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Comment by redback

Her respawn time after a failed attempt is 15 minutes on classic.

Comment by FrustratedShorty

Must have The Eye of Divinity equipped in order to see the NPC.

Before starting the quest:

Have your Friendly Nameplates turned on and stacked up in the interface settings.
Consumables:
Nightfin soup for mana buff
Major Mana Potion - 5 should be enough
Either Demonic Rune x5 or Dark Rune x3-5 - The latter being the better one. Very very useful.
Stratholme Holy Water about 5
Oil of Immolation about 5. I didnt use this much
Spells to be used (your action bar/hotkeys/etc):
Abolish Disease - on peasants with purple aura
Cure Disease - on peasants with green aura
Holy Nova (Rank 4) - to 1 hit kill Undead skelly mobs. If it's just 1 attacking you, wand it to save mana
Flash Heal (Rank 4) - to heal peasants below 40 or 50% hp
Renew (Rank 6) - to heal peasants if between 50-90% hp

For the quest itself:

There are about 4 waves of Peasants who will walk from the cave to the light. Standing at the mid point might save you some time from walking back and forth constantly. If you are doing this quest with another Priest, one of you can be the walker and the other can stay near the NPC. The mid point is just within the range of the 2nd priest who will be able to take over the healing from the walker.
Follow #3 above to see which spell to cast according to the hp and color of the peasants. Priority goes to those with purple aura/disease.
When the Undead skelly mob comes in to attack you, 1 cast of Holy Nova (Rank 4) will be enough to get rid of them. BUT to conserve mana, use Stratholme Holy Water. Use these two effeciently and there shouldnt be any mana issues.
When your mana is around 30-50%, pop your Major Mana Potion first. The next time you need to up your mana, pop the Dark Rune. Since the cooldown time of the Rune isn't shared with pots, it'll be well after cooldown the next time you need to pop your Mana pot.

If you watched some of the run through on Youtube and read the comments here, it depends on the individual running this quest and how prepared they are. I failed twice as I had issues with the Friendly nameplates not showing up. Suggest disabling the Mods for nameplates if you are using one.
Ended up doing this quest with another Priest who popped by to do his. We did the two Priest method. Since I started the quest, I was the Walker from cave to mid while he took over from mid (within range) while remaining stationary (though not a must) near the NPC.

We had to do this this quest again for him as it didn't start for him the first time around. So you can get 2nd Priest to help you even if they aren't on this quest. NPC only disappears if you fail the event. I'm not sure about the previous patches but should you fail, the NPC respawn takes just 15 minutes. The Undead skelly seemed to attack just the Walker. 2nd Priest, no worries.

*not sure if having a non-priest class to intercept when you're failing is a good idea as those suggested in the videos. But if you are getting others like a druid and a mage to help you, make sure you are all aware of where they have to stay put from the start to the end of the event*

Hope this helps and isn't too confusing <3

Comment by nicholberry

My memory sucks, so I promised myself after this last go 'round I'd share what we learned. What we've found is there are several ways to do it - the most recent we had two priests who needed the staff, one holy, one shadow.

One stationed (without moving) next to the quest giver, one was the "rover" for the first half of the pathway from the cave to where the path begins to narrow a bit. We also stationed a pally, with ret aura, on the first hill next to the cave mouth, down about halfway so he was close enough to aggro mobs, but not on the path (which would pull the Cleaner). We had a fire mage standing next to the quest giver ready to cast Blizzard on skellies as they came within range - but none made it that far. The pally's ret aura just did the job.

Spells included Abolish Disease, Flash Heal (rank 4), Holy Nova (for the rover/holy priest - rank 4), Renew (rank 8)
Pots/elixirs/food buffs included: Major Mana Potion, Demonic Runes, Brilliant Mana Oil, and Nightfin Soup (we didn't need oil of immolation or holy water)

The priest who started the quest is the one who was the rover - he healed and used abolish disease (no need for cure disease - same mana use and abolish is stronger). He pretty much ignored the ranged skellies and the Pally's ret aura took care of almost all the skellies that populated from the cave. The shadow priest, who stood stationary next to the quest giver, picked up the healing and disease removal once they were in range so the rover could return closer to the cave mouth.

Lots of preparation for this one, but it completed on the first try.

Please note - there are many ways to accomplish this task - this is just the most recent used by our guildies.

Comment by iwua

Fun quest, and glad I got to do it before TBC dropped! (TBC Classic, that is). This was my secondary goal for Classic, after Rhok'delar, Longbow of the Ancient Keepers, which I missed on my first serious WoW character back in Vanilla.

