Design Corner: Time-Lost Halls of Karazhan Part 2

Arcanus, Watcher of the Halls was created by the Battlemage Grandfurth while experimenting with arcane magic. Arcanus now patrols the halls and keeps order. He will not react kindly to unknown visitors.

Encounter description and design notes:

• The ground of the encounter area is divided up into tiles, which make up 5 rows.
• An array of arcane related abilities have to be dealt with:
  • Arcane Trap – Traps 2 random players, rooting them in place for 10 seconds. Player is immune to Arcane Beam and Arcane Pillar when trapped.
    • Mythic only: Duration reduced by 5 seconds. Will jump to another player when it expires. Player is not immune to Arcane Pillar.
  •  Arcane beam- Travels around the room, has to be jumped over
  • Arcane Explosion – puts a debuff on random players. This will pulse AoE damage to anyone within 8 yards. After 8 seconds the target and anyone within 8 yards will be thrown into the air. Only the debuffed player will receive a slow fall. Instantly kills those trapped in an Arcane Trap.
  • Arcane Pillar
    • Tiles on the ground will light up and arcane energies will explode on that tile after 2.5 seconds. Players that get hit will take a big spike of damage and take 50% increased arcane damage for 30 seconds.
    • Mythic only: 3 entire rows at a time will light up at a time
  •  Arcane Empowered – Arcanus’s auto attacks deal arcane damage
  • Arcane Malady – Increases arcane damage taken by 20%
• Encounter Design Goals/Intentions:
  • Make the players deal with movement and mechanics, which are somewhat more random than other encounters.
  • On mythic mode a lot more coordination will be required. The Arcane trap debuff can be passed on to another player within 30 yards by using the extra action button. Especially Arcane Pillar will require this coordination.

Quartermaster Modir spends his days training those that wish to become his disciple in the art of combat. Being in a place pulsing with magic such as the Time-Lost Halls has given him unhuman strength. Rumor has it he can even throw swords as if they were knives.

Encounter description and design notes:

• Broadsword – The Quartermaster’s attacks hit the closest person next to the target for 50% of the damage.Sunder Armor – Reduces the target’s armor by 5%.
• Expose Weakness – The Quartermaster throws knives at his targets exposing their Weaknesses. After 4 seconds he casts Throw Sword on those targets.
• Throw Sword – Modir throws a sword at the player, if it hits them it will deal 85% of their maximum health as damage to them.
  • Mythic only: it will kill them if the sword hits them.
• Shattering leap – Quartermaster jumps to a player’s location dealing 200k physical damage to anyone within 8 yards.
• Whirlwind – Modir deals 80k damage to every player every second for  6 seconds.
• Notes:
  • The sword from Throw Sword can be intercepted by a player standing in between the boss and player
  • The amount of expose weakness targets increases as more people are in the raid, 3 targets at 20man
  • This is mainly a dps and healing check, keeping away from gimmicks in this fight. The damage numbers in the journal likely need to be increased.

Having access to huge amounts of magical power, Battlemage Grandfurth has trained himself to overcome the weaknesses of being a caster. He has infused himself with the raw power used in magic to strengthen his physical body. This of course means that other than physical attacks, his magic is not to be messed with. Note: Since the creation of the dungeon journal entry, a new ability has been added. Brute force will not show up in the journal image.

• Burn Essence – Stacking debuff on targeted player, deals 60k arcane damage every 3 seconds per stack.
• Empowered Staff – Grandfurth’s staff is empowered to hit like a heavy mace.
• Brute Force – Grandfurth slams his staff against the target dealing 600k physical damage.
• Incinerate – Deals 180k fire damage to the targeted player and leaves a debuff on the player dealing 50k fire damage every 3 seconds.
• Wall of Ice – Grandfurth slices at the target, throwing a wall of ice dealing 300k frost damage to anyone that gets hit by it.
• Summon Arcane Elemental – Summons 2 Arcane Elementals
  • Arcane Elemental
    • Unstable Magic – While the Arcane Elemental lives it will deal 30k arcane damage every second to every player.
    • Arcane Malady (mythic only) – Every Pulsing Arcane also gives the stacking Arcane Malady debuff, increasing magic damage taken by 2%.
• Frostfire Bolt – Deals 300k frostfire damage to the target. Interruptable.
• Encounter notes:
  • The main goal is to prevent getting hit by as many abilities as possible.
    • Frostfire Bolt can be interrupted.
    • Wall of Ice can be dodged.
    • Cooldowns will have to be used for Brute Force.
    • At the same time dps have to kill the elementals as quickly as possible to reduce the damage on the raid as a whole.
    • If the abilities aren’t dealt with properly the raidgroup is going to have a nasty time.