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Introduction
Welcome to our Teron Gorefiend guide, the fourth boss of the Black Temple raid in The Burning Crusade Phase 3. This guide covers the fight mechanics and the strategy we recommend to defeat this boss!
Teron Gorefiend is the original Death Knight, and is well known for his infamous Shadow Of Death mechanic. Duping players in a Phase 1 quest chain, players can get their revenge finally on this warrior of death.
This fight has some raid wide healing with an occasional dispel, but mostly focuses on the vehicle mechanic of controlling your Vengeful Spirit if you get picked for Shadow Of Death. All players must know how to do this or their raid will wipe.
Fight Style: Single Target encounter with a random player picked vehicle mechanic.
Recommended Setup: 1x Tank /5x Healer / 19x DPS
Required utilities: Dispells
Hero/Lust usage: Phase 1
Method Boss Review
This fight's main challenge comes from 24 people knowing how to properly do the Shadow Of Death mechanic. If one person cannot do it, then you wipe.
Besides that, this fight is pretty much a target-dummy fight for DPS and tanks, and healers just heal the tank and heal players hit by Shadowbolt.
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This is a 1 Phase fight with very little mechanics, but the main mechanic, Shadow Of Death, is the most important. This mechanic will turn the player into a Vengeful Spirit after 55 seconds, and summon four Shadowy Constructs around them. The Spirit must kill the constructs before they kill the raid. No one can damage constructs except the Spirit. Outside of that, heal some raid-wide damage and dispel Incinerate.
Phase 1:
- Tank the boss where he's at with the rest of the raid behind the boss.
- Heal players hit by Shadowbolt from Doom Blossom.
- Players marked with the Shadow Of Death need to go to the back corner during the last 15 seconds of their debuff.
- Vengeful Spirits need to kill all Shadowy Construct before they reach the raid.
- Dispel Incinerate.
Mechanics
Marked for death. After 55 seconds, a player is killed and becomes a Vengeful Spirit, spawning 4 Shadowy Constructs around them. The Spirit will get a new action bar and must kill the 4 Shadowy Constructs before they reach the raid.
Deals 2,775 to 3,225 Fire damage on impact and an additional 8,325 to 9,675 damage over 3 sec. Dispellable.
Unattackable shadow orbs will spawn throughout, shooting Shadowbolts at random raid members, dealing around 2,000 damage to that target.
A powerful strike that weakens the target, reducing the damage it deals by 10% for 5 sec. Should only be cast on Teron Gorefiend after all the Shadowy Constructs are dead.
Fires a burst of spirit energy at a single target, dealing 6,175 to 6,825 damage and halting its movement briefly. Targets hit by Spirit Lance will gradually regain mobility as the effect fades. Only usable on shadowy beings.
Fires a concentrated volley of spirit energy, dealing 9,900 to 12,100 damage to all targets within 12 yards. Only usable on shadowy beings.
Spirit Volley
Fires a concentrated volley of spirit energy, dealing 9,900 to 12,100 damage to all targets within 12 yards. Only usable on shadowy beings.
Overview
Teron Gorefiend is a 1 phase fight all about every player but the tank knowing how to control the Vengeful Spirit.
Three things to get right here:
- Dispel Incinerate ASAP.
- Heal players hit by Shadowbolts.
- Players marked with Shadow Of Death need to move to the opposite back corners of the room during the last 15 seconds of the debuff.
Vengeful Spirit
When you turn into a ghost, your character's abilities will disappear, and you will instead gain 5 new abilities on your action bar. Our abilities will be keybound as follows:
Here's what each of the abilities do:
- Ability 1, Spirit Strike, is something you’ll only cast on the boss.
- Ability 7, Spirit Shield, is intended to protect players from Shadow Damage, but isn’t really necessary unless maybe a healer is one of those hit by a Shadow of Death.
- Ability 3, Spirit Lance, will deal Frost damage to a construct and slow them down, stacking up to 3 times.
- Ability 4, Spirit Chains, is a Frost Nova ability that will root all constructs until they take damage.
- Ability 5, Spirit Volley, is just an AoE frost damage ability.
Rotation
From here, you will simply do the following rotation.
- Sprit Volley off cooldown
- Spirit Chains off cooldown
- Tab-Target Spirit Lance until Volley and Chains are off cooldown
You will first want to deal massive AoE damage with Spirit Volley, then immediately root all targets with Spirit Chains. From here, you will Spirit Lance every target on a loop.
Make sure you are consistently rotating construct targets with Spirit Lance, as the most important part of this ability is the slow effect that stacks up to three times. If you try to kill each Shadowy Construct individually, they will make their way to the raid and kill your raid members.
