Mogu'shan Palace Dungeon Guide

This dungeon is available on all 4 dungeon difficulties, starting at level 87 on normal difficulty. Here players will face off against three bosses as they dive into the palace of the Mogu Empire facing off against some of the Mogu's most powerful Warlords in an attempt to quell the Mogu uprising.

In this fight you will face off against three Mogu Lieutenants before you are able to advance further in the dungeon. The first of these bosses is Kuai the Brute who is accompanied by his loyal pet Quilen, Mu'Shiba. While fighting Kuai the Brute you will need to constantly avoid Shockwaves being thrown in random directions. Deal with Kuai the Brute first, handling Mu'Shiba afterwards, during the phase intermission.

Ming the Cunning is the second boss during this encounter; he creates a moving tornado ( Whirling Dervish) that should be avoided. He will also periodically use Magnetic Field, creating a field of Electricity and pulling all players on top of it so quickly move away from this and finish the boss.

Haiyan the Unstoppable is the third and final boss for this encounter. Players will need to spread at least 5-yards apart to prevent his Conflagrate from hitting multiple players. He will also call down a Meteor on a random player, dealing damage split between all players in the area. Stay spread out to avoid the Conflagrate from spreading, while staying close enough to split the damage from any nearby Meteor. Once Haiyan the Unstoppable falls the stairway in the back of the room will unlock, allowing the party to continue exploring the palace.

Gekkan is an add-based fight, where players will face off against the boss and his four bodyguards: Glintrok Hexxer, Glintrok Ironhide, Glintrok Oracle, and Glintrok Skulker. The order in which you kill the adds (or the boss) will change the encounter as each individual add has a unique buff and spell, allowing players to kill the more difficult adds first. Once Gekkan and all four adds have been dealt with the encounter will end.

Gekkan himself only has one spell, Reckless Inspiration, which he uses at the start of combat whenever one of his bodyguards dies, as well as when he dies. This adds a stacking haste and damage taken buff (to himself only), making the encounter increasingly more difficult each time an add dies. Once all four bodyguards are dead and only Gekkan is alive, his damage dealt will be greatly increased.

A large factor for this fight is getting a good pull off. Allow the tank to engage the boss first, ideally pulling all of the adds to a nearby pillar while line-of-sighting them to prevent casting. Once all four of the adds are stacked together with the boss, DPS should proceed, either by AoEing the mobs down if damage is high enough, or single-target killing the bodyguards. Be sure to interrupt as many casts as possible while following our recommended kill order:

1. Glintrok Ironhide — Channels Iron Protector, reducing damage from nearby allies by 70%. This has no castbar but can be interrupted, making it ideal to simply target and kill this one quickly.
2. Glintrok Hexxer — Uses Hex of Lethargy on casters, reducing their casting speed greatly per stack.
3. Glintrok Skulker — Shank will stun random players, removing a minor annoyance from the fight.
4. Glintrok Oracle — Uses Cleansing Flame, healing nearby allies. This add deals very low damage, as long as you interrupt Cleansing Flame each time to prevent the heal we recommend killing this add last.
5. Gekkan — Lastly you will finish the boss, who will be dealing greatly increased damage with his Reckless Inspiration stacks.

At the end of the dungeon players will face off against the Mogu rebellion leader, Xin the Weaponmaster. Alerted to your presence in the palace, Xin the Weaponmaster has prepared his room with several booby traps that will assault the players during battle. These traps can mostly be avoided with constant movement and all have easily visible attack indicators that may be avoided.

Xin the Weaponmaster himself will frequently cast an un-avoidable AoE spell Inciting Roar, which must simply be healed through. He also frequently uses Ground Slam, slamming the ground and attacking all enemies in a random direction and reducing the armor of targets hit. Keep an eye out for the attack indicators and be sure to dodge the indicated cone.

