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Mogu'shan Palace Heroic Dungeon Guide (WoD 6.1.2)
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- +2. Normal Difficulty Loot
- +3. Heroic Difficulty Loot
- 4. Quests
- 5. Dungeon Trash Mobs
- +6. Trial of the King
- +7. Gekkan
- +8. Xin the Weaponmaster
- 9. Achievement: Quarrelsome Quilen Quintet
- 10. Final Considerations
The Mogu'shan Palace is a 5-man dungeon located in the Valde of Eternal Blossoms on Pandaria. The Normal-difficulty version of the dungeon is open to players between level 87 and 90, while the Heroic-difficulty version of the dungeon is reserved to level 90 players. It houses 3 encounters: Trial of the King, Gekkan, and Xin the Weaponmaster.
1. Introduction
The Mogu'shan Palace becomes available to players after reaching level 87. In this dungeon, players need to defeat this last bastion of the Mogu, further weakening their positions on Pandaria.
The dungeon has a linear layout during which you will progress through four different zones and encounter three bosses. The dungeon features both Normal (level 87+) and Heroic (level 90) modes. There are no differences in mechanics between Normal and Heroic modes. The only differences are increased health and damage done for all bosses and enemies.
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|The Crimson Assembly Hall
This guide will cover all of the three boss encounters, as well as the quests and achievements that are available in the dungeon.
2. Normal Difficulty Loot
In Normal Difficulty, the level of the items you can obtain from the Mogu'shan Palace is 450.
2.1. Armor
2.2. Weapons
|Item Name
|Main Stats
|Firescribe Dagger
|Xin the Weaponmaster
|Claws of Gekkan
|One-Hand Fist Weapon
|Xin the Weaponmaster
2.3. Amulets, Cloaks, Rings, and Trinkets
|Item Name
|Main Stats
|Mindcapture Pendant
|Xin the Weaponmaster
|Cloak of Cleansing Flame
|Whirling Dervish Choker
|Kuai the Brute
|Blade Trap Signet
|Xin the Weaponmaster
|Iron Protector Talisman
3. Heroic Difficulty Loot
In Heroic Difficulty, the level of the items you can obtain from the Mogu'shan Palace is 463.
3.1. Armor
|Item Name
|Main Stats
|Regal Silk Shoulderpads
|Xin the Weaponmaster
|Conflagrating Gloves
|Kuai the Brute
|Soulbinder Treads
|Xin the Weaponmaster
|Hurricane Belt
|Kuai the Brute
|Boots of Plummeting Death
|Xin the Weaponmaster
|Hexxer's Lethargic Gloves
|Crest of the Clan Lords
|Kuai the Brute
|Groundshaker Bracers
|Xin the Weaponmaster
|Mind's Eye Breastplate
|Xin the Weaponmaster
|Glintrok Sollerets
|Meteoric Greathelm
|Kuai the Brute
|Axebreaker Gauntlets
|Xin the Weaponmaster
3.2. Weapons
|Item Name
|Main Stats
|Firescribe Dagger
|Xin the Weaponmaster
|Claws of Gekkan
|One-Hand Fist Weapon
|Xin the Weaponmaster
3.3. Amulets, Cloaks, Rings, and Trinkets
|Item Name
|Main Stats
|Mindcapture Pendant
|Xin the Weaponmaster
|Cloak of Cleansing Flame
|Whirling Dervish Choker
|Kuai the Brute
|Blade Trap Signet
|Xin the Weaponmaster
|Iron Protector Talisman
4. Quests
There are 2 quests that can be completed within the instance. They are given by Sinan the Dreamer inside the palace, at the entrance.
The first quest is Relics of the Four Kings. It requires you to collect 4 relics that you will find inside vaults located in the room where you fight Gekkan, the second boss.
The second quest is A New Lesson for the Master. It requires you to defeat Xin the Weaponmaster, the last boss of the dungeon.
The quests reward you with item level 450 gear (see loot section above).
5. Dungeon Trash Mobs
None of the trash mobs present in the dungeon should pose your group a problem. Therefore, we will focus chiefly on the bosses.
