Lei Shi Encounter Guide: Strategy, Abilities, Loot

• Place your AoE spread out through the room to end Hide as soon as possible; try to coordinate the areas you will place your own AoE spell with other raiders, avoiding overlap if possible.
• Try to deal as much burst damage as possible to Lei Shi after Get Away! starts, trying to deal 4% of her health as quickly as possible; save combo points, instant casts, and various similar cooldowns and spells for this if possible.
• If on Heroic difficulty, use personal cooldowns when you have high stacks of Scary Fog, as the tanks will need most external cooldowns later into the fight.

• Try to help by using AoE spells (if you have any) during Hide to quickly break Lei Shi out of stealth, and stop Spray from hitting random targets.
• Tanks will take a ton of damage during this encounter the longer it goes on; have defensive cooldowns coordinated for the last 20% of the fight or your tanks will easily die.

• Lei Shi will slowly move towards you while casting, allowing you eventually position her as needed.
• Tanks should aim to perform a tank swap on Lei Shi right before the Animated Protector adds spawn, resetting stacks of Spray as the adds come out.
• Remember that Lei Shi will continue casting Spray while she is immune to damage, requiring you to stay away from other players; it is also still possible to perform a tank swap while she is immune, if needed.
• With Lei Shi gaining stacks of Afraid the longer the fight goes on, this causes tanks to get absolutely destroyed in the bottom 40% of the encounter; always aim to have a cooldown ready here and tank swap more frequently as needed to match the debuff stacks, which are stacking very quickly late into the encounter.

Lei Shi is the third encounter in Terrace of Endless Spring, and is a straightforward fight with only 1 Phase. Lei Shi does not use melee attacks and instead will attack the tank with Spray, dealing moderate Frost damage to the target and all allies within 3.5 yards; Spray also applies a stacking debuff that increases Frost damage taken by 16% per stack. This will require a tank swap every 12-16 stacks, as the Spray stacks will quickly add up, causing the tank to take lethal damage eventually. Be mindful of your positioning as a tank when taunting, as Spray also hits all players within 3.5 yards of you.

To complicate this tank swap further, each time Lei Shi loses 10% health she a stack of Afraid, increasing her casting speed by 8% per stack. This means that as Lei Shi reaches lower health, she will cast Spray on the tank faster and faster, quickly adding up stacks of the debuff. This will require a precise rotation of defensive cooldowns on the tanks to keep them alive once Lei Shi reaches a lower health, with permanent defensive cooldowns needed under 20%, or several combat resses available. Tanks will need to practice when and how to tank swap when Lei Shi reaches lower health thresholds, as Spray becomes extremely deadly for the last 20% of the encounter.

Every time Lei Shi loses 20% health (so at 80%, 60%, 40%, and 20% health respectively), she will become immune to all damage and summon multiple adds. These adds, Animated Protectors, deal extremely high damage, and must be killed before Lei Shi can be attacked again. Luckily, only 1 of the adds must be killed, as the rest will despawn as soon as one add dies; this allows us to use crowd-control on as many of the Animated Protectors as possible, ideally CCing all but the main kill target. Mark 1 mob with skull, and always have a designated kill target (such as stating we always kill the furthest North mob first), focusing all damage on said mob.

Use crowd controls such as Banish, stuns, and knock backs to control the remaining adds, while the tank kites away from them (if needed), avoiding taking damage from any Animated Protector add except the kill target (marked skull). Note that despite Lei Shi being immune to damage, she will continue to cast Spray on her current target, requiring tanks to use cooldowns and swap as needed. We suggest performing a tank swap right before each 20% health threshold, so the current Lei Shi tank can start with 0 stacks of Spray. The goal here is to keep all Animated Protectors crowd controlled, stunned, or knocked away while quickly focusing down a single add, allowing Lei Shi to be damaged again.

Every 30-40 seconds Lei Shi will use 1 of 2 "special abilities", the first being Hide. When Hide is used, Lei Shi will become stealthed and move around the room randomly. This can be seen by watching the surrounding water, looking for a cloud that indicates Lei Shis location. While stealthed, Lei Shi will use Spray on a random target, requiring the entire raid to spread out to avoid the splash damage. Have players assigned to placing AoE spells down all over the water, as you must score several hits on Lei Shi while she is in stealth to end Hide. Spells such as Death and Decay and Rain of Fire (non-targeted spells) are what’s needed, and the raid should use any remaining spells on top of Lei Shi once she has been found. After Hide ends and Lei Shi appears, position her once again in the middle of the room.

The second "special ability" that Lei Shi can use every 30-40 seconds is Get Away!. Lei Shi will teleport to the center of the platform and begins to channel Get Away! for 45-seconds, using powerful winds to push all players away from her, dealing high damage every second. This damage is reduced by half if players are "fighting" the wind by moving against it, towards Lei Shi. Dealing 4% of Lei Shis health during the Get Away! channel will end the spell early, stopping the winds and the damage-over-time.

