Spellblade Aluriel Guide for The Nighthold

Table of Contents

• ×Introduction
  • 1. Contents
  • 2. Lore
  • 3. Outline
  • 4. TL;DR
    • 4.1. Tanks
    • 4.2. Healers
    • 4.3. DPS
    • 4.4. Everyone
  • 5. Mythic Notes
  • 6. Bloodlust/Heroism/Time Warp
  • 7. Changelog
• +Abilities
  • 1. Overview
  • 2. Abilities
    • 2.1. Frost Phase
    • 2.2. Fire Phase
    • 2.3. Arcane Phase
• +Normal/Heroic Strategy/Tactics
  • 1. Positioning
    • 1.1. Master of Frost
      • 1.1.1. Dealing With Mark of Frost
    • 1.2. Master of Fire
    • 1.3. Master of the Arcane
• +Mythic Strategy
  • 1. Mythic Mode Abilities
    • 1.1. The Fel Soul
  • 2. Strategy
    • 2.1. Frost Phase
    • 2.2. Fire Phase
    • 2.3. Arcane Phase
  • 3. Bloodlust
  • 4. Changelog

General Information

Welcome to our World of Warcraft encounter guide for Spellblade Aluriel in The Nighthold. We will teach you everything you need to know to defeat the boss in every difficulty.

On this particular page, we will give you a short overview of the fight as well as a list of things to watch out for (include LFR tips when applicable).

The other pages of our Spellblade Aluriel guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the right.

To make it easy to navigate the guide, we have split it into 3 pages:

• Abilities: read about the encounter abilities;
• Normal/Heroic Strategy/Tactics: find out how to defeat the encounter in Normal and Heroic modes;
• Mythic Strategy: learn how to handle the new mechanics and increased difficulty of Mythic mode.

Spellblade Aluriel is one of the 5 bosses that can be fought in an order of the raid's choosing.

Aluriel always had an affinity for magic. She rose through the ranks of the Nightguard effortlessly, having a natural talent with the sword. But no matter how strong she became, she wanted more. She studied with the mages at the University of Suramar, spending her days in combat training and her evenings in artificery. She forged her weapons and armor in the Nightwell, weaving magic spells into the precious metals. She is the first Spellblade, adept in the schools of Fire, Frost, and Arcane.

Spellblade Aluriel is single phase encounter in the Nighthold. She will alternate between her 3 Elemental masteries; Fire, Frost, and Arcane. These act as pseudo-phases of sorts; each element will alter her base ability set significantly, requiring different positioning and adaptations in order to survive.

• Stack on each other in front of the boss and perform a taunt swap after each Annihilate.

• Pay close attention to the raid as detonations occur during each elemental phase, as the raid may take heavy damage.

• Quickly eliminate the Fiery, Arcane, and Frozen Enchantments that spawn during each elemental phase, as they are lethal to the group.

• Transfer Mark of Frost to fresh allies when the damage is too high to sustain.
• Move away from Detonate: Arcane Orb to avoid being killed.
• Interrupt the Pyroblast casts from the Fiery Enchantments.
• Loosely spread in Fire phase to avoid being hit by Aluriel's charge when she applies Searing Brand.

• Aluriel will spawn the Fel Soul shortly after transitioning to each new phase, which persists for 45s and casts differently abilities depending on the phase. Players should spread during Frost and Fire, and stack in front of the Fel Soul during Arcane to split the Fel Lash damage.
• All the animated adds at the end of each phase are stronger, cast faster, and do significantly more damage.

It is recommended you use Bloodlust on the pull for maximum damage.

• 25 Feb. 2017 (this page): Added Mythic TLDR.
• 18 Feb. 2017 (mythic page): Added Mythic mode.
• 07 Jan. 2017 (this page): Guide added.