Hello everyone! It’ll be later today before I get up my Fire Festival guide, but I wanted to put out a quick guide for Lord Ahune since he’s changed so radically this year. Instead of finding 4 other friends and going to Slave Pens or Heroic Slave Pens like the previous years, this year you access him through Dungeon Finder. For those who haven’t used Dungeon Finder, it’s the green eyeball icon between your action bar and your key ring and bags, between “Player Vs. Player” and “Game Menu.” When you access this you will see options for specific dungeons, heroic Northrend dungeons, and regular Northrend Dungeons if you’re 80. I don’t yet know if you can access the level 70 version of him or not — EDIT, level 75 has no option for him. During this holiday only you will see an option for “The Frost Lord Ahune,” click it and you will enter Dungeon Finder for just this boss. So far on two separate battle groups I’ve had very short (under 5 minute) queues for him, but that may change. You are transported to a phased version of Slave Pens when it finds you a group. Kill Skar’this the Summoner and you can use the ice stone to summon him once. If you want to go again, simply requeue for the boss. Ahune’s loot is divided into the things he drops and the things that come out of the Satchel of Chilled Goods. There is no limit to the number of times you can kill him, but you only get the Satchel of Chilled Goods once per day. Lord Ahune can drop item level 232 cloaks for almost all specializations (includes agility and strength cloaks as you can see in the list below). The Satchel of Chilled Goods drops two Emblems of Frost, rarely the Frigid Frostling small pet, and also rarely a new item level 232 version of the Frostscythe of Lord Ahune. In an easy-to-read format, they each drop the following.
Lord Ahune’s Ice Chest Loot Table (infinite attempts)
- Icebound Cloak (Tank)
- Cloak of the Frigid Winds (Spirit Healer)
- Shroud of Winter’s Chill (Caster)
- The Frost Lord’s War Cloak (Agility DPS)
- The Frost Lord’s Battle Shroud (Strength DPS)
- Formula: Enchant Weapon – Deathfrost (Enchanting Recipe, only Enchanters can see)
- Shards of Ahune (This Item Starts a Quest, one time ever, grants Burning Blossom X 20 and either Tabard of Summer Flames or Tabard of Summer Skies. Talk to Tabard NPC to change them out.
Satchel of Chilled Goods (Once per day) Loot Table
- Frostscythe of Lord Ahune
- Ice Chip / Frigid Frostling (Small Pet Ice Elemental)
- Emblem of Frost X 2 (guaranteed)
Lord Ahune’s strategy is pretty simple as he only has two phases. Phase One lasts about 1 minute and 45 seconds, during which he will spawn a large Ice Elemental called an Ahunite Hailstone that has an aura of Frost damage called the Chilling Aura. Burn him hard and fast to remove the aura, this is the only thing that needs to be “tanked,” and an off spec tank in a decently-geared group could just be a dps with taunt. During this first phase you will face waves of two smaller elementals caled Ahunite Frostwinds and Ahunite Coldwinds that appear every few seconds, also. If you let him go into the first phase more than once the number of elementals increases, so there’s a soft enrage on this fight due to the increasing number of adds. Ahune will knock you back if you get too close to him, but ranged can attack him if the adds are under control and their damage isn’t needed on adds. Also at this time you will notice small swirls of mist that appear underneath random players. A few seconds after the swirl an ice spike will appear from the ground, dealing damage and sending anyone standing there into the air. While moving out of the way is easy, spreading out will guarantee that only one person has to move per ice spike. During this phase his defenses are formidable so damaging him is less effective than it will be in phase two. Another time you may want to damage him in phase one is if you do not manage to quite kill him and just need to finish him off. Lord Ahune’s second phase is much simpler, after a few minutes he will hide inside his frozen core. During this period of time he stops spawning new adds and the ice spikes seem to reduce in frequency. He will take much more damage, so hit all of your cooldowns and use Bloodlust or Heroism if you have a shaman. Most groups should be able to take him down during the first time he enters phase two. Just before he returns you will get a warning. If you happen to kill him after this warning an ice elemental will still spawn after his death, so be wary as it would be silly to die to a piece of rock after besting the Frost Lord! If you do not kill him after the first phase two be aware that that the number of adds you will have to deal with increases. All-in-all, a pretty simple fight.
You may requeue and kill Ahune as many times as you’d like for the Deathfrost enchant or the cloaks, but you only need to kill him once per day if you are after the Frostscythe of Ahune or the small pet.
