Imperial Vizier Zor'lok / Imperial Vizier Zor'lok

Vizier Zor'lok Imperial Chief's Guide Available in the Heart of Fear Gang instance.

Zor'lok shouts his proclamations so that they can be heard throughout the vast mantid palace. It is the voice of the empress, and her very words inspire the warriors of her race to offer their lives without hesitation. Zor'lok, whose loyalty never wavers, will stop at nothing to defend his beloved matriarch, despite the corruption within.

General Information

Skills

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  Inhale: Imperial Vizier Zor'lok takes a long breath to fill his lungs. Inhale increases the damage of Exhale by 100% per stack and lasts until Exhale is unleashed with 3 or more stacks.

• 

  Exhale: Imperial Vizier Zor'lok selects a random player and yells at them, dealing Physical damage and stunning them for 6 seconds. The first player between Imperial Vizier Zor'lok and his initial target takes bonus physical damage every 0,50 sec.

• Phase 1: Your gifts are numerous:
  Imperial Vizier Zor'lok flies to a random platform in the room, then attacks players from there. When Zor'lok loses 20% of his total health, he changes locations to a different platform. Imperial Vizier Zor'lok gains an ability on each platform, but loses that ability when moving to a different platform.

• 

  Zeal pheromones: The lower section of Imperial Vizier Zor'lok's chamber fills with toxic zeal pheromones. Players in the area receive 19000 points. damage per second and silenced while in the area of ​​effect.

• 

  Attenuation: Imperial Vizier Zor'lok emits a dizzying series of sonic rings that spiral out of him. Sonic Rings inflict 125000 damage. physical damage to all targets in its path.

  10 jug Heroic, Damping sends out sonic pulses that deal 138750 to 161250 Physical damage to all targets in its path.

  25 jug Heroic, Damping sends out sonic pulses that deal 138750 to 161250 Physical damage to all targets in its path.

• 

  Strength and reverb: Imperial Vizier Zor'lok yells at sheer volume for 80000. Physical damage to all players every 1,50 seconds for 10 seconds.
  Players in noise cancellation zones take 40% less damage from this ability.

  • 

    Noise Cancellation: Before Imperial Vizier Zor'lok begins channeling Force and Reverb, summon multiple zones with Noise Cancellation. Staying in these zones reduces Force and Reverb damage by 40%.

    10 players, only 4 players can benefit from Noise Canceling zones.

    25 players, only 9 players can benefit from Noise Canceling zones.

    10 player Heroic, only 3 players can benefit from Noise Canceling zones.

    25 player Heroic, only 4 players can benefit from Noise Canceling zones.

• 

  Convert: Imperial Vizier Zor'lok uses the pure voice of the Empress to change a player's allegiance, causing them to fight for the mantid empire. Convert lasts until the victim reaches 50% health, but the effect can end whenever the victim takes spell damage. The chance of it running out increases as the victim approaches 50% health.

• Phase 2: We will not disappoint her:
  When Imperial Vizier Zor'lok's health reaches 40%, he flies to the center of the chamber and inhales the Zeal Pheromones. So Imperial Vizier Zor'lok uses all of his abilities from phase 1.

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  Inhale pheromones: Imperial Vizier Zor'lok inhales all the pheromones in the chamber, increasing his damage by 10% and haste by 20%.

• Song of the Empress:
  Every time Imperial Vizier Zor'lok completes a transition, he raises his voice in honor of the Empress. If you do not engage in close combat with Imperial Vizier Zor'lok, he will deal physical damage to all players in the area until they die. Engaging in close combat with Imperial Vizier Zor'lok cancels the effect.
• Echoes of power:
  On Heroic Difficulty, Imperial Vizier Zor'lok leaves copies of himself on the first two platforms he goes to. During the second phase of the encounter, he randomly summons Echoes of Power to aid him in combat. Echoes of Power inherit one of Imperial Vizier Zor'lok's abilities and use that power until they are defeated.

• Attenuation Echoes: Zor'lok's uses Damping to take on melee players.
• Echoes of Force and reverb: Zor'lok's uses Force and reverb to take on melee players.
• Song of the Empress: Any of its copies uses the Song of the Empress at any time.

