Champion of the Light Battle of Dazar'alor Raid Strategy Guide

By FatbossTV Updated: 2019/02/19

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Alliance will fight Ra'wani Kanae along with her Rezani Disciple and Zandalari Crusader adds.

Horde will fight Frida Ironbellows along with her Anointed Disciple and Darkforged Crusader adds.

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Cloth: Bracers of Zealous Calling

Leather: Gloves of Spiritual Grace, Bracers of Regal Devotion

Mail: Lightgrace Sabatons

Plate: Crusade Pummelers

Cloth: Divine Fury Raiment

Leather: Cowl of Righteous Resolve

Mail: Pauldrons of Ancestral Vengeance

Plate: Breastplate of Divine Purification

1H INT Dagger: Desecrated Blade of the Disciples

2H STR Sword: Dawnbreaker

Shield: Sunburst Crest

INT Healer: Ward of Envelopment

Quick TipsGeneral

Do not kill any adds during the Seal of Retribution phase, otherwise she will gain Zealotry stacks.

Do not attack the boss during the Seal of Reckoning phase, otherwise she will gain Zealotry stacks.

Do not stand between the boss and the adds, as the Wave of Light will frequently travel along this path.

Interrupt the Heal and Penance casts from the Anointed Disciples whilst killing them off.

Do not face the Darkforged Crusader when it casts Blinding Faith.

Use a defensive cooldown when the boss has high Zealotry stacks and/or Avenging Wrath and casts Judgment: Reckoning.

Tank Specific Tips

Keep the adds 25+ yards away from the boss in both Crusader's Seal phases.

Drop the Sacred Blade by moving from the boss during her long casts or by having the add tank taunt briefly.

You can attack the boss during the Seal of Reckoning if you are afflicted with Sacred Blade.

Drag the adds out of the Consecration zones when DPS are killing them off. Otherwise just keep them stacked up in the corner.

Healer Specific Tips

Save healing cooldowns for when the boss casts Judgment: Reckoning at the end of Seal of Reckoning.

Prepare to deal with higher incoming damage if the boss has many stacks of Zealotry or when she is below 30% and has Avenging Wrath.

Champion of the Light Abilities & StrategyDarkforged CrusaderAnointed Disciple

The adds and the boss should be kept roughly 30 yards apart throughout the encounter, due to the powerful Crusader's Seals the boss has active at all times.

The raid must be prepared to switch between attacking the boss and the adds depending on what seal is active, as otherwise the boss will gain stacks of Zealotry.

Zealotry gives the boss a permanent 2% holy damage dealt increase which can stack very quickly.

If the boss gains too many stacks, the raid will struggle to survive the bosses heavy holy damage spells, likely resulting in a wipe.

Seal of Retribution

The boss always starts the encounter with the Seal of Retribution active, which causes her to occasionally deal a low burst of holy damage to the raid when she melee hits via Retribution Wave.

This seal will also buff all of the adds damage and healing done by 15% via the Aura of Retribution.

Any adds that die whilst Seal of Retribution is active will grant the boss 20 stacks of Zealotry. Because of this, the raid must avoid killing the adds during this phase at all times.

The adds should be tanked away from the boss during this phase to ensure that they adds will not be killed off during the phase via passive AoE or cleave damage.

Judgment: RighteousnessSeal of ReckoningSeal of Reckoning

The Seal of Reckoning causes the boss to gain stacks of Zealotry each time she is attacked by a player. This includes fresh applications of debuffs, as well as AoE/cleave attacks.

The player currently tanking the boss will not give the boss stacks of Zealotry with their attacks, as long as they are afflicted with the Sacred Blade tank debuff.

The boss will also be dealing moderate bursts of holy damage to randomly selected players with her Reckoning spell.

This damage cannot be avoided and must simply be out-healed.

Zealotry

The add afflicted with Judgment: Righteousness should be focused down first, as it is the most dangerous of the three due to the powerful buff it has.

