Scholomance Dungeon Guide

This dungeon is available on all 4 dungeon difficulties, starting at level 38 on normal difficulty. Scholomance is one of the three dungeons to get revamped during Mists of Pandaria, offering a heroic difficulty as well as new bosses and loot.

Instructor Chillheart is a two-phase encounter against a powerful lich. At the start of phase one a large Ice Wall will begin to move slowly towards your group as the fight progresses, threatening to eventually leave no room left for players to move. Kill Instructor Chillheart before the Ice Wall reaches the party and be sure to be maximum distance from it at all times, as it instantly kills whoever touches it. Be sure to spread out slightly to avoid hitting each other with AoE, and avoid the puddles of ice being frequently created during phase one. Once Instructor Chillheart reaches zero health she will return to her Phylactery, which must be destroyed to kill the lich.

While the Ice Wall is gone in this phase, players will now need to avoid the Arcane Bombs spread throughout the room. In addition, burning patches of fire will spread throughout the room, limiting the amount of space available over time. Focus on positioning properly before entering combat as high DPS makes this fight much easier.

Jandice Barov returns to Scholomance as the second boss of the dungeon. She has two main abilities, Wondrous Rapidity, which can be easily avoided by not standing in front of Jandice Barov, and Gravity Flux, which deals AoE damage around her when cast. Ranged DPS and healers should be sure to stand at their maximum range.

At both 66% and 33% health Jandice Barov will vanish, creating numerous Mirror Images of herself and hiding amongst them. This mechanic can be avoided by simply using a raid marker (such as skull) on Jandice Barov on the pull, allowing you to always see which Mirror Image is the real one. Avoid attacking the fake images, as this will cause you to take retaliatory Arcane damage in response. After the correct Image has been slain the fight will return to normal until Jandice Barov is defeated.

Rattlegore as well sees a return to Scholomance as the third boss players will face off against. Whenever Rattlegore lands a melee attack he will gain a stack of Rusting, increasing his damage dealt and reducing his movement speed per stack. Tanks will need to eventually kite Rattlegore around to allow the Rusting stacks to drop whenever his damage output becomes too high.

The main mechanic of this encounter is everyone in the party having full up-time on Bone Armor. This requires all players to click on the Bone Piles spread throughout the room. Rattlegore constantly attacks random players with Bone Spike, dealing very high damage to players without Bone Armor. This requires players to keep an eye on their Bone Armor stacks and refresh it as needed.

Lilian Voss is a long, three-phase encounter. She will periodically use Death's Grasp to pull all players on-top of herself and debuffing them with Dark Blaze for 8-seconds. During these 8-seconds players will drop puddles of purple flames at their feet and must keep moving away from each other until the debuff expires. This phase lasts until Lilian Voss reaches 60% health, where phase two will begin.

With high enough DPS it is possible to damage Lilian Voss to below 50% during phase one, before phase two begins. If you can get Lilian Voss below 50% before Darkmaster Gandling finishes extracting her soul (this only takes a few moments), than you will entirely skip both phases two and three. This should be the goal for every group with a decent amount of gear as it saves a ton of time to skip these phases.

At 60% Darkmaster Gandling will interfere, preventing you from further harming Lilian Voss whilst he attempts to extract her very soul. Her soul will then emerge, using Fixate Anger on a random player and chasing them around the room. Lilian Voss's soul will be constantly casting Blazing Soul, dealing AoE Fire damage to the party. If the soul touches the targeted player, it will gain a stacking movement speed slow will cast Blazing Soul again. Be ready with defensive cooldowns and movement speed abilities if you are targeted here as the AoE damage can get very high. Once the soul reaches 1% health phase three will begin.

In phase three you will face both Lilian Voss and her soul (now immune to all damage) simultaneously, with the fight ending once Lilian Voss reaches 1% health. Simply repeat the mechanics from the previous two phases: spread out, move from fires, kite the soul around.

Darkmaster Gandling returns again as the final boss of the dungeon, but vastly stronger than his previous self. Forgoing his previous affinity for Shadow magic, Darkmaster Gandling wields deadly Fire spells instead now. Immolate will target random players, dealing high damage-over-time unless the debuff is dispelled quickly. Tanks will be getting constantly chunked down by the heavy hitting Incinerates that he quickly spams, which can lead to some easy tank deaths if the healer is not prepared.

Darkmaster Gandling will often use Harsh Lesson, teleporting a random player into one of the nearby rooms where they will need to deal with numerous Expired Test Subjects . For tanks and DPS this should be no problem, but some healers will need to utilize the Fresh Test Subjects in the room. These friendly Fresh Test Subjects are afflicted by Explosive Pain, a debuff that deals AoE damage to all nearby enemies whenever it is dispelled. Healers will need to stack all of the Expired Test Subjects on top of the Fresh Test Subjects, then dispel the Explosive Pain to finish off the weakened Expired Test Subjects .

The last spell to worry about is Rise!. Darkmaster Gandling will channel for 30 seconds, taking 50% reduced damage during the channel, and summoning in numerous Failed Students to his aid throughout its cast. These Failed Students will attack random players and should be quickly dealt as Darkmaster Gandling will be taking half damage during the Rise! channel.

7.

Scholomance Loot

Normal Heroic

Instructor Chillheart Jandice Barov Rattlegore Lilian Voss Darkmaster Gandling

Instructor Chillheart Jandice Barov Rattlegore Lilian Voss Darkmaster Gandling

7.1.

Instructor Chillheart Normal Loot

Item
Icewrath Belt
Shadow Puppet Bracers
Breastplate of Wracking Souls
Anarchist's Pendant
Gravetouch Greatsword

7.2.

Instructor Chillheart Heroic Loot

Item
Icewrath Belt
Shadow Puppet Bracers
Breastplate of Wracking Souls
Anarchist's Pendant
Gravetouch Greatsword

7.3.

Jandice Barov Normal Loot

Item
Barovian Ritual Hood
Ghostwoven Legguards
Wraithplate Treads
Phantasmal Drape
Metanoia Shield

7.4.

Jandice Barov Heroic Loot

Item
Barovian Ritual Hood
Ghostwoven Legguards
Wraithplate Treads
Phantasmal Drape
Metanoia Shield

7.5.

Rattlegore Normal Loot

Item
Deadwalker Bracers
Rattling Gloves
Bone Golem Boots
Goresoaked Headreaper
Necromantic Wand

7.6.

Rattlegore Heroic Loot

Item
Deadwalker Bracers
Rattling Gloves
Bone Golem Boots
Goresoaked Headreaper
Necromantic Wand

7.7.

Lilian Voss Normal Loot

Item
Leggings of Unleashed Anguish
Soulburner Crown
Shivbreaker Vest
Dark Blaze Gauntlets
Necklace of the Dark Blaze

7.8.

Lilian Voss Heroic Loot

Item
Leggings of Unleashed Anguish
Soulburner Crown
Shivbreaker Vest
Dark Blaze Gauntlets
Necklace of the Dark Blaze

7.9.

Darkmaster Gandling Normal Loot

Item
Incineration Belt
Tombstone Gauntlets
Gloves of Explosive Pain
Shoulderguards of Painful Lessons
Vigorsteel Spaulders
Lessons of the Darkmaster
Price of Progress
Searing Words
Mysterious Grimoire

7.10.

Darkmaster Gandling Heroic Loot

Item
Incineration Belt
Tombstone Gauntlets
Gloves of Explosive Pain
Shoulderguards of Painful Lessons
Vigorsteel Spaulders
Lessons of the Darkmaster
Price of Progress
Searing Words
Headmaster's Will
A Treatise on Strategy

All quests for Scholomance have no prerequisites and can be simply grabbed from Talking Skull at the entrance of the dungeon.

1. The Four Tomes
2. An End to the Suffering

Achievement	Description
Attention to Detail	Defeat Jandice Barov without ever eliminating a false image in Scholomance on Heroic Difficulty.
Rattle No More	Defeat Rattlegore without allowing him to gain more than 5 stacks of Rusting in Scholomance on Heroic Difficulty.
Sanguinarian	Defeat a Krastinovian Carver that has 99 stacks of Boiling Bloodthirst in Scholomance on Heroic Difficulty.
School's Out Forever	Defeat 50 Expired Test Subjects within 20 seconds in Scholomance on Heroic Difficulty.
Scholomance	Defeat Darkmaster Gandling.
Heroic: Scholomance	Defeat Darkmaster Gandling in Scholomance on Heroic Difficulty.
Scholomance Guild Run	Defeat the leaders of Scholomance while in a guild group.
Heroic: Scholomance Guild Run	Defeat Darkmaster Gandling in Scholomance on Heroic Difficulty while in a guild group.
Scholomance Challenger	Complete the Scholomance Challenge Mode.
Scholomance: Bronze	Complete the Scholomance Challenge Mode with a rating of Bronze or better.
Scholomance: Silver	Complete the Scholomance Challenge Mode with a rating of Silver or better.
Scholomance: Gold	Complete the Scholomance Challenge Mode with a rating of Gold.
Challenge Master: Scholomance	Attain a realm-best time for the Scholomance Challenge Mode.

Scholomance is just one of the nine dungeons available to players during Mists of Pandaria. If you would like to learn more about the others, please see our other dungeon pages below: