Elegon Encounter Guide: Strategy, Abilities, Loot

• Killing priority targets is the most important thing on this encounter. Focus on the Energy Charge you are assigned to during Phase 2, and the Empyreal Focus engines during Phase 3.
• Focus on minimizing your movement as much as possible, as this fight has very little movement required if you position properly, resulting in much higher DPS up-time on the boss and adds.

• Be sure that dispels are on point for Closed Circuit as this can easily cause deaths if not removed quickly.
• Be sure to coordinate defensive cooldowns for each Total Annihilation cast, as this is the most likely chance of player deaths during this encounter.
• The longer that Phase 3 lasts, the more raid damage Elegon will deal via Unstable Energy; be sure the healers are evenly divided on both sides of the room and use healing cooldowns as needed to survive this phase.

• Tank positioning is very important here, both keeping Elegon faced away for Celestial Breath, and correctly positioning the Celestial Protectors throughout their lifespan.
• Celestial Breath is telegraphed with a 1.5 second cast and should always be mitigated with a defensive cooldown.
• Managing stacks of Overcharged should be a priority for tanks, taking advantage of the time between Celestial Breaths and Celestial Protector spawns to tank swap.
• Keep an eye out for the Cosmic Sparks that spawn constantly during Phase 3 and gather them all together.

Elegon is the 5th boss that players will face inside Mogu'Shan Vaults, consisting of 3 Phases that repeat twice.

Elegons room consists of what we will refer to as both an "Inner Circle" (shown as green in the above picture), and an "Outer Circle" (shown as red). These different areas play a significant role throughout the fight, especially during Phase 1. While standing on the Inner Circle, players will gain the Touch of the Titans buff, increasing all damage dealt and healing received by 50%. This powerful titan buff will cause players to gain a stacking debuff, Overcharged, which increases all damage taken by 5% per stack, gaining an additional stack for every few seconds spent on the Inner Circle. Players must constantly manage their stacks of Overcharged by quickly stepping off the Inner Circle, out onto the Outer Circle briefly, then stepping back into the Inner Circle. This will reset all stacks of Overcharged and allow you to continue benefiting from Touch of the Titans. The Inner and Outer Circles act as a line-of-sight barrier, meaning players on the Inner Circle can not interact with enemies or players on the Outer Circle, and vise versa. This means that the raid should mostly stay on the same section of the room, only briefly stepping out onto the Outer Circle when Overcharged stacks need to be reset.

Phase 1 is the hardest part of the encounter as there are a ton of things happening at once. The entire raid must manage their stacks of Overcharged, constantly resetting them whenever they reach around 10 stacks. The tanks will need to alternate jobs, with 1 tank keeping Elegon faced away from the raid at all times to prevent his Celestial Breath from hitting anyone else. The second tank will need to pick up the Celestial Protectors that Elegon calls in every 35-seconds, dragging them near the edge of the Inner Circle (more on the adds next). These 2 tanks will need to swap jobs occasionally, allowing each other to reset their stacks of Overcharged between add spawns.

The Celestial Protectors are the most difficult part of this encounter, requiring plenty of coordination to correctly handle their many mechanics. The off-tank will need to pick these up and drag them to the edge of the Inner Circle, where the raid will need to quickly burn the Celestial Protector down. The Celestial Protectors will attack random raid members with Arcing Energy, dealing moderate Arcane damage and debuffing the targets with Closed Circuit, reducing healing received by 50%. This debuff should be dispelled as quickly as possible, ideally via a Priests Mass Dispel, 1 for the Melee DPS and a 2nd for the Ranged group.

Positioning the Celestial Protector is the biggest challenge, as it must remain inside the Inner Circle (where it will also benefit from Touch of the Titans) while it is above 25%. If the Celestial Protector is moved to the Outer Circle while above 25%, it gains Phasing, reducing all damage taken by 90% (you want to see the green buff Phasing instead). Once the Celestial Protector reaches 25% health it will deal constant raid-wide damage via Stability Flux and should be dragged to the Outer Circle where it can be finished off.

Upon death, the Celestial Protector will cast Total Annihilation, dealing damage to all players on the Outer Circle (where the add died). As mentioned earlier, both the Outer and Inner Circles have a sort of "line-of-sight", making it so if the Total Annihilation goes off on the Outer Circle, nobody in the Inner Circle will be damaged. On Heroic difficulty, the Total Annihilation must be soaked by at least 3 players, or a Catastrophic Anomaly will occur, causing a wipe. To survive this, make sure to use multiple defensive cooldowns on the raid, as well as personal defensives such as Deterrence or Dispersion. The 3 players soaking the Total Annihilation will then be debuffed with Destabilizing Energies, stunning them and dealing damage every 2 seconds until the targets are healed above 80% health. Lastly, the players soaking Total Annihilation will also become Destabilized, preventing them from soaking additional Total Annihilations for 2-minutes. The Destabilized debuff will require you to setup 2 or 3 Total Annihilation soaking groups based on your groups damage; be sure to plan defensive cooldowns for each of these soaks as this is when player deaths are most likely to occur.

Once Elegon reaches 85% and 50% health he will enter Phase 2. During this phase Elegon will attempt to reactivate the Celestial Engine powering his abilities by casting Draw Power, weakening himself to create 6 Energy Charge adds around him. These adds will quickly move to each of the nearby Empyreal Focus, and if even a single Energy Charge reaches a Empyreal Focus it will reactivate the engine and end Phase 2.

