Scholomance is a 5-man dungeon located in the Western Plaguelands. In Mistsof Pandaria, it has been revamped to include a level 90 Heroic mode. It houses5 encounters:Instructor Chillheart,Jandice Barov,Rattlegore,Lilian Voss, andDarkmaster Gandling.
1. Introduction↑top
Scholomance is a 5-man dungeon located within the ruined keep of Caer Darrowin Western Plaguelands. With Mists of Pandaria, the dungeon has been revampedand now features a level 90 Heroic mode. Scholomance is a place of learning fornecromancers and your goal is to put an end to their activities.
The dungeon has a linear layout during which you will descend through3 sub-zones, until you reach Darkmaster Gandling.For level 90 players, only the Heroic mode of the dungeon will be of interest.
This guide will cover all of the five boss encounters, as well as thequests and achievements that are available in the dungeon.
The level of the items you can obtain from Scholomanceis 463, with one exception, 
Headmaster's Will,which has an item level of 476.
2.1. Armor
2.2. Weapons
2.3. Amulets, Cloaks, and Trinkets
3. Quests↑top
There are 2 quests that can be completed within the instance. They are bothgiven by the Talking Skull, a strange NPC that follows you through theinstance.
The first quest is The Four Tomes, which requires you to pick upbooks as you progress through the instance. Looking at the quest objectiveson the map should be more than enough to find the books.
The second quest is An End to the Suffering, which requires you to killDarkmaster Gandling, the final boss of the dungeon.
Only An End to the Suffering has rewards. They have an item level of 440(see loot section above).
4. Instructor Chillheart↑top
The fight against Instructor Chillheart is a two-phase fight.
- During Phase One, you will have to burn down the instructor as fast as you can.
- During Phase Two, you will fight her phylactery and will have to avoid bombsand void zones.
4.1. Phase One
In Phase One, you are fighting Instructor Chillheart herself. As the phaseprogresses, you will see an 
Ice Wall getting ever closer to yourgroup. The idea is to defeat Chillheart before the Ice Wall reaches your groupand kills everyone.
During this phase, all you have to do is focus on attacking her while makingsure to spread apart 2 yards (because of 
Ice Wrath) and to avoid theice patches from 
Frigid Grasp.
Also, tanks and healers need to be respectively aware of
Touch of the Grave, which causes Chillheart to deal additional Frost damagewith her 10 next melee attacks, and 
Wrack Soul, which is a DoT that jumpsfrom players to players.
4.2. Phase Two
Once Chillheart is defeated, you enter Phase Two, where you get to fight herPhylactery. During this phase, you will have to avoid 
Arcane Bombsand patches of fire (
Burn). Additionally, random players willbe regularly damaged by 
Shadow Bolt.
5. Jandice Barov↑top
Most of the fight is very easy. Simply avoid standing in front ofJandice Barov (because of 
Wondrous Rapidity) and get away from
Gravity Flux, which has a very visible purple ground effect.
At 66% and 33% health, she will create images of herself and hide behind one.It is important that you kill the right image, as otherwise you will receivedamage from 
Flash Bang. The right image is the image that looks exactlylike Jandice (same hair color, same earrings, etc.). To find the right image,you can mark Jandice at the beginning of the fight (with the Skull mark, forexample) or you can tab through all the images and look at their portrait inyour unit frames.
5.1. BarovHelper Addon
Using the BarovHelperaddon will make it very easy to spot the real Jandice Barov during the phases whenshe creates copies of herself. This is especially useful when trying to runthe dungeon in Challenge Mode.
5.2. Achievement: Attention to Detail
To complete 
Attention to Detail, you simply need to defeatJandice Barov without ever eliminating a false image.
6. Rattlegore↑top
The encounter with Rattlegore has one crucial mechanic to which youneed to pay special attention. Throughout the fight, everyone must maintainthe 
Bone Armor buff up on them by clicking the Bone Piles around theroom. The buff lasts 5 minutes and grants protection against 
Bone Spike,a very damaging ability that Rattlegore often casts at a random player. Beinghit by Bone Spike removes Bone Armor, so the protection often needs to berenewed.
In addition, the locations where you find Bone Piles are sometimes engulfed indamaging blue flames by 
Soulflame, so you need to be carefulnot to stand in them.
Finally, tanks should be aware of 
Rusting, which causesRattlegore to deal increasing damage, but to move more and more slowly,as the encounter progresses. The buff lasts 15 seconds, so you willperiodically want to kite Rattlegore to let the buff drop (becausethe buff only stacks when he deals a successful melee attack).
6.1. Achievement: Rattle No More
To complete Rattle No More, your group needs to defeat Rattlegorewithout letting him gain more than 5 stacks of Rusting.
Whenever Rattlegore reaches 4 or 5 stacks of Rusting, the tankshould start kiting him around until Rusting drops. Because ofthe low uptime of the tank on Rattlegore, they will not manage to buildmuch threat, so DPS players must be careful not to over aggro.
7. Flesh Horrors↑top
In the next room, you will find Flesh Horrors. These mobshave a very large health pool, but they die as soon as you killthe 4 Meat Grafts attached to them.
7.1. Achievement: Sanguinarian
To complete 
Sanguinarian, you need to kill a Krastinovian Carverthat has 99 stacks of 
Boiling Bloodthirst.
You will find Krastinovian Carvers in the same room as theFlesh Horrors. Initially, all the Krastinovian Carvers have 1 stack of Boiling Bloodthirst. When you kill a Krastinovian Carver, its stack countis added to that of nearby Krastinovian Carvers.
