Throne of Thunder: "Forgotten Depths" LFR Overview

Posted 2013/03/19 at 12:35 PM by perculia

Throne of ThunderTortosMegaeraJi-KunJi-Kun HatchlingJi-Kungearing guideTankSpotReins of the Black Primal RaptorClick the cut to learn more about the bosses available today!Forgotten Depths LFR LootSpaulders of Quaking FearStonegaze HoodTortos' Discarded ShellTortos' ShellseizersVampire Bat-Hide Bracers

Tortos

Megaera

Ji-Kun

Amulet of the Primal Turtle

Chain of Consuming Magic

Cord of Cacophonous Cawing

Azure Shell Bracers

Ice-Scored Treads

Crown of Potentiated Birth

Beady-Eye Bracers

Megaera's Poisoned Fang

Egg-Shard Grips

Beakbreaker Greatcloak

Quadra-Head Brooch

Fabled Feather of Ji-Kun

Crystal-Claw Gloves

Poisonblood Bladeshoulders

Featherflight Belt

Grips of Vampiric Cruelty

Grips of Cinderflesh

Giorgio's Caduceus of Pure Moods

Quakestompers

Plated Toothbreaker Girdle

Grasp of the Ruthless Mother

Refreshing Abalone Girdle

Rot-Proof Greatplate

Ji-Kun's Rising Winds

Robes of Concussive Shocks

Spinescale Seal

Leggings of the Crackling Conqueror

Rockfall Ribwraps

Hydraskull Choker

Leggings of the Crackling Protector

Shattered Tortoiseshell Longbow

Sandals of Arcane Fury

Leggings of the Crackling Vanquisher

Shell-Coated Wristplates

Gleaming-Eye Shoulderpads

Pinionfeather Greatcloak

Shellsplitter Greataxe

Frostborn Wristwraps

Robe of Midnight Down

Shimmershell Cape

Megaera's Shining Eye

Talonrender Chestplate

Shoulderguards of Centripetal Destruction

Fetish of the Hydra

Breath of the Hydra

Inscribed Bag of Hydra-Spawn

Hood of Smoldering Flesh

Links of the Bifurcated Tongue

Darkwood Spiritstaff

Weapons

Shoulders

Invocation of the Dawn

Lost Shoulders of Fire

Greatsword of Frozen Hells

Lost Shoulders of Fluidity

Fyn's Flickering Dagger

Lost Shoulders of Healing

Nadagast's Exsanguinator

Forgotten Mantle of the Moon

Tia-Tia, the Scything Star

Forgotten Mantle of the Sun

Jerthud, Graceful Hand of the Savior

Abandoned Spaulders of Arrowflight

Zeeg's Ancient Kegsmasher

Abandoned Spaulders of Renewal

Do-tharak, the Swordbreaker

Reconstructed Bloody Shoulderplates

Miracoran, the Vehement Chord

Reconstructed Furious Shoulderplates

Visage of the Doomed

Reconstructed Holy Shoulderplates

Bo-Ris, Horror in the Night

Secrets of the EmpireSecrets of the First Empirelegendary quest chainTreasures of the Thunder King LootTreasures of the Thunder King

Primal Egg, which has the chance to hatch into one of the following mounts: Reins of the Red Primal Raptor, Reins of the Black Primal Raptor, Reins of the Green Primal Raptor

Expensive vendor trash that can also be found in Fortuitous Coffer, like Zandalari Spiritbinder Scrimshaw and Zandalari Beastlord Scrimshaw.

LFR versions of regular trash epics: necks, belts, and feet.

A variety of pets, ranging from Cat Carrier (Silver Tabby) to all the Argent Tournament pets like Enchanted Broom.

Mists of Pandaria flasks, gems, and potions.

Battle-Stones to upgrade your battle pets.

Blood Spirit and Spirit of Harmony.

LFR Schedule

Bashiok

With the release of Patch 5.2: The Thunder King, the vast Throne of Thunder raid will become available. As in previous raid tiers, Raid Finder wings and availability difficulties will be staggered.

