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This is one of the easier damage rush achievements, since it requires a paltry 1068 average DPS from your four non-healers. Even considering the movement requirements, that's easier than say, Good Grief; that requires 1798 average DPS between the four. The only challenge would be ensuring your group's tight movement in and out of Lightning Nova.
A well geared group with a strong AE healer could also simply stand in the Nova, reducing the challenge significantly.
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Achievement Points10
Achievement
Timely Death
Defeat Loken in the Halls of Lightning on Heroic Difficulty in 2 minutes or less.
Timely Death is a 10 point achievement in Lich King Dungeon. Its criteria ask you to defeat 1 creature in Halls of Lightning.
How to Earn
WhereHalls of Lightning (entrance in The Storm Peaks at 45.4, 21.3)
CreaturesKill Loken on Heroic Difficulty in 2 minutes or less.
How to Complete
1 criterion from the current game data.
Defeat these creatures (1)
Kill each creature listed.
- Kill Loken on Heroic Difficulty in 2 minutes or less.
Details
- Category
- Dungeons & Raids › Lich King Dungeon
- Points
- 10
- Faction
- Both factions
- Requirements
- 1 criteria line
- Instance
- Halls of Lightning
- Instance type
- Dungeon
- Expansion
- Wrath of the Lich King
About Halls of Lightning
Upon departing Azeroth, the titans entrusted loyal protectors with safeguarding Ulduar, an enigmatic city nestled in the mountains of the Storm Peaks. Designated supreme among his brethren was the guardian known as Loken, but with the power of the titan complex in his hands, he turned to darkness and plunged the region into chaos.
From the in-game Adventure Guide.
Where to Earn It
Timely Death is earned inside Halls of Lightning, a dungeon. The entrance is marked below.
The entrance to Halls of Lightning is in The Storm Peaks at 45.4, 21.3.
Entrance 45.4, 21.3The Storm Peaks, from the game’s own world map art. The framed marker is the Adventure Guide entrance.
Part of
Meta achievements that count this one among their criteria.
- Glory of the Hero 25 points
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This achievement requires you to kill Loken before his third Lightning Nova, basically. If everyone in the group has at least 16,000 hitpoints, this achievement won't be a problem. You don't need a priest or a druid either. Naturally, the fight is meant to be done in a specific way. You're supposed to run away from Loken as the Lightning Nova commences.
However, due to the way his lightning pulse works (the further you are away from him, the more damage you take), in order to do this achievement, you're much better off getting some nature resist (don't gimp yourself with nature resist gear, just get mark of the wild, or a nature resist totem, or nature resist aspect) and staying in for the lightning nova. After the nova, everyone gets topped off over time, and DPS continues. He should die shortly before or after his second lightning nova.
The reason you won't want to run away is that, while you won't take the lightning nova damage, you will be losing DPS time running away from him, and back to him. If you run away and back to him each time, that's ~20 seconds of non-DPS, and you only have 2 minutes to kill him, not to mention that you'll be taking damage from his other lightning attacks as you're running back to him (which, given how far away you are from him, will do a lot of damage).
Lucky now with MoP out, if you have any high level character you can kill [npc=28923] in seconds if not a second.
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