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Comment by 583527

He summons fire elementals during the fight and they will deal terrible aoe damage if they reach their target, so nuke and snare those quickly.

Also, when he drops at about 30-20 % health, Twilight dragon Valiona enters fight, and Drahga himself gets 90% damage reduction, and attacks random players with his main ability.

When dragon is at 5-10% health, she leaves Drahga to die. Finish off the boss and thats it.

Heroic version: Fire elementals do enough damage to one-shot you when they explode, and Valiona's breath is far more dangerous.

Comment by 457324

By fire, be...BURNED!

Comment by 609114

The key to winning this fight:

If an elemental fixates on you, run away.

Don't stop to finish a cast.

Don't stop to melee the boss a bit more.

If you're tanking, move the boss.

RUN AWAY LITTLE GIRL, RUN AWAY

Everyone else nukes it down. Eta: The elemental can be slowed and stunned, confirmed.

Comment by Xarlequin

Tactics to how to sucessfully kill this boss on Heroic:
Setup:
Protection paladin (me)
Restoration shaman
Shadow priest
Shadow priest
Fury warrior

As the post above mine states, running away from adds is prio number one, they will instantly kill the target if he is hit. Slowing effects and stunns works, use every possible skill you have to not have them reach their target. About 2-3 seconds after death they will explode. It doesnt look like this will harm you, though. Obviously the person who gets targetted by the add have to run, like crazy. You can see where the adds are about to spawn by looking out

The first phase is rather easy and short. When the boss 'dies' he will jump into the lava, summoning a dragon. That's when the real fight begins.

On his dragon, the boss gains new abilities but continues to spawn adds which are still prio number one. In addition he will cause an area of effect which slows your movement speed. He will also breathe for heavy damage on your party. This covers an area of almost 180 degrees in front of him. So stay behind him when that happends.

Lastly, he will randomly throw fireballs on people. They do pretty low damage and are not interuptable.

This summarizes the bossfight, which is rather challanging. It is not a DPS race, but do kill the adds fast.

Good luck!
Xeela/Xarleen - Aggramar EU.

Comment by Setareh

this fight on heroic appeared unwinnable for my group today. composition:
warrior tank
holy priest
destro lock
hunter
rogue

killing the adds was not a problem, and staying out of the frontal aoe wasn't a big problem either. It was the random shadowbolts. Healer just could not heal through that crap. 15k random unavoidable damage like every second. I checked recount and that ability had always done one million damage by the time the boss was at 50%. Tried like 10 times before calling it. healer was always oom before the thing was half dead. dps was each doing about 8k which doesn't seem awful. Not sure what was going wrong.

Comment by elementLK

Can the elementals be banished? And if yes, will he spawn more than one?

Comment by 632709

Despite what others say this is actually very easy on heroic.

After he hops on to the drake there are 3 things to watch out for.
- The twilight thing on the ground that is pretty much fire, it seems to be dropped behind the boss. (You can't see it well unless you have projected textures on, you will have a debuff that lets you know you are standing in it.)

- His breath. (When he turns away from the tank, run behind the boss, the spread of his breath is humongous.)

- Spawned elemental adds. (These need to be DPSed as soon as possible, unless they are coming for you, if they are coming for you run away. There will be a fire beam pointing to you that lets you know that they are heading for you. They only blow up when they reach their target so melee DPS are not in danger when they kill the add, stun or snare them if you can. Also, sometimes they will spawn right next to you and you will die before you even knew it happened, make sure you look around for the small fire gates whenever it notifies you that he summons them.)

And he also spawns the adds before he hops onto the drake so beware.

Comment by bigearlx

Why do tanks drag Valiona all around the edges of the room continuously? Especially in the heroic version of this fight, that guarantees that anyone who has to stand still to cast will not survive the breath AoE.

EDIT: to phrase this is a more constructive fashion, Valiona turns in a random direction to do the breath attack, so PLEASE try to keep him/her away from the walls to increase the odds that the party has somewhere to go. The breath weapon is semicircular and has a very long range, so if Valiona is near a wall and fires it outward, there is nowhere to run.

Comment by shiftingillusion

Confirmed today in Heroic mode:

Hunter's Deterrence will completely protect you from the Devouring Flames.

(Wanted to test since even though it SAYS 100% parry/range deflect/spell deflect, there are some things it does not work on.)

Comment by 671328

This boss can be skipped if you think it's too hard, the only downside is that the last boss isn't much easier.

Comment by 113855

It was perhaps NOT the best idea to have the dragon and the boss use the same voice actor. The effect when both are speaking together... it sounds like one person pretending to be two people.

Which, in fact, it is.

Comment by 513218

In normal at least, the ads are tauntable. Distracting shot became very handy to have them get away from their intended target, giving us enough room to kill them with ease

Comment by Argae

Hey, i've done this boss several times now in HC mode as healer, but some times I do it, during the second phase with the Dragon, and the AoE attack, we wipe. Because of that dragon's AoE flame breath. The tank faces him away ofc, but she seems to just turn around and face the rest of the party doing about 17k per tick to every party member, and I can't seem to heal through it sometimes. Any ideas?

Comment by 487010

The add has laughably low hp (~80k on heroic) and can be stunned/slowed and the spot that it's gonna spawn at is easily seen. Devouring flames is the main killer so people should stick relatively close to the dragon to shorten the distance that they have to run to avoid dmg. The only ground effect is the pink slowing puddle, which as far as I could tell is always cast in melee range.

Also the boss does a short dialogue emote before the elemental is about to spawn.

Comment by 481470

Pretty sure this is the same voice actor as Putricide--the pacing and modulation kind of gives it away.

Comment by 631630

TAKE NOTE: Melee dps can kill the adds if they're not focusing them. See a lot of melee dps neglecting to do that on this fight, but the adds only blow up if they reach their target.

Comment by Crusalis

Healing this fight is an absolute nightmare.

Boss is constantly casting bolts at random party members, on top of the tank being hit by the dragon, and the breath is a double edged sword that hurts so much. Either group together and run through the boss, taking about 50k damage if you are too slow, or if you have ranged DPS, backing up and taking about 10k damage every second (Further away from the boss, the less damage taken)

Comment by 743097

This fight proved nearly impossible to me, as I had about 600+ ms. Not enough time to move from the breath. If you are lagging, give up and try again another day.

Comment by Aryn2382

Most annoying voice, or, THE most annoying voice of the expansion? :P

Comment by mewmewface

impossible boss, that aoe breath is ridiculous

Comment by 168387

Most frustrated I have been in a Heroic fight in I don't know when. This is stupid hard on healers and has to be adjusted. Tuned way too high at this point.

Comment by 743774

The banter between Drahga and Valiona is amusing, especially with the voice acting.

Drahga: Dragon! You will do as I command... CATCH MEEEEE!
Valiona: If they do not kill you, I will do it myself!

Comment by Iilrane

{utterly dizzy after about nine failed attempts in a row with heroic edition} Quickest way to blast me into fatal panic: Have Valiona fire Devouring Flames WHILE I'M RUNNING AWAY FROM ONE OF THE SPIRITS...Whenever that happened, I think I froze in panic (well, froze into just running from the spirit), and got netherscorched as a result...

Comment by 759347

Also Drops Bouquet of Red Roses during 'Love is in the Air'.

Comment by Gemini1661

... we wipe. Because of that dragon's AoE flame breath... I can't seem to heal through it sometimes. Any ideas?

Stop trying to heal through it, and get to the safe side of the dragon. If anyone is out in the fire breath for more than a few seconds, they're going to die. It's your DPS's responsibility to stay out of the avoidable damage. Helping them get out is a good idea, but don't try to heal a party who stands in the fire.

The above posts already say it all. Avoid avoidable damage, slow and kite the adds.

Also, be mindful of the glowing puddle. It's not just a slowing effect; it's a DoT-zone.

The breath does not hit very hard, you can totally survive getting hit by it, provided A) your health wasn't already low and B) you're far enough from the flame.

