A four-stage council fight against the possessed Zul'jan and Hex Lord Malacrass: first Zul'jan's venom globules are stacked and destroyed with tank frontals, then Malacrass's fixating spirits get the same treatment, and after an intermission where intercepted spirits must never heal Zul'jan, the final phase runs both kits at once - and both bosses must die at nearly the same time.
Assigned players pick up the green Coalesced Venom orbs, carry the 5 second pulsing debuff away from the raid, and drop the orbs in front of the boss when it falls off. The tank aims Sever, the frontal cone, through the stacked globules to destroy them - only a few at a time, because each destruction stacks a DoT on the raid.
Two groups soak Guillotine in their corners (three or more players in the hit, five on Mythic), run out of the Widow's Kiss eruption after, dodge the spinning Axegrinder axes and growing green puddles, and healers dispel Venomfang poison on cooldown.
Zul'jan falls at the transition and Malacrass knocks everyone back - do not get shoved off the platform. Dreadmarch mind-controls players who walk toward the edge: damage them free before they jump. Fixated players kite their Manifestation of Dread in front of the boss and LOOK at it to halt it, then the tank frontal Soul Sever destroys the stacked ghosts.
Soul Sever and Gloombomb each scatter three Souls their owner must collect within 15 seconds or die. Run Gloombomb out, explode, collect. When Eternal Nightfall casts, burn through the boss shield, then kick the cast, and nuke plus interrupt the Soulcoiler add's fear immediately.
Malacrass goes immune and channels Soulbinding into Zul'jan, who takes 100 percent increased damage for 35 seconds. Pour cooldowns into Zul'jan while carefully intercepting the green spirits walking toward him - they explode when touched, and any spirit that reaches him heals him.
Both kits run at once: tank frontals clear globules and ghosts, Guillotine corners continue, Gloombombs and souls continue, shields still get broken and kicked. Kill both bosses within moments of each other - the survivor berserks for 500 percent damage and attack speed.
The stages are gated on boss health, so their wall clock stretches with your kill time and the share of the pull is the portable number. The repeating casts are on a timer and do not stretch, which is why a slower raid sees more of them per stage.
Then every 43 to 47 seconds inside a stage, with the cycle resetting across each transition.
0:43 in all five kills, so the corner split is called on a stopwatch rather than on a health percentage.
Zul'jan falls. Measured at 31 percent of the pull in top-50 kills (1:39 to 1:47) and 28 percent in the 7:29 kill (2:04).
Measured at 55 percent of the pull in top-50 kills and 51 percent in the 7:29 kill. Soulbinding is cast within a second or two of the transition, so the 35 second window at 100 percent increased damage on Zul'jan starts there, not later.
Measured at 66 percent of the pull in top-50 kills and 60 percent in the 7:29 kill, so the last third to the last two fifths of this fight is two target. Defilement then repeats every 106 seconds.
Five top-50 Heroic kills of Warcraft Logs encounter 3429, sampled across the ranking spread, cross-checked against a 7:29 Heroic kill (report Rq36AyX9wmcz1vLB, pull 5). Measured 2026-09-16.
Carry green orbs out, drop them at the boss's front, and destroy small batches with the Sever frontal - the post-destruction DoT stacks, so pace it.
Failure: Uncollected globules pulse the raid forever, and a greedy multi-globule Sever stacks the Venom Rupture DoT lethally.
Split each axe in the assigned corner, then sprint out of the 40 yard eruption. Three bodies is the minimum, five on Mythic.
Failure: A thin soak is massive raid damage; standing in the Kiss afterward doubles the bill.
DPS mind-controlled players free before they reach the edge; fixated players kite ghosts to the boss's front and stare at them to freeze them for the Soul Sever cleanup.
Failure: An MC'd player walks off the platform, and an unfrozen ghost reaching its target mind-controls them too.
Soul Sever and Gloombomb each spawn three Souls - their owner collects all three within 15 seconds.
Failure: Missing the collection timer is a death, mid-progression, to a mechanic with a generous clock.
Break the boss shield, kick Eternal Nightfall, and interrupt the Soulcoiler add's 5 second fear the moment it spawns.
Failure: An uninterrupted Nightfall is raid-wide damage through the dodge pattern; the fear chains into every other mechanic.
Touch the green spirits before they reach Zul'jan - each one explodes on the interceptor, so spread the job across healthy players.
Failure: Spirits reaching the boss heal away the entire 35 second burn window.
The named boss spells, their individual sub-abilities, and the response for each. Ability names with known spell IDs open their own WoW-God spell pages.
Noxious Ground pulses damage for 8 seconds and hits the active tank harder.
Raid response: Tanks rotate mitigation; everyone else stays off the marked ground.
Venom rain forms globules that pulse until picked up; the carrier pulses AoE for 5 seconds, and the globule reforms where dropped.
Raid response: Assigned carriers collect, walk out, and stage the globules in front of the boss for Sever.
Each destroyed globule explodes and stacks a DoT on the raid.
Raid response: Destroy a few globules per Sever, never the whole stockpile at once.
An axe thrown at a player splits damage among those within 9 yards, then erupts 40 yards wide as Widow's Kiss.
Raid response: Corner groups soak on rotation so the Heroic and Mythic 1.7 minute debuff alternates, then everyone clears the eruption.
Zul'jan hurls a poison axe between several players, ticking every 2 seconds for 14 seconds.
Raid response: Healers dispel it on cooldown. It is the fight's only poison.
Thrown axes hit within 4 yards and knock back, then wander the arena grinding anyone they touch.
Raid response: Track the spinning axes while you handle globules and the Guillotine corners.
Mind-controlled players march toward the edge and jump unless damage breaks the control.
Raid response: Instant target swap - the MC'd player IS the priority target.
The tank frontal that destroys Manifestation spirits and spawns 3 Souls the tank must collect in 15 seconds.
Raid response: Aim through the frozen ghost stack, then collect calmly - 15 seconds is enough when you move immediately.
Debuffed players explode after 5 seconds and must collect the 3 Souls they scatter within 15 seconds.
Raid response: Run out, detonate away from the raid, sweep up your Souls.
A raid-wide channel behind a boss shield, cast while swirlies fall.
Raid response: Break the shield, kick the cast, keep dodging throughout.
Malacrass binds his soul to Zul'jan. Zul'jan gains Ghastly Regeneration: he heals, but takes 100 percent more damage for 35 seconds, and fragments walk back to him.
Raid response: Full cooldowns into Zul'jan; assigned players intercept every fragment early and spread the explosions.
Their souls are linked. Kill one and the other berserks for 500 percent damage and attack speed.
Raid response: Hold the health bars together and pre-plan the simultaneous kill.
Taunt after frontals, and aim every frontal deliberately: Sever through staged globules in Phase 1, Soul Sever through frozen ghosts in Phase 2, both jobs at once in the final phase. Collect your Souls the moment they spawn.
Dispel Venomfang, use cooldowns when globule batches are destroyed, and treat the intermission as a damage event - interceptors are taking planned explosions while the raid burns Zul'jan.
Free mind-controlled players instantly, nuke and kick the Soulcoiler add, break Nightfall shields, and save real cooldowns for the 35 second intermission window. At the end, watch both health bars, not your meter.
Look at your fixating ghost to freeze it, never touch a spirit you were not assigned, and know your corner for Guillotine before the pull.
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