Karazhan Raid Guide

Before heading into Karazhan, you will need to complete the attunement required to enter the raid. In addition to that, we also advise you to get any of the quests for this raid that you are able to pickup. To make this process easier, we have written separate guides for the attunement process, relevant quests, and their chains.

Karazhan can be found on the south side of Deadwind Pass. Alliance players will want to fly to Darkshire in Duskwood and enter from the West, while Horde players will want to go to Stonard in Swamp of Sorrows and enter from the east.

Karazhan holds a large number of trash mobs. We will list all of the important mobs that have very threatening abilities you should be aware of.

• Charge
• Fear

A few of these can be found on the way to the first boss. Try to have the raid stack behind them to prevent the Charge and make sure to use spells such as Tremor Totem and Fear Ward to prevent the fears.

• Knockdown
• Healing Touch
• Pierce Armor
• Whip Frenzy

You will fight a few of these alongside the other horse-trash types on the way to the first boss. The main danger of these mobs is the Knockdown and Pierce Armor. By itself, this is not that dangerous, but when you are tanking multiple mobs at a time it can be quite deadly. Aim to kill these early on or use crowd controls on them such as Shackle Undead. Make sure to also interrupt their Healing Touch.

• Oath of Fealty
• Antimagic Pulse

These should be the main focus of your DPS when pulling packs in the Ballroom. Focus these down quickly to avoid them using Oath of Fealty and mind-controlling raid memebers. Antimagic Pulse is also worth mentioning as it can dispel some vital buffs, such as a Protection Paladins Righteous Fury.

While these do not have noteworthy abilities, they are listed here as they hit extremely hard. Keep your tank full health and make sure to keep up damage-reducing debuffs, such as Demoralizing Shout.

• Brittle Bones

These skeletons are not too deadly on their own. However, the debuff they can apply can be quite deadly to tanks. Brittle Bones leaves a 2-minute debuff on players, periodically reducing their Armor to 0 for a few seconds.

• Drunken Skull Crack
• Enrage

These are also in the list as they hit very hard. When they reach low health, they will stun their target with Drunken Skull Crack and then Enrage, greatly increasing their damage dealt.

• Concubine Transform
• Seduction

When reaching low health, Concubines will Concubine Transform into their true demonic forms, casting Seduction on all nearby enemies. Have a tank ready to pick them up afterward or use Tremor Totem to break the sleep before these attack your non-tank raid members.

• Banshee Shriek
• Alluring Aura
• Bewitching Aura

Ranged DPS and healers will want to stay at max range from these to avoid the silence from Banshee Shriek. While above 50% health, nearby players will be debuffed by Alluring Aura, reducing Physical damage dealt by 50%. When the Wanton Hostess falls below 50% health, this aura will change to Bewitching Aura, reducing spell damage dealt of nearby players by 50%. All of these abilities can be out-ranged to avoid them completely.

• Ice Tomb

Ice Tomb will be cast on the highest-threat target and then they will proceed to attack whoever is second on threat. When Ice Tomb is used it also wipes the threat from the main target, meaning a second tank will need to be high on threat or DPS raid members will start to die.

• Bad Poetry
• Curtain Call

These mobs are fairly easy to deal with. Remove the Bad Poetry with a Magic dispel like Cleanse or Dispel Magic. When these mobs die, they will cast Curtain Call, dealing high damage to any nearby enemies.

• Ethereal Curse

The main threat from these monsters is their high damage output. They also apply a nasty Curse in Ethereal Curse, reducing the hit chance of Physical attacks by 15% per stack. Keep this removed from your tank to help with threat.

• Cone of Cold
• Elemental Armor

These as well deal very high Melee attack damage. Your tank will want to keep these faced away from the raid to reduce the amount of players hit by Cone of Cold. You will also want to keep removing the buff Elemental Armor, which increases their Magic Resistance by 200.

• Overload

These are rather easy to deal with aside from their main ability. Overload will cause a random raid member to deal damage to all nearby raid members. If you get this debuff on you, make sure to move away from any nearby allies.

• Drain Mana

By themselves these mobs are rather weak, but when facing groups of 5 or more the Drain Mana becomes a huge threat as it quickly drains the Mana of random raid members. Quickly kill these off before they drain too much Mana from your raid.

