Al'Akir (tactics)
- For character biography, see Al'Akir.
 Al'Akir | |
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| Gender | Male |
| Race | Air elemental (Elemental) |
| Level | ?? Boss |
| Reaction | Alliance Horde |
| Location | Throne of the Four Winds |
| Status | Killable |
Al'Akir is the final boss encounter in the Throne of the Four Winds, a release raid in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
Adventure Guide
Gifted with great intelligence and cunning, Al'Akir the Windlord once served as the foremost tactician in the Old Gods' horrific armies. In the wake of the Cataclysm, he has aligned with Deathwing and turned his godlike powers against many of the air elementals' ancient tol'vir nemeses.
Abilities
Stage One: Your Challenge is Accepted!
Al'Akir periodically casts Squall Line, Wind Burst, Ice Storm and Lightning Strike on random players. He casts Static Shock on any target in melee range and Electrocute on his primary target if that target leaves melee range.
Ice Storm — Creates a Blizzard that moves around the platform, leaving Ice Patches on the ground behind it. Deals 15000 Frost damage every 0.5 sec to all enemies standing within the radius of the ice patches on the ground. This effect will persist as long as the target remains in this area.
Static Shock 
— Al'Akir shocks all nearby enemies, deals 1000 Nature damage per second, interrupting any spells cast. Lasts 5 sec.
Electrocute 
— Channels a bolt of electricity into the caster's current target, dealing increasing Nature damage over time. This ability is only usable if the caster is unable to melee attack its target. This ability will end if the target returns to melee range.
Wind Burst — Deals 28275 to 31725 Nature damage to all enemies, knocking them back. 5 second cast.
Lightning Strike — Deals 19000 to 21000 Nature damage in a cone facing a random enemy every second for 30 sec. This effect chains off all enemies affected causing 19000 to 21000 to all other enemies affected.
Squall Line 
— Creates a wall of Tornadoes that circles around Al'Akir's platform with an obvious opening in the line players must move to, much like Sartharion's Flame Tsunamis. 40,000 damage per second to those touching the Squall line. Two walls of Tornadoes on Heroic.
Stage Two: Your Persistence Angers Me!
At 80% health, Al'Akir no longer casts Wind Bursts but continually brings down Acid Rain and spawns Stormlings.
- Static Shock — Al'Akir shocks all nearby enemies, deals 1000 Nature damage per second, interrupting any spells cast. Lasts 5 sec.
- Electrocute — Channels a bolt of electricity into the caster's current target, dealing increasing Nature damage over time. This ability is only usable if the caster is unable to melee attack its target. This ability will end if the target returns to melee range.
- Squall Line — Creates a wall of Tornadoes that circles around Al'Akir's platform with an obvious opening in the line players must move to, much like Sartharion's Flame Tsunamis. 40,000 damage per second to those touching the Squall line. Two walls of Tornadoes on Heroic.
Acid Rain — Deals 500 Nature damage per second to all enemies. This effect will increase by 500 every 15 sec until Al'Akir enters phase three.- Stormling
— Summons a Stormling add (300,000/1M HP 10/25) with a nature damage aura that will apply Feedback to Al'Akir when slain. Deals 2375 to 2625 Nature damage every second to all enemies within 20 yards (on Heroic increasing Nature damage they take by 25% for 2 sec, Stacks.)
Feedback — A Stormling's death causes a feedback effect towards Al'Akir, increasing the damage he receives by 10% per stack. Lasts 20 sec.
Stage Three: Enough!
Al'Akir shatters his platform and creates a zone-wide Relentless Storm, lifting all players into the air and giving them the Eye of the Storm buff as long as they remain near him.
Eye of the Storm — Flight. Movement speed increased by 300%.
Lightning — Deals 28500 to 31500 Nature damage to random enemy targets. Cast constantly in phase 3.- Lightning Rod — Causes a random target to begin to emit lightning to nearby friends after 5 sec, dealing 4750 to 5250 Nature damage per second to all friends within 20 yards horizontally, and 5 yards vertically. Lasts 5 sec.
Lightning Cloud — Summons clouds at the altitude of a random enemy. After 5 seconds, these clouds erupt in lightning, dealing 47500 to 52500 Nature damage per second to all enemies at the same altitude. Lasts 30 sec.- Wind Burst — Deals 38000 to 42000 Nature damage to all enemies, knocking them back.
Berserk: Al'akir Berserk after 9 minutes from the beginning of the Fight in all Difficult settings.Increase Damage 900% and quickly wipes the raid.
Strategy
Al'Akir is a three phase encounter that will require one tank on both 10 and 25 player difficulties.
