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Series

1.	Force of Nature
2.	An Issue of Trust
3.	Returned Sevenfold
4.	The Fallen Pillar
5.	Cultist Incursion

Storyline
Sholazar Basin Need an Engine, Take an Engine Have a Part, Give a Part Venture Co. Misadventure Wipe That Grin Off His Face Kick, What Kick? The Great Hunter's Challenge Rhino Mastery: The Test Dreadsaber Mastery: Becoming a Predator Dreadsaber Mastery: Stalking the Prey Rhino Mastery: The Chase Crocolisk Mastery: The Trial Some Make Lemonade, Some Make Liquor Still At It Crocolisk Mastery: The Plan Dreadsaber Mastery: Ready to Pounce An Offering for Soo-rahm The Bones of Nozronn Crocolisk Mastery: The Ambush Rhino Mastery: The Kill The Taste Test In Search of Bigger Game Sharpening Your Talons Securing the Bait A Mammoth Undertaking Post-partum Aggression Playing Along The Ape Hunter's Slave Tormenting the Softknuckles The Wasp Hunter's Apprentice The Sapphire Queen Flown the Coop! The Underground Menace Mischief in the Making A Rough Ride Lightning Definitely Strikes Twice The Mist Isn't Listening Hoofing It Just Following Orders Fortunate Misunderstandings Make the Bad Snake Go Away Gods like Shiny Things Making Peace An Issue of Trust Back So Soon? Returned Sevenfold The Lost Mistwhisper Treasure Forced Hand Home Time! The Angry Gorloc Lifeblood of the Mosswalker Shrine The Mosswalker Savior A Hero's Burden The Fallen Pillar Salvaging Life's Strength Cultist Incursion Exterminate the Intruders Weapons of Destruction The Lifewarden's Wrath Freya's Pact Powering the Waygate - The Makers' Perch Powering the Waygate - The Makers' Overlook The Etymidian The Activation Rune Back Through the Waygate Reclamation

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Comments

Comment by 89341

He's located at 66,44.

Just aggro him and use the Freya's Ward when he starts to cast the Deathbolt.

You'll have to use it 2-3 times, just make sure you don't miss a reflect, or the Deathbolt hits you for 100% of your HP.

Comment by zenithstorm

Hint: as a frost mage, do not use ice barrier... it messes with the Ward so that you end up taking the deathbolt instead of reflecting it. Might be a bug...

Comment by 246808

If you run down too far he will reset! try to stay close and avoid extra aggro. It takes about 3 reflects with the ward to kill him. (which is how you kill him)

Comment by Antman

Use the ward when he is almost finished casting the deathbolt. I first used it when he started to cast it but then I got hit..
Also hunters/locks dont let your pet tank this, he wont run up to you anyway. As hes casting Deathbolt, then Hellfire, Deathbolt again etc...

Comment by 2154

Less fun on a Hunter, as you need him targeting you instead of your pet. He is also immune to wing clip and concussive shot. So you just run around him the best you can and hope that his feels like casting the shadowbolts.

Comment by 248940

Very simple quest..

Start the fight and let him come to you, hit him a couple of times to get him to cast then use the ward towards the end of his cast like said...Also when he does rain of fire just walk out of it and let him come back to you again and rinse and repeat

Comment by Remmiz

The ward is channeled, btw. So don't move while using it otherwise it will wear off and the bolt will hit you.

Comment by Mousa

Melee's watch out, cause even if you use the quest item right, he can still hit you, and make decent dmg!

Comment by Powerage

I died about 7 times trying to kill him. Few times were my mistakes, but he would only use the deathbolt twice and then after that I fought him for about 10 seconds, he never casted a bolt I used potion and died anyways.

Comment by aynessa

OK, since no one was really explaining HOW to do this quest, here's a guide for those who just keep dying.

Thalgan Blightbringer is a nasty-looking, massive Scourge monstrosity just north of the questgiver, Avatar of Freya. You should be able to see him from where you're standing, unless you have your video settings turned down. If not, go north just a little bit and look under the triangle formation of the floating mini-necropolises burning with fire. (If he's not there, wait for him to spawn. He pops up from the ground)

Aggro him any way you choose, but here's the skills you should look for.

He *really* likes to do a "rain of fire" sort of spell. Obviously, fire will rain down on the ground around you. If you're not watching for it, and you're stuck in it, it can actually damage you pretty good. He stands still while casting it, so just move out of the way and put a healing spell on yourself if needed. Mostly it's just really annoying, because he casts it the most.

