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Comment by backfire

The last boss of Trial of the Champions (The 5 man instance).

He consists of three main phases, and will fly down and engage the tank after you speak to the elf npc.

Phase One - In normal form, summons one ghoul that should be killed or snared or shackled. If he is not killed he will explode at the end of the phase. Easy phase, otherwise tank & spank. The ghoul will also "charge" party members, and can be a real pain for casters if not dealt with. Has a few diseases, but nothing too major.

Phase Two - The Black Knight will rise as an undead and will summon an army of the ghouls. There are two strategies to deal with this.
1) Everyone groups on the tank so the ghouls can be tanked. You aoe the ghouls down as quickly as possible before they can explode
2) Kite the ghouls around and focus fire on the boss. The Black Knight will regulary blow ghouls up, but if your kiting is up to par this will not be a problem.
Avoid standing in the AOE he creates.

Phase Three - The Black Knight rises again as a ghost with increased dps and magic damage debuffs. He aoes the group and the fight becomes a dps race to kill the boss before the healer runs out of mana. Healers will need to AOE heal or be skilled to survive this phase. Be aware of people gaining the "Marked for Death" debuff, as they will take some serious damage and be knocked back. It is recommended to save bloodlust or other applicable buffs for this phase.

After this The Black Knight is FINALLY dead and he will be lootable for two epic-quality items and an Emblem of Triumph. He will also drop a Champion's Seal in Heroic Mode.

Edits are all for more detail/spelling/grammar.

Comment by Magramar

It's just a flesh wound.

Comment by lubofm

For me as Resto Druid this is easy fight. If all party members stands very close to each other, on normal dificulty, only Wild Growth is able to heal everyone during phase 3. On Heroic I place Rejuvenation on each party member and then just cast Wild Growth on CD and its ok.

I think only exploding army of death during phase 2 is dangerous.

Comment by 128214

as a pally tank using Consecration right before the sencond round begins usually pulls all the undead spawns to you, if that fails use your AoE undead spell and that brings them running to you,

Also is important to draw all the agro from the first four guys, it's easy for a party member who dies to come back before the round is over but it's better if that never has to happen, especially in heroic.

fun little instance though, great way for gearing duelspec and picking up currency pieces

Comment by HappyLandfill

Has anyone noticed that the voice actor for The Black Knight during this encounter seems to be the same guy who's voiced all the intro cinematics so far?

Comment by thebum

If you want to avoid getting hit by the ghoul explosions just kite the boss around. Because of the cast time on the ghoul explosions you will never be able to be hit by it if you just keep moving.

Comment by Mantrain

Am i the only one that finds HC phase 3 really hard to heal, as a paladin healer?

Comment by 326464

For the Achievement (I've had worse), we had a pally off-tank and two great burst DPS (Warlock in full T8.5 and Mage in T8) along with a shaman healer. The main tank (DK, well-geared) moved the Black knight around while the pally off-tank AoE taunted the ghouls. The mage and I burned down all of the adds (there were 8 I think) before any could blow up. I've noticed that the one he tries to explode is the lowest health mob, and the explosion cast is about 5 seconds. So, its quite possible to just single-target burn the adds to like 10%, have 1 DPS move on to the next one while the other one kills, rinse and repeat x8.

If you are having issues, stack together during the pull, have the mage use Frost Nova, everyone runs out, warlock AoE stun, the AoE as the tank kites. Either way works. Explosion Radius is about ~15 yards, so no melee.

Also, the ghoul in phase 1 (Risen someone or other) counts towards the achieve, so just burn him too. Im-->CF--->CB--->IN was more than enough to kill him (7k overkill). Also, be mindful of the Black Knight's Desecration (the gray stuff on the ground. It ticks for about 2k on a tank and slows movement speed by 50%+.

I've also done this achievement using a Demo-specced warlock (myself) who poped Meta, charged right as the ghouls were spawning, used IM aura, poped the AoE stun, AoE Taunt, and then demo-circled out while 3 ranged DPS AoE'd like all hell (Ranged were Warlock, Mage, Ele Shaman).

