Silithid Royalty

For other uses, see Triumvirate (disambiguation).

Silithid Royalty
Race	Silithid colossus (Beast)
Level	?? Boss
Reaction	Alliance Horde
Location	Temple of Ahn'Qiraj
Status	Killable
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The Silithid Royalty, also known as the Trinity, the Triumvirate, the Triad, the Bug Family, the Three Bugs, and the Royal Trio, is an optional boss encounter in the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj. It is composed of Lord Kri, Princess Yauj and Vem, which must be fought all at the same time.

Elite mode

The loot gained by this encounter is determined by the order you kill this bug family. This encounter was the first instance of what's now called elite mode. Each bug has some unique items in its loot table, while others are shared. The easiest way to complete this encounter is to kill Lord Kri first, then Princess Yauj and finally Vem. The hardest way is to kill Lord Kri last.

Group strategy

Until Lord Kri dies, have hunters keep Nature Resist up, Shamans doing poison cleansing totems, druids curing poison, Paladins cleanse as much as possible whilst priests and druids keep up the heals. Take Princess Yauj far away from the main raid, and start working on Kri. When he dies, a very damaging poison cloud will appear, so make sure everyone gets far. After him, kill Princess Yauj and make sure casters are ready to kill all the little bugs that will spawn, the Princess also heals so ensure that you have a number of rogues to kick her when she casts or mages to counterspell (she is immune to the silence effect and can resist easily). The AoE fear can make this rather tricky, and time consuming, so good tactics are needed. Shamans can also use Tremor totems to great effect in this fight somewhat simplifying it. After she dies, group up and just finish off Vem.

Preventing Yauj from Healing

There have been many theories as to what causes Yauj to start healing. The theory that appears to be the most correct is to make sure the distance between Vem and Kri is much shorter than the distance between Yauj and Kri, when Kri dies. This will allow Vem time to devour Kri, increasing Vem's damage slightly, but most importantly, preventing Yauj from devouring Kri - and therefore stopping Yauj's ability to heal entirely. Note that this realistically only applies to the order Kri->Yauj->Vem.

There is a fifteen minute hard enrage timer. After this time has elapsed, any surviving members of the family will enrage to wipe-causing difficulty.

Strategy

Lord Kri

Kri has a standard melee attack, as well as a frontal cleave. The most dangerous ability is an area wide Toxic Volley that hits for ~500 nature damage and DoTs for 125 damage per tick. It is a poison attack that deals nature damage, and the DoT is dispellable by normal means, and can stack any number of times.

• Death Special: His corpse leaves a poison cloud that DoTs for 2000 damage per second, almost a guaranteed death if stood in.

Princess Yauj

Besides a standard melee attack, ~1000 on tanks, Yauj has a ranged AoE [Fear] that wipes aggro even if mitigated with [Fear Ward], [Berserker Rage] or [Will of the Forsaken]. This fear can make you go out the door and can have the 3 of them reset. Therefore, the strategy to beat Yauj is to tank her as far as you can from the main raid. Also, when you have started to kill her, she will cast a self-heal that needs to be interrupted. Since the last patch, Yauj seems to heal the other 2 bugs as well, regardless of which one you kill first, significantly increasing the difficulty of the encounter.

The universal strategy to tank Princess Yauj is to use two tanks on her. AoE fear is casted every 20 seconds. So the tank who is not currently tanking Yauj before fear uses berserk rage and taunts Yauj when she tries to flee after AoE fear. Then this tank becomes main tank, and the tank who was previously tanking Yauj steps back and waits for the next fear. This way Yauj may be tanked on one position for the whole fight without much trouble.

The taunt may resist when the berserker raged tank tries to pick her up, and due to her high movement speed he will usually be unable to pick her up for quite a long time. For this reason it may be beneficial to have an extra tank standing ready in the middle of the room, outside the range of the AoE fear and close to the majority of the raid (to maximize the likelihood that Yauj will run somewhere close to this tanks position).

• Death Special: Several small bugs spawn. They can be crowd controlled by almost any method such as fear, stun, or frost nova.

Vem

Vem has a [Charge] ability, a knockback ability, and a basic melee attack. Does negligible damage to a tank but will hit for upwards of 2-3k on cloth. If he is the last one being killed, grouping up on him will speed up the killing process. If you take an extremely long amount of time to kill Vem (upwards of twenty minutes) he will hard enrage and wipe the raid.

