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Halls of Lightning

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General Information
General Bjarngrin
Volkhan
Ionar
Loken
Screenshots
Media

Instance Summary

Halls of Lightning will be the second wing of Ulduar, a 5-man Dungeon in the Storm Peaks, meant for level 80 players and only accessible to those with a flying mount.

It is part of the titan city, and has a lot of Titan lore closely tied to it. The scale of the instance is large, with tall halls and rooms filled with Titan artifacts.

For more Lore on Ulduar and its inhabitants, see the Halls of Stone page.

Achievements

Halls of Lightning
Heroic: Halls of Lightning
Lightning Struck - Pull him while he has a charge up and have fairly decent gear for an easy achievement.
Shatter Resistant - Have someone kite the adds and kill him quickly. This is usually earned by accident.
Timely Death - You can either stay in for the Lightning Nova with a little resist, or run out and run back in quickly, having reasonably high DPS. This is usually earned by accident.

General Bjarngrin

Abilities:

Abilities for this boss are not yet known.

Strategy:

This boss is found patrolling the platforms in the first room, it's essential that you spot and identify him by the large amounts of lightning he uses when in a pack. Once you've found him, wait till he patrols to a new platform and pull the trash pack on the platform he just left. Once you've cleared this platform you're set up to start the encounter.

Bjarngrin is set up much like a warrior. He switches back and forth between battle stance and berzerk stance. While in berzerk stance he can hit for up to 12-13k on plate, so be ready for a massive burst damage. Additionally, Gjarngrin will whirlwind, however this is unlike a warrior, he spins around multiple times and hits repeatedly, have your tank pull him out of the melee group during this phase and be ready to keep your tank alive.

The rest of the fight is rather simple, mind his chain lightning to minimize damage and he will fall over. The lightning does more damage the farther two affected people are apart, so stand close together to reduce damage when hit. Some consider this boss to be the hardest in the instance, feedback so far is that this boss is slightly overtuned for normal.

Confirmed Loot

Name	Type	iLvl
Hardened Vrykul Throwing Axe	Thrown	187
Hewn Sparring Quarterstaff	Staff	187
Bjarngrim Family Signet	Armor	187
Mantle of Electrical Charges	Cloth	187

Heroic Loot:

Name	Type	iLvl
The General's Steel Girdle	Plate	200
Iron Dwarf Smith Pauldrons	Plate	200
Patroller's War-Kilt	Mail	200
Traditionally Dyed Handguards	Cloth	200

Volkhan

Abilities:

Casts Temper periodically, spawning Molten Golems.
Casts Shatter after summoning Golems, killing any cooled (1 HP) Golems.

Strategy:

Volkhan is a molten giant whom is after a short gauntlet-style trash room and about 10 pulls of 3-packs. It's recommended you clear the upper part of the room (where Volkhan is) before attempting the boss. Volkhan is rather simple boss, like most giants Volkhan has a lot of smashes and melee-range AoeE around his feet. It's suggested to watch for his emotes and have any melee dps run out to avoid getting clobbered.

Every now and then Volkhan will run over to his anvil/forge and summon a number of tiny molten adds ranging from 5-8 in number. Have your tank ready to use any AoE they have to pick them up when he goes to summon them. The molten adds to relatively low damage. Once the molten adds reach 1 HP, they "cool". In this state, the adds no longer move, and turn white. The next time Volkhan casts Shatter, the cooled adds will explode, doing around 5k fire damage to everyone in around 8 yards. It is vital to stay a good distance from cooled adds, or it is possible to take tens of thousands of damage in a single burst.

Volkhan is known to hit rather hard on plate, 4-5k + some 8k hits, and will easily clobber any non-plate at his feet. Confirmed Loot

Name	Type	iLvl
Cape of Seething Steam	Armor	187
Volkhan's Hood	Cloth	187
Eternally Folded Blade	Sword	187
Kilt of Molten Golems	Mail	187

Heroic Loot:

Name	Type	iLvl
Giant-Hair Woven Gloves	Cloth	200
Shroud of Reverberation	Armor	200
Belt of Vivacity	Leather	200
Slag Footguards	Leather	200

Ionar

Abilities:

Arcing Burn

Strategy:

Ionar is a wind elemental whom looks like an upgraded version of Murmur or Prince Thunderaan. He is a rather simple fight because all his damage have extremely easy to spot visual queues. When fighting Ionar periodically he will throw a lightning ball at the ground where a player is standing (much like Void Reaver) that players must dodge.

Additionally Ionar will debuff one person with a defuff similar to static charge from Lady Vashj and everyone must spread out away from that player. At the end of this debuff, the person explodes, doing damage to those around them.

Every 20 or so percent, Ionar will disperse into a number of small wind sparks and begin coating the ground with an array of lightning. The wind sparks will follow players around and strech the range of the lightning effect which deals 500 damage every 0.5->1 seconds. Players must run away from the lightning, there is no door and the room is large, so this is fairly easy to do.

Ionar hits for 3-6k on plate.

Confirmed Loot:

Confirmed Loot

Name	Type	iLvl
Tornado Cuffs	Mail	187
Thundercloud Grasps	Cloth	187
Pauldrons of the Lightning Revenant	Plate	187
Ionar's Girdle	Plate	187

Heroic Loot:

Name	Type	iLvl
Cord of Swirling Winds	Mail	200
Winged Talisman	Armor	200
Skywall Striders	Plate	200
Charged-Bolt Grips	Leather	200

Loken

Abilities:

Abilities for this boss are not yet known.

Strategy:

Loken is the last boss in Ulduar: Halls of Lightning and has an extended ammount of trash before him. He is however rather easy compared to the other bosses. Loken starts off with a longwinded speech then finally gets up from his throne. When he is done rambling have your tank run in and pull Kronus to the center of the room. Everyone needs to stand as close to the center of the boss as possible. Loken has an aura that ticks for more as you get farther away from him, only ticking for ~200 when standing in the center of his model, but ticking for 1-2k when far away from him.

Everyone must also listen for the Emote "Lightning Wave" (Exact name unknown at this time). A graphic will appear at his feet, when this happens everyone (including the tank) must run away from Loken. You can see him cast this spell, and when it goes off, it does a high amount of damage within 10-15? yards. This is not something that will be easy for the healer to keep up with if you stand in.

Loken hits for 3-5k on plate.

Confirmed Loot

Name	Type	iLvl
Leather-Braced Chain Leggings	Mail	187
Hood of the Furtive Assassin	Leather	187
Seal of the Pantheon	Armor	187
Raiments of the Titans	Cloth	187
Design: Eternal Earthsiege Diamond	Jewelcrafting	80
Chaotic Spiral Amulet	Armor	187
Fists of Loken	Plate	187
Projectile Activator	Gun	187
Ancient Measuring Rod	Wand	187

Heroic Loot:

Name	Type	iLvl
Lightning Giant Staff	Staff	200
Flowing Sash of Order	Cloth	200
Woven Bracae Leggings	Cloth	200
Mail Girdle of the Audient Earth	Mail	200
Advanced Tooled-Leather Bands	Leather	200
Ornate Woolen Stola	Cloth	200
Planetary Helm	Plate	200
Colossal Skull-Clad Cleaver	Axe	200