Ikuzz the Light Hunter
The Blinding Vale · boss 2 of 4
Ikuzz is a fearsome carnivore who once stalked prey throughout Harandar. Now the Light Hunter has succumbed to the overwhelming power of the Lightbloom, and his insatiable hunger serves its growth.
He picks someone and chases them for ten seconds. Being rooted when it happens is the death — free the target before you do anything else.
A kiting fight with a trap laid for it. Bloodthorn Roots pin players in place until they are destroyed, and Bloodthirsty Gaze fixates a player for ten seconds before biting them. The two mechanics are designed to overlap.
What actually kills you
Everything else is noise until these three are handled.
- A rooted target. Incise is heavy bleed damage followed by Crunched, a stun — and a rooted player cannot do anything about the ten-second countdown.
- Ignoring roots on everyone else. They damage while they hold, and the group needs to be mobile for the next stomp.
- Standing where Verdant Stomp lands. It knocks everyone back and then sprouts roots at the positions they were knocked to.
Your job
If you tank
- You cannot taunt the Gaze. For those ten seconds the fight belongs to whoever he picked.
- Lightcrazed Frenzy speeds him up and pulses Holy damage. Kiting gets harder from that point.
If you heal
- Thorncaller Roar is channelled damage on everybody while roots keep erupting. It is the one moment where healing and freeing people compete.
- Incise is a long bleed, not a single hit. It carries into the next mechanic.
If you DPS
- Break the fixated player out first. Everyone else's roots can wait ten seconds; theirs cannot.
- His own Crushing Footfalls destroy roots near him as he chases. Kiting him across the group can clear them for free.
How the fight goes
| Part | What to do |
|---|---|
| Step 1 | Bloodthorn Roots and Verdant Stomp pin the group in place at intervals. |
| Step 2 | At full energy, Bloodthirsty Gaze fixates a player and he pursues them for ten seconds. |
| Step 3 | Reaching them is Incise and a stun. Free them, kite him, repeat. |
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 Ikuzz the Light Hunter can drop, from the Midnight Season 2 item database.
| Slot | Item |
|---|---|
| Waist | Rootwalker Harness |
| Trinket | Seed of the Devouring Wild |
| One-hand | Thorntalon Edge |
| Back | Bloodthorn Burnous |
| Ranged | Doompetal |
| Ranged | Amirdrassil's Reach |
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 The Blinding Vale — the bonus roll guide explains what that changes, and the planner works it out per spec.