• Mana Shield
• Blink
• Loose Mana

These mobs have a Mana Shield up, taking damage as Mana instead of health. When they run out of Mana these die as they have very low maximum health. Periodically they will also cast Blink, jumping to a random location and resetting threat. Tanks will need to quickly pick them back up. When defeated, Loose Mana will be cast around their corpse, restoring Mana to anyone nearby.

• Return Fire

Be prepared when facing these as they are one of the hardest-hitting mobs in the entire instance. Be ready to top your tank up instantly as they can easily die fighting these. While fighting, these will deal reflective damage to specific types of attacks, either melee, physical ranged, or spells. Be aware of your health at all times and stop attacking if you are low as healers will most likely be focused on healing tanks.

• Astral Bite

While rather weak overall, these can be very annoying to deal with depending on your raid composition. They are completely immune to all magical damage and can only be killed by Physical attacks. Physical damage dealers should focus on killing these off while casters deal with any other mobs in combat. These will also burn a small amount of Mana from anyone they attack in combat with Astral Bite.

• Power Distortion

You will want to focus these down quickly to prevent the Power Distortion from causing issues. This can quickly burn through someone's Mana pool, or make it extremely difficult for Warrior/Druid tanks to maintain threat.

• Warp Breach

When these mobs die they will start to cast Warp Breach. Be prepared to stun them before this cast finishes or they will deal a very high amount of AoE damage to all nearby enemies.

• Shadow Bolt Volley
• Fireball Volley
• Frostbolt Volley

Stay at max range when fighting these to avoid being hit by one of the volleys above. Focus these down first as they deal high damage to all nearby enemies.

• Disarm
• Cleave

Be cautious when pulling these as they are very dangerous when facing more than one at a time. Keep them faced away from the raid as the Cleave hits non-tanks very hard. Periodically they will Disarm their target and drop threat, possibly attacking the second-highest on threat instead.

• Thrash
• Gaping Maw
• Infectious Poison

These are very dangerous, dealing high AoE damage to all nearby enemies. They also hit very hard with Thrash, so be ready to top the tanks off quickly.

• Thrash
• Gaping Maw
• Infectious Poison

The improved version of the above mob, having the same abilities, just dealing a bit more damage. These are very deadly to tanks; be ready to heal them at all times as the Thrash makes it possible to die in nearly one attack.

Karazhan hosts eleven bosses in total, many of which are optional. Nightbane is one of these optional bosses, and while he is not the last boss of Karazhan, he is harder than the rest. Check out our Karazhan Quests guide to learn how to summon Nightbane.

This fight consists of 2 phases. In the first phase, you will be fighting Midnight until he reaches 95% health, then Attumen the Huntsman will be called in and you will have to face both bosses at the same time.

• Summon Attumen — Summons Attumen the Huntsman when reaching 95% health.
• Mount — Merges together with Attumen the Huntsman whenever either boss reaches 25% health.

• Knockdown — Knocks down current target, stunning them for 3 seconds.
• Shadow Cleave — Frontal cone cleave attack; deals shadow damage.
• Intangible Presence — Curses all nearby enemies, reducing their hit chance by 50% for 12 seconds.
• Mount — Merges together with Midnight whenever either boss reaches 25% health.

• Knockdown — Knocks down current target, stunning them for 3 seconds.
• Shadow Cleave — Frontal cone cleave attack; deals shadow damage.
• Intangible Presence — Curses all nearby enemies, reducing their hit chance by 50% for 12 seconds.
• Berserker Charge — Charges the enemy that is the farthest away between 8-40 yards.

Tanks will need to be ready to pick up Attumen the Huntsman whenever he spawns to prevent healer deaths as he will start attacking right after spawning. They will also need to make sure to face the boss away from the raid to prevent the Shadow Cleave from hitting non-tanks. DPS need to be aware of threat constantly as the Knockdown will constantly stun the tank, preventing them from building threat.

Intangible Presence needs to be removed from the tanks and DPS as soon as possible, but especially tanks to help with their threat generation. When either boss reaches 25% health, they will "merge" together into a single boss.

When Attumen Mounts Midnight, he will continue to use Shadow Cleave, Knockdown, and Intangible Presence, in addition to a new ability. He will start to Berserker Charge at the enemy that is furthest away from him. This can be avoided by having the entire raid stack within 8 yards of the boss, as the charge as a minimum range, or you can have the off-tank stand max range to soak the charges.

Item	Item Type	Slot
Worgen Claw Necklace	Accessory	Neck
Harbinger Bands	Cloth	Wrist
Bracers of the White Stag	Leather	Wrist
Stalker's War Bands	Mail	Wrist
Whirlwind Bracers	Mail	Wrist
Vambraces of Courage	Plate	Wrist
Handwraps of Flowing Thought	Cloth	Hands
Gloves of Saintly Blessings	Cloth	Hands
Gloves of Dexterous Manipulation	Leather	Hands
Gauntlets of Renewed Hope	Plate	Hands
Spectral Band of Innervation	Accessory	Finger
Steelhawk Crossbow	Crossbow	Ranged
Schematic: Stabilized Eternium Scope	Engineering Schematic	Misc.
Fiery Warhorse's Reins	Mount	Misc.

• Gouge — Incapacitates a target for up to 6 seconds.
• Blind — Disorients a random target for 10 seconds.
• Vanish — Moroes will enter stealth periodically throughout the fight for a short duration.
• Garrote — After using Vanish, Moroes will put a bleed on a random target.
• Enrage — At 30% health Moroes will Enrage, increasing his damage output.

Below is a list of the suggested kill order of the adds during Moroes fight and their important abilities.

• Baroness Dorothea Millstipe
  • Mana Burn
• Lady Catriona Von'Indi
  • Greater Heal
  • Power Word: Shield
  • Dispel Magic
• Lady Keira Berrybuck
  • Holy Light
  • Cleanse
  • Divine Shield
  • Blessing of Might
• Baron Rafe Dreuger
  • Hammer of Justice
  • Cleanse
• Lord Robin Daris
  • Mortal Strike
  • Whirlwind
• Lord Crispin Ference
  • Disarm
  • Shield Bash
  • Shield Wall

Moroes himself is the main threat of this fight. He will periodically use Gouge on his current target, causing him to ignore that player and attack his next-highest-threat target. For this reason, having tanks as the top 2 on threat is recommended to prevent DPS from dying. Blind is a Poison and should be removed as soon as possible if your raid can remove Poisons.

Throughout the fight Moroes will Vanish and Garrote a random raid member, leaving a 5-minute bleed on them. These Garrote debuffs can be removed with spells such as Ice Block or Blessing of Protection.

Dealing with the adds at the start of the fight is the most important. You may choose to use some crowd control such as Shackle Undead or Turn Evil to deal with less adds at the start, or you can simply try to AoE all adds down at once. Use the recommended priority list above to kill off the most threatening adds first and try to interrupt their important casts.

Item	Item Type	Slot
Brooch of Unquenchable Fury	Accessory	Neck
Royal Cloak of Arathi Kings	Cloak	Back
Shadow-Cloak of Dalaran	Cloak	Back
Nethershard Girdle	Cloth	Waist
Belt of Gale Force	Mail	Waist
Crimson Girdle of the Indomitable	Plate	Waist
Edgewalker Longboots	Leather	Feet
Boots of Valiance	Plate	Feet
Moroes' Lucky Pocket Watch	Accessory	Trinket
Emerald Ripper	Dagger	Weapon
Signet of Unshakable Faith	Off-Hand Weapon	Off-Hand
Idol of the Avian Heart	Idol	Relic
Formula: Enchant Weapon - Mongoose	Enchanting Formula	Misc.

• Holy Ground — Deals damage to nearby enemies and silences them for 1 second.
• Holy Fire — Deals Holy damage to a random target and leave a damage-over-time magical debuff.
• Holy Wrath — Deals Holy damage to a random enemy and bounces to a nearby enemy, doubling in damage.
• Repentance — Incapacitates all nearby enemies for 12 seconds; the effect breaks upon taking damage.

Start the fight off by having the entire raid spread out around the room between the different pillars. Make sure to move up toward the boss to prevent the pillars causing line-of-sight issues for healers that are also spread throughout the room. Holy Wrath prevents you from stacking as it deals damage to a random target and then bounces to a nearby enemy, doubling in damage each time it bounces.

Holy Ground acts similar to Consecration from a Paladin, causing Holy damage to all nearby enemies, but also silencing enemies hit for 1 second every other second.

Repentance will incapacitate all enemies in the raid. To counter this, you will want to move near the boss before the Repentence goes off to take damage and break the incapacitate effect. Anyone able to remove magical debuffs should also be quick to remove the debuff applied by Holy Wrath on random members.

Item	Item Type	Slot
Barbed Choker of Discipline	Accessory	Neck
Bands of Indwelling	Cloth	Wrist
Bands of Nefarious Deeds	Cloth	Wrist
Bracers of Maliciousness	Leather	Wrist
Bracers of Justice	Plate	Wrist
Mitts of the Treemender	Leather	Hands
Gloves of Centering	Mail	Hands
Gloves of Quickening	Mail	Hands
Iron Gauntlets of the Maiden	Plate	Hands
Boots of Foretelling	Cloth	Feet
Shard of the Virtuous	One-Handed Mace	Main-Hand
Totem of Healing Rains	Totem	Relic

The Opera Event in Karazhan consists of one of three different fights that changes weekly. All three of the specfic fights will be covered here.

• Red Riding Hood — Marks a random target as Red Riding Hood, chasing them around the room trying to attack them.
• Terrifying Howl — Fears all nearby enemies.
• Wide Swipe — Stuns current target for 4 seconds.

The main focus of this fight is the Red Riding Hood debuff. The target of the debuff will need to kite the boss around as they will die if he reaches them. If you have any abilities like Fear Ward or Tremor Totem, use them to prevent the Terrifying Howl fear.

Item	Item Type	Slot
Big Bad Wolf's Head	Mail	Head
Red Riding Hood's Cloak	Cloth	Back
Big Bad Wolf's Paw	Fist Weapon	Main-Hand
Wolfslayer Sniper Rifle	Gun	Ranged

• Julianne
  • Eternal Affection — Casts a large heal on an ally.
  • Devotion — Buffs damage and cast speed.
  • Powerful Attraction — Stuns a random target for 6 seconds.
  • Blinding Passion — Deals damage to a target and applies a damage-over-time effect.
• Romulo
  • Daring — Increases damage and attack speed by 35% for 8 seconds.
  • Backward Lunge — Attacks a random target behind him.
  • Deadly Swathe — Frontal cleave attack.
  • Poisoned Thrust — Chance to apply Poison on hit. This Poison reduces the victim's stats by 10% per stack.

At first you will face Julianne alone. After she dies, Romulo appears to join in the fight. After defeating him as well, both bosses will resurrect, with both engaging you at the same time. Make sure to remove the Devotion and Daring from either boss to reduce their damage.

Julianne needs to be watched at all times to interrupt her Eternal Affection heal. Make sure to face Romulo away from the group. Both bosses need to die within 15 seconds of eachother or they will both resurrect again at full health.

Item	Item Type	Slot
Masquerade Gown	Cloth	Chest
Romulo's Poison Vial	Accessory	Trinket
Despair	Two-Handed Sword	Weapon
Blade of the Unrequited	Dagger	Weapon

• Dorothee
  • Water Bolt — Deals Frost damage to current target.
  • Frightened Scream — Fears nearby enemies.
• Tito
  • Annoying Yipping — Silences a random target for 2 seconds.
• Roar
  • Frightened Scream — Fears nearby enemies.
  • Shred Armor — Reduces target's Armor by 5,000.
  • Mangle — Deals damage to a target and applies a bleed dealing damage-over-time.
• Strawman
  • Brain Bash — Stuns current target for 3 seconds.
  • Brain Wipe — Silences a random target for 4 seconds.
  • Burning Straw — When hit by Fire spells, Strawman gets disoriented.
• Tinhead
  • Cleave — Front-facing cleave attack.
  • Rust — Reduces movement speed by 10% per stack, stacks up overtime.
• The Crone
  • Cyclone — Summons tornadoes around the room randomly that knock up nearby enemies.
  • Chain Lightning — Deals damage to a target and nearby allies.

This encounter is a 2-phase fight. For the first phase you will be facing Dorothee, Roar, Strawman, and Tinhead. Follow this kill order and use your cooldowns here to quickly burn through some of these mobs.

