Blinding Shadow
 Blinding Shadow | |
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| Race | Arcane elemental (Humanoid) |
| Level | 61 Rare |
| Resource | Mana |
| Reaction | Alliance Horde |
| Location | The Rift, Maw[36.0, 41.6] |
Blinding Shadow is an arcane elemental located in The Rift of Maw, where Soulforger Rhovus normally spawns at Zovaal's Cauldron. See the Rift article for information on how to access the Rift.
Killing Blinding Shadow awards 80 points of standing with Ve'nari, roughly 50 
[Stygia], and 300 points of threat (30% of a level) of Eye of the Jailer. The arcane elemental is also required for 
[Conquering Korthia], and grants 5% progress toward 
[60W] Shaping Fate.
To help make the fight more tolerable, destroy 20 Ancient Phylacteries in the area before engaging. Each phylactery destroyed grants a stacking -3% magic damage taken buff for 5 minutes, up to 20 stacks (or -60%).
Abilities
Arcane Bolt 40 yd range — Hurls a magical bolt at an enemy, inflicting Arcane damage. 2.5 sec cast
Arcane Detonation — Sends out a blast wave of magic, inflicting Arcane damage to nearby enemies. 2.5 sec cast
Exploding Light — The caster creates waves of concentrated arcane light that explode, inflicting 8,810 Arcane damage to players within 4 yards. 1.5 sec cast. Drops a huge number of void zones on the ground that explode after a few seconds. Players affected by an explosion are hit with...
- Exploding Light — The caster creates waves of concentrated arcane light that explode, inflicting 40 Arcane damage to players within 4 yards.
Drops
Tracking quest
To check whether Blinding Shadow was defeated today, copy and paste this command into the chat window:
/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(64276))
If a "true" appears in the chat window, Blinding Shadow was defeated today; "false" indicates the opposite.
Patch changes
Patch 9.1.0 (2021-06-29): Added.