Pit Commander

Pit Commander
Race	Annihilan (Demon)
Level	Retail: 10-30 Classic: 72
Resource	Mana
Reaction	Alliance Horde
Affiliation(s)	Burning Legion
Occupation	Commander
Location	Stair of Destiny, Hellfire Peninsula
Status	Killable

The Pit Commander is an annihilan commanding the Burning Legion force at the Stair of Destiny in Hellfire Peninsula.

Abilities

•  Cleave — Inflicts weapon damage plus 500 to an enemy and its nearest allies, affecting up to 10 targets.
•  Rain of Fire — Calls down a molten rain, burning all enemies in a selected area for Fire damage every 3 sec. for 9 sec.
•  Summon Infernals

Strategy

Remember that the Pit Commander is there "for show", like everything else on the stair, and was not intended to give players any reward for killing him. However, he can be attacked and killed, though he leaves no corpse and is therefore not lootable, nor is any quest or achievement satisfied by his death. His abilities include summon Infernal Siegebreakers and an abnormally (and likely intentionally) powerful [Rain of Fire], and stepping on players will cause them to take damage, as well. To be clear, his Rain of Fire will hit a level 80 plate class wearing tanking gear for about 60000 damage.

Pulling the Pit Commander onto the Stair will cause the Alliance and Horde soldiers to attack him, but only if they are not in combat with other demons. It is a solid strategy to aggro him from as far as possible, then run to the Stair, while no other mobs are present, and the Alliance and Horde soldiers will take him down in a matter of seconds. Note that he will not lose aggro on you unless he steps into an Alliance/Horde NPC's AoE attack, so if leading him to one is not possible, run to the Dark Portal or dump aggro in whatever way is possible.

When killed, the Pit Commander will respawn between Hellfire Citadel and the Dark Portal, then walk up the Path of Glory and return to the Stair of Destiny.

Trivia

• The Pit Commander makes a brief cameo appearance in the humorous video News From Outland: Crisis at Da Portal!, in which he commands the "Marauding Agents of Evil" consisting of Infernal Siegebreakers, Fel Soldiers, and Wrath Masters.
• The Pit Commander appear as an epic card for the demon hunter class in the Ashes of Outland expansion for Hearthstone. The flavor text reads: "Pit! Do as I say!"

Gallery

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  The Pit Commander sending waves of felguards in News From Outland: Crisis at Da Portal!.

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  A Pit Commander in Hearthstone.

Patch changes

• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Model updated.
  
• Patch 2.0.3 (2007-01-09): Added.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB