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Comment by Tyrsenus

Azjol-Nerub was merely a set back!

Comment by SameN

Quote from WC3 Campaing:
A Nerubian: Look, brothers! The traitor king!
Arthas: Who? Me?
Anub'arak: He is referring to me, death knight.

Comment by davenrothz

I'm assuming this is an INCREDIBLY difficult achievement since progression sites show it worth 7 times as much as just killing Anub himself. Also, it's probably noteworthy that they do give a nasty debuff which probably makes this so difficult.

Comment by OzuAD

FoK with anesthetic and two hunters tranq did it for us. These may be handy.

Comment by 201994

Oh Razorgore... how I missed you.

Comment by 96990

Yes, it's true. You have to kitte them around. My guild and i still can't figure how they go berserk ignoring stun and being not affected by the slow debuff of ice on the floor. Does anyone have an idea ? (A rogue or a hunter is a must have in order to dispell this buff).

They go berserk when you slow,snare them. Mage's Frost nova 100% drive them into berserk mode.

Comment by 60174

Just did it using 3 tanks 4 healers 3 dps ( 1 of them rogue using Fan of Knives with almost no gear {only hit parts } and lvl1 daggers ).

We had 2 NR tanks for adds, pala with non specific NR gear just the 2 rings from Onyxia and Warrior with max NR gear, the paladin was keeping like 6-10 adds on him and the warrior was keeping Vigilance on the pala so he could basicly taunt non-stop every add that spawns or decides to go off to the healers. The third tank was tanking Anub and the spawning add. We had 1 healer each tank and 1 druid to hot everything. Basicly tanks were getting max 25k ticks not more.

Comment by 493956

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPKhjCPhXQc
guide / kill video of how I did it.

Comment by 635319

i can't speak english very well.

But This achievement to speak honestly

all special achievement in total (kill achievement except)

this achievement so very hard difficult.

1. TOC 10man Traitor king.
2. TOC 25man heroic a tribute to immotality (raid member no dies)

and the rest

Lich King 10man/25man heroic kill
Yoggssaron 10man/25man 0 keeper kill
Insane in the Membrane
battle mater
arena master
etc etc...

Comment by Ashlee756

did this achievement today with

3 tanks: 1 feral tanking anub
2 prot warris giving each other vigilance who were tanking the adds at 2 positions, one to the left one to the right, the raid was standing in the middle

4 healers: 2 restoshamys with earth shield on each tank + diszi on the one warri and resto durid on the other warri

1 moonkin to soothe the enrage off of the scarabs

2 dds: mage + dk

did 4 borrow-phases and killed the scarabs after the last ones in p4 spawned

first we tried it with kiting the adds and used the earth-elementals but it worked out for us with spottanking (and power healing on the tanks) + we didn't use the earth-elementals because they killed the scarabs too soon.

Comment by Kurasu

This achievement has been nerfed. Instead of needing 40, you only need 25 now. A big step down from 40 for sure!

Comment by Scabby

The key to this fight which doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere is that the debuff from the little bugs maxes out at 40 stacks. No one in our guild knew this because you normally kill the bugs off fast as possible when downing the boss. So with an OT picking them up, the debuff is pretty easy to heal through with a couple healers.

Also at 85, you may need to have your hunter or rogue that is taking care of tranq shot/poison use a lower dps weapon. Otherwise their auto-attacks when soothing can kill the bugs.

VallonNz's video above is really good, though the first time I watched it I had no idea how the tank survived because I didn't know the stacks maxed out! :)

Comment by Vaugn

We just completed this for several people who didn't do it back in the "old days".

Currently, 14 scarabs spawn per "down" phase. The timer will reset if you accidentally kill one, so don't feel a need to wipe it up if one or two die early. The scarabs slowly spawn during the "down" phase, so wait until he's about to pop up at the end of the second then annihilate them.

We used a shaman's NR totem thingy along with a +90 resistance potion on a pally tank (plus another +8 for broiled bloodfin). This mitigated his damage somewhat, and the encounter was very easily done with three healers. The most difficult part was not killing scarabs by accident.

