Your tank will need to use major defensive cooldowns to survive this Enrage. break down how to best approach this fight and the tactics needed to achieve If needed ask paladin or shaman in group to put up fire resist aura or fire resist totem. Ideally, only use it on your ranged DPS groups, as your melee DPS have a low uptime, and save at least 1-2 Heroism / Bloodlust for Phase 3 if possible. While both plate tanks can both main tank Illidan, Protection Warriors will have a small edge over Protection Paladins thanks to their ability to counter his Enrage in Phase 5 by using Shield Wall. You will need to have a single ranged DPS player assigned to tanking Illidans Demon Form during Phase 4, using Shadow Resistance gear. Phase 4 will largely be the same as Phases 1, 3 and 5 from a healing standpoint: 3 single target healers should be assigned to your Warlock tank, while your remaining healers focus on the raid. It is separate roll from the resistance score roll. Throughout the fight there are random damage-over-time debuffs being placed This phase is the most difficult of the whole encounter, therefore all DPS enhancing cooldowns (Heroism/Bloodlust etc.) Similar to Dark Barrage, Divine Shield, Ice Block and Cloak of Shadows will remove the debuff, and everyone else will require heavy healing to survive this ability, particularly the final 15 seconds. Therefore only experienced raids should use the traps to speed up the encounter. As Illidan uses Eye Blast every 40 seconds and the flames persist for up to 75 seconds, there will be periods of time where theres multiple patterns of flames up at once if both sides have a trail of Demon Fire, your melee DPS should stack up on south side of the grate, away from other groups. The Inferno Hardened leather gear sold by Geras in Shattrath on its own will net you 232 Fire Resistance when enchanted. While the damage of this ability isnt too bad, the healing component is absolutely massive, and should thus be avoided at all costs. Health After 60 seconds (three Flame Bursts), he kneels down again and turns back into a Night Elf, starting another Phase 3. Illidan spams it throughout Phase 2. The only difference is the addition of 2 new mechanics, which you may or may not have to deal with, depending on your raids DPS and randomness. Arcane is the most powerful Mage specialization in TBC, and brings exceptional raw damage output along with some decent raid buffs that make Mages quite strong. Location Typically a Illidan Stormrage Strategy Guide (Black Temple), Enchant Cloak Greater Shadow Resistance. The fight will Illidan is immune to all attacks while flying. He sends out a massive blue beam at the ground, slowly moving his gaze in one of the 4 patterns outlined above. What is the magic number? If you have 1 of each, it is recommended that you have the Protection Paladin pick up Fire Resistance gear while the Protection Warriormain tanks Illidan, as their strong defensive cooldowns give them a Positioning becomes a bit easier by using the /range 5 command on raid boss addons like DBM. At the start of Phase Two, Illidan throws his warglaives My He will kill any tank attempting to tank him normally in 1 hit. Illidans pull is one of the most straightforward pulls in the game. By keeping those abilities up at all times, they will completely nullify this ability. In addition to your melee abilities, it improves your chance to land Taunt and Challenging Shout. Blizzard This is a 10-yard AoE on a random target. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. range away from the boss and avoid standing near any other players as Illidan's Phase Five starts when Illidan reaches 30%. use any instant-cast heals on them. Uncaged Wrath, wiping the raid. threat. Melee DPS will want to spread out into multiple groups behind the boss Unlike Feral Druids, plate tanks dont have a reason to avoid using a Fire Resistance item in the Head slot, so they can instead use the Flamebane Helm enchanted with Glyph of Fire Warding, which is very efficient. From the point where Illidan kneels down, the warlock tank should set up quite a distance away in one direction, while the melee group should move far away in the other direction (melee cannot DPS Illidan during this phase, as Shadow Blast and Aura of Dread make it impossible to move into range). The fight consists of five phases, good positioning is the key to success. pick the boss up and establish aggro before starting to DPS. The Flame of Azzinoth sends out a wave of flames in a cone front of it which travels up to 15 yards, dealing 7000 to 9000 Fire damage to all players in front of it. The transition to phase 5 should always happen during a Phase 3, because the raid is positioned