Sullon Zek, Mistress of Rage
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This article deals with the raid encounter on Sullon Zek, for general information relating to Sullon Zek, see the main article at Sullon Zek
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[edit] Prerequisites
In order to attend this raid, no prerequisites need to be met.
In order to request this raid, you must have completed all of the following:
- Complete the mission Becoming the Vessel and receive an Enraged Flesh Charm
- Obtain Legendary Berserker bones from each of the following events:
- Titanothon in the Devastation
- Vooersalor the Crafty or Bartol the Cragmaker in the Devastation
- Any final Sverag boss
- Turn all three bones in to Maelin Starpyre in the library Myrist in the Plane of Knowledge.
[edit] Requesting
This is a 54-person max raid. To request the raid go to Oathmir the Outcast in the Devastation and tell him "fix whatever is wrong." This will trigger the raid instance inside of Sverag.
Once you enter the raid instance, you must defeat Sullon's two pets before you can confront the Mistress of Rage.
These two encounters are Ghost, Guardian of Razorthorn and Snowtail, Guardian of Razorthorn.
Once you have these two encounters beaten, you can clear your way to the top of the tower and engage Sullon Zek.
[edit] The Fight
There are multiple ways to win this fight.
The basics of the fight is that Sullon will spawn four adds every 12.5% of her health starting at 87.5%. Throughout the fight she will cast the following spells:
- Sullon's Ferocity is an Invulnerability (Divine Aura) effect
- Sullon's Wrath causes all spells to fizzle, and all melee attacks to miss
- Sullon's Vengeance is a 30 second stun effect, but is negligible in today's game, because the spell is limited to targets level 70 and below
These spells will be cast on 4-6 random members of the raid (that are on SZ's aggro list). That person will then trigger a recourse effect that spreads the debuff like a virus if they don't get safely away from the raid within 6 seconds.
In addition, she will AE Sullon's Plague, a melee slow that can be cured with 18 Disease counters.
[edit] The "right" way
The fight was intended to be done by managing the viruses and killing the adds that spawn every 12.5%.
This is usually done by splitting the raid into two forces, one that stays on Sullon Zek, and another force that stays off SZ's aggro list and deals with the adds. The main force will balance SZ, taking special care not to spawn multiple waves of adds at the same time.
The adds spawn in Sullon's room regardless of where Sullon is pulled to.
[edit] The burn method
With the increase in level cap to 75 and beyond, it became readily possible to simply set up a small team devoted to kiting the adds while having the main raid force focus all DPS on Sullon Zek. She has relatively low HP for a raid mob and can easily be burned down before she has time to cast her viruses more than once.
Often times this method is accompanied by casting AE TL and having members who are hit with the virus accept the TL before they can spread it to the raid.
[edit] After the fight
Once she's dead, a trap door in her room can be opened and the raid can run down another long spiral to a room at the bottom where they will receive their flags for this event.
