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Comment by 5027

This will be a holiday boss similar to the Headless Horseman. A group will be able to summon him in Coilfang Reservoir: The Slave Pens during the newly revamped Midsummer Fire Festival. Much like with the Headless Horseman, each group member who has the quest can only summon him once a day. So your typical group will have five attempts on Lord Ahune.

He is currently on the 2.4 PTR for players interested in testing him out.

Comment by asaphelps

This boss consists of two phases. You should clear most of the area around him so you don't aggro Nagas. You can do this on non-heroic. The NPCs that start the quest are right after zone in, then in the cavern area before the double Defender pull.

During both phases, he'll create a frost animation on the ground and after 3 a spike will be made, shooting the player into the air for a few seconds. Its important to move if this spawns. Also, the ice around him will cause people to slip and be stunned for 2-3.
Phase 1:

He will spawn an elite with an aura that does a debuff causing frost damage every 2-3s, I believe 500 damage, that stacks and can not be dispelled. This has to be tanked by the tank. He'll also spawn a lot of low health non-elites every few seconds (~2000 health) that shoots a frost spell at people. He'll spawn maybe 20-30 of these elites, and 2 of the large elites before he'll switch to phase two. This phase lasts around 1 minute. He'll also summon cyclones after the first phase 1 which has a pull ability, but are also weak.

Phase 2:

After all the adds are dead you can safely focus dps on the Frozen Core. According to my ui, this has about 125k health, and you have about 20s (rough estimate) to dps him. You should be able to get him to under 60%. With a full tier 6 group, we got him to 33% the first time.

Repeat phase 1 and 2 until he dies. Its very important to control all the adds and avoid the ice spikes.

Comment by ShamanKalii

I have yet to hear if he's spawnable in Heroic mode and if so, does his loot or difficulty change?

Comment by DeadAimSpartan

needs more wpns... just a staff for casters and some ugly cloaks for evry1 else =(
overall this sounds like some relatively easy epics and i can't wait to try this out!

Comment by 97358

Does he drops badges or other loot in heroic mode?

Comment by ferdinand

Aparantly to summon him you need the quest "Summon lord Ahune" which is part of a long quest chain, as well as several other items.

Comment by 144439

when does he come live servers?

Comment by 36056

Anyone know if he drops any badges? Or is he just on normal mode.

Comment by 150718

Comment by 68212

A rough strat for Lord Ahune located in slave pens 2nd room :

Clears: Clear the 2 groups to the right, the pat group and the slave handler on the left. This should give you ample space and also to avoid aggroing adds accidentally.

Phase 1:
Last about 1 minute.
You cant damage Lord Ahune and he will send his lackeys to fight you.
Adds:
Arctic Hailstone: Single spawn during the phase 1. Hits about 2.5k - 3k on cloth. Needs to be tanked. Does a debuff every 1.5 seconds to everyone close to it that does 300 frost damage per tick and stacks up to 10 doing 3k per tick.
Arctic Frostwind and Arctic Water Elemental: Smaller adds that spawn 3 at a time every 3-5 seconds, very weak. Has about 1.2k-1.4k hp, a single Seed from a warlock is enough to take them out. Continue seeding in 2 seeds per add wave.
Random glacier spikes will also spawn from the floor after a frostlike animation that does about 800 dmg and throwing whoever got hit into the air in a direction and will take fall damage.
Adds will not despawn when phase 2 comes.

Phase 2:
Lord Ahune will submerge and his Frozen Core will be vulnerable. This is when you attack.
Has roughly 400k-600khp(unconfirmed).
He well then go back to phase 2 in about 30 seconds if not dead.

He repeats this 2 phases until dead.
Also he is frost immune, so go fire and turn up the heat ;)

Comment by 112652

Heroic Lord Ahune is, in my opinion, THE most difficult heroic fight Blizzard has implemented, and they should be proud. To kill him, you should clear the pack of 3 naga and a sporebat, the 3-naga pat, the slavehandler, and the 4 Lobstrok in the middle of the area - Ahune himself will spawn the other side of them, and them being alive pretty much guarantees a wipe.

Phase 1:

A large Ice Elemental will spawn, followed by smaller water elementals, 2 at a time. Set a melee DPS, if you have one, to small ones, and have the rest nuke big one (if you have a Warlock, Seed of Corruption on the big one is incredibly good). Big one has an aura, 300 dmg/3 secs, stacking up to 10 (1k dps), so try not to bring too many melee or you're in trouble. Smaller adds don't do much dmg or have much health, but can quickly overwhelm the party, thus the melee on them.
Additionally, small rings of ice will appear on the floor troughout this phase, which will turn into large icicles after a few seconds, dealing approx 2k damage and knocking anyone hit into the air - so move away!
After the large add dies, no more if it will spawn, but small ones will continue - tanks can help kill them (druids go kitty, etc).

