Jadefire Masters Raid Strategy Guide

By FatbossTV Updated: 2019/05/29

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Alliance will fight Ma'ra Grimfang (Monk) and Anathos Firecaller (Mage) as the 2nd boss of the raid.

Horde will fight Mestrah (Monk) and Manceroy Flamefist (Mage) as the 3rd boss of the raid.

This guide will refer to the bosses by their class - Monk and Mage

Jadefire MastersGrongJadefire MastersLoot

Cloth: Manceroy's Flamefists

Leather: Cranedancer Leggings

Mail: Grips of Harmonious Spirits

Plate: Embersear Waistguard

Ring: Band of Multi-Sided Strikes

Cloth: Blazewing Hood

Leather: Mestrah's Singing Spaulders

Mail: Mistfire Raiment

Plate: Helm of Tempered Jade

2H INT Staff: Phoenixfire Staff

AGI: Invocation of Yu'lon

Quick Tips

Keep the Monks health percentage lower than the Mage at all times.

Engage the Monk in melee combat to interrupt the Whirling Jade Storm.

DPS through the Mages Fire Shield and then interrupt the Pyroblast.

Tanks: Taunt the Mage off of one another to keep the Rising Flames stacks below 4.

Tanks: Face the Monk Images in the order they appear during Multi-sided Strike.

Healers: Dispel the Searing Ember debuffs, prioritizing those with the shortest duration.

The entire raid should stand within a single Living Bombs Chi-ji's Song cloud as to maintain line of sight of one another.

Defeat the Living Bombs one by one whilst avoiding their rotating Beam attack.

Healers: Be prepared to use cooldowns to counteract the damage from multiple Explosions.

Travel through the maze made from Ring of Hostility zones, whilst dodging the Pheonix Strike patches.

Destroy a section of the barrier before interrupting the bosses.

Side step out of the Dragon's Breath cone.

Healers: Be prepared to use healing cooldowns to counter the ticking damage from the Blazing Pheonix passive.

Jadefire Masters Abilities & Strategydo notMonk'sHarmonious Spirits

This passive will buff the damage output of the Monk whenever they are at a higher health percentage than the Mage. This bonus is stronger the larger the gap between the two bosses.

To counter this, DPS should primarily focus on damaging the Monk whenever possible, whilst cleaving/multi-dotting the Mage.

There are periods of time during the encounter where the Monk is not directly attackable. During these times the DPS can focus on the Mage, assuming that doing so will not create a large health gap between the two.

At no point should the raid look to have the Mage anymore than 10% lower than the Monk.

MonkMage

The encounter is over once both bosses are defeated, which encourages DPS to deal as much damage to both bosses simultaneously as they can.

That being said, focusing all damage into the Monk to remove them from the encounter as soon as possible is also a viable strategy.

Monk AbilitiesMonkMulti-Sided StrikeMonkMulti-Sided Strike

Three Monk images will then appear, one after another. They will then each charge into the tank in the order that they spawned in.
The images will also flash right before they charge.

Alternatively, the order of the images always charge in the order: Blue, Green, Orange.

Successful Defense

Failing to face the image that flies towards them will cause the tank to take a high burst of physical damage.

The tank should aim to face each of the three images in order to reduce the amount of damage they take from the ability.

Once all three images have flown towards the tank, the tank will be teleported back to the encounter space and given the Tested debuff, increasing the physical damage they take by 100% for 40 seconds.

After dealing with the Multi-Sided Strike, the tanks should taunt off of one another to ensure that the Monk is not hitting the tank with the Tested debuff.

Face the images in the order they appear!

Whirling Jade StormMonkWhirling Jade StormMonkWhirling Jade Storm

This channel will continuously deal low nature damage to the raid every 1 second until the Monk is engaged in melee combat, at which point the effect ends.

The tank responsible for the Monk during this time needs to quickly rush over and melee hit them to interrupt the ability.

A high mobility melee DPS (such as a Demon Hunter or Monk) or nearby melee weapon-wielding ranged DPS can quickly rush over and stop the effect, instead of the tank.

Mage AbilitiesMageFireballMageFireball

This deals a moderate burst of fire damage and applies a stack of the Rising Flames debuff.

Rising Flames deals ticking damage over 6 seconds. When the debuff times out, a Burnout explosion is triggered.

Burnout deals a burst of fire damage to the entire raid. This damage is stronger the more stacks of Rising Flames dropped from the tank.

Rising FlamesBurnout

We recommend that the tanks taunt the Mage off of one another when they reach 4 stacks.

Do note that the Rising Flames debuff can drop without taunting, as the Mage will delay casting Fireball if they are casting other spells at the time (such as Pyroblast).

PyroblastPyroblastMageFire Shield

Fire Shield is a damage absorption shield which prevents the Mage from being interrupted.

Fire ShieldMagePyroblast

Pyroblast is an 8 second interruptible cast which deals a near lethal amount of damage and applies a hard hitting dot debuff.

Players must first damage through the Fire Shield before interrupting the Pyroblast before the spell ends.