What really made my final run successful was my Mechanical Yeti from Winterspring. I've loved the little guys on many characters, but have always hesitated to use them. This was the perfect time. He made short work of the skeletons, with some help from the Oil of Immolation, letting me save my Holy Fire 3 and holy water for when I had a lot of skeletons at once.

I have a few MC epics, but mostly Devout blues. I specced disc/heal, used mana pots, Stratholme Holy Water, and Oil of Immolation, and I casted Abolish Disease on any purple debuffs, then Abolish Disease for green debuffs, occasionally a flash heal 5 if someone is heavily wounded, but mostly Renew 7, with an occasional renew 4 for lightly wounded peasants. There's no reason to use the once-and-done Cure Disease - Abolish Disease has the same cost and cures reinfection, too.

Make sure you turn around and head back to the cave when the group gets almost to the quest giver, or you'll lose the purple debuff peasants in the next group.

I used ThreatPlates to display peasant health and debuffs, and I rotated the view to look down from above to avoid so much health bar overlap.

The purple debuff, Seething Plague on Plagued Peasant, ticks for 20% health every 4 seconds (5 ticks, 20 seconds until dead - ouch!). Green is Death's Door on either type of peasant, and it hits for 5% health every 3 seconds (100% in 1 minute).

The Plagued Peasant and Injured Peasant have about 1600 health. They actually cast those debuff spells... (you'd think they'd just not cast them!)

The Scourge Footsoldier have about 90 health, and the Scourge Archer have about 3100 health (I didn't try fighting the archers). Each bow shot and each skeleton hit do about 75 damage, so if the skeletons attack very long, or if the archers concentrate on one peasant, especially one with a disease, the peasants can drop pretty fast.

Bring on TBC!

Comment by Steps

THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT

When you are on this quest you will have to heal in a chaotic enviroment. The friendly npc's that you have to heal are standing crowded making targeting difficult. And they will occationally talk, making if difficult to see who needs help first.

This macro below will make or break your success.

#showtooltip
/targetfriend
/cast Cure Disease; Cure Disease

When not knowing WHAT to to, or just waiting for something to happen... then you spam this macro ALL the time. The reason it works is because Cure Desease does not cost any mana unless you actually remove a disease. Secondly you will remove a disease before you actually can see it's visual effect on the NPC's, or before it does heavy damage. If you need to remove a disease on yourselves, then just hold in a modifier (Shift / Ctrl / Alt ) while using this macro.

Best of luck to you!

Comment by aarakiane

the only way for me to see the villagers HP bars is to click on them individually, with or without addons and shift-v, is that normal? feel like its impossible to keep track of health bars this way

Comment by SeamanLiquor

So....as you can guess, this quest was overlooked for SoD. If you use any of your pets, they count as another player and the Cleanser will spawn and one shot you. Additionally, youre forced to wait the 2 hours for Eris to respawn. small indie company am i right?

Btw this is literally in the quest dialogue, "hey will walk towards the light, you must ensure their survival. Should too many fall, our cursed existence shall continue - you will have failed.

Every ability, prayer, and spell that you have learned will be tested. May the Light protect you, <name>."

Comment by Rhyannon521

I did this quest yesterday.

Can confirm that the quest giver spawn time has been reduced significantly. Prob around 20-30 minutes.
I was in group with 2 other priests that were there wanting to do the quest as well. When one of them accepted it, we were all prompted to take it as well. We all helped heal the NPCs and we all received credit for completion. Made it super easy.

Can confirm that if horde or other classes not on the quest get too close or in the path of the NPCs the Cleaner spawns and kills you and them.

When we finished quest we also helped the horde that waited patiently for us to be done, however for this you do have to stay where the quest giver spawns or the Cleaner will come out.

Links

The Balance of Light and Shadow

Save 50 Peasants before 15 are slain. Speak with Eris Havenfire should you accomplish this task.

You may view the Death Post to view how many Peasants have been slain.

	The Balance of Light and Shadow (1)

Description

You must do what I could not: Save the peasants that were cut down while fleeing from Stratholme.

They will walk towards the light, you must ensure their survival. Should too many fall, our cursed existence shall continue - you will have failed.

Every ability, prayer, and spell that you have learned will be tested. May the Light protect you, <name>.

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

	Splinter of Nordrassil

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(7622))

Guides

Classic WoW Anathema and Benediction Guide - Iconic Priest Weapon