6. Trial of the King
During this encounter, you will have to fight 3 bosses in succession: Kuai the Brute, Ming the Cunning, and Haiyan the Unstoppable. Ming becomes active when you kill Kuai, and Hayian becomes active when you kill Ming.
6.1. Kuai the Brute
Kuai the Brute is accompanied by Mu'Shiba, his loyal quilen.
- Kuai deals moderate melee damage to the tank and will often cast Shockwave, which sends players standing in front of him in the air, making them susceptible to heavy fall damage.
- Mu'Shiba will keep jumping on random players, afflicting them with Ravage, a powerful DoT.
The only thing to watch out for is Shockwave, so avoid standing in front of the boss.
You should kill Mu'Shiba first, in order to remove the strain on your healer that Ravage represents. Then you can kill Kuai.
At higher gear levels, groups will most likely choose to ignore Mu'Shiba and kill Kuai directly, to shorten the duration of the fight.
6.2. Ming the Cunning
Ming the Cunning is a standard tank-and-spank fight with mainly two abilities to avoid or deal with.
- Whirling Dervish summons a moving cyclone that randomly moves around the arena, dealing damage and knocking back players it runs into. Avoid it.
- Magnetic Field causes Ming to create a damaging vortex around him in which he pulls all party members. Get out of it quickly.
In addition, he keeps casting Lightning Bolt at the tank. This spell's cast can be interrupted.
|Whirling Dervish
|Magnetic Field
6.2.1. Haiyan the Unstoppable
For this fight, players need to stack loosely to deal with Meteor. They need to be spread out no more than 10 yards. When Haiyan casts this ability (something he does regularly), it will send a meteor at a random party member, dealing damage shared by everyone within 10 yards of the impact.
Other than that, random players will often be afflicted by Conflagrate, which deals Fire damage for 5 seconds and disorients. When Conflagrate ends, it jumps to a nearby player. To prevent this from happening, move away from players afflicted by this ability.
Healers should pay special attention to Haiyan's last ability: Traumatic Blow. It causes the tank to receive 50% less healing for 5 seconds.
7. Gekkan
After defeating the Trial of the King, you need to follow a Saurok down a flight of stairs that will open up on the side of the arena. After fighting a few groups of trash mobs, you will meet Gekkan and his four followers: Glintrok Hexxer, Glintrok Ironhide, Glintrok Oracle, and Glintrok Skulker. To progress past this encounter, you need to defeat all 5 enemies, even if you kill Gekkan first.
7.1. Abilities
Gekkan, the Glintrok Ironhide, and the Glintrok Skulker will attack players with melee attacks, so they need to be tanked. The Glintrok Hexxer and the Glintrok Oracle will remain stationary for the entire duration of the fight.
Gekkan will often buff his followers with Reckless Inspiration, which increases their haste and the damage that they take. This effect can stack up to 10 stacks. Reckless Inspiration is Gekkan's only ability. Upon dying, he will stack Reckless Inspiration one last time on all his remaining followers.
Gekkan's followers have various abilities. All of them are interruptible.
- The Glintrok Ironhide channels Iron Protector, which grants nearby allies a 50% damage taken reduction.
- The Glintrok Skulker casts Shank, which deals damage to a random player, stunning them.
- The Glintrok Oracle casts Cleansing Flame, which regularly heals all allies within 60 yards for a large amount, and Fire Bolt (only if no one is in his melee range), which deals Fire damage.
- The Glintrok Hexxer casts Hex of Lethargy, which inflicts shadow damage and applies a stacking debuff on the target that reduces spell casting speed, and Dark Bolt (only if no one is in his melee range), which deals Shadow damage.
7.2. Strategy
Despite the large number of combined abilities from the boss and his followers, the combat is relatively simple.
The most important part of the encounter is to focus on interrupting the abilities of the followers. While the Glintrok Ironhide and the Glintrok Hexxer are still alive, interrupt their abilities with priority.
