The Lich King
The Lower Spire Lord Marrowgar Lady Deathwhisper Gunship Battle Deathbringer Saurfang The Plagueworks Festergut Rotface Professor Putricide The Crimson Hall Blood Prince Council Blood-Queen Lana'thel The Frostwing Halls Valithria Dreamwalker Sindragosa The Frozen Throne The Lich King The Lich King , Arthas Menethil, is the final boss of the Icecrown Citadel 10 and 25-player raid dungeon.Abilities Phase 1: 100% - 70% Summon Shambling Horror Shockwave Enrage Summon Drudge Ghouls Infest Necrotic Plague Plague Siphon .Plague Siphon Phase 2: 70% - 40% Summon Val'kyr Val'kyr Shadowguard .Grab - Grabs a random player and slowly carries them away from the platform. If not killed before she leaves the Frozen Throne, the Val'kyr will drop her target to their death.Wings of the Damned Infest Soul Reaper Defile Phase 3: 40% - 10% Defile Soul Reaper Harvest Soul Vile Spirits Spirit Burst Frostmourne Terenas Menethil Light's Favor Restore Soul Spirit Warden Soul Rip Dark Hunger Harvested Soul Phase Transitions The transition phase occurs at 70% and 40% of the Lich King's health. It starts with the Lich King casting Remorseless Winter, lasts 60 seconds, and ends with him casting Quake. Remorseless Winter Pain and Suffering Summon Ice Sphere Ice Pulse Ice Burst Raging Spirit Soul Shriek Quake Phase 1: 100% - 70% Summon Shambling Horror Shockwave Enrage Summon Drudge Ghouls Summon Shadow Trap Shadow Trap under the feet of the targeted player. After about 3 seconds the trap inflicts 23,563 to 26,437 Shadow damage to players inside. Knocks damaged targets off the platform. The trap drops on the place where the player when the Lich King targeted them, so movement allows for all players to leave the trap's area of effect before it is spawned.Infest Necrotic Plague Plague Siphon .Plague Siphon Phase 2: 70% - 40% Summon Val'kyr Val'kyr Shadowguard .Grab - Grabs a random player and slowly carries them away from the platform. If not reduced to 1 health before she leaves the Frozen Throne, the Val'kyr will drop her target to their death. When a Shadowguard reaches 50% health, she will abandon her target and fly above the raid, using Life Siphon. After some time she will descend again and grab another player.Wings of the Damned Life Siphon Infest Soul Reaper Defile Phase 3: 40% - 10% Defile Soul Reaper Harvest Soul sVile Spirits Spirit Burst Frostmourne Terenas Menethil Restore Soul Wicked Spirits - Wicked Spirits fly in the air, exploding on impact with players.Harvested Soul Phase Transitions The transition phase occurs at 70% and 40% of the Lich King's health. It starts with the Lich King casting Remorseless Winter, lasts 60 seconds, and ends with him casting Quake. Remorseless Winter Pain and Suffering Summon Ice Sphere Ice Pulse Ice Burst Raging Spirit Soul Shriek Quake Phase 1: 100% - 70% Summon Shambling Horror Shockwave Enrage Summon Drudge Ghouls Infest Necrotic Plague Plague Siphon .Plague Siphon Phase 2: 70% - 40% Summon Val'kyr Val'kyr Shadowguard .Grab - Grabs a random player and slowly carries them away from the platform. If not killed before she leaves the Frozen Throne, the Val'kyr will drop her target to their death.Wings of the Damned Infest Soul Reaper Defile Phase 3: 40% - 10% Defile Soul Reaper Harvest Soul Harvest Soul Vile Spirits Spirit Burst Frostmourne Terenas Menethil Light's Favor Restore Soul Spirit Warden Soul Rip Dark Hunger Harvested Soul Phase Transitions The transition phase occurs at 70% and 40% of the Lich King's health. It starts with the Lich King casting Remorseless Winter, lasts 60 seconds, and ends with him casting Quake. Remorseless Winter Pain and Suffering Summon Ice Sphere Ice Pulse Ice Burst Raging Spirit Soul Shriek Quake Phase 1: 100% - 70% Summon Shambling Horror Shockwave Enrage Summon Drudge Ghouls Summon Shadow Trap Shadow Trap under the feet of the targeted player. After about 3 seconds the trap inflicts 23,563 to 26,437 Shadow damage to players inside. Knocks damaged targets off the platform. The trap drops on the place where the player when the Lich King targeted them, so movement allows for all players to leave the trap's area of effect before it is spawned.Infest Necrotic Plague Plague Siphon .Plague Siphon Phase 2: 70% - 40% Summon Val'kyr Val'kyr Shadowguard .Grab - Grabs a random player and slowly carries them away from the platform. If not reduced to 1 health before she leaves the Frozen Throne, the Val'kyr will drop her target to their death. When a Shadowguard reaches 50% health, she will abandon her target and fly above the raid, using Life Siphon. After some time she will descend again and grab another player.Wings of the Damned Life Siphon Infest Soul Reaper Defile Phase 3: 40% - 10% Defile Soul Reaper Harvest Soul sVile Spirits Spirit Burst Frostmourne Terenas Menethil Restore Soul Wicked Spirits - Wicked Spirits fly in the air, exploding on impact with players.Harvested Soul Phase Transitions The transition phase occurs at 70% and 40% of the Lich King's health. It starts with the Lich King casting Remorseless Winter, lasts 60 seconds, and ends with him casting Quake. Remorseless Winter Pain and Suffering Summon Ice Sphere Ice Pulse Ice Burst Raging Spirit Soul Shriek Quake Missing valuable info? Incorrect details? Please report it to us!
Overview 25-player : 3). The Val'kyr will target a random raider, lift them in the air, and attempt to carry them (slowly) off the platform, where they can fall and die. All DPS should be ready to switch to those and kill them as soon as possible. They are subject to stuns and slows, so you should use that freely. One way to make this aspect of the encounter easier is to have the raid stay relatively close to the middle of the room, with the tanks in the very center. This way when a Val'kyr picks a player up, her travel time will the highest possible (the Val'kyrs always choose the closest edge of the platform). One thing you will need to watch out for is the Defile cooldown though - at about 5 seconds left on the cooldown, you should all spread out and get away from the middle, so you don't drop it in the middle of the group (see below).The Lich King starts casting Defile. " in a raid warning. When he does that, he will target a random raider and do his 2-seconds cast. When the short cast is over, a mass of shadows about as big as Consecration/Death & Decay will spawn at the location the targeted player. This means that if you are able to quickly spot where the Defile is going to spawn, you can move almost completely out of its range before it even spawns (unless you are the target). The Defile will do damage every second, and every time it does damage, its size and damage will increase, which makes it highest priority to get out of those as quickly as possible. At 40% the Lich King will enter another transition phase, identical to the one at 70% - 60 seconds of Remorseless Winter, Pain and Suffering, Raging Spirits, and Ice Spheres, followed by a Quake. The outer edges of the platform will re-appear in the beginning of the phase, and it is very important that you get to them quickly, so Remorseless Winter doesn't kill you.Heroic: All three phases are affected by the Heroic difficulty. During phase 1 the Lich King will gain an ability called Shadow Trap. Dealing with it is similar to dealing with Defile - the targeted player needs to get away from everybody else, as the Shadow Trap will cause everybody standing in it to be knocked off the platform after about 3 seconds trigger time. During phase 2, the Val'kyrs will not die. Instead, when their health reaches 50%, they will drop their targets and fly above the raid, not attackable. They will drain health from the raid, healing themselves, but don't pick any more players. This adds a burn element to the phase, because dealing with more than 2-3 sets of Shadowguards is close to impossible. And finally during phase 3, Harvest Soul will become raid-wide. Instead of one player, the entire raid will be sent inside Frostmourne. There, instead of Terenas fighting the Spirit Warden, they will see a lot of Wicked Spirits (adds with very low health), that float above the floor. If they reach a player they do some AoE damage - similarly to the Vile Spirits. There are also "bombs" that fall slowly from the ceiling and explode when they hit the ground. When all the Spirits are dead, Terenas will restore the players' souls and send them back to fight the Lich King. Watch out for Defile when you get out, as you will all be stacked around the boss.
The Lich King yells: Impossible...
The Lich King yells: Invaders... here?! DESTROY them, Kel'Thuzad! Naxxramas must not fall!
The Lich King yells: Soon we will eradicate the Alliance and Horde. Then the rest of Azeroth will fall before the might of my army.
The Lich King yells: The Nerubians built an empire beneath the frozen wastes of Northrend. An empire that you so foolishly built your structures upon. MY EMPIRE.
The Lich King yells: The souls of your fallen champions will be mine, Fordring.
The Lich King yells: You will have your challenge, Fordring.
The Lich King says: Your resilience is admirable.
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