Queen Azshara Azshara's Eternal Palace Raid Strategy Guide

By FatbossTV Updated: 2019/11/21

Queen AzsharaQueen AzsharaCatastrophic FailureQueen AzsharaQueen AzsharaLoot

Cherished Empress's Leggings

Eternity Keeper's Greatbelt

Slippers of the Sorceress-Queen

Tide Goddess's Wargreaves

Zanj'ir Poker

Aqueous Reliquary

Azshara's Font of Power

Beloved Monarch's Waistwrap

Vethan's Icewalkers

Anu-Azshara, Staff of the Eternal

Gloves of Incomparable Beauty

Handguards of the Highest-Born

Cursed Lover's Ring

Quick TipsAll Phases:

Stand within Ancient Wards to give them energy. You must prevent them from reaching 0%.

Avoid standing within Ancient Wards when you have high stacks of Drained Soul.

Phase One:

Move the two mini-bosses in or out of line of sight when they cast either Painful Memories or Longing.

Avoid standing within the Cursed Heart pools left excreted by the mini-bosses.

Tanks: Taunt each others mini-bosses when one of you reaches 3 stacks of Cold Blast.

Interrupt Aethanels Chain Lightning cast and dodge her Lightning Orbs.

Make sure nobody is between you and Cyranus if he casts Charged Spear at you.

Stand within the Arcane Orbs to reduce their energy and prevent them from exploding.

Ranged players should move to the edge of the room when Beckon is cast on them.

Kill any bubbles to release players from them.

Crowd control and kill the Overzealous Hulk as soon as possible.

Intermission One & Two

Soak the Arcane Orbs as much as possible, as long as it doesn't go against your assigned decree.

Follow the decree assigned to you!
Suffer! - Soak an Arcane Orb. Obey! Don't soak an Arcane Orb.

Stand Together! Stand near another player. Stand Alone! Don't stand near another player.

Phase Two

Tanks: Taunt off of one another to keep Arcane Vulnerability stacks to a minimum.

Position Azshara near to an Ancient Ward, and keep it energised to counteract her Titanic Machinations.

Ranged players should stand 35-40 yards away when marked with Beckon to avoid becoming mind controlled.

Hide behind a pillar or titan console to prevent hitting the raid when your Arcane Burst debuff expires.

Move out of line of sight of the boss when she casts Arcane Detonation.

Crowd control and slow adds before they reach the Ward of Power.

Phase Three

Spread 8+ yards away from your allies if marked with Beckon to avoid gaining Jealousy.

Move away from others when afflicted by Static Shock.

Interrupt the Tidemistresses Chain Lightning and kill them as soon as possible.

Remove the Crystalline Shield from the Tidemistress by hitting them with a Charged Spear.

Phase Four

Ranged players should stand away from the Titan Console and Ancient wards to bait the Nether Portal zones in good locations.

Avoid standing in the Piercing Gaze beam shot by an orange eye at the edge of the room!

Tanks need to taunt off of each other when their Void Touched stacks drop.

Remove energy charges from the Titan Console in a staggered way to prevent a raid wipe when Massive Energy Spike it triggered.

Encounter Mechanic - Ancient Wards

If an Ancient Ward reaches 0 energy, it will trigger a Pressure Surge which deals high ticking damage to the entire raid.

If all three Ancient Wards reach 0 energy, a Catastrophic Failure will occur which instantly kills the entire raid.

Players are able to read how much energy each Ancient Ward has by looking at the unique interface element which appears once Azshara has been engaged.

This UI element shows the position and energy of the Ancient Wards.

Drained SoulDrained SoulDrained Soul

Stand in the Ancient Wards to energize them!

Phase OneAethanelCyranus

These enemies do not share a health pool and should be killed at roughly the same time, as one will gain Longing when the other dies, granting a 65% haste and 150% damage dealt increase.

Once these two enemies have been defeated, the first intermission will begin.

Queen Azshara will not actively engage the raid during phase one, instead only occasionally casting a spell that the raid needs to deal with.

Painful Memories & LongingPainful MemoriesLonging

These abilities will cause the two bosses to gain the Torment debuff if they are or are not within line of sight of each other.

Painful Memories requires that both bosses are out of line of sight of each other to prevent the Torment debuff from being applied.

Longing requires that both bosses are within line of sight of each other to prevent the Torment debuff from being applied.

Whilst either Painful Memories or Longing are active, the bosses will dynamically gain or lose the Torment debuff depending on the line of sight status.

