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The Drowned Caverns: Arena of Heroes

The Splitpaw Saga is a adventure pack that has zones that scale in level between levels 20-50.  The arenas inside Splitpaw can be done in either a solo or heroic instance and both are fairly challenging to complete, and the Arena of Heroes is the heroic instance of the arena.

You first need to hail Fip Slytail for the event to begin.  And again, you'll want to be sure to rest up between each fight!  The arena mob levels come from the average level of your group, and some are definitely tougher than others.

There heroic arena mobs:

• double up heroic - a frenzied cavern lizard
• triple up heroic - a ravenous tunnel feeder
• triple up named heroic - Grunk "Priest Eater" Smashsnout
• double up heroic - a captured evil eye
• triple up heroic - a zygomyd decay sower
• triple up named heroic - The Murk double up duo heroic - Stratus and Stormbrow
• single up trio heroic - an arena wolf
• triple up named heroic - Banetooth Splitclaw

Most of these mobs are pretty straight forward.  The only ones I had difficulty with are the tricksy Murk and the final mob, who can be pretty tough.

The Murk spawns with a couple friends looking on called "shadowy observer".  These sneaky little things will disappear a little bit into the fight and Murk minions will appear.  They hide around the ledge of the arena area and whenever the Murk's life reaches about 50%, one will toss a spell at the Murk, healing him completely, then the minion will fall over dead.  There are about 5 or 6 of these things, so if you don't get them taken care of, either by sending someone around to kill them, or getting them with AoEs, the fight can end up being an unnecessarily long one.

For Banetooth Splitclaw, stuns and debuffs are your friend!  He's a tough fight, but with recent changes he's gotten a bit easier and a good, well organized group should have no real troubles taking him down.

Once you have slain all the mobs, including the mean ole Splitclaw, you hair Fip again get your reward, which ends up being various items and a pet for your home.  To be honest, I don't find the loot that comes from the arenas to be all that great, but the experience is very nice!

Good luck and have fun!

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