TheWoWDBBoss
Azure Serpent
Gu Cloudstrike - Shado-Pan Monastery
Found In
Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for the Gu Cloudstrike encounter in Shado-Pan Monastery.
Before the escape of the sha, Gu Cloudstrike was entrusted with training the elite Shado-Pan spellcasters. Now this formerly gentle and reserved pandaren revels in unleashing his astounding powers, with devastating consequences. He has asserted control over the mystical Azure Serpent, and his students are helpless in the wake of Cloudstrike's lethal attacks.
Encounter Facts
Instance Entrance: Kun-Lai Summit
Shado-Pan Monastery entranceThe Shado-Pan Monastery entrance is in Kun-Lai Summit, at 36.7, 47.3 on the Kun-Lai Summit map.
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Stage One: Let Me Show You My Power!
Gu Cloudstrike calls for the Azure Serpent to help him defeat the intruders.
Invoke Lightning
Static Field
The Azure Serpent creates a Static Field at the location of a random player, inflicting Nature damage to all players within 10 yards of the point of impact. The Static Field then persists for 15 sec, inflicting an additional Nature damage every 1 sec.
Stage Two: Charge Me With Your Power!
Gu Cloudstrike enters a meditative state, becoming immune to all damage. The Azure Serpent moves in to attack.
Charging Soul
The Azure Serpent shields Gu Cloudstrike, making him immune to all damage.
Magnetic Shroud
The Azure Serpent casts a Magnetic Shroud onto every player. The Shroud absorbs healing cast on each player and inflicts Nature damage every 1 sec. The Shroud overloads when healing on a player exceeds its capacity, removing the Magnetic Shroud.
Lightning Breath
The Azure Serpent unleashes Lightning Breath within a 45 degree cone in front of him, inflicting Nature damage every 0.5 sec. for 2 sec.
Stage Three: Do Not Fail Me!
After the players defeat the Azure Serpent, Gu Cloudstrike rejoins the fight.
Overcharged Soul
Periodically inflicts Nature damage to nearby enemies, frequency proportional to missing health.
Ability Spells
Every ability the Adventure Guide lists for this encounter, with its spell's school, cast time and duration and the description the game gives it.
Invoke Lightning
Nature · 2 sec cast
Magnetic Shroud
Nature · 1 sec cast
Absorbs of healing, releasing all absorbed healing split between all other players within 20 yards. Inflicts Nature damage every 1 sec.
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Drops
Loot the dungeon journal lists for this encounter in Shado-Pan Monastery.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
What Each Drop Is
The Gu Cloudstrike encounter lists 5 items in the dungeon journal, item level 39. Equip slots covered: Chest, Neck, Legs, Waist and Wrist. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Azure Serpent Chestguard Chest (Mail), item level 39, requires level 33. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 4g 77s for it.
- Cloudstrike Pendant Neck, item level 39, requires level 33. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Haste and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 11g 98s for it.
- Leggings of the Charging Soul Legs (Mail), item level 39, requires level 33. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 5g 22s for it.
- Sparkbreath Girdle Waist (Plate), item level 39, requires level 33. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 2g 48s for it.
- Star Summoner Bracers Wrist (Leather), item level 39, requires level 33. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 2g 39s 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.