The tanks need to utilise one of the three parts of the environment that can create line of sight to counter these abilities. These are the two pillars or the titan console.

Once Painful Memories has ended, the bosses should be positioned on top of each other as to allow DPS to cleave between them.

Cursed HeartLongingPainful MemoriesCursed Heart

These pools deal ticking damage to players within, whilst also reducing player attack speed, casting speed and movement speed by 30%.

Ideally these pools should be placed towards the edges of the encounter space, as to allow players to more easily move around the encounter area.

The Cursed Heart pools will remain for the rest of the encounter, so placing them correctly from the beginning will ensure that players will not have to worry about them later on in the fight.

Tanks should avoid placing Cursed Heart pools directly on top of any Ancient Wards, as this will lead to difficulties in topping up the energy of the ward.

Instead tanks should keep both bosses at the edges of the encounter space whenever they are due to spawn the Cursed Heart pools.

A good position for this is to tank Aethanel around the location Cyranus spawns. When Painful Memories is cast, drag Cyranus to the opposite side of the nearby pillar and continue to move until he is up against the wall.

Don't stand within the Cursed Heart pools!

AethanelAethanel

Chain Lightning: An interruptible cast which will deal damage to a random player and spread to nearby players. Interrupt this at all times.

Lightning Orbs: Several orbs appear in the room and bounce 3 times before despawning, dealing damage to players they land on. Simply move from their landing locations, indicated by a blue swirly.

Cold Blast: A hit on the tank which applies a debuff. When this is cast on a target with 3 stacks of the debuff, it will stun them before hitting them for a large amount of frost damage via Ice Shard. Taunt on 3 stacks or simply take the hit if the bosses are too far apart!

Move away from the Lightning Orb landing locations!

CyranusCyranus

Serrated Edge: Each melee hit applies a hard hitting 6 second dot which can stack. This is not applied if the player dodges or parries the melee attack. Largely ignored, as tank switching is dictated by the Cold Blast spell.

Charged Spear: Marks a random nearby player before throwing a spear at them moments later, dealing a minor amount of damage to anyone along the path.

This Charged Spear will pierce through the player and continue to travel in a straight line until it leaves the encounter space.

If the spear hits any terrain, such as the pillars or titan console, it will explode, dealing extremely high raid damage. Players should position themselves so that this does not occur.

Drain Ancient Ward

All wards begin the encounter at full energy, and this removes 30% of one of the wards energy.

Players need to make sure that they recharge the ward as it is being drained, or make sure that the ward is already fully charged before she begins draining it.

Once an Ancient Ward has been drained, players should look to recharge it back to full energy whenever they can safely do so whilst not refreshing their Drained Soul stacks.

BeckonDrain Ancient WardBeckon

After being notified via broadcast text, these players will automatically run to the middle of the encounter space towards a rune over 6 seconds.

Upon reaching the rune, the player will be encased in a bubble which deals damage equal to 8% of the players maximum health every second until the bubble is destroyed.

All ranged players should stand towards the edges of the encounter space when this ability is due to be cast, as this will generate enough distance that the Beckon effect will end before they reach their rune.

Any player who fails to do this should have their bubble destroyed as soon as possible whilst being publicly shamed.

Arcane OrbsArcane Orbs

These orbs will explode after 16 seconds, each dealing a large amount of damage to the entire raid. This will easily one shot the group.

Players can reduce the potency of this explosion by standing within the Arcane Orbs. This will cause them to deplete over time.

If the Arcane Orbs are soaked quickly enough, players can remove them without them exploding at all.

All ranged players should actively look for an Arcane Orb and stand within it to ensure the raid doesn't get one shot.

Stand within the Arcane Orbs to reduce their power!

Overzealous HulkOverzealous Hulk

This add does not need to be tanked, as it will simply run over to a randomly selected Ancient Ward.

Once it arrives it will channel Ground Pound, dealing a small amount of raid wide damage and depleting the wards energy over time.

The entire raid should focus down this add as soon as it spawns as to minimize the amount of energy it depletes from a ward.

However, once the add has been crowd controlled a single time, it will gain the Infuriated debuff which makes it immune to all further CC.

Players looking to kill the hulk should use a long duration stun just before it reaches a ward. This is because an add that is stunned before it reaches its destination may decide to choose another ward instead.

Players may want to hard CC an add that spawns late into the phase and instead kill it during the intermission, as this will allow the raid to focus their damage into the two mini-bosses and potentially skip a set of abilities.

