Zul'jan
Altar of Fangs · boss 3 of 3
With the Fang of Ula'tek, Zul'jan performs the final ritual to gain the power to release the monstrous weapon his ancestors sealed away thousands of years ago. Still held in the sway of the spirit of Malacrass, Zul'jan is unaware that the Fang is also the only hope for his sister Zul'jarra's survival.
Beams feed his dagger. Stand in them to stop it, take a delayed poison for doing so, and let his own bleed clear the poison.
An intercept fight with a loop in it. Unblocked beams give him Fang Empowered, which stacks raid damage forever. Blocking one gives you Ritual Venom, which bursts when it expires — and Bloodletting, his physical damage, is what strips the venom back off you.
What actually kills you
Everything else is noise until these three are handled.
- Letting Ritual of the Fang complete. Fang Empowered stacks and never comes off; two unblocked rituals is usually the wipe.
- Holding Ritual Venom to expiry. It bursts. Take a Bloodletting hit before it does and it comes off instead.
- Axegrinder on the return trip. The axes ricochet around the arena and ignore armour — they are still lethal after the first pass.
Your job
If you tank
- Chop Down hits twice per cast and is the only real tank damage.
- Bloodletting leaves blood pools where his physical hits land. Keep him moving so the floor stays usable.
If you heal
- The intercept is deliberate damage taken. Whoever blocks the beams is taking Nature damage every second plus a venom that bursts later — plan for both.
- If nobody intercepts, Fang Empowered turns into damage on everyone that only goes one way.
If you DPS
- Get in the beams. Damage taken there is chosen; Fang Empowered is not.
- Axegrinder ignores armour and comes back. Watch it twice, not once.
How the fight goes
| Part | What to do |
|---|---|
| Step 1 | Ritual of the Fang: snake heads beam power into the dagger. Intercept them. |
| Step 2 | He fights with Chop Down, Boneslicer and Axegrinder, with Bloodletting stripping Ritual Venom as it lands. |
| Step 3 | The ritual repeats. Each one you let through is permanent raid damage. |
Higher keys
Heroic and Mythic
The encounter journal publishes no difficulty-specific text for this fight. We would rather say that than invent a difference.
Loot
Everything Zul'jan can drop, from the Midnight Season 2 item database.
| Slot | Item |
|---|---|
| Head | Spare Speaker's Hood |
| Chest | Chestguard of Corroded Scales |
| Legs | Ancient General's Obsidian Pillars |
| Hands | Handwraps of Blasphemous Rites |
| Ring | Band of the Amani Warlord |
| Trinket | Tattered Amani War Banner |
| One-hand | Sharpened Lightwood Slasher |
| One-hand | Polished Lightwood Channeler |
| Ranged | Ancestral Amani Recurve |
Nothing matches that.
This boss drops a trinket. Trinket value varies enormously by spec — see the simulated trinket rankings.
Worth a bonus roll?
You cannot roll this boss on its own. A dungeon roll is against the whole instance, so this table is one part of a pool that includes every other boss in Altar of Fangs — the bonus roll guide explains what that changes, and the planner works it out per spec.