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Comment by Zeneva

This is one of the bosses in Cavern Of Time:Hyjal Summit
Namely there are 5 bosses in the instance ,

Rage Winterchill

My guess is that this boss requires shadow or frost resist cause based on WC3 it is a lich tinted with purple red colour..also it's spells consist of shadow and frost element

Anetheron

A dreadlord boss..no idea on it's elements and so but it's gona be a tough fight

Kaz'rogal

A doomguard boss...my guess is fire and shadow resist

Azgalor

Pit Lord boss..i heard he drops his glaive ..."Spite" Might be as tough as Magtheridon..since hes now the king of pitlords

Archimonde

Last boss of Hyjal Summit..how knows about him..well good luck to whoever is fighting him

Comment by 28236

Archimonde is the last boss in the raid instance, Hyjal Summit.
Archimonde has around 4.5 million Health Points.

Soul Charge - All damage taken increased by 50%. Non-dispellable.
Might of the Defiler - Smashed into the ground for 6000 fire damage, and 3000 every second for 10 seconds.
Grip of the Legion - 250,000 damage over 5 mins.
Finger of Death - 20,000 shadow damage on a single target. Archimonde will begin casting this if nobody is in melee range.
Doomfire - Leaves a trail of fire on the ground, which does 2400 fire damage per second (occasionally feared people run into these and die)

Also, says;

<When Aggo'd.>: Tremble mortals, and despair! Doom has come to this world!
Your resistance is insignificant.
This world will burn!
Manach sheek-thrish!
A-kreesh!
Your soul will languish for eternity.
<When killed.> No, it cannot be! Nooo!

Comment by 47494

Forte's kill video used no fire at all (Mages were Frost and Warlocks were Shadowbolting or Affliction); is he immune to fire?

Comment by 67280

his health is more like 4,5 million

Soul Charge - When a player dies he gains 1 out of 3 soul charge buffs (depending on class it seems). He can unleash those on the raid. 1 out of 3 debuffs will hit you:
1. 4500 damage and silence for 4 sec
2. 4500 damage dealt over 8 seconds and 2250 drained over 8 seconds
3. 4500 damage dealth and 50% more damage taken for 4 seconds.

Grip of the Legion - 250,000 damage over 5 mins. Decursable
Finger of Death - 20,000 shadow damage on a single target. Archimonde will begin casting this if nobody is in melee range.
Doomfire - Leaves a trail of fire on the ground, which does 2400 fire damage per second (occasionally feared people run into these and die) If you run out of the fire the debuff will not fade, it will stay on for 45 seconds.
Aoe fear. 1,5 seconds casttime, large range (60 - 80 yards not sure, can't outrange it at least if you wan't to be part of the fight).
Air Burst: deals 3k initial damage and knocks you straight up in the sky. You will need to use the "Tears of the Goddess" to not fall to your death.

Fun fight, but very very very random and unforgiving.

Comment by 70251

The picture makes him look like a draenei... Though draenei in Warcraft 3 looks totally different

Comment by 47148

Considered the hardest boss in the game by top guilds, even harder than Illidan. Archimonde is the last boss to be killed worldwide.

Comment by omberg

The tree you are stopping Archimonde from destroying is "The World Tree" (The tree was grown from an acorn of the Mother Tree G'Hanir by the great dragon Alexstrasza in the waters of the newly reborn Well of Eternity on Mount Hyjal. ) which was originally saved by Malfurion Stormrage* who sounded the Horn of Cenarius, awakening the Ancestral Spirits( just as Archimonde where about to absorb Nordrassil's powers), an army of Wisp-like beings with ten times the power of a normal one. Thousands of them detonate on impact with the Defiler, incinerating him, along with the World Tree and the surrounding forests.

Medivh laid to rest any fears, confirming that, while "the roots will heal, in time, as will the entire world," Archimonde was gone forever.

* Illidans Stormrages twin brother and the first druid.

Source: http://www.wowwiki.com/

Comment by 75076

Archimonde summoned by Kel'Thuzad

Comment by 78714

His health is not 1.9 million its more like 4.9 million.

Comment by archimonde

why does wowhead change info about archi very often aren't they really sure?

Comment by Vlad

Feel free to knock yourself out on the Archimonde sound files. :)

All of your efforts have been in vain, for the draining of the world tree has already begun. Soon the hearth of your world will beat no more.
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Archimonde\\CAV_Arch_Intro01.ogg")
Your resistance is insignificant!
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Archimonde\\CAV_Arch_Aggro01.ogg")
This world will burn!
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Archimonde\\CAV_Arch_Burn01.ogg")
Malanach Sheek Thresh!
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Archimonde\\CAV_Arch_Burn02.ogg")
You are mine now!
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Archimonde\\CAV_Arch_Charm01.ogg")
Bow to my will!
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Archimonde\\CAV_Arch_Charm02.ogg")
Your soul will languish for eternety!
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Archimonde\\CAV_Arch_Slay01.ogg")
All creation will be devoured!
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Archimonde\\CAV_Arch_Slay02.ogg")
I am the coming of the end!
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Archimonde\\CAV_Arch_Slay03.ogg")
A-kreesh!
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Archimonde\\CAV_Arch_Knockup01.ogg")
Away vermin!
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Archimonde\\CAV_Arch_Knockup02.ogg")
At last it is here. Mourn and lament the passing of all you have ever known and all that would have been! Akmin-kurai!
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Archimonde\\CAV_Arch_PlyrLose01.ogg")
Noo, it can not be! Noo...
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Archimonde\\CAV_Arch_Death01.ogg")

Have fun!

(Edit: Thanks RedDragon412 and Woyruu for helping me out.)

Comment by 23815

The Doomfire IS resistible, but it is a binary resist. You won't resist part of it, but either the whole thing or nothing. A number of our raid members have gotten resists from the fire with nothing but a FR Aura from a Paladin.

Comment by Oley

hmm he has little hp compared to other end game bosses,he must do a whole bunch of dmg....

Comment by 74514

He hits like a cement truck. As far as "a whole bunch of damage", not really. It's just the combination of fears / doomfires that will eventually kill someone. Then he'll soul charge and it will either chain more soul charges or silence everyone and your tank will die.

The fight is very, very unforgiving. One person dies and you've got a 50/50 shot of living.

Couple notes: The doomfire takes a second or two to actually give you the DoT. Rogues can cloak it/you can bubble or iceblock it. Running into the water near the tree also removes the DoT, but it will silence you for 30 seconds so should only be used in emergencies. If you're going to wipe, die in the doomfire. You take no durability loss from dying this way.

Purification pots(https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=13462 ) may come in handy for this fight too. Often times he will use air burst on someone and then grip them immediately after.(though this is subject to fixing in patch 2.2 I believe, so it will be no longer relevant.)

The key to this fight is mobility and individual execution. This is not a DPS race or a burn down. Don't get caught in doomfires, don't fall to your death. And don't be surprised when this fight takes you 100 tries to succeed.

Comment by Oley

If it takes 100 ties,he must do alot of dmg :P

Comment by archimonde

to get into Cot hyjal summit you must have done the black morass & old hillsbrad foothills (Cot is located in tanaris) for thoose who dont know Cot is. Cot is (Caverns Of Time)

Comment by archimonde

on that one you couldnt type what is was /run PlaySoundFile("SoundCreatureArchimondeCAV_Arch_Burn02.wav");
it was demonic speak...i think

Comment by 48066

I don't know if this is changed or whether it ever worked, but I can confirm that running into the water does NOT remove the DOT from Doomfire. If your raid is properly positioned, you should be nowhere near the water in any event. Purification potions, although they don't work every time, are a very nice 'oh crap' to have as a last resort, usually if you get the Grip right before being feared a long way away from your decurser.

Comment by xander

When he gets down to 10% health, Archimonde resumes channeling the big green spell on the World Tree and starts casting Hand of Death. However, Tyrande Whisperwind applies a debuff to the entire raid making them all immune to all damage and healing. Warlocks are immune to the mana gain from lifetap, while druids cannot shapeshift. It would be a shame to get him to 10% and not get the kill because of these surprises.

Comment by Cicero

Strangest thing happened on our Archimonde kill tonight.

I accidentally died by not clicking the tears soon enough after an airburst with Archimonde at about 13%. Everyone got the debuff and it ended up killing about half the raid. Still, they were able to get him down to 10%.