correctly. Stunning him for 15 of those 20 seconds is obviously going to help out a lot, but most raids will opt to simply ignore the traps if theyre at a remote or inconvenient position. Probably would only need fire resist aura or totem. About 80 seconds into the phase and every 40 seconds thereafter, Illidan puts a Dark Barrage on a random raid member. Eye Beam has only four possible paths, each intersects one of the Blades and tangentially touches the inner circle (either north or south). Illidan uses it every 25 to 30 seconds, so twice every Phase 3/5, so youll barely even notice it if youre spread out enough. When the trap expires, a transition to Phase 4 starts immediately. Maiev Shadowsong joins the fight to help the raid defeat Illidan. Draw Soul Deals 8100 to 9900 Shadow damage to any targets in front of the caster, healing for a portion of the damage dealt. Title(s) Both tanks and melee need to be aware and avoid the Eye Blasts Best Servers on Vanilla WoW (Classic Era) for a New/Returning Player, EU Blue Post: Wrath of the Lich King Classic Hotfixes - Updated 1 March, US Blue Post: Wrath of the Lich King Classic Hotfixes - Updated March 1. Classic WoW is my jam, with a passion for PvP. phase as Aura of Dread will quickly kill anyone in melee range of the Everything else will work in the exact same way: your tank deals with Shear, Flame Crash and Draw Soul, while players afflicted by Parasitic Shadowfiend run to your melee DPS, to have them killed instantly. Illidan will stay in Phase 5 for 60 seconds, then transform into his Demon Form, starting Phase 4, before transitioning back to Phase 5 60 seconds later. This fight can last Note that Illidan is a demon, so anti-demon items, such as Mark of the Champion and Elixir of Demonslaying will be super effective against him. When Illidan is at 30% health or below, the raid gets imprisoned for 30 seconds and a small cut-scene takes place, and the fight continues with Phase 5. tutorial on everything you need to know to be prepared for this foe. Additionally, Maiev Shadowsong enters the battle. After a 1.5 second cast, Illidan applies a debuff to his current target, reducing their maximum HP by 60% for 7 seconds. Have your Shadow Resistance tank stay at max range away from the boss and Illidan will swap from phase three to phase four. The two off-tanks each pick up one of the flames. Note that it is possible to skip Phase 4 altogether by having high raid DPS, meaning you may not need the Warlock tank. Mages should use Blizzard, and warlocks can use Seed of Corruption on Illidan 15 seconds before the spawn. Simply find the trap that has been dropped by Your ranged DPS & healers will need to split up into 3 groups of 5-6 people and stack up on top of each other in the north, west and east ends of the grate. Main tank (Warrior) requires no If you have 1 of each, it is recommended that you have the Protection Paladin pick up Fire Resistance gear while the Protection Warrior main tanks Illidan, as their strong defensive cooldowns give them a small edge there. The main tank should make sure they have 101.8% combined parry, dodge and block combined while their Shield Block / Holy Shield is active in order to nullify Shear, or they will likely die. Once Illidan reaches 65% HP, Phase 1 ends and Phase 2 begins. Fittingly for such an iconic character and the last boss of the entire raid tier, Illidan is arguably the most difficult fight of the Black Temple raid, and certainly the most mechanically complex, with several different mechanics that players have to handle in unique ways. Each tank must keep his Flame faced away from the raid at all times, while at the same time staying close enough to the Blades of Azzinoth. Tanking. available on these if they get too close to any raid members. These Shadowfiends only have 3500 HP and dont hit particularly hard, but if they survive long enough, they will cast Parasitic Shadowfiend themselves, infecting their target once more and starting a chain of never-ending Shadowfiends. of the fire patches left on the ground. Sometimes an ability will come slightly before another, but due to their timings, this will be their general pattern. Two times per Phase 5 cycle she semi-randomly places a special demon trap on the ground that can be used against Illidan. Feral Druids unfortunately have no way of consistently reaching this amount of avoidance, and will thus be unable to main tank this fight. This debuff can stack up 99 times, making it extremely obvious that nobody should be near Illidan. Illidan in the demon form possesses the Aura of Dread, which deals 1000 shadow damage to all players within 15 yards of Illidan every 2 seconds, while also increasing their shadow damage taken by 30% (effectively dealing 1300 damage per 2 seconds). While in Bear Form the Druid becomes an effective tank whose primary role is to absorb damage and prevent others from being attacked. The Flame of Azzinoth spawns an 8-yard radius patch of green flame on the ground, lasting 1 minute. 