Dorothee should be killed first quickly; if killed fast enough, Tito can be avoided completely. Roar can be Feared and should be killed second as the Frightened Scream can cause problems. When Strawman enters combat, you should have someone use Fire spells such as Searing Pain or Scorch on him constantly to stun him. Finally, when Tinhead comes out, pick him up and make sure to face him away from the group.

After all of these adds are dealt with, The Crone will appear a few seconds later. This part of the fight is very straightforward; simply tank and spank and stay away from the Cyclones.

Item	Item Type	Slot
Wicked Witch's Hat	Cloth	Head
Ruby Slippers	Cloth	Feet
Legacy	Two-Handed Axe	Weapon
Blue Diamond Witchwand	Wand	Ranged

Item	Item Type	Slot
Eternium Greathelm	Plate	Head
Beastmaw Pauldrons	Mail	Shoulder
Trial-Fire Trousers	Cloth	Legs
Earthsoul Leggings	Leather	Legs
Ribbon of Sacrifice	Accessory	Trinket
Libram of Souls Redeemed	Libram	Relic

• Summon Astral Flare — While The Curator has Mana, he will periodically summon these.
• Hateful Bolt — Deals Arcane damage to whoever is second-highest on threat.
• Evocation — Casts when out of Mana; restores Mana over 20 seconds and increases damage taken by 200% for the duration.
• Arcane Infusion — Adds Arcane damage to melee attacks.
• Enrage — Increases damage dealt by 20%, used at 15% health.

Start off by having the raid slightly spread out as the Astral Flares summoned during the fight have a chain-lightning-type attack. The raid needs to prioritize killing the Astral Flares over anything else as they will quickly wipe a raid if ignored.

Healers need to stay ahead of the healing at all times as there is quite a lot of healing during this fight. Astral Flares deal high raid damage, while Hateful Bolt deals high damage to a single target. The Curator himself deals high melee damage as it is all Arcane damage, thus ignoring Armor.

Item	Item Type	Slot
Pauldrons of the Solace-Giver	Cloth	Shoulder
Forest Wind Shoulderpads	Leather	Shoulder
Dragon-Quake Shoulderguards	Mail	Shoulder
Gloves of the Fallen Hero	Tier 4 Hands Token	Hands
Gloves of the Fallen Defender	Tier 4 Hands Token	Hands
Gloves of the Fallen Champion	Tier 4 Hands Token	Hands
Wrynn Dynasty Greaves	Plate	Legs
Garona's Signet Ring	Accessory	Finger
Staff of Infinite Mysteries	Staff	Weapon

• Shadow Bolt
• Fiendish Portal — Opens 2 portals that constantly summon Fiendish Imps throughout the fight.
• Sacrifice — Teleports a random enemy to the middle of the room, stuns them, and leeches life from them every second.
• Resummon Kil'rek — Summons Kil'rek back if he dies after approximately 45 seconds.

• Amplify Flames — Increases Fire damage taken from all sources.
• Broken Pact — While dead, increases Terestian Illhoof's damage taken by 25%.

Terestian Illhoof himself is rather easy. Simply kill the demonic chains that are summoned by Sacrifice in the middle of the room. From time to time you will have to deal with the Fiendish Imps summoned during the fight before they build up too much.

Start the fight off by killing Kil'rek to debuff Terestian Illhoof with Broken Pact. Tanks need to be ready to pick up Kil'rek again when he respawns during the fight.

Item	Item Type	Slot
Gilded Thorium Cloak	Cloak	Back
Shadowvine Cloak of Infusion	Cloak	Back
Breastplate of the Lightbinder	Plate	Chest
Cincture of Will	Cloth	Waist
Malefic Girdle	Cloth	Waist
Cord of Nature's Sustenance	Leather	Waist
Girdle of the Prowler	Mail	Waist
Mender's Heart-Ring	Accessory	Finger
The Lightning Capacitor	Accessory	Trinket
Fool's Bane	One-Handed Mace	Main-Hand
Terestian's Stranglestaff	Staff	Weapon
Xavian Stiletto	Thrown	Ranged
Formula: Enchant Weapon - Soulfrost	Enchanting Formula	Misc.

