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Black Temple: A Complete Guide

Black Temple: A Complete Guide

Black Temple is the penultimate raid in World of Warcraft TBC history. This is for sure the symbol of the Burning Crusade add-on. In-world it is located in the eastern part of Shadowmoon valley – the high-level location of Outland. Even to this date, the BT fortress is one of the most grandiose places in the game.

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In the raid, your group will meet the 8 bosses followed by the lord Illidan Stormrage himself as the head boss of the dungeon. You will also encounter famous WoW TBC characters – Maev Shadowsong, Akama, and others.

Black Temple Raid Setup

We highly recommend bringing 3 Tanks, 6 Healers, and 16 DPS. This setup is proven to be the most optimal for the Black Temple dungeon back in the days.

Tanks

There are no preferences for the tanks. However, a Druid Tank will be good to have due to evasion for the First Phase of Reliquary of the Lost encounter. Also, at least two of your tanks will have to stack high fire resistance in order to be able to handle the Fire Elementals on Illidan – the last boss of the Black Temple raid.

Healers

During the fights, tanks will get serious damage. We recommend having at least two direct heals focused on the tank healing. The best healing setup for the Black Temple is 2 Holy Paladins, 2 Restore Shamans, 1 Restore Druid, and 1 Holy Priest. Druids need to keep HoTs on the raid at all times, allowing Paladins to focus on the tanks. Shamans, and priests need to focus on the raid healing and assist with tanks.

Damage Dealers

Most encounters in the Black Temple favor ranged damage dealers over melee. You will need 5-7 melee DPS players out of 16. The main thing that damage dealers need to stack for this raid is shadow-resistant gear. The more you have it the more likely you are to defeat Mother Shahraz.

BLACK TEMPLE BOSSES

High Warlord Naj’entus

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This is the first boss of the Black Temple raid dungeon. It serves as a gear check due to massive damage and threatening AOE explosion abilities:

Preparation and Tactic

You will need:

All the raid members need to spread. The boss will be casting the Impaling Spine on random members. The task of players that have not been hit by the spell is to collect Naj’entus Spine from the impaled targets. After 60 seconds the boss will cast the Tidal Shield that will make him immune to any damage. The task of the raid is to use the collected Spine to remove the shield. Keep in mind that removing the shield triggers the Tidal Burst that will damage the entire raid. If your healers have not been able to top up everyone before the Tidal Burst, you can use the Major Frost Protection Potion that will absorb most damage. Also, an option will be to use a frost-resistant gear and put frost-resistant totems in every group.

Supremus

The second boss of Black Temple raid dungeon. Boss has 2 phases and will require every raid member to pay attention. During the encounter Supremus casts a variety of abilities:

Preparation and Tactic

You will need:

During the first phase, the boss will be doing massive damage to the Main tank with his melee attacks and using Hateful Strike on the Off tank. We recommend at least 3-4 healers focusing on tanks exclusively as they will be the main target. The only notable threat to any payer other than tanks is Molten Flame. After the 60 seconds boss switch to the second phase.

During this phase, all raid members need to spread around and exercise caution. Supremus will charge random targets who have to kite him around the arena. Be mindful of your surroundings and avoid Volcanic Geyser which causes significant damage to any player in its area of effect. After 60 seconds, the boss will switch to phase 1.

All classes that do physical DPS must use the Elixir of Demonslaying, which is extremely effective against the Demon bosses.

Shade of Akama

The third boss of Black Temple raid dungeon. You will meet the shadow of Akama that serves Illidan Stormrage. This is for sure the easiest boss in the dungeon. The Boss himself has no abilities, but his adds have some.

Ashtongue Defender

Ashtongue Elementalist

Ashtongue Rogue

Ashtongue Spiritbinder

Ashtongue Sorcerer and Channeler

Channels on the boss that stops his movement.

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Preparation and Tactic

You will need:

The encounter is divided into 2 phases. In phase 1, you will need to divide the raid into three groups: main DPS that will be killing Sorcerers and Channelers in priority until phase 2, and two adds tanking groups that need to include one healer and one tank on the each of the sides.

In phase 2, you will need to nuke the boss for a 1-minute timer; otherwise, he will murder Akama, and you’ll have to start over. Boss has only 1 million health points

Teron Gorefiend

This is the DPS race boss. Teron has to be defeated to open the Mother Shahraz door.

Abilities

Preparation and Tactic

You will need:

This is a standard gear check. The DPS and healers should position themselves behind the boss. Boss is immune to taunt; all DPS need to be very careful with aggro. Everyone who can should dispel Incinerate debuff as soon as possible. The target of Shadow of Death needs to run far away from the raid to spawn Shadowy Constructs. The main task of a person who becomes a ghost is to control the ads not allowing them to reach the boss.

There is a macro that a player who became a ghost can spam nonstop to make controlling and killing Shadowy Constructs easier:

/click PetActionButton5
/click PetActionButton4
/click PetActionButton3

Gurtogg Bloodboil

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This mutated orc does high damage to the tanks and raid. This boss is the first hard boss you will meet in the Black Temple raid. Boss is a humanoid and has a set of abilities:

Preparation and Tactic

You will need:

Boss has 2 phases that take 90 seconds: 60 seconds for one phase and a 30-second for another phase.

The first phase will require your ranged DPS and healers to split into three groups of 5 people, each soaking a Bloodboil debuff. Groups will need to rotate by command of the raid leader to avoid getting more than one stack of the debuff. At the same time, DPS need to be mindful of their aggro, as the main task in phase one is to allow your tanks to take the top 3 places for easy rotations. Because of the Acidic Wound, it is recommended for tanks to rotate every 20 stacks.

During phase 2, all the healers need to focus on the Fel Rage target. Your paladins need to be ready to give the Blessing of Protection in critical situations. Nothing special about this phase. Just heal the Fel Rage target and don’t stand in front of the boss.

Reliquary of Souls

This hard DPS check boss includes 3 mini-bosses (phases) – Essence of Suffering, Essence of Desire, and Essence of Anger. Each of the bosses has its abilities; however, every phase will require your raid to do as much as possible damage.

Abilities

Essence of Suffering
Essence of Desire
Essence of Anger

Preparation and Tactic

You will need:

The boss has 3 phases. Killing each essence provokes the transition to the next phase:

Phase 1

During this phase, healing is impossible. All healers will have to do as much damage as they can. Do not worry about mana as at the end of each phase it will be fully restored. Tanks should be switching on 15-20% of health. When bost casts Enrage it is better to let a rogue tank. Remember that aggro is irrelevant during this phase. The boss automatically focuses on the closest target.

Phase 2

In this phase, healers need to be ready for big damage to the raid as the boss reflects it to the damage dealers. Be mindful of your DPS as it is inflicted back on you. If you are on low health it is better to stop damaging the boss, than die. Also, it is very important to interrupt Spirit Shock during this phase. We recommend putting 2 or 4 kickers that will rotate their kicks one by one.

Phase 3

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Just a DPS race phase. All DPS need to be careful with aggro. Remember that if the boss will switch the target it may wipe the raid. We recommend waiting 10-15 seconds and casting a Bloodlust during this phase.

Mother Shahraz

This is a challenging battle that requires a good shadow resistance to defeat it easily. Your raid will need to make an impressive DPS to burn it down fast. Healers need to be ready that tanks will be hit by serious damage. You can only get access to The Illidari Council chamber once Mother Shahraz is defeated. It has the following abilities:

Beams:

Preparation and Tactic

You will need:

The raid should be divided into 3 camps – melee, range, and tank. The boss is quite static, however, you need to be mindful of a few things. When the boss casts Fatal Attraction all the chosen targets should run away in different directions to be 25 yards away from each other. Be ready to run very fast, as usual, 1-2 seconds of delay may cause death of your character. Never run into one of the camps as it may wipe the raid.

Also, be ready to buy or craft some shadow resistance gear to make your life easier.

Illidari Council

This is the penultimate boss of the Black Temple raid. The Council consists of 4 blood elves mini-bosses that have a merged HP. Means damaging one every boss gets damage. This is by far the longest encounter in all the raid. The Council members have the following abilities:

Lady Malande
High Nethermancer Zerevor
Gathios the Shatterer
Veras Darkshadow

Preparation and Tactic

You will need:

This is a hard fight that will require your raid to cooperate very well. Boss has merged health which means doing damage to any of them injures them all. First of all, you need to put 1 tank on each boss. Zerover should be tanked by a mage. The raid needs to spread for more than 10 yards from each other to prevent the Arcane explosion. The mage that will be tanking Zerover should spell steal Dampen Magic buff as fast as possible.

It is very important to interrupt the Circle of Healing spell of Lady Malande. You should put a minimum of 2 interrupters (1 physical and 1 magical) to guarantee that this spell never goes off because if it does, the boss will be healed for 100000 health. All the DPS should focus on Gathios. Keep an eye on AOE abilities – any combination of Blizzard, Flamestrike, and Consecration will certainly lead to your untimely demise.

Illidan Stormrage

This is the last boss of the Black Temple raid and one of the most iconic characters in the history of WoW TBC. Also, killing him is the final objective for the Black Temple questline. Illidan makes use of a wide variety of abilities during the encounter:

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Preparation and Tactic

You will need:

For burst tactic:

For non-burst tactic:

Boss has 5 phases:

Phase 1

During this phase, you will need one main tank. Illidan will attempt to heal so make sure to apply healing debuff to prevent it. Be careful with Parasitic Shadowfiend and spawn it in the correct place. Phase 1 will be going till 65% health of the boss.

Phase 2

During this phase, the boss will fly up and raid and will need to fight with two fire elementals. For this phase, you will need to use 2 remaining tanks in the fire resistance set. All the raids need to spread into 4 groups to share incoming AoE damage. After killing the elementals Illidan will fly down.

Phases 3&4

Boss will be switching phases between phases 3 and 4 until he reaches 30%. However, with a burst setup, you can keep phase 4 and burst the boss to 30% for 55 seconds of time. During this phase, nothing new happens. Boss will use the same abilities as in phase 1. If you can’t defeat the boss without phase 4, you will need to be ready to spread out and kill the shadow hunters.

Phase 5

After reaching 30% you can be sure that you will kill the boss. Just focus on healing the boss on enrage and finish it. Boss does not do anything special just the same abilities as before.

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