Terestian Illhoof, along with his minion Kil鈥檙ek, is an optional boss in the library section of Karazhan. Both have a low-aggro range - you can sneak around the side at the start, and resurrect everyone in the room with no difficulty. The focus is Illhoof and he should be the major focus of damage unless Demon Chains are up. When someone is being sacrificed killing the Demon Chains becomes the most important priority of the encounter. Keep the non elite imps under control and this fight will be over in no time.
Placement
- MT - The only special placement is the tank, he needs to tank Illhoof right next to the middle of the room near the sacrifice spot so that when someone gets sacrificed DPS can just turn around and own the shackles.
- Warlock - The warlock should stand in front of the sacrifice spot, facing it, and constantly cast Seed of Corruption on Illhoof.
- Healers/Casters - Just stand on top of the warlock so any loose imps can be hit by his AoE and hopefully aggro on him.
- Hunters - Should stay at close to max range on Illhoof so that when the shackles spawn you can DPS them with your good bow DPS and not crappy melee DPS.
The Encounter
The pull should be done by the MT running into the roof and grabbing aggro on Illhoof AND his elite imp. Alternatively the imp can be grabbed by a Feral Druid off-tank. The MT will be taking a good amount of damage so all healers except the one assigned to healing the warlock should focus on healing him.
Illhoof summons imps throughout the fight and has an elite imp pet which can be killed throughout the fight as well. If you kill the imp Illhoof takes a 25% increase damage taken debuff which can help on DPS for Illhoof. The pet can just be killed through moves such as blade flurry, cleave, and the warlocks AoE since he is tanked by the MT or by a Feral Druid with swipes.
He does not need to be focused. Every so often he shackles a random player and that player鈥檚 shackles need to be killed IMMEDIATELY as it not only is a lot of damage a second to the player, but it heals Illhoof too.
In order to AoE down the imps just have a Paladin in with a warlock with concentration Aura on. Then have one person focus on healing the warlock while he does nothing but seed of corruption on illhoof and will get aggro on all the imps. This keeps minimal imps up at a time, DPSes Illhoof鈥檚 pet, the demon chains, and Illhoof himself. Also fel armor increases their healing received by 25%, throw in a tree form druid and that is another ~100 healing. The treeform druid can then just HoT up the warlock and assist the other healers on healing the MT and healing the shackled target.
DPS needs to be FAST on this fight, so as soon as the tank has aggro go crazy with DPS on Illhoof and like I said his pet can be killed throughout the encounter by using AoE type moves. I would not recommend trying to focus down the pet as it takes away DPS from Illhoof. His elite imp doesn鈥檛 have that much health and his lesser imp adds have almost none either, you just got to make sure you can keep most of them on the warlock. He also has a debuff which increases fire damage taken by 500, which can HURT due to his imp adds doing nothing but fire damage. But with the increased heals to the warlock and consant death of imps, this shouldn鈥檛 be an issue.
KEYNOTES
- Don鈥檛 really focus on his pet imp, just DPS it with AoE style moves throughout the encounter.
- Make a macro that says /target Demon
- As someone gets sacrificed you can use that macro to immediately start DPSing the shackles down.
- The shackles need to be killed IMMEDIATELY as they heal Illhoof by a substantial amount and can kill people VERY quickly.
- Healers keep tons of HoTs on the warlock as he will take most of the healing, I would assign everyone to healing the MT and 1 person to focus on healing the warlock, if the warlock gets the flame debuff and the 1 healer is having trouble ask for temporary help from 1 other healer.
- You need your main tank to build aggro on both Illhoof and his Elite imp so give him a few seconds before unloading and AoEing. Alternatively you might have a Feral Druid off-tanking the Elite imp which removes this problem.
- Without a Paladin and a Warlock this fight will be really tough because you won鈥檛 be able to have the pally put on Concentration Aura which allows your warlock to cast without interruption the entire fight. Have the warlock cast Seed of Corruption on Illhoof so he is doing DPS to Illhoof, his imp, the shackles, and his adds. You should have very little trouble with adds if you do this.
There is an often used alternative method which involves Hellfire instead of Seed of Corruption but I find this rather ineffective compared to Seed of Corruption and a waste of the Warlocks health.
Terestian Illhoof鈥檚 Loot Table
[Breastplate of the Lightbinder]
[Cincture of Will]
[Cord of Nature's Sustenance]
[Fool's Bane]
[Gilded Thorium Cloak]
[Girdle of the Prowler]
[Malefic Girdle]
[Mender's Heart-Ring]
[Shadowvine Cloak of Infusion]
[Terestian's Stranglestaff]
[The Lightning Capacitor]
[Xavian Stiletto]