Phase 2:

Lord Ahune will retreat into his core, which you can then nuke. Blow all your CDs - this needs to go as low as possible, 40% is a good number to aim for. After a lil of this, he will move to p3.
One thing to be aware of - the ice around him can cause you to Slip Up, which is really a 1 second knockdow/stun.

Phase 3:

Same as phase 1, but an air elemental will spawn with water ones. Its no real problem, just an extra add to deal with and something to be aware of.

If you don't kill him in 2 cores, you are in trouble, and likely running OOM (similar to Ragnaros).
When he dies, a chest will spawn which contains an epic and the pattern for Enchanting Deathfrost, and the chance for a small pet, the Scorchling (in normal, i've only ever got 1 epic (a cape on normal, a neck on heroic, chance for the Scythe on either), although I assume theres a chance for pattern/pet). Also, Shards of Ahune (which start a quest for a tabard), a badge, and either some Huge Snowballs, which are like normal ones with a bigger animation and a higher arc when thrown, or 6 drinks.

Good luck!

NOTE: If you wipe on heroic, you are able to summon him repeatedly as 1 character :) I did!

Comment by chonchu

Stop posting your drops.
Download the "wowhead client" and upload your data once you killed it (or at any time).
Comments should not be used as "drop list"

Comment by dusk

Actually, it's abit more like this:

Ragnaros, the Fire Lord (Fire)
Therazane, the Stonemother (Earth)
Al'Akir, the Windlord (Air)
Neptulon, the Tidehunter (Water)

Ahune, the Frost Lord, works under Neptulon, just as Thunderaan the Windseeker, works for Al'Akir.

Comment by 11636

One thing to note/clarify about the icicle spikes:

The icicle spikes spawn in three stages, not two as you might think at first. The first stage is a circle of frosty mist that will be centered around a party member. If you are the party member so targeted, this is when you need to start moving away. If you wait for the more obvious signal of the frost-nova-like effect on the ground before reacting, you're going to be spending way too much of the fight up in the air.

Comment by barbeque

To groups facing trouble with Ahune, do not despair. My first encounter with Ahune was rather demoralizing, as our kara/S2 group expected to demolish him in H SP the way we used to 4-man the headless horseman. We used a simple strat of all on the elite with some aoe on the adds. Unfortunately, we wiped again and again. We did better on normal mode, but dps kept dying and eventually the healer was either oom or overwhelmed.

After taking a break, I tried it again with a lesser geared group (blues and greens) and managed to down Ahune without much problems. This time, we took note of a few things. The small elementals are going to come out for a fixed amount of time, so it doesn't really matter how quickly you get the elite down. Keep 2 dps on the non-elites and one ranged with tank on the elite.

Worked much better. Gear doesn't matter as much as you would think, but a good strat helps.

Comment by 53205

Don't kill him when he's in his normal form, the chest won't spawn and he seems to bug out afterwards and not submerge properly.

Comment by Hunterios

Why is everyone saying this is the hardest boss on heroic?

Just did it normal and heroic mode with:
Prot warrior
Elemental shaman
Fire mage
Aff lock
Resto shaman (me).

It was seriously easy. No problems at all to keep everyone up, adds went down smooth thanks to elemental shaman burst dps.
And then of course two times Bloodlust, for each phase 2 one. With this setup he should go down the second phase 2. Aswell phase 2 is really nuke since no-one is taking damage. Healer should go dpsing as well at this point.

Imo, the second boss in MgT Heroic is alot harder still.

Comment by Forumchibi

NOTE: If you wipe, you are able to summon him repeatedly as 1 character :) I did!

I don't know why people gave my comments a negative rating about a legitimate question - there is no way to summon this boss repeatedly as one character. Once you use your charge, you're done for the day whether you finish it or not.

Comment by 141451

Keep rogues off the elite add and get them to take the non elite mobs instead, the debuff hurts a lot and your healer will likely have enough to worry about with spot healing the ice lance damage. Tried this for the first time last night prot pally, me (rogue), mage, lock, resto shammy. First 4 times = fail, I switched targets on the last go = success.

Comment by 42886

Most likely the "no loot when died in attack phase" reports are from scenarios where Ahune has bugged out. I have personally seen - and heard other reports of - Ahune getting stuck in attack phase, but without spawning adds (or doing much of anything really). At this point the party can simply hack away until Ahune dies, but no chest will spawn.

