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Achievement
Nuked from Orbit (25 player)
Defeat Flame Leviathan with 3 Orbital Defense Systems active in 25-player mode.
Nuked from Orbit (25 player) is a Legacy achievement in Raids. Its criteria ask you to defeat 1 creature in Ulduar.
How to Earn
WhereUlduar (entrance in The Storm Peaks at 41.5, 17.6)
CreaturesFlame Leviathan
How to Complete
1 criterion from the current game data.
Defeat these creatures (1)
Kill each creature listed.
- Flame Leviathan
Details
- Points
- None (Feat of Strength)
- Faction
- Both factions
- Requirements
- 1 criteria line
- Instance
- Ulduar
- Instance type
- Raid
- Expansion
- Wrath of the Lich King
Where to Earn It
Nuked from Orbit (25 player) is earned inside Ulduar, a raid. The entrance is marked below.
The entrance to Ulduar is in The Storm Peaks at 41.5, 17.6.
Entrance 41.5, 17.6The Storm Peaks, from the game’s own world map art. The framed marker is the Adventure Guide entrance.
Series
Each tier replaces the one above it in the achievement log.
Tier 3 of 4, it follows Orbital Devastation (25 player) and leads to Orbit-uary (25 player).
- Orbital Bombardment (25 player)Defeat Flame Leviathan with 1 Orbital Defense System active in 25-player mode.
- Orbital Devastation (25 player)Defeat Flame Leviathan with 2 Orbital Defense Systems active in 25-player mode.
- Nuked from Orbit (25 player)
- Orbit-uary (25 player)Defeat Flame Leviathan with 4 Orbital Defense Systems active in 25-player mode.
Part of
Meta achievements that count this one among their criteria.
- Nuked from Orbit 10 points
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Kill the Flame Leviathan on the third tier of hard mode on heroic difficulty.
There are 4 defence towers in the gauntlet leading to the Flame Leviathan which can be activated by talking to the Lore Keeper of Norgannon before talking to Brann to start the gauntlet. Activating a tower and leaving it intact will activate a unique Orbital Defense System on the Leviathan. Each Defense System grants the Leviathan an extra ability, increases his health by 50% (multiplicative!), gives him a unique buff, converts all dropped Emblems of Valor to Emblems of Conquest and increases the number of Emblems. Killing the Leviathan with 3 Defence Systems active is the third tier of hard mode and allows the raid to get the Heroic: Nuked from Orbit achievement and 3 Emblems of Conquest.
The Leviathan gains 238% HP and three of the following abilities when 3 Defense Systems are active:
- Tower of Storms: Thorim's Hammer - Physical damage. Extra damage at point of impact. Also increases physical damage by 25%
- Tower of Flames: Mimiron's Inferno - Fire damage and a AoE damage zone. Also increases fire damage by 50%
- Tower of Frost: Hodir's Fury - Frost damage and entombs vehicles near the impact point in ice. Entombed vehicles are stunned for 1 minute, taking damage over time. The tomb can be destroyed with ignited Tar. Also slows players for 20%
- Tower of Nature: Freya's Ward - Nature damage and summons Writhing Lasher and Ward of Life adds. Also descreases fire damage taken by Leviathan by 10%
HP and loot results of leaving up fewer towers with Hard Mode active:
0 Towers | 1 Towers | 2 Towers | 3 Towers | 4 Towers
HP [mln] 70 | 105 | 158 | 236 | 354
Emblems 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3
Loot normal | normal | normal | normal | Normal + hard
More towers also means more runed orbs and greater chance of val'anyr fragments.
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