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Tempest Keep
The Mechanar (5)
Gatewatcher Gyro-Kill Gatewatcher Iron-Hand Mechano-Lord Capacitus Nethermancer Sepethrea Pathaleon the Calculator
The Botanica (5)
Commander Sarannis High Botanist Freywinn Thorngrin the Tender Laj Warp Splinter
The Arcatraz (5)
Zereketh the Unbound Wrath-Scryer Soccothrates Dalliah the Doomsayer Harbinger Skyriss
The Eye (25)
Al'ar Void Reaver High Astromancer Solarian Kael'thas Sunstrider

The Botanica is the second wing of the Tempest Keep instance located directly north of the main palace (The blue crystal building). This is also the location of Kael'thas' commander: Commander Sarannis.

It will yield reputation with the Sha'tar through Exalted. Rep Summary; Trash: 12, Mini-Boss: 90, Bosses: 120, Full Clear: ~2,000 rep, and Full Clear (heroic): ~3,000 rep. On heroic mode, you can get 5 badge of justice, as there are 5 bosses.

Tips

Try to have your group fully prepared: all should read the boss-killing strategies. Otherwise, you will find yourself taking too much time to kill bosses (for instance the second boss, which really requires your group to fully understand what to do). Why "too" much time? If you die and have to return, you might find yourself with respawns all up until the first boss (bosses will not respawn).
Near the start of the instance, there are some mobs named Bloodwarder Menders. If you mind control these Bloodwarder Menders, you can buff your casters with Holy Fury, a +295 spell damage buff that lasts for 30 mins. This is handy to get through the first part of the instance at a faster pace.
It should be noted that all of the bosses in the Botanica are optional; you can fairly easily reach Warp Splinter without killing a single one of them. You will, however, still have to clear a majority of the trash, so this won't save an enormous amount of time. On the other hand, it means that if you're having difficulty with a certain boss, you can give up on them and still continue through the instance.
You might want to take some Greater Fire Protection Potion for the 3rd boss, so you'll have some protection against his hellfire and give your healer an easier time, although it can be done without too. As a tank, don't forget Fire Resistance gear if you have any.
A full run gives about 2300 Sha'tar reputation.
Botanica is rich in Outland herbs. For example: a full clear with all herbs gathered on 4/3/2007 produced 1 Terocone, 4 Netherbloom, 7 Dreaming Glory, 5 Felweed, and 4 Mote of Life as bonus drops on herb nodes.

