There are a number of special bosses in instances throughout Azeroth during the zombie invasion event, but the new face is Tenris Mirkblood. Ok, it’s not a pretty face, but new is always a good thing. We wanted to give you Kara capable folks a few pointers on this guy since he will only be around for a few more days.
Tenris resides in the servant’s quarters of Karazhan. He’s not that difficult to kill if you know what to expect, and you also get a shot at grabbing some loot from Atuumen as well on the way. So get up a group, get yourselves to Kara, and go Dominate this guy.
Fight your way through Atuumen, and then clear the room with the repair guy and head upstairs. Clear all the mobs around the large circle in the tower there so you have plenty of room to move – you’ll need it to take most of the pain out of the Tenris encounter.
Once all the trash is out of the way, open the kitchen door and Tenris will pop out ready to suck your blood. He even looks a little batty. Tenris uses two special abilities that can be a bit of a pain, but are fairly easy to counter.
The first is a soul link. He will attach himself to one of your party members with a bright red ribbon of light. When he does this, stop all damage on Tenris. Any DPS aimed at him will also damage your party member. A few crits on Tenris and you lose one of your buddies, so be quick with that escape key.
Next, there will be a lot of little red, floating, glowing orbs that spawn during the fight. Stay away form them and everything is good. Get in the middle of a bunch of them = bad. So what you need to do is keep Tenris moving around the circle from room to room. By the time you make a complete circuit, the orbs will be gone. Keep him moving and you’ll be ok.
Tenris has a very small loot table. He drops a bat non-combat pet for every party member. (Nice if you’re trying to hit the pet collection achievement and don’t want to buy all of them). He can drop badges, and he has an axe called the Arcanite Ripper. The ripper is a two hander, that also double as an air guiter – erh, axe guitar, steel guitar… Anyway, if you can equip this thing, you can right click it to be transformed into an undead and get a little guitar jamming animation sequence complete with guitar riffs everyone around you can hear.
So pick up the quest for this in EPL at Light’s Hope and then get your team to Kara right away and get your bats. That’s not the only loot we picked up last night doing this run, but we’ll tell you more about that in the next post. Until then, make plans to go and Dominate this dude.