Conclave of the Chosen Battle of Dazar'alor Raid Strategy Guide

By FatbossTV Updated: 2020/02/24

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Loot

Cloth: Lightfeather Footpads

Plate: Arcing Thunderlizard Legplates

Cloak: Loa Exultant's Shroud

Cloth: Mantle of the Skyterror

Leather: Vestments of Indomitable Will

Mail: Gonk's Scale Robes

Plate: Ridgeplate Pauldrons

1H STR Sword: Blade of Encroaching Death

2H Agi Bow: Pterrorwing Longbow

1H INT Axe: Akunda's Shocksplitter

INT: Crest of Pa'ku / Crest of Pa'ku

AGI: Kimbul's Razor Claw

Unique Pets

Enchanted Talon of Pa'ku

Thundering Scale of Akunda

Spawn of Krag'wa (Mythic only)

Quick Tips

Purge the Gift of Wind buff.

Stand within 10 yards of Pa'ku during Pa'ku's Wrath.

Move 8 yards away from others when afflicted with Crawling Hex.

CC and Kill the Ravenous Stalker adds.

Move 5+ yards away from others when Kimbul's Wrath occurs.

Move 10+ yards away from Akunda's Aspectwhen Thundering Storm is cast.

Spread out and avoid Static Orbs when afflicted with Akunda's Wrath.

Tanks

Keep the two active bosses 8+ yards away to prevent Loa's Pact from triggering.

Taunt swap to drop Pa'ku's Aspect Hastening Winds buff.

Face Gonk's Aspect away from other players during Raptor Form.

Taunt swap to drop Kimbul's Aspect Lacerating Claws debuff.

Healers

Use a healing cooldown to cover the damage from Pa'ku's Wrath.

Only dispel Crawling Hex when the player is 8+ yards away from others.

Kimbul's Wrath leaves a permanent dot on anyone it hits. Keep them healthy!

Dispel Mind Wipe as soon as possible, prioritizing your fellow healers.

Conclave of the Chosen Abilities & StrategyLoa's WrathPa'ku's AspectGonk's AspectLoa's Wrath

This heals the other active aspect boss and give them a 15% damage dealt increase which can stack.

Once either Pa'ku's Aspect or Gonk's Aspect is defeated, Kimbul's Aspect will join the encounter.

Once another aspect has been defeated, Akunda's Aspect will join the encounter.

With this is mind, it is recommended that you always defeat the aspect that has a stack of Loa's Wrath, as they will be dealing 15% more damage.

If neither aspect has a stack of Loa's Wrath, such as at the beginning of the fight, we recommend that you kill the aspect boss that is most dangerous.

The aspect boss considered most dangerous by most players is Pa'ku's Aspect and should be defeated first.

Only classes who gain additional single target damage via multidotting/cleaving should do so on this encounter.

Loa's PactLoa's Pact

This decreases the damage they take by 90% and increases the damage they deal by 90%. The buff is removed once the aspect bosses are moved over 7 yards apart.

Tanks must position the two active aspect bosses at least 8 yards apart at all times to ensure that the Loa's Pact buff is never triggered.

The Wrath ability is cast throughout the fight, even after the aspect boss has been defeated.

The Wrath ability will come into play once the corresponding aspect boss has activated.

This means the raid will have to deal with Pa'ku's Wrath and Gonk's Wrath from the beginning of the encounter to the very end, with Kimbul's Wrath and Akunda's Wrath abilities coming in once those aspect bosses have activated.
It's important to note that the Kimbul's Wrath and Akunda's Wrath timers will start when the aspect bosses activate, allowing players to choose which abilities overlap and when.

Pa'ku's AspectHastening WindsPa'ku's Aspect

This effect stacks and will reset once Pa'ku's Aspect has hit a different target.

Tanks can taunt off of one another to reset this stack. This will briefly grant the bosses the Loa's Pact buff as the pass, but not for too long.

Alternatively, another player can taunt the boss, such as a melee dps. Once they have received one hit and reset the Hastening Winds buff, the tank can taunt back.

We recommend that you reset this buff when it reaches 20-30 stacks (depending on the confidence of your tanks).

Gift of WindPa'ku's AspectGift of Wind

This buff increases haste by 45% and movement speeds by 75%.

This buff should be purged off of all enemies as soon as possible.

Mages may wish to spellsteal this buff, as the additional haste grants a large output increase.

Pa'ku's WrathPa'ku

Upon reaching the edge of the room, it will channel Pa'ku's Wrath for 8 seconds.

This deals heavy nature damage to all players further than 10 yards away from Paku every second, and light nature damage to all players within 10 yards every second.

The raid must quickly identify where Paku is within the room and stand within the 10 yard zone around her as to minimize the damage taken from this ability.

Tank's must ensure that the two active aspect bosses are kept apart during this time by taking them on either side of the safe zone.

Stay within the safe zone during Pa'ku's Wrath.

Gonk's AspectRaptor FormGonk's AspectRaptor FormWild Maul

The tank needs to face Gonk away from any nearby players when this ability is cast, whilst anyone nearby ensures they do not stand in front of Gonk's Aspect.

This is most easily done by having any melee players stand directly behind Gonk's Aspect when they are damaging her.

Crawling HexGonk's AspectCrawling Hex

This applies a 5 second curse debuff to random non-tank players. These players are unable to attack or cast spells whilst the hex is active.

Upon expiration or decursing, the curse will spread to all players within 8 yards.

Players afflicted with Crawling Hex must move 8+ yards away from others before the debuff expires.

Players who can decurse can do so to reduce the length of the curse, but they must ensure that the player is at least 8+ yards away from others.

The raid should be loosely stacked in the middle of the encounter space to ensure there is always a nearby area the Crawling Hex players can safely move to.

Crawling HexPa'ku's Wrath

The afflicted players must wait for their curse to end before entering the safe zone, as they would otherwise spread it to the stacked raid group.

]Move 8+ yards away when you have the Crawling Hex debuff!

Gonk's WrathRavenous StalkerGonkGonk's WrathGonkGonk

Gonk's Wrath causes 4 Ravenous Stalker adds to appear around the encounter space.

Each add will fixate a random player, marking them with Mark of Prey, before chasing them down.

Upon reaching a player they will deal moderate physical damage with their attacks until they decide to recast Mark of Prey.

Ravenous Stalker

The adds are susceptible to multiple forms of crowd control, including stuns, slows and displacements.

These crowd control spells should be used to keep the Ravenous Stalkers away from their fixated target, as to keep incoming raid damage to a minimum.

Gonk's WrathPa'ku's Wrath

The raid should be prepared to keep the adds at bay whilst within the safe zone, using crowd control to keep them back.

After Pa'ku's Wrath has ended, the raid can safely kite and kill the adds.

Pa'ku's AspectGonk's AspectKimbul's Aspect

We recommend that Pa'ku's Aspect is killed at this point, due to the high tank damage and disruption caused by the Gift of Wind.

Whichever boss you kill, it's recommended to kill the boss just before or during Pa'ku's Wrath as to ensure that the new Kimbul's Wrath ability timer does not overlap with Pa'ku's Wrath.

Kimbul's AspectLacerating ClawsKimbul's AspectLacerating Claws

This ability is cast often enough to stack, forcing tanks to taunt swap to allow the debuff to expire.

We recommend that the tanks taunt swap on the 3-4 stack mark.

Kimbul's WrathKimbul's WrathKimbulKimbul

Moments later he will leap at each player in turn, dealing a moderate burst of physical damage and knocking down all players within 5 yards of the intended target.

All players hit by the leap will receive a stack of Bleeding Wounds, a permanent debuff which deals low physical damage every second. This can stack.

Players marked by Kimbul's Wrath need to move over 5 yards away from any other player to ensure that only the marked targets are hit by the ability and receive the bleed.

Healers must be prepared to keep the debuffed players healthy throughout the encounter. This becomes more difficult towards the end of the encounter, as more players will have the debuff.

Gonk's AspectKimbul's AspectAkunda's Aspect

We recommend that Gonk's Aspect is defeated here, as she has one stack of the Loa's Wrath damage increase.

Once again, whichever boss you defeat here, it's recommended that you kill the boss at the beginning or during Pa'ku's Wrath as to ensure that the new Kimbul's Wrath ability timer does not overlap with Akunda's Wrath.