The boss and adds should continue to be tanked away from one another during this phase, as to ensure no Zealotry stacks are gained by the boss via accidental AoE/cleave.

All three adds should be defeated before the boss reaches 100% energy and switches back to the Seal of Retribution.

As soon as all three adds have been defeated, the boss will begin generating energy at a far increased rate.

The raid must wait for her to gain 100% energy and transition back into her Seal of Retribution as to ensure the boss doesn't gain additional Zealotry stacks.

Judgment: ReckoningSeal of Retribution

This is a great time to have one or two healing cooldowns to help the raid survive the incoming damage.

This ability is the primary reason why Zealotry stacks must be kept to a minimum throughout the fight, as the damage from this spell could be increased so much that it begins to one-shot people.

Once the ability has ended, the boss will summon a new set of adds via Call to Arms and the fight will then repeat - with the boss cycling between the two Crusader's Seals until she is defeated.

The tank add should quickly gain threat on these new adds and stack them up in the same position as they have done for the rest of the encounter.

Wave of LightWave of LightWave of LightWave of Light

If no adds are alive when this ability is cast, a random players location will be chosen instead.

The wave will deal a moderate burst of holy damage and apply a 7 second magic dot to all players it passes through.

The wave will also place a magic buff on any adds it touches, healing them for 5% of their maximum health every second for 7 seconds.

Both the players damage over time debuff and the adds Heal over time buff can be dispelled/purged.

This ability is cast during both Crusader's Seals phases.

This is to keep the direction the Wave of Light travels consistent and predictable, allowing the raid to ensure they always dodge this ability by standing out of the path between the two camps.

Although it would be ideal if the adds can be moved to avoid each Wave of Light, this is difficult and unlikely as the adds remain still whilst casting the majority of their abilities.

Instead, purges should be used on the adds to remove the Heal over time buff during periods when the adds are being focused down by the DPS (such as during the Seal of Reckoning).

Purging the adds during the Seal of Retribution is far less important, as it is likely they will Heal to full multiple times due to the several healing casts from the Disciples.

Example of ideal raid positioning throughout the Seal of Retribution.

Sacred BladeSacred Blade

This stacks up relatively slowly, doesn't do a large amount of damage.

Sacred Blade

The debuff can be reset by having the add tank taunt the boss for 10 seconds before having the boss tank grab her back.

This should not be done during the Seal of Reckoning, as the adds are being focused during this time and the boss will likely gain accidental Zealotry stacks.
The tank can wait for periods where the boss is casting her seals or Judgment spells and move away.
By the time the cast has ended and the boss has reached the tank once again, it is highly likely that the Sacred Blade stacks would have reset.

Sacred BladeAvenging WrathAvenging WrathForces of the Crusade AddsSeal of Retribution

The adds are susceptible to all forms of crowd control aside from long duration roots and hard CC (such as polymorph/paralysis).

Anointed Disciple

Divine Burst deals a moderate burst of holy damage to a random player. This should be interrupted as the lowest priority.

Penance is a channel which either deals damage to a random player, or heals a random add, over its 5 second duration. This should be interrupted as a medium priority.

Heal is a cast which will Heal an add for a massive portion of their health. This should be interrupted as the highest priority.

Instead, the raid should only focus on interrupting these adds when they are being attacked by the raid during the Seal of Reckoning.

This will mean that the adds are likely to have a high amount of health going into the Seal of Reckoning phase, but the DPS should still be able to focus them down in time.

If you are struggling to kill off the adds during the Seal of Reckoning phase, the DPS should swap to them in the later stages of the Seal of Retribution to gain a head start.

Using this raid positioning allows you to automatically be faced away from the Blinding Faith!

Darkforged Crusader

Aside from dealing a moderate burst of damage to the tank with Crusader Strike every now and then, the add will cast Blinding Faith.

At the end of the cast, Blinding Faith will disorient all players facing the crusader for 5 seconds.

All players must turn their back on the crusader before the cast ends to ensure they are not caught out by this effect.

If the raid positions as suggested in the image above during the Seal of Retribution, the mechanic can be largely countered automatically with the raid already facing away.

It is mostly during the Seal of Reckoning, where the raid is mainly focused on the adds, where the Blinding Faith needs to be actively countered.

ConsecrationConsecration

During the Seal of Retribution phase, these can be stacked on top of one another, as the adds do not need to receive meaningful damage during this phase.

During the Seal of Reckoning phase, the adds should be dragged out of these zones as much as possible as to allow DPS to deal full damage to them.

Moving the adds can be difficult, mainly as they cast spells so frequently, however displacement and silence effects can be very useful at getting them out of the zones.

Alternative Burst Strategy

This will mean that the boss will gain excessive Zealotry stacks during the Seal of Reckoning phase, substantially increasing her holy damage output.

This is most problematic when the Judgment: Reckoning ability is cast at the end of the Seal of Reckoning phase.

If the entire raid stacks up and uses defensive/healing cooldowns for this hit, it may very well be possible for the raid to survive.

This strategy would require the raid to defeat the boss before the Judgment: Reckoning ability is cast too many times, as they will eventually run out of cooldowns to counter it.

It is unlikely that this strategy will be viable in the first few weeks of the Battle of Dazar'alor raid, but it may very well be an easier strategy to use when reclearing the instance later on in the tier.

Heroic DifficultyDivine Protection

This effect cannot be placed on the same add more than once every 30 seconds, as the ability also grants Forbearance.

As of latest testing, it was not possible to remove this buff via Offensive Magic purges and Mass Dispel.

Divine Protection

Aside from this, the recommended strategy for the encounter remains the same.

Mythic Difficulty Prayer for the Fallen

This will cause all adds, alive or dead, to stop all of their actions and begin to cast a powerful ability.

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Comments

Comment by Babamukuru

Mandatory blood elf dispell again, gonna hear the cries :D

Comment by DoTArchon

I wonder if a Blood DK could be used to Gorefiend's Grasp the adds out of the way of the Wave of Light?

Comment by valdu

Heroic easy mode:
3 tanks, no need for the 3rd to be a full tank (just have the off spec to hold it a little bit more)
-Boss tank: he will get the boss all the fight
-Reset tank: taunt the boss and hold it for 10 seconds to reset the boss tank stacks
-Add tanks: he will only get in charge of holding the adds, and move them from waves, better if this guy have more than 1 interrupt and some survival, some times you will be caught away from the healers line of sight, done it with my paladin no problem.

You will not have to worry about the adds going to the boss

Comment by Deizen

On our first normal run, my raid group accidentally pulled the boss because the tank thought it was just another wave of trash mobs.

After the pull and the boss was dead, everyone was quiet on Discord until one broke the silence with "so, this raid has some interesting trash mobs with cool mechanics."

As with every "first boss" encounter in a new raid, this is a very easy fight, especially on Normal.

Comment by Aielchief

I can't find it in any patch notes, but today the tank debuff lasted 15 seconds, up from 10. As the main boss tank, I couldn't reset my stacks on my own anymore.

Comment by Kaerfemagsh

do the priest adds need to be tanked? since their casts seem to go to random targets?

Comment by Doodbrah

When going with a zerg strat be sure to have all dps standing on boss inside boss frame circle. The dps will avoid wave of light because it spawns right outside of boss frame.

Heals can as well but beware of tank on adds leaving range and for light.

Comment by DemonicsFire

just a heads up. i just tried a m run and someone pulled her before the raid was ready (half the raid wasnt there).

we wiped but by where someone died the boss (and adds) went on attacking the innkeeper and got us all stuck unable to ress. even the /stuck help dosnt do anything

even a log out dosnt work

Champion of the Light Battle of Dazar'alor Raid Strategy Guide

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