We suggest having the raid stacked up near Lei Shi, who is tanked on the center of the platform, and running towards her once the Get Away! channel begins. The goal is to deal 4% of Lei Shis health as quickly as possible to end the cast, so Melee DPS should be in a proper position as to not lose any uptime on her, while Ranged will need to use any instant cast spells or spells that can be used while moving to contribute. Once the Get Away! channel is broken the raid should stack behind Lei Shi.

The fight is a simple repeat of these 2 abilities occasionally throughout the fight, with the main challenge being keeping the tanks alive through Spray, and handling the Animated Protector adds every 20% health. We suggest using raid-wide defensive cooldowns during Get Away!, as there is really no other great time to use them, while saving some defensive cooldowns for the tanks once Lei Shi reaches about 20% health. You will want to use all major DPS cooldowns right after Lei Shi reaches 40% health and you have killed the Animated Protector add, removing her immunity bubble and allowing you to burn her down quickly.

Lei Shi only gains 1 new ability on Heroic difficulty called Scary Fog, a stacking debuff that lasts 30-seconds and stacks up to a maximum of 20 times. A swirl of fog will surround Lei Shi, debuffing any players not within 10-yards of her hitbox with stacking Scary Fog debuffs. This debuff deals 7,000 Shadow damage every second per stack, and increases the damage taken by nearby allies and enemies by 10% per stack. The player debuffed by Scary Fog will have a swirling circle around them self (similar to Lei Shis), and anyone inside this circle will take increased damage, depending on the number of Scary Fog debuff stacks.

Here the goal is to have 2 or 3 players assigned to standing outside of the indicated range (the swirl around Lei Shi), gaining stacks of Scary Fog. Once the assigned player has a high amount of stacks (however many stacks your healers can handle, up to 20 max), they will move in and stack near Lei Shi, making sure no allies are within their own small circle of fog. This will cause Lei Shi to take increased damage, which is desperately needed to meet the enrage timer on Heroic mode. Be sure to also apply the Scary Fog debuff to the Animated Protector add that you are killing, as this will quickly speed up the process of killing it.

During Hide, Scary Fog debuffs must be sure they are spread out, as this debuff can easily kill other players that are inside of the fog. Note that Scary Fog does not increase the debuffed players damage taken, only other nearby allies or enemies.

3.

Lei Shi 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
Robes of the Unknown Fear
Healer's Belt of Final Winter
Invoker's Belt of Final Winter
Sorcerer's Belt of Final Winter
Stalker's Cord of Eternal Autumn
Weaver's Cord of Eternal Autumn
Binder's Chain of Unending Summer
Ranger's Chain of Unending Summer
Cuirass of the Animated Protector
Mender's Girdle of Endless Spring
Patroller's Girdle of Endless Spring
Protector's Girdle of Endless Spring
Darkmist Vortex
Terror in the Mists
Spiritsever
Jin'ya, Orb of the Waterspeaker
Taoren, the Soul Burner
Shoulders of the Shadowy Conqueror
Shoulders of the Shadowy Protector
Shoulders of the Shadowy Vanquisher

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
Robes of the Unknown Fear
Healer's Belt of Final Winter
Invoker's Belt of Final Winter
Sorcerer's Belt of Final Winter
Stalker's Cord of Eternal Autumn
Weaver's Cord of Eternal Autumn
Binder's Chain of Unending Summer
Ranger's Chain of Unending Summer
Cuirass of the Animated Protector
Mender's Girdle of Endless Spring
Patroller's Girdle of Endless Spring
Protector's Girdle of Endless Spring
Darkmist Vortex
Terror in the Mists
Spiritsever
Jin'ya, Orb of the Waterspeaker
Taoren, the Soul Burner
Shoulders of the Shadowy Conqueror
Shoulders of the Shadowy Protector
Shoulders of the Shadowy Vanquisher

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
Robes of the Unknown Fear
Healer's Belt of Final Winter
Invoker's Belt of Final Winter
Sorcerer's Belt of Final Winter
Stalker's Cord of Eternal Autumn
Weaver's Cord of Eternal Autumn
Binder's Chain of Unending Summer
Ranger's Chain of Unending Summer
Cuirass of the Animated Protector
Mender's Girdle of Endless Spring
Patroller's Girdle of Endless Spring
Protector's Girdle of Endless Spring
Darkmist Vortex
Terror in the Mists
Spiritsever
Jin'ya, Orb of the Waterspeaker
Taoren, the Soul Burner
Shoulders of the Shadowy Conqueror
Shoulders of the Shadowy Protector
Shoulders of the Shadowy Vanquisher

Achievement	Description
Face Clutchers	Defeat Lei Shi while all members of the raid are afflicted by Parasitic Clutch in Terrace of Endless Spring on Normal or Heroic difficulty.
Heroic: Lei Shi	Defeat Lei Shi in Terrace of Endless Spring on Heroic difficulty.

Lei Shi is just one of the four encounters present in the Terrace of Endless Spring raid of Mists of Pandaria. If you would like to learn more about the others, please see our other pages for the raid below.