Battle of Dazar’alor – Jaina Proudmoore Guide

LADY JAINA PROUDMOORE

Purely single-target fight with high spatial and ability awareness of the boss to overcome the encounter. Managing your Chilled Touch stacks and avoiding lots of the unnecessary damage that can be taken is key to defeating Jaina.

The fight consists of 3 Phases and 2 Intermissions. Jaina has an Enrage Timer of 15 minutes.

• Targets: Lady Jaina Proudmoore, Kul Tiran Marine, Ice Block, Jaina’s Tide Elemental, Wall of Ice.
• Played Faction: Horde.
• Main Mechanic: Chilling Touch – Stacking debuff that deals ticking damage and slows movement speed. Applied by being by Jaina’s various Frost abilities. At 20 stacks and hitting 80%, the player will be blocked in ice, which will have to be killed to free them. You must use different sources of warmth throughout the fight to remove these stacks.

Phase 1

The fight begins on board the Zandalari flagship against Jaina and 2 Marines. You must fight Jaina, remove her adds from the fight as quickly as possible and push back the Kul Tiran Corsairs that will try and bombard your flagship from the ocean.

Lady Jaina Proudmoore

• Ice Shard: Main ability casted on the tanks as opposed to melee attacks. Deals Physical damage, applies Chilling Touch. Switch when Chilling Touch stacks go too high.
• Avalanche: Targets the tank with large chasing blue swirlies that impact ice into the floor. The impacting ice can clear patches of fire from the ship, and also quench burning Ballistas. Move out and avoid the swirlies, while clearing as much fire as possible – leave atleast 1 patch of fire up at all times to clear Chilling Touch stacks.
• Grasp of Frost: Roots random players. This debuff lasts 8 seconds and applies Chilling Touch every 2 seconds. Dispell this ASAP on all targets affected.
• Freezing Blast: Charges up a large frost rune in a random direction and fires a shockwave of ice, dealing moderate Frost damage and knocking back. Avoid this or you risk falling off the ship.
• Ring of Ice: Periodically will channel a massive frost circle around her, covering most of the ship. Once the cast is finished, anyone caught in the ice will be placed in an Ice Block until they are freed, anyone outside of the ice will be rooted by Grasp of Frost. Run all the way out of the ice and move into a patch of fire before the Ring explodes to remove the root. 

Kul Tiran Fleet

• Kul Tiran Corsair: A Kul Tiran ship will periodically approach your ship on the right or left side. The Corsair will bombard the deck of the Zandalari ship, leaving patches of fire in the orange zones on the deck of the ship. The only way to remove the Corsair and stop the bombardment is by utilizing the Ballistas on the Zandalari vessel.
  • Ballista: There are 3 Ballistas positioned on right and left sides of the ship. They are interactable by any player, and will fire a bolt at any nearby Kul Tiran ships. Use the Ballistas on the appropriate side that is being bombarded 6 times to remove the Kul Tiran ship from the fight. 
• Kul Tiran Marine: 2 Marines will fly in and land on the deck of the ship when a Corsair moves into position. The Marines will try to sabotage the ship by dropping Charges on the deck and fixate on random players. These charges must be picked up and brought to the edge of the ship and thrown off to avoid blowing up on the ship and leaving fire. Kill the Marines a priority – Priests can Mind Control and force them to jump off the ship.

Intermission 1

At 60%, Jaina will disappear from the ship and teleport to the middle of the ocean. She will freeze the ocean, halting all of the ships and creating a Frozen Landmass to fight on. The intermission ends once Jaina’s Howling Winds cast is interrupted and the deadly fog subsides.

• Howling Winds: Jaina teleports to a random location on the frozen island and channels a massive Blizzard, restricting all vision of the encounter area. She will radiate Glacial Shards out from her location in a spiral pattern. You must stick together as a group and find Jaina in the fog as quickly as possible.
  • Glacial Shard: Orbs of ice that will slowly rotate around the room emanating from Jaina’s position. If a player is hit by a Glacial Shard, they take low damage and are trapped in an Ice Block. Avoid these orbs at all costs to avoid being trapped in an Ice Block and left behind. 
• Blistering Tornado: Jaina’s storm spawns patrolling tornadoes across the frozen island that move in a predictable back and forth pattern. If a player is hit, they take massive damage and are knocked back. Avoid these like the plague. 

Phase 2

Phase 2 begins once Jaina’s Howling Winds has been interrupted. She gains a series of new abilities that will all be new sources of Chilling Touch stacks and require a keen eye and quick reactions to avoid.