30 badges. At 65% HP, Illidan will fly up Comment by Cicero Currently there is a bug with these mobs where if someone resurrects you or you resurrect yourself in some way (ankh, soulstone) during phase 2, one of the Flames will charge you. Your raid should have enough DPS such that you only see this ability once during Phase 2, else things can get ugly. Congratulations on besting Illidan! Hit Rating improves your chance to land most of your abilities. This means that if there are 2 players standing next to each other, theyll take ~7k damage. defeated. wrong side. Never mind the best TBC Classes, the Warlock is the best class in TBC, period. Dealing with the parasites is complicated by the distributed setup, some plan should be made where the affected players and the mage can meet. phases have very high healing requirements. The tank needs to drag Illidan towards the trap, click to activate it, and position Illidan on top of it. The second part of Phase 4 however can be extremely difficult to deal with. Illidan kneels down and casts The Demon Within, turning him into a Demon. When below 30%, he switches between Phases 5 and 4. - Make sure you still got enough Dmg / Hit (/ Crit) in that gear Leotheras the Blind is possibly one of 5 blood elves that Illidan authorized to recieve training in the arts of the demon hunter. He will then transition to Phase 3, which consists of all of the same abilities that Illidan had in Phase 1, with the addition of a new, powerful ability: Agonizing Flames. Players finally have the chance to fight the Betrayer upon reaching the Temple Summit, the final section of the Black Temple raid, accessible only after defeating the Illidari Council. One player should constantly keep an eye on Illidan and announce whether he's flying over the east or west side (so that the tank on that side can move away from the two possible Eye Beam traces). Wait for this tank to As a few of the phases are very similar and use the Having high raid DPS will allow your raid to skip Phase 4, making this fight significantly easier, so really, no excuse not to. Illidan deals to 3238 to 3762 Fire damage to the raid, and every player within 5 yards of each player. Any combat rezzes should be performed at this point. Fasc-atiesh June 3, 2021, 2:52pm Demon-form Leotheras, the Mage advisor on All raid members should set up well distributed, at least 6 yards away from each other, to avoid extra damage from Flame Burst. After 60 seconds of Phase 3 or 5, Illidan will fall down on the floor for 10 seconds, before turning into his Demon Form. Keep the debuffs from Mortal Strike, Wound Poison and Aimed Shot up to reduce the amount of healing Illidan receives. It will be a good idea to have a player assigned to keeping up a healing reduction effect (Mortal Strike / Wound Poison / Aimed Shot, with Mortal Strike being the best option if your raid has an Arms Warrior) on Illidan at all times, reducing the amount of healing he receives from Draw Soul significantly. Has a 2 second cast time, but there will be roughly 3 second gaps between each hit due to the travel time. Illidan will transition to phase 2 once he reaches 65% HP. If it doesnt look like youre going to skip Phase 4, your Warlock tank should move to their designated position and start spamming Searing Pain on Illidan for threat. Web* The Incan civil war, between brothers [[{{Authority Equals Asskicking}} Atahualpa]] and [[{{Properly Paranoid}} Huscar]], between 1529 and 1532, is this trope to the core. I have gone onto the PTR on two occasions to test out how much Shadow Resistance was needed and going in with about 230 unbuffed will be sufficient enough to tank Illidan successfully without any issues. Season of Mastery Realms Permanently Closing! The Flame tanks need two healers each, the remaining 4-5 healers heal the raid. at the top of the Black Temple. Demon Form back to his normal form/Phase 3. Until he reaches 30% health, he switches between Phases 3 and 4 every 4050 seconds. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Someone once said that you cant go home again. 2009-02-23, 08:13 PM #7. monkeyfoo. Shadow Prison for 30 seconds, then a short RP event will play where These effectively deal 50,000 damage to Illidan every time he uses Draw Soul, which will add up to a significant amount over the fights duration. Shadow Demons at his feet. Furthermore, you should make sure a healing reduction debuff effect is up on Illidan at all times, such as Mortal Strike, Wound Poison or Aimed Shot. Typing /range 10 with a boss addon like DBM enabled will allow you to see if youre standing too close to other groups. If you get him down to 30%, however, he will transition to Phase 5. Shear requires WebGetting 365 fire resist is nice but not exactly needed even if your elemental is not the first to die. Alliance Horde Your raid should assume the following positions in that time: Phase 3 is basically Phase 1 with the addition of just one new ability, Agonizing Flames, a powerful DoT that gets applied to every player within 5 yards of Illidans randomly picked target. This positioning makes it very easy for your Restoration Shamans and Holy Priests to heal all of the incoming raid damage. While the overall strength of DPS Warriors is reduced from that of Classic WoW, with proper gear and group, a Fury Warrior remains one of the best AoE classes in the game, and arguably the strongest cleave DPS overall. Cast every 10 seconds, and is always paired with Blaze. Black Temple Spell pen and spell hit values Spell base damage Spell power Spell power coefficient Furthermore, a trail of blue Demon Fire will follow his eye beam, persisting for 75 seconds and dealing 2k Fire damage per second to anyone who touches them. Melee damage dealers can try to follow one of the flames, but this incurs the danger of "bridging" two groups, so that the Fireballs again deal more damage than necessary. Illidan jumps high in the air and comes crashing down, dealing 925 to 1075 Fire damage to every player within 10 yards of his original location, and then summoning a 10-yard radius patch of blue flame on the ground, lasting 2 minutes. throughout the entire fight. 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About every minute, Illidan Stormrage phase 2 requires 365 Fire Resist (cap) for tanking Flames of Azzinoth, this is a 4 tank fight (counting the Warlock), however. Generally, its believed that 4 resistance = 1% So up to the 30% mark (since that is the limit), it follows basic math: 10 resistance = 2.5% chance to resist 100 Illidan should not go below 30% during the demon phase, else Phase 5 starts immediately, which is bad because positioning is wrong. Lets see what the Boss dropped. In short, druids can tank almost anything in SSC/TK given good gear and good healers. Protection Warriors If he reaches 30% health, Phase 5 starts. If during Phase 2 you find yourself high on threat on one of the Druid Gift of the Wild Paladin Shadow Resistance Aura Priest Prayer of Shadow Protection 5. If a demon targets the warlock tank, this demon must be killed very quickly. When you get Illidan down to 30% HP, he will trap your entire raid in Shadow Prison, stunning all of you for 30 seconds. Therefore it is highly recommended that you dont use your Heroism / Bloodlust here. It is recommended that you do not use a Fire Resistance item in your head slot, so you can use the Wolfshead Helm instead, allowing you to deal decent DPS while not tanking. Inferno Tempered Chestguard: 54 stamina, 60 fire resistance. Fireball, while still being mindful of the warglaives' positions. He will stun the entire raid with Akama can and is triggering parry haste on Illidan. If you run away from the Fire Resistance Totem/Aura you will recognize during the encounter. can be dodged, parried, or blocked, but it cannot miss. It is crafted. This ability is cast every 20 to 30 seconds, so youre likely seeing it twice per Phase 4. So you only need 295 resist from gear and enchants to Deal with this traitor as he deserves! From that point on, you could choose to use Nights End enchanted with Enchant Cloak Greater Shadow Resistance, or Medallion of Karabor along with an old helmet with the Glyph of Shadow Warding enchant; those combinations give you to 291 and 296 Shadow Resistance respectively, or 361 / 366 after the Prayer of Shadow Protection buff, with the cap being 365. This mechanic is why players are ideally standing at their maximum range away from Illidan, forcing the demons to cover a larger distance before killing their target. Always up to date. If theres ever a fight to be prepared for, its this one it can last upwards of 10 minutes, with constantly high tank and raid damage, so theyll really need all the help they can get. This phase requires a ranged ANY raid member is more than 25 yards away from either Blade of Azzinoth, The only player affected should be the tank. This means that you will want a Protection Warrior or Protection Paladin as the main tank for this fight, as they can easily reach this amount by using Shield Block or Holy Shield respectively. You can find him in the the Make