u have a friend with you. u can get your friend to help kill the felhunter. or once u kill her u are able to loot her head and Feign.

Dorpt just used the above stragegy (figured it out with Arthemys) and it worked like a charm.

Can i get some coords for them all please?

no no no anyone can pick it up....

Anyone know the area over which Vartrus will roam...i searched in the iron tree woods for 30 mins and could not find him.

I just ran around a corner in the Burning Steppes on my way to The Altar of Storms and this demon one shotted me for 32234 hp! I was dead before I even saw him. There was a dead hunter nearby and we were joined by two more corpses before he despawned. His name was Klinfran the crazed.
I will know to be more careful around there from now on.

this quest takes so long first downing the 9th boss im molten core thene kill 4 demon and some times wait ing for them because other hunter already killed it
and killing the demons is not easy then also you have to down onixya and wait for the 20%drop rate on the thingy but after doing this quest it was worth it fore my bow&stave that kick ass :):):):):):):):):):)):)::)):):):)::):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):

IT IS COMPLETELY BY URSELF. NO PETS NO CHICKENS NO YETI's!

u can use pots i believe... use google for quest guides they are very helpful!

im sure all of u think this is a stupid question.. but can u get there buffed with everything? like MoTW, Fort osv osv.....

Edit: Sry about that question...
Read the guide, watched the movies...
seems pretty easy with this experiense.
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Edited, Wed Apr 19 23:23:42 2006

the pre req is u gotta kill a guy in molten core dude for a leaf then u gotta go to felwwood for irontree place then in the mid u gotta talk to the trees in the mid

Is there a way to spawn these demons or are they random?

Some items that can help are poached sunscale salmon (Item #13932) and Nightfin Soup (Item #13931) These are awesome items to help replenish health and mana a little bit.

I finished this last week and the above items greatly assisted in the process. Also, if you're not proficient at the jumpshot and kiting...practice practice practice. The jumpshot is invaluable in these fights, especially in Winterspring.

The Rhok'delar pwns!

The Boss that drops it is in Molten Core... Majordomo Excetus drops it, he his the 9th boss.. the one before Ragnaors

Do i get Bow and Stave at same time?

People have done it. All but the one in Silithus has been beaten without exploiting. All the demons have a weakness to one of your abilities.

The only one that hasn't been beaten correctly casts a fear spell which deals around 800 damage each time. The demon sometimes spams it. People have beaten this demon by having a rogue stun it and having several mages/hunter fire all at once, killing it within seconds. Stunning it means it won't respawn until it gets out of stun. Also, Warlocks can supposedly control it, weaken it via nearby enemies, and then have the hunter go at it, but I'm not sure about this.

Ok, I didn't understand it. Alone means without pet and without the help of other players? How should a hunter, a weakling in close-combat fight without a tank against a lvl 60 elite?

edit: ok, I've read it in another forum. No pets and no other players, although you can be in a party and the others can be there, and you can have the aura from paladins, but nothing else.

My problem is: I don't read too many in forums about WoW, so... what is tranqshot? Scorpid sting or what?

Edited, Wed Jun 1 15:50:02 2005

I've searched for 2hours around the little lake with the toxic hours but I haven't seen him, are there any prereqs ? Can someone tell me what I must do in order to see him? (I'm a lv 60 troll hunter).

How is this even possible?
my rogue found simon while wandering through the crater, I'd never seen her before so went for a closer look. BAM 8778 damage from "fools plight"
Now that's not very nice =(

Has anyone done this? If so, what tactics did you use. I can understand kiting the 3 demons without pets, but Simone looks much more difficult.

PLz, can anyone describe a bit better HOW and WHERE exactly can I get the quest?

From what I understand from a hunter in my guild, the 9th boss of MC, majordomo, drops the starter for this. Then you go see this guy, or maybe there are steps in between.