Strategy

Combat overview

The encounter against the Imperial Vizier Zor'lok (hereinafter simply as Zor'lok ) is a two-phase fight.

• During the Phase Uno , the raid will have to fight Zor'lok in three raised platforms what is in the living room. He will always move to any of the three platforms (flying to a new platform each time it is removed 20% life), but the order in which he does it is random. On each platform, Zor'lok will use a capacity extra specific to that platform. Also, at ground level, the room will be filled with

  Zeal pheromones, gas that silences / damages the raid and that they will have to traverse to follow Zor'lok to a new platform

• When Zor'lok health reaches the 40% , enter the phase Two . It will fly to the center of the room, absorb all the gas to increase its damage, and push everyone to its location. Throughout this phase, Zor'lok will continue to use all the abilities that were previously granted to him while standing on each platform.

The enrage for the encounter is 6 minutes, and this constitutes one of the biggest challenges that the raid will have to overcome. There is no need for a second tank, allowing for extra DPS to be used, thus increasing damage.

Basic Skills (used throughout combat)

Zor'lok has some abilities that he uses throughout the fight, regardless of the phase.

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Inhale and exhale

They are two complementary abilities that Zor'lok uses often. Exhale is a damaging ability and Inhale is an auto-buff that Zor'lok stacks on himself to increase Exhale's damage.

How to Stack Inhale

Inhale is thrown once or twice between each throw of

Exhale. Each time Inhale is cast, it increases the damage of Exhale by 50%. Inhale's cast lasts 2 seconds and cannot be interrupted.

Exhale is thrown whenever there are 3 or more stacks of

Inhale on Zor'lok, and the Inhale stacks are removed.

As you can see, you have no control over the number of stacks of

Inhale that Zor'lok will have. You simply have to be aware of the fact that some releases of

Exhale (with 3 or 4 stacks of Inhale) will deal more damage than others (with 1 or 2 stacks of Inhale)

How Exhale works

Exhale is a Zor'lok channeled spell that targets a random raid member. A bolt is fired at the target, dealing damage every 0,5 seconds, and stunning them. If a player intercepts the beam (that is, it moves between Zor'lok and the targeted raid member), then Exhale no longer affects its target, dealing reduced damage to the intercepting player instead.

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Song of the Empress

Song of the Empress is an ability that Zor'lok uses to damage the raid if there are no players within its melee range. This ability forces the raid to be attacking Zor'lok on the platform he is on.

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Deal with basic skills

Exhale they can be easily treated if it is the tank that intercepts the beam. The damage dealt by this ability is relatively low, and Zor'lok will not deal melee damage during this time.

The only concern is that melee players, who are targeted, should move slightly away from the boss so that the tank can properly get between them and Zor'lok.

Dealing with

Song of the Empress it simply consists of the raid moving to the new Zor'lok platform as soon as possible. This will require you to move around the center of the room, where you will receive the damage from

Zeal pheromones.

Skills like

Stampede roar they are very useful for this task. This is not a major concern, as it is perfectly possible that the raid will reach Zor'lok's new location before it even begins channeling Song of the Empress.

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Phase one

As we have explained in the summary, the phase Uno lasts until Zor'lok reaches 40% health. During this phase, Zor'lok will go to each of the three platforms in the room, each time 20% of his life is taken from him (at least 80% and 60%). The order is random, but it will always go to all 3 platforms (i.e. it will never go to the same platform twice). On each platform, Zor'lok uses a specific ability that the raid will have to deal with, as explained in the following sections.

When moving to a new platform, you will have to go through

Zeal pheromones, the gas that covers the floor of the room that damages / silences. This is merely a source of occasional damage and a silence that the raid needs to be aware of, but shouldn't pose a problem.

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Platform: Attenuation

When he is on the northeast platform (located on the left side of the room where you fight Zor'lok), you will have to deal with

Attenuation, which Zor'lok uses in addition to his core abilities.

attenuation

Attenuation is a channeled spell that Zor'lok casts approximately every 45 seconds. For 9 seconds, Zor'lok sends many disks out of himself, in random directions. The discs move at a moderate speed across the ground, doing a great deal of physical damage to anyone who comes in contact with them.

Strategy

The strategy for this phase is extremely simple. When

Attenuation is launched, the gang members must move to avoid being hit by the disks sent by Zor'lok.