Comment by 326464

Use Glyph of Holy Light. Makes life a lot easier. It shouldn't be too bad as long as your DPS doesn't suck. He's got about 250k HP in heroic, and that AoE thing hurts quite a bit at ~8 stacks (takes about 30 seconds to get there), so as long as your DPS can push 3.5k+, you should be alright. If one DPS dies, oh well. Make sure your DPS stacks up on the tank. There is no benefit from their standing 1000000000 yards away (the spell has like a 50k yd range, its a mass-cast, not exponentially-decreasing AoE. If they are stacked and you can spam HL, your life should be golden, especially with beacon on the tank. You'll only have to focus on healing the raid (see below for why).

If you have a DK tank, they can chain pop Unbreakable Armor-->IBF--->AMS and require little-to-no healing for the fight. Unbreakable will absorb 2k damage from all attacks, which is effective for the first ~3 stacks (due to magic resistance, mitigation, etc.). IBF reduces damage by 30% from all sources, which should make stacks ~3-7 manageable (they'll hit for ~4k per, on a 40k tank buffed, which is nothing), and AMS for stacks ~8-9 (this actually reuqires skill on the DK tank's part to time it right, but if done properly will work for both stacks). If executed correctly, will cause those later killer stacks to hit for a meager 2k.

The upshot is that you shouldn't have a problem healing this as a paladin as long as you (1) have GoHL (2) your group knows how to stack up, (3) your tank isn't a moron, and (4) your DPS can break 3.5k (you can do it with 2.8k, but 3.5k helps quite a bit if you don't have a shaman/priest/druid healer).

Comment by Starlin

If you die at any point during this fight, release immediately and fly back, takes about 10-25 seconds to get back in the fight, depending on your rig and number of mods.

Also, don't loot the corpse until you verify everyone is alive and in the instance.

Comment by 282300

When phase one ends...

"Don't look so smug! I know what you're thinking, but my flesh was merely a set back. Did you honestly believe I would trust the future to some layer of tissue? Hahahaha... Oh no, no, no, it was merely an instrument, a stepping stone to a much larger plan! It has all led to this...and this time, you will not interfere!"

When phase two ends...

"Don't look so smug! I know what you're thinking, but my bones were merely a set back. Did you honestly believe I would trust the future to some scrawny, weak, skeleton? Hahahaha... Oh no, no, no, it was merely an instrument, a stepping stone to a much larger plan! It has all led to this...and this time, you will not interfere!"

Comment by gamerunknown

As a priest healer, it helped to use hymn of hope as soon as he despawned at the end of phase 1, then shadowfiend in phase 3.

The AoE damage during phase 3 is a little crazy, so it's a good place to use divine hymn. Shield yourself before starting though, to reduce pushback.

Comment by Topman

Can anyone post the soundfiles for this guy?

Comment by 440547

We actually 4-manned this on Heroic today with no major issues.

Group makeup was DK, S. Priest, Druid tank and Paladin healer (myself). It was a nice surprise we could actually do this, seeing as none of the DPS were above 1.9k, and both the DK and Priest were fresh 80s, mostly decked in the ilvl200 gear from regular. Still, it was pretty easy.

As others have said, massive AoE on the adds in P2 helps tremendously. Even if a few do explode, it's nothing unhealable. P3 is basically time for popping cooldowns and burning through your mana if you're a healer. In my particular case, I was sure to melee in P2 with SoW up to top off my mana as much as possible (P2 becomes dull after the adds are all down, since no major damage is being dealt, so it's the perfect time to melee), and even after preemptively spamming HL all through P3 (and without Plea) I still finished with ~30% mana left.

Comment by 189483

Here's the strategy that often use when tanking the black knight.

Phase 1: Simple spank and tank with a ghoul add, The ghoul will explode when the black knight either dies or if the ghoul reaches 10% health.

Phase 2: Burn down the black knight as the tank holds aggro on all of the mobs. When the black knight uses Ghoul explode, move the black knight and ghouls out of range. Keep burning the boss and move between the two points when the ghouls are marked to explode. Once the boss is dead, run away from the remaining ghouls as they all start to explode.

