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Maraudon

30 October, 2008 - 16:44 — Geert-Jan

Level and attunement

This guide shows all information (Alliance and Horde).
Minimum entrance level: 30
Minimum level to obtain all quests: 45
Meetingstone level: 35-53
Advised level (most fun): 43-48
Attunement: None.

Story

From Blizzard's Official site:

Protected by the fierce Maraudine centaur, Maraudon is one of the most sacred sites within Desolace. The great temple/cavern is the burial place of Zaetar, one of two immortal sons born to the demigod, Cenarius. Legend holds that Zaetar and the earth elemental princess, Theradras, sired the misbegotten centaur race. It is said that upon their emergence, the barbaric centaur turned on their father and killed him. Some believe that Theradras, in her grief, trapped Zaetar's spirit within the winding cavern - used its energies for some malign purpose. The subterranean tunnels are populated by the vicious, long-dead ghosts of the Centaur Khans, as well as Theradras' own raging, elemental minions.

Achievements for this dungeon

Maraudon
10 points: Defeat Princess Theradras.

Quests for this dungeon

[42D] Shadowshard Fragments
Given by Archmage Tervosh in Dustwallow Marsh. You need to collect 10 Shadowshard Fragment that drop of the Shadowshard rock elementals in the purple, non-instance part of the dungeon.
Reward items:
[42D] Shadowshard Fragments
Given by Uthel'nay in Orgrimmar. You need to collect 10 Shadowshard Fragment that drop of the Shadowshard rock elementals in the purple, non-instance part of the dungeon.
Reward items:
[47D] Vyletongue Corruption
Given by Talendria in Desolace. For this one you have to fill a vail at the orange crystal pool outside the instance part of the dungeon. With the Filled Cerulean Vial you have to heal 8 Noxxious Scions. You can do this by using the filled vail on plants. The plants have thick green stems topped with a dark, orange-red top. They're near the walls, usually in rooms, and are pretty large, about the size of a gnome. They are located in the "orange" section of the instance, between the orange entrance and where the instance dumps out to the waterfall area.
Reward items:
[47D] Twisted Evils
Given by Willow in Desolace. Just collect 15 Theradric Crystal Carving that drop of the mobs inside the dungeon.
Reward items:
[47D] Vyletongue Corruption
Given by Vark Battlescar in Desolace. For this one you have to fill a vail at the orange crystal pool outside the instance part of the dungeon. With the Filled Cerulean Vial you have to heal 8 Noxxious Scions. You can do this by using the filled vail on plants. The plants have thick green stems topped with a dark, orange-red top. They're near the walls, usually in rooms, and are pretty large, about the size of a gnome. They are located in the "orange" section of the instance, between the orange entrance and where the instance dumps out to the waterfall area.
Reward items:
[48D] The Pariah's Instructions
Given by Centaur Pariah in Desolace. At the entrance of the dungeon you have to defeat the Nameless Prophet, he will drop Amulet of Spirits. Then in different parts of the dungeon you have to find the five centaur Khans and use the amulet on them. Then you can kill them en loot a gem. The Khans can be found in these areas:
  • Middle non-instance part = 1st
  • Purple non-instance part = 2nd
  • Orange non-instance part = 3rd
  • Purple instance = 4th
  • Orange instance = 5th

If you do everything else, you'll find all of them.
Reward items:

[49D] Legends of Maraudon
Given by Cavindra inside the non-instance part of the dungeon. You need to collect 2 items, a rod and a daimond. If you have the items you need to talk to Celebras the Redeemed inside the dungeon. He will give you the followup [49D] The Scepter of Celebras (see below).
The Celebrian Diamond drops of Lord Vyletongue. The Celebrian Rod drops of Noxxion.
[49D] The Scepter of Celebras
Given by Celebras the Redeemed inside the dungeon. This is an easy quest. Just talk to the guy and wait for him to finish the scepter. With the scepter you can teleport your party to the center of the dungeon. This can come in handy when you want to return to the dungeon. The pre-requisite for this one is [49D] Legends of Maraudon (see above).
Reward items:
[51D] Corruption of Earth and Seed
Given by Selendra in Desolace. For this one you have to kill Princess Theradras.
Reward items:
[51D] Corruption of Earth and Seed
Given by Keeper Marandis in Desolace. For this one you have to kill Princess Theradras.
Reward items:
[51D] Seed of Life
Given by Zaetar's Spirit inside the dungeon. He will spawn as soon as you have killed the endboss Princess Theradras. Just have to bring Seed of Life to Keeper Remulos in Moongalde.

Map

These are the maps with important spots of the dungeon. Get full map here. The first map shows the pre-instance part of the dungeon:

  

  1. The Nameless Prophet
  2. Kolk (First Kahn)
  3. Gelk (Second Kahn)
  4. Cavindra (Quest giver)
  5. Magra (Third Kahn)

(E = Entrance non-instance, P = Entrance Purple zone, O = Entrance Orange zone)

And here is the map of the instance part of the dungeon. Get full map here.