This is a bad idea. Yes, the damage is less out toward the end of the cone attack, but that doesn't mean you should advocate it. Be aware of what's going on and get behind the dragon. You shouldn't be out so far that you can't take less total damage by running behind the dragon.

Comment by Shaitana

Does anyone know if it's possible to kill him before he jumps off the ledge? When doing this on heroic with my hunter earlier he was almost dead when he jumped (<1%) and I'm pretty sure at least one of us landed a blow that should have killed him.

Is it just scripted so that no matter how fast you kill him in the first phase he'll still manage to jump on the dragon?

Comment by 464210

Is it just me or do some of his quotes and the way he talks remind anyone of Invader Zim?

Comment by astoon

I would like to have his aggro sound in a macro with my immolation.

"BY FIRE BE... BURNED!"

Comment by gabeo820

Am i the only one here who thinks he sounds like a gnome?

Comment by woohaa

Not sure if this was a bug or was changed in some patch, but death gripping the elemental caused it to blow up on me instead of it's intended target.

My wife was healing and our dps were being retarded and not killing the elemental. When it spawned and had her targeted i deathgripped it as the tank intending to chains it after and hopefully kill it myself before it got to her. However, i guess taunts cause it to temporarily change targets and it will blow up on said target if it gets the chance.

anyone else have something similar happen?

Comment by Thestool

"I will burn you from the inside out" I don't think you want to sleep with this guy...

Comment by Loki53

Drahga is an ORC? I always thought he was some sort of weird element/demon hybrid with that crazy voice!

Comment by Malachi68

At higher levels, you might find yourself in a perpetual battle with Drahga stuck at 1 hp. The solution is to jump off the ledge and kill yourself. Yes, it's crazy but true. The only way to kill Drahga is to kill the dragon that Drahga eventually jumps onto. So if the dragon doesn't spawn, you need to start the battle over.

New tip: What you should do is get Dragha to attack you and do nothing for a few seconds. You don't have to take damage but he does have to whack you. Then either use ~~the Soft Foam Sword or~~ some ~~other~~ weak attack to hit him. The idea is to avoid a one-shot. Finally, switch back to your main weapon(s) and bring him quickly to 1 hp. He should then hop on his dragon. Let the dragon attack a few times then take him out.

Latest info: When I had this problem, I cleared out the rest of the dungeon but Dragha stayed at 1 hp. Other people are stating that running away resets him (sometimes). Either way, he needs to be reset.

Comment by smackie9

To restart the fight just run away. He will reset. You don't have to jump off and kill yourself.

Comment by LurkerPatrol

This is the strangest thing but after insta-gibbing the guy, killing the dragon he gets on, continuing to wail on him, I ended up giving up and moving on to the last boss while still engaged in this fight.

I one-shotted the final boss and it gave me credit for Heroic Grim Batol and the achievement.

I guess they must have patched it so that if you hit him enough he'll register as being defeated.

Comment by Sarniezz

He got bugged for me too, stayed at 2hp even after killing the dragon. I ended up vanishing and he didn't respawn until a few minutes later (I went to go kill the last boss while I waited). No need to kill yourself if you're a rogue :D

Comment by SteveRWest

Bugged on me as well. I took all his health but 2, then killed Dragon before it could hit me - he stayed at 2 health no matter what I did. Continued to last boss - Dragha despawned. Read some comments and decided to try again. Disarmed myself and just punched him (still went to 2 health), but this time when he jumped on Dragon, I let Dragon hit me a few times before knocking it down... When the Dragon threw him off this time, it let me kill him.

Comment by ColdIceEyes

If Drahga Shadowburner won't die .....

Let Valiona land first. For some reason if you defeat Valiona whilst airborne, Drahga becomes unkillable.

Comment by Maravec

As a Level 60 protection paladin, I hit Drahga with my shield and took him down to 1 HP. He then jumped onto his dragon, and I hit it once, triggering it's "I won't die for you" response, after which I hit Drahga again and killed him. The dragon survived the encounter, which seems to be the key to defeating him in spite of the buggy execution on this boss fight.