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Comment by 1654

This is a relatively straight forward encounter if everyone stays alert. If you are familiar with the Bloodlord Mandokir encounter in Zul'Gurub then you'll have no trouble here. Kurinnaxx will stack an upleasant debuff on your tanks called Mortal Wound which reduces healing by 10%. After 3 debuffs are stacked on your tank, your secondary tank will need to taunt Kurinnaxx off and tank him until your primary tank debuff's have expired. Continue to cycle your tanks throughout the fight. Having your tanks set up a macro to /yell Get this thing off me! is helpful.

Ranged DPS need to be mindful of the Sand Traps which spawn randomly throughout the encounter. They do around 2000 nature damage and also have a silencing effect. Keeping your camera panned out so that you can see forming traps is recommended. Should one form near you, strafe away to avoid damage - backpeddling is too slow and the trap will almost certainly hit you.

At 20% Kurinnaxx enrages, so keep those tanks up when he's near death!

Comment by 3118

I've never seen any class get away from a sand trap unless they were

1) Already moving
2) Using a speed increase ability like blink or sprint.

A strategy that's not widely used but very easy and effective is having one warrior on Kurinnaxx, and leaving 1 or 2 other raid members with taunt far away. When the debuffs get to 3 or 4 a taunter runs in and taunts. Said "taunter" drags Kurinnaxx in one direction while the original tank darts off in the other. With the time it takes taunt to wear off and Kurinnaxx to get to the original take the debuffs will have reset.

Debuffs are renewed at ~8 seconds, so taunt just before then.

After the kill, 5 NPCs for the Rajaxx event run by, don't speak to them yet.

Comment by 6786

Kur is a pretty simple fight....they only tricky things that he does is that he will ocassinaly make the ground bubble up in random areas, these "sand bombs" do massive damage(about 1.7 - 2K on my hunter) and silence / reduce hit by 50 for 20 seconds, if this hits your healers....GG. But the bubbles are easy to evade, if you see a bubble forming in or around your area... step out of it! Also, Kur stacks a debuff on the tanks, and they have to cycle through b4 they are 1-hit(i belive you wait for 3 or 4 stacks, then taunt off) Other than that, treat him like a normal mob and tank him around like the punk he is. GL(you won't need it)

Comment by 7517

This boss is the 1st boss in the instance and is mandatory if you'd like to kill the last boss.

Comment by kreghx

Level: Boss
Location: Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj in Silithus
Type: Not specified

Attacks and Abilities
Hits for 800 - 1000 against a tank
Slashes for 800 - 1200
Mortal Wound - Nondispellable stackable Debuff on the MT that reduces healing by 10%. This is a cleave attack so it can hit multiple people in front of him.
Sandtrap - Random sandtraps spawn under player's feet. If they fully erupt before the player can move they take 2000 damage, are silenced and have their chance to hit reduced by 75% for 20 seconds.
Enrage - at 30% health.
Summon - Can summon a player in combat to immediately in front of him.
Thrash - gain 2 more attacks.

Kurinnaxx
His main physical attack is a cleave that will do heavy damage to anyone in front of him. It also inflicts a fifteen second debuff called Mortal Wounds to the tank that reduces healing by 10%,and stacks 10 times, and is not dispellable. so there needs to be a great deal of tank swapping in this fight. Once a tank gets 3 debuffs he stops attacking and the next tank gets aggro from him. This will continue throughout the battle.

He also does an attack called Sand Trap that does around 1900 damage and inflicts a debuff that silences, and reduces hit chance by 75% for 20 sec. so as long as everyone spreads out it prevents more then one person to get hit by the same sandtrap

The off tanks should attack from the side so they can avoid the Mortal Wounds cleave. If you do get hit by a Sand Trap dont stand around waiting for the debuff to expire. Take the opportunity to bandage yourself or drink healing/mana potions.

Casters need to be careful not to steal aggro from the tanks. Tanks will be limited in their ability to gain a lot of aggro by their need to trade off as Kurinnaxx's target.