With that in mind, we believe that the easiest strategy for this encounter is to kill the followers in the order we give below before killing Gekkan.
- Kill the Glintrok Ironhide, so that you no longer need to interrupt his channels of Iron Protector.
- Kill the Glintrok Hexxer, so that you no longer need to interrupt his casts of Hex of Lethargy.
- Kill the Glintrok Skulker.
- Kill the Glintrok Oracle.
Once all the followers are dead, the tank and the healers must be mindful of the fact that Gekkan will have 4 stacks of Reckless Inspiration, which cause him to attack twice faster.
7.3. Achievement: Glintrok N' Roll
Completing Glintrok N' Roll is very straightforward, although it is not an easy task, especially since you need to do it in the Heroic version of the fight.
When you enter the lower part of the palace, a Glintrok Scout will spot you and you will be given a very visible emote. From there on, you have 5 minutes to kill Gekkan and his followers.
There are a lot of trash mobs on your way to Gekkan, so you cannot realistically engage them all and still make it in time (at least not at low gear levels). To skip fighting as many mobs as possible, you should jump down into the arena where you fight Gekkan, as soon as your reach the room where this arena is located.
Having a Rogue in your group can be very helpful, thanks to Shroud of Concealment.
8. Xin the Weaponmaster
Xin the Weaponmaster is the last boss of the dungeon and will present you with an interesting fight, during which there are no complex mechanics to deal with. Rather, you will have to be almost constantly on the move to avoid the various traps and damaging abilities that the boss will throw at your group.
Inciting Roar and Death From Above! are the only source of unavoidable damage in the fight. Inciting Roar is regularly cast by Xin. Death From Above is not a spell or an ability, but rather it is an event that actives when Xin reaches 33% health. It causes damaging arrows to be shot to players from the walls.
The other sources of damage can all be avoided by properly moving out of the danger zone they create.
- Ground Slam deals damage in a 30-yard cone in front of Xin and stacks an armor reduction debuff on players hit by the slam. Avoid standing in front of Xin.
- Circles of Flames will be created throughout the fight around random players. The circle takes a few seconds to complete, after which time it explodes and deals damage to players inside it, knocking them into the air. Move out of circles of flames being drawn around you.
- Whirlwinding Axes are axes that travel through the arena and deal damage to players they run into, knocking them back in the process.
- Blade Trap activates when Xin reaches 66% health and causes streams of swords to be thrown at the party from the walls, dealing heavy damage to anyone they catch.
Circles of Flames and Whirlwinding Axes are the most important abilities. If you are caught by them, you will knocked back or into the air, which runs the risk that you will land on another zone of danger.
When Xin reaches 33% health, all the traps are activated and the arena becomes very confusing, and you will have very little room to move. There is no known enrage timer to the encounter, so you should focus on avoiding abilities and attack the boss when you are safe.
|Inciting Roar
|Ground Slam
|Circle of Flame
|Whirlwinding Axes
|Blade Trap
|Death From Above!
8.1. Tip
Several mechanics of the fight can safely be ignored by having the tank pull Xin back to the trance of the room and have Xin face either corner of the doorway. See a post by Alroxas on our forums.
8.2. Achievement: What Does This Button Do?
What Does This Button Do? requires serious coordination between party members.
Shortly after Xin activates his Death From Above! trap, you will see 2 crystals appearing on opposite corners of the room. You will need to designate two players whose task will be to reach these crystals and click them. As a result, another crystal will appear along the walls of the room. This new crystal represent the secret defense mechanism mentioned in the tooltip of the achievement. Clicking it will activate that secret weapon and you simply need the tank to move the boss in its path.
Note that with all players spread around the room, healing them will be somewhat chaotic. To make it easier, the healer should try to remain close to the center of the room, so that everyone in the party is in range (or almost in range).
9. Achievement: Quarrelsome Quilen Quintet
Quarrelsome Quilen Quintet is a very straightforward achievement. To complete it, you need to collect the 5 Jade Quilens hidden inside the dungeon. These are small, friendly NPCs with a very distinctive green color.
