Crimson Hall Walkthrough

The third wing of the new Icecrown Citadel dungeon opened January 19^th. In the Crimson Hall you’ll find the Blood Prince Council, which includes Prince Valanar, Prince Keleseth, and Prince Taldaram. After you defeat the Blood Prince Council you’ll then ahave to fight Blood-Queen Lana’thel.

Blood Prince Council Walkthough

You’ll have to take on all three members of the Blood Prince council at the same time for the first battle in this Crimson Hall walkthrough. Use two regular tanks and one ranged tank for the battle against the Blood Prince Council, but note that not all three princes will be active at the same time. The order the three Blood Princes will become active in will change each time, so just have your walkthrough for each of the three battles set and be ready to go to any of the three strategies at any time. Also remember that you must defeat the Blood Prince council within 10 minutes, or they will berserk and wipe the entire raid.

The first prince to become active will always be Prince Valanar, so you can start out prepared for that battle by having your Prince Valanar walkthrough ready. Use a regular tank for Prince Valanar. As soon as Prince Valanar activates, he casts Empowered Shock Vortex, and all melee DPS should run away from him during his cast time. Empowered Shock Vortex does quite a bit of damage to any raid members who are close to Prince Valanar. Ranged DPS should be assigned to keep the Kinetic Bombs in the air. Just keep hitting them while they’re up, and they’ll stay up without exploding and wiping the raid. The Kinetic Bombs look like white balls of light.

When Prince Taldaram activates, use a regular tank for him also. He’s going to conjure a ball of flames that will move from Prince Taldaram’s location to a random raid member. Whichever raid member is targeted by the ball of flames will die unless you follow this strategy carefully. Assign a handful of DPS to break off from Prince Taldaram briefly to follow the ball of flames. It’s best to choose one melee DPS and one or two ranged DPS, who should be spread out equally across the area. These DPS should run with the orange ball as it approaches the targeted raid member. The ball will drop small sparks on the other DPS as it approaches the targeted raid member. Allowing other raid members to be hit by some small sparks will mitigate the damage the orange ball does when it reaches the targeted raid member because it shrinks as it spits sparks.

You’ll need your ranged tank for Prince Keleseth. Yes, I said ranged tank. Warlock may be the best class for this, although it’s up for debate. Just make sure your ranged tank stays out of Prince Keleseth’s melee range because hit hits pretty hard. Your ranged tank also must hold aggro on the dark nuclei that spawn with Prince Keleseth. Anyone who is not your ranged tank must not hit the dark nuclei because they give your ranged tank an important buff to keep him alive. The ranged tank should stay close to all the dark nuclei to soak up the buff.

Blood-Queen Lana’thel Walkthrough

After you knock down the Blood Prince Council, then it’s on to Blood-Queen Lana’thel. She will bite a random raid member early on in the battle. That increases the raid members DPS 100 percent, so this is a very important part of the fight. When the raid member gets Frenzied Bloodthirst, he must bite another raid member and pass on the high DPS. Always bite your highest DPS member first, and then go down the line, biting the next highest DPS and so on. All raid members can only be bitten once, and they must all be bitten once. If you run out of raid members to bite, you’ll wipe the raid. Basically, you’ve got to kill Blood-Queen Lana’thel before you run out of raid members to bite. Every single DPS raid member must be putting out the maximum possible DPS in order to get this done.

Ranged DPS and healers should spread out across the area to avoid damaging multiple raid members when Twilight Bloodbolt hits one player. Healers, watch to see which raid member will have Blood Mirror, which mirrors the amount of damage the tank takes onto another raid member. You’ll have to heal through this, so it’s a good idea to have one healer dedicated to covering whichever raid member is targeted with this. It could fall to the tank healer possibly, if you’ve got the right people.

Stay out of the circles on the ground. Blood-Queen Lana’thel will cast Swarming Shadows on a random raid member. The circle will appear under the targeted raid member, so that member will just have to keep moving until it’s over.

All raid members should also watch for the ability Pact of the Darkfallen. This causes damage to all raid member it links until they run together. You’ll know if you’re linked by the red lines that connect you with other raid members. Just run toward each other to get this off of you.