The Mark of Death

What dark forces have assisted the Black Abbot in making his unexpected return? {{Quest
 * name= The Mark of Death
 * epic= 30
 * duration= long
 * enormal= 17,328
 * ehard= 17,764
 * eelite= 18,202
 * loc= Ascension Chamber
 * npc= Hamond Byre
 * zone= The Necropolis
 * patron= The Silver Flame
 * favor= 9
 * free= no
 * extreme=

The magic users of the Silver Flame have tracked down the rewakened Black Abbot - but they warn that something even more powerful is accompanying him. Venture inside the Ascension Chamber and confront what awaits within.
 * loadingpic=L Mark of Death.jpg
 * overview=

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Complete each of the epic necropolis quests at least once and turn in the rewards. Talk to Hamond Byre. When you first enter you will need to beat the Abbot down. He will then retreat to the statue and a single portal will appear. At this point trash will begin spawning on the main island. Some party members should enter the portal, there will be a death knight and two other spawns. Once the death knight is dead the sarcophagus in the room can be destroyed and a pair of phase goggles will appear. One person will need to take them and the whole group should return to the main platform.
 * Epic Desecrated Temple of Vol
 * Epic Fleshmaker's Laboratory
 * Epic Ghosts of Perdition
 * Epic Inferno of the Damned
 * obj=
 * Approach the Abbot
 * Defeat the Abbot
 * Make the Abbot mortal again
 * Defeat the Death Knights
 * traps=
 * misc=

After this there will now be more trash, and the Abbot will return and begin to use his special abilities. Two portals will spawn in the south east and north west corners of the main chamber. There will be tile platforms that the person with the goggles can see to navigate to them. Again, a small group should go to these rooms and kill the death knights and smash the sarcophagi. If at any point there is no one alive on the main platform the Abbot will teleport people to him so some people must remain behind and control the trash.

Once all three sarcophagi have been destroyed the Lady Vol will join the fight and the Abbot will require beating down again.

Once the Abbot has been beaten down enough he will retreat and Lady Vol will spawn Death Knights on the main platform. Once they are killed Vol will unleash a large AoE and then the Abbot will return and can be killed.

One tactic that has been used to help control trash is to use Flesh to Stone to keep them alive but incapacitated. Killed mobs will respawn at a rapid rate.

The Empowered Devotees are archers, every 8 seconds they get a stacking buff 'Empowered by Vol' which adds +50% ranged damage (Max 10 stacks = +500% ranged damage), so the longer they are alive the more damage they can deal. Against a 220% fortification toon they have been observed to crit for 440 on Epic Normal.

During the Death Knight phase charming the vampires (Control Undead) helps.

The Abbot casts Inferno which inflames the main platform and produces an over-time spell-point draining curse. The very edge of the platform where the archers spawn does not take Inferno damage.


 * chest= Always contain X amount of Item:Masterwork Tapestry Shreds, number varies by difficulty

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 * npcreward= Standard, 20th reward contains every single item in the list
 * unique= yes
 * monsters=
 * Empowered Devotees
 * Vampire Knights (orange named)
 * Doomspheres (orange named)
 * Death Knights (red named)
 * Quells (red named)
 * Black Abbot (purple named raid boss)
 * Lady Vol (purple named raid boss)