Comment by kreghx

Strategy 2

Instead of having the tank move around, tanking Kurinnaxx in the center of his room has proven to be an equally effective tactic in defeating him. The strategy requires at least two tanks, but three is recommended as Kurinnaxx will enrage at 30% and begin tearing the plate wearers a new one. The tanking warrior will hold Kurinnaxx's attention until the debuff stacks up to 3. This will give time for the OT to grab aggro before heals become useless for the MT--sometimes Kurinnaxx has so much aggro on the MT that it may take two or three more applications of the debuff before the OT can successfull peel him off (rest assured, when the debuff stacks up to 8, healers are basically wasting mana). Make sure the second tank is building his rage to full until called to take Kurinnaxx, this way he can Taunt and have enough rage to pass the aggro barrier and be the new tank. Keep in mind that Kurinnaxx's aggro barrier is much higher than most bosses; it will take more than Off-Tanks are used to to take aggro off of the Main Tank, but a full rage bar worth of Heroic Strike spam and Sunder spam should do the trick. Rogues can beat away at Kurinnaxx's sides, running THROUGH him in case he spawns a sand trap under himself. Do not backpedal--you won't make it out of range in time.

Alliance Note: If the off-tank simply cannot take aggro, a Paladin Blessing of Protection (BoP) thrown on the Main Tank with less than 10 seconds left on the Mortal Wounds debuff will keep Kurinnaxx off just long enough to let the Mortal Wounds drop off before he gets it back.

General Note: Limited Invulnerability Potions have the same effect as a BoP if Paladins are not available, though only for 6 seconds instead of 10.

Another method is simply to have two tanks fight over aggro the entire fight, applying sunders and essentially trying to be the more macho warrior.

Meanwhile, casters and ranged DPS will surround Kurinnaxx in a loose circle, preferably as far away from each other as possible. This minimizes the chance of sand traps hitting and silencing multiple casters. Should anyone be hit by a sand trap, a single heavy runecloth bandage is usually enough to heal whatever damage you took. Casters should wand while waiting for the silence to wear off. At 30%, any non-healer should immediately blow all their cooldowns to DPS Kurinnaxx down as quickly as possible.

Previous attempts at trying to train Kurinnaxx around in a circle have proved to be difficult for a number of groups. The problems that occur when a boss is constantly moved around generally results in the ranged DPS (and melee DPS/off-tanks) having to keep up with the constant position changes. It is important to note that most healing spells have a range of 40 yards, and offensive spells have a range of 30 yards--it is easy for a tank to simply wander out of range of these spells, or cut the circle too tight and force casters to stay in a very limited battlefield, increasing the chances of multiple casters being silenced by a sand trap. The sand traps actually have a rather impressive radius (perhaps 10-15 yards) and are far more devastating to casters than melee attackers.

Comment by 100152

As you can tell, this boss drops the most gold compared to all the AQ20 bosses along with ZG, MC, some of BWL, and just about as much as the Naxx bosses.

Comment by Cthu

A warrior or paladin should be able to solo him. I killed him with a priest (me as warrior), but I took only 16k dammage in a 14 min fight with gear giving me almost passive immunity to crushing blow. The "almost" make the difference i guess. 102.4% avoidance (miss+dodge+parry+block) and 700 block value (i had 800 but 700 should be enough) = almost no dommage. It looks like the Wide Slash attack can still dommage you a bit.
Besides, you can heal yourself regularly. The Mortal Wound stack to 10 but then fade. The boss will of course stack it again but you've got some time with only 10% or 20% reduced healing.
As for the sand traps, just dont stop moving and you will never get hit.

The problem is, you can't solo trashs before without heal. Some of the mobs have a special attack dealing 2k nature damage.

Comment by Ryxis

just killed him 4 man, druid ank (me) prot paladin in healing gear (healer obviously), enhance shaman and fire mage

a couple of thigns of note, firstly confirming the debuff stacks to 10, then fades, then starts to be restacked, secondly, the debuff does not affect a druids leader of the pack procs, which were hitting me for over 700, so thats some nice passive healing

if you have a dodge trinket, make sure to pop it when you get to 9/10 debuffs and it shouldn't be too bad

was my first proper fight against him, good fun :)

Comment by Dwarfadin

Four manned him today with 2 ret (both 4/5 brutal) 1 warrior who was fury (also with 4/5 brutal) and a disc priest in a mix of S2/S3.

I tanked as ret and we downed him easily our first attempt dispite not having any idea of what to do.

Comment by 77935

Soloed as Feral Druid lvl 80 - Heroic geared

Just kite around and avoid the sand traps not very hard at all

Comment by 268987

I have also soloed him as a holy pally, the healing debuffs did not effect my healing and i just walked backwards in circles while attacking.

Comment by 274300

Soloed as an affliction warlock, naxx gear. He hits my voidy for 500, and the healing debuff doesn't affect Health Funnel.

Comment by 81603

Solo'd him(or it) as a 78 Unholy Deathknight. Kited in a small circle and spammed Scourge Strike and Death Strike while rotating between Bone Sheild and IBF.

Comment by 251065

Solo'd as an unholy Death Knight.

Simple Strat:

Kill the mobs around him (trash)
Tank and spank the boss walking backwards. If you stand still you'll get a Sand debuff and you won't be able to attack/heal.

Comment by Boney

Easily taken down as a 80 (50/21) BM hunter.

Cleared the trash. Had my pet tank him where he stands and just ran around him in a big circle keeping Serpent Sting and Mend Pet up. Steady Shotting whenever a sand trap apeared where i just was knowing i had plenty of time to do it and move before the next one popped up. Saved CDs for 30% when he enrages.

Comment by MCHamster

Cakewalk as a prot paladin at 80 in part T6/part Northrend rep blues.

Comment by 64664

We did this today with a small guildrun to Ahn'Qiraj. None of us has been here before.
4 characters ranging from 74-80.

On the boss this was pretty tough for everyone except the tanking paladin. 3 casters, as well as the healer we're silenced every now and then for 15 seconds. The sand thingies don't appear randomly throughout the field. They always seem to choose a target. Mostly the healer and almost never the second in aggro.
So I had to heal the casters much more then that tank. Even when the boss became enraged the pally almost took no damage.

Very easy fight. Just watch your own health if you're casting.
Totally soloable.

Would be nice to hear if other people solo'd it with different classes. A warrior perhaps.

Comment by 153593

Solo on my 80 warrior, very easy fight. T7 gear with 1200 SBV and around 51% avoidance (before DR). The fight went for about 5 minutes and I lost about 15k health total.

Onto Rajaxx. :)

Comment by redduskCC

Solo'd as a feral druid, 80 in T7/Naxx 10 equiv gear.

Very simple, as described above, just kite to avoid sand traps to make the fight as short as possible. Also, the healing debuff does not affect LotP or Frenzied Regen. Very good way to get the +20 spellpower to a specific spell class enchants, granted that the drop rate is not the best.

Comment by nemspyda

For a bear druid it's just a case of clearing his room and then leading him around and round (backing up constantly) so you don't get hit by any of the sandtrap debuffs. Repeat till dead.

Comment by Tayntedsol

Soloable by a warlock, as haunt spec just have your voidwalker tank it and stay below his agro (even when the boss enrages you can outheal his damage with Health Funnel). My health funnel ticks for about 1430 as my spec, would be even easier for a demo lock with imp voidwalker/imp health funnel and other solo talents.

Comment by ramajuko

Nevermind, he was stealth buffed.

Comment by nemspyda

As of 3.08 frenzied regen is now reduced by the debuff. I'll bet Death Strike and others formally immune are now also included in this.

As a feral druid I simply make sure I keep an eye on the number of stacked debuffs and as soon as I drop below about 70% ill be ready to pop my regen as soon as debuffs stack low (1-3 or so)

Comment by 311727

As the druid above mentioned, with 3.0.8 abilities like Death strike are now reduced by his healing debuff. What I did was simply mitigate as much damage as I could while fighting him.

The debuff stacks to 10 for 100% reduction but it can't be refreshed after that. Wait out the 10 stacks and it resets to 0 again. During that time I death striked and rune tapped to replenish my health.

I wore my full tank set to help mitigation. Dodge and parry are key.

Comment by 143684

Not sure how people are soloing him - this fight is absolutely impossible as an enhancement shaman.

Didn't even get him to 90%, despite popping wolves, and not getting hit by a single sandtrap. He has what seems to be an absurdley large dodge/parry chance. (I am hit capped.)

So yeah, not soloable as an enh shaman in heroic blues/purples.

Comment by AstroZombie

I wish there was a tamable version of him :(

Comment by 261770

Solod today with Prot Paly. Have stacked Blockgear from Nax25 (22Dodge, 18 Parry, 42 Block) and he never hit me once. Ended the fight (8 Minutes) with 100% Life. Took me bout 20 Minutes to clear the Trash.