To access the new Raid Finder wings you will need a minimum average item level (ilevel) of 480.

This is our current schedule based on a planned patch release date of March 5. If the patch is delayed, or if we determine any change is needed, we’ll update this article.

March 5 – Normal Throne of Thunder
March 12 – Heroic Throne of Thunder and LFR Wing 1 “Last Stand of the Zandalari”
March 19 – LFR Wing 2 “Forgotten Depths”
April 2 – LFR Wing 3 “Halls of Flesh-Shaping”
April 16 – LFR Wing 4 “Pinnacle of Storms”

Boss GuidesTortosMegaeraJi-KunTankSpotTortosCall of Tortos – Tortos lets out a rumbling call, causing several smaller turtles to enter the area and attack players.

Whirl Turtle

Spinning Shell – The turtle chases players around the room, spinning rapidly and continuously inflicting 195000 to 205000 Physical damage to enemies within 5 yards, knocking them away.
Shell Block – The turtle hides in his shell at low health, gaining immunity to all damage. While in this state, the turtle can be kicked across the room by players, applying Shell Concussion to any creatures it hits along the way.
Kick Shell – This extra action button can be used to kick a defeated Whirl Turtle across the room. Move close to the shell, then aim by positioning it between yourself and your target. Enemies hit by the shell are afflicted by Shell Concussion.
Shell Concussion – When kicked, the shell spins forward, interrupting enemies it touches and leaving them off-balance, increasing the damage they take from all sources by 25% for 20 sec.

Furious Stone Breath – Inflicts 341250 to 358750 Nature damage to all enemies every 0.5 sec for 4 sec. Costs 100 Fury to cast.

Growing Fury – Tortos becomes angry when no enemies are in melee range, gaining 5 Fury.

Rockfall – A lightning-charged stalactite falls from the roof of the cave, inflicting 502125 to 527875 Nature damage to enemies within 5 yards and 72900 to 89100 Nature damage to enemies within 20 yards.

Quake Stomp – Tortos performs a massive stomp, stunning all enemies for 1 sec and inflicting Physical damage to each equal to 30% of their maximum health. Quake Stomp also increases the frequency of Rockfalls for 8 sec.

Snapping Bite – Tortos snaps his jaws shut around the target, inflicting 664950 to 699050 Physical damage.

Vampiric Cave Bat

Drain the Weak – Drains health when attacking targets with less than 550000 current health, inflicting 25% of weapon damage as Physical and healing the caster for 10 times the damage dealt.

Crystal Shell – The crystal reacts when struck, encasing the attacker in a shell that absorbs incoming damage and healing. Initially the shell can absorb up to 15% of max health in damage, but healing absorbed by the shell is added to this total, up to a cap of 75% of max health. The shell breaks when it cannot absorb any more damage.

MegaeraOne Body, Many HeadsWhen one of Megaera's heads is destroyed, her body takes damage equal to the head's maximum health and two heads regrow in its place.

Concealing Fog – Megaera's body and distant heads are shrouded by thick, swirling fog and are unable to be attacked directly.

Rampage – Megaera begins to Rampage for 20 seconds whenever one of her heads is cut off, inflicting 87500 Elemental damage to all players every second. The damage dealt by a particular element is increased by 15% for each additional head of that element that is present.

Hydra Frenzy – Whenever one of Megaera's heads is killed, the heads remaining outside of the Concealing Fog are healed to full and attack 20% faster. This effect stacks.

Elemental Blood of Megaera – As Megaera grows new heads of a given type, her elemental blood increases the damage inflicted by all heads of the same type by 20% for each additional head of that type. This effect stacks.

Megaera's Rage – Megaera's heads outside of the Concealing Fog will begin to spit at their target when they have no targets within melee range. This effect inflicts 325000 Elemental damage to all enemies within 5 yards upon impact.