Akunda's AspectThundering StormAkunda's AspectThundering Storm

All nearby players need to move away from Akunda's Aspect to dodge this ability.

Akunda's Aspect will not move once the Thundering Storm cast has begun, allowing the tank to also easily dodge the ability.

Move away from Akunda's Aspect when Thundering Storm is cast.

Mind WipeAkunda's AspectMind Wipe

Healers need to quickly dispel these debuffs as to allow the players to gain access to their abilities once again.

An interesting side effect of Mind Wipe is that the afflicted targets name will change to "Akunda the Wiped" whilst under its effect.

Spread out when afflicted by Akunda's Wrath!

Akunda's WrathAkundaAkunda's WrathAkunda

This will apply a 6 second debuff to several members of the raid. This debuff explodes upon expiration, dealing high nature damage to anyone within 5 yards whilst spewing out several Static Orbs.

The Static Orbs will travel across the encounter space, dealing damage and stunning players for 2 seconds if they come into contact with it.

All debuffed players should spread out around the encounter space to ensure nobody takes the splash damage from the Akunda's Wrath debuff.

This will also help spread the orbs out, creating gaps for players to move between to avoid them.

Akunda's WrathAkunda's Aspect

If you killed the previous aspect boss during a Pa'ku's Wrath, this will off-set the two wrath abilities in such a way that they will never overlap with one another.

Akunda's AspectKimbul's AspectLoa's Wrath

After Kimbul's Aspect is defeated, the raid should then kill Akunda's Aspect and the encounter will be completed.

Heroic DifficultyCry of the FallenCry of the Fallen

This applies a 6 second debuff to all players which deals moderate nature damage every 0.5 seconds.

This damage can be lethal when in combination with other incoming damage sources.

Healers should use at least one healing cooldown each time Cry of the Fallen is triggered to help counteract the incoming damage.

Ravenous StalkerGonk's Wrath

This 5 second buff increases their movement speed by 75% and grants crowd control immunity.

The players with Mark of Prey need to ensure they do not kite their Ravenous Stalker into another add, otherwise it is likely that the raptor will catch up to them and deal substantial melee damage to them.

Krag'waKrag'waKrag'waKrag'wa's WrathKrag'wa

Krag'wa will then jump to one of the three players who is furthest away from it, dealing damage and kncoking back all players within it's landing zone.

After jumping four times, Krag'wa will despawn.

Krag'wa

That being said, the time it takes for Krag'wa to jump from one spot to another is fixed. Regardless of distance, he will always take the same time to get from point A to point B.

Therefore, players can simply just move from the swirly zone Krag'wa marks each time he jumps. This will counter the mechanic just as well as setting up two "bounce" teams.

Krag'wa's WrathPa'ku's WrathPa'ku's WrathMythic DifficultyLoa's Wrath

Due to the increased incoming damage, we would recommend that 5 healers are brought to this encounter, as the bosses need to die at a set time which is easily achieved with a 5 heal roster.

That being said, the encounter has been defeated with four healers. The benefits of doing so would be a shorter overall kill time for the encounter, as the additional DPS can increase the rate in which the adds and later bosses are defeated.

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Comments

Comment by Kayja

If you're a Dwarf or Dark Iron Dwarf tank, you can remove the the Lacerating Claws debuff with your racial abilities (Stoneform and Fireblood respectively).

Comment by STRHonor

I could not slow the Ravenous Stalkers with Hamstring on my warrior. Anyone else experiencing any problems with their slows? Is this intended?

Comment by Kaerfemagsh

we found that after paku died both gonk & kimbul had 1 stack of loa buff each, so we went for kimbul 2nd & it was MUCH easier

Comment by jinkusu121

Warlocks with their imp pet can dispel Mind Wipe from themselves, at least in LFR.
My pet bar stays visible and I use the version of Singe Magic on the pet bar after targeting myself. If I ran too far from my imp I use Flee first.
Did not get a chance to test purging an ally.

Comment by Sunwood

It's a bit of a challenge but you can solo this encounter as a hunter.

First, make sure you are holding aggro on one of the bosses, while your pet is standing far away and holding aggro on the other.

