TheWoWDBAll things considered, she dies in a pretty horrible way.
As if being possessed and mind-raped by parasitic spores growing in her brain wasn't enough, when we fight her she desperately tries to kill herself (and us) with her spells, all the while we're beating her to death.
And then with her dying breath she tells us to burn her body, so it won't spread and happen to anyone else.
I'm pretty sure that's a horror movie plot right there. Poor Sol. :(
How is this game still rated 13? :P
Elite
Archmage Sol
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i love her voice acting
i couldnt help feel sorry for her yet feel like she was demented and crazy too, awesome boss and fight!
Challenge Mode Guide:
First of all, eff you Archmage Sol. She is literally the only hard part of the entire CM.
Now, let me explain our strategy and why we chose it. She has three phases- Fire, Ice and Arcane, each with a special ability (fire rings, blizzards, and arcane explosion) that you're probably familiar with from Heroic. She starts in Fire, and every time you interrupt the spell "Parasitic Growth" (PG) she switches phases. If PG goes through she gets a bunch of extra damage, so it seems like you would want to interrupt it every time. However there's one big wrinkle for CM- we found that the Arcane phase is basically unhealable. If your healer is amazing and you chain cooldowns you might make it through, but it's a lot of damage. We found it best to interrupt her only once and then leave her in Frost for the rest of the fight by letting all subsequent PG casts through. However, this means she steadily deals more damage from stacks of PG (did I mention it stacks?), so the fight has a soft enrage of enrage of around 2 minutes before she'll start one-shotting the tank. This also means that her AoE abilities start to hit really hard near the end, leaving a smaller margin of error for the entire party.
So here's what we did:
1) Pull the Archmage towards the path you came in on. Don't pull her too far or she will despawn.
2) While in Fire phase she will drop fire blossoms under people's feet which will emit the fire rings. She seems to prefer ranged targets, so have the healer and any ranged dps drop them somewhere along the path.
3) Shortly after she drops two fire blossoms, she will cast PG for the first time. Interrupt the spell, which will push her into Frost.
4) After interrupting her, move the boss away from the entrance towards the middle of the room. The fire rings have a limited range of maybe 30 yards from the blossom, so once you're far enough away you can forget about them for the rest of the fight which makes positioning a lot easier.
5) Around this time she will spawn her first spore clone, which will spam your group with spells. They have a lot of HP so don't bother attacking them, and are unfortunately immune to hard CCs. However, you can stun, interrupt and knock them back. Don't dedicate too much time and attention to this, but every spell you keep from going off will help your healer out, and believe me he/she is going to be super-stressed by the end of the fight.
6) The rest of the fight is a DPS race, as you ignore PG casts and burn her before the damage gets to be too much. Be sure to avoid blizzards, green swirls, all the garbage the plant walls have been shooting at you all instance (fire and sleep), and all the random vines and doodads that the devs decided to fill the room with for some reason. Move the boss regularly so you avoid getting trapped in by blizzards. She will also keep spawning clones; not much you can do about this. Use any avoidance and DPS cooldowns, and finally note that she can be kited for some time if you interrupt her, which is how we got our kill.Another option would be to leave her in fire phase the whole fight. However, the fire rings seem to have really poor collision detection and her fireballs leave a nasty stacking DoT, so we decided to do Frost instead. If you try out keeping her in Fire, leave a comment so we know how it goes.
Yet another option would be to push through the arcane phase with gobs of healing and cooldowns. As mentioned above it strikes me as really difficult, but possibly doable. In this case though you definitely won't make it through a second arcane phase, because every cast of PG gives her a 25% increase to damage even if you do interrupt her. Either leave her in a second Frost phase, or kill her really fast.
Good Luck!
Details
This roster comes from the current game client's data files, so it is not a complete list of every NPC in the game - older world NPCs that are no longer in the modern client are absent.
Boss Encounter
Archmage Sol appears as a raid or dungeon boss. See the encounter page for its instance.
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for the Archmage Sol encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Overview
Archmage Sol struggles against the parasite's control, cycling between Fire, Frost, and Arcane schools of magic. Each time her school affinity changes, she immediately uses a powerful spell from that school.
Damage Dealers
- In addition to inflicting damage, Glacial Fusion stuns players on contact.
- Spatial Compression pulls all players towards its impact location, no matter where they are.
Healers
- Cinderbolt Storm inflicts heavy damage to all players.
- In addition to inflicting damage, Glacial Fusion stuns players on contact.
- Spatial Compression pulls all players towards its impact location, no matter where they are.
Tanks
- In addition to inflicting damage, Glacial Fusion stuns players on contact.
- Spatial Compression pulls all players towards its impact location, no matter where they are.
Fire Magic
Frost Magic
Arcane Magic
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Drops in The Everbloom
Loot the dungeon journal lists for the Archmage Sol encounter.