In at least my case this was caused by Ahune failing to reset properly after a wipe (he was still around, and bugged, when we returned to the instance).

Comment by Kabby

If you're looking for more info on the mobs Ahune spawns, here you go.

Ahunite Hailstone
Level: 70 elite
Spawns: Once at the start of every phase 1.
Abilities: He has an aura that applies a stacking DoT and a spell interrupt.
Ahunite Coldwave
Level: 70 non-elite
Spawns: Repeatedly in pairs during every phase 1.
Abilities: They have a ranged damage spell.
Ahunite Frostwind
Level: 70 non-elite
Spawns: Repeatedly in phase 1; however, they do not spawn in the first phase 1.
Abilities: They have a Lightning Shield and a pull spell.

Comment by 167251

It's a real pain if your dps and tank aren't focused on taking down the hailstone, coldwaves, and frostwinds. His drops are a good upgrade for some staves, cloaks, and amulets and the pet he drops is pretty cool. =P

Comment by 167257

Ahune has is a holiday boss for the midsummer fire festival he is like a headless horsemen for a different holiday. Ahune is located inside the slave pens in coilfang reservoir.

Ahune is a fairly simple fight as long as you keep the healer alive. he has two phases... phase one is his giant form which when he is in it he summons adds he summons a elite elemental and then mini non elite elementals thar are almost non stop the tank stands closes to Ahune to pick up the elite then the dps kills the non elite adds and the elite . phase to is when he retreats and turns into a crystal this is were you want to dps him hard. then rinse and repeat till he is down.

P.S. the tank should stand closest to Ahune dps behind a bit and then healer behind the dps so the dps can hit adds befor they damage the healer.

Comment by 121685

I've never seen so many negative posts on this sight before. Can someone please clean this up so we can get at the important info?

P.S.: In the cleanup, you can totally omit this post too :)

Comment by snyper256

1. Waves of enemies in increasing difficulty.
2. "Destroy the core".
3. The difficulty itself!

I'm sure there's at least one more reason that this is a nod to Gradius. :o

Comment by 168080

Remember that items from his chest cannot be disenchanted, so don't let others ninja them!

Comment by 150538

Just as a side note, with the same group of 5 people, you can summon him 6 times per day.

you get 1 summon per person per day, so if all 5 people have not summoned yet that day, it's 5x loot for everyone.

you get a 6th summon by attempting him on heroic. only one shot on heroic. seeing as you cannot reset heroics manually, it's the only shot you'll get for the entire day.

as another side note you technically COULD kill him more than 5 times per day, you'd just have to keep joining groups who are willing to let you leech their summons off you. this tactic usually only works if you are a tank or a healer.

Comment by 68999

so lemme get this right... ahune is for level 70's only. even on normal mode? so 70's clear all the level 62ish mobs and then get to this guy in the end with epics?

Comment by Alikat

Very, very lame fight. Adds zerg rush your group (I thought games as a whole had moved on from the "fill screen with enemies" crap once we stopped using the PS1, but I guess I was wrong), with constant spell interrupts the order of the day. Using a pally tank is probably the only way to hope to slog through the add waves; I wouldn't bother trying unless your group is in T4 or better gear

Comment by SupaYoda

Fighting this boss on normal mode does not currently require that you leave the instance and reset in order to summon and defeat him again, as was required with the Headless Horseman. It also appears that you can summon him as many times as you like (even with the same player) in heroic mode until he is defeated.

I've heard rumors that he does not drop the pet or epic items on normal mode. This is NOT true. We have received the pet on normal mode, and he does drop epic capes. The neck pieces and Badge of Justice seem to be the only loot differences on heroic mode.

Comment by Thottbot

First! Heh, couldnt help myself.

This boss consists of two phases. You should clear most of the area around him so you don't aggro Nagas. You can do this on non-heroic. The NPCs that start the quest are right after zone in, then in the cavern area before the double Defender pull.

During both phases, he'll create a frost animation on the ground and after 3 a spike will be made, shooting the player into the air for a few seconds. Its important to move if this spawns. Also, the ice around him will cause people to slip and be stunned for 2-3.
Phase 1:

He will spawn an elite with an aura that does a debuff causing frost damage every 2-3s, I believe 500 damage, that stacks and can not be dispelled. This has to be tanked by the tank. He'll also spawn a lot of low health non-elites every few seconds (~2000 health) that shoots a frost spell at people. He'll spawn maybe 20-30 of these elites, and 2 of the large elites before he'll switch to phase two. This phase lasts around 1 minute. He'll also summon cyclones after the first phase 1 which has a pull ability, but are also weak.