Phase One
Lightning Strike is the main lethal mechanic in this phase. The raid needs to be spread out in groups of 2 (10-man) or 3 (25-man) in order to avoid healer range issues and lightning strike chaining to many players and instantly killing them. Players in the same group will stand on top of eachother, ensuring the damage is a healable 40,000 or 60,000 hit. Players must move into melee range for Wind Burst and avoid the rotating Squall Lines. Wind Burst is on a predictable 30 second timer and players should take into account its timer when moving to Squall Lines since they will need to be in melee to avoid being knocked off the platform. The tank need not fear moving out of melee to dodge Squall Line, Al'Akir will electrocute him instead of melee-ing other players. Lightning Strike is considerably more threatening on 25-player difficulty.
Phase Two
The raid should group up around the tank in phase two. You will still need to dodge Squall Lines. The primary mechanic of this phase is ensuring the Feedback debuff is stacked on Al'Akir. Since the duration of feedback is increased to 30 seconds up from 20 seconds and Al'Akir summons a stormling every 20 seconds, it's no longer needed to time kills but you will have to kill stormlings as soon as possible. Once Al'Akir is at five or six feedback stacks, you should bloodlust/heroism and have all DPS focus on Al'Akir to hit phase three before Acid Rain stacks too high and is unhealable.
Phase Three
The raid will be tossed into the Eye of the Storm, any Stormlings will remain up and the tank should taunt them and keep them out of melee with the raid. A successful strategy is to group up and 'jump' up as high as you can go. Then the raid will move down 10 yards whenever lightning clouds spawn. Players with lightning rod will move down 6 yards to avoid damaging other players. When you are wind bursted back you must move back to your original position, because if you get too far away (or too close) to Al'Akir you will be caught in the relentless storm and killed. You should be able to kill Al'Akir before you run out of room.
Loot
- Main article: Heart of Wind
Related achievements
[Throne of the Four Winds]- [Throne of the Four Winds Guild Run]
- [Heroic: Al'Akir]
- [Heroic: Al'Akir Guild Run]
- [Four Play]
- [Realm First! Al'Akir]
Quotes
- Conclave is defeated
- The Conclave of Wind has dissipated. Your honorable conduct and determination have earned you the right to face me in battle, mortals. I await your assault on my platform! Come!
- Aggro
- Your challenge is accepted, mortals! Know that you face Al'Akir, Elemental Lord of Air! You have no hope of defeating me!
- Wind Burst
- Winds! Obey my command!
- Phase Two
- Your futile persistence angers me!
- Squall Line
- Storms! I summon you to my side!
- Phase Three
- Enough! I will no longer be contained!
- Killing a player
- Like swatting insects...
- This little one will vex me no longer.
- Death
- After every storm, comes the calm...
Notes
- World first heroic kill on 25-man achieved 22.1.2011 by 夢想(Dream) of Silverwing Hold Taiwan.
- If you die and find yourself without a Release button the fact that there is no ground probably means you are not resurrectible (even if your teammates think they see your corpse, bugs prevent it from being in range of the spell). To work around this type this in your chat window:
/script RepopMe()
Videos
10-man Heroic
10-man Normal
- Vagrant Corps, "Four Play" achievement - 1080p
- Vexryn's Guide to Al'akir, Blackdawn, "Four Play" achievement, Tank PoV
- OMFGCATA
- LoD
- Sleepless Knights
- Defenders of Valor
- Cause and Effect, on screen guide, voice chat, low in game sound
- Hollow Point
- MrGelowe Post Patch 4.2
25-man Normal
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- Millenium
25-man Heroic
Patch changes
Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28):
- Acid Rain now stacks every 20 seconds, up from 15.
- Electrocute now pulses every 1 second, up from 0.5.
- Feedback duration has been increased to 30 seconds, up from 20.
- Health, damage, and Wind Burst damage have all been reduced by 20%.
- Lightning and Lightning Rod recast time has been increased.
- Lightning Strike friendly chain damage has been reduced by 50%.
- Static Shock will no longer be used on normal difficulty in phase 1 or phase 2.
- Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Al'Akir will now drop random necklaces and cloaks as well as helm or shoulder tokens in addition or in some cases instead of his current loot.
- Hotfix (2011-01-26):
- Al'Akir's Lightning Strike damage has been reduced on 25-player Heroic difficulty. In addition, its effect duration has been reduced to 16 seconds, down from 24 in both modes and difficulties.
- Slipstreams can no longer be used during the Al'Akir encounter.
- Hotfix (2010-12-07): Al'akir's Lightning Cloud now despawns when the encounter is defeated in Throne of the Four Winds.
- Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Added.
External links
Icy Veins Comprehensive Al'Akir guide (includes tank, healer, and DPS perspectives, and Heroic mode)
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