All DPS should make sure they switch to the Mage when this happens as to ensure that the Fire Shield is broken in time.

Searing EmbersMageSearing Embers

These deals moderate ticking damage over their duration before triggering an Unleashed Ember upon expiration, dealing a substantial burst of magic damage to the raid.

The Unleashed Ember detonation will not trigger if the debuff is dispelled.

Healers in an organised group may wish to assign dispels based off of duration/raid frame position as to reduce the chance of several healers wasting GCD's on dispelling the same debuff.

The amount of Searing Embers debuffs applied to the raid scales with raid size. Groups with 1 healer per 5 players should have enough dispels to cover each Searing Embers debuff.

This debuff can be mass dispelled by a priest, however the ability comes in too frequently to be covered by a single priest alone.

Team AttacksBeamLiving Bomb

They will slowly rotate on the spot whilst channeling a short range Beam which deals heavy fire damage to those who are hit by it.

The Living Bombs will also spam cast Explosion, a 10 second cast which deals a moderate burst of fire damage to all players.

Living BombChi-Ji's Song

The clouds also act as line of sight. Players outside the cloud cannot cast spells/attack enemies inside of the cloud and vice versa.

Living BombLiving Bomb

It is important that everyone remains within the same line of sight, as to allow healers to continue to dispel the Searing Ember debuffs.

Remaining stacked within a cloud also allows the raid to line of sight the Mage if a Pyroblast is cast during this time if the Mage teleports outside of the smoke cloud.

Throughout the time in which the Living Bombs are active, the raid must continue to deal with the other abilities the bosses usually cast as the highest priority.

Healers may wish to assign a healing cooldown or two for the first few Explosion casts, as multiple adds will be casting this at once and the raid will be taking substantial damage.

At 60 energy, all players will be teleported to one side of the encounter space, whilst the bosses teleport to the far side.

The location both the raid teleports to and the bosses teleport to are set and do not change from pull to pull.

Traverse the maze to reach and destroy the Barrier!

Monk

Players will be knocked back upon contacting a Ring of Hostility, however leaps/teleports and warlock gateways can be used to fly over/through them.

The maze layout is a set pattern which doesn't change from pull to pull.

As the Horde and Alliance fight the bosses in different encounter spaces, they will have different maze patterns to get through.

MagePhoenix Strike

These areas explode after a few moments, dealing high fire damage to all players within the area.

Destroying a section will allow you to access the bosses and interrupt their abilities, ending the Team Attack and resuming the encounter again.

Phoenix Strike

Warlock gateways should be used to skip large sections of the mazes. Players with other ways of skipping parts of the maze should do so, as they can begin damaging the barrier earlier.

Warlock gateways are especially strong in the Alliance version of the maze, as the actual distance between the raid and the bosses is shorter, allowing the gateway to counter a larger portion of it.

Monk

During this time the Monk can not use their Whirling Jade Storm ability, but have gained the Dragon's Breath ability.

Dragon's Breath will deal a large burst of Fire damage in a cone faced towards a random player.

The raid must be ready to side step out of this cone. This is more easily done by having the raid spread out around the Monk.

Mage

During this time, the Mage can no longer cast Pyroblast. Instead the Mage has gained the Blazing Pheonix passive.

This passive deals moderate fire damage to all players every 3 seconds. This lasts until the Mage has been defeated.

Healers must be prepared to deal with the prolonged raid damage throughout this last section of the encounter, ideally by having mana and a few cooldowns.

However, if your raid is struggling to survive during this phase, Bloodlust and DPS cooldowns should be used to try and make it as short as possible.

Heroic DifficultyMonkMageSpirits of XuenMonk

Upon reaching the player, the Spirit of Xuen will hit them with Tiger Paw, dealing a substantial burst of nature damage to them.

Due to this high damage, the fixated player should avoid being within melee range of the add as much as possible.

Whilst chasing the player, the add will frequently Pounce at their current location, dealing a moderate burst of nature damage to anyone within 5 yards.

The player kiting the Spirit of Xuen add should ensure that they are always at least 5 yards away from others to reduce incoming raid damage.

Groups with confident healers may want to have the fixated player "tank" the add next to one of the bosses, as to allow DPS to cleave damage on to the boss whilst focusing the add.

Living BombMonks

Additionally, the Multisided Strike will be cast on multiple members of the raid during the The Serpent and the Phoenix Team Attack.

The entire raid must be prepared to face the visions, as doing so successfully will help with the increased output requirements during this late stage of the encounter.

Only one tank will be selected for this ability. This ability can target healers, although it will always leave one behind to heal the untargeted players.

As this ability can be difficult for players to handle, guilds may have a greater chance of success if they kill the Monk as soon as possible as to reduce the amount of Multisided Strikes cast during this last team attack.

Magma TrapMagma TrapMageMagma Trap

The trap will trigger when ran into, dealing a large burst of fire damage and sending all players within 6 yards high into the air.

The fall back down to the ground is high enough to instantly kill any player who doesn't have an effect to cancel or mitigate fall damage.