The spell you want to reflect back at him is actually hard to spot if you have no idea what you're doing or have never done this quest before. He brings his hands close to his right side and orbs of shadow form around his hands. Wait a second or two, then use the reflection the Avatar of Freya gave you. If you don't time it right, it CAN and WILL kill you. Took off a huge chunk of health when I was in catform.

Usually takes about 3 reflections to kill him, at least for me since I'm a melee. Had to heal a few times, and died the first time I tried, but it's a pretty easy quest once you know what to look for.

Then, just head south a few steps to Freya and turn in the quest.

*EDIT* The screenshot someone uploaded has an example of Thalgan casting the "deathbolt". To my screen, it blends in pretty good with the background, especially if you're a big hulking bear blocking half the guy's body. (lol)

Comment by Factsfountain

He hits pretty hard on melee and his rain of fire is not interruptable, so you may want to bring a potion with you just in case.

Comment by Sangofanzak

Super EZ quest just walk a few feet hit him pull up the sheild hit him pul up the sheild again. simple. also for those that dont have cords hes about where the S is in the lost lands. the shield is channel gor like 1.5 secs so time it wen hes a little over 1/2 way done with the spell

Comment by 285372

Most ridiculous quest I've ever done. It's extremely difficult for hunters. You have to kite him around, so the cast will be casted on you and not your pet, and I seemed to agro about 4 mobs everytime I did it. I manage to get up the shield, reflect it, kill him, and feign death before they all killed me.

Freya's Ward looks like the rejuvenation... if your like me and have to come onto wowhead to see what the symbol looks like........

Comment by 297139

If you do not have coords, no worries. Do not pay attention to the directions in the quest. He is not north, but northeast, maybe 100 feet upriver. Head just a little upstream and you got him.
Good luck.

Comment by 45288

To make this a TON easier, turn on 'Cast Bars' 'On Targets' in the combat section of your interface. If you have a decent amount of health and/or armor, you can stand in melee range and never have to move or use potions/bandages. If not, you'll need to run out of the Rain of Fire. One missed Deathbolt won't take all your health, but you'll prolly die from melee or fire damage.

Comment by 295963

What really helped me was to use Freya's Ward JUST BEFORE he casts his spell. That and bringing some potions along will help you a great deal.

Comment by shibbysean

For hunters, it is possible to just burn him down and not even use the ward. You will get quest credit.

Comment by 84878

4 deaths later I figure out a fire mage should: 1) cast spell, 2) move, 3)activate ward when he casts Deathbolt. The just keep moving however you can. After 3 Deathbolts he's gone.

Comment by 150475

For those of you who think they are referencing the band Avenged Sevenfold are just professing their ignorance. Where do you think they got the name from? They certainly didn't make up that ancient term on their own. For those of you who don't know to avenge something sevenfold is to take revenge with seven times times the severity of what was done to you. If you want an example, say you shop lifted some M&Ms for fun, but you're caught and to punish you for your crime they broke every finger on your hand. THAT would be the shop getting revenge sevenfold. It is a VERY old term, and someone coined it "biblical" and I don't doubt that the phrase is as old.

As far as the fight goes...

As a squishy it was a little trying but not difficult. Time the use of the item right and all with be well. I recommend squishies kite him as best you can so you don't take as much damage and then stop and use the item when he stops to use his deathspell.

Comment by 321523

Nothing's funny about the Bible

As annoying as I find Mark Driscoll, you should check out this, about humor in the bible:
http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/religionsaves/humor

Comment by 262906

After watching a hunter fail hard three times in a row with this one, I was alittle worried
But its easier than it looks as long as you remember to USE THE QUESTITEM!

Im a combat rogue

Comment by 77794

Lol I failed to read the quest and had to solo it as 79 shaman. Man i was wondering why this isnt marked a group quest :D

Comment by elrenifico

2 reflects did the job
pretty scarry for a mage, but i started nuking and hoped for the best
shields up, fire ward
doesn't hit that hard -> abt 1100 on cloth, pretty slow as well

Comment by 307608

You cannot use the ward while wanding. Make sure you do something to cancel auto-wanding before you use the ward or you may not reflect the bolt in time.