  

  1. Veng (Fifth Kahn)
  2. Noxxion
  3. Razorlash
  4. Maraudos (Fourth Kahn)
  5. Lord Vyletongue
  6. Meshlok the Harvester (rare spawn)
  7. Celebras the Cursed
  8. Landslide
  9. Tinkerer Gizlock
  10. Rotgrip
  11. Princess Theradras

(P = Entrance Purple zone, O = Entrance Orange zone, T = Teleport entrance)

Bosses, tactics and drops

[41E] The Nameless Prophet
Easy guy to kill. He drops drop the Amulet of Spirits needed for [48D] The Pariah's Instructions.
[43E] Kolk
He is the first Kahn. He manifests when the Amulet of Spirits is used on the Spirit of Kolk. He will drop the Gem of the First Kahn that you can insert into the Amulet of Spirits for [48D] The Pariah's Instructions. Again a easy guy to kill.
[41-42E] Gelk
He is the second Kahn. He manifests when the Amulet of Spirits is used on the Spirit of Gelk. He will drop the Gem of the Second Kahn that you can insert into the Amulet of Spirits for [48D] The Pariah's Instructions. And I will say this a lot for this dungeon: Easy guy to kill.
[43E] Magra
He is the third Kahn. He manifests when the Amulet of Spirits is used on the Spirit of Magra. He will drop the Gem of the Third Kahn that you can insert into the Amulet of Spirits for [48D] The Pariah's Instructions. And eh... Easy guy to kill.
[44E] Veng
He is the fifth Kahn. He manifests when the Amulet of Spirits is used on the Spirit of Veng. He will drop the Gem of the Fifth Kahn that you can insert into the Amulet of Spirits for [48D] The Pariah's Instructions.
[46E] Noxxion
Ok, now it's getting more interesting. Noxxion only does nature damage, so plate or mail armor does not help. He will primarily attack with slam attacks for about 500 nature damage. In addition to that, he has a number of other abilities:
Uppercut that will knock you back a short distance and cause damage, Toxic Volley that deals around 300 nature damage initially. It continues to tick about 3 times after that for 14-28 nature damage. Finaly it uses Spawns; Periodically, he will disappear and spawn 5 Noxxion's Spawns. These smaller elementals attack for roughly 100 nature damage. Despite the fact that he is a poison/nature elemental, he is not immune to nature attacks or poisons.
Item drops:
[46E] Razorlash
Razorlash is fast and easy to kill. All its attacks are physical, and the only real thing you should worry about is its Bleed attack.
Item drops:
[44E] Maraudos
He is the fourth Kahn. He manifests when the Amulet of Spirits is used on the Spirit of Maraudos. He will drop the Gem of the Fourth Kahn that you can insert into the Amulet of Spirits for [48D] The Pariah's Instructions. Again easy.
[44E] Lord Vyletongue
He is guarded by four stealthed Putridus Shadowstalkers, two in the doorway, and two in the room with him. The two in the doorway can be pulled without aggroing Vyletongue, but he is linked with the two in his room. He has a bow so close in on him quickly.
After killing him don't forget to pickup the Celebrian Diamond for [49D] Legends of Maraudon.
Item drops:
[46E] Meshlok the Harvester
He's not that hard. If he's there you can find him at the end of the purple section, near where it converges with the orange section at the Poison Falls.
Item drops:
[45-46E] Celebras the Cursed
Celebras is guarded by three non-elite Corrupt Forces of Nature. He will summon more during the fight, but his casting can be interrupted. When you defeat him, Celebras the Redeemed will spawn in his place.
Pick up the Celebrian Rod for [49D] Legends of Maraudon.
Then get and finish the followup quest [49D] The Scepter of Celebras. For this last one you will get a scepter and with this scepter you can teleport your party to the center of the dungeon. This can come in handy when you want to return to the dungeon.
Item drops:
[48E] Landslide
This is the first boss of inner Maraudon. Landslide summons tiny Rock Elementals to help him, it is easiest to ignore them and focus on killing Landslide. When Landslide has fallen, so too will his minions.
Item drops:
[48E] Tinkerer Gizlock
He can use a goblin dragon gun during the fight. This is a channeled effect, so you can back away from him and he won't follow you while he's breathing fire. Tinkerer Gizlock can now throw Flash Bombs to.
Item drops:
[48E] Rotgrip
Rotgrip has an ability called Puncture, he applies a DoT that does increased physical damage everytime it stacks.
Item drops:
[48E] Princess Theradras
She fears and has a knockback which throws whoever has aggro roughly 20-30 yards. Also, she occasionally slams the ground which send out waves dealing about 150 damage (for each wave) and knocking everyone down for several seconds, so you must keep her away from casters or their spells will be interrupted during this AoE knockback. If you have a priest, put Fear Wards on your tank. Anyone that does not need to be in melee should be at max range.
Item drops:

Before entering the dungeon

Horde: Go to the mage trainer in Orgrimar and get [42D] Shadowshard Fragments. Then go to Shadowprey village, Desolace and get [47D] Vyletongue Corruption from Vark Battlescar (23,70) and [51D] Corruption of Earth and Seed from Selendra (26,77).

Alliance: Go to Archmage Tervosh in Theramore Isle, Dustwallow Marsh and get [42D] Shadowshard Fragments. Then go to Nijel's Point, Desolace and get [47D] Vyletongue Corruption from Talendria (69,9) and [51D] Corruption of Earth and Seed from Keeper Marandis (63,10).

All: Go to Willow (62,39) and get [47D] Twisted Evils. Then get [48D] The Pariah's Instructions from Centaur Pariah (48,87). All other quest are obtained inside the dungeon. Prepare for a really big dungeon.

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