Kill the Overzealous Hulk as quickly as possible.

Intermission One: Queen's Decree

Azshara will spawn multiple Arcane Orbs across the middle of the encounter space, whilst issuing a personal decree to each individual player.

These decrees need to be followed, as disobeying them will give the player the Sanction debuff every second which deals very high ticking damage.

On normal mode, only one decree is issued per player.

Suffer!: Soak an Arcane Orb. Do note that the Arcane Orbs deplete whilst players are stood within them, so you may need to find another if your orb is soaked very quickly.

Obey!: Do not soak an Arcane Orb.

Stand Together!: Stand near other players. You should look to help soak Arcane Orbs with this decree, as it will help remove them before they explode at the end of the intermission.

Stand Alone!: Don't be near other players. If you can find an Arcane Orb that is not being soaked by anybody, then you should look to soak it as to help clear the orbs.

Arcane OrbsArcane Orbs

Follow your decree whilst trying to soak the Arcane Orbs!

Phase TwoQueen Azshara

She will immediately cause the middle inactive rune to become a Ward of Power. This is shown via a blue rune on the ward interface element.

This Ward of Power will gain energy via various means. As the ward gains more energy, the boss and adds will gain increased damage done.

Players should look to actively prevent this Ward of Power from gaining energy, as to keep incoming damage under control.

Much like the Ancient Wards, the Ward of Power can have its energy sapped by players standing within it. This will also grant stacks of Drained Soul.

Generally speaking, empowering Ancient Wards is more important than draining Wards of Power, although it is preferable that both are done.

You can see the Ward of Power in the UI element.

Titanic Machinations

If the boss is closest to a Ward of Power, its energy will be increased over time.

Players need to keep the ward that boss is closest too under control, by having players take turns at standing within it.

Players still need to keep their Drained Soul stacks to a reasonable level (approximately 5-6 stacks), as otherwise they will be one shot by certain abilities.

If the raid runs out of players to soak a nearby ward, Azshara should be moved to a different ward whilst the raid waits for Drained Soul stacks to drop.

The raid should enter this phase with all Ancient Wards at maximum energy, as to reduce the chance of a Pressure Surge or Catastrophic Failure from occurring.

Arcane JoltArcane JoltArcane Vulnerability

Tanks should taunt off of each other whenever this stack becomes to high, usually around the 7-9 stack mark.

Arcane Mastery

This isn't something that players should look to actively counter. Instead the ability is present mainly to give healers something to do throughout the phase.

BeckonBeckon

The boss will still target ranged players, but instead of forcing them to walk to the middle of the room, they instead run directly under the boss.

Upon reaching the boss, the player will become mind controlled and gain a large shield. This mind control will persist until the shield has been removed.

Ranged players are able to counter this ability by standing 35-40 yards away from the boss. This will cause the Beckon debuff to time out before they reach her and become mind controlled.

Any player who fails this and becomes mind controlled should be crowd controlled via stuns and silences and quickly focused by DPS as to remove the shield from them.

Beckon marked players will become mind controlled during phase two!

Arcane BurstArcane Burst

This 30 second long debuff doesn't do anything until it expires, at which point it deals a large burst of damage to all players within line of sight.

Players marked with this debuff should move behind a pillar or titan console that creates a barrier between the boss and the majority of the raid. They should then have this debuff dispelled by a healer assigned to this job.

Hide behind a pillar when your Arcane Burst is about to expire.

Arcane DetonationArcane Detonation

This deals a massive burst of damage to all players within line of sight of the boss.

All players must hide behind a nearby pillar or titan console before the cast finishes, as otherwise they will likely die.

Azshara should be positioned next to one of these hiding spots, as to allow players within melee to easily access them.

AddsWard of Power

Upon reaching the ward, the adds will kill themselves and grant energy to it.

There are two different types of adds that can spawn, a single Azshara's Indomitable add or 3 packs of Azshara's Devoted adds.

The Azshara's Indomitable add has a large health pool, move slowly and cannot be crowd controlled. These need to be focused down by all DPS to defeat them before they reach the rune.

Azshara's Devoted adds have a smaller health pool, move more quickly and can be crowd controlled in nearly every single way. These adds should be AoE'd down whilst the raid throws crowd control to keep them off the rune.

Kill Azshara's minions before they reach the Ward of Power!

Intermission Two: Adoration

She will not attempt to attack the raid in any way, but will still be taking full damage. Players should use this opportunity to get some free boss damage whilst dealing with the decrees and Arcane Orbs.