Comment by FixManTx

As others have said, turn on your cast bars in your interface options and you'll see when he starts casting his death bolt. When the cast timer is less than halfway to the end hit the ward and it will reflect his bolt back to him. The rain of fire didn't hurt my 78 enhance shaman much so I stood there and waited for the other death bolts. The ward's cooldown is short enough it will be ready each time he casts death bolt. Just hit the ward when the cast bar is past the halfway point and he will die on the 3rd reflect.

Comment by 337106

You can also listen for the distinctive "shadow bolt" noise that he makes when casting the Deathbolt. If you know what to listen for, you'll be fine. :)

Comment by 287888

I was having a very hard time doing it, so after a while I just used Feral Spirit and took him down. Shammy power :P

Comment by 155227

As of 3.1, this quest is bugged; the Ward does nothing to reflect the spell.

Comment by 356915

My death of this was cause no mana when started, so i needed to use aspect of the viper and get just 50% of the damage, and when my pet has got an bolt, and got low, i used the Distracting shot to early (when the other long cast spell he has) and got CD on it -.- So guys/hunters mend pet after the bolt and use the Distract shot after the spell like volley and blizzard, then wait a few seconds before feign deadth.

- Weron

Comment by 327009

Basically, this quest can be a PAIN if you don't pay real attention to what he's doing. First, you gotta agro him and at first he will cause barely any damage, hitting you with his staff. As soon as you see him start to cast a Deathbolt, quickly put the ward on and the bolt will reflect off the ward and take a huge chunk of his health out. He tends to use Rain of Fire, all I did was run around, healing myself whilst he channelled the spell. That process should be repeated until he's dead, which doesn't take long at all :)

Comment by Zeroid

Muah. Completed without using the Freya's Ward

Pet just tanked, he got to 2,5k hp by all deathbolt, but managed to mend back to full :) Hard dps and so on. Easy kill.

Comment by DoctoeJ

NOT simple! He has rain of fire that will hit you hard. If you can survive that and manage to get in the needed reflections you will make it, otherwise prepare for repeated ghost runs back to try and try again.

Comment by 392517

thanks alot for the guide and the hint about cast bar i did this like a hundred times on my warrior and couldnt get it. this time i did it the first time

Comment by 266060

Tried twice now, and the ward does not reflect the spell. Will try one more time, without my minion summoned; if that doesn't work i'm going to kill him without the stupid ward...

Looks like my pet/minion was bugging it.
Used the ward at the start, and halfway thru cast;
both worked and he died!

Comment by red27gvill

Did it in melee as a hunter, three spell reflections and he went down - dropped me to about half my total health (13k at lvl77). The pet was amused.

Comment by 423189

It is really not that hard at all. I am a dps druid and i missed the reflect and just ran away and healed quite easily. So not too much to worry about. Just stay away from reign of fire or w/e it is

Comment by 424081

Did with a 78 fury warrior. Just went to defensive stance and used the wand 3 times. No healing involved :).

Comment by Ururiel

As of 1st August, the quest seems bugged: I've killed Thalgran many times, using only the ward, using DPS too, using only Slow on him, abandoning and retaking and every time I get to kill him but get no credit at all, and can't turn quest. Ticketed to a GM a awaiting an answer...

Comment by 343339

because I didn't realize this until I died several times...

if you are a demo lock, put your felguard on passive, or just dismiss him. if you don't, he will tank and hold the aggro and when the big guy casts the deathbolt it will just hit your felguard and theres nothing for you to reflect. i wish i knew that before i killed my poor little minion soo many times. :)

Comment by 434395

Yes, this is a very annoying quest for Warlocks (and I would assume, Hunters). I died the first time because I used the ward on his first cast and he ran after me, and my Felguard couldn't regain hate. So I decided to just straight Felguard tank him like any other solo elite - easy as pie. At 77 as Demo spec with Improved health funnel I heal my 'guard for over 1100 hp/sec, and his Deathbolt only hits for ~4-5k.

From what I read of above comments, I guess he's supposed to just sit there and cast... and maybe having my pet attacking the first time triggered him to chase me, i'm not sure. Personally, I feel safer just sitting back and letting my pet take the damage. =P

Comment by 459665

As a lvl 80 disc priest trying to work on achievements and make some extra gold I did this quest, and it was one of the easiest I've done. I bubbled and just stood there waiting for him to cast his bolt. As he started casting I used the ward given, only needing to do this 3 times. Incidentally, he died and I took no damage and walked away with 59silver and the recipe for Last Week's Mammoth. Pretty decent for only taking about 10 seconds of my time =)

Comment by 285924

I'm not sure if they nerfed this quest or not. They nerfed so many others, but I just did it on my 78 BM hunter and it was a joke. Put pet on passive. Whenever he channels his rain of fire, get out of it, and fire a Sting or Arcane Shot. When he channels the deathbolt, hit the Freya's Ward quest item. 3 reflects he was dead, and I hardly did any damage to him at all, and my pet none. Oh, I put down a Immolation trap for grins at one point, too. He took me to 90% health, because I wasn't quick enough to get out of rain of fire.