Phase 3: The boss returns as a ghoul and it's a test of survivability. The black knight will give a 10 second debuff that increases magic damage taken by 200%. This and Death's bite stack together, allowing the group to die if the boss is not burned down fast enough.

Comment by 257107

For death knight tanks casting AoD during the second phase helps control his own army

Comment by Grenth

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Comment by 235552

Shadowfrost damage is resisted with
your minimum( shadow resist, frost resist).

So You need to increase "both" shadow and frost resistance.

Comment by Sekai

Marked for Death can be removed with a rogue's Cloak of Shadows. Presumably this means Paladins and Mages can remove it with their immunities, as well.

Comment by 124872

For phase 3 (as for any boss that does elemental AoE damage), a Lesser Flask of Resistance on each party member helps a lot more against Death's Bite than one might think (they're really not expensive these days).
Heck they will even help against the spells cast in the first boss fight (such as Poison Bottle).
And if you have two paladins, one of them should already have the Shadow Resistance Aura up during phases 1 and 2, and in phase 3 as the black knight starts hitting rather lightly, it's perfectly viable to switch out Devotion Aura for Frost Resistance Aura to mitigate his Death's Bites. Note that there is also the priest's Shadow Protection and the shaman's Frost Resistance Totem.
The amount of resists the whole group gets will help the healer tremendously. You might lose 5% or so of your DPS from not using your favorite flask or totem, but overall you will be able to do more damage when your healer can more or less keep you alive for 20% longer.

Comment by MaskedPotato

Small, but essential thing. You'll really want someone who can cleanse disease in your group, or the tank is gonna take a lot excess damage in phases 1 and 2. As a group with a DK tank, Hunter, Mage, and two Druids, this fight really sucked, and we couldn't finish it. ON the other hand, the hunter was only doing ~1k DPS and we couldn't do it even when BOTH druids healed, so maybe they just sucked.

Still, though. Main point: Diseases hurt, especially when he uses Obliterate. 6k every couple seconds, 10k or so Obliterate.

Comment by Mairin

With the Death's Respite knockback in phase 1, I've seen undergeared groups nearly wipe or lose someone early because the healer got knocked away. One important factor with that spell is it's a knockBACK not a knockAWAY so a healer can do phase 1 with their back to the fight and if they get targeted they just get thrown through the tank/boss to land on the other side still in range.

(Same also applies for ranged dps if you wish to get back in range asap, it's a 2 second cast and you can see if you're being targeted for it so you know when to turn your back).

Comment by 400690

i wouldnt recommend using classes simply for resistance. Although our group wiped many times on the 1st and 2nd bosses, we did this final fight so simply, with an average of 2.5k dps in the group. all dps were casters, (do not know if this will help in the fight) and we had a resto druid spamming me(the tank) as i just stayed in the same place, holding the boss's aggro. something that really helped tho was having the resto druid healer in the second and third phases. In the 2nd phase, i activated army of dead, then simply let the boss's ghouls atack our group after they died (but still avoiding explosions). resto druid can put one HoT on a player then move on to another, making them really good for this encounter.

Comment by 382691

I believe it is a reference to Monty Python. where the Black Knight is cut down to just his head and he states. tis a mere flesh wound ill bite yer ankles. *in reply to supercrem9's statement further up.*

Comment by 443608

As a mage, you have time to Ice Block before the Marked For Death debuff is applied. Pop it as soon as you see the green mark appear over your head, then remove it as soon as the debuff fails. If done correctly, it should only interrupt casting for 3-4 seconds and will make it a lot easier on healers.

Comment by 445145

A perfect illustration of Death Knight PvP.

Comment by 231497

The Black Knight has an ability called Death's Respite in the Trial of the Champion 5 man dungeon during phase one of his fight.

One nifty trick I've found is if you have quick reactions, you can use an item or ability that removes all effects that cause you to lose control of your character to remove Death's Respite before it actually does anything to you, thus relieving pressure on your healer and saving you from taking some damage.

This ability only does damage AFTER the 2 seconds it is cast, so you have 2 seconds in which to remove the effect.

