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{{#data:Itemtip
|name = Darkmaster Gandling
 
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|name=A Mysterious Message
|image = Darkmaster Gandling.jpg
 
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|quality=common
|gender = Male
 
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|icon=inv_letter_12
|race = Human
 
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|bind=quest
|type = Elite
 
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|unique=1
|level = 61
 
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|ilvl=1
|character = Necromancer
 
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|itemid=1381
|affiliation = [[Scourge|The Scourge]]
 
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|flavor=This soot-covered note contains some cryptic text.
|occupation = Headmaster of Scholomance
 
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|read=1
|location = [[Scholomance]]
 
|attitude = Hostile
 
|creature = Humanoid
 
|health = 50,000
 
|mana = 7,458
 
|faction = combat
 
|status = Killable
 
|instance = Scholomance
 
 
}}
 
}}
   
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'''A Mysterious Message''' drops from [[Defias Messenger]] in [[Westfall]] as an objective of [[Quest:The Defias Brotherhood (5)]].
'''Darkmaster Gandling''' is the final [[boss]] in [[Scholomance]]. He is not, arguably, the hardest boss, nor is he the owner of it like [[Lord Alexei Barov]]. He is, however, the headmaster of the School of Necromancy at [[Caer Darrow]], appointed personally by [[Kel'Thuzad]].
 
   
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==Contains==
Gandling appears after the six bosses and all mobs found in the six chambers around the Headmaster's Study are slain. The bosses are [[Lord Alexei Barov]], [[Doctor Theolen Krastinov]], [[The Ravenian]], [[Lorekeeper Polkelt]], [[Instructor Malicia]] and the [[Lady Illucia Barov]].
 
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[[Blacknails]]--
   
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The Sea awaits us. We need your supplies from the North. Strip everything: every railroad pike, every waterbucket. We need metal. A shipment is due from [[Booty Bay|BB]] but long overdue. Come through for me, Blacknails. Send your supplies directly to the "barn" this time. No time to squander.
Darkmaster Gandling is a [[mummy|mummified]] wretch. He teaches students how to raise the dead in the Lich King’s name. Formerly a Dalaran wizard, he betrayed his masters for dark power and now revels in undeath. His graduates go on to Stratholme, the Scourge’s capital in the Eastern Plaguelands. His graduates are the [[Thuzadin]], a sect of necromancers and dark wizards under [[Maleki the Pallid]]'s command.{{Cite|LoC|111}} He apparently teaches at both the [[Scholomance]] in [[Caer Darrow]] and [[School of Necromancy]] in [[Andorhal]].
 
   
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--[[Edwin VanCleef|VanCleef]]
==Abilities==
 
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Gandling is a 61 [[elite]] caster boss. He casts Shadow Portal, a spell that teleports a random member of the group into a room with 3-4 level 60 non-elite mobs. That member must clear the room alone before the door to the rest of the instance opens and he is released. Those mobs do not vanish nor does the room open automatically upon Gandling's death. Despite their high level, each mob can be slain relatively easily, taking only a few hits.
 
   
 
==Notes==
Gandling will spawn even if trash mobs remain in Shadow Vault, Vault of the Ravenian, Hall of Secrets, Barov Family Vault, and Hall of the Damned. The only hall that must be cleared to spawn him is The Coven. However, because he will teleport even solo adventurers to those halls during the fight, it remains wise to clear all of them.
 
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The person known as "Blacknails" is only mentioned in this note, and nowhere else in the game or Warcraft Universe.
 
Other spells he casts are:
 
* '''Arcane Missiles'''
 
* '''Curse of the Darkmaster''' - reduces the target's stamina and strength by 50
 
* '''Shadow Shield''' - absorbs 610 damage and deals 30 damage to anyone who strikes it.
 
 
==Loot==
 
{{lootbox|[[Dungeon Set 1]] head
 
|Beaststalker's Cap
 
|Coif of Elements
 
|Devout Crown
 
|Dreadmist Mask
 
|Helm of Valor
 
|Lightforge Helm
 
|Magister's Crown
 
|Shadowcraft Cap
 
|Wildheart Cowl}}
 
 
{{lootbox|Notable Loot
 
|Headmaster's Charge
 
|Pattern: Robe of the Void
 
|Witchblade
 
|Bonecreeper Stylus
 
|Boots of the Shrieker
 
|Detention Strap
 
|Don Mauricio's Band of Domination
 
|Silent Fang
 
|Tombstone Breastplate
 
|Vigorsteel Vambraces
 
|Ace of Portals
 
|Corruptor's Scourgestone
 
|Green Winter Hat
 
|Recipe: Major Mana Potion}}
 
   
 
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[[Category:Necromancers]]
 
[[Category:Bosses]]
 
[[Category:Scourge]]
 
[[Category:Scholomance mobs]]
 

Revision as of 03:30, 24 February 2011

Inv letter 12
  • A Mysterious Message
  • Quest Item
  • Unique
  • "This soot-covered note contains some cryptic text."
  • <Right Click to Read>

A Mysterious Message drops from Defias Messenger in Westfall as an objective of Quest:The Defias Brotherhood (5).

Contains

Blacknails--

The Sea awaits us. We need your supplies from the North. Strip everything: every railroad pike, every waterbucket. We need metal. A shipment is due from BB but long overdue. Come through for me, Blacknails. Send your supplies directly to the "barn" this time. No time to squander.

--VanCleef

Notes

The person known as "Blacknails" is only mentioned in this note, and nowhere else in the game or Warcraft Universe.

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