Most of the traps throughout this encounter can be avoided. Circle of Flame will create a circle of flame after a few seconds, exploding and knocking up all nearby players. Whirlwinding Axes will create multiple Axes that slowly move around the room, dealing damage to nearby enemies. Blade Traps will activate when Xin the Weaponmaster reaches 66%, shooting out throwing knives in a cone area in front of them. The last trap, Death From Above!, only activates when Xin the Weaponmaster reaches 33% health and simply deals unavoidable damage to all players periodically.

Avoiding as much damage from the various traps is the main challenge of the encounter and requires nearly constant movement from everybody. Most of the traps can be entirely disregarded by tanking Xin the Weaponmaster at the doorway that you entered the room from. Place Xin the Weaponmaster in one corner of the doorway, moving from one corner to the other whenever Ground Slam is cast.

5.

Mogu'shan Palace Loot

Normal Heroic

Trial of the King Gekkan Xin the Weaponmaster

Trial of the King Gekkan Xin the Weaponmaster

5.1.

Trial of the King Normal Loot

Item
Conflagrating Gloves
Hurricane Belt
Crest of the Clan Lords
Meteoric Greathelm
Whirling Dervish Choker

5.2.

Trial of the King Heroic Loot

Item
Conflagrating Gloves
Hurricane Belt
Crest of the Clan Lords
Meteoric Greathelm
Whirling Dervish Choker

5.3.

Gekkan Normal Loot

Item
Hexxer's Lethargic Gloves
Glintrok Sollerets
Cloak of Cleansing Flame
Iron Protector Talisman
Claws of Gekkan

5.4.

Gekkan Heroic Loot

Item
Hexxer's Lethargic Gloves
Glintrok Sollerets
Cloak of Cleansing Flame
Iron Protector Talisman
Claws of Gekkan

5.5.

Xin the Weaponmaster Normal Loot

Item
Regal Silk Shoulderpads
Soulbinder Treads
Boots of Plummeting Death
Groundshaker Bracers
Axebreaker Gauntlets
Mind's Eye Breastplate
Mindcapture Pendant
Blade Trap Signet
Firescribe Dagger
Ghostheart
Ornate Weapon

5.6.

Xin the Weaponmaster Heroic Loot

Item
Regal Silk Shoulderpads
Soulbinder Treads
Boots of Plummeting Death
Groundshaker Bracers
Axebreaker Gauntlets
Mind's Eye Breastplate
Mindcapture Pendant
Blade Trap Signet
Firescribe Dagger
Ghostheart
Mogu'Dar, Blade of the Thousand Slaves
A Treatise on Strategy

All quests for Mogu'shan Palace have no prerequisites and can be simply grabbed from Sinan the Dreamer at the entrance of the dungeon.

1. Relics of the Four Kings
2. A New Lesson for the Master

Achievement	Description
Glintrok N' Roll	Defeat Gekkan and his Glintrok entourage in Mogu'shan Palace on Heroic difficulty within 5 minutes of being spotted by the Glintrok Scout.
What Does This Button Do?	Use Xin the Weaponmaster's secret defense mechanism against him in Mogu'shan Palace on Heroic difficulty.
Quarrelsome Quilen Quintet	Collect all the Jade Quilen located throughout Mogu'Shan Palace on Heroic Difficulty.
Mogu'shan Palace	Defeat Xin the Weaponmaster in Mogu'shan Palace.
Heroic: Mogu'shan Palace	Defeat Xin the Weaponmaster in Mogu'shan Palace on Heroic Difficulty.
Heroic: Mogu'shan Palace Guild Run	Defeat Xin the Weaponmaster in Mogu'shan Palace on Heroic Difficulty while in a guild group.
Mogu'shan Palace Challenger	Complete the Mogu'shan Palace Challenge Mode.
Mogu'shan Palace: Bronze	Complete the Mogu'shan Palace Challenge Mode with a rating of Bronze or better.
Mogu'shan Palace: Silver	Complete the Mogu'shan Palace Challenge Mode with a rating of Silver or better.
Mogu'shan Palace: Gold	Complete the Mogu'shan Palace Challenge Mode with a rating of Gold.

Mogu'shan Palace is just one of the nine dungeons available to players during Mists of Pandaria. If you would like to learn more about the others, please see our other dungeon pages below: