Auchenai Crypts Dungeon Guide

Before heading into Auchenai Crypts, we advise you to get all the dungeon quests related to it. To make this process easier, we have written a separate guide for the quests and their chains.

Conveniently, all dungeons in Terrokar Forest are located in one centralized location: Auchindoun. This structure can be easily found in the middle of the Bone Wastes.

To reach the bottom of this structure you will need to either fly down, take one of the passages found along the outside, or carefully jump from ledge to ledge. The summoning stone can be found in the very center of Auchindoun. Auchenai Crypts is the dungeon found on the western side of Auchindoun.

If your faction controls the spirit towers in Terokkar Forest, you will get Spirit Shards from each boss you kill inside this dungeon. These can be exchanged at the nearest town for various rewards.

Auchenai Crypts is very linear in its pathing, only offering the choice of going along the left or right sides of rooms with both leading to the same path. On the first floor here you will fight your way through a few trash packs and work your way toward the staircase in the back, leading to the second level of the dungeon. Make sure to hug the sides tightly to avoid pulling packs you can skip.

Here we have the second floor of the dungeon. This floor of the dungeon follows a very strict one-way path. At the end of the path you can go left or right to reach Exarch Maladaar. Stay together with your group and take the pulls slowly as these packs can be quite dangerous if handled poorly.

Killing mobs in this instance grants Lower City reputation.

• Most enemies grant 10 reputation each.
• Summoned adds grant 8 reputation each.
• Each boss grants 90 reputation.
• A Normal Auchenai Crypts run will give around 750 reputation.

• Most enemies grant 18 reputation each.
• Summoned adds grant 15 reputation each.
• Each boss grants 250 reputation.
• A Heroic Auchenai Crypts run will give around 1,450 reputation.

In this section, we will briefly go over each of the trash mobs that pose a threat to you in this dungeon.

The Humanoid trash mobs in this dungeon all have an ability that summons a spirit add to their side at the start of combat. The spirit summoned can be multiple different mobs, some of which are extremely dangerous. Below is a list of all of the spirits and their dangerous abilities:

• Phantasmal Possessor — If left alive long enough, this add will mind control a target. Kill these as soon as possible; they are the most dangerous spirit.
• Unliving Sorcerer
• Unliving Cleric

You will want to prioritize killing these in the order shown above, as they can easily cause a wipe if ignored.

• Cyclone Strike
• Counter Kick

These are worth mentioning as they can deal very high burst damage to tanks if their abilities line up. Make sure to tank them away from the group to avoid the interrupts and AoE damage.

• Rage

These are all along the bridge right before Shirrak the Dead Watcher. They are invisible and will only appear when a player gets close to them. As soon as they appear, they will start to cast Rage. If the cast is allowed to finish they will knock all nearby players off of the bridge, instantly killing them. The party needs to be ready to kill these as soon as they appear.

Here we will give you a full rundown of what you can expect from each of the bosses found here on both Normal and Heroic difficulties as well as the items they drop.

• Focus Fire
• Inhibit Magic
• Carnivorous Bite
• Attract Magic

The main threat of this fight is the Focus Fire. It will target a random player, mark them with a flare, and after a short delay that area will be blasted by a barrage of fire damage. Players need to be ready to move out of the flare as soon as it spawns, as anyone caught inside of the flare will surely be killed.

Inhibit Magic is also a major threat on this fight as your healer will have very long cast times on their healing spells. This debuff can be line-of-sighted to prevent it from refreshing, so you may want to tank the boss in an area where breaking line-of-sight is an option.

Other than the two above mentioned abilities, the boss is very straightforward. You will need to burn the boss down quickly before the Carnivorous Bite bleed stacks too high on the tank and any melee players and becomes unhealable. Use all your cooldowns available and kill him quickly.

Item	Required Level	Item Type	Slot
Collar of Command	65	Cloth	Head
Raven-Heart Headdress	65	Leather	Head
Hope Bearer Helm	65	Plate	Head
Oculus of the Hidden Eye	65	Accessory	Trinket
Shaarde the Lesser	65	One-Handed Sword	Main-Hand

Item	Required Level	Item Type	Slot
Scintillating Headdress of Second Sight	70	Cloth	Head
Fanblade Pauldrons	70	Plate	Shoulder
Bracers of Shirrak	70	Mail	Wrist
Gloves of the Deadwatcher	70	Cloth	Hands
Magma Plume Boots	70	Mail	Feet
Claw of the Watcher	70	Fist Weapon	Main-Hand
Champion's Fire Opal	BoP	Gem	Misc
Potent Fire Opal	BoP	Gem	Misc
Seer's Chrysoprase	BoP	Gem	Misc

• Soul Scream
• Stolen Soul
• Summon Avatar

This is a very straightforward fight. Tank the boss away from the ranged group, kill any shadow images that spawn, and make sure to pick up Avatar of the Martyred when he spawns.

Item	Required Level	Item Type	Slot
Darkguard Face Mask	65	Leather	Head
Mok'Nathal Beast-Mask	65	Mail	Head
Slippers of Serenity	65	Cloth	Feet
Ring of the Exarchs	65	Accessory	Finger
Fetish of the Fallen	65	Accessory	Trinket
Ironstaff of Regeneration	65	Staff	Weapon

Item	Required Level	Item Type	Slot
Maladaar's Blessed Chaplet	70	Accessory	Neck
Wastewalker Shoulderpads	70	Leather	Shoulder
Auchenai Death Shroud	70	Cloak	Back
Light-Touched Stole of Altruism	70	Cloak	Back
Natural Mender's Wraps	70	Leather	Hands
Sash of Arcane Visions	70	Cloth	Waist
Wave-Song Girdle	70	Mail	Waist
Doomplate Legguards	70	Plate	Legs
Boots of the Unjust	70	Leather	Feet
Soulpriest's Ring of Resolve	70	Accessory	Finger
Exarch's Diamond Band	70	Accessory	Finger
The Harvester of Souls	70	One-Handed Axe	Weapon
Sky Breaker	70	One-Handed Mace	Main-Hand
Will of the Fallen Exarch	70	One-Handed Mace	Main-Hand
Draenic Wildstaff	70	Staff	Weapon
Champion's Fire Opal	BoP	Gem	Misc
Potent Fire Opal	BoP	Gem	Misc
Seer's Chrysoprase	BoP	Gem	Misc

Auchenai Crypts does not have any large pulls that require AoE. The majority of the pulls in this dungeon consist of two mobs, so having one form of crowd control is highly recommended as crowd-controlling one of the humanoids will prevent a spirit add from being summoned.

You will want to avoid bringing too many caster-based damage dealers as the Inhibit Magic from Shirrak the Dead Watcher will make casters deal much lower DPS.