Also, this ability seems to have the opposite effect of a Death Knight's Death Grip throwing you away instead of pulling you towards him.

Comment by Aidanlancaster

Tip for Death Knights! When the Black Knight starts channeling his army of dead have EVERY death knight start channeling theirs as well....

Comment by 315859

Just like in the Holy Graal, this is one guy who just WON'T go down.
This fight is harder than the one in the movie though...

I think this guy should become a new version of Kael'thas. Expansion nr. 11: "Don't look so smug! I know what you're thinking, but Sargeras was merely a setback..."

Comment by Agoonga

It's Martin Lawrence!

Comment by 15855

Just felt I need to add some info if you get in a low dps group. We got 1 dps over 2000 and the other around 1000. We wiped first phase a couple of times. After that our druid/cat dps suggested that he should heal instead and at the same time throw in some dps. After that we used 1 dps just over 2000 and 1 dps around 1200 something and 2 healers. We sailed through the whole instance. This makes me think that the healing is essential here and the dps is not. I´ve played in groups where we had an average dps over 2500 and had to quit because to many wipes. Why? The healer just could not stand it although we killed everything fast. Just an idea that worked for us.

Comment by 196309

After the encounter Tirion Fordring says: "Go now and rest; you've earned it." This is a referrence to Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, where after you win an arena match, you are told to go and rest and that you have earned it

Comment by Valgus

I found that as a paladin tank, dropping a divine protection with divine sacrifice on phase 3 really helps minimize group damage and lets the healer mostly just focus on you. Since doing this I found this phase has become much easier. The damage you take with divine protection up is pretty minimal and really helps the group stay alive to dps him down. This is on regular ToC. Not sure how it would work on heroic.

Comment by 124872

My Twisting Nether card procced ^_^ Here's my last post on the subject.
Yes, compared to warriors and mages, DKs are still relatively new. You gonna argue with that ?

Ok so maybe there are some jokes I should learn to take in stride.
And I apologize for using the whole "yousuckatpvp" line.

But your argument just doesn't hold ground here. Aside from the fact that any boss will be easy if your party's gear is good enough (the Black Knight is no exception), most of the abilities used by warrior bosses or mage bosses or whatever show something about the class they represent. Just like the Black Knight. But just like them, the Black Knight uses abilities that players don't actually have. And just like them, the Black Knight does NOT use abilities that are nevertheless defining attributes of DKs, namely Death Grip and Anti-Magic Shell (and those you see in PvP). He doesn't even try to refresh IT-PS right away when cleansed.

Ultimately, the best way of seeing that DKs aren't all that overpowered is to roll one yourself. They start out OP because they are decked out in blues (with WotLK itemlevel budgets too). You'll rip most of the other players apart in BGs at lev 59.
But then, in the 60-69 bracket, and even more so in the 70-79, and when you finally hit 80, you'll see that you won't be ruling battlegrounds just by summoning an army of ghouls and spamming desecration-IT-PS-<your spec attack here>. Until you get high-end Arena gear, that is. And then you can make fights look like a fight against the Black Knight again. But that's only illustrative of a subset of DK PvP. And guess what, by the same process, any other class will be made to look overpowered.

So I get the joke, already. I'm just saying, as a PvPer, that it could use a tad bit of rewording.

Edit: Once DKs can leave their starting area and PvP, the quest rewards will have decked them out in RotLK budget blues, including the weapon.
DKs may have overpowered abilities, but they are not the only class that do, they can't get all of those abilities at the same time, and they are on CDs.
I win 50% of the time in 2v2 against a like-rated team that has a DK in it.
You can argue and downrate me all you want, it won't change the TRUTH.

Comment by IbFeeshin

The Black Knight says: I don't believe it... I just got killed by a level 78 in all greens... again... Kael, could you teach some tricks?
Kael'Thas Sunstrider says: Shh! It's Aethas Sunreaver from now on, but sure.
1 patch later...
The Black Knight says: The ~~Sunwell~~ Trial by Combat was merely a setback!

Comment by 234586

This fight looks like it would very much favor a lot of the unholy death knight abilities, now if only Anti Magic Zone did not require 3 points in a talent that you only want when you are a tank. The shield would definitely help for ghoul explosions.