• Fireball
• Frostbolt
• Arcane Missiles
• Dragon's Breath — Disorients a random player and deals damage to them and any nearby allies over time.
• Chains of Ice — Roots a random target in place for 10 seconds.
• AoE Counterspell — Periodically silences enemies within 10 yards.
• Summon Water Elementals — Used at 40% health to summon 4 Conjured Elementals.
• Mass Polymorph; Pyroblast — If Aran reaches 20% Mana, he will Mass Polymorph the entire raid, drink some water, then Pyroblast the entire raid.

• Flame Wreath — Places rings of fire around random raid members. If anyone inside the rings of fire move, the entire raid takes massive damage.
• Circular Blizzard — Summons a Blizzard that moves around the room in a clockwise direction, dealing high damage and slowing anyone hit.
• Massive Magnetic Pull; Mass Slow; Charged Arcane Explosion — Pulls everyone on top of himself, slows them down, then starts to cast Charged Arcane Explosion.

Shade of Aran can be a rather tricky fight has he deals very high damage with his many different abilities. Try to interrupt Fireball and Frostbolt as much as possible to prevent as much damage as you can. Only interrupt Arcane Missiles if it will otherwise kill someone. Move away from anyone hit by Dragon's Breath, as it deals damage to nearby allies, and be ready to heal that target.

The main portion of the fight involves around Shade of Aran's special abilities. Flame Wreath is a very simple "do not move" mechanic. Simply do not move if you are in a ring of fire or you will explode and deal massive damage to the raid. Circular Blizzard summons a Blizzard that moves around the room in a clockwise direction; try to move in front of the Blizzard at all times to reduce how much damage you take. The last ability is a combo of a few different abilities. First, Aran will pull everyone into melee range with Massive Magnetic Pull. Then, he will slow everybody with Mass Slow. Finally, he will cast Charged Arcane Explosion for 10 seconds, dealing lethal damage to anyone nearby. To avoid taking the damage, simply start running to the edges of the room as soon as you get pulled on top of Aran.

At 40% health, Shade of Aran will cast Summon Water Elementals, summoning 4 Conjured Elementals. These adds have a threat table and will most likely attack healers if left unchecked. Warlocks excel on this fight for their Banish and Fear crowd control abilities. If you have little-to-no crowd control, have your tanks pick up as many elementals as possible. Your group may need to kill one or two adds to help reduce the damage taken by the raid.

The Mass Polymorph and Pyroblast combo serves as a DPS and interrupt check of sorts. Try to interrupt as many casts as possible to keep his Mana high and maintain high damage uptime to prevent this combo of spells from happening.

Item	Item Type	Slot
Steelspine Faceguard	Plate	Head
Saberclaw Talisman	Accessory	Neck
Mantle of the Mind Flayer	Cloth	Shoulder
Pauldrons of the Justice-Seeker	Plate	Shoulder
Drape of the Dark Reavers	Cloak	Back
Boots of the Incorrupt	Cloth	Feet
Boots of the Infernal Coven	Cloth	Feet
Rapscallion Boots	Leather	Feet
Shermanar Great-Ring	Accessory	Finger
Pendant of the Violet Eye	Accessory	Trinket
Aran's Soothing Sapphire	Off-Hand Weapon	Off-Hand
Tirisfal Wand of Ascendancy	Wand	Ranged
Formula: Enchant Weapon - Sunfire	Enchanting Formula	Misc.

• Empowerment — Increases damage dealt by 200% during Phase 1.
• Nether Portal - Perseverence — If this beam reaches Netherspite, he will take 1% reduced damage per stack.
• Nether Portal - Dominance — If this beam reaches Netherspite, he will deal 1% increased damage per stack.
• Nether Portal - Serenity — If this beam reaches Netherspite, he will heal for 4,000 health per second, per stack.
• Nether Burn — Constantly deals Shadow damage to all enemies.
• Void Zone — Summons a Void Zone under a random player.
• Netherbreath — Uses this constantly during Phase 2.

This fight revolves around a constant rotation of Beams. There are 3 different beams, Red, Blue, and Green. Empowerment greatly increases the boss's damage output, making these Beams a vital part of the fight that must be used properly to kill the boss.

Nether Burn is the main damage dealt during the fight, hitting all raid members for around 450 Shadow damage every few seconds. Stay nearby other players to help with the AoE healing. Avoid standing in any Void Zone and watch your feet for any spawning on you.