For example, if you are fighting 3 Krastinovian Carvers and kill oneof them, the other two will have 2 stacks of Boiling Bloodthirst (theiroriginal stack count plus that of the Krastinovian Carver that just died). Ifyou kill one of the two remaining Krastinovian Carvers, the last one will have4 stacks of Boiling Bloodthirst.
Our advice is to proceed through the room as you usually would and only killa Krastinovian Carver if there are at least 2 other Krastinovian Carversright next to it. If necessary, pull extra Carvers from the sides of the room.
8. Lilian Voss↑top
The fight against Lilian Voss is rather complex and has threephases.
- During Phase One, you will fight her and will have to deal with herabilities. This phase lasts until Lilian reaches 60% health.
- During Phase Two, you will fight Lilian's Soul, which needsto be properly kited around. This phase lasts until you get thesoul to 1% health.
- During Phase Three, you will simultaneously fight Lilian and her soul.Both retain their abilities from Phase One and Phase Two. The phase and thefight ends when Lilian reaches 1% health.
8.1. Phase One
When fighting Lilian, you should spread out 8 yards because of
Shadow Shiv.
She regularly pulls everyone to her location with 
Death's Grasp. Whenthis happens, you (and the other players in your party) become afflicted with
Dark Blaze. This debuff causes you to leave a trail of damaging flamesunder you. You need to be constantly on the move for 8 seconds, until thedebuff runs out.
Other than that, the tank needs to survive her melee attacks.
8.2. Phase Two
Darkmaster Gandling intervenes, disables Lilian, and makes you fighther soul, which cannot be tanked. The soul will fixate on a random party memberwith 
Fixate Anger. This player needs to kite the soul around and avoidbeing hit by it, as it triggers 
Unleashed Anguish. While Unleash Anguishreduces the soul's movement speed (making it easier to kite), it also causes itto cast 
Blazing Soul, which deals damage to everyone in the party.
During that phase, healers can expect a significant amount of damage, because Blazing Soul is also regularly cast by the soul, in addition to beinga consequence of triggering Unleashed Anguish.
8.3. Phase Three
In Phase Three, Darkmaster Gandling reactivates Lilian and you will faceher alongside her soul. They both retain all their abilities from Phase Oneand Phase Two, but the soul cannot be damaged.
The key to success is to properly kite the soul, even when you have to run aroundto let Dark Blaze expire.
9. Professor Slate's Room↑top
The next room is Professor Slate's classroom. There, you willhave to defeat a bunch of Bored Students. Everyone, except the tankshould stand behind them because of two abilities they use:
Fire Breath Potion and 
Shadow Nova.
In the same room, you will also fight Professor Slate, whom you canpull together with some of his student packs. Watch out for Fire Breath Potion, which he casts in front of him, and 
Toxic Potion,which he drops on the ground where it creates a damaging poison zone.
9.1. Achievement: Polyformic Acid Science
Completing 
Polyformic Acid Science requires you to kill the followingbosses while under the effects of Polyformic Acid Potion:
You obtain the Polyformic Acid Potion buff by clicking thePolyformic Acid Potion object in Professor Slate's classroom (firstrow of desks).
To avoid having to go back to Scholomance to obtain the buff again when itdrops, you can loot an 
Empty Polyformic Acid Vial from Professor Slate.If you click the Polyformic Acid Potion object when you already have the Polyformic Acid Potion buff, you will fill your vial and have up to 3 charges.The vial changes name as you fill/empty it: 
Nearly Empty Vial of Polyformic Acid, Half Full Vial of Polyformic Acid, Nearly Full Vial of Polyformic Acid.
10. Darkmaster Gandling↑top
In the next room, you will finally get to fight Darkmaster Gandling.This encounter is not difficult, but individual players (including healers)are sometimes sent to a nearby room where they have to learn a
Harsh Lesson and single-handedly defeat a number of enemies.
10.1. Main Room
You will spend most of the encounter in the main room fightingthe Darkmaster.
Tanks need to be aware of 
Incinerate, which theDarkmaster uses to deal heavy Fire damage to his target.
DPS players need to watch out for 
Rise!, which the bossuses to summon Failed Students. These students attack random partymembers. The channel of Rise! lasts for 26 seconds, during whichtime the boss takes 50% less damage. Focus on the students while the boss ischanneling. When the channel is over, you can focus on the boss again andfinish remaining students with collateral damage.
Healers need to pay attention to the damage that Incinerate does on the tank and the damage that the studentsdo to random players. Also, the Darkmaster will often cast
Immolate at a random player, dealing large amounts of Firedamage every 3 seconds for 21 seconds.
10.2. Nearby Rooms
The Darkmaster often casts Harsh Lesson, sending a random player to oneof the nearby rooms. There, they have to defeat a number ofExpired Test Subjects.
- For Tanks and DPS players, things are straightforward, they just need tokill these units and come back to the main room.
- For Healers, things are slightly more complex. They need to gather theExpired Test Subjects close to the Fresh Test Subjects at the back of theroom and then dispel
Explosive Pain from the Fresh Test Subjects, thiswill cause a large amount of damage to the Expired Test Subjects, eventuallykilling them.
10.3. Achievement: School's Out Forever
To complete 
School's Out Forever, you need to defeat 50Expired Test Subjects within 20 seconds. The main difficulty is thatall the nearby rooms are closed and the only way to enter them is to waitfor Darkmaster Gandling to cast Harsh Lesson on you.
When someone in your party is the target of Harsh Lesson, they shouldnot engage the Expired Test Subjects, but rather wait at the back of the roomthat everyone has been sent to their own room. Then, everyone should engagetheir Expired Test Subjects and defeat them.
11. Final Considerations↑top
This concludes our Scholomance dungeon guide. If youfind any inconsistency or mistake, feel free to comment or send us an e-mail.
