Avatar of Sethraliss
Temple of Sethraliss · boss 4 of 4
The Heart of Sethraliss is in the grips of a terrible power that seeks to corrupt her. Her avatar must be restored before this evil takes root and she is reborn as a dark loa capable of destroying the whole of Vol'dun.
You win by healing her to full, not by killing her. Kill the Defilers to unblock the healing, carry the lifeforce over, and get the Tormentors low so she can finish them.
An escort fight in reverse. The Avatar's health bar is the objective, and everything Jakra'zet sends is a different way of keeping it down — a channel that blocks external healing, corrupted lifeforce that has to be cleansed before she can use it, and later a fixate on the one person keeping everybody else alive.
What actually kills you
Everything else is noise until these three are handled.
- Leaving an Essence Defiler up. Defiling Taint prevents all external healing on the Avatar, so nothing else you are doing counts while one is channelling.
- Mishandling Corrupted Lifeforce. Touching it puts stacking Corruption on you — damage, reduced healing done, and increased Physical damage taken — and any application left when it expires fires a Corruption Burst at the whole group.
- Removing Latent Hex carelessly. When it comes off it damages everyone nearby and leaves Hex Muck, which turns anyone standing in it into a frog.
Your job
If you tank
- Corrupted Guardians hit hard in both schools, and Tainted Strike leaves a stacking Shadow burn on top of the physical hit.
- Vile Charge picks a player rather than you. Be close enough to peel.
If you heal
- Two mechanics exist specifically to stop you: Defiling Taint blocks healing on the Avatar, and in stage two the Faithless Tormentors fixate on you personally.
- Corruption reduces healing done as well as dealing damage, so a stacked-up group heals worse at exactly the moment it needs more.
If you DPS
- Defilers first, always. Everything else is optional while healing is blocked.
- Cleanse the lifeforce before the Avatar can consume it, and get it to her — each one she eats heals a chunk and then keeps regenerating.
- In stage two, damage the Tormentors down rather than finishing them. Below the threshold the Avatar siphons them herself, which kills them and heals her.
How the fight goes
| Part | What to do |
|---|---|
| Step 1 | Stage one: Essence Defilers block healing, Corrupted Guardians drop lifeforce, Twisted Hexxers make the floor unusable. |
| Step 2 | Clear the Defilers and get cleansed lifeforce into the Avatar to start her recovering. |
| Step 3 | Stage two: Faithless Tormentors fixate the healer. Push them low and let Siphon the Weak finish them. |
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 Avatar of Sethraliss can drop, from the Midnight Season 2 item database.
| Slot | Item |
|---|---|
| Head | Sethraliss' Fanged Helm |
| Head | Hood of the Slithering Loa |
| Shoulder | C'thraxxi Binders Pauldrons |
| Shoulder | Brood Cleanser's Amice |
| Chest | Desert Guardian's Breastplate |
| Chest | Corrupted Hexxer's Vestments |
| Hands | Grips of Electrified Defense |
| Trinket | Sethraliss' Defiled Relic |
| One-hand | Resonating Crystal Scimitar |
| Chest | Robes of the Reborn Serpent |
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 Temple of Sethraliss — the bonus roll guide explains what that changes, and the planner works it out per spec.