• Death Special: Enrages Yauj and Kri if they are still alive.

Solo strategy

Single-target the silithid. Wait until one of the silithid is devoured by the others before attacking the second, then again for the third.

Loot

Unfortunately, in order to obtain some the best loot possible, you must beat Lord Kri last. It is certainly not impossible, but exponentially more difficult than the standard Kri->Yauj->Vem kill. Lord Kri has some unique items of item level 78, but unique items of Princess Yauj and Vem have item levels all below 78, and their shared loot table items has an item level of 75. No matter what kill order you only get one  [Qiraji Lord's Insignia] from this encounter.

Shared loot

Angelista's Touch Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Unique-Equipped Finger +7 Strength +15 Stamina +15 Dodge Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 9 2 77 Cape of the Trinity Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Back 10 Armor +11 Intellect +15 Stamina Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 2 86 59 Guise of the Devourer Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Leather Head 19 Armor +12 Agility or Intellect +26 Stamina +11 Dodge +25 Versatility Durability 100 / 100 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 2 82 33 Imperial Qiraji Armaments Binds when picked up Requires Level 25 "Ceremonial Armaments of the Qiraji Lords. Used by Qiraji infantry." Imperial Qiraji Regalia Binds when picked up Requires Level 25 "Regalia of Qiraji Nobility. Used by Qiraji spell casters." Robes of the Triumvirate Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Cloth Chest 14 Armor +13 Intellect +26 Stamina +18 Nature Resistance +16 Versatility Durability 165 / 165 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 3 81 41 Ternary Mantle Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Cloth Shoulder 10 Armor +12 Intellect +19 Stamina +18 Versatility Durability 100 / 100 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 2 83 40 Triad Girdle Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Plate Waist 32 Armor +13 Strength or Intellect +19 Stamina +17 Critical Strike Durability 55 / 55 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 1 88 93

Vem last

Angelista's Charm Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Neck +9 Intellect +15 Stamina +15 Versatility Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 7 37 49 Boots of the Fallen Hero Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Plate Feet 36 Armor +12 Strength or Intellect +19 Stamina +26 Critical Strike Durability 80 / 80 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 2 77 Gloves of Ebru Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Leather Hands 15 Armor +14 Agility or Intellect +19 Stamina +13 Critical Strike Durability 55 / 55 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 1 86 79 Ooze-Ridden Gauntlets Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Plate Hands 32 Armor +8 Strength or Intellect +19 Stamina +15 Nature Resistance Durability 55 / 55 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 1 88 21

Princess Yauj last

Bile-Covered Gauntlets Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Leather Hands 15 Armor +10 Agility or Intellect +19 Stamina +12 Nature Resistance +21 Versatility Durability 55 / 55 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 1 96 11 Mantle of the Desert Crusade Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Plate Shoulder 40 Armor +12 Strength or Intellect +19 Stamina +12 Critical Strike Durability 100 / 100 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 3 69 Mantle of the Desert's Fury Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Mail Shoulder 26 Armor +14 Agility or Intellect +19 Stamina +5 Critical Strike Durability 100 / 100 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 3 1 73 Mantle of Phrenic Power Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Cloth Shoulder 10 Armor +14 Intellect +19 Stamina Durability 100 / 100 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 3 3 87 Ukko's Ring of Darkness Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Unique-Equipped Finger +15 Stamina +12 Shadow Resistance Equip: Restores 1 health per 5 sec. Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 10 29 95

Lord Kri last

Petrified Scarab Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Unique-Equipped Trinket Use: Increases your spell resistances by 74 for 1 min. Every time a hostile spell lands on you, this bonus is reduced by 7.4 resistance. (3 Min Cooldown) Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 8 71 20 Ring of the Devoured Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Unique-Equipped Finger +4 Intellect +15 Stamina +17 Versatility Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 9 13 69 Vest of Swift Execution Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Leather Chest 26 Armor +24 Agility or Intellect +26 Stamina Durability 165 / 165 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 4 15 36 Wand of Qiraji Nobility Item Level 105 Binds when picked up Wand Ranged Speed 2.00 7 – 12 Shadow Damage (4.8 damage per second) +50 Intellect +13 Stamina Durability 75 / 75 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 6 30 26

Cataclysm

The Silithid Royalty are now tameable, making them the third bosses to be tamable after the monstrous giant Buru the Gorger and the drakeadon Chromaggus. Hunters looking to tame them must be careful.

Patch changes

• Patch 1.9.0 (2006-01-03): Added.
  

External links

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