Comment by 93332

I'm really struggling with this one as a Heroic/Naxx geared feral druid tank. I keep getting hit by sand trap.

What I'm doing is what everyone has said above: keep moving away from the sand traps. But when I do that he teleports me back into the middle of the sand trap, and it hits me. The consequence is that I can't hit him, so leader of the pack doesn't heal me, and i also can't cast barkskin or demo roar or anything

Is there any way to avoid getting warped into the sand trap every bloody time?

Comment by lemele

Done with 2 level 80 pallys, one prot tank, the other ret spec with healing gear on (around 10k mana)

Simple way to do this is keep running. I strafed the whole time except when healing, and only got caught a couple of times by the sand trap. Try and heal when the debuff is at its lowest stack. Tried to estimate when the debuff would disappear but it reappears almost immediately so ended up healing when it was at its worst which was a waste.

Had to take a mana potion, use Divine Plea repeatedly and go and bop the boss with my Judgement of Wisdom occasionally to get mana back.

Probably took about 10-15 mins in all coz ofc the tank was the one doing almost all of the damage. Tank used Lay on Hands near the end coz that was one of the times I got sand trapped.

Overall not too difficult, just loooooooooong.

Comment by 175113

Yep - Solo'd as a feral druid - lvl80 with Naxx gear, but heroic gear should be fine.

Keep kiting him backwards as you do dmg and you don't get trapped.
heal when the stacks are low if needed.

Comment by 336890

2 manned with 2 Shamans.

1 Enhancement - 1 Elemental

Enhancement Shaman got initial aggro. Just walk backwards in a circle. You can see the sand traps on the ground before they explode, however I noticed several times when we were no where near them we still got silenced. So be careful of that. Kurinnaxx will randomly do a teleport thing. It won't affect you as much if you have your screen set where it automatically resets behind your character. (Otherwise this will be an extreme pain). Save maelstrom to heal yourself, however don't waste heals if his debuff has stacked above 6. (Once it hits 10 it will completely reset, so hang on as long as you can so you don't waste mana)

The elemental Shaman moved as he could avoiding sand traps whenever possible. If you get into a sticky situation, he *is* tauntable, so pop your earth elemental and let your stack wear off so you can heal yourself up.

This can be solo'd/duo'd by most any class (being harder for casters because the sand trap is a 20 second silence) Any class doing this, just remember not to waste heals if your debuff has stacked above 6 (for each stack is 10%. So first stack heals are reduced by 10% all the way up to 10 stacks being 100% for those of you who don't know)

Have fun and good luck!

Comment by Undahill

Solo'd as a Ret Pally, full pvp epics. Kept sacred shield up, flash heals off of art of war. Also used seal of light. Pretty easy.

Comment by 223769

Cannot solo as a Moonkin. Soloing Onyxia is easier xD.

I kept getting a bug where I'd instantly turn and face her, so casting was a $%^&*, as well as running while moonfire spamming.

I'm in full epic gear from 10s and 25s, with 18k HP and 2k SD. Sand traps were impossible to see/avoid, since casting anything besides wrath was too long and you would get silenced.

Highly recommend doing it with 2, or as Feral if you're a druid.

ALSO: Getting past the trash is no easy task. They aggro easily, unlike ZG trash, have much more HP, and do more damage.

Comment by 336526

Do yourself a favor and clear the trash before attempting this boss, do not I repeat DO NOT try to pull him out to the previous area. Even if you memorize the patrol patterns, Kurinnaxx's Summon Player makes him really hard to move around. I ended up falling through the ground while being constantly being summoned back by the boss, which later resulted in three packs of trash aggroing me.

Comment by 239920

WARNING--- MOST LIKELY OF TOPIC.
Kurinnaxx has 1/3 (333100) the amount of of health of his 40-man Big Brother(Assummed)- Fangkriss the Unyeilding(999300).

Comment by 45315

How can you guys solo this? all i get is a debuff that reduces my healing by 100% = goodbye.

(78 ret paladin)

Comment by BHLimbslicer

The solo encounter for this is not too difficult. You must simply continously kite him in circles so as to avoid being silenced, and as for the mortal wounds after they stack to 10, they will last for 15 seconds and then dissipate, allowing you to burst heal until the next mortal wound hits. Fairly simple encounter to solo if you know what you're doing.