He runs off, everyone becomes invulnerable and everyone starts DPSing him. It looked like we were going to make it, even with half the raid dead, but at 4% with time still left on the clock until he 1-shots all of us, he just suddenly up and dies.

Everyone saw it, too, it wasn't just me. I've no idea what caused him to die at 4%, but there it is. Oh well. He still dropped loot so I guess that's all that matters.

Comment by Artinz

Archimonde, for a time, was the leader of The Burning Legion. He was summoned by Kel'Thuzad to start the second invasion. He destroyed the mage city of Dalaran using demonic magic and sand. He drew in the sand on the ground a map of Dalaran then it rose up, into a model of the city. He then crushed the sand towers in his fists and the real towers followed suit.

Comment by 116438

That's right He is Final boss!! of Burning legion.........
No one will fight against him, only united Horde OR ally can!
PIt Player of Wow.gamez.mn (Blizzlike)

Comment by 78724

If he is tanked in the water of the well does Archimonde get the debuff PCs get? Seems obvious he wouldn't since he would be way to easy but I just want a confirmation.

Comment by Artinz

This guy should have a new skill in 2.4.

Stomp
Instant Cast
Melee Range
Instantly stomp on the nearest target, killing them, and crushing them into oblivion.

Do you see how big this guy's hooves are?
It would work, and you'd get pwned every time...

Still Blizzard had to made him killable somehow, or WC3 would've just been a joke.

Comment by Artinz

Archimonde in the First War:

After the Night Elven Highborne mages had opened a portal, Hakkar, the Houndmaster came through the portal, along with two Felhounds. He began to oversee the creation and stablilizing of the portal. He, ultimately failed, and Sargeras sent Mannoroth through the portal. Mannoroth created a shield around the portal, causing all mages to be cut off from the Well of Eternity. During the non-Highborne Night Evlen attempts at destorying the legion, Malfurion Stormrage destroyed the shield spell of the portal, and the portal itself.

Afterwards, Sargeras sent Archimonde, second in command of the Burning Legion, to oversee the recreation of the portal, so Sargeras could eventually come through portal.

Comment by Corbon

Note that Tear of the Goddess has a 2 hour duration, so if you can't beat him within that time frame, you must aquire a new one from Tyrande.

Comment by RiceCake

Archimonde is, without a doubt, one of the hardest bosses in TBC. He is arguably the trickiest and most unforgiving. In fact, I've heard that the average amount of wipes needed to down Archimonde is somewhere around 70, an incredibly large number for one single encounter. Even though the wipes occur very fast most of the time, resulting in actually not a lot of wasted time, our guild saved a lot of wipes (actually making a horde side record for our server) by running attempts "dry." This means that we do NOT dps at all in all of our attempts until we can be sure that everyone survives at least 5 minutes of the encounter. The necessity to run such dps-less attempts should be clearer to you as I present to you his strategy below.

Necessary equipment:
-Medallion or Insignia of the Horde/Alliance on all of your healers and most if not all of your raid, excluding your main tank.

-Tears of the Goddess in the inventory of EVERY SINGLE PERSON in the raid. The item should be on everyone's hot bars and bounded to an easy-to-access key. Get it from Tyrande Whisperwind in the Night Elf camp, and make sure that it at least has 20 minutes left on it (disappears every 2 hours). Whenever a wipe occurs, everyone in the raid should check if the tear is still in his/her inventory.

Suggested Raid Makeup:
-Melee: bring a lot of melee, they shine in this encounter.

-Shamans: Try to aim for at least one shaman a group if you're having trouble with his fear fearing people into fires.

-Decursers: There should be at least one decurser in every group.

-Healers: A normal amount of healers should suffice (7-8), however, make sure at least one healer is in each group.

Boss Abilities:
-Finger of Death: Instantly deals 20,000 damage to a single target. This ability is cast only when Archimonde has no melee in range to attack. You shouldn't have to worry about this ability if nothing majorly faulty happens.

-Hand of Death: Instantly deals 99,999 damage to everyone. This shouldn't be a problem if you keep him on solid ground away from the well. This is also his enrage ability (10 minutes timer).

-Melee: He hits fairly hard for around 7-8k on a fully geared tank. Since he swings with his fists he hits fairly fast too. While he cannot crit, the swing timer reset with a parry could burst your tank down really fast. Make sure there're at least two healers on your main tank at all times, if not all of your healers.

