Lady Jaina Proudmoore Guide - WoW Battle of Dazar'alor Boss Strategies and Loot

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Lady Jaina Proudmoore Blockade is a boss encounter in the Battle of Dazar'alor raid in World of Warcraft. Our strategy guide will help you to defeat the Lady Jaina Proudmoore Blockade encounter and the loot listing below contains all of the loot he drops on each difficulty.

Overview

Lady Jaina Proudmoore is the final Horde story encounter for the Battle of Dazar'alor. The Alliance will experience this encounter as a flashback, and be transformed to Horde races. The encounter will be exactly the same for both factions. This is a three phased encounter with two intermission phases.

Fight Basics

• This is a two tank, three phase encounter with two intermission phases.
• The Jaina encounter is fairly complex with lots of moving parts.
• It was not completed during PTR testing, and this guide will be updated as live raids open.

Phase 1

• This phase lasts until you bring Jaina to 60%.
• Ice Shard is chain cast on the tank and can be interrupted. It applies Chilling Touch. Interrupts and taunt swaps manage this.
• All players are effected by Chilling Touch when they take frost damage throughout the encounter.
• At 20 stacks, you become Frozen Solid and must be broken out through damage.
• Ships will appear approximately every minute that Bombard your ship, leaving Searing Pitch fire patches on the ground.
• Touching this fire will clear your Chilling Touch stacks.
• Jaina will cast Avalanche on random raid members and a tank, which will cause ice to land on the ship dealing massive damage to anyone caught in it. These players need to keep moving until all Avalanches are dropped, and it can be used to clear fire.
• Marines will appear that fixate random players they must be killed.
• Marines will also drop barrels called Set Charges that need to be picked up and thrown off the ship, else they explode for heavy raid damage. On Normal they exploded after ~40 seconds, while on Heroic they explode after ~15 seconds.
• Jaina will cast Ring of Ice at 100 energy which requires you to be 30 yards away or in a fire patch to avoid.
• Players may get debuffed with Grasp of Frost and will need to be dispelled.
• At 60% Jaina ports away.

Intermission 1

• You must find Jaina on the frozen ocean.
• She can be tracked with track humanoids.
• On Normal, Jaina ports to the center of arena. On Heroic, she ports to a random location.
• Players should avoid hitting Glacial Shards and Blistering Tornado.
• When she is found you must interrupt her cast of Howling Winds to trigger the next phase.

Phase 2

• Jaina gains a few new skills including Broadside, Siegebreaker Blast, Glacial Ray and Icefall.
• Broadside will put purple arrows over three players heads and after a short while mark the ground where they stand for massive AoE.
• If a Ordnance Barrel is hit by this, it will become vulnerable and be able to be damaged.
• Destroying a barrel will grant warmth, removing any stacks of chilling touch to players near the barrel. Shortly after, there will be an additional explosion killing any players within 20 yards of the barrel.
• This is the only method of removing your stacks of Chilling Touch in thise phase, and you only get three barrels total. They must be used wisely.
• Siegebreaker Blast debuffs a random player and 10 seconds later explodes dealing massive AoE damage, reduced by your distance from the target. It also knocks players back.
• Jaina will face a random player and cast Glacial Ray which sends out a ray of frost.
• Icefall will mark a zone with an arrow, then shortly after a comet lands which spreads ice in large square in the direction of that arrow.
• Avalanche is also modified in this phase to only target the tank, and causes frost projecticles to shoot out of the ground which will root players.
• Upon reaching 40%, Jaina will transition to the second intermission phase.

Intermission 2

• Jaina becomes immune to damage and creates a Flash Freeze zone around her that is ever expanding. Players caught in this will be frozen, and die at the end of the cast.
• A wall of ice becomes targetable and players can DPS it down to escale the Flash Freeze.
• Behind the wall lies a Tide Elemental which casts several new abilities.
• Heart of Frost will spread Chilling Touch to nearby players when it expires.
• Frost Nova will be cast at 100 energy, which roost and damages all players within 12 yards of the elemental.
• On Heroic difficulty, it will cast Waterbolt Volley which needs to be interrupted.
• Nathanos is in this phase, but encased in ice. DPS the ice around him to free him. This will bring Jaina back to the encounter area.
• Jaina will cast Arcane Barrage which targets random areas of the ground until the Tidal Elemental is killed, at which point Phase 3 begins.

Intermission 3

• Phase 3 is much like Phase 2 with all the same abilities, but there are no more barrels to clear your Chilling Touch debuff with. As a result, players will need to gain enough stacks to become frozen in a controlled manner, then be broke out by their fellow raiders.
• Any player who is frozen will be targeted by Shattering Lance, so frozen players should not stack in a line or on top of one another and the must be freed before they are killed.
• The tanks must now control where Jaina is facing as she will cast a frontal cone called Crystalline Dust.
• Jaina will cast Prismatic Image, creating an image of herself that uses similar skills.
• On Heroic, Jaina will also cast Frozen Orb in this phase, which targets a random player and explodes when it reaches them, adding Chilling Touch stacks to everyone in the raid based on the Orbs power.
• Other players can step into this Frozen Orb to reduce the power of its explosion, while gaining Chilling Touch stacks.
• The encounter ends when you have defeated Jaina.

Strategies by Role

All Roles

• Always try to minimize your stacks of Chilling Touch.
• Lots of damage is avoidable and will need to be avoided in order to be victorious.
• Help free players that get frozen.
• Stand in fire patches when Ring of Ice is cast in Phase 1.
• Upon the transition from Phase 1 to Intermission 1, make sure your back is toward the middle of the ship so you don't get knocked off.
• In Phase 2 you will need to coordinate how and when you use the Ordnance Barrels to ensure everyone can clear their stacks properly.
• All players should step out of and avoid Glacial Ray and Icefall.

DPS

• Single target DPS is the priority for this encounter.
• Help break out frozen targets instantly, they are the priority.
• Try to have cooldowns up for the Wall of Ice during Intermission 2.

Healers

• Dispel players that get rooted with Grasp of Frost throughout the fight.
• Cast absorbs and shields on players that are about to be frozen.
• Ensure you can see Chilling Touch stacks on your raid frames.

Tanks

• Taunt swap throughout the encounter to reduce your chilling stacks from Ice Shard.
• Ensure Jaina is faced away from the raid during Phase 3.
• In Phase 2 and Phase 3, keep Avalanche away from the raid.

Mythic Lady Jaina Proudmoore Strategy Guide

• A detailed Mythic strategy will be available once Mythic raids open.

Lady Jaina Proudmoore Achievements

Lady Jaina Proudmoore Loot List

Lady Jaina Proudmoore drops item level 340 (LFR), 355 (Normal), 370 (Heroic), 385 (Mythic) loot. Loot can have higher item levels if it becomes Titanforged or Warforged.