Flaming Head

Cinders – Megaera's Flaming Heads use this ability when they are within the Concealing Fog.Flaming Heads ignite a random player, inflicting 136500 Fire damage and an additional 97500 Fire damage every 1 sec for 30 sec. In addition, players afflicted with Cinders will cause Icy Ground to melt when they come into contact with it.When Cinders is removed, a pool of flames is created at the target's location that persist for 1 min. The pool inflicts 136500 Fire damage every 1 sec. to all players within 5 yards.
In Heroic Difficulty, Cinders creates a pool of flames at the target's location every 3 seconds.
Ignite Flesh – Megaera's Flaming Heads breathe flames on all players in front of her, inflicting 165750 Fire damage every second for 3 sec. Players hit by Ignite Flesh burn for 39000 additional Fire damage every second for 45 sec. This effect stacks.

Frozen Head

Torrent of Ice – Megaera's Frozen Heads use this ability when they are within the Concealing Fog.Megaera's Frozen Heads channel a beam of ice at a random player, inflicting 77350 Frost damage at the point of contact every 0.5 sec. for 8 sec. The beam freezes the ground in its wake, creating Icy Ground for 1 min.In addition, the Torrent of Ice beam will douse any pools of Cinders that it comes into contact with.
- Icy Ground – The frozen ground inflicts 88400 Frost damage every second to all players who touch it, reducing their movement speed by 5%. The snare effect of Icy Ground stacks up to $139922U times.
  In Heroic Difficulty, Icy Ground grows to twice its original size over 1 min.
Arctic Freeze – Megaera's Frozen Heads breathe ice on all players in front of her, inflicting 165750 Frost damage every second for 3 sec. Players hit by Arctic Freeze begin to freeze solid and are stunned for 20 sec. if they reach $139843U stacks of Arctic Freeze.

Venomous Head

Acid Rain – Megaera's Venomous Heads use this ability when they are within the Concealing Fog.Megaera's Venomous Heads spit a globule of acid at a random player, inflicting 500000 Nature damage to all players upon impact. The damage of Acid Rain is reduced the farther players are from the point of impact.
In Heroic Difficulty, Megaera's Venomous Heads spit three globules of acid at a time.
Rot Armor – Megaera's Venomous Heads breathe corrosive gas on all players in front of her, inflicting 165750 Nature damage every second for 3 sec. Players hit by Rot Armor take 6% increased damage from all sources for 45 sec. This effect stacks.

Arcane Head

Nether Tear – Megaera's Arcane Heads use this ability when they are within the Concealing Fog.Megaera's Arcane Heads open a tear into the nether, releasing a Nether Wyrm every 1 sec. for 6 sec.
- Nether Wyrm
  - Nether Spike – Nether Wyrms blast a random player with nether energy, inflicting 131625 to 138375 Arcane damage.
  - Suppression – Nether Wyrms channel nether energy into a random player's mind, stunning them for 15 sec.
Diffusion – Megaera's Arcane Heads breathe arcane energy on all players in front of her, inflicting 165750 Arcane damage every second for 3 sec. Players hit by Diffusion redirect 10% of all healing received to allies within 8 yards that are not afflicted with Diffusion. This effect stacks.

Ji-Kun

Ji-Kun's Flock Ji-Kun's young are located throughout the roost and progress through different stages of life. After a period of incubation Young Eggs of Ji-Kun will hatch into Hatchlings. When fed by Ji-Kun, the Hatchlings then mature into Fledglings. Both Fledgling Eggs and Mature Eggs will hatch into Juveniles.

