Sentinel of Winter
Den of Nalorakk · boss 2 of 3
The seasons can be kind or cruel. Sentinel of Winter unleashes the harshest of winter storms to test all who face him. To surpass Nalorakk's second trial, endure the biting cold and defeat the embodiment of a winter storm.
The storm shoves you out of the only place that is safe. Walk back in, and kill the Shivercores before their stacks make everything else lethal.
An attrition fight with a debuff clock on it. Winter's Shroud increases the Frost damage everyone takes and stacks for as long as a Fractured Shivercore is alive, so every second one lives makes the rest of the fight more expensive.
What actually kills you
Everything else is noise until these three are handled.
- Drifting out of the eye. Frozen Tempest ticks on everybody and pushes them outward; anyone outside the eye takes a second helping of it on top.
- Slow Shivercore kills. Winter's Shroud stacks a Frost damage increase, which the storm then collects on.
- Ignoring Rimeshatter on Mythic. The shards need to be stood in — if none of them hit anybody, the fragments cause a Rime Detonation that hits everyone and roots them.
Your job
If you tank
- Reposition against the pushback rather than fighting it in place. The eye is the only ground worth holding.
- Raging Squalls wander on their own path. They are moderate damage, but being pushed into one while already outside the eye is how a tank dies here.
If you heal
- Glacial Torment is a large hit and it is Magic. Dispelling it is worth more than healing it.
- Damage taken climbs with Winter's Shroud. Budget cooldowns for late in a Shivercore rather than at the start of one.
If you DPS
- Shivercores over the boss, every time. They are the reason the fight gets harder.
- On Mythic, take a shard. Rimeshatter is soaked, not dodged — an unsoaked one roots the group.
- Snowdrifts are left where a Shivercore dies. Kill them somewhere you are not going to need to stand.
How the fight goes
| Part | What to do |
|---|---|
| Step 1 | Frozen Tempest runs throughout: constant Frost damage and constant pushback toward the edge. |
| Step 2 | Shattering Frostspike drops two icicles, which splinter and reveal a Fractured Shivercore. |
| Step 3 | The Shivercore stacks Winter's Shroud until it dies. On Mythic it shatters into shards that have to be caught. |
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 Sentinel of Winter can drop, from the Midnight Season 2 item database.
| Slot | Item |
|---|---|
| Chest | Sentinel Challenger's Prize |
| Waist | Tribal Defender's Cord |
| Feet | Arctic Explorer's Legwraps |
| Wrist | Winter's Embrace Bracers |
| Hands | Season's Turn Gauntlets |
| Trinket | Permafrost Essence |
| Shield | Tempest's Shelter |
| Two-hand | Victor's Flashfrozen Blade |
| Held in off-hand | Perennial Frostbound Charm |
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 Den of Nalorakk — the bonus roll guide explains what that changes, and the planner works it out per spec.