10. Final Considerations
This concludes our Mogu'shan Palace dungeon guide. If you find any inconsistency or mistake, feel free to comment or send us an e-mail.
- 1. Introduction
- +2. Normal Difficulty Loot
- +3. Heroic Difficulty Loot
- 4. Quests
- 5. Dungeon Trash Mobs
- +6. Trial of the King
- +7. Gekkan
- +8. Xin the Weaponmaster
- 9. Achievement: Quarrelsome Quilen Quintet
- 10. Final Considerations
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Following a brief stay in Barcelona, the Panerai Transat Classique 2012 is underway once more. No time for an observation round, the crews have slipped back into racing mode and are motivated for the fight. The battle to the fickle currents of the Straits of Gibraltar is promising to be a fierce one.
Making the winches scream! If you look at how the boats are progressing in the Panerai Transat Classique 2012, it is quite clear that the crews are giving no quarter, focusing mercilessly on the finishing line. In the last 36 hours since the race restarted off Barcelona, the three leading yachts have been tacking relentlessly against the wind, their paths crossing on a number of occasions. It is likely that those on watch last night saw the navigation lights of their opponents at least twice. Sea Lion and The Blue Peter initially hugged the coast before tacking out to sea and back again; while Corto did exactly the opposite, in perfect symmetry. It's a nautical version of 'now you see me, now you don't'! Average speeds are well above what the race committee was expecting.
Aboard the boats the atmosphere is as intense as an afternoon regatta, and just as unpredictable. The Blue Peter was the first to suffer a significant setback: 'We got headed really badly in the constantly shifting winds and our genoa got backed on to the spreaders, which ripped it significantly. It was a blow to morale. We really weren't moving under Yankee and forestaysail; thankfully Paola managed to sew up the yard-long rip in less than two hours.' Luckily for them, they had an expert sailmaker aboard who could deal with the situation quickly. Despite these kinds of incident, the crews are in high spirits and the offshore sailing is providing its fair share of pleasure: 'Dolphins jumping, sun and rain, waiting for the westerly.'
A fresh breeze would do White Dolphin a lot of good. She's currently trailing the pack but is determined to catch up. It's an unenviable task. Why? Because fitting a new propeller meant she started the race five and a half hours late and didn't get the same wind conditions as the others; a less favourable and gentler breeze made her do a lot of work just to stay in the game. The gap increased slightly overnight but since then it has stabilized. But the news isn't all bad for White Dolphin: there's still more than 500 nautical miles to be sailed before a winner crosses the line in the Tagus estuary off Cascais. Anything can happen between now and then. Maybe the wind will come in from the rear of the fleet to allow the big ketch to make up for lost time.
The race committee is now preparing for the arrival of the Panerai Transat Classique 2012 in Portugal. Organizing an event such as this is quite a challenge, the forced stopover in Barcelona being a good example of the problems that have to be dealt with. Fortunately the Real Club Nautico was on hand to help out. Its members showed remarkable enthusiasm and effectiveness, especially in the case of the propeller-less White Dolphin. The club's commodore, Damian Ribas, former chairman of the C.I.M. (the rating body for classic yachts in the Mediterranean) and organizer of the Trophée Panerai, made sure that this unexpected port visit was as enjoyable as possible. Solidarity among sailors is alive and well!
Currently on course for the first gate west of Cartagena, the yachts will then head for the Straits of Gibraltar, a very difficult stretch of water which will certainly have an impact on the order of the race. Once into the Atlantic, they will sail up the Portuguese coast and are expected to arrive, weather permitting, around 6 November.
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Lets face it the libs are still fighting the civil war remember the Jim Crow laws civil rights marches of the 60's. libs feel that black people are thier property as is everthing else, and anyone that dosn't agree with them. We all are their property. they are our masters we the slaves, we have to be led, we are simple dolts and fools.
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WASHINGTON, March 10, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As spring break season approaches, a national survey of 18- to 22-year-old full-time college students revealed many students plan to work, volunteer, spend time with family or catch up on studies over the break. Parents, family and finances are the leading influence on college students' spring break plans.