Comment by 446873

By far the best method must be using druids Soothe and then kiting them over a sea of them frost orb thingys; that way you won't have to worry about you killing them with a hunter.

I just did this with five other, a total of six for you who can't count, and it went pretty good. We made it, but only barley since we only had one healer. But with a full group this should be really easy.

Comment by coffin

Just 3-manned it. Frost mage, blood dk, holy pala. Tried different strats a bit with mage being fire and pala with RF activated kiting everything while me (blood dk) kept myself alive. Both strats worked fine and we were close to getting the achievement (missed the 25th one with 2 sec once). Basically the healing got atrocious for the paladin to cope, especially if me or the mage got the debuff stacked from the adds, and sooner or later someone died, mostly the pala as he had aggro on 95% of the adds.

So we tried a different strategy, with me taunting as many adds as possible and got it on the first try. Just make sure you don't damage the adds before due time. I was saving AMS/mirror and IBF for the last bit with 15+ adds. Having a prot warrior with vigilance I think makes it even easier for the healer.

Edit:
Did this again to help guildies out. This time we used disc priest, ret paladin and blood dk, with the dk taunting in as many adds as possible. This is more than doable with 3 players, but it requires a very competent healer. Two healers would make it a lot safer.

Comment by snaomi

My partner and myself just duo'd this yesterday (19 June 2012). Resto Druid 402 ilvl and prot paladin 403 ilvl.

What you have to do as a Resto Druid first, run around and get those Frost Orbs down, as many as possible. Don't slack, keep getting them down, you'll need them. There isn't much healing so throwing a Rejuvenation/Lifebloom on the tank is enough to keep him up (incl. his self healing). You'll need those to be able to kite the adds as much as possible over the ice patches that they leave on the ground, and to prevent getting hit by the boss' underground spikey attack at all times.

As the boss submerges, the adds begin to spawn. They will attack the healer as well as the tank, so try staying close to the tank so he can pick up as many as possible, the more you have on you the less likely you will survive.When the adds start showing up, the damage goes up significantly. Now you need to find the right balance between healing/getting a few more orbs down/and using Soothe on the enraged adds <-- This is quite important. When you feel you're taking too much damage, try popping either Tree Form for the extra healing and armor or go cat and use a Stampeding Roar to get some distance between you and the adds, so you can kite them better. Throughout the whole fight you will need to move and kite the adds as much as possible.

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The Prot Pala in this fight tanks the boss as well as the big adds spawning at all times and dps as much as possible, those adds HAVE to die cause they apply a debuff on you which increases damage done to you by quite a lot, so you don't want that on you.

When he submerges, start collecting the adds and get as many as possible off your healer, make sure you don't get hit by the spikes and run around the room in a big circle, kiting the adds over the ice patches to slow them down. The less they hit you, the better! Also makes it easier for the healer to target the ones that are enraged, when there's many of them piled up it's difficult to select the exact one that has the enrage effect on them.

The boss will come up again, and you'll need to tank him yet again + adds, don't forget to keep kiting as much as you can though, while dpsing the boss and big adds, and wait for him to submerge a second time to collect the rest of the adds (you need 2 submerge phases to be able to collect 25).

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The last bit is extremely difficult for both the healer and the tank, watch your health, use your cooldowns wisely. The tank will most likely need to LoH either the healer or himself, to buy the extra time that is needed to collect 25. As soon as there are 25, you need to be fast. It isn't bad at that point for the healer to die if he has any adds on him, cause when he dies, they will all automatically go to the tank which makes aoeing them down in time alot easier. I myself died and 3 seconds later I got the achievement. The tank needs to focus alot on surviving as well as doing as much AoE damage as possible, and will shortly die after.

It took us only 2 tries, but we've been duoing content for ages and know our classes pretty well. It requires alot of awareness/focus/coordination/timing, it's not an easy achievement.

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The Traitor King (10 player)

Kill 25 Swarm Scarabs within 30 seconds in 10-player mode.

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	Swarm Scarabs Slain (40)

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