In the recently hotly discussed WoW Mist of Pandaria Classic, Scholomance Dungeon is a reworked, low-level dungeon inherited from previous expansions, but featuring completely different quest and boss mechanics.
Generally speaking, with the right team composition, clearing Scholomance on normal difficulty is easy in half a day. However, on Heroic difficulty, all aspects of the game become more challenging.
Bosses acting as mentors not only teach you values like discipline, resurrection, and retraining through cutscenes, but also boast significantly improved combat moves. Furthermore, some leveling quests require significant time and effort to complete.
With this in mind, this guide will provide a strategy for exploring Scholomance dungeon on Heroic difficulty, covering the dungeon’s location, quest list, and boss encounter tips - all essential for navigating this fraught and challenging dungeon.
Location
According to the lore provided to players in WoW MoP Classic, Scholomance is a necromancy school located on an island southeast of Western Plaguelands, which requires character level 90 or higher and item level 435 or higher.
As with previous expansions, no specific dungeon key is required to enter Scholomance. As long as you gather your team and meet near the junction stone next to the entrance outside the castle, you can enter the dungeon.
In this latest expansion, only by completing the heroic difficulty dungeon can you have the opportunity to complete the corresponding achievements. For Scholomance Heroic, the most important achievement reward is Reins of the Crimson Cloud Serpent, as well as a lot of experience points and WoW MoP Classic Gold.
Quests
In the Heroic Scholomance dungeon, there are two quests for you to complete: The Four Tomes and An End to the Suffering, which are neutral quests available to both Horde and Alliance players. Below are the required tasks for each.
The Four Tomes
After entering Scholomance, you’ll be greeted by a helpful Talking Skull, who is the only NPC in this dungeon that can offer quests. It will provide you with 4 books: In the Shadow of the Light, Kel’Thuzad’s Deep Knowledge, Forbidden Rites and other Rituals Necromantic, and The Dark Grimoire, they are all about the great tomes studied about great necromantic evil.
You need to advance the quest by finding these books. Next is the specific location of each book.
- In the Shadow of the Light - In the room where Instructor Chillheart lives.
- Kel’Thuzad’s Deep Knowledge - In the room where Jandice Barov lives.
- Forbidden Rites and other Rituals Necromantic - In the room in front of Lilian Voss.
- The Dark Grimoire - In the room where Professor Slate lives.
An End To The Suffering
After you’ve found all the tomes and returned to Talking Skull to deliver the collection, it will offer you the second quest in Scholomance, which requires you to defeat Darkmaster Gandling to unlock the curse contained within the land.
During this process, Talking Skull will follow you until you successfully kill the boss. Then take it to the end of Scholomance Heroic dungeon, and your level is considered complete.
Bosses
Throughout the dungeon, you’ll encounter five bosses in order: Instructor Chillheart, Jandice Barov, Rattlegore, Lilian Voss, and Darkmaster Gandling. Here are some tips and precautions for fighting them.
Instructor Chillheart
The encounter with Instructor Chillheart, the first boss encountered in Scholomance Heroic dungeon, is divided into two phases, each terminating when his physical body dies.
In the first phase, your team will be forced to run against the ice wall it unleashes, which is instantly fatal upon contact. If you manage to escape, be wary of the powerful shadow damage it inflicts, which lasts for ten seconds and is too much for even a tank to withstand.
In addition, during this phase, Instructor Chillheart will continuously inflict frost damage to you and your allies, so before starting the challenge with it, invest as much in-game gold as possible in your frost resistance to reach the maximum value to ensure your endurance.
When Instructor Chillheart’s physical body dies, the second phase of the confrontation begins. Its phylactery activates, and monsters from the tomes of magic appear to fight you. For example, Anarchist Arcanist creates a magical sphere that explodes on impact, dealing Arcane damage to all players within a 2-yard radius.
Antonidas’ Self-Help Guide deals Fire damage to all players within a 2-yard radius. Additionally, Wander’s Colossal Book of Shadow Puppets fires dark magic bolts at random players, dealing Shadow damage.
The tip I can provide you here is to pull these small monsters as much as possible, that is, use the flexibility of DPS or tanks to increase the distance between the team and them, and keep them outside the 2-yard range as much as possible, which will greatly increase your chances of survival.
Jandice Barov
Next up is Jandice Barov, a mentor who teaches Advanced Illusions and has been lurking in Scholomance for years. She appears gentler than the previous one, but she’s far from it. Your fight with her is divided into a Main Phase and an Intermission Phase, with health points dropping to 66% and 33% respectively.
In Main Phase, it mainly relies on Wondrous Rapidity and Gravity Flux to deal damage to you, but you can cleverly avoid that Arcane damage and Shadow damage by improving your mobility. The real challenge is in Intermission Phase.
During this phase, Jandice will disappear and create a clone of herself with lower health. You’ll need to successfully kill the real boss to return to the main phase. If you damage the wrong boss, it will cast a flashbang, damaging the entire team.
Typically, the real boss is on the left side of the arena, but this isn’t always the case. Alternatively, while the clone is dodging Whirl of Illusion, you can use the bookshelves in the room to stack line of sight and damage it.
If your team has Death Knights, use Dark Simulacrum to disable their Wondrous Rapidity ability, which deals arcane damage, to maximize your chances of protecting yourself and your allies.
Rattlegore
Compared to the previous two multi-phase boss encounters, fighting Rattlegore is much simpler. Simply upgrade everyone in your party’s Bone Armor and stack it sufficiently to withstand Bone Spike.
For tanks with already strong defenses, if their DPS is lacking in damage, they’ll need to maximize their flexibility to kite. Besides this damage method, Rattlegore also frequently uses fire damage, which is something you should be aware of.
Lilian Voss
Perhaps the most pitiful character in this dungeon’s story is Lilian Voss. She strangled her father for treason and was forced to wreak havoc, ultimately spending the rest of her life in the dark corridors of Scholomance.
The encounter phases are divided into three stages. When her health is at 60%, the first stage ends. The second stage ends when her soul health reaches 1%. The third stage contains the same mechanics as the first stage.
Darkmaster Gandling
The final boss you face is Darkmaster Gandling, the backbone of the entire Scholomance, and therefore presents a greater challenge. Although it’s a single-stage fight, he periodically teleports a random member to one of six Study Rooms, where they face the same monsters.
If you’re a tank, you’ll need to kill the monsters quickly to unlock the door and protect your team’s DPS or healers from being killed by the monsters. In these study rooms, Darkmaster will imprison the former test subject in a nearby room and inflict Explosive Pain.
After removing Explosive Pain effect from the new test subject, he unleashes a magical energy explosion, dealing 20 Shadow damage to the former test subject within an 8-yard radius. Furthermore, during the fight, the boss will summon a group of Failed Students to attack you in a group.
In these situations, you can only avoid taking significant damage by dodging or moving as much as possible, or pick up Empty Polyformic Acid Vials to store potions to maintain your health and complete the dungeon’s achievements.
These are the current methods and strategies for clearing Scholomance Dungeon on Heroic difficulty in WoW MoP Classic. Hopefully, with the help of this guide, you can complete it quickly and claim the reward of a fascinating mount. Also, be sure to collect as many Honor and Justice Points as possible to redeem them for better gear later on. Happy gaming!
