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Commento di Bestplay3

As of latest patch, all arcane protectors now see through stealth. This was done in order to make it so the chest wont get ninjad. The only way to do this now is if the shade is killed and then you finish for the night, which would be pointless since it's only a few clears to this free loot.

Commento di lorgion

If you are a mage or warlock don't even bother looking in the chest, there is nothing in there for you.

Commento di 40976

Not one post here actually explains the encounter...

Commento di 28119

Each person in the raid party is able to take control of one unit on the chessboard. Once the event is started, you control the chess piece as a "pet." (i.e. through a pet bar) Use each piece's special abilities to kill the opposing King. Just as in real chess, each piece has powers and limitations. After the opposing King is defeated, the Dust Covered Chest will spawn (ala Domo in MC).

Commento di 28434

This shows a exploit to gain access to only the Chess event. Any class can do this with some pots but it's easier for rogues and druids.

I do not recommend doing this.
Do it at your own risk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRP9ugxuIMY

Delete this post if it's not appropriate.

Commento di 34156

I did the chess event solo like Mordenthal post said, you gotta watch out and becareful cuz there is a pat that will kill you, it was not shown in the movie but becareful. It's very easy to get to using this. It will most likly get fixed in 2.1.0

Commento di uphir

just confirming- people who were not present for the clearing of the chess event can loot the chest?

Commento di 34156

It's like the Domo chest you are able to do it.

Commento di 46185

I have done this solo several times. I am a hunter too and it is very easy once you have the strategy down. its a bit different for every class. But i can get to teh event itself in under 10 minutes.

Commento di 34725

how long does it take for the chest to despawn?

Commento di 40119

So if u soloed the event u would pick one piece move it then dispel buff pick another one move ect. till you win?

Commento di 44033

Mordenthal style just did this last night as mage. invisible helps a lot and just takes practice and i used no pots

Commento di 9818

How I solod the event was to take control of the king, Release him, Take control of the conjurer, Move him in range of the enemies king, Use Rain of Fire, Wait 5 sec, Use the Ice bolt, Wait 5 sec, Use the Ice Bolt, Use Rain of Fire, and If anything attacked the conjurer I moved him out of their reach, Untill their king was dead.
This may not work for you, But it did for me.
Got Legplates of the Innocent and Bladed Shoulders of the Merciless.
Good luck if you want to solo this event, Takes a while.

This was done on patch 2.0.12.

Commento di kuonji

I've stealthed my way to chess event 3 times now and won the game 3 times. Each time was during a new week after our guild cleared at least Opera event. We have never cleared curator yet though.

Each time I won the loot was always the same thing. Ring of Recurrance and Battlescar boots. I think the game is playing a joke on me.

Commento di carsten139

medivh cheats ! THATS UNFAIR !

Commento di carsten139

i tried it 3 times (as horde) before i completed it, alone. i started releasing warchief, and then i started controlling warlock, and used poison cloud (at least it was definately not bugged, so they must have fixed it). first i killed the conjurer, when he got in range. i changed for acolytes once in a while to heal the other "bricks" and then back to warlock. when conjurer was dead, , i started killing their footmen. then my warlock was on ~20% hp. and i started shooting at alliance king "brick" then medivh started cheating, and lock died. then i used warchief to finish off their king, and moved him around, while some of the other alliance bricks where closing in.

i suppose, that u can "cage" your warchief, so he and alliance king is fighting 1on1, but u can still use the bricks, thats "caging" warchief....its really simple when u have tried it a couple of times :)

Commento di Ambrose

You should be able to get yourself soulstoned, evasion+sprint past the beast and die at the bottom of the stairs, then res when it's clear. Will try this asap but cannot confirm it yet.

Commento di 57283

Fiend Slayer Boots

Commento di 56292

These objects come from the chest which appears after completing the Chess Event in Karazhan.

Commento di 37160

This event is really not difficult, just focus on killing the other team's king.

Make sure you move a couple soldiers out of the way to let your stronger pieces walk freely.
Get your king and a dog/demon on their kinig and keep your necro/healers on your king.

We did this twice now, and both times most of the raid didnt have a clue of what was happening.
Our king usually still has about 60-80% when the enemy one dies.

Don't be afraid of this event, just go in and whack the enemy king :-) Free loot.

Commento di theuberone

is it possible to get 2 of the same item in the chest?

Commento di 47926

Don't forget that if you do loot something from the chest, that character will get saved to that raid-ID, so don't just hand-out the gear willy-nilly.

Commento di Kathucka

The secret to beating this encounter is to use the pet hotkeys. Trite, but true.

Someone in your raid must talk to the king to take control of it and start the event. After that, you can talk to the other pieces.

The first two pet abilities are Move and Turn. These abilities are activated by the CTRL-1 and CTRL-2 keys. Simply point your mouse at the square you want to move to or to face, type the hotkey, and click on the square. The reason for using the hotkey is that you only have a couple seconds after activating the skill before you have to click on the square. The game seems to work in pulses, and you have to complete your move within that pulse, or it's cancelled.

Your pawns serve mainly to get in the way. Have half your raid move the middle pawns forward. Once they've moved, they can right-click on the chess buff to cancel it, and take control of another piece.

The game itself revolves around the bishops, because they are the only pieces that can heal. To win the game, just kill the enemy bishops, then kill the king. The queen is a long-ranged caster, and can do this nicely.

Watch out! Medihv cheats! He'll lay down fire or buff his pieces. Move your pieces away when this happens.

Also note that the pieces are the characters from the original game of Warcraft.

See http://www.wowwiki.com/Chess_event for much more information.

Reaching the Chess Event is a matter of clearing just a few rooms of really nasty trash after passing the Shade of Aran's door. The trash on the way to the Shade of Aran is the real problem. There's a lot of it, the monsters have a lot of health, and it has a two-hour respawn time. If you are still learning Shade, you should attempt him a few times, then make sure to go collect your free Chess loot before the two-hour respawn timer is up. Watch out, though. There are three packs of trash with Sorcerous Shades that can easily get out of control and wipe the raid. You don't want to wipe on those once the trash after the Menagerie (The Curator's room) starts respawning.

Commento di 78240

when does the chest loot 'dissapear' ? After a soft reset, or with the weekly reset?

Commento di 20820

From 2.3 PTR Patchnotes:

The Chess Event chess in Karazhan now has a tap list so it can only be looted by players who were involved in the chess event.

Commento di Radrin

My guild did this one on Deathwing about a week ago, and it was my first time. We actually lost the first round as several of us (Myself included) had never played before. I spent most of the round sitting on my ass in the corner with my water elemental.

Regardless, there are several little tricks to this game that are indeed rather useful... however they don't shine unless you are doing what we were doing. After we finished the main event, myself and the other warlock stuck around to play each other in a game of chess, he took control of the horde pieces, I took mine.

Amusing to say the least, blizz should replace WSG with it. Maybe then people would play.

Also of note: For anyone else who does it, take note that if you give a piece a command, that piece will continue to do that command until told to do otherwise. I would suggest Conjuror fireball aoe spam and healer spam on him/the king. (And of course horde counterparts.)

Commento di 80642

Is it possible for a raid to have control of both sides during the event?

Ex) Horde takes control of their pieces, 1 or 2 raid members take control of the other pieces and sabotage them. Such as controlling the other pieces healers and not doing anything with them.

Commento di 139095

Very easy. Just play chess. Heals on the King and ur good. Obect kill the other king. Beware of the cheating involed. It does a number on u if ur not paying attention.

Commento di Chocopie

Certain aspects of chess do not actually apply. Such as, being able to move two spaces forward with your pawn. The bishop and quite possibly, the rook, have issues as well.

I probably missed something.

Commento di 66445

Blizzard has been trying to fix the current issue with the chess event. Our group has had their Chest been un-lootable by half the raid twice. To warn you, here's the series of events.

1)You start up the chess event.
2)After switching pieces or having your piece die, you might be teleported to Curator's Room.
3)You run back to try to help the raid finish the event
4)You win the chess event and the ENTIRE raid (and sometimes it's not the entire raid, just those who have not died/switched) gets teleported over to Curator.
5)Once you all get back, you see that the board is reset and everything is normal except when you walk up to the Dust Covered Chest, it's un-lootable.
6)The raid then spams tickets to blizz to get their gear. DONT EXPECT AN IMMEDIATE RESPONSE. This type of issue usually takes a week and a half give or take a few days.

For our raid, we had only the ones who had not died or not switched peices stay in the room, we had it on master loot and the lootmaster was able to loot the chest, however he only had 5 options to give the loot to, of course the 2 people that needed the pieces had died... after sending a ticket, we got our gear in the mail.
TICKET DISCLAIMER- Don't expect your badges if you cant loot, just be content with your epics and you might be lucky and they'll give them to you.

Commento di 139657

Castle early, watch for En Passants, and dont get picky with your Promotions.

Commento di 127328

Did this get buffed somehow? I noticed Medivh's cheating was a little more gratuitous than usual after 2.4 or whatever Sunwell patch was. Like, the random fire actually did substantial damage to the pieces and stuff.

It's still a laughably easy event, we were just a little surprised when one of our healers got burned down in the back row.

Commento di 151059

After my raid tonight cleared everything, me and my friend got bored afterwards and started to face each other in this; he played orc, I played human. I lost. =*(

Commento di Archibolt

From WoWwiki:

Taking control of a piece may sometimes result in an near-immediate disconnect. The only way back into the game is to wait some time until the player is removed from the game with a "desertion" like debuff, or by quickly releasing control of the piece before the disconnect actually takes place.

We had something abit similar to this bug tonight (11/06/08). Our MT, healer and dps got DC'ed abit after we started the game. I think they could move for a sec or two but then they got kicked out. When they came back, their chess piece just disapeared. . We were left there unable to lose because the MT took the King piece. Thus we were unable to continue. After Medhiv killed all our pieces, it just wouldn't reset, because the game thinks that there the king piece is still around, but they were unable to reach/target/killl it. And we were stuck there. It was really frustrating since we were planning on getting Chess over with then onto Prince. Now we have to reclear the thrash from Curator. (Chose to ignore Shade for the night).

