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Arcanist Tel'arn
High Botanist Tel'arn - The Nighthold
Arcanist Tel'arn is a boss of the High Botanist Tel'arn encounter in The Nighthold.
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Encounter Facts
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Model
Background
Instance Entrance: Suramar
The Nighthold entranceThe Nighthold entrance is in Suramar, at 44.2, 59.5 on the Suramar map.
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Overview
High Botanist Tel'arn uses Arcane, Nature, and Solar magic to defend his garden. When he reaches 75% and 50% health remaining he divides his energy, creating empowered forms that focus in a particular school of magic. This division removes High Botanist Tel'arn's access to that school of magic, but the empowered form gains new abilities.
Damage Dealers
- Move away from targets of Parasitic Fetter and quickly kill Parasitic Lashers.
- Damage Plasma Spheres so that they die at least 5 sec apart from one another to avoid lethal damage from Plasma Explosion.
- Avoid Controlled Chaos and Solar Collapse.
Tanks
- Take turns tanking Tel'arn to manage the application of Recursive Strikes.
- Position Naturalist Tel'arn away from his allies and quickly move him out of Grace of Nature.
- High Botanist Tel'arn splits into images that must be tanked at 75% and 50% health remaining.
Healers
- Plasma Explosion inflicts significant damage to all players.
- Dispel Parasitic Fetter when your allies have moved far enough away to avoid Parasitic Lashers.
- Controlled Chaos inflicts moderate damage to all players with each explosion.
Stage One: The High Botanist
Recursive Strikes
Spell details
Controlled Chaos
Spell details
Parasitic Fetter
Spell detailsParasitic Lasher
Pursues the closest player and attempts to jump into them and afflict them with Parasitic Fetter. Once Parasitic Fetter is dispelled again, the parasite is recreated at the same health it had when it afflicted the target with Parasitic Fetter.
Solar Collapse
Spell detailsStage Two: Nightosis
When High Botanist Tel'arn reaches 75% health remaining, he sacrifices his ability to cast Solar magic to create an empowered Solar image of himself.
Solarist Tel'arn
FlareStage Three: Pure Forms
When High Botanist Tel'arn reaches 50% health remaining, he divides his remaining power into an empowered Nature and empowered Arcane image.
Naturalist Tel'arn
Toxic Spores
Grace of NatureArcanist Tel'arn
Stage One: Division of Power
On Mythic difficutly, High Botanist Tel'arn starts the fight in his three pure forms and no longer shares health between the forms. Whenever a form dies, the remaining are healed to full health and gain additional effects on their abilities.
Arcanist Tel'arn
Solarist Tel'arn
Naturalist Tel'arn
Stage Two: Coallesced Energy
When one of Tel'arn's forms dies, the remaining forms become empowered with its energy.
Arcanist Tel'arn's Death
Solarist Tel'arn
Naturalist Tel'arn
Solarist Telarn's Death
Arcanist Tel'arn
Naturalist Tel'arn
Naturalist Telarn's Death
Arcanist Tel'arn
Solarist Tel'arn
Stage Three: The Final Stand
As a second form falls, Tel'arns final body becomes empowered.
Arcanist Tel'arn Final Form
Arcanist Tel'arn
Solarist Tel'arn Final Form
Solarist Tel'arn
Naturalist Tel'arn Final Form
Naturalist Tel'arn
Ability Spells
Every ability the Adventure Guide lists for Arcanist Tel'arn, with its spell's school, cast time and duration and the description the game gives it.
Call of Night
Arcane · 2 sec cast
Arcanist Tel'arn marks several players with Nightwell energy for 45 sec.
Recursive Strikes
Physical · Instant
High Botanist Tel'arn inflicts 15% of his melee attack damage to all players with Recursive Strikes each time he melee attacks. This effect is applied to Tel'arn's primary target each time he melee attacks for 10 sec. Each additional stack increases the damage taken from Recursive Strikes by 15%.
Controlled Chaos
Arcane · 1.5 sec cast
High Botanist Tel'arn unleashes several explosions in quick succession at a player's location. Each explosion inflicts Arcane damage to all players within a radius and increases in size to a and radius with each successive explosion. In addition, each explosion inflicts Arcane damage to all players.
Summon Chaos Spheres
Arcane · 1.5 sec cast
Arcanist Tel'arn summons 3 Chaos Spheres that cause a Plasma Explosion and Controlled Chaos upon death. Chaos Spheres slowly immolate, losing 4% of their maximum health every 0.5 sec.
Plasma Explosion
Fire · Instant · Lasts 5 sec
Plasma Spheres explode on death, inflicting Fire damage to all players and increasing their damage taken from Plasma Explosion by 100% for 5 sec.
Summon Plasma Spheres
Solarist Tel'arn summons 3 Plasma Spheres that cause a Plasma Explosion upon death, creating Parasitic Lashers at its location. Plasma Spheres slowly immolate, losing 4% of their maximum health every 0.5 sec.
Drops
Loot the dungeon journal lists for this encounter in The Nighthold.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for the High Botanist Tel'arn encounter in The Nighthold.
From his youth, the nightborne Tel'arn was fascinated by plant life: the resilience and adaptability of weeds, the ability of simple grass to harness the power of the sun, the way a tree may be divided into two, or two branches grafted into one. Aided by the energies of the Nightwell, he has transformed himself to the point that he is scarely recognizable as a nightborne elf. He now considers himself something far, far greater.
What Each Drop Is
The High Botanist Tel'arn encounter lists 13 items in the dungeon journal, item level 50. Equip slots covered: Head, Trinket, Feet, Finger, Shoulder, Wrist and Legs. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Breath of Dusk Gem, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 48 gold6 silver for it.
- Eventide Casque Head (Plate), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Strength or Intellect, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 43 gold74 silver for it.
- Fury of the Burning Sky Trinket, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Mastery. A vendor pays 17 silver94 copper for it. Equip: Solar Collapse.
- Grove-Tender's Moccasins Feet (Leather), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Agility or Intellect, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 42 gold58 silver for it.
- Nightblooming Frond Trinket, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility. A vendor pays 27 gold42 silver for it. Equip: Recursive Strikes.
- Parasitic Spore Gem, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 47 gold51 silver for it.
- Ring of Braided Stems Finger, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Haste and Versatility. A vendor pays 36 gold5 silver for it.
- Shal'dorei Weedstompers Feet (Mail), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Agility or Intellect, Haste and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 45 gold68 silver for it.
- Shoulderguard of the Eclipse Shoulder (Plate), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Strength or Intellect, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 44 gold7 silver for it.
- Sunflare Coal Gem, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 46 gold96 silver for it.
- Thistle-Proof Thorngrabbers Wrist (Mail), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Agility or Intellect, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 30 gold80 silver for it.
- Trousers of Cultivation Legs (Leather), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Agility or Intellect, Versatility and Haste. A vendor pays 59 gold94 silver for it.
- Woven Lasher Tendril Bracers Wrist (Cloth), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Intellect, Haste and Versatility. A vendor pays 29 gold92 silver 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.
Achievements for Defeating It
6 achievements list a victory over Arcanist Tel'arn among their criteria.
Where to Find Arcanist Tel'arn
Quests in The Nighthold
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- The Nighthold: Gul'dan
- The Nighthold: High Botanist Tel'arn
- The Nighthold: High Botanist Tel'arn
- The Nighthold: High Botanist Tel'arn
- The Nighthold: High Botanist Tel'arn