Dungeon Denizens

Bosses

Mobs

Mob	Abilities	Crowd Control
Bloodwarder Protector	Has Crystal Strike (deals 3000 Arcane damage), Intervene, Reflective Shield (Reflects all magic (including weapon procs)), and Low HP.	Non-Heroic – Can be seduced or frozen. Heroic – Immune to Mind Control. Can be seduced or frozen.
Bloodwarder Mender	Casts Greater Heal and Mind Blast. Has a buff Holy Fury, which increases a targets spell damage by 295 for 30 minutes. Mind Control these to give spell casters in your group Holy Fury buff (shows as DIVINE fury on the pet bar). Can be spellstolen.	Non-Heroic – Can be seduced or feared. Heroic – Can be seduced or feared.
Bloodwarder Reservist	Has Arcane Strike (deals 500 Arcane damage). Non-elite, comes in groups of three accompanied by a single Bloodwarder Mender.	Non-Heroic – Can be seduced or feared. Heroic – Can be seduced or feared.
Bloodwarder Greenkeeper	Casts Greenkeeper's Fury (Nature damage and sends the target to sleep with Impending Coma for 5 secs) Very weak nature spell. Uses Nature Shock (direct damage Nature spell, instant cast.) Accompanies Bloodwarder Menders. It's a weak mob.	Non-Heroic – Can be seduced. Heroic – Can be seduced or Mind Controlled.
Tempest-Forge Peacekeeper	Patrolling Arcane mechanical mob in the early areas of the instance. Deals physical arcane damage. Easy if taken alone. Casts Arcane Volley and Arcane Explosion (1.5 sec cast)	Non-Heroic – Heroic –
Bloodwarder Falconer	Casts Call of the Falcon (commands all Bloodfalcon adds to attack a random target.) Cloth-wearers will probably die if none of the Bloodfalcons are crowd controlled.	Non-Heroic – Can be seduced. Heroic – Immune to Mind Control. Can be seduced.
Bloodwarder Steward	Casts Arcane Flurry (Arcane Missiles whirlwind that hits random targets for 1000+ Arcane Damage) Must die fast or be interrupted.	Non-Heroic – Can be mind controlled. Immune to fear and death coil. Can be seduced. Heroic – Immune to Mind Control. Can be seduced.
Sunseeker Botanist	casts Regrowth on themselves and casts Rejuvenate Plant on their Frayer allies.	Non-Heroic – Can be seduced. Heroic – Can be seduced and Mind Controlled.
Sunseeker Chemist	Casts Vial of Poison (AoE poison cloud dealing 450 damage per second to all players inside.) Move out of it or you'll likely die. Casts Flame Breath Poison (fire AoE cone.)	Non-Heroic – Can be seduced. Heroic – Can be seduced, Mind Controlled or frozen.
Sunseeker Researcher	Poison Shield - similar to shaman shields, deals Virulent Poison (DoT) (328 damage poison every 3 secs for 24 secs), 3 charges. Can be spellstolen. Also uses Mind Shock, Frost Shock, and Flame Shock.	Non-Heroic – Can be seduced or frozen. Heroic – Can be seduced, Mind Controlled or frozen.
Sunseeker Geomancer	Casts Arcane Explosion. Appears with some non elite Frayers that grow to enormous size (and consequently do enormous damage) if not banished or killed quickly.	Non-Heroic – Immune to crowd control (including snares, slows and Mind Control) Heroic – Same as non-heroic.
Nethervine Reaper	Melees fairly hard, tank and spank. Cleaves for 1800 base damage. Casts Pale Death (Curse: Stamina reduced by 35%)	Non-Heroic – Can be enslaved, banished, or frozen. Heroic – Can be banished or frozen. Immune to enslave.
Nethervine Inciter	Rogue-type satyr, hits fast. Randomly throws a Mind-Numbing Poison reducing casting speed by 50% with a duration of 15 seconds. Also uses Deadly Poison	Non-Heroic – Can be enslaved or banished. Heroic – Can be banished. Immune to enslave.
Nethervine Trickster	Stealthed Satyrs that patrol in packs of 2 to the left of Thorngrin the Tender - in the passageway towards Laj; don't go alone especially as a clothie. Casts Stealth and Backstab.	Non-Heroic – Heroic –
Sunseeker Herbalist	Fairly robust melee mob with decent damage. Entangling Roots on tank (very deadly if this mob roots you on a Gene-splicers "Death & Decay").	Non-Heroic – Can be seduced or frozen. Heroic – Can be seduced or frozen.
Sunseeker Harvester	Casts Polymorph (turns target into a walking plant). Entangling Roots on tank. Summons Mutate Fleshlasher adds.	Non-Heroic – Can be seduced or frozen. Heroic – Can be seduced or frozen.
Sunseeker Channeler	Will debuff nearby Nethervine Satyrs with Sunseeker Blessing (physical damage increased by 125% and attack speed increased by 50%) (it is shown as a debuff so cannot be purged/dispelled). They may also be buffed themselves and glow a luminous red, wait for it to stop before attacking. Casts Soul Channel The spell is random targeted. Interrupting the mob, stunning it and dispelling the debuff all works. If you are fighting a pull of two at once, they can (and will) occasionally both do this on the same person, dealing ~1500 shadow damage per tick in normal mode. These mobs also seemed to occasionally do a "Sunseeker Aura" PBAOE that dealt ~1200 per tick (on normal). This was with patch 2.2.0; it is unclear if it is a new ability or was just not documented here before. This makes these mobs VERY dangerous, especially if you are fighting more than one at a time (since if they both do it at once, your tank and any melee DPS are likely to be killed in seconds).	Non-Heroic – Can be seduced. Heroic – Can be seduced.
Sunseeker Gene-Splicer	Casts Death and Decay. Must get out of the spells radius. Summons Mutate Fleshlasher adds. Must die first.	Non-Heroic – Can be mind-controlled to use their AoE against the rest of the mobs in the group. If you mindcontrol those, try to keep Sunseeker Harvester from polymorphing your priest, as that will break the mind control.. Heroic – Can be mind-controlled.
Mutate Fleshlasher	Non-elite mob with low health and moderately high melee damage.	Non-Heroic – Immune to hibernate. Can be frozen. Heroic – Same as non-heroic.
Mutate Fear-Shrieker	Melee mob with a random targeted (but not on highest aggro) Fear. If anyone but the tank has aggro there is a chance they will cast it on the tank leading to aggro drop on the other mobs. Comes with several Mutate Horrors,	Non-Heroic – Immune to Polymorph, Hibernate, and Scare Beast. Can be stunned and frozen Heroic – Same as non-heroic.
Mutate Horror	Melee mob that deals nominal elite damage. Has a disease that lowers armor by 50%.	Non-Heroic – Immune to Polymorph, Hibernate, and Scare Beast. Can be stunned and frozen. Heroic – Same as non-heroic.
Frayer Wildling	Mini-mobs that appear in two large packs, should be AoE'd, but assist train is fine. Misdirection/Trap pull from a hunter naturally can help.	Non-Heroic – Can be frozen. Heroic – Can be frozen.

Loot

See Botanica loot.

Quests

[70D] Capturing the Keystone
[70D] How to Break Into the Arcatraz
[70D] Master of Potions (Alchemy specialization quest)

Videos

All Heroic Botanica Bosses All Heroic Boss Fights

External links

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