Siege of Boralus Dungeon Guide: Location, Boss Strategies, and Trash

Siege of Boralus is a max-level dungeon located in the Tiragarde Sound, Kul Tiras continent.

This guide will be an extensive overview of the dungeon, providing vital information on how to complete it across all difficulties. We will cover all 4 Boss fights, as well as the most notable trash enemies in the dungeon and their important abilities. If you would like to learn about the rest of the dungeons in The War Within Season 1, please see our overviews linked below. Otherwise, without further ado, let us begin!

• Although Scrimshaw Gutter is a non-elite mob, it will deal high damage with Tooth Breaker, don't pull threat on it, or you will end up dying!
• Interrupt Irontide Waveshaper's Brackish Bolt and stop their Watertight Shell cast. In case it goes through, you can always opt to Dispel it before it explodes.
• Avoid staying in the Blacktar Bomber's Burning Tar ground visual and use defensives if you get targeted by Fire Bomb.
• Avoid the Scrimshaw Enforcer's Slobber Knocker frontal.
• Outrange the Irontide Raider's Savage Tempest and use defensive if your health is low before each Iron Hook as it does group-wide damage and pulls you in.

• If you get targeted by On the Hook (the boss prefers Ranged specs at first), make sure to run towards any Heavy Ordnance (bombs) on the ground. The longer you take to move him towards the Heavy Ordnance, the more stacks of Boiling Rage. The boss will have, eventually catching up with you, which will be lethal.
• Avoid staying in the Cannon Barrage ground effects.
• If Chopper Redhook does not soak all Heavy Ordnance before they expire, use defensive cooldown and soak them to prevent them from doing group-wide damage.
• if the On the Hook expires, the boss will cast Iron Hook to all enemies, dealing damage and triggering a secondary effect - Gore Crash, which you must run away from.
• Sidestep the incoming Heavy Slash from Irontide Cleaver.

• Gather the threat of any existing Irontide Cleaver & Irontide Powdershot and do your best to stack them under the boss to enable cleaving.

• Keep your party healthy at all times due to continuous attacks from Irontide Powdershot and its Molten Slug.
• Use your major healing cooldowns when Chopper Redhook casts Iron Hook as it will deal group-wide damage.

• Riptide Shredder will mostly exclusively be a threat to your tank with its auto-attacks and Singing Steel ability.
• TANK ALERT: Pre-use your active mitigation when pulling more than a few Irontide Curseblades due to their Cursed Slash frontload damage, leaving a Curse effect.
• Use defensive cooldown if Irontide Powdershot is firing its Molten Slug on you.
• Interrupt Ashvane Commander's Bolstering Shout and stay away from your party when targeted by Azerite Charge.
• Stay away from the Ashvane Spotter's Sighted Artillery ground visuals. Try to remove her Evasive buff before she casts Bounding Retreat and run away from melee.
• Dodge the incoming Broadside from Ashvane Cannoneer.

• When the boss has Evasive buff, make sure to use Slow or Snare to remove it, else she will disengage and cast Gut Shot to a random member of your party.
• Sidestep the Clear the Deck frontal.
• Use defensive if you get hit by Fiery Ricochet.
• Sidestep the continuous ground visuals coming from Mass Bombardment.
• Dread Captain Lockwood will Withdraw on the ship at 66% HP and 33% HP, spawning 2x Ashvane Deckhands and a Ashvane Cannoneer. Once you defeat the Ashvane Cannoneer, you will be able to pick up his Unstable Ordnance, shoot towards the boss and resume the fight.

• Collect the threat from Ashvane Cannoneer and Ashvane Deckhands once they spawn from the Withdraw cast.

• Use your healing cooldowns if multiple people have the Fiery Ricochet DoT effect.

• Outrange the Bilge Rat Demolisher's Terrifying Roar and use defensive if you are low health when Crushing Slam is about to happen.
• Don't get too close to the Bilge Rat Buccaneer when he is casting Goin' Bananas.
• Interrupt Bilge Rat Pillager's Stinky Vomit.
• PRIORITY: Interrupt Choking Waters cast at all costs. Any spare interrupts should be used for Water Bolt.
• Bilge Rat Cutthroat will only be dangerous for your tank due to its Rotting Wounds Disease debuff.
• Another tank-exclusive dangerous non-boss-enemy is Ashvane Invader due to its Stinging Venom stackable Poison debuff.

• Use your defensives when Crashing Tide is about to happen and move away from the initial ground animation.
• Sidestep the Break Water frontal.
• Avoid at all costs the incoming Tidal Surge waves as it will be lethal for you.

• Move the boss away from the brine ground pools appear after each Break Water cast.

• Top-up your party after each Crashing Tide cast.

• Avoid staying in the water; else, you will be caught in Crushing Embrace.
• Avoid being hit by the Call of the Deep ground puddles.
• Always prioritize killing the Demolishing Terror over Gripping Terror first, as it will continuously do group-wide damage with its Slam.
• After defeating each Demolishing Terror, let the most mobile player from your party do the Cannons and use Blast on the boss.

• Always tank the Demolishing Terror to avoid it from casting Hull Cracker.

• Dispel as many Putrid Waters debuffs as you can. Always prioritize DPS players over your tank!

Type	Item	Stats
Polearm	Mutineer's Fate	Crit/Mastery
1H Mace	Boarder's Billy Club	Vers/Mastery
Leather Hands	Gloves of the Iron Reavers	Haste/Mastery
Cloth Waist	Redhook's Cummerbund	Haste/Mastery
Plate Legs	Legplates of the Irontide Raider	Mastery/Vers
Mail Legs	Powdershot Leggings	Vers/Mastery
Cloth Feet	Top-Sail Footwraps	Vers/Crit
Ring	Band of the Roving Scalawag	Mastery/Crit

Type	Item	Stats
1H Sword	Saber of Dread Pirate Lockwood	Vers/Mastery
Mail Wrist	Dread Captain's Irons	Vers/Haste
Cloth Hands	Captain's Dustfinders	Crit/Mastery
Plate Hands	Rope-Scored Gauntlets	Crit/Mastery
Plate Waist	Cannoneer's Toolbelt	Crit/Vers
Leather Waist	Port Pillager's Belt	Haste/Crit
Cloth Legs	Powder Monkey's Leggings	Vers/Haste
Leather Feet	Besieger's Deckstalkers	Vers/Crit
Mail Feet	Sure-Foot Sabatons	Mastery/Haste
Trinket	Dead-Eye Spyglass	Agi

Type	Item	Stats
2H Mace	Dismembered Submersible Claw	Vers/Crit
Mail Waist	Anchor Chain Girdle	Haste/Crit
Leather Legs	Seawalker's Pantaloons	Crit/Haste
Plate Feet	Ballast Sinkers	Haste/Crit
Ring	Band of the Ancient Dredger	Crit/Haste
Trinket	Hadal's Nautilus	Int

Type	Item	Stats
Warglaive	Coral-Edged Crescent	Mastery/Crit
Cloth Wrist	Iron-Kelp Wristwraps	Mastery-Haste

There are 4 total achievements to obtain in Siege of Boralus:

Achievement	Criteria
Siege of Boralus	Defeat Viq'Goth in Siege of Boralus on Mythic difficulty.
Keystone Hero: Siege of Boralus	Complete Siege of Boralus at Mythic Level 10 or higher, within the time limit.
Stand by Me	Never let Dread Captain Lockwood leap away while she has the evasive aura before defeating her in the Siege of Boralus on Mythic difficulty.
A Fish Out of Water	Kick fifteen Gasping Flounders back into the water then defeat Viq'Goth in the Siege of Boralus on Mythic difficulty.