Temple of Ahn'Qiraj (Fankriss the Unyielding)

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• The Prophet Skeram
• Battleguard Sartura
• Fankriss the Unyielding
• Princess Huhuran
• The Twin Emperors
• C'Thun

Optional Bosses

• Yauj, Vem, and Kri
• Viscidus
• Ouro the Sandworm

Fankriss the Unyielding

Fankriss is a very odd boss in that he does very little damage and has only one skill. This makes him one of the weakest major bosses in the game. Don’t let that throw you off though, he has a ton of allies that will latterly “zerg” you down if you do not contain them. He even has super snake/worms that can instantly kill most players if they get hit (although luckily they are easily controlled).

Fankriss is also odd in that he has some decently difficult trash on the way to his lair. A large tunnel full of various bugs awaits players heading for Fankriss. It’s very similar to the suppression room but doesn’t have any traps or large amounts of elite enemies. It just has normal bugs and elite Soldiers. So you need to rush forward to a Soldier and focus on taking him down to at least 50% then AoE down all of the bugs in a giant clump. When they are all dead (especially the Soldier) then you can move up to the next Soldier. Your best tanks should lead the raid and use Demoralizing Shout and Thunderclap to hold the enemies attention while you move forward.

If anyone dies in the pseudo-Suppression Room then have them rezone into AQ40 and summon them when you get to the entrance to Fankriss’s lair. There is a small alcove in the entryway to his lair that will allow you to rest up and finish all of the bugs. Be aware though that unless Fankriss is killed the Supression Room will continue respawning bugs requiring you to clear a path through each and every time you wipe to Fankriss. So be careful!

As for the difficulty of the fight it really depends. The alcove tanking is very similar to tanking the tigers in Zul’Gurub. The instant killing super worm/snakes can be a handful as well. However if everyone is paying attention (a very large theme throughout the dungeon) then you should have no problem with this encounter.

Set-Up!

Assign two tanks for tanking Fankriss. You should then assign a Druid of Paladin along with two Warriors to tanking the alcoves. Then assign one Warrior to DPS on Fankriss whose sole job is to intercept the super snake/worms that spawn. If you have no Druids or Paladins capable of tanking an alcove then you should just use three Warriors and have everyone pay extra attention for the spawns. Having more then five Warriors for this fight is really helpful (but not needed).

Skills

Mortal Wound: Decreases healing by all effects by 10%, stacks up to 10 times.

Zerg: Not a skill but more of part of the encounter. Bugs will spawn out of three alcoves in “waves”. These need to be tanked by a Warrior, Paladin, or Druid. During each wave a person will randomly be teleported and rooted inside of the alcove.

Super Worm/Snake: I belive they look like snakes, but some consider them worms. They do about 10k damage a hit but are stun and rootable. They spawn during the fight and need to be taken out asap.

Tactics

Fankriss needs to be tanked by two tanks so that they can prevent dieing to the Mortal Strike. Three people need to move to each alcove (Warriors are best, Paladins and Druids can work too though) and tank the adds that spawn throughout the fight. Everyone else needs to watch out for the Super Worm/Snakes that spawn throughout the fight. When they appear they need to be Ice Nova’d and Paladin Stunned and anything else you can do to them and killed quickly. If you have any Warrior’s doing DPS then they can quickly charge, taunt, and kite them around a little bit giving your raid some time to get them under control.

The key to this fight is keeping the bug zerg contained (don’t kill them, just keep sunders/demo shout on them) and killing the super worm/snakes as fast as possible. Whenever there isn’t a super worm/snake up you need to focus all DPS on Fankriss, otherwise the exhaustion of the fight will weigh your raid down.

After his defeat, head on to Princess Huhuran!

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