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"A lavishly entertaining account of a family at war with itself, and a brilliant dissection of the dissatisfactions and disappointments of contemporary American life... Compelling...Freedom, though frequently funny, is ultimately tender: its emotional currency is both the pain and the pleasure that that word implies . . . A rare pleasure, an irresistible invitation to binge-read . . . That it also grapples with a fundamental dilemma of modern middle-class America—namely: Is it really still OK to spend your life asserting your unalienable right to the pursuit of happiness, when the rest of the world is in such a state?—is what makes it something wonderful. If Freedom doesn't qualify as a Great American Novel for our time, then I don't know what would . . . The reason to celebrate him is not that he is doing something new but that he is doing something old, presumed dead—and doing it brilliantly. Freedom bids for a place alongside the great achievements of his predecessors, not his contemporaries; it belongs on the same shelf as John Updike's Rabbit, Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities, Philip Roth's American Pastoral. It is the first Great American Novel of the post-Obama era." —Benjamin Secher, Daily Telegraph
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"Jonathan Franzen's new novel, Freedom, like his previous one, The Corrections, is a masterpiece of American fiction . . . Freedom is a still richer and deeper work—less glittering on its surface but more confident in its method. Like all great novels, Freedom does not just tell an engrossing story. It illuminates, through the steady radiance of its author's profound moral intelligence, the world we thought we knew."—Sam Tanenhaus, The New York Times Book Review
"A literary genius for our time . . . An extraordinary work . . . This is simply on a different plane from other contemporary fiction . . . Demands comparison rather with Saul Bellow's Herzog. A modern classic, Freedom is the novel of the year, and the century." —Jonathan Jones, Guardian
"Forget about 3-D films, this is a 3-D novel. The characters are alive, past, present and future. Lives are truly lived . . . The great achievement of Freedom is to be an almost perfectly written novel, yet one which contrives not to be intimidating. It is both a page-turner and a work of art . . . It is bliss." --Sarah Sands, Evening Standard
"While modern publishing sometimes seems to prize whimsy over scope – nobody much expects a Great American Novel to materialize – Jonathan Franzen has gone and written two . . . Franzen's characters are heartbreaking, his sentences breathtaking, and Freedom has the narrative grip of a cheap thriller." --Tim Walker, Independent
"Writing in prose that is at once visceral and lapidary, Mr. Franzen shows us how his characters strive to navigate a world of technological gadgetry and ever-shifting mores, how they struggle to balance the equation between their expectations of life and dull reality, their political ideals and mercenary personal urges. He proves himself as adept at adolescent comedy as he is at grown-up tragedy; as skilled at holding a mirror to the world his people inhabit day by dreary day as he is at limning their messy inner lives . . . Mr. Franzen has written his most deeply felt novel yet—a novel that turns out to be both a compelling biography of a dysfunctional family and an indelible portrait of our times." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"[Freedom is] a work of total genius: a reminder both of why everyone got so excited about Franzen in the first place and of the undeniable magic—even today, in our digital end-times—of the old-timey literary novel . . . Few modern novelists rival Franzen in that primal skill of creating life, of tricking us into believing that a text-generated set of neural patterns, a purely abstract mind-event, is in fact a tangible human being that we can love, pity, hate, admire, and possibly even run into someday at the grocery store. His characters are so densely rendered—their mental lives sketched right down to the smallest cognitive micrograins—that they manage to bust through the art-reality threshold: They hit us in the same place that our friends and neighbors and classmates and lovers do. This is what makes Franzen's books such special event." —Sam Anderson, New York Magazine
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"Freedom, his new book, and The Corrections, its predecessor, are at the same time engrossing sagas and scathing satires, and both books are funny, sad, cranky, revelatory, hugely ambitious, deeply human and, at times, truly disturbing. Together, they provide a striking and quite possibly enduring portrait of America in the years on either side of the turn of the 21st century . . . His writing is so gorgeous . . . Franzen is one of those exceptional writers whose works define an era and a generation, and his books demand to be read." —Harper Barnes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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If you take away the reference to being poor and apply the sentence to middle class America, it would seem to be at the centre of this complex, highly readable and deeply human novel. The book circles around this statement as three generations of the Berglund family, their friends and associates use their differing degrees of freedom to make choices which sometimes turn out for the good but more often than not f*** up their lives and those of their children and parents. Therein is an alternative voice of the book which questions this freedom in the face the demands of family, friends and society.
