Magic immune quest MoBs

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Greetings all,

I started the quest chain from the Hero of the Fallen Horde. The quest went fairly well until we tried to take down Archmage Allistarj and discovered he was immune to magic! Even the weapons we were given did not appear to make a difference against him. Needless to say, since I was only allowed to use bad language against him we died on the encounter. Thinking that we had not used the weapons correctly and/or overlooked something, we tried the encounter again with the exact same results.

Now, I started Vanilla WoW back in the day a bit late. I was playing Dark Age of Camelot at the time and only tried WoW after my work colleagues convinced me to give it a shot. However, I don’t remember ever running into a quest MoB that was specifically tuned against any particular class like this one appears to be; even though my Retail character has the Loremaster achievement. As I will need a party to basically “carry” me through this quest I will not be completing it and it kind of sucks that I put so much time into the chain before I found out that the quest MoBs are tuned against my particular class.

So, in the interest of hopefully avoiding any more wasted time on quest chains my class will not be able to complete without being “carried” by a group, I wanted to ask if there were any more quest MoBs in any of the end-game quest chains that are also tuned against Mages? Please understand, this is not a rant. I am just trying to keep my time spent only on the quests I can complete with active participation rather than as a cheerleader on the sidelines. :slight_smile:

Many thanks in advance for the information.

P.S. - Also, as an aside are there quest MoBs that are tuned against other classes? I.E. MoBs that are immune to melee or physical damage? Thanks again! :slight_smile:

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The archmage and a few other mobs are immune because of an aura. You need weapons from the chain to dispel it. Not sure if that removes the invulnerabillity. But according to comments on Wowhead from 2004 - 2007, you should be able to attack him after weakening them with any school of magic.

I can’t say I have finished this quest on classic to confirm it just did a simple Wowhead search.

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Thanks Iskandar.

I have read up on both WoWhead and the WoW Classic DB on him. From what I have read you only need the weapons (or salve) to actually kill the MoBs. Otherwise you just bring them down to 1% and they stay there. I have not been able to find anything about their immunities, but can confirm that the weapon uses and/or salve uses do not break them.

I did find it odd that there would be quest MoBs that would be impossible for certain classes to defeat, but after all there are class quests in this version of WoW so it does kind of make sense that there would also be “anti-class” quest MoBs in the game as well. I just had not encountered any and really just wanted to know about any more in advance so I don’t get led down the primrose path of a long quest chain that my particular class cannot complete without being “carried” by a group.

Many thanks for the reply :slight_smile:

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It’s not weird or crazy tho, just look at molten core and fire mages. They can’t kill anything cause fire does nothing in there.