Comment by Nzall

every day i run this instance, and i have some hints to give. in general, it is really useful to have some shadow resist (entire party) and frost resist (tank only). an aura or totem is sufficient.

phase 1: if you have a ret paladin or priest (any spec) in the group, have them use repentance, shackle undead or (in dire need) turn evil on the pet. any other CC that also works on undead (but i can't think of any other). also, shamans should forget about mana spring totem and drop cleansing totem. i have found that this fight does not last long enough for mana spring totem to really be useful, while cleansing is almost trivializing this phase. if you can control the pet and minimize the disease damage (abolish diseases from a priest, maybe?), you have won this phase.

if you don't have a ret or priest in your group, your best bet is to let the tank taunt the pet as much as possible.

phase 2: this is where things start to get nasty. let everyone collapse to the center for the first few seconds. apart from that, there are a few things each tank can do to keep aggro on him at the start:

PALADIN: lay a consecration right at his feet, then when most of the pets are above, cast a holy wrath. the 2 second stun means your consecration will tick a bit further. also, if you have not done so already, make a macro that casts RD on a friendly mouseover target and HoR for a hostile mouseover target. use this macro EXCLUSIVELY for the healer (sorry, DPS). if you really want to, you can get the holy wrath glyph, but it is not needed.

DEATH KNIGHT: unholy has it a bit easier here due to wandering plague. what you want to do is first a death and decay right on top of the boss. then apply diseases to the boss. once diseases are applied, you can use pestilence to spread around the good word. after that, again only use your taunts for the healer.

WARRIOR: you need to wait a bit for most of the ghouls to appear, use that time to build some threat on the boss (save for thunder clap and shockwave). then thunder clap right in the middle. step a bit back, to the side, then shockwave. cast challenging shout. after that, spam demoralizing shout, using thunder clap and shockwave every cooldown. again, keep your taunts for the healer.

DRUID: you have the most problems with this boss. build some threat on the boss like the warrior does while all the ghouls are spawning. then cast challenging roar. then spam swipe and demoralizing roar. again, keep your taunts for the healer, as all the tanks do on this phase.

in any case, you have 2 choices for tanking this boss: you can either ignore all the ghouls and burst down the boss, staying grouped up in the center.. the boss has 250K HP (rounded), which means with 3 DPS at 3K each and a tank at 2K (11K DPS), you need around 23 seconds to burst down the boss. don't use cooldowns, save them all for the last phase. the other way requires you to pull the boss a bit away from the center of the room at the end of phase 1. then you kite him around the room. the advantage to this tactic is that, unlike the other one, you can see when a ghoul is about to explode and can stay clear from it. the disadvantage is that it is harder to do full DPS, and the ghouls will go more across the map. discuss which tactic you are using while waiting for the roleplaying to finish.

phase 3: why won't this a-hole die? anyway, all collapse to the boss. healers should spam their AOE heals. you need to pop all personal and groupwide DPS cooldowns. this includes trinkets, bloodlust (if you have a shaman) and racial/class spells. you should aim to burn down the boss in 10 stacks or less. if you reach 15 stacks, the healer will start to have trouble. if you reach 20 stacks, then you take double damage and people WILL die. use all the shadow resistance you can get. paladin tanks with the divine sacrifice talent should pop this at the 5th stack, along with divine protection. other paladins with the talent should pop divine shield along with it.

death knights can pop their army either in this phase or phase 2, but preferably in this phase. the ghouls will lighten the melee damage on the tank, allowing the healer to concentrate on raid healing.

this fight is the second hardest part of the instance, and if paletress is not there the hardest (apart from unlucky champion composition on the first fight.

enjoy the fight. leave a comment behind if you have any other tips.

Comment by 241534

So now that 3.2.2 is out, we can expect him to drop the Black Knights Rondel correct?
For those who have been doing the PTR, can you tell me the drop rate, if possible?