Young Egg of Ji-Kun – Eggs in the lower nests located around Ji-Kun's roost will periodically hatch. Once the egg hatches, a Hatchling will emerge.
- Hatchlings – Hatchlings will call for Ji-Kun to feed them shortly after spawning. If a Hatchling senses food nearby, it will attempt to feed. If a Hatchling successfully feeds, it will mature into a Fledgling.
  - Cheep – The Hatchling yells with all their might at their current target, inflicting 27000 to 33000 Physical damage.
- Fledglings – Fledglings attack random players and can spawn incubated eggs.
  - Lay Egg – Fledglings will lay eggs that are already incubated. When these eggs hatch they spawn a Juvenile.
  - Cheep – The Fledgling yells with all their might at a random target, inflicting 216000 to 264000 Physical damage.
Mature Egg of Ji-Kun – Mature Eggs of Ji-Kun take longer to incubate and spawn a Juvenile when the incubation process is complete.
- Juvenile – Juveniles quickly take to the air and fly over the main platform of Ji-Kun. Juveniles periodically cast Cheep at a random target for as long as they're alive.
  - Cheep – The Juvenile screams with all their might, inflicting 270000 to 330000 Physical damage to the victim.
Nest Guardians – On Heroic difficulty, some of Ji-Kun's nest are defended by Nest Guardians, which will attack any players attempting to disturb their nest.
- Talon Strike – The Nest Guardian strikes with both its talons, inflicting Physical damage to all enemies in a 180 degree arc.
- Screech – If not actively engaged in melee combat Nest Guardians will Screech, inflicting 135000 to 165000 Physical damage and interrupting the current spellcast of all players. Mana-using players will have their casting speed reduced by 30% until they successfully cast their next spell.

Infected Talons – Whenever Ji-Kun successfully strikes a player with a melee ability the victim suffers 20000 Nature damage every 3 seconds for 10 sec. This effect stacks.

Feed Young – Ji-Kun spits up globs of food for her young. If a Hatchling has called out for food, Ji-Kun will aim this ability in their direction; otherwise the food will land at random locations around Ji-Kun's platform. When the food lands on the ground, it forms a Feed Pool.While a glob of food is traveling through the air, players can intercept it to prevent a Feed Pool from forming. Doing so afflicts the player with Slimed, but also grants Primal Nutriment.

Slimed – After intercepting Ji-Kun's food globules the player suffers 75000 Nature damage every 5 seconds for 15 sec. This effect increases the damage of the next Slimed by 25% when it expires. The increased damage effect stacks.
Feed Pool – Feed Pools that form on the main platform will inflict 150000 Nature damage to all players within them each second. If a player stands in a Feed Pool for 3 seconds they will absorb the Feed Pool and become Slimed.
Primal Nutriment – Successfully catching one of Ji-Kun's food globules mid-air increases the player's damage and healing by 30% for 30 sec. Primal Nutriment increases damage and healing by an additional 10% each time it is applied, up to a maximum of 200%.

Talon Rake – Ji-Kun uses her talons to pierce through the armor of her current target. Talon Rake inflicts 175% weapon damage as Physical damage and increases the damage received by the victim from future Talon Rakes by 50% for 1 min.

Quills – Ji-Kun sends her quills about the entire roost, inflicting 54000 to 66000 Physical damage to all players every 1 sec for 8 sec.

Down Draft – Ji-Kun flaps her wings violently, pushing all enemies on her platform outward. Down Draft persists for 8 sec.

Caw – Ji-Kun cries out at 2 random players, sending piercing sound waves at their locations. When the waves reach their destination they inflict 360000 to 440000 Physical damage to all targets within 8 yards of the impact.

Caw – Ji-Kun cries out at 5 random players, sending piercing sound waves at their locations. When the waves reach their destination they inflict 360000 to 440000 Physical damage to all targets within 8 yards of the impact.

Daedalian Wings – When an egg or hatchling from the lower nests located around Ji-Kun's roost is slain it leaves behind a feather for players to loot. This feather grants the player Daedalian Wings. Daedalian Wings grants the player an extra action button that allows players to take flight for 10 sec.

In Normal difficulty, feathers grant 4 charges of Daedalian Wings. Players can have up to 4 charges at any time.

In Heroic difficulty, feathers grant 3 charges of Daedalian Wings. Players can have up to 3 charges at any time.