Comment by llubtoille

emphasis on channeled cast

Comment by 585860

as a newly turned 79 balance druid i killed him in about 15sec...
cast regrowth, rejuve...
tuned moonkin, faerie fire...set the trees on him
starfall then hurricane
when he started to cast deadbolt i used freya's ward, the second time he tried to cast deadbolt used the ward again an actually he died in the middle....
:)

Comment by Cromulon

This quest is bugged, the ward fades instantly after use and I'm stuck with the 10 second cooldown and an incoming deathbolt. Died 3 times attempting this ridiculous quest.

Not worth the hassle.

Comment by 352569

THE FREYA WARD IS CHANNELING!

Note that cuz i accidentally walked while channeling it then died instantly.

Comment by 611711

In case anyone else had this particular idiotic problem...I couldn't understand why I got killed twice more, AFTER reading the excellent instructions above; then it finally dawned on me. I normally like to play the game with my screen-focus set so that my character fills a large part of the screen (makes the monsters scarier, and the women cuter...). Because that was how I had the screen set, this guy was so big compared to me, that I was failing to notice at first, when he would start casting the deathbolt - since his hands were damn near at the top of the screen. Once I realized this, and pulled the focus waaaay back, I easily nailed him with only two castings of the protective ward.

Comment by 637840

for locks put pets on passive then attack once and run around and not get hit and use the wand when he is casting it half way.. i hit him 3 times then he out

Comment by Drudatz

impossible to solo as 77 hunter...
another of blizz bad design level quests as you cant continue the chain without doing him...

Comment by 667244

quest seems impossible as a 79 warrior set for protection...i even had the little murlock help and still cant beat it...died 15 times so far

Comment by 147875

I abandoned this p.o.s. quest.

Comment by Whiterock

Force of Nature Quest Tree From Whiterock
S)Force of Nature
j)An Issue of Trust
j)Returned Sevenfold──>k)Salvaging Life's Strength
k)The Fallen Pillar
l)Cultist Incursion
/ \
m)Weapons of Destruction m)Exterminate the Intruders
\ /
n)The Lifewarden's Wrath
o)Freya's Pact
p)Powering the Waygate - The Maker's Perch
q)Powering the Waygate - The Maker's Overlook q)A Timeworn Coffer
#)The Etymidian
#)The Activation Rune
r)Back Through the Waygate
s)Reclamation

Legend:
S menas Skippable
# means Other Zones
* means another Quest Tree.

Comment by 709683

I don't know if anyone in Blizzard likes the band, whatever, I like it much -- Avenged Sevenfold!

Comment by 830171

It has to be an A7X reference, he even cast Rain of Fire, and for any adventure or fan worth his salt who got "caught here in a fiery blaze" wouldn't lose their will to stay.

Comment by z0diac

Doesn't work with my game. He casts Deathbolt so far apart that he kills me in between. And I have 19,000HP.

Comment by 892035

The comment of Aynessa was brilliantly accurate! Just move around and wait untill he does the shadow spell. It takes three times to kill hem.

Comment by 420266

Part of the Avenged Sevenfold reference of this quest, the ring you get as a reward is called the Signet of the Avenging Heart :)

Comment by BubbRubb23

I'm a 77 BM hunter. I tried to use that stupid ward of freya and I died every time. I just went in there, and sent in my pet. My pet held threat the entire time. He dropped to 40% at one point but I just kept healing him, and he was fine. Then when the guy dropped to 20% I just kept using kill shot, and spammed kill command for my pet as much as I could.

Comment by 969089

Just wanted to comment that it is possible to beat him without reflecting his spell, I just did this quest on my Paladin and didn't read the quest text. Was wondering why I had to solo something with 100k+ HP, but between my CDs and WoG I beat him without dropping below 25% HP.

Comment by TheRealSaiph

Not sure if Blizz have changed stats with recent patches, or if I was just lucky, but I just did this quest as a lvl79 combat rogue and only needed ONE "deathbolt" reflection to kill Thalgran.