Phase 2:

After all the adds are dead you can safely focus dps on the Frozen Core. According to my ui, this has about 125k health, and you have about 20s (rough estimate) to dps him. You should be able to get him to under 60%. With a full tier 6 group, we got him to 33% the first time.

Repeat phase 1 and 2 until he dies. Its very important to control all the adds and avoid the ice spikes.

Hope this helps.

Comment by Thottbot

Keep an eye on the spawns, too. I came into this the first time expecting one big guy, one small. I was a little surprised to see the waves this guy drops.

Frost Resistance Aura helps against the frost debuff, BTW.

Comment by Thottbot

As another thing, tanks don't have a huge amount to do here. Tank teh elite while the mobs spawn like flies on yesterday's cheeseburger. Then when he "retreats" into the frozen core, just spank him. When it says he's about to resurface, y'all want to back right up to give DPS a chance to find their targets, then keep tanking the elite again. Rinse and repeat.

Comment by Thottbot

Yeah, we have a shadowpriest working as our healer today - he's not in shadowform, just dropping basic heals and we're doing alright. DPS is a priority, though, otherwise the adds will flood you over.

Comment by Thottbot

o_o And sorry for the spam. The debuff (Hailstone Chill) affects nearby party members, too. So keep back from the tank, and if you have a pet out, keep them back from the elite or the boss.

Comment by Thottbot

To clarify, you don't need to do any pre-quests in order to summon Ahune (at least in Reg. SP).
You just enter the instance, clear the first 5-6 pulls, talk to the Earthen Ring NPC, and summon the boss.
Also, if you're doing this on Reg. you don't need to reset the instance if you're killing him again, simply have the next person with the quest start it at the NPC. This could also hold true for Heroic, but as I have yet to try it, I don't know for sure.

As for the boss itself, the best method we used was as such:
Group was Fire Mage(myself), Resto Druid, Ele Shaman, Rogue, and Warrior tanking.
When the boss spawns, he throws out an elite Earth elemental that needs to be tanked, as it does an AoE bleed to everyone near it. We focused all dps on this mob first, before killing the masses of nonelites after. The nonelites only have around 1300 health, so they're no problem after the elite is dead.
Also while he is spawning the little guys and you're tanking the Elite add, he'll be sending ice spikes under random party members, they have a little graphic near your feet, sort of a swirl, a second or two before they erupt. If you get hit by one you take a mediocre amound of damage and get catapulted into the air. Watch you don't land in the water like I did...

After a certain time, the boss retreats into his "Core". Pour every ounce of dps into the Core as fast as you can, there is no aggro table here. While Ahune is in regular form all damage he takes is reduced by 75%, which is why you dps him now.

With a decently geared group we killed him on the second Core phase a few times, usually getting him to about 40% during the first Core phase.

Kind of long-winded, but I hope it helps!

Comment by Thottbot

once again u dont need the quest to start up the ahune fight. when in normal and u kill ahune all u need to do is complete loot the chest, snowballs and all. Then the monolith thingy will reappear, someone who hasnt summoned yet that day can go and click it again. From what i heard he can only be killed once in heroic per day. But i believe u can get 5 chances to summon him until u finally kill him.

Comment by Thottbot

I just posted a screenshot, seeing as no one else had one up. I made sure I picked a screen shot with full view of Ahune.

Comment by Thottbot

anyone know its drops? I know it drops the staff, but dunno about the rest.

Comment by Thottbot

There is a pre-quest to summon Ahune, at least on Heroic Mode. We did Heroic SP last night and were unable to get the quest to summon him. You need to do the quest chain in the Zoram Strand first, at least for Heroic.

Comment by Thottbot

I have to say but this guys pretty tough. Imo a paladin tank would be the best to do this fight while the dps can kill off the water elementals while they are on the tank. That gives a better chance for the healer not to lose as much mana :|

Comment by Thottbot

I find a group with a lock, mage, and rogue/hunter with priest healing and Pally tanking is the easiest way to do this.

Comment by Thottbot

Yup yup gotta agree with all the others above me their information is Bang on. One thing however that i havn't seen mentioned is the IceSpears that pop out of the ground! There will be a whirl of Blue around you and then a small mound of ice will appear at your feet then sometimes instantly a giant spear will Shwwwooooppp outa the ground and launch you into the air. I've only done this on regular and the spears don't hurt much just more annoying for cast innteruption than anything. As soon as you see the Whirl stop what your doing and gtfo.

