By devilsrobot (283 – 1·1) on 2007/04/13 (Patch 2.0.12)
I soloed this as a 28 shadow priest by using the terrain -- specifically, by jumping from the nearby cart onto Abercrombie's shack as soon as I opened the grave. Once you're on that building, the adds will completely ignore you, and it's just a shooting match with Eliza. After she was dead, the adds despawned within about ten seconds.
Kyrpis on 2007/12/19 (Patch 2.3.0)
Totally true. Just have to wait for the add to disapear after shooting Eliza from the roof. Soloed at lvl 29 Shadow Priest.
By Paryn (1,565 – 1·2·9) on 2007/04/03 (Patch 2.0.12)
As a level 33 shadow priest, I believe it's possible to solo Eliza. I (as a level 33 shadow priest) was able to bring her to around 80% health, before a random Shaman jumped in to help and finish her off. But, to be honest, I did not need any help.
Here is the synopsis of the strategy I used:
1) Run a little distance from grave after opening.
2) Shackle Eliza.
3) Mind blast Eliza.
4) repeat step 2
Here is the strategy in a little more detail.
As many people have already mentioned above, Eliza does two things: She will cast frostbolt / frostnova and during the encounter she will summon three undead guardians, whom I believe are level 29.
Because she will try to frostbolt you when you are out of melee range, the basic idea of my strategy was to cast a direct damage spell on her, then immediately shackle her before she can finish casting frostbolt.
The shackling has the affects of interrupting her spell casting, allowing you some time to regenerate mana, and preventing her from summoning her undead friends.
That's basically all there is to it. When she's shackled, she can't summon her friends. When she's casting frostbolt, she can't summon her friends.
A few things to note. You want to cast a quick damage spell, like mind blast or smite. If you mind flay, you will probably not have the time to shackle her before her frostbolt finishes casting. You also don't want to use a spell like Shadow Word: Pain, for obvious reasons (You are using shackle!). You also probably want to wait for the "Five Second Rule" http://www.wowwiki.com/Formulas:Mana_Regen#Five_Second_Rule to fade so that you regenerate some mana. Else, if you decide to spam shackle / mind blast, you run the risk of running out of mana.
Good luck.
By Jackyl (996 – 1·10) on 2007/03/04 (Patch 2.0.8)
The bride is located at 28.30, right behind Abercrombie's shack. It's a tough solo, but you can DPS the embalmer and let the adds kill you, and loot after you rez (the adds will be gone).
By XFGREAPER (1,639 – 2·19) on 2006/11/29 (Patch 1.12.2)
Great Quest but to be Lvl-30 and complete is going to be a challenge without help. Eliza spawns and after a few hits she summons 3 guards to help her. I've Killed Eliza and NOT all of the guards. I drew them off and went in to get the drop. could not loot until all guards were dead too. Had 2 other help and it made it seem simple.
Zaxmon on 2007/12/09 (Patch 2.3.0)
UPDATE 2.3: Eliza is no longer an Elite. This is totally easy now without any terrain exploit necessary. I only had one add, other players have reported no adds at all. The grave has a blue question mark for being repeatable.
Aqual on 2007/12/30 (Patch 2.3.0)
Theyve changed the quest completly, she is no longer and elite and she only spawns 1 lvl 28 skelly guard, its easy to solo at 27+ as long as u got a healing potion or healing spell, i did with me and 1 other and took bout 20secs have fun =P
By bluewire (1,667 – 6·16) on 2007/11/14 (Patch 2.3.0)
post-patch 2.3 ... only 1 helper spawns. easy as lvl 33 holy priest. Fight her till helper spawns. shakle one, kill the other, kill the remaining one.
By sphiltock (248 – 3) on 2008/12/27 (Patch 3.0.3)
way too easy. when she pops out of here grave she freezes everyone near her. pretty easy kill though
By aeroh (978 – 1·8) on 2007/02/11 (Patch 2.0.6)
As a level 31 shadow priest this is not gonna be a walk in the park to solo. She is no crappy low healthed "rare" elite spawn, she's just as tough as an elite you encounter in instances. Like said she spawned 3 regular lvl 28 skellies which are immune to fear. She also spams frostbolts. Graveyard is near thu :)
By Sczee (136 – 1·0) on 2007/05/16 (Patch 2.0.12)
I just killed her as a level 27 Fire Mage. I used devilsrobot's strategy of getting on the roof of the shack but I did it after running away and coming back so she didnt know i was there. I then blasted her with pyro/fireball/fireblast and used as many frost shields as i could and used one health potion. I also had to use evocation as I ran out of mana when she was at 40% health. After she died I waited about 10 seconds and the adds despawned and I grabbed the heart. I had only 10 health left when she died too so it was very close.