Your pet should first target Gonk's Aspect, so you can get the Hex spell out of the encounter quickly.

Kill Gonk's Aspect while your pet is tanking it, then have your pet aggro the next boss that spawns and kill that too. As long as you are not losing aggro of the one that's targeting you, you are fine as the bosses are not affected by the damage reduction.

Pop turtle just before killing the second boss, so you can immune the first Mind Wipe. After Akunda's Aspect spawns and Mind Wipe is cast, remove turtle, pop all CDs and burst down Akunda's Aspect before the next cast, then kill the final remaining boss.

Comment by SavageChild

In a post-Battle for Azeroth world, this fight is still difficult to solo but is soloable (see rottenx51's comment about soloing with a Hunter; a Warlock may also work). As an alternative, you can easily two-man it (with either a 2nd player or a 2nd account) as follows:

1) Create a team with any max-level damage class/spec (personally I used a Retribution Paladin) and a max-level healer with any ability that dispels magic (personally, I used a Restoration Druid, which has Nature's Cure to remove magic).
2) Enter Battle of Dazar'alor raid and fight your way to Conclave of the Chosen encounter. This fight begins with two bosses and will eventually spawn a 3rd then 4th boss.
3) Move your healer to eastern end of room. Move your damage class to western edge of room. IMPORTANT: for faster damage to bosses, always keep the two active bosses far apart from each other.
4) Use healer to aggro/attack Gonk. Use damage class to taunt/aggro Pa'ku and kill Pa'ku.
5) Continuing killing active bosses until Akunda spawns. Make sure to keep the two players far apart from each other, keep Akunda's aggro on the damage class, and keep the other boss' aggro on the healer class.
6) IMPORTANT: As soon as the healer class no longer has the Mind Wipe debuff, move the healer class close enough to the damage class to dispel Mind Wipe. This will enable the damage class to again use abilities. Use damage class to kill Akunda ASAP, preferably before Akunda casts Mind Wipe again. Rinse and repeat this step, if necessary.
7) If necessary, once Akunda dies, just kill additional boss.

Comment by oneeighthundred

You can solo this fight as a Brewmaster Monk on normal difficulty at least:

Take Black Ox Statue and use it to separate the bosses.
Bring a trinket with a burst damage active like Heatbound Medallion.
Kill Gonk's Aspect first so you stop getting polymorphed.
Get one of the remaining 2 bosses low.
Recast Black Ox Statue (so it's back to full health).
Stand near the statue and wait for it to pull a boss.
Kill Pa'ku's Aspect away from the statue (You can kill Kimbul instead if you want but Pa'ku will kill the statue much faster if you do that).
When Akunda's Aspect comes out, blast her with the damage trinket, you'll get Mind Wiped but that should put her low enough for Touch of Death.
As it starts to wear off, spam Touch of Death as hard as you can and hope it lands in the tiny time window before you get Mind Wiped again.
Kill the remaining boss.

Fortunately, you can also solo King Rastakhan on Normal with a monk too, so enjoy your G.M.O.D. run.

Edit: If you have good enough gear (i.e. 420-ish), you can have enough health to Touch of Death Akunda's Aspect even while she's at full health, which should make this even easier.

Comment by Caelus

I've found a way to solo this as a Feral Druid, no pets, in Dragonflight Season 3-4. I've been able to do it reliably for a few weeks now, and the key is Feral Frenzy. I've only done this strategy on Normal and haven't tried other difficulties.

Here's the play:
Pure single-target talents except maybe Primal Wrath, but most importantly Feral Frenzy and Convoke the Spirits. Also Renewal, Well-Honed Instincts, and Nature's Vigil on the class tree.