Thanks

Comment by azshari

there is new items will drop from this boss like
epic dagger iLvl 219

Comment by DoXo

Have his loottable been updated now? Black Knight's Rondel dropped for me there today at heroic :)

Comment by TMWNN

The minion in the first phase (ghoul) appears to randomly deaggro the tank and go for another party member. In my latest run it just kept bashing on the Warlock. I taunted it off and built some threat on it, but a little bit later it ran for the Warlock again.

It looks to me like a standard Charge-whoever-is-out-of-melee-range attack, which many trash enemies have. The classic solution is to simply stack on the tank, which here also helps with Phase two, too.

Comment by 69947

i can confirm that this boss drops Black Knight's Rondel.
It says so on the Black Knight's Rondel's page, yet it doesn't show on the loot list., please update it.

Edit: It does show on the Black Knight loot list now.

Comment by 385742

If he decides to throw icy touch and death's respite simualteniously on healer...well..fun wipe! :P

Comment by fatolcay

Good news for blood DK's at PH3 marked for death can target your bloodworms

Comment by Carmine

Btw, with the Ghoul explosion spell, if u dont think ur gonna kill themm all in time every1 one except tank get away from the Black Knight, most people would think this is Obvious thing to do, u would be suprised how many people dont think it'll be a problem. but trust me it is they will knock ur dps hp's 2 around 30% and the Black knight AoE will kill em in seconds and you'll get a wipe.

Also with the First phase of this guy, best thing 2 do first is to get a dps 2 kill that ghoul he summons from the dead Belf, it really helps the healer.

Comment by Flagg

When he lands he use two sith (dark jedi) spell angainst the elf npg, grip and push.
Next time I'll fight him with http://www.wowhead.com/?item=13246

Comment by J3D12004

Druid healers, phase 3 is the perfect time to use your Tranquility bomb. I had no issues with pulling aggro even without Improved Tranquility (obviously your mileage may vary).

With only ~1700 spell power (iLevel 200 and five pieces of iLevel 219 gear, all purples except for my back and idol) I was having difficulty keep the group alive, and we wiped four or five times before I remembered I had this spell. When I used it, we had 10 seconds of full health on everyone in the group except for the tank (who went down to about 75% health). After I finished channeling I just threw Rejuvenation on the tank, Wild Growth on every cooldown, and spammed Nourish on the tank until The Black Knight died. The fight ended about 15-18 seconds after phase 3 started, with everyone above 90% health.

Comment by Patty

As a Priest Healer, I would recommend asking the group to move within melee range of the boss, and you should do so too, for the third phase. Then, spam holy nova and if things get hairy, divine hymn/PoH should do the trick.

Comment by 43546

Fun fact. This is at the moment the mob that kills most players in world of warcraft according too
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/toplist/index.html?en,killedby

Comment by 11294

The Risen Herald is also vulnerable to a Hunters frost trap. Just be aware that if the ghoul is frozen when stage one ends, it will not explode. In order to prevent the ghoul from existing into stage 2, break the trap when The Black Knight is almost dead.

Comment by 182483

As a Hunter, he's no fun to kite from full to death...I just managed that when our tank got gibbed by a multi-explosion (the Mage had Nova'd the zombies to get away), the secondary tank (DPS Warrior) got mushed shortly thereafter, and the Mage was squashed; this left me and the Resto Druid.

Frantic kiting is better than no kiting, I guess...

Thanks again, Restoftw!

Comment by 72460

I've just noticed that in the statistics pane a kill of the black knight is counted as a "Hunter Champion" kill. Most likely to prevent OMG SPOILORZ!

Comment by 503973

What the... He drop Emblem of Triumph in 3.3?

Comment by 348582

Having a Death Knight in your party will make the second phase much easier.
When a Death Knight releases Army of the Dead, the ghouls will taunt and do damage to the ghouls the Black Knight have summoned, so you can focus on the boss.

Comment by 299362

Oddly enough, he does not use http://www.wowhead.com/?item=12974#comments for a weapon.

Comment by 243011

Not only do priests (especially holy priests) excel at heavy group healing (Prayer of Mending, Prayer of Healing, Divine Hymn, Circle of Healing, plus all associated talents), but they also have Prayer of Shadow Protection, which greatly reduces the damage in phase 3 (damage is shadow + frost).