Comment by LinkD

soloed as an enh shaman in ulduar gear, he was pretty hard for me to kill, since i couldnt survive till 10 stacks, what i did was run in, use fire ele totem in the middle for extra damage, kite him around the room by backing away (keeping in range of fire ele totem), once i got to 6 stacks(he was around half hp at this point) i had to pop feral spirit, taunt, then used speed to run away for the stack to run out, then popped hero with wolves out to dps him down fast, at around 50k my wolves despawned and i barely survived with about 3k health left after he died

Comment by 92157

Duo'd, 72 prot pally (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Moon+Guard&n=Myakah), not amazingly geared, and me, a 70 ret pally (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Moon+Guard&n=Pailong), also not amazingly geared. Simplistic fight, just keep moving. Got hit by a second or two of sandtraps, three times or so during the fight, but if you don't get hit by them more than once, then it's no problem. Myakah was using seal of light, and I was keeping up judgement of light and using divine storm, so that helps during the sand trap silence. Mortal wound wasn't a huge issue, I just ran away from the boss when she was at low health, taunted, and we waited for her debuff to wear off. The boss maybe got two hits in on my before she could taunt him back around.

Comment by Starfury

The easiest way to avoid sand traps is to switch to walking speed and constantly back up. He very rarely summons when this is done, and it won't move you far back enough to get hit by a trap, because he scoots up close to you more often when you're moving this slowly. Since I have started using this strategy I have never been hit by a single trap.

Comment by VegaSera

3/10/10, Vegalyra, draenei elemental shaman on Bladefist

Soloed

Got this after many wipes of refining my solo strategy

I start off by running in and immediately throwing down my fire elemental totem, letting him burn the boss as much as he can before the 2 minutes are up, with me keeping right below his aggro, constantly moving.
When the fire ele despawns, I drop my earth ele and begin to DPS a little more seriously, as the earth ele can taunt.

Very very delicate fight for an elemental shaman

Comment by Fudge

Solo'd with a level 80 feral Druid (tank) with an average ilvl of 245.
Two attempts. On the second attempt
* I cleared the pats.
* I just kept moving to avoid the mines. Waiting to see them then strafing was a recipe for being silenced all the time.

Being silenced seems to inhibit the self heals of improved leader of the pack.

Comment by basiat

as a feral, stay in cat form, bear spec, walk slowly backwards, took about 2 minutes.

Comment by 201000

solo's as a shadow priest, i would recommend using the strategy listed above; turning on walk and backpeddling while spamming devouring plague for the instant damage and keeping dots up, when he enrages summon your shadowfiend and fade. then get distance and burn him down before he kills your fiend

Comment by Bhaalgorn

Soloed this as a blood tank death knight in naxx gear and some ICC 5 man heroics gear. Fight is very easy,keep moving so you don't get silenced,use death strike while the healing debuffs are still low.

There were a few annoyances though. Mostly the fact that he stood on me and not in front of me which annoyed me off and the other that the army of the dead didn't taunt him off me.

Comment by 302456

Hôôfy - Prot Warrior / Prot-BT Warrior

Soloed this guy just over the weekend, it's pretty straight forward. But took me 2-3 tries to get used to what's going on. Spec for BT and glyph for BT. My Gear is in the 232 average range. About 37k Stam unbuffed.

After clearing adds aggro the boss, and kite him backwards along the edge of his area (along the edges of the sand). This will make the sand explosions pointless. As for his Mortal Strike ability, you're gonna have to eat that, once it gets to an unbearable amount i dont think he can cast it anymore to refresh, therefore, letting it fade off. It is possible to fade off before then due to a lucky dodge, block, parry , and Don't stop using bloodthirst, because once the debuff falls off, you will heal a bunch, and it is a great opportunity to use Last Stand + Enraged Regeneration if you have to.

the frenzy isnt a threat at all if you managed to get a good rotation going with your bloodthirsts and kiting technique, just use shield wall if you fear you might take too much dmg.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Arthas&cn=H%C3%B4%C3%B4fy

Comment by Bodda

Easy to solo as a muti rogue with recuperate since 4.0.1

Comment by Zyland

As a BM hunter, post 4.0.1 this was an easy solo.