- I beat down the bosses until I'm about to spawn Akunda, put up my final bleeds on the boss that's about to die, Berserk/Tiger's Fury, and start spam clicking where Akunda will spawn.
- As soon as he's targetable, you have BARELY A FEW seconds to unload. I hit everything: Feral Frenzy, trinket (Ashes of the Embersoul for me), and Convoke.
- Once the silence hits me, I run away until FF falls off.
* I run because if one of the bosses stops to cast a spell, I can separate them and get full-damage ticks of FF. Even one tick is a chunk of a hit. This part is super important.
* Feral Frenzy has a 30-second cooldown with the Feral tier bonus, which is the same duration of the silence spell, so you'll always have FF available when the silence is re-casted.
- I continue walking backwards, facing the bosses, to kite the raptor hits and not turn my back on the boss hits.
- Once the silence is about to fall off, I stop walking and start SPAMMING the hell out of my Feral Frenzy macro. You have a split second between most casts to get it off.
- Once FF has gone off, I again RUN LIKE HELL until FF falls off Akunda.
- If there are way too many raptors on me, I'll use my split second to cast Primal Wrath instead. I don't know if this is worth it but it makes me feel better, lol.

I repeat until Akunda is dead.
Health proves to be an issue, but as Feral you have a bunch of off-GCD spells in your kit, so I use this macro when I'm low:

/cast tiger's fury
/cast Feral Frenzy
/cast renewal
/cast nature's vigil
/use health potion (whatever one you use)
Well-Honed Instincts will also heal you if you hit 30% HP.

If I don't need healing, I'll use regular Feral Frenzy without the macro to preserve my Renewal.

It took me a few times to get it right, but I've solo'd this a bunch now!
Edit: FF's name is censored on Wowhead so I put the spell link instead

Comment by Incandio

I've been meaning to try a phial like Phial of Glacial Fury which may allow you to damage him if you have dots up. MIght help as it's very challenging to refresh dots in the microsecond between silences. It can also control the add numbers to let you survive longer. But... I don't have time to test. Leaving it as an idea.

Comment by thekragle

General solo/2-man strategy for transmog runs:

1. Be a class with a persistent pet/totem/whatever that can take aggro away from you. That way, you have your pet/totem at one side of the room, and you stand on the other. I did this as a WW monk talented into Black Ox statue. Other classes that I've seen people use include Hunter, Warlock, DK (I think), possibly S Priest. If your class doesn't have an instakill ability like Touch of Death, talent into abilities that let you put a long lasting DOT or take a trinket that will. Alternatively, 2-man this fight, preferably with at least one character that's able to use an execute-type ability (Execute, Touch of Death, Kill Shot, the pally one, etc). Otherwise, have a character with a DOT.
2. Akunda is the most annoying one here, he starts inactive, and will eventually activate on the RIGHT side of the room. You'll want to separate the two currently active bosses to opposite sides of the room. You may wind up being polymorphed while initially separating the bosses, but at this point in the game, it's far less deadly than the mind wipe, so don't worry about it.
IF SOLOING: Set up your pet/totem on the RIGHT side of the room, close to where Akuna will spawn. Get your pet/totem to aggro the active boss on the RIGHT. You take the other active boss on the LEFT, to the LEFT side of the room, near the other inactive boss.
IF 2-MAN: Similar to the layout above, Execute or dot character takes RIGHT, and the other character takes LEFT.
*********The most important thing to note: If your Execute has a long cooldown, save it for Akunda!******

3. Kill LEFTY first. Then the inactive left boss will spawn.

The rest of the steps will change a bit depending on whether you're solo or 2-manning.

SOLO:
4. Kill LEFTY again. Akunda will spawn on top of your pet (as long as you've set things up properly), and your pet/totem will have two bosses on top of it.
5. You will be mind wiped, and it is unfortunately unavoidable. However, because his attention is focused on your pet, you have a much better chance of surviving. Run to the RIGHT side of the room, and wait for the mind wipe to expire.
6. Target Akunda and spam your Execute or your DOT, you have a split second to do something when the mind wipe expires. If you can, try to pull Akunda away.
7. If he's now dead, proceed to kill the other boss. Otherwise, repeat the process.

2-MAN
4. Kill RIGHTY (please don't waste your execute if your ability has a long cooldown!) . Akunda will now spawn. Person on the left side of the room can feel free to start killing their boss as soon as Akunda spawns.
5. Execute Akunda ASAP (see above), otherwise burn him, and don't forget your DOT (in case you can't burn him fast enough)
6. Whoever kills their boss first can go help the other, though it's most useful to kill Akunda first.

Comment by Hobskins135

Whoever at blizzard decided a 30 second silence mechanic in a raid was a good idea. Should be swiftly fired and never work on another video game again.

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