Throw in a paladin with Frost Aura (or, as a second choice, a shaman using a Frost Totem), and this actually becomes quite easy to heal.

This is not quite right.

Dual damages (frostfire bolt, this frostshadow damage) always use the lowest resistance, so you need both or it will have no effect at all.

Comment by 266285

there is new items will drop from this boss like
epic dagger iLvl 219

Oh, jee, really? I certainly never would've guessed that the FINAL BOSS in an entire DUNGEON of bosses that ALL drop iLvl 219 epics would've EVER dropped an iLvl 219 epic!

Comment by AzurePai

Mages: his mark of death can target a mirror image. Your healer will love you for it.

Comment by 543757

Just FYI guys: This npc got more comments than the item Ashbringer. Go check if you don't believe me.

Comment by 98260

Holy paladins are not at all weak on this fight if they make timely use of shadow aura, aura mastery, divine sacrifice, and positioning for GOHL.

Comment by 313294

The Black Knight learned from Darth Vader how to use force choke.

Comment by 628276

Gives 925 rep.

Comment by 634626

Paladins and Priests should keep Sacred Cleansing Buff (Holy Pallys) and Abolish Disease (Priest) on their tankers to save some mana in the two easier phases.

Comment by Dkshan

doomzoom he uses armageddon

Comment by 259313

The diseases this guy uses can be spell reflected by a warrior tank.

It speeds up his death a good deal

Comment by speedywill

I'm surprised that no one said this but... None Shall Pass!

Comment by 927069

I wouldn't want to get on this guy's bad side, or he'll bite my legs off.

Comment by 927069

I am going to Transmogrify my items so i look like The Black Knight.

Comment by Scourgepretzels

Merely a flesh wound ;3 love the holy grail lol cant wait till MoP cause that cave is gonna have the rabbit from the movie :D! also giz u a companion version of it :O i must have it!

Comment by 319936

Hearthstone: The Black Knight

Comment by Neutralis

He uses the sword Armageddon which comes from the 25 man Four Horseman chest.

Comment by MatiSali23

He could be a masked Lord Garithos, wielding a sword instead of his insignia axe :P and raised as an undead after his fall

He was called "Black Knight" during The Frozen Throne human campaign, as hero name (see link here: http://www.wowwiki.com/Othmar_Garithos --> character class)

It's a supposition! :)

PD: sorry for my English! I'm learning!

Comment by Shirubia

Seems to be bugged in normal, where he only drops loot for the first kill of the day. Other bosses still drop loot even if it's not the first kill of the day.

Will make farming the Spectral Kris much harder D:

Comment by Peaches

I love this boss, he makes an entrance that is made clear quick that something went wrong with it, literally rode in on his bird all stoic as his entrance was ruined lol he also raises the dead in the fight and uses Arelas Brightstar or Jaeren Sunsworn as the minion he raises that he had just killed before the fight, explodes his ghouls has arms grab at players slowing them as they take damage then he dies and pops back as a skeleton ready to do it again as if nothing happened then to do the same and the ghouls when they die finish off the black knight and he just comes back ready for the smoke as a ghost. Always doing a ton of damage and just shameless. Complete badass. They just don't make them like this anymore.

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The Black Knight

Trial of the ChampionGrand ChampionsEadric the PureArgent Confessor PaletressThe Black KnightThe Black KnightTrial of the ChampionI've Had WorseAbilities

Phase 1: Undead

Plague Strike - Inflicts 120% weapon damage and leaves a disease dealing 1,755 to 1,845 (Heroic: 3,510 to 3,690) Shadow damage every 2 sec for 12 seconds.

Icy Touch - Inflicts 2,975 to 3,075 (Heroic: 4,875 to 5,125) Frost damage and applies a Frost Fever disease, dealing 1,950 to 2,050 (Heroic: 3,413 to 3,587 ) Frost damage every 3 seconds and reducing attack and cast speed by 25%. Lasts 15 seconds.