The Red beam of Nether Portal - Perseverence is used by the tanks, giving whoever stands in it reduced damage taken and increased defense per stack. It also greatly increases your health, but every time you take a stack from the beam you lose 1,000 health. A single target will be able to take a Red beam for one phase by themselves; simply weave in and out of the Red beam, only taking a few stacks when you need to heal after taking damage.

The Blue beam of Nether Portal - Dominance is typically used by DPS members as it gives increased damage dealt. Unlike the Red beam, this beam requires multiple soakers per phase, as you can easily die if you take too many stacks of this beam. Aim to have 2-3 soakers per phase for this beam.

The Green beam of Nether Portal - Serenity is the most important beam to have soaked 100% of the time, as it will quickly heal the boss to full health if not soaked. Standing in this beam increases healing done per stack and reduces spell costs. It also reduces your maximum Mana per stack, but also restores your Mana. Healers can take a few seconds of this beam to help restore their Mana and increase their healing output.

The banish phase of the fight is the most dangerous part of the fight. Netherspite will keep attacking anyone nearby and periodically cast Netherbreath on a random enemy. Either spread out during the banish phase to prevent multiple people being hit by the breath, or out-range it by running to the windows in the back of the room. After the banish phase ends, it comes with a threat reset.

Item	Item Type	Slot
Uni-Mind Headdress	Cloth	Head
Cowl of Defiance	Leather	Head
Shining Chain of the Afterworld	Accessory	Neck
Mantle of Abrahmis	Plate	Shoulder
Earthblood Chestguard	Mail	Chest
Girdle of Truth	Plate	Waist
Pantaloons of Repentance	Cloth	Legs
Skulker's Greaves	Leather	Legs
Rip-Flayer Leggings	Mail	Legs
Mithril Band of the Unscarred	Accessory	Finger
Spiteblade	One-Handed Sword	Weapon
Jewel of Infinite Possibilities	Off-Hand Weapon	Off-Hand

The Chess Event in Karazhan is a very unique fight where you control pieces of a chess board as pets and play a chess-style game against NPCs. The fight is started after talking with Echo of Medivh and taking control of the King piece on your faction's side. Simply move the main pieces toward the enemy's King and defeat it as quickly as possible to win.

Item	Item Type	Slot
Headdress of the High Potentate	Cloth	Head
Mithril Chain of Heroism	Accessory	Neck
Bladed Shoulderpads of the Merciless	Leather	Shoulder
Girdle of Treachery	Leather	Waist
Forestlord Striders	Leather	Feet
Fiend Slayer Boots	Mail	Feet
Battlescar Boots	Plate	Feet
Heart-Flame Leggings	Mail	Legs
Legplates of the Innocent	Plate	Legs
Ring of Recurrence	Accessory	Finger
King's Defender	One-Handed Sword	Weapon
Triptych Shield of the Ancients	Shield	Off-Hand

• Summon Infernal — Summons an Infernal to a random location that cannot be attacked and deals a constant, large AoE around it with Hellfire.
• Enfeeble — Reduces the health of random non-tank raid members to 1 HP.
• Shadow Nova — Deals Shadow damage to all nearby players and knocks them back.
• Shadow Word: Pain
• Thrash — Only used during Phase 2; this allows Prince Malchezaar to attack up to 2 extra times at once.
• Sunder Armor — Only used during Phase 2; Reduces the tank's Armor by 1,000 per stack, and stacks up to 5 times.
• Summon Axes — Only used during Phase 3. Summons his axes as a non-attackable enemy that attacks random targets.
• Amplify Damage — Only used during Phase 3. Increases a random target's damage taken by 100% for 10 seconds.

The entire raid will need to avoid the Summon Infernals that drop around the room in random places. If one lands near or on your raid location, you must move away from it or you will die from the Hellfire damage. Dispel any Shadow Word: Pains on the raid.

During Phase 1 and 2, Prince Malchezaar will cast Enfeeble on random raid members, reducing their health to 1 hit point. Shortly after, he will cast Shadow Nova, dealing Shadow damage to any nearby players. Ranged DPS and healers need to stay at max range to avoid the damage, while melee players will need to either out-range or line-of-sight the Shadow Nova.

Phase 2 is the most dangerous part of the fight. The Thrash can cause tanks to die in what seems to be 1 hit. It is very important to keep all debuffs up during this phase, such as Demoralizing Shout and Thunder Clap. In Phase 2 you will want to use all DPS cooldowns such as Bloodlust to push through this phase as quickly as possible.