Anyone who survives the Magma Trap will receive a permanent debuff, increasing the damage they take from subsequent Magma Trap explosions by 100%.

Magma Trap

This is most problematic when the Monk will dash into a Magma Trap and begin to channel Whirling Jade Storm, as the raid will not be able to engage the Monk in melee combat to stop the effect.

The raid must work to clear the Magma Traps that spawn in bad locations.

Magma Trap

Rogues with Cloak of Shadows and Hunters with Aspect of the Turtle can trigger traps without being thrown into the air or receiving the damage taken increase debuff.

Combining one of these immunities with a movement speed increase such as Sprint or Aspect of the Cheetah can allow the player to clear several traps at once.
Raid groups with several Hunters and Rogues should continuously clear the Magma Traps on a rotation to keep the encounter space clear.
Paladins can use Divine Shield.
Classes with fall damage mitigating/cancelling effects can soak a poorly placed Magma Trap by running into it and then countering the knock up.
This can only be done once per player, as they will still gain the damage taken increase debuff - causing them to be one shot the second time they take a Magma Trap without a large defensive cooldown.
Multiple classes have abilities which can counter the fall damage from the Magma Traps, such as Hunters with Disengage, Mages with Blink, Monks with Transcendance, any class with a well timed priest Leap of Faith/Levitate etc.
A player can soak a Magma Trap just before the Flash of Hostility Team Attack teleport.
If timed correctly, the player could be teleported safely to one side of the encounter space before they fall from the sky.
This would require precise timing, but would be really cool if you pulled it off.

Dragon's BreathThis isn't an issue, as the raid can instead just kill this single vulnerable section to gain access to the bosses. Force OrbRing of Hostility

Running into a Force Orb will grant the player the use of an extra action button which can be used on an invulnerable section of wall.

Doing so will simply allow players to deal full damage to this section of wall.

MonksDragon's Breath

Players should move swiftly from this fire as it deals substantial fire damage every second whilst you are stood within it.

Although the raid shouldn't run out of space during this last short phase, the should attempt to "bait" the fire into good locations by standing in positions in which the fire will not disrupt any movements the raid needs to do.

Mythic DifficultyMulti-Sided StrikeSpirits of XuenMagma TrapMythic Jadefire Masters Strategy GuideForce Orb

Once this is done, the barrier can then be destroyed and the bosses can be accessed.

The raid needs to ensure that they gather at least 4 Force Orbs on their way to the barrier.

Ring of Hostility

As it travels, it will leave behind images that continuously pulsate damage to nearby players via the Path of Niuzao effect.

These images do not despawn and effectively prevent players from backtracking through areas, which can be problematic when the raid misses any Force Orbs on their way to the barrier.

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Comments

Comment by Fatherfury

I made a video showing how to survive the multistrike ability or the air platforms as we called them. Our guild wiped over and over with this mechanic as it happens so fast so seeing it in action helps. Cheers

https://youtu.be/TE7rUUxvQrA

Comment by Iantjie

There is a way to cheese the multisided strike ability, works in HC but don't think it will on Mythic. Just focus the monk more then burn her down 1st that will cause the raid to skip multisided strike then use personals to deal with longer AOE from the mage

Comment by Thechieftain

blue - green- red - green - blue those are the color of Multisided Strike. Everytime. Color position may chance but rotation of it wont.

Comment by Sesyl91

Can someone please confirm me a thing? Yesterday we had some trouble with this encounter (HC), that paniced me and many other officers from my guild since we all recived the message from DBM for the mage casting Pyroblast while the Fire in the Mist mechanics started, but that Pyro never came, the mage just shield himself up in that phase. Now, was that due only because of the missing DBM update? Or something screwed up lately?

Comment by Ryawy

Death's Advance can be used by death knights to completely walk through the maze, and when combined with Anti Magic Shell, you can soak a magma trap or two.

Comment by Lilyoptra

So Horde and Alliance get different cloth gloves with different stats...nice...and yet every guide lists the horde gloves as BIS for affy locks and this guide doesn't even list the Ally gloves...at all?

Comment by Llithari

9.0.5 Solo LGF mode - Alliance DH Tank - Either by design, or major error, When they both hit 30% and switch to dragon mode, the Monk will start spamming Multi-sided Strike. Instead of a 60 second cycle, which gives you a chance to recover, it'll be 5 - 10 second cycle. Which leads to multi-stacking "Tested" debuff (incoming dmg +100% kept stacking to 500%. Would kill me off before any debuffs ran out). Solution that worked best, BURN THE MONK DOWN! They won't switch modes until their average percentage = 60% / 30%. Was able to kill monk before they went into dragon mode, which meant no debuff issues.

Comment by WHTJunior

Not sure if it's new, but I had a run where the barrier and orbs did not spawn, bricking the encounter. Had to alt-F4 to start the encounter over. I feel like I defeated the mage too quickly, and the monk bubbled, and was immune to all attacks. Once logging back in, I made sure to keep their health closer, as mentioned, and had no issues getting the proper events to trigger.

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