Scholomance

Kirtonos

An optional boss. Light the brazier in the small alcove next to the Chamber of Summoning with Blood of Innocents. Make sure nobody is outside the gate at the top of the stairs, because the gate shuts. Kirtonos flies in through the window, transforms to his humanoid form and fights.

Tank him at the top of the stairs. He has a knockback attack, and a player knocked out the window zones out of the instance.

In short: tank him at the top of the stairs.

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Jandice Barov

A Barov ghost. During the fight she splits into duplicate images of herself, and the true Jandice reappears along with them. The images appear immune to area damage. Killing her makes the images despawn a few seconds later.

Have every player make a target macro for her by name and press it repeatedly once the images appear, and put all damage on her. A priest's Mind Flay on the true Jandice quickly kills the images, and a rogue's kick can stop her from duplicating. The trash in her room respawns quickly, so finish her fast.

In short: target the real Jandice by name when the images appear and focus her down.

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Rattlegore

A bone golem with a strong melee attack, Knock Away, Strike and War Stomp. He stands directly under the Great Ossuary. Clear the patrolling mobs first so you do not over-pull, and have a priest ready to Shackle Undead just in case.

He drops the Viewing Room Key, which opens the Viewing Room where Marduk Blackpool and Vectus wait.

In short: clear the room first and keep a Shackle Undead ready.

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Marduk Blackpool

A Scourge death knight who stands in the Viewing Room with Vectus. He and the students around him are neutral until the group acts. There are two ways in. The hard way is to kill the students as they stand, and they hit hard and have a lot of health. The easy way is to use Dawn's Gambit from the quest line, which turns the students into hostile skeletons with very little health. Area damage clears them fast.

Do not attack Marduk or Vectus without dealing with the students first, or the whole room attacks.

In short: use Dawn's Gambit, burn the skeleton students with area damage, then kill Marduk.

Vectus

A teacher in the school who stands beside Marduk Blackpool in the Viewing Room. The same rules apply: deal with the students first, ideally with Dawn's Gambit, then kill the two teachers. Vectus has a fire aura that damages players in melee range, and Flamestrike calls down a pillar of flame on a chosen area.

In short: kill the students first, and avoid Flamestrike.

Kormok

A summoned boss, added to the dungeon in Classic patch 1.10 with a quest line. He is summoned in Ras Frostwhisper's room with the Brazier of Beckoning from the quest. On his own he hits for a fair amount and throws Shadow Bolt Volleys. The hard part is the adds. Waves of four non-elite skeletal warriors come every 10 to 15 seconds, and at 50% and 25% health he calls two level 60 elite Skeletal Mages that focus the healer and cast a fire area spell around themselves every 5 seconds.

Dispel his Bone Shield whenever it is up, because it absorbs damage and hurts melee attackers. He starts the fight with it and recasts it. Area damage kills the skeleton waves and also hits Kormok. Kill or interrupt the mages as soon as they appear. Frost Nova, Consecration and Challenging Shout keep the adds off the casters. A strong damage burst on the boss also works, because the spawns come on a timer.

In short: dispel Bone Shield, kill the mages first, and use area damage on the skeletons.

Kormok’s abilities

Ability	Effect
Enrage	Raises his attack speed by 60% and his physical damage for 2 minutes.
Shadow Bolt Volley	Shadow damage to nearby enemies.
Summon Bone Minions	Calls waves of skeletal warriors.
Bone Shield	Absorbs damage and hurts melee and spell attackers. Dispel it.
Bloodlust	Raises an ally's attack speed by 100% for 30 seconds.
Summon Bone Mages	Calls Skeletal Mages that focus the healer.

Ras Frostwhisperer

A lich who watched over the school and taught those who rose to Dark Master, with a large health pool. He is not hard as long as the healer keeps the tank alive. Knock Away and Chill Nova knock players back. His Frost Armor slows melee attackers' movement and doubles the time between their attacks. Fear affects only one target at a time. He can also cast Ice Block.

In short: keep the tank healed through the knockbacks, fear and freeze.

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Instructor Malicia

A high elf priestess. To beat her, drain her mana with warlocks, hunters and priests so that she has to melee with her staff. She casts Slow on nearby players and heals with Heal, Flash Heal and Renew.

In short: drain her mana so she has to melee.

Doctor Theolen Krastinov

Known as the Butcher, the torturer of the school and the servant of Kirtonos. In combat he uses only melee attacks, a Rend bleed and a Backhand stun, and he enrages heavily toward the end of the battle. His charge attacks can be aimed at anybody, whatever his threat list says.

In short: tank and heal through the Rend bleed and the late enrage.

Lorekeeper Polkelt

A shambling zombie in the Hall of Secrets, and one of the six bosses that bring out Gandling. He lowers armor and Nature resistance and infects players so they hurt their neighbors with Nature damage.

In short: an infected player hurts nearby allies, so keep distance from them.

The Ravenian

A wight and one of the six bosses that bring out Gandling. His attacks are physical: Cleave, Sundering Cleave, Knock Away and Trample, which hits every player near him. Each Sundering Cleave stack lowers armor, up to five stacks, and the healer can run out of mana fast.

In short: tank and heal through the armor loss, and keep ranged away from Trample.

Lord Alexei Barov

The hardest of the six bosses that bring out Gandling. He stands with two guardians that are linked to him, so none can be pulled alone, and his Unholy Aura hurts everyone close to him for Shadow damage every 2 seconds. Tank him where the Unholy Aura will not hit non-melee players, and use Shadow protection if you have it. His Veil of Shadow, a curse, cuts healing, and it should be removed from the tank right away.

Take the two guards out of the fight first. A priest shackles one, and a paladin can Turn Undead the other, or the off-tank holds it. A hunter or mage can also kite Alexei around the upper ring while the group kills the guards. Then everyone burns him down.

Do not kill him last of the six if you are not ready, because his death can start the Gandling fight.

In short: take out the guards first, tank him away from the group, and remove Veil of Shadow from the tank.

Lady Illucia Barov

A ghost who uses only Shadow spells, so Shadow protection helps. She casts Dominate Mind, Fear (one target at a time), Silence on nearby enemies, Shadow Shock and Curse of Agony.

In short: bring Shadow protection and expect fear, silence and mind control.

Darkmaster Gandling

The headmaster of the school, appointed by Kel'Thuzad. He appears after all six bosses and every human mob in the six chambers around the Headmaster's Study are dead. He yells "School is in session!" when he aggros. He is a caster. His Shadow Portal teleports a random group member to a room with three to four level 60 non-elite mobs. That player must clear the room alone before the door opens, unless they can run past the mobs. The mobs have very low Stamina and fall in a few hits. They do not vanish, and the room does not open, when Gandling dies. He also casts Arcane Missiles, Shadow Shield and Curse of the Darkmaster.

Because the portal picks a random member, it can be the tank or the healer, so plan a backup for both. He will teleport players even to halls that still have trash, so clear all of them.

In short: keep a backup tank and healer for the Shadow Portal.

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