Keeping this in mind, the goal here is to keep Elegon in Phase 2 for as long as possible; this is achieved by managing to kill all 6 Energy Charge adds before they reach the Empyreal Focus engines on the Outer Circles. If all 6 adds are killed in time, Elegon will gain a stack of Draw Power, increasing his damage taken by 10% per stack for the rest of the fight; Elegon will then recast Draw Power, creating 6 new Energy Charge adds which must be killed again. While Elegon will gain a stack of Draw Power for each wave of adds he creates, the Energy Charge adds will also gain increased movement speed for each wave defeated. This means that (depending on your raids DPS), eventually it will not be possible to kill the adds before they reach the engines, as they will simply be moving too quickly. This will typically occur somewhere between 5-7 waves of Energy Charge adds, depending on your raids ability to properly split damage between all 6 adds. When your raid is reaching a wave that you can not kill in time, the adds should be entirely ignored and DPS should focus on burning down Elegon as much as possible.

Players will still need to manage their stacks of Overcharged here, as the Energy Charge deal raid-wide damage with Discharge upon death. Divide your DPS evenly where the Energy Charge adds spawn and along their traveling path as the goal here is to clear as many add waves as possible, stacking up Draw Power as much as possible on Elegon. It is possible to briefly AoE the adds as soon as they spawn, allowing you to get a quick burst of AoE damage out such as spreading DoTs to all 6 adds instantly. Healers should also be helping out here to kill the Energy Charges as it is crucial to debuff Elegon here as much as possible to beat the enrage timer.

Phase 3 begins once a wave of Energy Charge adds is not defeated, causing the nearby Empyreal Focus engines to activate. Here, Elegon will become immune to damage and will shatter the Inner Circle that players were previously using; everyone must quickly move off the Inner Circle (you have roughly 20-seconds to do so) or fall to their deaths. The 6 Empyreal Focus will then create large walls of flames, preventing players from moving freely towards each other. The raid must be evenly divided on each side, allowing DPS players to evenly destroy all 6 Empyreal Focus engines. In addition, adds will be constantly spawning in during this phase (Cosmic Sparks), which should be picked up by a tank on either side and ignored by the DPS until the Empyreal Focus have been dealt with. Afterwards, any remaining Cosmic Sparks should be quickly AoEd down once the phase ends. Elegon will target random areas with Energy Cascade, creating a large circle of Arcane energy that will explode after a few seconds of activation. Players must quickly move out of these areas as these explosions are very deadly.

The main focus of Phase 3 should be to kill all 6 Empyreal Focus engines as quickly as possible, ignoring the Cosmic Sparks until after the phase ends. This will reduce the total number of Cosmic Sparks to deal with, and increases the raids overall DPS as the adds can be AoE'd down much easier with the Touch of the Titans buff once the Inner Circle platform has returned. When all 6 Empyreal Focus have been killed, Elegon will become vulnerable to damage again and begins the fight again in Phase 1.

Phase 1 will play out exactly the same as earlier, with Phase 2 beginning again once Elegon reaches 50% health. Phase 2 will also play out exactly the same again, with the raid needing to get as many stacks of Draw Power on Elegon as possible. If your raid is able to consistently get six waves of adds dead, we recommend using major DPS cooldowns here, such as Bloodlust, to get an extra wave down and nuke Elegon as much as possible. Phase 3 will occur afterwards, exactly the same as before, with Elegon entering a soft-enrage after this second Phase 3 he goes through. Here Elegon will use Radiating Energies, dealing fatal damage to any players on the Outer Circle. This requires all players to stack in the middle and use any remaining DPS cooldowns and rotate defensive cooldowns to stay alive and finish off Elegon.

3.

Elegon Loot

Celestial Normal Heroic

Below you will find all of the loot available for this boss encounter. Use the different buttons to view the different loot between both Normal and Heroic difficulties.

3.1.

Celestial Dungeon Loot

Item
Galaxyfire Girdle
Orbital Belt
Chestguard of Total Annihilation
Phasewalker Striders
Shoulders of Empyreal Focus
Crown of Keening Stars
Starcrusher Gauntlets
Band of Bursting Novas
Bottle of Infinite Stars
Light of the Cosmos
Vial of Dragon's Blood
Elegion, the Fanged Crescent
Starshatter
Torch of the Celestial Spark

Below you will find all of the loot available for this boss encounter. Use the different buttons to view the different loot between both Normal and Heroic difficulties.

3.2.

Normal Difficulty Loot

Item
Galaxyfire Girdle
Orbital Belt
Chestguard of Total Annihilation
Phasewalker Striders
Shoulders of Empyreal Focus
Crown of Keening Stars
Starcrusher Gauntlets
Band of Bursting Novas
Bottle of Infinite Stars
Light of the Cosmos
Vial of Dragon's Blood
Elegion, the Fanged Crescent
Starshatter
Torch of the Celestial Spark

Below you will find all of the loot available for this boss encounter. Use the different buttons to view the different loot between both Normal and Heroic difficulties.

3.3.

Heroic Difficulty Loot

Item
Galaxyfire Girdle
Orbital Belt
Chestguard of Total Annihilation
Phasewalker Striders
Shoulders of Empyreal Focus
Crown of Keening Stars
Starcrusher Gauntlets
Band of Bursting Novas
Bottle of Infinite Stars
Light of the Cosmos
Vial of Dragon's Blood
Elegion, the Fanged Crescent
Starshatter
Torch of the Celestial Spark

Achievement	Description
Heroic: Elegon	Defeat Elegon in Mogu'shan Vaults on Heroic difficulty.
Straight Six	Deactivate six Empyreal Focuses within 10 seconds of each other, and then defeat Elegon in Mogu'shan Vaults on Normal or Heroic difficulty.

Elegon is just one of the six encounters present in the Mogu'shan Vaults raid of Mists of Pandaria. If you would like to learn more about the others, please see our other pages for the raid below.