The debuff doesn't seem to affect Mend Pet, which heals a percentage of your pets health rather then the actual number. It appears to make the stacking debuff negligible. That, or your pet should just stay up that easy.

I ran around the boss in circles to avoid sand traps and only stopped to cast a steady shot to regain focus.

Comment by Sophron

Solo'd as an 80 fire mage in full season 8 PvP gear. I used the walk-backpeddle strategy while casting scorch, spamming living bomb and impact procs. I saved mirror image for the enrage, and managed to position them so they didn't get silenced by the sand traps. It was close, but the dots killed him while I iceblocked.

Comment by 696978

I was able to solo this as a holy priest. It took my two tries. The first time, he hit me with a sand trap right as he enraged. The second attempt took me five minutes, and I was able to kill him. I kept him dotted, and used holy nova as I backed away from him constantly. I was still hit by two sand traps, but keeping Prayer of Mending and Renew on kept me from being killed.
It can be difficult to turn in order to walk in a circle, since he constantly teleports you back to him, but I managed. My wrist hurts now though... Haha.

Comment by eluneaurora

After a few successful tries as a Cat DPS spec'd Feral Druid (post Cata launch) I've come up with easy mode. Luna style. (I tried solo'ing this guy as a Frost PvP Mage, back a while ago, yeah, that failed horrendously but, moving forward) I killed all the trash (not hard, fun times) in bear form, then got to the boss, the first time I accidentally pulled him with a mob (got too close, bad timing... etc) and downed him. Just rp walk backwards, use the pit as a guide, turn on auto walk, and pop your instant cast heals when your debuff cycles back down to only 1 stack, then back in bear form. Use your defense cooldowns if you need to and beat the ever lovin' nuts out of him. It'll take about 4-5 minutes (on average.) Super, super, super easy mode. If you are +80 and in expansion gear, he's about as bad to fight as outland dungeons were pre-cata. (Read: A Kitten and Yarn ball hard)

Comment by 807184

This guy just dropped the Healing Power recipe for me.. had it already though.. Hunting for the Fire Power one only... Been farmimg AQ20 & 40 for 6 weeks now, and thats the only one I have yet to see drop.

Comment by Amoreyna

A note for Paladins:

Do not go into this fight thinking you can just use emergency buttons, especially if you do not watch your trash pulls as this guy has got a huge aggro radius. He will lock you out of EVERYTHING outside of CS/HotR, judgments and Divine Shield. This even includes your racial heal if applicable, WoG and LoH. Do not be careless when you pull him. Divine Shield does drop the silence but if you are careless you can quickly get it back and it is 20 secs long. Which may not seem like that long, but when you are doing little damage overall and/or have trash along with the boss, you will be worn down especially if you keep getting the buff.

I, like others, found it best to just move while killing him. If you wait for a sand-trap to appear before you move out of it, it's probably too late. Walking backwards or just turning in a circle both work well for this.

If you get silenced don't just automatically use your bubble - save it for when you need it especially for those lower then 85 (since LoH after the silence may help more and you don't want forbearance when you really need to stay alive). Just endure the silence unless you are in trouble and keep moving out of the sand-traps even during the silence, as the debuff can be renewed by standing in them while silenced.

Comment by Ohemgeepwned

Fun fact.
He uses the crocolisk's model, incase you didn't know.

Comment by Ravenhair

Only thing you need to worry about as soloing is the Sand Traps, but they won't spawn if you walk backwards while you melee him. Nothing more deadly about him.

Comment by InTeNsO87

Drops 23g65s25c

Comment by TheRealLink

Thanks for the tip about backing up - soloed as an 83 Fury Warrior. After dying twice and not having any idea until I saw all the buffs, I tried that technique. He eventually stuck both the repeated healing debuff on me and sandtrap but not until he was already enraged.

Got him down the bulk of the way before any issue at all and just kept repeating hit, back up, hit, back up and it went mostly flawlessly.

Comment by Evangelism

This boss is soooooo annoying when you try and solo it. Being silenced for 20 seconds is a pain.

Comment by 75147

solod this on my frost mage: 85, mostly pvp gear. It was slightly tougher than i expected.