-Air Burst: He randomly targets a person and casts this on him/her. The person, as well as everyone within 13 yards of him, will get thrown very very high into the air (along with ~3k damage). If the person lands without levitate / slowfall, it is a 100% guaranteed death. However, the required item Tears of the Goddess will enable the player to slow fall for ~3 seconds. After the 3 seconds the person again falls. To prevent Air Burst from killing people, have them activate the Tear just seconds before they land. Remember it is always better to take a bit of fall damage due to clicking the Tear earlier than dying to lag due to clicking the Tear late.

-Grip of the Legion: A curse that he randomly casts on players that deals 2500 damage every 2 seconds for 5 MINUTES. Have decursers decurse this immediately.

-Doomfire: These are trails of fire that follow a specific person, leaving flames that tick for ~2.5k every second if stepped upon. Once a person gets hit with the fire, he/she will also get a debuff that ticks for ~2.5k initially then less with every tick for ~40 seconds. The doomfires travel fairly fast and will twist and turn from switching targets. GET AWAY from them as soon as possible and stay far away from them. Only 3 of these will be up at any given time but they're really long, so it is very possible for a group of people to get trapped by the fire. Prevent this as best as you can by running in straight lines, leaving the fire to go straight most of the time.

-Fear: A 1 second cast fear that fears the raid for 5 seconds every 30 seconds. Every healer should have the PvP trinket on and every healer should be on a rotation. 2 Healers should use their trinkets to keep healing the tank every single fear. Keep fear ward on your main tank (or he can stance dance). Due to this fear + fires, every person should stay as far away from doomfires as possible. They should also use their trinkets if they're going to be feared into a fire.

-Soul Charges: The raid wiper and what makes this encounter so tricky. Once a person dies (to anything), Archimonde will gain a soul charge. He can unleash this charge at any given time with 3 varieties. If the soul charge is from a hunter, shaman, or druid, the raid will be dealt 4.5k damage over 8 seconds. If the soul charge is from a warrior, rogue, or paladin, the raid will be dealt ~5k physical damage and any damage received after that will be increased by 50% for 8 seconds. If the soul charge is from a mage, warlock, or priest, everyone will be dealt around ~4k magic damage and be silenced for ~5 seconds. All of these AoE effects have a knockdown effect, and if anyone is killed by the Soul Charge, Archimonde will again acquire their soul. Pretty much if anyone dies, he'll soul charge the raid and kill one or two more, then soul charge again and again until the raid dies. It is possible to completely survive one soul charge, especially the DoT, but this ability usually means that if anyone dies, the fight is over.

Positioning: Try to tank Archimonde in the middle of the open area. Split your raid into 5 groups: melee, East, West, North, and South group. The melee should stay in melee range, and the other 4 ranged groups should spread out as a cross around him, standing on one another and max ranging Archimonde.

Overall Strat: If you have a healer and a decurser in every group (a shaman too if possible), each group will be one unit that could survive on their own. If a group gets Air Bursted, they have a healer to top them off and a decurser to remove the Grip. If a group gets feared, they have a shaman to Tremor Totem them out of it. If they need to run away from fire, the whole group runs away together. This way you greatly increase the chance of survival as opposed to everyone running around doing their own business. Keep a trinket rotation on the healers to make sure the main tank gets topped off. The melee should spread out behind him to avoid air bursting the main tank when they get targeted. However, they should be at a distance where when the doomfire spawns they can immediately move away from them.

You raid's success really is in the hand of everyone. Bring your most situationally-aware raiders, and realize that this fight is in no way a DPS fight but a survival one. Practice using the Tears jumping off the cliffs by the Elven Village. Practice running out of fires / decursing by not dps'ing in attempts. Use the trinkets to avoid extra damage that healers have to heal through, and just be ready to move constantly. Make sure you're always near a decurser to avoid the Grip from killing you.

If you manage to down Archimonde to 10% hp, he'll run away and start Hand of Death'ing the raid. However, the elves will put a shield on everyone that avoids all damage done. All healing effects and buffs will not work (along with life tap) at this point, and all you have to do is DPS him down. I'm not sure if he automatically gets killed by the wisps even if you don't dps him, but this last 10% is in

Comment by 8463

Unfortunately, Blizzard seems to be requiring players to PvP in order to participate in PvE combat now, as the only item in the game that breaks fears is the PvP trinket. I certainly hope that Blizzard plans to introduce some other items in the game that do what the trinket does if they continue this trend.

