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Kil'jaeden
Kil'jaeden - Tomb of Sargeras
Kil'jaeden is a boss encounter in Tomb of Sargeras.
Found In
Encounter Facts
In the game's encounter order for Tomb of Sargeras, Kil'jaeden comes 9th of 9, after Fallen Avatar.
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Model
Background
Instance Entrance: Broken Shore
Tomb of Sargeras entranceThe Tomb of Sargeras entrance is in Broken Shore, at 65.0, 20.3 on the Broken Shore map.
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Overview
Players engage Kil'jaeden on his command ship, engaging both him and the Shadow Reflections of their comrades' souls that he turns to his will. At 80% health, Kil'jaeden takes to the sky, launching a punishing barrage of attacks on players, after which he re-engages the players with greater power. At 40% health, Kil'jaeden wraps the platform in darkness, limiting players' vision to a short range around them, and summons several Shadowsouls. Players must find Illidan in the darkness, who grants the players his sight, and use it to defeat the Shadowsouls and dispel the darkness. Once players have escaped the darkness, Kil'jaeden arrives at Argus and unleashes his ultimate attack - Darkness of a Thousand Souls. Players must use the rifts that he opens to absorb the missiles from Darkness of a Thousand Souls to avoid being killed by them.
Tanks
- Alternate tanks on Kil'jaeden to avoid Felclaws stacking too high.
- When Kil'jaeden casts Armageddon, one of the missiles will be much larger than the others. This is Armageddon Hail, and a tank should move to intercept this.
Healers
- Heal Hopeless Reflections to minimize the effects of Hopelessness.
- Avoid the effects of Darkness of a Thousand Souls by moving close enough to the rifts created by Tear Rift to be affected by Gravity Squeeze.
- Move into Armageddon Rain to avoid the affects of Armageddon Blast.
Damage Dealers
- Interrupt Malignant Reflections' Malignant Anguish.
- Avoid the effects of Darkness of a Thousand Souls by moving close enough to the rifts created by Tear Rift to be affected by Gravity Squeeze.
- Move into Armageddon Rain to avoid the affects of Armageddon Blast.
Stage One: The Betrayer
Felclaws
Spell detailsOn Heroic difficulty and above, Felclaws additionally causes Kil'jaeden's melee attacks to inflict 100% of his melee attack damage to all enemies in a cone in front of him.
Rupturing Singularity
Spell details
Armageddon
Spell detailsArmageddon Rain
Spell details
Armageddon Hail
Spell detailsShadow Reflection
Kil'jaeden severs the souls of players, creating copies of them.
Shadow Reflection: Wailing
Spell details
Shadow Reflection: Erupting
Spell detailsIntermission: Eternal Flame
Bursting Dreadflame
Spell details
Focused Dreadflame
Spell detailsOn Heroic difficulty and above, a Focused Dreadburst goes off at the location of each player hit by Focused Dreadflame.
Focused Dreadburst
Spell details
Nether Gale
Spell detailsRupturing Singularity
Spell detailsArmageddon
Spell detailsArmageddon Rain
Spell detailsArmageddon Hail
Spell detailsStage Two: Reflected Souls
Bursting Dreadflame
Spell detailsFocused Dreadflame
Spell detailsOn Heroic difficulty and above, a Focused Dreadburst goes off at the location of each player hit by Focused Dreadflame.
Focused Dreadburst
Spell detailsShadow Reflection
Kil'jaeden severs the souls of players, creating copies of them.
Shadow Reflection: Wailing
Spell detailsShadow Reflection: Erupting
Spell details
Shadow Reflection: Hopeless
Spell detailsFelclaws
Spell detailsOn Heroic difficulty and above, Felclaws additionally causes Kil'jaeden's melee attacks to inflict of his melee attack damage to all enemies in a cone in front of him.
Rupturing Singularity
Spell detailsArmageddon
Spell detailsArmageddon Rain
Spell detailsArmageddon Hail
Spell detailsIntermission: Deceiver's Veil
Kil'jaeden gathers the shadows around him, applying Deceiver's Veil to all players and creating several Shadowsouls. Killing the Shadowsouls pushes back the darkness, removing Deceiver's Veil from all players.
Deceiver's Veil
Spell details
Choking Shadow
Spell detailsRupturing Singularity
Spell detailsShadowsoul
Destabilized Shadowsoul
Spell detailsLord Illidan Stormrage
Illidan will fly to the platform during Deceiver's Veil. Any players who move within 8 yards of him are granted Illidan's Sightless Gaze.
Illidan's Sightless Gaze
Spell detailsStage Three: Darkness of A Thousand Souls
Darkness of a Thousand Souls
Spell details
Demonic Obelisk
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Tear Rift
Spell detailsGravity Squeeze
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Flaming Orb
Spell detailsFlaming Detonation
Spell detailsBursting Dreadflame
Spell detailsFocused Dreadflame
Spell detailsOn Heroic difficulty and above, a Focused Dreadburst goes off at the location of each player hit by Focused Dreadflame.
Focused Dreadburst
Spell detailsFelclaws
Spell detailsOn Heroic difficulty and above, Felclaws additionally causes Kil'jaeden's melee attacks to inflict 100% of his melee attack damage to all enemies in a cone in front of him.
Ability Spells
Every ability the Adventure Guide lists for Kil'jaeden, with its spell's school, cast time and duration and the description the game gives it.
Felclaws
Physical · 1 sec cast · Lasts 11.5 sec
Empowers Kil'jaeden's claws with Fel energy for 11.5 sec, causing his melee attacks to increase all Physical damage taken by enemies struck by 50% for 25 sec. This effect stacks.