Blackwater Helm
Blackwater Wristguards
Bloodfeather Bracers
Bloodfeather Cowl
Bracers of Arcane Mystery
Bracers of Burning Focus
Bracers of Swirling Light
Crystalbinder Helm
Crystalbinder Wristguards
Felflame Bracers
Felflame Hood
Frost-Touched Hood
Frost-Touched Wristwraps
Goldsteel Bindings
Goldsteel Greathelm
Gutcrusher Bracers
Gutcrusher Coronet
Hood of Arcane Mystery
Hood of Burning Focus
Hood of Swirling Light
Incarnadine Bracers
Incarnadine Greathelm
Lavalink Bracers
Lavalink Helm
Leafmender Hood
Leafmender Wraps
Lightbinder Cover
Lightbinder Wristwraps
Morningscale Bracers
Morningscale Cowl
Rivet-Sealed Bracers
Rivet-Sealed Casque
Rockhide Casque
Rockhide Wristguards
Sharpeye Bracers
Sharpeye Gleam
Sol's Magestaff
Spores of Alacrity
Streamslither Bracers
Streamslither Helm
Verdant Plate Crown
Verdant Plate Wristguards
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
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What Each Drop Is
The Archmage Sol encounter lists 40 items in the dungeon journal, item level 44. Equip slots covered: Head and Wrist. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Blackwater Helm Head (Leather), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Haste. A vendor pays 42g 94s for it.
- Blackwater Wristguards Wrist (Leather), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 29g 30s for it.
- Bloodfeather Bracers Wrist (Leather), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Versatility. A vendor pays 31g 10s for it.
- Bloodfeather Cowl Head (Leather), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 46g 64s for it.
- Bracers of Arcane Mystery Wrist (Cloth), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 31g 44s for it.
- Bracers of Burning Focus Wrist (Leather), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 30g 89s for it.
- Bracers of Swirling Light Wrist (Cloth), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Versatility. A vendor pays 30g 18s for it.
- Crystalbinder Helm Head (Leather), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Versatility. A vendor pays 46g 47s for it.
- Crystalbinder Wristguards Wrist (Leather), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 29g 42s for it.
- Felflame Bracers Wrist (Cloth), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 29g 19s for it.
- Felflame Hood Head (Cloth), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Haste. A vendor pays 46g 31s for it.
- Frost-Touched Hood Head (Cloth), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 45g 63s for it.
- Frost-Touched Wristwraps Wrist (Cloth), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 29g 87s for it.
- Goldsteel Bindings Wrist (Plate), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Versatility. A vendor pays 29g 65s for it.
- Goldsteel Greathelm Head (Plate), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Versatility. A vendor pays 44g 80s for it.
- Gutcrusher Bracers Wrist (Plate), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Versatility. A vendor pays 29g 9s for it.
- Gutcrusher Coronet Head (Plate), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 43g 81s for it.
- Hood of Arcane Mystery Head (Cloth), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 45g 14s for it.
- Hood of Burning Focus Head (Leather), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 45g 98s for it.
- Hood of Swirling Light Head (Cloth), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 44g 65s for it.
- Incarnadine Bracers Wrist (Plate), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 31g 33s for it.
- Incarnadine Greathelm Head (Plate), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 46g 13s for it.
- Lavalink Bracers Wrist (Mail), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Versatility. A vendor pays 30g 85s for it.
- Lavalink Helm Head (Mail), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Versatility. A vendor pays 42g 80s for it.
- Leafmender Hood Head (Leather), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 14g 38s for it.
- Leafmender Wraps Wrist (Leather), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 30g 74s for it.
- Lightbinder Cover Head (Cloth), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Versatility. A vendor pays 43g 48s for it.
- Lightbinder Wristwraps Wrist (Cloth), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Versatility. A vendor pays 30g 63s for it.
- Morningscale Bracers Wrist (Mail), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 29g 41s for it.
- Morningscale Cowl Head (Mail), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 45g 15s for it.
- Rivet-Sealed Bracers Wrist (Plate), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 31g 42s for it.
- Rivet-Sealed Casque Head (Plate), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 45g 65s for it.
- Rockhide Casque Head (Mail), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 44g 14s for it.
- Rockhide Wristguards Wrist (Mail), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Haste. A vendor pays 30g 29s for it.
- Sharpeye Bracers Wrist (Mail), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 29g 64s for it.
- Sharpeye Gleam Head (Mail), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 44g 81s for it.
- Streamslither Bracers Wrist (Mail), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 30g 44s for it.
- Streamslither Helm Head (Mail), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 46g 15s for it.
- Verdant Plate Crown Head (Plate), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 43g 81s for it.
- Verdant Plate Wristguards Wrist (Plate), item level 44. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 30g 44s for it.
Read from the current game build's item data. Listed prices come from our latest US Auction House scan; a drop that binds when picked up never has one.