Even though the discs do great damage, a player can survive multiple disc damage without the need for healing.

Since both Attenuation and

Exhale They are channeled spells, they will never be cast at the same time, greatly reducing any difficulty of the phase.

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Platform: Convert

When he's on the south-east platform (found at the back of the room where you fight Zor'lok), you'll have to deal with

Convert, which Zor'lok will use, in addition to his basic abilities.

Convert

Convert is a mind control that Zor'lok launches on a random raid player approximately every 60 seconds. Convert affects 1 player into 10-players, and 5 players into 25-players. Sometimes Convert affects 2 players into 10-players, but we are not sure what the reason for this is.

To break mind control, the mind controlled player must be damaged up to 50% of their maximum health. However, each attack made on the player, has a chance to instantly break the mind control. This break chance increases the closer to 50% health the player is.

Strategy

The strategy for this phase is simply to free the mind-controlled player quickly. There is absolutely no complexity.

Healers must be ready to dispel debuffs that the controlled player can inflict on the raid, or that raid members inadvertently apply to the controlled player when attacking.

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Platform: Strength and Reverb

When he's on the south-west platform (found on the right side of the room where you fight Zor'lok), you'll have to deal with

Strength and reverb, which Zor'lok will use, in addition to his basic abilities.

Strength and reverb

Every 45 seconds, Zor'lok will channel

Strength and reverb for 10 seconds. This deals a large amount of raid damage every second.

Fortunately, immediately before emitting the Force and reverb, Zor'lok will create 3 shields on the ground near him, which the raid can use to protect themselves. Being under one of these shields reduces damage taken from the Force and reverb by 40%.

Strategy

Whenever Zor'lok creates the Protection Shields, you will have a few seconds to move underneath them before channeling

Strength and reverb begin. Not doing this right will mean taking a lot of damage.

Each shield can only protect a limited number of players: 4 on the 10-player raids and 9 on the 25-player raids. Additional players who get under the shield simply will not receive their protection.

Due to the limitation mentioned above, and the fact that shield drops are to random locations, it is difficult to assign people to a specific shield ahead of time. Instead, you should designate three groups of players, and assign a leader for each group. Then it is enough for these leaders to quickly decide which shield to go to, and for the other members to follow the leader of their group.

Since Force and Reverb is a channeled spell, Zor'lok will not attack melee during this time. Still, the force and reverb damage is quite high, even to players with shield protection, so healers will have to be prepared for this.

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Phase two

At 40% health, Zor'lok will fly above the center of the room, absorbing all

Zeal pheromones. This grants you a buff that increases your damage dealt by 10%, and haste by 20%, until the end of the fight.

Shortly after this, he will push the entire gang to his location.

Skills

During this phase, Zor'lok will use all the abilities of phase one. Fortunately for the raid, you will never have to deal with

Attenuation y

Strength and reverb at the same time, both being channeled.

Strategy

The strategy for this phase is simply to execute the tasks that have been practiced in the previous phase.

The center of the room is much wider than the platforms, so the raid can be spread out further to prevent the discs from

Attenuation. You must be careful, however, that no raid members are too far away to protect themselves on the protection shields in time.

When to use Heroism / Bloodlust / Time Warp

We recommend using

Heroism/

Bloodlust/

Temporal Distortion during phase one, as this is by far the most intense and complex phase of the match.

Learning combat

If the raid needs more practice on a specific platform, then it is possible, during an attempt to stop attacking the boss once the platform is reached. Learning to deal with boss skills is much easier when players are not distracted from performing their role. DPS make fewer mistakes and take less damage, making it easier for healers, causing them to focus more on the boss's abilities.

Phase two is a combination of all the scenarios of the Phase Uno . Although the gang members already know how to deal with all the skills separately, they will most likely have to deal with them at the same time (although

Attenuation and

Strength and reverb don't take place at the same time) is going to be a bit confusing. In this case, the raid can also stop attacking the boss and have players instead focus on avoiding the boss's abilities, until they make no mistakes.

Remember that learning something in steps is always easier than trying than learning it all at once.

Final remarks

This concludes our Imperial Vizier Zor'lok raid guide. We hope you found it useful. Please don't hesitate to post any comments you may have.

Dispossession / Loot

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