Rupturing Singularity
Arcane · Instant
Drops a pocket of extra-dimensional space onto the ship's deck which ruptures on impact, inflicting damage to players at the point of impact, an additional damage to all players, and knocking them back.
Armageddon Rain
Fire · Instant
Calls a meteor down on a location. The meteor impacts after 7 sec., inflicting Fire damage immediately and an additional Fire damage every 2 sec. for 1 min to any players hit. This effect stacks. If no players are hit by the falling meteor, it will cause Armageddon Blast.
Armageddon Blast
Fire · Instant · Lasts 30 sec
Inflicts Fire damage immediately and an additional Fire damage every 2 sec. for 30 sec to all players.
Armageddon Hail
Fire · Instant
Calls a massive meteor down on a location. The meteor impacts after 7 sec., inflicting Physical damage immediately and an additional Physical damage every 2 sec. for 10 sec to any players hit. This effect stacks. If no players are hit by the falling meteor, it will cause Armageddon Blast.
Shadow Reflection: Wailing
Shadow · 1 sec cast · Lasts 7 sec
Creates a Wailing Reflection of the player after 7 sec.
Lingering Wail
Shadow · Instant
When a Wailing Reflection is killed, the player who it was created from is afflicted with a Lingering Wail, inflicting Shadow damage every 2 sec. until dispelled. When this is dispelled, the lingering spirit will trigger a Wailing Grasp.
Wailing Grasp
Shadow · Instant
Pulls all players to the location of the player affected by Lingering Wail.
Sorrowful Wail
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 1.2 sec
Inflicts Shadow damage to enemies within 10 yards and grants a stack of Crescendo.
Crescendo
Shadow · Instant
Increases Shadow damage done by 100%, and increases the area of effect of Sorrowful Wail.
Shadow Reflection: Erupting
Shadow · 1.5 sec cast · Lasts 8 sec
Creates an Erupting Reflection after 8 sec.
Erupting Dreadflame
Fire · 8 sec cast
Inflicts Fire damage to all players and grants a stack of Eruption to the Erupting Reflection.
Erupting Essence
Fire · Instant
When an Erupting Reflection dies, any other Erupting Reflections are healed for 100% of their health.
Lingering Eruption
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 5 sec
When an Erupting Reflection is killed, the player who it was created from is afflicted with Lingering Eruption, inflicting Shadow damage, creating Erupting Orbs, and creating a Latent Eruption at their position every 0.5 sec. for 5 sec.
Erupting Orb
Shadow · Instant
Creates a flaming orb that moves away from the player afflicted with Lingering Eruption. If any players come into contact with an Erupting Orb, it will trigger a Chaotic Eruption.
Drops
Loot the dungeon journal lists for this encounter in Tomb of Sargeras.
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 Kil'jaeden encounter in Tomb of Sargeras.
Since striking the bargain that chased the draenei into the stars, Kil'jaeden believed the Legion could not be stopped. Yet, none of his deceptions have prevented you from reaching this critical moment. Infuriated that Sargeras' promise of victory has never come to pass, the demon lord prepares to face you himself, for a final battle that will shape Azeroth's destiny forever.
What Each Drop Is
The Kil'jaeden encounter lists 18 items in the dungeon journal, item level 50. Equip slots covered: Hands, Legs, Finger, Head, Trinket, Waist and Feet. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Boon of the Prophet Gem, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 47 gold61 silver for it.
- Gloves of Furtive Oppression Hands (Cloth), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Intellect, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 29 gold1 silver for it.
- Greaves of Impure Midnight Legs (Plate), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Strength or Intellect, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 58 gold81 silver for it.
- Man'ari Blood Pact Gem, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 48 gold16 silver for it.
- Ruinous Ashes Gem, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 49 gold7 silver for it.
- Scornful Reflection Gem, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 49 gold79 silver for it.
- Seal of the Second Duumvirate Finger, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Haste and Critical Strike. Tooltip: “You betrayed Argus and condemned it to burn. Who is truly the Deceiver, brother?” A vendor pays 36 gold41 silver for it.
- Shadow-Scarred Headcover Head (Leather), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Agility or Intellect, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 45 gold35 silver for it.
- Shifting Cosmic Sliver Trinket, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Mastery. A vendor pays 27 gold2 silver for it. Use: Cunning of the Deceiver. Equip: Cunning of the Deceiver.
- Soul-Render's Greatbelt Waist (Plate), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Strength or Intellect, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 30 gold23 silver for it.
- Specter of Betrayal Trinket, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Strength. A vendor pays 28 gold8 silver for it. Use: Summon Dread Reflection. Equip: Dread Reflections.
- Sphere of Entropy Gem, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 50 gold53 silver for it.
- Star-Stalker Treads Feet (Mail), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Agility or Intellect, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 42 gold85 silver for it.
- The Deceiver's Grand Design Trinket, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Mastery. A vendor pays 27 gold13 silver for it. Use: Guiding Hand. Equip: Guiding Hand.
- Tome of Unraveling Sanity Trinket, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect. A vendor pays 19 silver13 copper for it. Use: Insidious Corruption.
- Torn Fabric of Reality Gem, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 51 gold27 silver for it.
- Vicegrip of the Unrepentant Hands (Mail), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Agility or Intellect, Haste and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 29 gold for it.
- Waistguard of Profane Duplicity Waist (Leather), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Agility or Intellect, Mastery and Haste. A vendor pays 29 gold1 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
12 achievements list a victory over Kil'jaeden among their criteria.