Jumped into the combat with ambush, had to dodge one "rain of fire", then he started to cast "deathbolt". Timed the ward near the end of his cast, and *bang* he was dead. The whole combat lasted only about 15 seconds. :-)

Comment by Wimbleton

The first time I used the Ward right at the beginning of the fight. It had no effect of course; Thalgran threw a Deathbolt at my 78 Prot, knocked me down to 38% (with heirlooms & blues; very disappointing) with one shot and I only got away with a Swiftness Potion.

Figured I was doing something wrong, came here to read all the comments and went back for a second time. Attacked and waited for the Deathbolt. When he fired it, I started the Ward but it couldn't "load" (or whatever) quickly enough to reflect the Deathbolt, so it was like negative sevenfold and I sprinted away again.

The third time I watched Thalgran very carefully and when he started warming up, I started the Ward. It had no effect. It's possible I'm doing something wrong but I doubt it. I didn't get a dozen characters to 100 by killing squirrels and rabbits over the last ten years. This quest is bugged.

It's an old quest that clearly has had problems from the beginning. Maybe it will get fixed, but there isn't any way for me to get that lost time back. I vaguely remember doing this with several people when Northrend was the latest Xpac and I think we just ignored the Ward concept and burned him down. That's probably the best way to do it. Think I can get that time back from the Avatar of Freya? Me neither.

Comment by 1440987

Returned Sevenfold http://youtu.be/9L2D3fyMLPU

Comment by WoWGnGP

I made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw9TwUVWops&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Boxofbeer

Returned Sevenfold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhaamSJC-S8

Comment by 716334

Reading through comments below made me a little apprehensive as I remembered this quest from back when it was current content. I don't know if this quest has been recently fixed, I was just lucky, or I was incredibly skilled (not that one) but the guy died after 1 reflection. He did a couple of rain of fires(easily avoided) whilst I did my usual blood Dk routine - diseases,blood boil,etc. This took him to around 80% health at which point he cast his big spell which the ward reflected with no problems and one-shotted him.

Comment by allOf

Returned Sevenfold https://youtu.be/B21AzXJcPmo

Comment by Bergelmir

As of 8.0.1, this is either broken or changed. Freya's Ward deflects the Death Bolt, saving you from damage, but it has absolutely no effect on Thalgran. I also noticed as a hunter that focus stayed on me, even though I had a tank pet out.

Comment by Ehayen

I don't know why Blizzard chose to make this boss unusually hard.

They went out of their way to break their own game mechanics just to make him harder to kill.

1. He ignores agro redirects.
2. He ignores spell interrupts.
3. He attacks hunters directly instead of their pets even when the pets are actively attacking him.
4. He often only casts shadow bolt twice, then never again, making it impossible to use the reflect ward to finish him off.

If you're a hunter the easiest way to do this is to skip this quest until you're level 80, get out of range and send your pet in and let them chew on him until he dies.

I mean, if Blizzard is going to cheat and ignore generally accepted game mechanics, two can play at that game...

Comment by Slythistle

For anyone like me worried about whether you *have* to use the ward, you do not. I one shot him with Purge the Wicked and got the quest completion just fine.

Comment by Herwr

First time I tried the fight, I died, so I came here and learned that it might be glitched. Decided to try again and as soon as I noticed he was casting his Deathbolt I popped Freya's ward. Next thing I know, he's falling over dead.

Comment by dkjaheed1944

Mission called Returned Sevenfold, involving reflecting Deathbolts(Deathbats?) back to the enemy, with one of the items rewarded the Signet of the Avenging Heart. A reference to Avenged Sevenfold perhaps? \m/ ( >_< ) \m/

Links

Returned Sevenfold

The Avatar of Freya wants you to defeat Thalgran Blightbringer by using Freya's Ward to reflect his Deathbolts back to him sevenfold.

	Thalgran Blightbringer slain (1)

Provided item:

	Freya's Ward (1)

Description

The agents of the Lich King have foolishly trespassed upon these lands where the power of life rules supreme. All harm they inflict will be returned to them sevenfold.

The monster directly responsible for corrupting the land is known as Thalgran Blightbringer; you will find him just to the north of here. Take this ward and use it to reflect the power of death upon him. Show the Scourge that the power of life prevails above all.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Cowl of the Purifier			Scourgebane Treads
	Keeper's Touch			Lifegiver's Ward

You will receive:

	Signet of the Avenging Heart

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12611))