Also. This is a Dps Race. Dps the Adds Dps the boss when he goes under and dps the elite. Other than that you can have sub-par heals and weaksauce tank. With a mage a warlock and a rogue we soloed the boss from 34% when our bear tank died and Dps just unloaded on the adds and the rogue "tanked" the elite.

The adds only hit for 2-300 but if you get 4-5 of them on you they'll start setting your cast times back and they start to hurt O.o

ALSO. You can have really good tank and a really good healer but if your dps sucks you won't be able to finish this fight. The first time i tried this we lasted about 6 phases or so before we wiped. Dps wasn't fast enough. Healers gonna oom and the tank will die then it's gg.

Comment by Thottbot

Tactics in short:

This fight is like a Curator fight.
Kill the adds & everything you see till he weakens. After you killed ALL the adds, start nuking Ahune till you have to kill the adds again. It's that simple.

Melee classes should be on the adds ALL THE TIME!
Whenever you do a melee dmg on the rock elemental add, you'll get a stacking debuff which can tick FOR A LOT! Only the tank should have that debuff.

HEALERS! Mana intesive fight. Just unreal ... Always come with mana potions.

Yes, frost resistance will help a lot during this fight.
Paladin use frost aura.
Shaman use frost totem.

Frost resistance gear isn't required tho.

Good luck!

Comment by Thottbot

This boss is hard for healers, i guess healers should have +1200 healing for killing him. i tried like 8 times and did not kill him, my healing bonus is 985...

Comment by Thottbot

not nessecary.

tank has to be in front of all other party members and pickup all of the mobs after pickin up big elite. do this with thunder clap and the healer can focuss on healing only the tank. a decent geared tank would be able to not get hit very hard and the healer wont be in danger of runnin out of mana. a shammy would come in very handy as he can put up a mana totem, but u already knew that didnt u

Comment by Thottbot

This is how we have been downing him -
Pally Tank, Heals, 2 Warlocks, random dps

have the Tank hold aggro on the Elite Spawn and spam consencration, and have the heals stand beside the tank, this should harness all of the mobs up into one area.
Have the 2 locks contineously seed of corruption the elite mob, with heals and tank standing on top of each other, all the smaller weaker mobs will flock to them, and the seeds will pop on the elite mob destroying the smaller ones, and have the random dps focus dps on the elite mob. Just watch out for the blue swirls on the ground, and the rest is cake.

- Ipooted
Duskwood
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Comment by Thottbot

This might be a dumb question but, do you have to be 70 to roll on "Frostscythe of Lord Ahune" I have a 64 warlock and was wondering if i could have some 70's run me through and i could get the staff for when I am 70! I noticed that you only have to be 65 to get the quest. Also does it have to be on heroic SP or can you do it on REG or both?

Comment by Thottbot

Down Ahune several times Resto shaman, Pally tank, plus three dps...found it went faster with a warlock to seed the add as the pally held them.

on our 7 time downing him(normal mode) he was killed at the moment of his resurfacing and we received the chest but we also received the elite respawn.....killed elite but could not resummon Ahune. Then we received the emote that Ahune was resurfacing along with the respawned elite....CAN YOU SAY BUG
pet and weapon dropped once, saw three types of cloaks drop but not he tank cloak.....did not see the enchant drop.....

07/01 update
killed ahune 30 times
weapon drop 3 times
pet drop once
enchant drop once
healer cloak 8 kept several for differant enchants
dps cloak 10
spell dps 8
tank cloak 4

Comment by Thottbot

Anything better on heroic than on normal?

Comment by Thottbot

u do not get same loot on reg and heroic , reg u get capes heroic u get chances at neck pieces , only things that are on both that are of any special mention is the scythe and the enchant " deathfrost"

Comment by Thottbot

Suggestion to tanks who carry DPS gear sets.

As many mentioned above, this fight is all about the DPS. The elite elemental does not hit very hard and so for this fight, tanking in your DPS gear is the way to go.

Also note that the "core" or crystal looking thing that Ahune retreats into still has a backside so take full advantage of this to increase your DPS.

Cheers!