Phase 3, Prince Malchezaar will drop his axes and they will attack random players. Make sure to keep these players alive as they can die quickly without any heals. Amplify Damage will be cast on random players, including the tank. If this debuff lands on the tank, be ready to top them off quickly as they can die easily in this phase.

Item	Item Type	Slot
Helm of the Fallen Champion	Tier 4 Helm Token	Head
Helm of the Fallen Hero	Tier 4 Helm Token	Head
Helm of the Fallen Defender	Tier 4 Helm Token	Head
Adornment of Stolen Souls	Accessory	Neck
Ruby Drape of the Mysticant	Cloak	Back
Farstrider Wildercloak	Cloak	Back
Stainless Cloak of the Pure Hearted	Cloak	Back
Jade Ring of the Everliving	Accessory	Finger
Ring of a Thousand Marks	Accessory	Finger
Gorehowl	Two-Handed Axe	Weapon
Light's Justice	One-Handed Mace	Main-Hand
Nathrezim Mindblade	Dagger	Main-Hand
Malchazeen	Dagger	Weapon
The Decapitator	One-Handed Axe	Main-Hand
Sunfury Bow of the Phoenix	Bow	Ranged

• Distracting Ash — Reduces a target's chance to hit by 30%.
• Smoldering Breath — Deals damage to enemies in front of Nightbane and leaves a large damage-over-time debuff on them.
• Cleave — This is a frontal cone attack, hitting all enemies in front of Nightbane.
• Tail Sweep — Rear-facing cone attack, stunning all enemies behind the boss and dealing damage over time.
• Charred Earth — Summons fire underneath a random, non-tank member, leaving a large patch of fire on the ground.
• Bellowing Roar — Fears all nearby enemies.

• Rain of Bones — Deals damage to all enemies in an area and summons 5 Restless Skeletons over a few seconds.
• Smoking Blast — While in the air, attacks the highest-threat target, dealing high Physical damage on hit and leaves a Fire damage-over-time effect on that target.
• Fireball Barrage — Blasts raid members if anyone goes over 40 yards away from the boss.

Phase 1 is a somewhat simple "tank and spank" fight. Have the tanks face Nightbane's face and tail away from the raid to prevent the cone attacks. Melee players will need to attack from the side and avoid the Cleave, Smoldering Breath, and Tail Sweep. Ranged players will want to stay at max range and stack tightly together. The Bellowing Roar can be outranged by most players. Avoid standing in Charred Earth fires.

Phase 2, the air phase, is the more difficult part of the fight. When Nightbane flies up, the raid should stack up underneath him to force the Rain of Bones to spawn the Restless Skeletons in one spot. After they start spawning, the raid should move away slightly to avoid being near the Restless Skeletons as they have an Immolation aura, dealing massive damage to all nearby enemies.

Melee players will need to avoid attacking these mobs as the Immolation aura deals around 1,000 damage per skeleton every few seconds. Ranged players will want to start killing these skeletons as soon as they have moved a safe distance away. Use any stuns or slows you have available to you to allow your tank to kite as much as possible.

After Nightbane finishes his Rain of Bones cast, he will start to cast Smoking Blast on his highest-threat target, most likely a healer. This person will take a massive amount of damage and will require direct, focused healing to survive. It is ideal to have a high-Armor healer such as Holy Paladin or Restoration Shaman get hit by this ability as it deals Physical damage. It will also leave a stacking damage-over-time Fire debuff on targets which should be removed as soon as possible.

Item	Item Type	Slot
Emberspur Talisman	Accessory	Neck
Robe of the Elder Scribes	Cloth	Chest
Stonebough Jerkin	Leather	Chest
Chestguard of the Conniver	Leather	Chest
Scaled Breastplate of Carnage	Mail	Chest
Panzar'Thar Breastplate	Plate	Chest
Ferocious Swift-Kickers	Mail	Feet
Ironstriders of Urgency	Plate	Feet
Nightstaff of the Everliving	Staff	Weapon
Dragonheart Flameshield	Shield	Off-Hand
Shield of Impenetrable Darkness	Shield	Off-Hand
Talisman of Nightbane	Off-Hand Weapon	Off-Hand