The decrees and Arcane Orbs work, and are countered in, the exact same way as the first intermission.

Phase ThreeQueen AzsharaBeckonReversal of Fortune

Players marked with Beckon will now gain Jealousy which is a 10% movement speed increase for every other player within 8 yards when the ability begins to force movement.

Players marked with the spell must ensure that they are at least 8 yards away from any other player as to reduce the chance they will reach the boss and become mind controlled.

Reversal of Fortune will occasionally switch the location of her Ward of Power with a randomly selected Ancient Ward.

Tanks need to be quick to move Azshara away from the Ward of Power if it happens to switch with the Ancient Ward she was standing by.

Titanic MachinationsArcane JoltArcane MasteryArcane DetonationArcane BurstTidemistresses

Whilst alive, the Tidemistress will remain stationary and do not need to be actively tanked.

These Tidemistresses must be killed as soon as possible as to keep the wards from completely losing energy.

Players should focus on killing the Tidemistressesas soon as possible!

Drain Ancient Ward: An interruptible cast which drains the Ancient Ward the Tidemistress is standing for a small amount of energy.

If the boss casts Reversal of Fortune and the Ward of Power is placed underneath a Tidemistress, they will cast Energize Ward of Power instead.

Static Shock: A debuff applied to random players which makes them pulse damage to anyone within 8 yards of them over 6 seconds. Make sure to move away from others if you get this debuff.

Chain Lightning: A simple Chain Lightning spell which can be interrupted. The raid should look to interrupt each of these to keep raid damage to a minimum.

Crystalline Shield: An add will gain a shield which makes them immune to damage and interrupts. The timing in which the add gains the shield, as well as which add gains the shield seems to be random.

This shield is only removed via the Charged Spear attack from the Loyal Myrmidon.

Loyal MyrmidonCharged Spear

This targets a random non-tank player. Moments later it will throw a spear at that player, dealing damage to all players in its path.

If the spear hits any terrain, such as the pillars or titan console, it will explode, dealing extremely high raid damage. Players should position themselves so that this does not occur.

If this Charged Spear hits the Crystalline Shield, it will remove it and deal a small burst of damage to anyone within line of sight via Shattered Shield.

Players should not actively kill this add unless another one spawns, as they need to utilize its Charged Spear ability to get through the phase.

The add should be positioned on one side of the Tidemistress, whilst the raid is on the other. This will automatically cause the add to get hit by the Charged Spear whenever it is cast without having players move around.

Hit the Crystalline Shield with the Charged Spear!

The raid should aim to defeat both Tidemistresses before triggering phase four, as otherwise they will need to damage them to finish them off which is damage you'd rather have on the boss.

Phase Four

She maintains access to three abilities: Titanic Machinations, Reversal of Fortune and a modified Beckon.

Beckon will still apply the Jealousy speed increase to players, but if any player reaches the boss and becomes mind controlled, they will remain that way until the end of the encounter.

Any player that does become mind controlled should be killed as soon as possible before they become too much of a nuisance.

All other abilities have been removed and replaced with new things the raid needs to deal with.

Void TouchedVoid Touched

Tanks will want to taunt off of one another each time their debuff drops, as ensure they can actually receive meaningful healing from their healers. This is usually around the 3-4 stack mark.

Nether Portal

This portal will always spawn near ranged players. These players should stack up and bait the Nether Portal spawn locations away from the Titan Console and any Ancient Wards so that these areas can still be accessed safely.

Regardless of where the Nether Portal spawns, players should avoid standing in it as often as possible, only ever entering it if they need to deal with other mechanics such as re-energising Ancient Wards.

Avoid standing near key locations when Nether Portal is cast...

Piercing Gaze

Moments later this beam will shoot out energy, dealing large damage to anyone in its path.

After the beam has despawned, a new eye will appear close to the original eye's location and do the same thing. The spell will then end.

Players will need to quickly identify the path of the beam and move from it so that they can avoid this damage.

Move out of the orange laser beam!

OverloadOverload

This grants the Titan Console 4 energy charges. All of these charges will be released in a single load after ~42 seconds, resulting in a Massive Energy Spike.

Players can interact with the titan console to trigger a Controlled Burst via the use of an extra action button that they gain by standing near it, dealing a moderate burst of damage to the raid whilst releasing a single energy charge.

Players need to do this in a staggered way, as to drain all of the energy before the Massive Energy Spike triggers.

Alternatively, the raid can stack up and use healing cooldowns, whilst a single player with an immunity can use all four charges in a single go.

You can see the remainingOverload charges as orbs!

System Shock: The player who released the energy charge will receive a hard hitting 30 second dot. This simply must be outhealed.

Short Circuit: The console will drain a nearby Ancient Ward of 30% of its power. This must quickly be topped up by all players with low or no stacks of Drained Soul.

Essence of Azeroth: A random DPS will gain a 40 second buff which makes spell casts instant, increases ranged and melee haste by 50% and increases resource regeneration significantly. The target dies at the end of the debuff.
Players who are fortunate enough to gain this buff need to deal as much damage as possible during the 40 second effect.

If the phase lasts for too long, the raid will eventually wipe due to players being killed via the Essence of Azeroth buff.

Heroic DifficultyQueen's Decree

Players need to quickly identify which combination of decrees they have been given as to minimize the amount of Sanction stacks they will receive.

The most potent two combinations that players will have to deal with is the Stand Alone! and Suffer! or the Stand Together! and Suffer!.

Players with the Stand Together! and Suffer! combination should aim to all stack within a single Arcane Orb. Once this is soaked they can then move together to the next.

Players with the Stand Alone! and Suffer! should find an unoccupied Arcane Orb and soak it by themselves.

Stay!March!

Players with Stay! will have a purple zone placed around them. If they leave the zone they will gain stacks of Sanction.

If a player has Stay! and Suffer! they should find an Arcane Orb within their purple zone and soak it whilst minimizing movement as much as possible.

Players with March! need to keep moving, as patches will spawn underneath their feet and detonate shortly afterwards, applying a stack of Sanction.

Some players may have March! and Stand Together!. These players should find each other and move around as a group to counter both decrees.

Stay within your purple zoneif you get the Stay! decree.

Greater Reversal of FortuneReversal of FortuneGreater Reversal of Fortune

Greater Reversal of Fortune will turn all Ancient Wards into Wards of Power and vice versa.

Tanks should quickly move Azshara to the one remaining Ancient Ward when this is cast, as to reduce the chances of the boss gaining a damage dealt increase.

Arcane BurstArcane BurstFeedback

This will cause her to apply Arcane Burst to additional targets when the ability is cast again.

This forces players to make sure they are hidden from their allies and the boss, as to reduce the overall amount of Arcane Burst debuffs the raid needs to deal with.

JealousyJealousy

Players marked with Beckon in phase three or four will likely reach the boss if they are given even one stack of Jealousy, forcing them to move away from their allies before they are forcefully moved towards the boss.

Mythic DifficultyDivide and ConquerDivide and Conquer

Any player who passes through the beam "instantly perishes".

Players with immunities are be able to pass through the beam without dying.

Players will need to carefully position themselves within the room as to ensure that everybody can continue to counter the bosses abilities without getting one shot by this beam.

The beams always appear at set times, although their angles can be different.

The beams are stationary in phases one, two and three. The beam will rotate around the room "Halion style" during phase four.

Queen's Decree

The same configuration of decrees are applied to the raid each intermission, with only the targets being randomly chosen.

As an example: Two players will always gain "Soak, Stand Still and Stand Alone" - but the players with this can be different every time.

Currently this ability is mainly countered by a fancy weakaura, which unfortunately isn't public yet.

Tidemistresses

The raid also only has three minutes to do this, as all adds will enrage three minutes after the phase has begun.

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Comments

Comment by Glastrog

/saracasm on sounds like a piece of cake lol /sarcasm off

Comment by pherkier

One of the best fight in game so far

Comment by Xiuhtec

One thing which is not clear from the dungeon journal in-game nor from this guide is that charged spears do NOT do the 100k+ raidwide explode damage if they fly off into the water. The journal description makes it sound like they explode when they reach the target player, but this is incorrect. They only do the raidwide explosive damage if they hit a line-of-sight blocker like the panel or a pillar. Lining up properly in phase 3 so spears break the shield but don't then hit something else got my guild over a significant hurdle at that point, where the AoE bursts were just ridiculous and unhealable otherwise.

Comment by Blacfang

What's with the 2 Statues Light up when u kiss azshara and click the statue before the boss fight begins?
What's the point of them Lighting up?

Comment by Takouhi

One of my favorite things about this fight, is that as a Resto Shaman, if you have Sharas'dal, Scepter of Tides as a transmog, she whispers to you about your insolence in taking her scepter.

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