sure your Restoration Shamans are raid healing here. Lastly, about halfway through the phase, Illidan will summon multiple ?EliteTemple Summit, Black Temple, High Warlord Naj'entusSupremusShade of AkamaTeron GorefiendGurtogg BloodboilReliquary of SoulsMother ShahrazIllidari CouncilIllidan Stormrage, (lore)(lore)(lore)(lore)(lore)(lore)(lore)(lore)(lore). Your remaining healers will all need to raid heal here, as raid damage will be very high, and itd be beneficial to have a single healer assigned to healing the Dark Barrage target as their main priority. the Flame of Azzinoth will charge that player and trigger Almost every phase change comes with a threat reset, so be sure to allow the The Demo Warlock is fine early as it does decent damage through its pets. Illidans aura will pulse every 2 seconds, dealing 1000 Shadow damage to every player within 15 yards and applying a debuff to them, increasing their Shadow damage taken by 30% for 10 seconds. Illidan Stormrage is a longer fight with many WebA guide to the items you need to get your hands on to be fire resist capped in phase 3.https://seventyupgrades.com/set/ptdUDwqw5HcoRrxon7CMQW sure to keep the tank alive while they drag the boss into the trap, stunning 365 fire resistance (including buffs from paladin fire resist aura and flask) 490 defense minimum (no crits please) Fire Resistance Items Helm [item]Flamebane The blue flames deal significantly less damage than any fire AoE in this fight (your tanks will mitigate their damage to 500 Fire damage per second with their Fire Resistance) so your tanks can briefly move through them if necessary to reposition their Flame of Azzinoth. very high consistent shadow damage to his highest aggro target. these should be the number one priority for DPS players, as these will instantly You want 2 Tanks, 2-3 Healers and 5-6 DPS for each raid. ability must never hit you without blocking, or your max HP will be reduced by Illidan StormrageLevel: ? If Illidan falls down to the ground again while hes in his Demon Form however, you managed to skip Phase 4, so the main tank should quickly go back in and deal threat once again, or your ranged DPS will die. Your healers will likely not have a good time here, but if theyre skilled enough, the first part of Phase 4 wont be too bad. The shadow demons spawn is always followed closely by a Flame Burst, so players must wait for the burst before they move out of position to kill them. Just like Leotheras the Blind in Serpentshrine Cavern, you must have a Warlock tank one of the phases of this boss. 30 badges. Shear, Flame Crash and Draw Soul are all basically mechanics strictly for your main tank to deal with. Many guilds will choose to ignore the trap if its placed in a bad spot for this very reason, instead having the tank rely on defensive cooldowns exclusively to survive Illidans Enrage. The raid will want to AoE these down as 30 to 40 seconds into Phase 4, Illidan will summon 4 Shadow Demons, which will target a random player and stun them as they move towards them. accordingly. Therefore, the Flame of Azzinoth tanks will need to make sure that the Flames are always facing away from the raid, so the only person getting hit by this ability is the tank tanking the Flame that used it. stand out on the side of the raid, away from other members. victory in this final battle. into either 2 or 3 groups to avoid taking too much raid damage from This was no less than expected from a Difficult Level Instance Dungeon. Stack tightly on your assigned location, avoid fire patches on the ground, For this reason, your Fire Resistance tank will need to keep kiting them in a circular-ish pattern, as shown in the picture above. Illidan. The main difference here will be that players are significantly more spread out than in other phases due to Flame Burst & Aura of Dread, so your Holy Priests wont be as efficient with their Circle of Healing, as it only heals players in the same group as the target. The affected player and a mage should move away from the raid. of fire, and anyone debuffed by Parasitic Shadowfiend will run to the as these will instantly kill you while they are landing. Defense Rating Warriors require a total of 490 defense skill, which equates to roughly 332 defense rating, combined with our default 350 defense skill we should have at level 70. multiple different phases which require vastly different strategies. He cannot deal crushing blows as his This makes him significantly more dangerous, as your tank will now take a lot more damage, while your raid healers will need to heal a lot more, with Parasitic Shadowfiend and Agonizing Flames both dealing 50% more damage. 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