Anywho just thought i might report this as it might be a new bug from the latest patch seeing as no one reported something similar yet.

Commento di 169009

First of all has anyone ever even heard of wiping on chess? and if you do whipe does your character lose durability or die?

well anyway as a tank this is prolly the best "Boss" because you DONT tank and it drops the best tank sword for you at the time...really fun too i always just mess around as a grunt.

Commento di 147048

I was curious about this event, if i'm horde then do I get to control a horde peice or can I control both?

Commento di adashiel

When you do the Chess Event the first time (i.e., playing against Medivh to win the chest loot), you can only control your own faction. However, afterward you can take control of either side and even play against other raid members. You won't get anything for winning, but it can be fun.

Commento di 87686

All i can say about the chess event is : FREE EPICXZ ZOMG!

Commento di 66259

you can heal any chess piece with the trinket: Vial of the Sunwell

Commento di kreda

Best part in kara witch is warry hard to lose and got good items in cheast too so dont lose and have fun in this part...

Commento di 121397

WE'RE GONNA WIPE!

Commento di 195614

Just keep pieces out of the fire when medivh cheats. Keep the king out of harm's way. Always heal the king if he's taking damage (usually from standing in fire). Use the rooks to your advantage as they deal some serious AoE. Most importantly, move the pawns up so other pieces can move around.

(horde side)

Commento di 200192

Been meaning to try post this, but a fun little bug for mages. When you leave chess and you are back at your body instead of clicking off the buff, ice block. Then you will keep the "in game" buff. Once you have that buff you can take no damage and pull no aggro.

I tried to tank Prince, but I had no aggro, though could stand anywhere and not take any damage. Not sure if Blizz fixed it, but sure is fun :)

Commento di 146819

Wizard's Chess, anyone?

Commento di Psyblade1st

Good news for Paladins: Divine Sacrifice and Hand of Protection work on chess players. I pulled off a narrow 700 HP kill with Llane in a raid.

Commento di 279763

Chess event is soloable, just in case anyone's looking for this information.

It needs patience to learn a bit what you have to move and when, since you can only control one piece at a time + you have a 10sec debuff when you change pieces.
Simple guidelines: At start move the 2 pawns in front of king so to have space to move him when medivh cheats. When that happens, change quickly to your king and move him to a safe square.

That's all the advice I can give, you'll probably have to try 2-3 times before you win, it needs a bit of learning.

Good luck soloing!

Commento di 407664

The trick to soloing this is that you have to 'trap' there king. What you do is make lots of space for your king and healers to move, just in case fire is dropped. You basically move out your pawns, then keep control on your queen (mage), and you pull the king out using him, then move your pawns around him, so he is damaged from as many ways as possible. Also helps to have a castle aoeing near him.

Gl and have fun

Commento di skyburn1

As of patch 4.0.1 it appears to grant 27 justice points. Happenned to our group of four storming it for the fun loot.

Commento di PilsnerDk

Got 10 Justice Points for soloing this at level 85.

Commento di Teemu

So it's impossible to wipe here`?

Commento di Nobbel

500gold, rare mount, fun fights, done in about 1 or 2 hours depending on how long the chess event takes. 2 guides explaining how to solo Karazhan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTAZe7TAv2M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4q6BRvdFlE

Commento di Retrac752

If you are trying to solo this event, dont get discouraged if you have trouble at first, its part luck, sometimes medhiv makes crappy moves and sometimes he just owns, i suggest first attacking with ur mage all u can, just keep firing and keep moving when something gets close to hurting u, then make sur to move king out of fire whenever it happens, after ur mage dies, use a horse and attack their king as long as possible, after ur horse, use a priest to heal ur king and also attack their king from a range, do this until u cant get ur priest within range of their king, finally use ur king himself after u cant get their king with ur priest and just spam attacks until their king dies, its not full proof cuz i did say his moves are random and i think i got lucky, but it worked for me eventually so good luck to anyone who tries to solo it, it is definantly possible

Commento di Morbius

Tried soloing this after 4.06 and couldn't. This event is considerably harder and possibly impossible to solo now. In 4.03 it was much easier, it didn't take more than 2 or 3 tries to win. In 4.06 I tried 10 times using several different strategies but couldn't win.

The computer plays differently now. It will send out it's minor pieces to attack you first and hold back it's king and that's usually enough to beat you. If not, your king is so beat up that when his fully healed king starts attacking it's no contest. In 4.03 he would bring out his king early and by the time it got close to yours it was severely damaged and easy to kill. Also, Medivh appears to cheat more often.

Commento di Darkicon

A hell of a lot of luck involved with soloing the Chess Event. Last week I pulled it off first try, this week, I'm on try #6 and still cannot win. The damned recently in-game debuff makes it that much harder since your bishops may not always heal your king and it takes awhile to switch between pieces.

Your best bet is probably just to control the king throughout, just move the king's pawn up one space to give your king room to move if Medivh cheats and spam Bloodlust or Heroism if your Cleave or Sweep won't reach any pieces. If you are able to hit anything, occasionally still use your buff so the pieces around you don't die because you will need them against the king. Your rooks are a VERY big help since their attack is a high-damage AoE (Geyser or Hellfire) so if you're feeling lucky (Your king may not move if Medivh cheats), go ahead and bring your rook(s) over near your king.

Commento di 438574

I had to disable my bars addon (bartender4) to be able to leave piece for this fight.
Trying to leave the piece with the addon enabled caused the "Blizzard blocked action" error like when trying to use the right-click to focus.

Commento di 31458

For those looking to attempt this having never done it at 70, I'll lay out a few tips to get started:

Each player can control one piece at a time, but pieces will auto-attack when they are not controlled.
Once you take control of a piece, you have 4 options: movement, turning, and two piece-specific abilities. Movement and turning are on a linked 10-second cooldown so choose wisely.
Uncontrolled pieces will NOT move or turn on their own: the key to beating this is proper positioning and movement to counter the computer's movement.
Pieces are not restricted to chess-like movements and can only be moved one space at a time (including diagonal).
Pieces cannot move over another piece, and using your pieces to block the opponent is they key to victory.
To get out of control, right-click the buff to remove it. You will be unable to control another piece for approximately 10 seconds. This delay makes the event much more difficult to solo, since your movement is severely restricted.
Medivh will "cheat" at intervals, placing fire on the ground, so move your important pieces out ASAP.
If your king dies, you lose, but you can restart the event and try again as much as you like.

I beat this with a friend, neither of us having ever tried it before, but it took us many attempts with just the two of us. With fewer players, your ability to move pieces is very restricted. Our keys to victory:

Move your pawns out immediately to create more room. One or two spaces is enough, then switch control to another piece. You need space to be able to move out of the fire and bring your more powerful pieces to the frontlines.
The bishops have a heal ability! Keeping these pieces alive and protected behind pawns is necessary.
The king is actually very powerful. He cleaves the spaces in front of him in an arc for the most damage that any piece does.

Ultimately, our win involved going straight for their king with ours. Once we moved out about half of our pawns, we started bringing our rooks and queen out to help the pawns. We cleared the pawns in front of their king, and started attacking with ours, using a bishop to keep ours healed. Keep the bishop at range, but facing their king or another attacking piece so that you can use the ranged damage while the heal is on cooldown. We just barely killed the opposing king before ours went down.

Good luck!

Commento di 24732

I dunno how the hell you're supposed to solo this. I tried five times and between Medivh's cheating and the cooldowns on moving, using abilities and swapping pieces, the other sides units were all over my guys like a bad rash. Blackhand never stood a chance of winning. I didn't get King Llane down to even half health before defeat. :-(

Unless you've got lots of time to waste, I wouldn't recommend trying to solo it.

Commento di BrokenHip

Solo'd it tonight by simply moving the kings left pawn and moving out the knight through the space, then used the queen until the firecheat and switched to king to finish it.

Commento di Expetra

I soloed today by starting the king off with his damage buff, moving the middle pawns up one and using their shield, moving one of the horses up, and then I got back into the king and kept his damage buff going as well as his attack....this killed off the pieces fighting my pawns and the opposing king came up into range of my king, but luckily started attacking my cleric and I was able to dps him with my king.

Commento di 835773

haha, doesn't it just piss u off when Medivh cheats?

i go into Kara every Tuesday just for old times sake and do the whole raid solo and it still frustrates me when he cheats, lol.

Commento di Nathiest

Best way to solo this is to move all of your pieces out and to the right. Leave your King room to move and position him to to the far right corner, move him when ever is needed. Position your pieces in front of the King for protection and victory. Takes a couple attempts but you'll eventually get what I'm talking about and win. Easily.

Commento di Aellini

I'd just like to point out for anyone trying to solo this that Medivh's cheating (when the fire is left on the ground), actually inflicts damage to ANY unit standing in it. I managed to make a comeback with one piece by getting the opposing king to stand in it, doing 10k a tick.

Commento di deathager

Completed this with only 2 ppl in group (Screenshot). Changing minions each time we completed this at second try.

Note : Gear/ Level does not matter on abilities

Commento di Xxrrsteve

This fight is tricky, but completely soloable.

-Move the two pawns in front of the king and queen of your faction up one space to prevent Medivh's cheating.
-Control the king for the rest of the fight, switching between your main ability and your power-up ability. Move if you feel threatened and don't stay in one place for too long, regardless of whether or not the fire cheat is used.

Took me two tries with this strategy.

Commento di 60610

another workable soloing strat...

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1) control king>buff>release

2-a) move 2nd pawn up one
2-b) move near castle diagonally up three
3-a) move 2nd last pawn up one
3-b) move far castle diagonally up three

(now your castles are busy aoeing down most of your enemies!)

4) (optional) move pawn infront of queen up one, gives your queen/king a place to run incase of cheating)
5) control queen and spam down enemy king

(Your queen's attacks will be boosted by your king, and your castles will be causing lots of aoe damage early on on their king and queen.)

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Somewhat RNGish since king/queen are fairly trapped early on, but sending up castles and burning down with queen i'd say is fairly fast and it gives less oppourtunties for cheating to become a problem.

Commento di thirteene

Finally solod it today with the
1-buff dismiss king
2-clear (left) rook (demon/ele)
3-move knight up 3 for aoe
4- clear kings peon
5-nuke queen unless king is getting slapped around

actually cleared everything but his king, had a knight, bishop, and rook up with my king. He cheated got all 3 of my helpers and he had more life, chased me into a corner then cheated fire again, lead him into it and won :)

only the last part but it was epic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5RW7NX_Kwc

Commento di 125795

I soloed this on my third try back at lvl80, without using any macros or addons. From what I read here, I were very lucky.

Commento di 713230

As i tried to solo this event for a hour i noticed 1 thing. Over time this fight gets easier. At the first try the king just stayed in his spawning position with his clerics and other pieces took care of me but in the last try the king just rushed to my troops with clerics not moving and only 1 pawn with him. ppl am i just thinking or can someone confirm?

Commento di Nuthar

After trying many, many different approaches, I found one that carried me to fairly easy victory:

1. Move the pawns in front of king and queen forward to give them escape routes
2. Hop on queen and just keep blasting away at the enemy king from afar.
3. Move queen/king out of fires as needed.
4. Win.

Commento di Aradroth

I've soloed it plenty of times but it's so annoying and time consuming to do each week just to get to prince, I wish blizz would at least remove the 10 second debuff between switching.

Commento di 561351

Not sure if anyone else is having this issue, but every piece seems to be bugged in one way or another. The Mage can't AoE (it casts, the debuff goes on the target but nothing else happens), the opposite team are able to stack more than 1 piece on a single square, etc. Also not sure if this is supposed to happen, but I've noticed that the opposite side are able to move their pawns more than 1 space from the get-go, but I'm unable to do it myself.

Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but this "boss" has become one huge pain in the ass.

Commento di 905329

Solo'ed it today. used 3 pieces only. Simple but effective, with a bit of luck.
I moved the pawn before the king one spot forward. just give the command and hop out to save time. Go to your warlock/queen, and put it where the pawn was. that way, when medivh cheats with fire, you can move your lock (hopefully) one spot top left or top right, and put your king where the lock originally started. Just start nuking the warchief. Use the fire whenever its off cooldown, if you cant hit the warchief hit the pawn closest to it. for me, he was just one square out of range, but hitting the pawn before him worked as effectively. keep using the blue spell as filler and extra damage. Keep an eye on your king, just in case more fires come. when your queen dies, hopefully the warchief will be heavily damaged, and close enough to your king for you to take control of it and finish it off.

if you're a paladin, you can bubble the debuff off. especially handy during the fires. GL!

Commento di Diodor

How I did it after an hour of trying:
1. stack as much figures in front of your king at start, they will be there to soak dmg
2. make sure you always have escape route for your king when medivh spawns fire
3. stay on your king and cleave enemy figures from safe distance
4. when middle is cleared and enemy king is exposed its a win

Commento di Teamer

Downed this with a fellow guildie last night.
She took the queen while I took the king and once the queen was dead she took the bishop.
Also, the king's cleave is very powerful, it hits all 3 pieces standing in front of him and also one piece standing behind the middle piece.
After you beat this event, you can also challenge other people from your raid to a game of chess, just let half of your raid take control of the Ally side and the other half takes the Horde side.
Have fun!

Commento di Mydge

Double teamed.

After activating the King, each moved the pawn in front of the king/lock forward one space.

Then one got into lock and spammed fireballs at boss, and one got into king and moved up near him and spammed cleave.

Done.

Commento di Orcbum

Is it just me or are the opposing pieces moving much faster than they did before?
Regardless, this change actually makes things easier.

Your main tactic is to wait for them to approach you.
Horde:
-Space out your Grunts a bit so you can quickly move your Warchief away from Medivh's fire. I find that I only move 2-3 of them.
-Put out your 'knights' or in this case, wolves.
-Make sure you don't put out too many moves in the beginning, do the basics/positioning. Wait for Medivh to cheat and burn your Warchief, quickly move him away. It's imperative you wait around for this for a clean/easy kill. You don't want to spend too much time controlling Necrolytes to heal your Warchief back up.
-Once he cheats the first time, go in for the kill. Control the demons (rooks) and position them closer to the opposing team; their hellfire is an amazing ranged ability.
-You can control the Warlock (Queen) or Blackhand once King Llane approaches within range. That's when you focus on killing him.

GL to you all =)

Commento di TheRealLink

For Alliance, I just tried this again and finally got a victory after a couple hours. Medivh kept burning my king and the Horde was usually most of the way through my army before the King died. Had one or 2 attemps with Blackhand fairly low in HP but what I did was roughly:

1. Move the three pawns (footman) in front of Lane and left / right of him both diagonally up and right and have them attack.
2. Move the horse up and right diagonally to block the hole and have it attack.
3. Move the Queen (mage) up a spot and use frostbolt.
4. Move the Healer up a spot and have him use his ranged light attack.
5. If Medivh says a change is in order, he's probably about to nuke one of your important pieces so hold off on a CD as he'll more than likely burn the King.
6. For this match, Blackhand moved up one or 2 spots from his row fairly quickly instead of sitting in the back. This put him in range of the mage's frostbolts.
7. If you let the mage hang by the King and the King casts his damage buff, it's nice to have the mage continue to do 6K bursts on Blackhand.
8. The fireball spell is glitched but it does work only once - if the mob is right in front of you, AND you are facing it, AND it in the square right next to you, you can use the fireball spell it seems.
9. Blackhand went straight across for the King but since a footman or so was in the way, the King was able to use his AoE for 4K, and the frostbolts were enhanced for 6K. Even though the King had ~100K HP left, we were both able to sit through the fire and keep firing at Blackhand. He finally targeted the footman to the left instead of the king at ~30K left for some reason and by the time one of the berserk orc pawns even reached the King, we had dropped Blackhand ;)

Pics to help well, picture the layout. It's still *extremely* based on luck though and will probably take numerous tries.

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Just cancel out of the control once you see the lightbeams and victory and loot the chest. Good luck.

Commento di 849346

I don't know if I was lucky or what but I got it on my first try. I just got into the warlock and killed the king with bolts. I didn't have to move anything and hop in any other char.

Commento di 943975

After soloing this a few times on my 85 hunter, I've come to a couple conclusions as to the easiest way to win. First, keep your king out of the fire. Second, trap your opponent's king in the fire.

Making those two things happen will definitely give you the best chance to win. However, here's what I did to make them happen.

- Start off by controlling your king and hitting his buff, then drop him.
- Control the pawn in front of your king, move him forward, hit his attack spell, and then drop him.
- Control your king and repeatedly use his buff.

(IF MEDIVH SUMMONS FIRE WHERE YOU'RE STANDING, MOVE OUT OF IT)

- Once enemy units get within the appropriate range, alternate between using your king's buff and attack spell.
- Eventually you'll start to notice enemy units, and your units, beginning to die around you.
- Be mindful where the enemy's king is as he moves around the board.
- See if there are any paths you could take towards their king.
- Once you see one, navigate as smoothly as you can towards their king.
- Once you're standing directly next to the opponents king, hit your attack spell repeatedly.

(MEDIVH WILL EVENTUALLY SUMMON FIRE WHERE YOU'RE STANDING)

- Once this happens, move backwards. The opponent's king will follow, right into the tile that's on fire.
- Hit your attack spell repeatedly and watch his health dwindle.

Good luck everyone! Once you get the hang of it, it's not too bad! :)

Commento di 350739

Helpful tip:

Paladins can use Hand of Protection and/or Divine Shield to remove the 10 second chess debuff.

Furthermore, HoP lasts 10 seconds, and DS lasts 8 seconds. So, if you're quick, you move multiple pieces back to back. Example:

1. Start event by talking to king. Cast his damage buff. Release King.
2. Run back to Pawn in front of king. Chess debuff should still have about 6-7 seconds left. Cast Hand of Protection on yourself to remove the debuff.
3. Immediately talk to the Pawn, move it forward, and quickly release the pawn. If your HoP is still active, you won't get the chess debuff, and you won't be teleported back to Medhiv. You can immediately select the pawn in front of your Queen, move it, and release it. If you're really quick (macxos help here), you can move two pawns and release them before the 10 second debuff wears off (again, macros help). Now control your queen and start AoEing down the enemy's forces.

If done correctly, you can Start the game (king) move both pawns (in front of king and queen), and control the queen without having to deal with a single debuff.

Commento di 249416

I couldn´t drop the king after i started the chessevent.

Commento di Alteria

I did this today on my 85 hunter (still after the bow!) This was my first time soloing it, usually a couple of guildies come in with me, so chess is no problem. I had a few fails, though I got real close my second try. In the end, here is what worked:

I moved the four pawns in front of the Warchief, Warlock, and the two healer types. Then, I moved the two wolves, giving myself a good buffer.

By that time, I waited for the fire cheat, cuz that's always first, and moved the warchief and warlock out of it. Llane had, thankfully, moved, so I used the warlock to burn him a bit. Then, Llane did a stupid thing and stepped into fire, to attack my warchief, so that helped. By this time, Llane had half the health the Warchief had, and it was easy going from there, beating him down with the warlock. Blackhand always attacks well on his own, and the warlock sometimes forgets, so I always use the lock.

And of course, Prince didn't drop the bow, So I'll be trying this again next week!

Commento di halflife

If ever there needed to be an optional fight

Commento di 998333

Over 3 days and 6 hours trying to solo this but I just couldn't do it. Tried every one of the "sure fire" methods posted below, and not one of them was effective.

Trying to lure the King into fire failed because either another piece moved there instead or the King just stood there. That of course doesn't count the times the other side put up a 4 man wall and just blocked the King entirely.

At any rate congrats to Blizzard for the most asinine boss encounter in history

Commento di 38876

Marksmanship (7/31/3) Hunter.
Ballinhunts, of Kargath-US.
409 iLvl

As has been previously mentioned, the Chess Event is trivial and entirely based upon RNG (because of Medivh's cheats).

You can either solo it, or you can't - you don't decide. I've farmed Karazhan every week for as long as I can remember, and I guesstimate a 50/50 chance that you'll be successful soloing this event.

I use the same strategy every week, whether it works or not is entirely dependent upon RNG. I move the inner six Orc Grunts forward one space, then I control Warchief Blackhand and buff the Orc Grunts with bloodlust until I either need to move, or commandeer the Orc Necrolyte and begin healing. By this time, there are few if any pieces left on the board that King Llane is taking out, so I'll move Warchief Blackhand away and heal him with an Orc Necrolyte 'til death or 100% (whichever comes first). The culmination of the precious time wasted playing virtual chess is priceless as I slaughter King Llane. Modify the strategy as you wish, but good luck to you either way. I only attempt this event once, and if I'm unsuccessful I'll gather peons (pun fully intended) for assistance.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me in-game!

Commento di 998027

Just thought I'd add something to Xxrrsteve's strategy. It definitely works to stay out of the fire, but I figured I'd throw in my two bits in here.

Once you move your pawns up and wait for the sluggish debuff to take control of your King, move him up and start switching between cleave and the warcry. The warcry will reach both pawns as well as your Warlock, and two pawns that are adjacent to you (Use warcry on every CD). Move if necessary, but be careful not to move too much because you really don't want your movement to be on CD when he uses his fire.

Use the war cry as often as you can in between your cleaves. The faster your grunts take the enemies out, the less chance there is that when he cheats to empower them, the ones he empowers will be the ones in front of you.

Try to move your King in cleaving range of the Queen, if a more important target isn't available (If the King is available, attack him from behind your pawns). The queen does a lot of damage and hits you from far away, and can kill you by himself if there isn't a pawn in front of him pulling his aggro.

The Cleric/Necrolyte pieces are the other important targets. He usually keeps them behind his King which makes them hard to hit, but warcrying your ranged units will help kill them.

In some, and probably many situations, winning can become impossible. If he empowers his King while you are in range, it is likely to become impossible to win very quickly. When empowered, his King will do 12,000 damage with his cleaves. If you're soloing, it is basically trial and error. You follow a pattern until the cards play out right.

Notes:

King Vs King: If you are lucky enough to get a King Vs King fight, after most of both your and his pieces are dead, you should be able to win. The King doesn't use his cleave on every cooldown like a player-controlled King will, so if you have a 35% King vs a 40% King, you can still win just by beating him up (Granted he doesn't cheat and empower his King).

Firestorm Cheat: When he cheats for firestorm, he is very careful not to put his King in the fire. You can use this to your advantage. If you walk around fires, the King, even if a path is available, will not go all the way around. He will avoid the fires as much as possible. This can give you time to maneuver your piece to be in a better position, since he will not chase you down. It can also give you time to kill an extra piece without the enemy King getting involved.

Healing Stream Totems: They work on your chess pieces.

Not after anything from the last two bosses? Don't worry about completing the raid all the way. Even with a good strategy, it completely depends on the moves Medivh makes. Some cases you're guaranteed to lose, and in others he'll make a dumb move like move his King in front of your Queen while he's in range of your cleave. This can easily take upwards of an hour or two before you succeed, and if you get unlucky, you can be locked here for a long time.

Commandeer the Necrolytes/Clerics: As the above person has already said, your Necrolytes/Clerics can heal you as well, so if you just need that edge on the King, hop over to the necrolyte/cleric and start healing your King. Especially since they just sit there like dummies unless a target is directly in front of them.

Good luck!

Commento di Spikeyman

Easily 2 man-able! Have one player stay in the King the entire time. Have the other move 2 pawns, one in front of a cleric, one in front of the king. Then the 2nd person jumps in a cleric and heals the king for the remainder of the fight. Once the echo cheats and sets the fire, move to the space where the pawns were before player 2 moved them.

Commento di EasybotDS

Cleared the boss as solo for my first time. Date 09/08-2012.

Commento di endersblade

Currently, in 5.0.4, the Event has been changed. It's no longer possible to solo this. Why Blizzard felt the need to change this is beyond me. They've already nerfed the amount of gold old raid bosses drop, and now we can't get pass the Chess Event without almost a full freaking raid.

Commento di 1027932

I'd buy that it was a bug if the pieces just moved faster and Medievh cheated more, but the new graphic of his flame cheat seems to me that they just buffed it so it couldn't be soloable. I don't know who that one guy is over at Blizzard that keeps insisting everything be a "community!" but it'd be nice if we could just solo old content that no one is going to raid anymore.

Commento di Qoko

Yesterday I two-manned this for the agi shoulder for a temporary replace of my Bloodfang shoulders in transmog. The best strategy for two players is to one take the king, the other takes the queen. For whatever odd reason, the queens can jump over pieces so you can place the queen on d3 directly, giving space to the king to move from the fire on e1 to d1. The queen controlling player can do some significant damage to the opposing king is he's in range. Try to lure the opposing king in the fire whilst the allied king moves from fire and you will get it eventually.

Solo, you should also use this strategy but it is just awful RNG if you're alone. You don't even have time to exit the king, pick a pawn or queen, clear a space and get into the king. A few seconds before you can do the latter, he may already be on fire. It will be an indefinite goose chase between all the opposing pieces and your king, hoping the enemy king will catch fire.

EDIT: bugfix: when MoP released the Chess Event was horrendously bugged and Medivh was able to cheat every or so 20 seconds and he moved at about twice the speed. Later in the xpack this got changed into the regular event again.

Commento di Anstriber

well enemy leader was on 3% my leader 12%ˇand medivh used cheat and i died:_D

Commento di madhatter1932

So apparently they buffed the crap out of this in 5.0.4 because all of the pieces move nearly at once. Not only is it not solo-able, I couldn't get it with four 85s who knew what they were doing. King Lane is dead in under a minute. Very frustrating.

Commento di Kilrathi3

The speed bugging of kara has been fixed as of 9-11-12
however....
Why should it take you 3 tries to gain control of a piece?

1st click on king goes fine, gain control but then you have to drop off and run back to a pawn

right click on pawn, get looked at, click goodbye.
right click on pawn, get looked at, click goodbye again
right click on pawn, get looked at, oh sure take control now.
move pawn.
Now you get to jump off that piece and run all the way back to get the next pawn
in the mean time the other side has moved 3 pcs.
solo was possible, did it a few yrs ago but not now

Commento di 691268

As a Resto Shaman (90), this is super easy solo. The trick? Just keep cleaving, move out of fire if you can (not a must). Stay as king. Everytime I dropped to around 50% health, "dismount" and cast healing stream totem.

Instant win, HST heals are scaled with your level, not health soooo you go to 100% everytime. Easy easy.

Commento di 911103

Soloed Chess Event as a Warlock.

Tactic:
Chess Event is totally random, but I can give you some tips that will help you in this fight. Basic knowledge of chess is very helpful - we are playing chess with Medivh, who will cheat. Between taking over control of a two pieces you have to wait 9sec. Here you have a macro for releasing control of a piece:
/cancelaura Control Piece
Follow my movements until I take over control of the Human Conjurer (Queen) for the second time. King Llane and Human Conjurer (Queen) must be immediately taken out of the fire! Human Conjurer (Queen) should be used to do dmg for most of the fight. Priority killing:
1. Pieces with Berserk (darker ones)
2. Orc Warlock (Queen)
3. Summoned Daemon (Rook)
4. Orc Wolf (Knight)
5. Orc Grunt (Pawn)
6. Orc Necrolyte (Bishop)
Try to capture as many Medivh's pieces as possible before Warchief Blackhand (King) reaches to King Llane. When this happens, take over control of the King Llane and try to capture Medivh's King as first. Good Luck and Have Fun!

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcIN49jbksQ

Commento di Cakechart

I can really just recommend bringing a shaman along. Saves a lot of time as the healing totem will be an even bigger cheat than Medivh's fire and empowerment combined.

Commento di Jared777

Just tried this today, and it seems Blizz has added a spell effect called "Game in Session" and you are silenced. No more healing King Liane with spells/totems.

Commento di Chakra

How to solo this event:

Macro: /cancelaura Control Piece

1) Start by moving all Grunts/Footmen you have time for with 1 step forward. Start with the Grunts/Footmen in front of your King and go from there.

2) When Medivh first cheats and if it's fire, hop in the King and move with aim to face towards the opponent King. If you have a Grunt/Footman in between you and a hostile piece, leave the King and save the other piece from fire.

3) If you aren't in the King already, then control him and from now on you cleave on cooldown, move to the opponent King, continue to cleave on cooldown.

If you stay in the King and keep cleaving on cooldown, you should win. I've 1-shot this event using the above tactic for 3 weeks in a row now. Don't downvote a perfectly good tactic!

Commento di gc1ceo

12/11/12 with Patch 5.1.0 on the Alliance side

There are a couple of important things to consider in this fight:

1.)What calls your king isn't so much damage from opposing pieces, you have alot of health, but Medivh's cheats. Keeping your king out of the fire is priority number one.

2.)Your king hits hard, really hard, and thus is your primary source of damage against the opposing king. I'm not sure about the Horde king but the Alliance king's attack has a range of two squares so ideally the best point of attack is to have the spot of you occupied by one of your other pieces followed by the opposing king.

3.)You will be able to spam the attacks faster then the opposing pieces, the AI does abilities at somewhere between 1/2 to a 1/3 the speed of a human player.

As long as you haven't taken too much damage due to Medivh's cheats (or being too surrounded by opposing pieces for too long) you'll do more damage to the opposing king then he does to you. I had about 20-30 percent of my health left when I killed the Horde king.

I have no doubt that RNG plays a big part in setting up this fight to solo but it is possible.

Commento di Qoko

If they fully fixed the chess event in case of game speed and speed of cheating, I don't really see what's the popularity of posting how to solo the Chess Event: it was possible at 70, is still possible at 90 and is theoretically possible on level 10: the level of participating players is irrelevant.

What usually works due to exploiting your enemy moving up pieces indefinitely:

Move the pawns on the kingside (in front of the King and the two to the smaller side) so both the King (Liane/Blackhand) and the Rook (Elemental/Demons) can move.
Move the King up if he catches fire, cast Heroism/Bloodlust.
Move the freed Rook up sideways and cast the AoE, so he will kill most upcoming units on the kingside.
Control the Queen (Conjurer/Warlock) for controlled damage, use the AoE spell on a cluster of units and the bolt for direct damage.
Only take control of something else than the Queen if it can save the King (himself) or kill off the enemy King.
Enemy prio is basically the King, yet if the Queen is on low health or if the King is close to Bishops (Priests/Necromancers) they take prio. You're usually save to ignore pawns, Knights and Rooks completely.

In any case, yes, the chess event solo DOES involve RNG, yet I find the above reliable (average of two tries) as long as you do it consistently. I agree the King does loads of damage, yet it is uncontrolled in front of him, inceasing RNG.

Commento di SvenL

Don't know if it's me, but this event kicks me in the nuts every time. Even when all is going nice and well... 1 move before i can hit the other king rng bites me in the keester. I hate this event every single week... i never gonna get my head piece.

Still hoping this event becomes optional.

Commento di Dashslash

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Commento di Seahnjin

I wish this encounter scaled with item level or was skippable. But anyway, this requires mostly a lot of luck to solo. The best way to win is to somehow lure the enemy king into fire, but again this is luck. My winning attempt went like this :

1. Move the pawn in front of the king to free space for when Medivh cheats.
2. Move the pawn in front of the healer that's next to your "queen", in order to save one of the two if they're hit by fire too.
3. Get on the queen and nuke the enemy king from afar for 3 turns at most.
4. Get on the king and be ready to move him out of the fire as soon as it strikes. Spam his buff while you're at it.
5. Get back on the queen, nuke the enemy king for as long as you can.
6. Jesus Christ the king is on fire again ! Move him backwards.
7. Enemy king follows, steps right into the fire.
8. Heal the king while enemy king is getting cooked.
9. ?
10. PROFIT !
11. Enjoy the loot and curbstomp Malchezaar.

Patch 5.4 edit : Man, it's like I kept trying to do this again and couldn't. But this time I managed to win simply by moving the big guys (both wolves/horses at first and daemons/elementals when I could) near the king to protect him, switched to the queen to nuke whoever I could and somehow, after a while, only the enemy king was left. Spoiler : in spite of Medivh's cheating, he died.

Commento di Monok

Get to step 5 as quickly as possible.

1) Activate king, cast lust and immediately exit
2) Move pawn that is in front of king forward 1 space
3) Move knight that is left (if Horde) or right (if Alliance) of king to be in front of king (where the pawn was prior step)
4) Move pawn in front of queen 1 space
5) Get back into the king. Spam lust on cool down. Cleave if anything is close enough. Move out of fire if needed.

Good luck.

Edited to note faction difference as others stated. I play Horde :)

Commento di ArgentSun

While not impossible to solo, the Chest Event has become really difficult in in many ways - luck dependent - in Mists of Pandaria. The one thing I can say with certainty is that the most common strategy found in the comments (move 1-2 Pawns forward once, optionally move your Knight in front of the King, then lay waste with the King) won't work most of the time. I don't have a better one, but I can confirm that sometimes Medivh gets reckless and sends his King in an all-out attack. If he does that (in my attempts he did it twice out of about 7-8 attempts), it is possible to defeat the event by

Trapping the enemy King in fire. This is risky, because you will need to move your own King out (to lure Medivh's), and that usually exposes him to at least two of Medivh's pieces.
Using your own pieces to weaken and/or kill Medivh's King. In my successful attempt, Llane pretty much sprinted to my line of Pawns, which allowed me to not only Cleave him with my own King, but utilize the Bloodlust damage buff very much.

So my advice - if you absolutely want to defeat this event, either bring a few friends, or be patient. You are bound to get lucky eventually and have Medivh make his King get all personal with you.

Commento di 65183

The following solo strategy has worked pretty consistently for me in 5 or 6 attempts or less, for the last several weeks:

1) Jump in the king and hit Bloodlust.
2) Move the pawn in front of the king forward.
3) Move the pawn in front of the warlock forward.
4) Move the warlock forward one.
5) Move the king foward one.
6) When Medivh cheats, move the king backward to his original space. His pieces will walk into the fire to try to get you. If the fire is also on the warlock's space, move him out of the fire too since he is a powerful piece. Then get back in the king.
7) Spam Bloodlust, alternate with Cleave when there are enemies nearby.
8) Stay out of the fire, try to move to a spot that will force enemies to step into it to get to you.

If you're lucky, this strategy will either leave you with enough pieces to gang up on his king, or his king will walk into the fire.

Good luck!

Commento di 1060908

The easyest way to solo it is to make 1 place next to the king free so you can move him.Spam heroism and use cleave when someone is close to you.If you have luck you will kill theyr king.He is stuppid and sometimes attacks nerby targets but not you so you can spam on him without taking dmg.

1.Stay out of flames!
2.Spam cleave!
3.Spam heroism when its not on CD!
4.Dont go too close to theyr king,you can dps him from ♕{}♕
5.If you have luck you will beat him.
6.Its easy because you dont die when you fail soo dont have to walk all the way back!
7.Its not impposible!Soloed it at my 3try without any particular tac.

PS:The whole instance only for achivment withoult a full run----20-30min

Commento di SvenL

Any word on this event for 5.3 when Prince Malchezaar is going to drop a pet?

The RNG currently for me a reason not to try this anymore, just too frustrating.

Commento di Tektonic

1. Equip Seme della Crescita Lenta

2. Follow the strategy outlined in the 1st comment

3. Take control of any piece that needs healing

4. PROFIT!

I thought this often overlooked trinket might prove useful here, but it wasn't until my 3rd time using it that I figured out how. The tranquil sprout would not heal the piece I was controlling, but I noticed that it would cast Healing Touch each time I took control of a piece (assuming that piece was at less than full health). Play the game like normal and try to already be in control of your King when Medivh cheats. Once your King is safe, switch to any unit in need of healing or simply retake control of your King to force the heal. Using this method, I can reliably win every time the trinket is off cooldown.

Commento di Viserate

It's fun to try, but I have about the same luck with this event as getting the Baron's mount to drop. I'll still go after the mount, but gonna stick to checkers from now on. Almost completely depending on luck to win an event is bad design, period.
But best of luck to all who continue to try.

Commento di 924453

My strategy to solo works 90% of the time:
I start the chess event by controlling the king, immediately dropping, then controlling the piece directly in front of him. I move the soldier one space ahead, control the soldier that was to his right or left, and move them one space ahead too.

I then control the king, move him one space ahead, and start spamming the main attack and heroism whenever its off cooldown. I stay in the king the whole event and move him around a space or two when Medivh cheats or if enemy pieces get on him.

If the enemy boss gets on the king, I simply maneuver around him and spam away and (a lot of the time) the enemy boss usually just stands there. Just be sure to not be in the boss's swing range, especially when he gets the damage buff from Medivh.

Sometimes this strategy can fail due to flukes like excessive cheating by Medivh, but it works for me nearly every time. Hope this helps!

Commento di Jkpman

As of 21st May 2013 Patch 5.3
The Chess Event has been nerfed (via a hotfix)
Great news!

Commento di Mantrhax

Oh yeah blizzard did it again, they put a pet on the last boss, and u need to pass tru the chess event, but guess what, the chess event is still bugged like 100 years ago, u cant drop, u can take control in one click , oh boy, all the same problems again...they never learn....

is there Blizzards employees downrating it ? weel, its not a surprise

Commento di Cakechart

The easiest way is to cheat with Exhilaration (hunters only) / the trinket from Nasra Spothide, as has been stated before.

For a specific strategy, this has worked every time for me .
It requires building a "shield" of your own units, timing the first cheat to save both affected pieces, and finishing the enemy before he can even get to your king:

1. Move Footman in front of the king one forward
2. Move Footman in front of the queen (Conjurer) one forward
3. Move Footman in front of a "bishop" (charger for Alliance) one forward
4. Move a rook (elemental, demon) diagonally 2 times so it intercepts the enemy pieces
5. WAIT for Medivhs announcement. Usually at around this time he will cheat and you have to move the rook out of the fire, exit it and then move the king (he will be damaged for ~10%). If you leave early to let the debuff wear off you can avoid the damage on the king, but the rook will be much less useful.
6. Move the Footman in front of the second "bishop"
7. Have the second rook move diagonally somewhere around the center to have him intercept the enemy pieces
8. Now you have 3 choices, depending on the enemy king's position. All 3 have worked for me:
- Control the Conjurer and attack the king (if he is close enough)
- Control the bishops and let them be additional "cannon fodder" in the center
- Control the king and attack the enemy king while keeping up Heroism.
If you have positioned the rooks correctly you can have both of them benefit from Heroism while at the same time having a shield agains the enemy. Your king can attack "through" a line of your own units!

The second step works best for me in general, with the other 2 being great to finish the king of should Medivh have moved in too close already.

Good luck! You can use it.

Commento di 555434

With patch 5.3 and a hotfix, the Chess Event has become very easy to solo.

(as of 05/21/13)

Karazhan
Chess Event: Increased the delay between moves for enemy chess pieces.

(as of 05/24/13)

Karazhan
Chess Event: Medivh's buff to damage on chess pieces has been reduced to 100%, down from 200%.
Chess Event: Damage from Medivh's fire has been reduced to 4k, down from 10k.

For those fellow Tamers out there looking to conquer the Chess Event every week in order to get a chance at a Netherspace Abyssal from Prince Malchezaar, here are some strategy tips that might help you.

Primary move: As soon as you talk to your king piece and start the game, right click the Control Piece buff, run down to the pawn in front of your king, control it (once the Recently In Game debuff wears off), and move it forward one space.

Don't waste a second: As soon as you click on a tile to move a piece, right click the Control Piece buff immediately. This will ensure that you do not waste any time lingering after a move so as to maximize the amount of time you can spend waiting for the Recently In Game debuff to wear off. Make sure you plan your next move during those 10 secs, and position yourself near the piece you want to move next. The chat option to control a piece will only be available as soon as the debuff wears off completely.

Secondary move(s): Start by moving your pawns up one space. If you're unsure which pawns to start with, move the ones in front of your knights. Then move each rook into the space in front of each knight. This will capitalize on the range of the rook's AoE (leaving a rook "against a wall" wastes the range of its AoE).

Don't stand in the fire!: After approximately 2 mins, Medivh will cheat. Medivh only has two ways of cheating: dropping fire under 3-4 of your pieces, or buffing 3-4 enemy pieces with double damage. Medivh will always drop fire first, and he will always drop fire under your king. Make sure you're free from the Recently In Game debuff at around the 2 mins mark so that you can control your king right away and move him to a "not so hot" tile. After your king is safe, try to save your other "hot" pieces if you can. After another 2 mins, Medivh will buff a few enemy pieces, doubling their damage output for 1 min. You can avoid these pieces if you wish, but it is better to face them and attack them if they are attacking your pieces.

Healing is vital: Your bishops have an ability that heals a piece for 12000 HP. Taking the time to heal your king (your king will definitely need a few heals throughout the game) or another piece will determine whether you win or lose, so factor in a few moves for healing. The healing ability itself has a >10s CD, so once you heal the piece you need to, right click the Control Piece buff and make your next move.

Assess, react, checkmate: The key to victory in the Chess Event is movement. After you've made your primary and secondary moves as suggested above, the rest of your moves are entirely up to you. During the downtime between moves, always scan the board and make a quick, wise decision on what your next move will be. Try not to focus-fire the enemy's king right off the bat; use the majority of your pieces to cull the rest of your enemy's pieces (leave your king and three other pieces to deal with the enemy king).

I hope these tips help!
Good luck!

P.S.: My fastest checkmate so far took me 4:15 mins (six pawns were taken for either side, and I had taken an enemy bishop and the king). Reply to this comment with your fastest time!

Commento di alpanhell

I solo'd this for the first time today and I don't see how people can possibly think they can put up good strategies for this. the AI (Artificial Intelligence) Blizzard has done for the pieces is so incredibly bad you can never predict what will happen twice.

For instance the last game I played the other king was standing right in front of my king and did absolutely nothing, just stood there. So of course I won easy.

Another time he had the Medivh cheat buff and just destroyed me.

Not once did I see a bishop ever heal anything by themselves. Half the time pieces are just doing nothing.

If you try and switch pieces and control all of them you'll just go nuts.

Basically soloing this is just a mess in my opinion. Would have hated to see it before the 5.3 nerfs.

The only thing I would say for sure is to move your pawn in front of your king up one space so you can at least move your king when Medivh puts fire under it. Anything else is dumb luck.

For a company that seems to base their entire game design on RNG, they sure are terrible at it!

Commento di Xiberion

Honestly didn't notice a single change to this with 5.3 he still empowers his king and rips mine apart.

Commento di 968833

Took me over an hour to finish only to get to the last boss and it didnt drop the pet

This whole thing needs to be skippable cause its just pure luck and nothing more

No matter how much they nerf it if the AI is playing unfair you just cant beat it

I hope blizz is reading this!

Commento di cephadex

The entrance to the Gamesman's Hall (where Chess is located) is from the Guardian's library, in the same room as the ethereal called Ythyar. It is the big, arched wooden door located sort of on the other side of the room from him.

Commento di nirv

I made a video tutorial for 5.3 with commentary for the chess event if you're having problems getting through it. This is one of the best methods to use.

It is available in 720p, 1080p, and 1600p.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGaYwj_U7Qs&hd=1

Commento di Budz

After attempting (and failing about 15 times) using lots of the tactics on this page, I thought I'd gather the info I found useful together in one post. So far I'm 4 out of 4 for the refined solo strategy and so I feel qualified to post this strat.

Quick side note: If you gather this trinket from this MOP rare (respawn is an hour or two), it'll heal whichever piece you enter for 25,000HP a time. Which is a lot, given the total HP of the pieces. Took me about 10 or 12 kills to get the trink. Makes the chess encounter trivial.

The strat. Here's where I found it with more detail. Mostly a bunch of priorities. I'll use position names from chess. Rook is the one in the corner, Knight is one in from each corner. Queen is next to the King. A piece's pawn is the pawn right in front of it.

1. Move the King's pawn and Queen's pawn once each.
2. Move each of the Knight's pawns once. This unlocks the Rooks in the corners.
3. Move the nearby Rook to take the pawn's place (one move diagonally). The Rook has an AOE attack that is now in range of the main space of the board.
--- for me, this is usually where Medivh cheats and you'll need to move your King/Queen out of fire.
4. Now jump in the Queen and use the ranged attack against the enemy King. If you have some breathing room, maybe jump out and BL/Heroism with your King every now and then, but mainly just use the Queen to kill the enemy King.

PS: the quickest way to exit a piece is to right click the controlling piece buff.

tldr; get this trinket to make the chess event a guaranteed one-shot. If not:
1. Move the pawns in front of: king, queen and both knights.
2. Move king/queen outta fire when Medivh cheats.
3. Advance each rook diagonally one space.
4. Use Queen to snipe enemy King.

Commento di derpomatic

How to solo the Chess Event in Karazhan:
1. Speak to your King/Chief to start the event and buff your troops (Press 4) before stopping control of the gamepiece. Note: there is a debuff every time you leave a piece that forces you to wait a few seconds before jumping onto the next one. Watch for this and wait until its up or you will be clicking in vain!

2. Move the Pawns in front of the Knights one space forward (Press 1). Move the Rooks (elementals/demons at the outer edges of the board) diagonally where the pawns used to be. This brings their AoE within range of the main battle area in the middle.

3. Move the Pawns in front of the King and Queen pieces so that when Medivh cheats, you can move your King out of the fire. Note: always move him unless the enemy King is almost dead.

4. Jump on the Queen piece and melt the enemy King's face (Press 3) until the match is over. If he's not within range right away, don't worry he'll come to you soon enough. Typically, you will move your own King out of the fire once and the rest of the time you'll be spamming the single target spell until he's down.

5. Loot Cassa Impolverata now that the barrier is down and run upstairs for a chance at Principe Malchezaar's Abissale dello Spaziofatuo pet - good luck!

Other important bosses along the way:
Attumen il Predatore --> Redini del Cavallo da Guerra Ardente
Lupo Cattivo --> Piccolo Lupo Cattivo (one of several possible bosses you face after speaking to Barnes for the Opera Event)
Curatore --> Custode del Serraglio
Terestian Malazampa --> Imp Demoniaco

Commento di Arendia70

This reminds me so much of Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone, where Ron and Harry are having a chess match like this one

Commento di 433452

Chess event guide, easy and effective. Time: 5min.

Good luck!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfie9mys1Sg&feature=c4-overview&list=UUwITk8HjMR-IUPR_p0Etqhw

Commento di 1137079

The most frustrating part of Karazhan is the Chess event - and for me it was frustrating because the pieces have ABSOLUTELY no relation to how real chess pieces move and take. I play a lot of chess in real life. The only true similarity is that the King ends the game.

It's also about plenty of luck - how much Medhivh cheats, and more importantly, how much he uses his king. If he keeps his King at the back, you won't win because there's just too much to get through. And you have to work that guy, because your first quest in Karazhan takes you right to the top.

It took almost two hours of this game, first to work it out, and second to get the conditions for winning - it took longer than all the other bosses combined. I'm happy to work that dungeon for some magnificent Violet Eye rep from the many weak mobs, but once I get to that room I always quit the dungeon.

The only good thing is that he won't actually kill you when you lose. So no sweat for your equipment.

Commento di 1205711

Shouldn't it be Dust Covered Chesst?

Commento di nelthar1on

For druids trying to solo this in 5.4.

If you have Ysera's Gift you can move your king piece close to you (where the Echo of Medivh and the loot chest is) the talent will heal it every 5 secs. Just move the pawn so you can move the king out and sit there and soak everything up.

Commento di Morbius

The strategy for soloing this is to move the two daemons at the corners of the board towards the center next to Blackhand.

First move the grunt in front of Blackhand forward so you have a space to move to in case Medivh cheats.

Next, move the two grunts to Blackhand's immediate left forward one square. This allows you to move the daemon on the left towards the center.

Then move the three grunts that are in front of and to the right of the warlock forward one square. Move the right hand daemon towards the center.

Once the daemons are in place you can use their AE to kill any enemies.

Here's the video:
http://youtu.be/Jim7ArYzF2o

Commento di waalken

This video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-czGp55PIU) shows a very good strategy for a solo event. I followed it and it worked the first time. I would recommend using your "queen" to attack their "king" rather than controlling the king like many comments have stated.

And for those of you who could not figure out how to move other pieces, click the "cancel" button to leave the king after starting the event. There is a short cooldown before you can control another piece. Move to that piece then speak after the cooldown fades.

Commento di Thrope

Want to beat this around 3:30 or less, consistently, and NEVER LOSE? No luck necessary, it's all about timing & placement.

My ex has asked for help w/ the chess event, so I'll post this to refer to at her leisure, and for anyone else wishing to try it. Again, I have NEVER LOST w/ this strat, regardless of faction.

Do your best to right-click your "inside a chess piece" buff before the piece you're in starts moving so you can hop to the next piece as quickly as possible. Get in your king/warchief, hero, and right-click buff to exit.

1: Move pawns in front of each knight (wolf/charger) forward one space. If this space becomes blocked, move them diagonally outward, not toward the center of the board (you'll want your rooks there later).

2: Move pawn in front of your king/warchief forward one space, or diagonally in front of your queen (warlock/conjurer) if forward is blocked (again, don't block your rook w/ this pawn).

3: Move each rook (daemon/elemental) diagonally toward the center of the board TWO spaces. If your second space is blocked, just keep an eye on this rook and move it there when the enemy piece dies. If you've been slow and Medivh is about to cheat before you complete this step, move your king, then come back to this. If the enemy king is already next to one of your rooks by the time you can finish moving the other, don't bother moving the other.

4: Jump in your king/warchief. If you've been quick, Medivh is about to cheat right now. Move forward one space to get out of the fire.

5 (optional): Move pawn in front of your queen forward one space. This is to get your queen out of the fire if she (he) is in it, or to get in range of the enemy king. If your queen isn't in fire and the enemy king is already in range, you can skip this. Or do it anyway. It really doesn't matter.

6: Get in queen (warlock/conjurer). Target enemy king. Spam everything you've got. If king isn't in range, move forward one space. If king still isn't in range, or if you CAN'T move forward one space, target something else and pelt that. Queen and bishops (necrolytes/clerics) are excellent targets, or anything that's in the way of one of your rooks moving. Notice that the queen's abilities have different ranges. You may find that one reaches the king and the other doesn't. I have pelted a closer piece, targeting the king each time my other attack came off cooldown, until the king moved in range.

If at any time your queen dies: Getting your rooks in place becomes top priority. Second priority is moving out any knight (wolf/charger) w/ a clear path to the king. Try to attack him from behind or sides, outside his cleave. Finally, jump in a bishop (necrolyte/cleric) and heal your king if he needs it, hurt the enemy when he doesn't or when heal is on cooldown (you'll have time for 3 attacks during heal's cooldown).

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS move your king out of the fire. The game should be over before Medivh cheats a 3rd time (which is usually the 2nd fire) but if you're still getting the hang of the chess event, or if that enemy king is being ornery, your game may go long. I've also seen Medivh cast fire twice in a row (i.e. for his 2nd cheat) but very VERY rarely.

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Commento di 264396

Since speed is key to solo this event, and since using the keyboard is usually faster than mouse clicking, i made this little macro for entering and exiting the pieces:

/script SelectGossipOption(1)
/script AcceptQuest()
/cancelaura Control Piece

Put all 3 lines in one macro and move it to an actionbar with a key binding (or set up a key binding). Actionbar 1 with the 1-9 keys can't be used since those are in use by the pieces, but any other actionbar and key can be used.

If you are currently not controlling a piece, you can right click a piece and press the macro button to take control of it.
If you are currently controlling a piece, you can press the macro button to stop controlling it.

Commento di Iceveiled

Here's my story from trying to solo the chess event twice at level 90. Written 8/4/2014

About a month ago I found myself soloing all the BC dungeon and raid content just for kicks and transmog gear.

First time I tried to clear the chess event I failed 2-3 times, when I noticed that the doors to progress further up Kara had opened. Okay..great! I just assumed that maybe the door opens after you fail a couple times, or perhaps the encounter got bugged.

Flash forward to today. I went back to Kara for a shot at the mount and to finally max out my rep with The Violet Eye. I got to the chess event and gave it my all four times, all the while waiting for the door to open. It remained shut. I tried again and lost. Finally I said "eff it" and started the encounter and decided to just let things play out without me. I went and did some other things for 10 minutes, came back, and sure enough I'd won. I looted the chest and continued on.

I'm sure I got lucky, but hey, the point is you can start the encounter and walk away and do something else or read a book and you just might win. Even if it takes a few tries, you can actually just let the game run it and go do something productive.

Commento di Vaanlan

As of 23/10/14 the Chess Event AI seems to be far more aggressive about healing the King piece.

Commento di 259710

I have soloed the chess event 3 times today (12 90's). I read the comment where the healers were way overpowered. Well as it turn out so are our healers here. Just get the pawn out of the way of your king first, Move a rook around a couple of moves to give time for the other teams guys to spread a little then jump on your king and cleave the crap out of the other team. Make your way to the healers, do not focus on the other teams king until you wipe out most the other side. You cleave the 2 ppl in front of you and 1 on each side of you. Your healers will keep you up so don't worry! So easy. hope this helps. :)

Commento di 631107

Good news/bad news, Good news is that your healers (the "Bishop" peices) now work a lot better.

The bad news is that works for both sides.

Bascialy you need to do the "clasic" starting moves, (pawn in front of king moves forward one to clear space for the king to move, then clear the pawn from at least one of your rooks, and then move your rooks out so they have a decent feild of fire) but your going to be getting back on your king and trying to move him around to sweep as many of the other peices up as you can.

Its going to take you a bit to get the hang of moveing him around but he has a decent sweep attack that hits multiple squares in to your front, and you need to figure out how to keep an eye on the overall board. Generaly if you get the other sides 2 healers down before they can kill yours things go downhill from for the other side fairly quickly

Granted its kind of odd that it took me longer to play one chess match than it did to actualy run the rest of the dungeon, including punching the poney.

Commento di timichal

Soloed easily (at 100, in case that matters):
1. Move the pawn in front of your king
2. Use the king to kill the enemy healers (i.e. bishops) while avoiding fire
3. Kill the enemy king while still avoiding fire

If you remember not to stand in the fire, you'll be pretty much invincible as your healers will keep healing you. Enjoy the win!

Commento di 666359

First move ur right pawn in front of ur right knight, than move the right rook to the place where the pawn stayed before. now after this repeat the same thing in the left side as well. Now use the queen aka warlock and kill some pawns who are all ready near ur pieces. the enemy bishops will move forward as well. kill the bishops first if u reach em. the rest will be a piece of cake. I do this event weekly and always goes down for first

Commento di Kalorr

Soloed it for the first time (and actually did it for the first time) and i didn't knew how i was supposed to move and use abilities until late in the game when I realized i had an action bar (felt really stupid). I won anyway because Medivh was suiciding his pieces. So I guess not moving my pieces and waiting for the enemy works well.

Commento di GaidinBDJ

Another valid solo strategy is to simply heal through most of it. Hop on one of the bishops, heal a unit that needs it (check your king first, then queen, then healers, then units actively engaging enemies), then jump to the other bishop, rinse, and repeat. It may be worth it to jump out your knights first and move both your rooks in to take advantage of their AOE (and make sure they're facing forward so they can engage)

Even if the RNGods are not being nice with the cheats, if you keep both your healers up you'll be able to just heal through the damage.

Once the board is mostly cleared, you can take out your queen and hunt down the enemy king as necessary.

It's a much longer fight than actively engaging but it works about 75% of the time.

If you can recruit a second and each take a bishop, it's cake.

Commento di Jufeng

Hop in king to start but immediately leave, move both knights forward and inwards (so that they're in the same row as the bishops). Grab the rooks and move em to the spaces the knights were occupying, and face them forward. Then float between the 2 bishops healing through the enemy assault and cheats. After a while the enemy numbers will diminish, and usually the king will move forward to attack. Snipe his bishops with anything you can and then beat on the enemy king with your queen. Good luck, and hope this helps.

Commento di phreakwithanf

If you really have a dire need to get this done, do it on alliance. It is soooooo much easier on alliance than it is on horde. For some reason, I am able to fly right through it on alliance on the first try. I spend time after time doing it on horde and have my butt handed to me every time. It's ridiculous.

Commento di ketzerei84

Credit to derpomatic for the initial post in 5.3.0 this was based off of, or plagiarized from, whichever you prefer. It's the same strat with a single change and works just fine with the proper change made.

How to solo the Chess Event in Karazhan:
1. Speak to your King/Chief to start the event and buff your troops (Press 4) before stopping control of the gamepiece. Note: there is a debuff every time you leave a piece that forces you to wait a few seconds before jumping onto the next one. Watch for this and wait until its up or you will be clicking in vain!

2. Move the Pawns in front of the Knights one space forward (Press 1). Move the Rooks (elementals/demons at the outer edges of the board) diagonally where the pawns used to be. This brings their AoE within range of the main battle area in the middle.

3. Move the Pawns in front of the King and Queen pieces so that when Medivh cheats, you can move your King out of the fire. Note: always move him unless the enemy King is almost dead.

4. Jump on the Queen piece and melt the enemy Clerics' faces (Press 3) until the match is over. If they aren't within range right away, don't worry they'll come to you soon enough. Typically, you will move your own King out of the fire once and the rest of the time you'll be spamming the single target spell until Blackhand solos Llane.

Commento di Muszkax

I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, but pet classes (Hunter, Lock, etc) might run into the issue, if they don't have an active pet. Just tried it on a hunter, and the game forgets clearing the debuff from piece after the player exits it, thus still considering his pet. The problem is that it cannot be entered again.
The simple solution is that the player should have an active pet for the duration of this fight.

Commento di mymy379

If your king's health is dropping, I found out that using your bishop's healing ability (which is quite powerful) is immensely helpful. Moreover, if both your bishops are alive, you can use it non-stop: use on bishop 1, wait 10sec, switch to bishop 2, wait 10s, switch back to bishop 1 and repeat.

That, in addition to the usual 'move 2 king/queen pawns 1 square ahead, optionally move other non-pawn pieces', does the trick.

Edit: in fact, moving a few pieces, and just using the bishop(s) to heal your army might be the laziest (and possibly easiest) way to defeat the chess event.

Commento di adjensen

Somewhere along the lines, this quest became optional, at least as far as getting to Prince Malchezaar -- I tried (and failed) to play the chess game a couple of time tonight and then noticed that there was nothing blocking the stairs. Ran up and killed him straight away (without getting the pet drop, of course, lol.)

Commento di Plasmaxyz

Seems like patch 7.2.5 broke the chess event. When you leave one of the players by dismissing it, it just fades away and is gone completely. It doesn't appear on the side as it would if it was defeated. So upon leaving the king he was no longer on the board. The event is still doable (barely) if you just stay in your queen and shoot down what you can while focusing the enemy healers and eventually their king while running away from everything else. Took about 8 minutes to do.

Commento di darthgummibear

Still broken. Went to swap out of the king for the healer like I always do and the king just straight up disappeared. The other side still has like 3 pieces left, all mine are gone, and the fight won't end because the king isn't there to die. Fix your damn game blizzard...this is ridiculous.

Commento di Vampyrr

Work around for the disappearing pieces bug, do NOT right click portrait and click dismiss pet. This for whatever reason causes the bug; instead right click the control piece buff (it is a purple square icon). Doing this kicks you out of the piece without it despawning. After I beat the event I was stuck silenced for about 2m before it went away.

Commento di Beace

Over the years I've tried a bunch of different tactics posted here, but I always come back to my prefered one. In my opinion, the Rooks (demon and water elemental) are the best ones to use because of their superior aoe dps. Here's what I do:

1) Talk to King to start encounter. Jump out.
2) Move the Pawn in front of the king one step, so that you have space to move the King in the future if needed.
3) Move one of the Pawns in front of the Rook.
4) Get into a Rook. Move out the board and start killing stuff with your superior aoe. Move to the side and behind enemies, to minimize damage taken. Ignore your defensive ability.
5) If or when your first Rook dies, get into the second one and keep killing stuff.

Usually the fight finishes with me in the second Rook, with the enemy King being one of the last pieces up. I think this is one of the safest and reliable ways to do the encounter, and you're not really giving up much (if any) speed.

Edit: Cleaned up a bit and corrected names.

Commento di rowlett1276

DISAPPEARING PIECES

I came looking for a solution and found a lot of people having the same issue I'm having. However, nobody has provided a solution and many think it's broke on Blizzard's end, Well I'm here to tell you it's not on Blizzard's end it's on your end. I've been soloing the chess event for years now using the strategy provided below (rarely fails as alliance maybe 1% fail rate/not sure about horde) without any issues and now in Legion it seems to be buggy. But as I said it's on the use end not Blizzard's.

First run: all add-ons: my only option to exit a piece was to right-click on pet frame and select dismiss piece. End result: Piece exited disappears creating a everlasting game.
Second run: Add-on free: the above option was still available. However, with Blizzard's UI, you get two extra buttons that appear above the left side of the button bars (Control Piece and Cancel).
Cancel will allow you to exit the piece without the piece disappearing. Soloed the event without issue.
Third run: all add-ons except dominos (which ever Action Button Bar mod you use): same results as Second run.

Simplified: Disable your Action Button Bar mod before starting the event. DO NOT dismiss the piece from the pet frame. USE the CANCEL button provided in Blizzard's Standard UI to exit pieces. Use the start of your choice to win. Get loot and move on to Prince Malcezaar because let's be honest if you didn't want to kill Prince Malchezaar you wouldn't be here looking for a way past this silliness.

Additionally, and this is really the hard part. Exercise patience after you defeat the enemy King and let the game remove you from your piece (takes about 30-45 seconds) after thethe enemy King is defeated. I did notice occassionally when I removed myself after victory that the pacification debuff (Game In Session) did not fall off after the event

And finally the start I use slightly modified: courtesy of derpomatic
King - King Laine (A) / Warchief Blackhand (H), Queen - Conjurer (A) / Warlock (H), Pawns - Footman (A) / Grunt (H), Knights - Chargers (A) / Wolves (H), Rooks - Elementals (A) / Daemons (H)

Step 1: Activate King, start event, buff friendlies (Press 4), exit game piece.
Step 2: Activate Pawns in front of King, move one space forward (press 1), exit game piece. (Give you a spot to move your king when Medivh uses fire cheat)
Step 3: Activate Pawns in front of the Knights, move one space forward (press 1), exit game piece.
Step 4: Activate Rooks, move to empty space in front of Knights (press 1), exit game piece. (This allows their AoE to hit middle of the board)
Step 5: Activate Pawns in front of Queen, move one space forward (press 1), exit game piece.
Step 6: Activate Queen, target enemy King and spam your attack (press 3) until fight is over.
Move the King out of Fire if it happens and resume the process. Fire cheat usually only happens once but can happen multiple times.

Commento di sabre16

For anyone struggling with the 8.0.1 patch, i found moving the king pawn first and then just sitting in the queen piece spamming attacks on anything approaching until the opposite king came near enough to attack worked. Move your king out of the fire when needed.

The balance is currently out of whack and i found the usual strategy of moving rooks into position took too long and the other team tore through my center and downed the king quick. Queen piece can dps the enemy quick enough to prevent this.

Commento di Zapers

The way I do the Chess event after Bfa launch is:

1. Select your king
2. Move/rush him 2 steps forward (in front of the footman)
3. Push 4th ability for ally Damage buff.
4. Now just spam the 3rd ability for cleave. (make sure to keep him facing the enemy king with the 2nd ability)
5. Repeat step 3 and 4 to keep the buff up.

The Cleric's/healers will keep the king's health up.
Stand still and let the enemy chess pieces come to you.
If Medivh decides to cheat and place fire under your king move him, one step to either left or right (out of the fire)

I find this method very easy, as you only have to stand still and spam 2 abilities.

Commento di layllaa

My issues with this fight is that I can't leave piece I got into. Only option is to dismiss, which we all know will ruin the game.

My exit button does not work + leave vehicle button is not appearing, even tho it's on.

I will try to disable addons and see.

annoying AF

Commento di mudplayerx

- There is a short cooldown after releasing a piece before you can control another one

1. Move pawns in front of king and "queen" forward one space.
2. Use Warlocks to heal units.
3. Keep king out of danger and use Lust when you have time
4. Win

Commento di PenuryPen

Is anyone else having an issue where this isn't becoming interactable after defeating the enemy King? I've only tried it with two Horde characters (both allied races so maybe has something to do with it?).

Edit: Ok, tried it with an Orc Warrior, still no dice. Might try Alliance later.

Commento di Elynwen

Been running Karazhan for a few weeks now, and every time I'm unsuccessful in looting the chest after finishing the chess game. It seems that regardless of what you do (stay in a piece or leave the one you're in before the enemy king dies) you'll never receive loot. I've submitted tickets to Blizzard but received no response so far.

Commento di GalacticaCS

The chest is still bugged.
The only way to get the loot is through Blizzard's Support Ticket at .
Fill out when you ran Karazahn and after approx. 3 day , you get your loot through mail.

Commento di Beace

Just for reference: The bugged chest was hotfixed a couple of weeks ago.

Commento di alpanhell

I'm recently doing this for the Hivemind mount. I'm probably on my 10th try and I realize that most of the stuff here is completely out of touch with the latest changes. So I thought I'd add some more organized information.

A while back Blizz made this soloable so you didn't have to have multiple players controlling the pieces. Because they're Blizzard they did an extremely lazy and bad job of it. You'd think you'd have to understand all about chess and the pieces, etc. But really not because, like all everything else in this game, this is based 100% on RNG. And because Blizz bases the entire game on RNG yet somehow manages to be terrible at it, the RNG won't make any sense so just get ready to potentially lose a lot (or maybe you're lucky).

You start the game by talking to and mounting your factions King. Like chess, you lose your King and you lose the game.

The way this works when solo'ing is you have to press the X key to leave the piece your mounted on to move to another. For some unknown and incredibly stupid reason when you leave a piece you don't just go beside the piece you go up on the balcony so you have to run to a new piece. And again, for some incredibly stupid reason, rather than wait for you to make your move the "AI" (and believe me there's not much AI about it) will make moves. So when you get to the new piece you want to move, you will have to wait until it lets you mount that piece to move it because it's making moves based on RNG (because again Blizz is incredibly lazy and making intelligent moves would have been hard).

While you're doing all this Medivh has two cheats that he can do (again he decides when to use these using RNG). He can put fire under a large section of the board, this will leave behind fire on a few chess pieces. Many times this piece that gets fire under them tends to be your King, so if you get fire under him move him as quickly as possible (which again is never very quick because the AI is making bad moves for you all during this time).

The other Medivh cheat is he will randomly buff a few of the players. If you're king is by one of these players he's likely as good as dead. So try and move him away if it's possible

A few random pointers, unfortunately I can't really give a guide because this is all RNG and nothing will work all the time.

1) Your first move should be to move the pawn in front of your King so your king has a space to move in case Medivh puts fire under him.
2) Bishops on both sides do the healing. Unfortunately the bad RNG/AI doesn't heal your pieces very well, but it seems to do a pretty good job on the other side. So try and kill their Bishops and jump on your healers every once in awhile to heal your King or Queen.
3) The fire can hurt the opposing side too I guess, so you can manipulate their side into it.
4) The longer you take to win the more you seem to run into Medivh cheats. Again they're all RNG based.
5) The King will sometimes just run right up to your side, attack him
6) Weirdly it matters which way you are facing as to what you're attacking (and I assume defending) against. So be sure to face your pieces the right way.
7) Your king has a bloodlust, but weirdly (and again bad development) he doesn't seem to use it much. I've tried just staying on him and spamming bloodlust.
8) Your Queen has a long range attack that you can use to kill the Bishops, but it's not real powerful. But you can try spamming its attack and killing anything that comes close.
9) Because the extremely bad way this is all designed you really can't do a lot. You can't jump around on many pieces because every time you leave a piece you have to run to the other one and wait till it lets you on it. So I found myself always just playing one or two pieces. Usually the King, Queen or bishop for healing. And of course pawns to just move them out of the way.
10) I believe the debuff you have to wait until it goes away before being able to mount another piece is: Recentemente In Partita

The fact on my 10th+ plus try should tell you how much all of this works. Maybe you'll get lucky and get it the first time, but I doubt you'd be here if that was true :) good luck

Note: When I finally won it was because the King came over on my side all by himself, right into where he was surrounded by a bunch of my pieces. And due to stupidity and bad RNG he never got healed once by his Bishop's and no Medivh cheat happened. Stupid really.

Commento di czarlol

Was doing this for hivemind mount, fight's basically a guaranteed win. Just move your king around avoiding fire and buffed minions and he'll be fine. Random tips:

Jump in king to start fight
Right click your "Control minion" buff to un-mount a piece, might want to move a pawn in front of the King in the beginning.
Takes a few seconds for an AI-controlled minion to end their turn so just keep clicking them until the control option appears in their dialogue.
(ally) Spam King Llane's cleave when you get in range of anything

Medivh's chambers are to the left when you exit.

Commento di Wizardling

Is there no way to swap control of units when soloing? Nothing worked like the videos I watched which had players running around selecting units to control. I was stuck with only the one unit - the Warchief, who was then trapped behind a pawn for most of the event. So bad.

Commento di Blueyan

For anyone like me who doesn't understand chess and struggled with this to start, I seem to have found a way that works every time and seems quite fast (alliance version but should work with Horde equivalents

- Do not move any pieces and just focus on keeping the King and the two healers (priests) alive and keeping heroism going.
- Start with king and hit heroism a few times until horde pieces get in range to damage yours.
- Jump off king and control priest - use heal on either king or either of two priests as necessary. If none need a heal, use offensive spell on a horde piece.
- Jump off priest and go back to king and repeat both steps above until game is won.

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