Comment by 131545

at firs when sargeras picked his messagers he picked kil`jaden and archimonde.....kil`jaden will appear in 2.4 ;)

Comment by 64827

As of patch 2.4 the area around Archimonde has been decreased in size and players are no longer able to go into the hills around his area.

Comment by 108775

Tree hugger.

Comment by 7371

Does anyone have a clue whether or not his fears can be resisted with increased Shadow Resist?

Comment by 48620

Im not sure whether someone else has asked this already, but can other items be used for the slow fall ie noggenfogger

Comment by 150500

DO NOT underestimate the intensity of this fight! He sounds easy on paper however, unless everyone in the raid kows exactly what they are doing, it is a wipe. The fires he shoots out snake in all kinds of different directions. The damage isn't too hard to heal through, but whith the healers healing the tank and disspelling, it is very vital that you try and stay at close to full health at all times. You also shouldn't stand close to trees if you can avoid them. Landing in a tree after air burst happens more often than you would think. One death usually wipes the raid due to the debuffs that you get that cause chain kills and more debuffs etc. If it looks like a wipe, die to the fire. It costs 16s or so to repair rather than 2g. Last but not least, the thing that seems to be the hardest part of the fight is that people do not realize that THIS IS NOT A DPS BATTLE! You have plenty of time. Worry more about staying alive. One last suggestion is to run a dry run where noone touches him and just try to stay alive for 10 mins to get used to it.

Comment by 144140

As of 2.4.2 his doomfires can now path randomly, ramping up the difficulty of the fight hugely, it's also now possible for air bursts to be targetted on the maintank.

The fires change has increased the difficulty of this fight an exorbitant amount, with melee previously dominating the fight, it's a lot harder for them to avoid fires now.

from 2.4.2 patchnotes

Raids & Dungeons
Hyjal Summit - Archimonde (Possibly bugged)

* Fire will now spawn -much- closer to Archimonde, and the pathing is entirely random.
* Fire can target and chase Melee. Never possible pre 2.4.2.
* Archimonde's hit box size has been increased
* MT's are now able to be targetted by Air Burst

Comment by 150943

there is an item, that can be obtained at the top of twin mountains in feralas and it actually acts like a parachute. I suppose it can be used along with thr tears of the goddes to prevent damage from falling?

Comment by adamb10

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Archimonde

Hyjal SummitRage WinterchillAnetheronKaz'rogalAzgalorArchimondeArchimondeHyjal SummitAbilities

Fear: Every 30 seconds Archimonde will fear the entire raid for 5 seconds. It has a 1 second cast time which means the main tank must be quick to stance dance.

Air Burst: A random person and anyone within 13 yards from the target is hit for 3000 damage and tossed high into the air. Tears of the Goddess must be used in order to prevent death.

Grip of the Legion: Deals 375,000 Shadow damage inflicted over 5 minutes (2500 damage every 2 seconds) to a random player.

Finger of Death: Deals 20,000 shadow damage on a single target. If no players are in melee range, Archimonde will begin casting this.

Hand of Death: Deals 99,999 shadow damage to everyone in the raid and all NPCs in the area. Occurs when he gets too close to the Well of Eternity. Also happens if Archimonde is above 10% total health after 10 minutes.

Soul Charge: Once a player dies the entire raid takes a random effect. Inflicts either Soul Charge (50% more damage for 8 seconds), Soul Charge (4500 Nature damage inflicted over 8 seconds), or Soul Charge (silenced) depending on the player class that died.

Doomfire: Trail of fire on the ground that does 2,250 fire damage per second on first tick and does less with every following tick. Fire resistance does not affect this effect.

General Tips

Strategize the fear. Players should use any anti-fear tools (Insignias, Medallions, Ice Block, , Cloak of Shadows, Tremor Totem) you can but make sure all of them don't use it at the first fear or there won't be enough up for the second fear (especially healers).

Before the fear is cast, make sure players run away from nearby Doomfire. Being close to it while feared may end up killing that player.

Make sure the decursers are spread out ready to decurse the entire raid.

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1,500 reputation with The Scale of the Sands

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