Death's Respite - Stuns the target for 2 seconds. After that, the target is knocked back and suffers from 8,288 to 8,712 (Heroic: 13,163 to 13,837) Shadow damage.

Obliterate - Inflict 120% of his weapon damage plus 720 (Heroic: 1,500). Damage is increased by 30% for each disease on the target. All diseases are removed after the strike.

Rise Herald - Rises the Herald previously killed as a mindless Ghoul. He will Claw, dealing damage and forcing him to change targets, Leap to friendly or hostile creature and also Explode, killing him but dealing 4,388 to 4,612 (Heroic: 8,775 to 9,225) Shadow damage to all targets in a 8 yard range. The Ghoul will explode either when the Black Knight dies in this phase, or when the Ghoul itself is low on health.

Phase 2: SkeletonDeath's Respite

Army of the Dead - Rises 8 Risen Champions from the ground. They use the same abilities as the Risen Herald, except for Leap.

Desecration - Desecrates the ground under a random target, leaving an Unholy zone which deals 1,170 to 1,230 (Heroic: 1,950 to 2,050 ) Shadow damage every 2 second and reduces movement speed by 50% to everyone standing in it. Lasts 15 seconds.

Ghoul Explode - Forces a nearby ghoul to Explode.

Phase 3: Ghost

Death's Bite - Inflicts 1,950 to 2,050 (Heroic: 2,925 to 3,075) Shadowfrost damage to everyone in the party, and increases magic damage taken by 5% for 15 sec. Stacks.

Marked For Death - Non-dispelable debuff cast on a random target, increasing magic damage taken by 200% for 10 seconds.

Encounter Journal

Heroic		Mythic
Deadly		Important
Tank		DPS
Healer		Interruptible
Magic		Curse
Poison		Disease
Enrage

Phase 1: The Black Knight

Death's Respite – The Black Knight stuns a player for 2 sec, inflicting Shadow damage and knocking them back.
Icy Touch – The Black Knight grips a player in his icy hands, inflicting Frost damage and afflicting them with Frost Fever.
Frost Fever – The Black Knight's Icy Touch afflicts players with a Frost Fever, inflicting Frost damage every 3 sec. and reducing melee and ranged attack speed by 25% for 15 sec.
Plague Strike – The Black Knight viciously strikes a player, inflicting Physical damage and plaguing them with Blood Plague.
Blood Plague – The Black Knight's Plague Strike afflicts players with Blood Plague, inflicing Shadow damage every 2 sec. for 12 sec.
Obliterate – The Black Knight brutaly strikes a player, inflicting Physical damage that is increased by the number of diseases the target is afflicted with. Obliterate removes all diseases from the target when they are struck.
Raise Argent Herald – The Black Knight raises the argent herald as a mindless ghoul.
- Risen Argent Herald
  - Claw – The Risen Argent Herald claws a player, inflicting Physical damage.
  - Leap – The Risen Argent Herald leaps behind a random player, inflicting Physical damage.
  - Ghoul Explode – When the Risen Argent Herald reaches 30% health remaining or when The Black Knight is killed, he explodes, inflicting Shadow damage to all players within 8 yards.

Phase 2: The Undead

When the Black Knight is killed, he is risen as a skeleton to continue his fight. He retains Plague Strike, Icy Touch and Obliterate from his living form and gains new abilities.

Desecration – The Black Knight desecrates the ground at a player's location. The desecration inflicts Shadow damage and slows all players within it every second. The ground remains desecrated for 15 sec.
Army of the Dead – The Black Knight summons an entire legion of Ghouls to fight for him.
Ghoul Explode – The Black Knight causes one of his ghouls to explode, inflicting Shadow damage to all players within 8 yards.

Phase 3: The Afterlife

When the Black Knight's skeleton form is destroyed, he is risen as a ghost for his final stand. As a ghost he loses all of his abilities from his previous forms.

Death's Bite – The Black Knight inflicts Shadowfrost damage to all players and increases their magic damage taken by 5% for 15 sec. This effect stacks up to 100 times.
Marked For Death – The Black Knight marks a player for death, increasing their magic damage taken by 200% for 10 sec.

The Black Knight

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