At its heart are three people from the middle generation, Patty (nee Emerson) and Walter Berglund and itinerant rock musician, Richard Katz. This trio form a sort of double love triangle in which each is, in different ways, loved by the other two. It is the tensions and energy thrown off by these relationships which power the narrative drive of the novel.
The opening section introduces the Berglunds living in a gentrifying neighbourhood in Minnesota where they seem to be the perfect liberal middle class couple, environmentally aware paragons of the community. In this section Frannzen succinctly and brilliantly portrays the tensions and desires seething below the surface of a seemingly blandly civilised community.
The facade of this suburban idyll is shattered by the Berglund's son becoming precociously sexually attached to Connie, daughter of the not quite so middle class Carol.Read more ›
The story revolves around a couple called Patty and Walter. The point of view and timeline jump about, to tell the story from all sorts of angles. Over the course of the book you develop a deep understanding for the characters, which most modern novels can not get near to. You could argue that you get to know the characters better than they know themselves because you find out what made them how they are and how other people see them.
There are a few themes that run through the story, the most intriguing one for me being how relationships develop over time and whether animal attraction is more important than suitability of partners. It's hard to say much more without spoilers but there is a lot of meaning under the surface of this book.
This is a very long book, which gives space to really develop the lead characters and show them age over time. I would say that there are some bits of the book that feel a bit flabby and could benefit from being trimmed down. For instance, there are quite a lot about preservation of mountain birds in the middle, which does not really add anything to the story and may have been better suited to a magazine article rather than add extra pages to a book that is already quite hefty.
That little moan aside, the book is great. It is a very satisying story. Everyone in it is fully rounded and three dimensional and by the end I really cared what happened to them.
Over a third of the book is told from Walter's wife Patty's point of view, but she's writing in third person, on her therapist's suggestion. This gives rise to the one glaring technical fault with the book: her voice is exactly the same as Franzen's own omniscient narrator's voice: arch, amusedly distant, and so forth. That means it's still fun to read, but it's easy to forget, and hard to accept, that it's supposed to be Patty writing. There's also comment on the Iraq war, 9/11, lots of anti-consumerist stuff. There's a secondary character called Jonathon, a very conscientious young man, vocally anti-war - I'm guessing his first name's not accidental.
Another qualm I had about "Freedom" is the dialogue. Franzen is very good at dialogue, his dialogue is very contemporary, he's up with all the latest slang, but he goes too far in this direction in this book, for me. The dialogue is too quirky, too many little nuances and plays on words, people don't talk like that.
Overall, this book is a bit self-consciously engaging in all of the hot-button problems of our times.Read more ›
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The development of the central caracters is masterful and full with surprising turns.
The novels structure is not linear but integrates the different lives of 3 generations... Read more
Terrific. Excellent delivery and product condition. Don't know how they can do it for the price.Published 1 month ago by Elizabeth C.
A very well written book as anticipated from Jonathan Franzen. Quite long, as it tells the story from different viewpoints but it kept me interested to the end.Published 1 month ago by jonny19
The characters all reminded me of people in my own life, very well observed. Tiny hints of misogyny here and there, could have been character specific, I'm not sure. Read morePublished 1 month ago by Kate O'Reilly
Based on other reviews, this seems to be a real Marmite book, with people either loving it or loathing it. Read morePublished 2 months ago by Tealady2000
Interesting read: liked it a lot. Found the long chapters difficult though with no natural breaks when having to stop reading for a time. Read morePublished 4 months ago by M Arletti
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Loved the sparkling dialogue throughout the book and the writer's deep analytical perception on how some human beings think and behave. Read more
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