Comment by Thottbot

As long as the healer is good, a druid healer is perfect for this fight, as well as a druid tank, because while it's in it's core phase the healer and i switched to cat and were able to join in the dps with the others (we also had a hunter with a cat pet, a lock with a felgaurd, and a mage). We got him down all five times on normal mode and our only death was our mage once but she was battle rezzed during the fight. the first time we were still getting used to it but the other times we were able to down him in 3 core phases. he dropped the caster cloak twice, the healing, dps, and tank cloaks once, and the enchanting pattern along with one of those. a very easy fight, and since it's a daily each time a person activates the stone to summon him you get 12g. realy easy fight with a good group, and just one more thing. if your feral druid tank gets knocked into the air:

Midair Feral Charge = Flying Bears

Comment by Thottbot

Its a really easy fight. We actually downed without a tank, or so. I was main tank, Boomkin, while paly was healer and 3 clothies, shadow priest, mage and lock. First round got him down to 39, then ate him next. played all 5 dailies and got almost every cloak it seems, then the enchant dropped on 5th kill. Boomkin FTW

Comment by Thottbot

wait is he a raid? cuz you said you need ful t6 people so is he a raid?

Comment by Thottbot

He said he took full t6 group.... but that is not required. Any decently organized group of decently geared people can down him.

Comment by Thottbot

hes a joke, dont see any reason why anyone cant kill him easily, just keep adds off the healer and DPS him down when he submerges(his shield is gone) and hes dead. We did it with druid who easily tanked adds in DPS gear aswel as DPSed ahune when shield was down, myself rogue and a rogue and warlock, warlock used seed of corruption to AOE adds, me and other rogue watched out for any loose adds who went for our healer and nuked him hard when shield was down hes really easy aswell as got some nice loot GL.

Comment by Thottbot

Is the staff the only thing he drops or is there other things he drops?

Comment by Thottbot

Just did this with the setup: Resto Shaman (me) Fire Mage, De/de Lock, survival Hunter and prot warrior.

We managed to kill Ahune on the first attempt and we took him to 21% on the first "Kill phase"

Comment by Thottbot

Just Aoe the small adds down while working on the big add. Seed of corruption spam works great and clears the room easily. Tell your healer to stay back and pay attention to the mobs. without aoe, any melee dps worth their salt should be able to tear through them easily.

For heroic mode you may need a skilled healer, but if the rest of the group is quick on the adds this boss is cake

Comment by Thottbot

On heroic you and only fight Ahune once. This is to keep players from getting 5 badges for killing him 5 times. The hardest part of the fight on heroic is the hailstone chill the Ahunite Hailstone (the big rock lookin elemental) puts on all the party members within range. All melee, except for the tank, therefore should help work on the adds because once you get the hailstone chill to stack up to 10 times you take 3000 damage every 3 seconds. Cloak of Shadows won't get rid of the chill either. Keeping the healer's mana up is the hardest part. So, make sure you bring lots of pots for all if playing on heroic. When Ahune's core is vulnerable everyone dps it! That means warrior's duel wield for that part and priest healers wand the core. Did it with a team of players wearing full vengeful. Probably a lot easier with a team with t5 or t6. Also on another side note the enchant recipe drops 100% on heroic!

Comment by Thottbot

Frostscythe of Lord Ahune is the staff that drops from him - good for dps spellcasters

Looks nice too ;)

If anyone can find the other epic drops please post them

Comment by Thottbot

Well ive tried to down Ahune about 10 times now, and wastn successful until the 7th.He may seem extremely difficult at first ,but hes actually pretty easy when you get the strat down. This is what i beat him with...

70 holy priest,70 hunter,70 hunter,70 warlock, and a 70 prot warr (me)

When you summon Ahune have the warrior aggro the elemental elite and pull him back far away from ahune, let the warlock dps the elite while the warr tanks him. Have the priest/healer stay back as well. The 2 hunters should be fairly close to Ahune,but not to close (you dont want to exit healing range). Ahune will send out waves of non-elite elementals, immediately have the hunters kill them before they can get to the healer. When the lock/warr downs the elite, all dps on the non-elites until there gone. Then your entire party should be DPSing Ahune. We got him to about 50% after the first wave (lock DoTs help alot). Then repeat the strategy with the elite and non elites until he is vulnerable again. You should be able to kill him after the 2nd wave. We did him 3 times in a row, he dropped all 3 epic cloaks :D Hope this helps. And as for mages, they probably arent necessary here (ESPECIALLY FROST MAGES). Good luck!

Comment by Thottbot

this is really rough w/ a resto druid. I'd suggest staying away from tree form and using HT as often as possible, the HoTs do draw lots of aggro from the adds.

Comment by Thottbot

just like what the first person posted and ganafin posted, i recommend having atleast one 800+ spell dmg lock for reg and 2 800+ lock for heroic, because seed is the best aoe for this battle. Just make sure to have healer around tank and you should get all full hits with seed. The most important thing is when the water element appear they will shoot a blast at the most nearest mob this is the time you will seed the earth element because all the mobs will attack either healer or tank.

