Horrific Vision of Stormwind Strategy Guide – Patch 11.1.5

The Horrific Vision of Stormwind is one of two available visions in Patch 11.1.5. This guide will walk you through every zone, provide advice on optimal pathing, and offer strategies to defeat the final boss, Alleria Windrunner.

Classes with stealth can skip the initial trash to the Cathedral.

The Horrific Vision of Stormwind consists of the following areas:

• Tainted Area (Tier 1) - Cathedral Square;
• Corrupted Areas (Tier 2) - Dwarven District + Trade District;
• Lost Areas (Tier 3) - Old Town + Mage Quarter.

Whenever you complete a zone, you can use a teleporter to return to the entrance.

To save as much Sanity and optimize time, we recommend the following route:

1. Defeat trash to the Cathedral Square and kill the two guards outside.
2. Proceed into the Dwarven District and complete its objectives.
3. Move into Old Town next and finish all objectives there.
4. Use the portal from Old Town to return to Cathedral Square.
5. Head to the Trade District and finish its objectives.
6. Go to the Mage Quarter and complete all objectives.
7. Use the portal again to return to the Cathedral District and take down Alleria.

This is the starter zone of the Vision, with no side objectives. Your only goal here is to reach and defeat Alleria Windrunner. In this zone, you will see 6 Sanity drained per second.

The Madness Effects that can be active in this zone are:

• Madness: Bloodthirsty: Damaging enemies heals you for 1% per target hit.
• Madness: Desynchronized: Time speeds up or slows randomly, affecting movement and casts.
• Madness: Promised Power: Standing in power zones boosts your damage by 25%. Not standing in them reduces it by 10%.

You will face Riftwalkers outside the cathedral. Do not engage them if you are low on health or Sanity! These have two important abilities:

• Rift Strike: Deals heavy damage if not dodged.
• Shadow Shield: Reduces damage taken, must be interrupted to burn efficiently.

Alleria grows in power with each side zone you complete.

Zone Cleared	Ability Gained
Dwarven District	Explosive Ordnance
Mage Quarter	Tainted Polymorph
Old Town	Spawns Eye of Chaos with Dark Gaze
Trade District	Chains of Servitude

Here are some tips on how to mitigate her abilities:

• Void Eruption: You must get out of line of sight by hiding behind the pillars inside the cathedral.
• Chains of Servitude: You must use pillar corners to avoid being pulled.
• Explosive Ordnance: Move out of bombs quickly.
• Dark Gaze: Always face away from the Eye of Chaos to avoid Sanity drain.

These include the Dwarven District and Trade District. Expect a Sanity drain of 8 per second here. These zones contain more mechanics and tougher enemies.

The Tier 2 Madness effects that can be active in this zone are as follows:

• Madness: Dark Delusions — A shadowy clone chases you and stuns you if it reaches you.
• Madness: Entomophobia — Jump to get rid of bugs or you lose control.
• Madness: Scorched Feet — Randomly leaps forward and leaves fire behind.
• Madness: Shortsighted — Reduces your vision and combat range to 20 yards.

This is the easier of the two Corrupted zones with the following objectives:

1. Kill the 3 gnomes.
2. Place 8 explosives in marked locations.
3. Detonate them with Kelsey near the Blacksmith.
4. Defeat the final boss Therum Deepforge.

Use line of sight to your advantage, the narrow pathways around the Blacksmithing area are great for kiting. Clear the area progressively, avoid big pulls unless you have great gear.

Forge Guard Hurrul uses Entropic Leap, which hits hard and drains Sanity if it lands. Sidestep it as soon as you can. Therum Deepforge has a cone attack called Empowered Forge Breath that you must dodge to avoid Sanity and health loss. He also spawns bombs on the floor, kite the boss to avoid the bombs as they spawn.

Trade District is more dangerous than Dwarven District, and contains these objectives:

1. Kill Inquisitor Darkspeak. Agonizing Torment from Inquisitor is high priority to interrupt or mitigate with cooldowns. It causes constant Sanity loss.
2. Kill Slavemaster Ul'rok. The boss uses Chains of Servitude. Run away before it finishes or you will be stunned and your Sanity will be drained.
3. Free 8 captives from cages marked on your map.

When you are in a group, watch for Convert. Players turned hostile can be cleaved or killed by mistake.

These are the hardest zones with 12 Sanity drained per second and the most punishing mobs! The Horrific Vision of Stormwind contains two of these zones: Old Town and Mage Quarter!

The following Madness effects are present in Lost areas:

• Madness: Haunting Shadows — Clone explodes and fears you.
• Madness: Leaden Foot — Moving slows you down, stand still to recover.
• Madness: Split Personality — Surrounded by illusions, touching them disorients.
• Madness: Volatile Intent — Some damage reflects back to you.

What makes this zone very difficult are tight space and lethal mobs. The main objectives?

1. Close 5 Void Portals.
2. Defeat Magister Umbric.

Trash mobs to watch out for:

• Boundless Corruption constantly drops void zones and uses a cone Sanity drain. Move constantly.
• Crawling Corruption deals high melee damage and moves slowly. Kite and burn them down.
• Greater Void Elemental casts Void Buffet that must be interrupted.

Zardeth of the Black Claw uses Rain of Fire. Avoid the swirls or you will lose Sanity.

He teleports 3 times at 75%, 50%, and 25% and casts Frozen Storm. Run to him and interrupt it. You must be in line of sight to stop the cast. Kick Entropic Missiles to reduce damage and kick Tainted Polymorph to burst him down quickly.

The final zone is Old Town. This one is filled with many Sanity traps and mobs that will ambush you!

The zone consists of four objectives:

1. Meet Valeera.
2. Kill Armsmaster Terenson and Alx'kov the Infested.
3. Unlock the gate with pillars.
4. Kill Master Mathias Shaw.

Stealth mobs are scattered throughout this zone. Pull slowly and watch the corners. SI:7 Informant casts Touch of the Abyss. You must interrupt this ability.

Dodge Terenson's Blade Flourish and Roaring Blast. When facing Alx'kov, avoid tentacle attacks on the ground.

Eyes of Chaos will spawn during the fight. Track them and face away to avoid Dark Gaze's Sanity drain. Shaw also stealths and places traps on the ground. Move out quickly.

Find out more about Horrific Visions in our general guide!