His summon was either glitched or has been revamped to be very touchy. He summoned me, regardless of my position and if he could melee me about every 2 seconds. He would even summon me if i didn't move at all since the last summon, usually to a slightly different location. This made avoiding the sand traps and casting very difficult. I had to rely on instant spells and my pet for the most part.

All i did was have my pet aggro him at first from a distance from myself, get some decent aggro, then pop everything to burn him. got him to about 50% when I pulled aggro off my pet and basically watched my pet solo him.

Frustrating with this twitchy summon of his.

Comment by mouseno4

Multiboxing tips:
Protection Paladin - 362
Holy Priest - 348

Healing was not really necessary from my priest so i just kept her mounted and just outside spell cast range. Pulled trash separately so as to not get overwhelmed. Popped Avenging Wrath, nuked with all offensive cooldowns and kept backpeddling in circles to avoid sandtraps. No real strategy needed.

Comment by Shylight

just soloed as a level 85 Spriest...followed the above strategy by turning on walk and pressing S or the down arrow constantly and using DP and SWD and win :)

Comment by AusSpyder

This is close to impossible if you're a caster class that doesn't have a pet or dots

Every second or two he summons you a fraction of a step to the left or right, putting you in effectivly the same place as you were summoned from, but guaranteed interrupt your cast every single time.

Additionally it's extremely hard to not get caught in sand trap, you cannot face away from the boss to run as every single summon turns you around, which rules out strafing also leaving your only option as back peddling which is touch and go

Comment by 480051

Solo'd with level 85 Disc Priest ilvl 302

the MOST annoying boss encounter I have ever had.

just keep running backwards..but always face the ugly piece of S**T :P
when your able to cast spells, bubble and renew and use any DoT's and possibly Penance.

he won't hit hard until around 25% hp

Comment by Mydge

85 ilvl359 druid tank. Simple fight, rather boring.

Best strat found was to walk backwards but in a curve. If I went straight back, he took a second to catch up and would be out of melee range so I would miss a move, and I was catching alot of sand traps.

Walking in a backwards curve meant that he was constantly in range, and I missed alot more traps.

Only used Lacerate so that a dot was up if I caught a trap. Took 126 seconds to die.

Comment by Garroda

I don't know what all the fuss is about, I just killed this bugger in less than 20 secs. He didn't get to use any of his traps or other major abilities.

Comment by Autumn2005

Did what Mydge suggested, I am a fury war 85, worked like a charm! Had died three times previously, kept getting silenced, running out of rage, and all my attacks were not hitting him. Walked backward in a circle, never got silenced, was able to keep up battle shout for rage, lay rend on him, worked like a charm!

Comment by bloodm

I couldn't beat this boss as arcane mage at all. Died far too many times. When with patch 5.04 had to change spec (frost) decided to give it a try.

First I did clean a trash that was flying around.
All my CD were ready to use.
Pet ready as well.

From distance casted Frost Bomb, then Frozen orb and mirror image. Pet did it's job meanwhile, of course. Didn't move, didn't turn even, just faced the running at me boss. Before i could cast third frostbolt, he was down.

Comment by 1113037

Soloed as a level 82 prot warrior. Just keep walking backwards to avoid sand trap and mortal strike and just have second wind keeping you at 35% health.

Comment by comacosy

Just solo'd on a 72 disc priest. Pretty hard fight, but followed strat of just backing up. While backing up I kept SW:Pain on boss and cast Holy Fire, Penence, and Mindbender on cooldown. Kept renew on myself whole time and PW:Shield on cooldown. Healed with flash heal a couple times as needed.

Comment by 1361131

I wasn't able to solo this boss as level 64 warrior - item level 69/76. After I tried two times to kill him, I moved on to the next area, where I was able to kill the boss.

Comment by KelcieAnne

I just killed him as level 100, hoping for that pink cloth robe that's really pretty for transmog. He didn't drop anything, and his body then disappeared like 10 seconds after. Does he not drop anything anymore? Quite disappointed.

Comment by MrWhitewolf

With his hollow eyes and simple, writhing design, Kurinnaxx easily tops any other model in the game for most times I've heard someone comment on how something looks so genuinely creepy.

So let's get a tamable version for mobile nightmare fuel!

Comment by Gaghiel

Hunters rejoice : Kurinnaxx is now available for taming!

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Kurinnaxx

This NPC can be found in Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj .

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