Jaina Proudmoore

• Ice Shard will return from Phase 1
• Avalanche will return from Phase 1, but it will now leave behind patches of deadly ice on the ground. Each time an Avalanche lands, it will spawn Hand of Frost waves emanating from the landing point.
  • Hand of Frost: Slow moving waves of ice that will damage and root anyone hit by them. Avoid them or you will gain Grasp of Frost and be rooted.
• Ring of Ice has been removed from the rest of the encounter.
• Glacial Ray: A thin beam will be channeled directly infront of Jaina, in a random direction. The beam deals massive ticking damage to anyone standing in it and applies many stacks of Chilling Touch. Avoid this or you will get Ice Blocked very quickly.

• Icefall: Jaina spawns a massive reticle on the encounter floor at one of the outer walls of the arena. The reticle will be the indicator where the falling ice shower will begin, and the light blue indicates the direction in which the ice will fall across the encounter room. Position yourself to avoid the shower completely. 

Proudmoore Flagship

Jaina’s ship will fly above and rain down arcane spells onto the raid. It is important to avoid the raid with these abilities, and in certain situations aim them at Unexploded Ordnance found around the encounter area.

• Broadside: Targets 3 players with a 10yard arcane circle around them and a moderate DoT. You must run out and avoid people with this ability, and when necessary you must drop the Broadside onto Unexploded Ordnance. 
  • Unexploded 

    Ordnance: 4 attackable charges will be scattered across the encounter room. These charges

    are embedded with Refractive Ice, and will take 99% reduced damage unless the buff is removed. The Refractive Ice buff can only be removed by dropping Broadside onto the Ordnance itself. Once the buff is gone, the Ordnance can be killed to ignite it and grant warmth to the raid so they can clear stacks of Chilling Touch. THESE ORDNANCES ARE LIMITED AND THE ONLY WAY TO CLEAR STACKS IN THIS PHASE. 

• Siegebreaker Blast: Targets 1 random player with a massive arcane circle. This ability must be moved out as far as possible from the raid. It DOES NOT break Ordnance’s Refractive Ice, and its damage is raid-wide and reduced by distance.

Intermission 2

The second intermission will begin once Jaina hits 30% health. She will teleport to the middle of the frozen island and begin channeling Flash Freeze. In this phase, she becomes immune to all damage and channels this deadly spell until it is interrupted by freeing Nathanos from his Ice Block.

• Flash Freeze: Jaina slowly fills the entire island with deadly ice emanating from her position. Anyone caught in the ice will be instantly Ice Blocked. Avoid Jaina and run away from her ASAP, positioning yourself to the back wall.
• Wall of Ice: In this phase, the back wall of the encounter will become attackable and killable. You must destroy this wall section to increase your distance from Jaina and to reach Nathanos and kill Jaina’s Tide Elemental.
• Jaina’s Tide Elemental: Once the Wall is down, you must kill this add as soon as Nathanos’ Ice Block has been broken. Run away from it once it hits 100 Energy to avoid getting hit by Frost Nova.

Once Nathanos has been freed, he will interrupt Jaina’s Flash Freeze. Jaina will teleport to the far end of the room and begin channeling Arcane Volley instead, raining arcane missiles down on the ground. Avoid these.

The intermission ends once Jaina’s Arcane Volley has been interrupted, which must only happen once the raid is in position.

Phase 3

The final phase of the encounter. She retains all of her abilities from Phase 3, but adds new ones to deal with on top of the pre-existing ones. The Flagship will also continue to bombard the raid, but there are no longer any Ordnance left to clear Chilling Touch. This phase is a race against time, aiming to defeat Jaina before she freezes the entire raid with increasing stacks.

The fight ends at 5% health, at which Jaina will shield herself and escape from the encounter.

• Crystalline Dust: Periodically launches of burst of ice in a frontal cone. Deals high damage and applies Chilling Touch. Face her away and never be infront of her.
• Shattering Lance: Spawns a large spike of ice whenever a player becomes Ice Blocked. After a few seconds, the Lance is shoot across the encounter area in a straight line from where it’s facing, dealing low damage and applying Chilling Touch. If you are hit by Shattering Lance while Ice Blocked, the damage you take is tripled. Break Ice Blocks ASAP and avoid these.
• Prismatic Image: Jaina will periodically spawn an Arcane Copy of herself that copies her major abilities each time she casts them (Icefall, Glacial Ray, Crystalline Dust). Focus this add down and kill it ASAP, while avoiding any duplicate abilities that may be casted.