Scholomance Dungeon Guide
Individuals seeking to master the powers of undeath know well of Scholomance, the infamous school of necromancy located in the dark and foreboding crypts beneath Caer Darrow. In recent years, several of the instructors have changed, but the institution remains under the control of Darkmaster Gandling, a particularly sadistic and insidious practitioner of necromantic magic.
Introduction
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Scholomance Loot
Instructor Chillheart Normal Loot
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Jandice Barov Normal Loot
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Quests
All quests for Scholomance have no prerequisites and can be simply grabbed from Talking Skull at the entrance of the dungeon.
- The Four Tomes
- An End to the Suffering
Achievements
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Defeat Jandice Barov without ever eliminating a false image in Scholomance on Heroic Difficulty. |
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Defeat Rattlegore without allowing him to gain more than 5 stacks of Rusting in Scholomance on Heroic Difficulty. |
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Defeat a Krastinovian Carver that has 99 stacks of Boiling Bloodthirst in Scholomance on Heroic Difficulty. |
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Defeat 50 Expired Test Subjects within 20 seconds in Scholomance on Heroic Difficulty. |
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Defeat Darkmaster Gandling. |
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Defeat Darkmaster Gandling in Scholomance on Heroic Difficulty. |
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Defeat the leaders of Scholomance while in a guild group. |
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Defeat Darkmaster Gandling in Scholomance on Heroic Difficulty while in a guild group. |
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Complete the Scholomance Challenge Mode. |
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Complete the Scholomance Challenge Mode with a rating of Bronze or better. |
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Complete the Scholomance Challenge Mode with a rating of Silver or better. |
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Complete the Scholomance Challenge Mode with a rating of Gold. |
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Attain a realm-best time for the Scholomance Challenge Mode. |
Other Pandaria Dungeons
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:
Changelog
- 24 Jun. 2025: Page added.
This guide has been written by Abide, TBC veteran for nearly a decade. Abide is a Warrior tank and multi-class expert currently playing on Faerlina as Horde. You can find him in the the Icy Veins Discord. You can also see him live on Twitch.