Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

A series of crippling bugs on this encounter denied my group the ability to complete it, despite an otherwise successful run:

1) We never dropped out of combat, and our level 56 Priest barely managed to keep us alive.

2) I'm not 100% sure on this, but I believe a second Dragonkin Elite did not spawn once we doused the second flame.

3) When I went to douse the third flame (I stood close to the wall to avoid aggro from the centre), the flame did not go out, and my Blood disappeared. The same thing happened to our tank. We were left with two lit flames, no Bloods, and no way to get more, as we had killed all of the Elites.

4) With no choice but to reset, we did, and the encounter never started again after I used my Egg.

I put in a GM ticket, but after 45+ minutes of waiting, my party disbanded. I logged out with it still open, and I'm going to sleep.

i can confirm bugged state of Avatar of Hakkar, it happens very often
i went 2 times to ST and both times this event was bugged, definitely need investigation and fix

I got a mail reply to my ticket, which didn't even address the issue. It more or less read, "Avatar and Baron are only one-time deals." We only wiped because of a bug with the encounter. If we'd been able to douse the flames, we'd have likely had no problem with phase 2. Ugh.

I have successfully completed this encounter twice. Here is how it was done:

1) Stay along the walls so as not to aggro too many snakes, which will also help you get out of combat during the event.

2) Have one player douse all the flames. Turn looting to FFA for the duration to help. If multiple players try to douse the flames, problems happen.

3) More than 4 elite serpents will spawn, you just need to wait. My party had five bloods drop both times I did it.

4) I only noticed two of the elite dragonkin to spawn, who re-light the flames, though there should be more, ie one for each serpent or perhaps one for two serpents. Are you sure you didn't have problems with them?

Hope that helps.

Thanks for your reply. Here's what we did regarding your points.

1) We fought at one of the doors, then moved along the walls.

2) When the tank and I used our bloods, they were one after the other. With two flames down, I used mine on the third. It bugged out, and the flame stayed lit while consuming my blood. No other elites spawned at all. The tank tried to use his after mine bugged, and his bugged, too.

3) I only saw 4 elite serpents and one dragonkin. We killed the dragonkin immediately, so he had no chance to re-light the flames.

Encountered it today 4/28/15 We were doing the strat to be in the corner and we were doing fine till everything despawned and the gates went up. Could not resummon

We just completed it after many unsuccessful tries. Here what we did:
1) we moved from corner to corner hugging the walls
2) after dousing a flame we pulled the surpressor wich spawns at either door (yes that means it might spawn at the door opposite to where your group is, you need to pull him)
3) we killed the bigg serpent looted the blood, moved on to the next corner.

This will leave a ton of cobras roaming about, so hug the walls and do not agro those unless necessary