There are essentially two parts to soloing Mother Smolderweb… getting to her, and killing her. Neither are easy if you don’t know how, hence this guide 8-), so I’ll be covering both in fair detail.
Rather than miss out something important, I’ll be assuming that you’ve never used Stealth before and need to know everything. Sorry if any of it seems condescending.
I should point out here that I’m not in an Uber Raiding Guild, I run a small friendly guild, and so this guide should be usable by everyone, even the little folk like me!
I did this with no points in Improved Prowl, although I do have Innervate which saved me a fortune in mana potions 8-) The only other talent points I have which have any real effect is two points in Improved Starfire, as the chance of stunning her and so getting a free shot is nice, but not at all vital, and Nature’s Swiftness, which can be handy for repositioning her.
Other things that would be helpful to bring along:-
Major Health Potions and Major Mana Potions. While it’s easy enough to do her without either of these, there’s nothing like being well prepared to increase your chances. Running out of either HPs or Mana is pretty much a game over situation! If you don’t have Innervate, then Major Mana Potions are absolutely vital, it’s possible to do her without Innervating or potioning if you’re very patient but it’s much much more risky, and why take the chance of dying when she’s on 5%? 8-)
Heavy Runecloth Bandages. Again, you don’t absolutely have to bring these, but they’ll save you mana, which makes things easier, and First Aid is so easy to max out why not do it? 8-) The reason I say bring Heavy Runecloth rather then the lower ones is for speed, the faster you can heal up the better, as you’ll see later.
Ok, so you have your supplies, and you’re all ready to go, so where is she?
She’s inside Blackrock Spire, an instance inside Blackrock Mountain, which straddles the border between Burning Steppes and Searing Gorge. Blackrock Spire has two halves, Lower Blackrock Spire (LBRS) which is where you start when you zone in, and Upper Blackrock Spire (UBRS), which is accessed from inside LBRS using a quested key. Luckily she’s in LBRS, so you don’t need the key. She’s about half way through the zone, so it takes a little work to get to her.
If you die (and you most likely will), you appear at the Graveyard at Thorium Point in Searing Gorge. It’s a simple trip to the South West of the zone to get back.
Once inside Blackrock Mountain, there are no mobs until you get close to the instance entrances, so it’s safe to move around a bit. There are two instances inside the Mountain, BRS and BRD (Blackrock Depths).
If you travel around the ring in Blackrock Mountain, you will find a meeting stone for Blackrock Spire, and a tunnel leading to it. DO NOT GO IN HERE! It leads past lots of Orcs, and while it’s possible, even easy, to Stealth past them, there’s no need, as there’s a cunning shortcut you can take!
If you go to the northern (and highest) point on the ring inside Blackrock Mountain, there’s a chain leading down to the floating island in the middle, and a rock ramp on the west side of it allowing you to climb onto it. Go up onto the chain, and then go left and up the chain, and drop off the end onto a shelf. It’s very dark at this point, so you might need to turn your gamma or brightness up. Follow the shelf round to the right and up, and you’ll see a balcony ahead of you. There’s a gap just before the balcony, so you need to jump the last few feet. Once on the balcony, look into the room and you’ll see the instance entrance to BRS. There’s also a door to the right, don’t go through there as there are Elite Orcs.
This would be a good time to cover the basics of Stealth.
Stealth in wow is quite different to Invisibility in other games such as EQ, in that it’s not ‘Stealth up and nothing will see you’, but an agro-range reducer. Get close enough to something and it WILL see you and attack. There are also mobs with Detect Stealth, who see you at an even wider radius.
How close you can get to a mob without being seen is determined by how much higher or lower level than you the mob is. For mobs lower than you your agro radius is very small, about the same size you are in fact, so unless you walk right into the mob you’re usually ok. However, the higher above you the mob is, the further away it’ll spot you from.
As if that wasn’t enough, there are actually two agro ranges when Stealthed… the ‘I seeeeee youuuuu!’ one mentioned above, when the mob just comes along and splats you, and the ‘Did you hear something?’ one, where you attract the mob’s attention, but don’t actually agro it yet… yet being the operative word here! 8-)
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