Note she has a 37% resistance to fire according to MobInfo2 so maybe a frost mage would fare better? I'm not sure.
buns on 2007/08/24 (Patch 2.1.3)
As you were level 27 at the time, fighting a level 31 mob she has a native level-based resistance of 38%. This was what you were seeing.
By Vancali (317 – 1·2) on 2007/05/28 (Patch 2.1.0)
I did this with my lv 30 tankadin and a lv 25 shadowpriest. I couldn't have soloed this for sure. She loves to freeze you in place and walk just out of melee range. Blessing of Freedom didn't have enough time to recharge before she did it again. Good luck with her. I would recommend being lv 32 if you are melee.
By katieSFU05 (134 – 1·0) on 2007/06/01 (Patch 2.1.0)
I soloed this as a 33 hunter. Pretty much, I sent my pet on her and kept hitting her with my arcane shot. I took a beating from the guards, but she went down and I ran for the river and had my pet follow. The guards won't follow you into the water. However, if you don't loot her corpse immediately, you'll have to redo the quest. I had to run it twice to get the heart. After you kill and loot her, feign death will work well too. I also used one healing potion too.
By druhim (335 – 1·4) on 2007/06/21 (Patch 2.1.2)
Solo'd her with my 30 hunter and my 30 kitty pet. Had to try several times because her body kept disappearing before I could loot it. I finally decided to loot it right after she died even though the skels got me, at least I got the heart finally and completed the quest.
I should clarify that her body disappeared very quickly even when I lived through her and her guards. Her body had disappeared in less than a minute after killing her that time, so loot her as soon as she goes down.
By Celovek (173 – 1) on 2007/07/12 (Patch 2.1.3)
Hah! Nuking her from the roof works indeed. I was able to take her out this way, solo, as a 33 shaman, specced Enhancement (no nuking bonuses). I put down a frost resistance totem and a mana spring and just kept lobbing Lightning Bolts at her. I neglected to keep Lightning Shield up, but I imagine it would help significantly.
I tried a more legitimate approach twice before, but wasn't able to take her out before her three guards took me out.
One odd thing I found was that, while on the roof, if you let up on the damage for a few moments too many, she leaves 'combat mode' and her health and mana shoot back up to 100%. I found this puzzling, as I was still within range of her, but oh well, no biggie. Just let your mana recharge and try again.
By Bisonice (383 – 1·4) on 2007/07/27 (Patch 2.1.3)
Lol... all this work.. with hiding behind the shack or attacking from the roof... This is what to do, just attack her.. die.. come back and res.. then the wait for the guards to despawn!!!! She will still be there and atackable.. just DPS her down. Although she resummoned guards at half health but it was too late for her!!! I'd take dying once over dying countless other times trying other methods posted.
By moonasha (4,953 – 1·4·28) on 2007/12/28 (Patch 2.3.0)
If you're a warrior, just pop retaliation to take care of any adds. This fight is cake now that they nerfed it.
By sstan (910 – 4·9) on 2008/01/07 (Patch 2.3.0)
solved as a lvl 31shadow priest.. had no problems with it.. she casts frostbolt as said before and spawns a lvl 27-28 minion which is immune to fear...
By Grizela (12,184 – 1·13·44) on 2008/09/03 (Patch 2.4.3)
I had to kill Eliza and her single guard 3 times before I was able to loot Eliza. The first two times, she sunk back into the ground even though I had killed her. She was not lootable. The third time it worked. Oddly, tho, I dont seem to have gotten any experience from killing them, although I did 3650 xp upon turning in the quest
By swotam (2,492 – 3·46) on 2006/12/30 (Patch 2.0.1)
This quest grants 500 Alliance reputation as of patch 2.01
By Charowin (132 – 1·1) on 2010/01/27 (Patch 3.3.0)
I'm grinding rep & in doing so I'm trying to complete quests that give me high amounts of rep. I just did this quest. When i finished the chain I got 'Reputation with Alliance increased by 500'. I was supposed to get 500 rep for all 5 Alliance factions. I'm so confused. lol Help?
By Skubalon (161 – 2) on 2007/12/30 (Patch 2.3.0)
Soloed after patch 2.3 no longer elite. Sheonly summons one helper non-elite as well. Very easy now and This quest is repeatable after you complete it before you turn it in as you can see a blue question mark above her grave. I got a good drop from her after a few times. good luck!
Skubalon on 2007/12/30 (Patch 2.3.0)
Oh ----- you have to go back to Darkshire to turn it in at the City Hall as of 2.3 as well....
Sunday Jul 24, 2016 at 02:43 GMT
Originally opened as https://github.com/ccshiro/cc-buglist/issues/2595
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