Also dots regardless of it being stage 1 or 2 still sticks and remains on timer. So if you dot stage 2 even though it returns go back to stage it still gets hit for the dmg over the regular time.

Comment by Thottbot

lol i was in tht dungeon and i see this ice i thot it was nothing then i remmeber oh yeah this is where ahune is summoned (i kinda thot tht u need to use an item tht u can only use at 70 i was wrong) some guy summoned ahune by acsident and this is the response: OH CRAP RUN RUN RUN RUN HOLY &$&^ i guess the moral is u shoodnt click on tht ice thing if u hav quest or something cus something triggered ahune and the raid died lol

Comment by Thottbot

I cant seem to find wat this dude drops on thott. it wud be nice someone can post the stats for any mage items here. thx

Comment by Allakhazam

Here's a simplified strat:

Phase one:
this tank is easy. just becareful of the frost spikes that will toss you in the air. You can avoid then if you keep moving around and watch the ground, you will see frost appear about 2-3seconds before the spike shoots up. Have your tank concentrat on the hailstone elite. have your tank stand about 10 yards from ahune to pick up the adds with an aoe taunt or attack, pally tanks make this phase cake, druids can use your roar and swipe to get most of them, and warriors' thunderclap and shouts work too.
Make sure to keep killing all the adds whille attacking the elite. use direct damage attacks/spells to conserve mana for casters. soon ahune goes to phase 2.
Phase 2:
Ahune goes to a frozen core. nows the time to unload on him for 30 seconds. Use drums of battle if you can and any trickets and cool downs. This is the best and realy only time to do damage to him. ( he has a 75%dmg reduction when he's in phase one)

Rinse and repeat. Usualy this will take 3 rounds of the phases. I've done it twice in a group where we did it in two. Goodluck!

Comment by Allakhazam

Lord Ahune <The Frost Lord> is a frost lord in Neptulon's service. The Twilight's Hammer plan to have him battle Ragnaros to start an elemental war on Azeroth. Players summon Ahune as they complete the quest Summon Ahune. He is only available during the Midsummer Fire Festival. His weapon seems to be just like Murmur weapon seems to be a and to how Thunderaan has and how Ragnaros has .

He apparently spawns increased number of adds after each re-emerge both in heroic and normal mode.

Phase 1
During this phase Ahune will summon multiple adds, among which one will be an elite frost elemental. This add has an aura that affects all people in melee range; it does 300 frost damage every 3 seconds and stacks up to 10 times the longer one is in melee range for a total of 3000 damage every 3 seconds. Tank him away from the party and have ranged dps burn him down fast while melee starts on the small adds. These adds have very little HP but hit quite hard on cloth (~1200) and they tend to attack whoever is on top of the global threat which will most likely be a healer. The small adds also pull random party members to themselves from time to time. The targets of this ability seems to be random.
Ahune himself only takes 25% damage during this phase so dpsing him is more or less pointless even though those few percent can make the change between sinking and swimming. He will periodically shoot frost bolts on players which do a small amount of damage (~800) to everyone. Every now and then he will do an impale like attack on random people. The attack is avoidable and has a fairly obvious animation at the place where the spike will surface so ideally no one should be hit by this. Around 90 seconds after the start of phase 1 he will enter the second phase.

Phase 2
Once phase 1 ends, Ahune will submerge and his core will become vulnerable. No adds will spawn during this phase. One dps should take care of the remaining adds (The elite elemental should be dead by the start of this phase). He will remain submerged for 30 seconds and everyone including the tank should dps the core. After 30 seconds he will re-emerge and restart the cycle but the second time he emerges one more type of adds will start spawning (Heroic Mode only). A well geared party can survive 4 cycles but Ahune should be killed the third time he submerges because the next time he emerges the party is most likely to be overwhelmed.

Notes About Roles
Tank: This is a simple fight for you. Just stay away from the things that pop you up in the air.
DPS: You should be well geared. Limit your mana expenditures once the elite is down. Make sure you can DPS hard during Phase 2.
Healers: Aggro management is key here. Priests are particularly well suited for this fight with their combination of Fear and Fade spells. Keep the tank topped off during Phase 1, but ultimately the DPSers are what wins this fight. They need to live.
Once you have Ahune down to 15% or less during Phase 2, he should be burned to completion, ignoring the elementals during Phase 1.
Loot (Normal Mode)

Like the Headless Horseman, Ahune's drops cannot be disenchanted. Unlike the Horseman, however, they can be vendored.
Loot

Icebound Cloak
Binds when picked up
Back
267 Armor
+30 Stamina
Requires Level 70
Equip: Increases defense rating by 25.

