The fourth of the possible bosses that you could fight is Moragg, who is a giant beholder. For those unfamiliar with a beholder he is the same as the large floating eye boss from Hellfire Ramparts. While he can be tanked, he also has a mindflay ability that targets a random player in the group. The damage increases the longer he casts the spell and you just have to heal through it.

The fifth of the bosses is Xevozz, who is an imprisoned ethereal. When he is released he summons an arcane orb that assists him. Both Xevozz and the orb have separate attack tables so could go after different targets. The orb has two abilities, it can place a magic debuff on its target that increases the arcane damage that they take and it can summon everyone to it and then attack with an arcane explosion that hits everyone nearby. Xevozz attacks players with an arcane missile volley but can be tanked.

The tactics for this fight are to kite the orb around so that it is away from as many people as possible, while killing Xevozz. If you have have a tank that can absorb the damage and a healer that can keep up you can simply hold both and drop the boss.

The last of the possible bosses you can get is Zuramat the Obliterator, who is a giant void lord. Zuramat is a very interesting fight since he summons additional creatures (adds) that you can only damage once you have been hit by Zuramat. The summoned creatures volley the party with damage every few seconds, which will keep the healer busy.

The boss himself hits players with a shadow based damage over time (DoT) effect that lasts for 10 seconds, while affected by this DoT you can see and hurt the additional summoned creatures. While a player is affected by the debuff they need to target and kill the adds as quickly as possible. To get affected by the debuff you must stand in the shadow spots where the damage is coming from. The best strategy seems to be killing the adds as soon as you can, however if you have a strong healer and DPS you can ignore the adds and down Zuramat through fast hard DPS.

Once you have defeated the boss that spawns for wave six you get a brief break. The waves then restart and you fight your way through them until the 12th wave, which will be another of the six random bosses. You will not get the same boss that you just defeated as his cell will now be empty. Once you defeat the second boss, you once again get a quick break and then continue on through additional waves. The waves at this point are mainly groups of four elites, although this could have been random. Once the 17th wave has been defeated the last boss will spawn.

The last boss in the instance is the blue dragon Cyanigosa, who is in charge of the assault on the prison. Cyanigosa will appear in the middle of the main prison area in her human form and then transform into her dragon form. While she does give a speech it is short so the tank needs to be ready to grab her when she finishes. She has a few abilities such as a blizzard spell that she casts on the tank, a frost breath attack, and a summon ability.

Her frost breath attack hits everyone in her front arc, and her blizzard is always targeted on the tank. This means that the tank must face her away from the party and mover her backwards or sideways any time she casts blizzard. This will keep incoming damage lower and focused only on the tank. Anytime she uses the summon ability, the rest of the party it pulled in front of her, so they simply need to run through her to their original positions again.

Once you have defeated Cyanigosa, Lieutenant Sinclari re-enters the prison and can be spoken to at the front door. The instance at this point is finished.

If you are a player that liked the Black Morass instance then this instance will appeal to you. It is basically a Black Morass without the need to clear the swamp trash before starting. The Violet Hold is a great little instance for something to do to gain experience or just practice your class. Being located right in the city of Dalaran, and being insanely fast to complete (less than 30 minutes), it makes it an ideal distraction from questing. Any time you pop into the city between the levels of 74 and 76 you can find a group and run through it to gain a quick bit of experience. It also has some pretty good gear as drops. In particular as a tank you will likely want to grab the Riot Shield and Cloak that drop there as they will serve you well until level 80.

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