Flight – Players who have the Daedalian Wings buff can take flight for 10 sec.
,6 In the Normal and Heroic versions of the Ji-Kun encounter, using Flight consumes one charge of Daedalian Wings.
Lesson of Icarus – After acquiring a feather, players must wait to acquire another.
,6 In Normal and Heroic difficulties, players cannot gain further charges of Daedalian Wings for 1 min.
In Raid Finder difficulty, players can pick up (and only need) one Feather of Ji-Kun.

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Comment by ZalmonHopefully people will research the encounters instead of wiping 800 times like the first wing of ToT! :P

Good raid either way. :)Comment by 751416This post was from a user who has deleted their account.Comment by 1046040We (Chinese server) will have to wait for another 6 days though. Kicking turtle shell may be fun.Comment by PothemusFor Megaera's Dungeon Journal entry it's the heroic numbers btw.Comment by 696607Blizz continues the LFR trolling in wing two with a huge slug that will one shot you! Which is about as funny to watch as wing one's everyone is falling off the bridge. I'm starting to think we need guides on the trash for LFR.Comment by SupaYodaI would recommend that for LFR you heavily consider Murphy's law. Instead of marking a place for people to stack in various encounters, mark a competent player.

Case in point... On Megaera, the raid was told to "stack on the yellow marker." Unfortunately, someone dropped their cinders debuff right on top of that marker well before the raid was supposed to stack. Now, most groups would adjust and simply stack nearby instead.

I will give you three guesses as to where at least half of my LFR group attempted to stack.

I won't even get into what happened with the turtle kicking and Ji-Kun. I'll only say that this is going to be a very long LFR if you're unlucky enough to get one of those groups where nobody seems like they were interested in reading up first.Comment by AzrileBlizz continues the LFR trolling in wing two with a huge slug that will one shot you! Which is about as funny to watch as wing one's everyone is falling off the bridge. I'm starting to think we need guides on the trash for LFR.Comment by DeletedyouPeople don't seem to understand the concept of kick the turtles through the adds and the other giant turtle...... they just kick them randomlyComment by SerrinattaBlizz continues the LFR trolling in wing two with a huge slug that will one shot you! Which is about as funny to watch as wing one's everyone is falling off the bridge. I'm starting to think we need guides on the trash for LFR.fullincludeinsistinsistComment by 499605How you are able to get a perk grp of 25 people to do Ji-Kun in LFR properly is beyond me.

Probably need to spend 10-20 mins explaining it and group people together and wipe a good 5-10 times?Comment by IzichialThe freakin snail is epic though.. I have a feeling it will be like Elegon (falling) where people will be trying to guess how many people die before it startsAs it is, I'm still in search of exactly how to tackle the wide open trash room after Tortos (the room with the mushrooms). I had several people insist it was a gauntlet, and some that insist it was not. Since no one could find a guide that included trash, they could not support nor deny anyone's claims. Made for quite a mess! And sadly, no one ever got any further. :(How you are able to get a perk grp of 25 people to do Ji-Kun in LFR properly is beyond me.

Probably need to spend 10-20 mins explaining it and group people together and wipe a good 5-10 times?Comment by InterestI can pretty much explain this part in a about a paragraph:

Tortos is easy. You can literally ignore mechanics and kick the shells wherever you want. You may want to kill those Bat adds though.
Megaera is also pretty easy. Don't drop Cinders into the raid. Don't face the heads into the raid (or the other tank). Kill Green, then Red, then Green, then Red...(rinse and repeat) and make sure to switch off the tank tanking the middle head to ensure the debuff doesn't stack. Also stay out of giant green circles if you don't want to lose over half your health instantly.
Ji-Kun is fun but can potentially be pretty tough. Make sure to have a couple dps jump down into the nests with a healer to kill the adds. Pick up the feathers and have fun flying all over the place, ignoring the boss' knockback mechanics and flying down to nests with ease. Don't worry about falling off - it'll only make you lose a lot of time. Also the boss does tons of AoE damage.

The later trash is really annoying. All I can really say is...don't go near the snails. If you're a melee just step back to somewhere safe and AFK (seriously).