The Frost Lord's War Cloak
Binds when picked up
Back
93 Armor
+23 Agility
+22 Stamina
Requires Level 70
Equip: Increases attack power by 48.

Shroud of Winter's Chill
Binds when picked up
Back
93 Armor
+16 Stamina
+17 Intellect
Requires Level 70
Equip: Increases healing done by up to 46 and damage done by up to 16 for all magical spells and effects.
Equip: Restores 8 mana per 5 sec.

Frostscythe of Lord Ahune
Binds when picked up
Unique
Staff
Two-Hand
Speed 3.20
143-287 Damage
(67.1 damage per second)
+40 Stamina
+35 Intellect
Requires Level 70
Equip: Improves spell critical strike rating by 33.
Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 176.
Equip: Restores 13 mana per 5 sec.
"A cold chill flows from the scythe."

Formula: Enchant Weapon - Deathfrost
Binds when picked up
Requires Enchanting (350)
Use: Learn how to permanently enchant a weapon so occasionally your damaging spells and melee weapon hits inflict an additional 150 Frost damage and reduce the target's melee, ranged and casting speed by 15% for 8 seconds.
1 Charges

Shards of Ahune
Binds when picked up
This Item Begins a Quest
Requires Level 65

Loot (Heroic Mode)

Loot

Icebound Cloak
Binds when picked up
Back
267 Armor
+30 Stamina
Requires Level 70
Equip: Increases defense rating by 25.

The Frost Lord's War Cloak
Binds when picked up
Back
93 Armor
+23 Agility
+22 Stamina
Requires Level 70
Equip: Increases attack power by 48.

Shroud of Winter's Chill
Binds when picked up
Back
93 Armor
+16 Stamina
+17 Intellect
Requires Level 70
Equip: Increases healing done by up to 46 and damage done by up to 16 for all magical spells and effects.
Equip: Restores 8 mana per 5 sec.

Frostscythe of Lord Ahune
Binds when picked up
Unique
Staff
Two-Hand
Speed 3.20
143-287 Damage
(67.1 damage per second)
+40 Stamina
+35 Intellect
Requires Level 70
Equip: Improves spell critical strike rating by 33.
Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 176.
Equip: Restores 13 mana per 5 sec.
"A cold chill flows from the scythe."

Amulet of Bitter Hatred
Binds when picked up
Neck
+20 Agility
+18 Stamina
Increases hit rating by 18.
Increases attack power by 42.

Choker of the Arctic Flow
Binds when picked up
Neck
+24 Stamina
+22 Intellect
Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 28.

Hailstone Pendant
Binds when picked up
Neck
+33 Stamina
Requires Level 70
Equip: Increases defense rating by 22 (9.3 @ L70).
Equip: Improves hit rating by 19 (1.2% @ L70).

Formula: Enchant Weapon - Deathfrost
Binds when picked up
Requires Enchanting (350)
Use: Learn how to permanently enchant a weapon so occasionally your damaging spells and melee weapon hits inflict an additional 150 Frost damage and reduce the target's melee, ranged and casting speed by 15% for 8 seconds.
1 Charges

Scorched Stone
Binds when picked up
Unique
Use: Right Click to summon and dismiss your Scorchling.

Shards of Ahune
Binds when picked up
This Item Begins a Quest
Requires Level 65

Comment by Allakhazam

Make sure you have a good group, this guy can be difficult.

Comment by Allakhazam

Frost Mages!

All Immune to Ice. WTG....GG

Comment by Kactus04

Bad wowhead, I'm on TBC, linking to a retail guide is not helpful, nor is telling me I can queue for this boss in the dungeon finder.

Comment by ryuzoku

Here are Ahune's Drops:

Frostscythe of Lord Ahune

Shroud of Winter's Chill
The Frost Lord's War Cloak
Icebound Cloak
Cloak of the Frigid Winds

Formula: Enchant Weapon - Deathfrost

Comment by Yonkamayonka

These are the necks which drop on Heroic Mode

Comment by worldofpunks

It seems only one person can start/get the quest in the group which was weird. You might be able to just click the crystal to summon him anyways though, not sure.

Boss is super easy you just clear the adds around him first before you summon him. When he spawns the adds, kill big add (earth elemental), and small adds (earth elementals) for a while until his shield disappears. Then you have a little bit to PEW PEW him. Save lust and cooldowns for this time. After his shield goes back up (if you dont kill him in time), add phase repeats.

He dropped one item on heroic (neck piece confirmed). Also dont forget to loot his chest for an extra badge! And for a quest item to turn in for your blue quality summer tabards!

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