M'uru (tactics)

This article is about how to defeat M'uru in World of Warcraft. For character biography, please see M'uru.

M'uru
Race	Naaru (Uncategorized)
Level	?? Elite
Health	1,912,000
Location	Shrine of the Eclipse, Sunwell Plateau
See
Sunwell Plateau
Kalecgos Brutallus Felmyst Eredar Twins M'uru Kil'jaeden (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) Loot Other Isle of Quel'Danas instances

As of Patch 2.4, M'uru is missing from his location beneath the Blood Knight headquarters in Silvermoon's Farstriders' Square, having been captured by Kael'thas and brought to the Sunwell Plateau. Magister Astalor Bloodsworn curses Kael'thas and his felbloods for their treachery, commenting that Lady Liadrin is looking for another source to power the Blood Knights' magic.

M'uru is located behind Rohendor, the Second Gate and ahead of Archonisus, the Final Gate, placing it as the fifth boss encounter of the instance. M'uru was made accessible at the same time across all servers five weeks (29 April, 2008) after the opening of Rohendor, the Second Gate. The removed quest Rohendor, the Second Gate warns that M'uru is now a "twisted reflection of its former self".

With his advanced tactics and heavy pressure on healer and DPS roles, M'uru was considered the toughest boss in Sunwell Plateau and therefore one of the toughest bosses in The Burning Crusade expansion.

Abilities

M'uru

• Negative Energy: A black beam used on 4-5 random targets every second throughout the fight. This does ~940-1060 unresistible Shadow damage.

• Summons 2 Shadowsword Berserker: Run very fast, can be crowd controlled. Dual Wielders, hit for 3.5k with Main Hand, 1.5 with Off Hand. Has buff called Flurry in which attack speed increased is by 100%, movement speed increased is by 100% for 6 sec. 124k HP.

• Summons 1 Shadowsword Fury Mage: Run very fast, can be crowd controlled. Fel Fireball (2 sec cast) deals 4250 to 5750 fire damage (resistible.) Also melees for 3-4k damage. Has a buff called Spell Fury which can be spell stolen. Spell Fury causes spells cast to be instant, increase magic damage by 50% and make them unable to move. 104k HP.

These spawn 1 Mage and 2 Berserkers at both sides every 60 seconds. That is 6 Humanoid adds every minute. The Humanoid adds spawn from the corridor behind M'uru, and the ramp/doorway from which you enter, running towards the center.

• Summon Void Sentinel: Summons a large Voidwalker that hits very hard, roughly 8-10k melee on tanks (~25k unmitigated). 70k HP.
  • Shadow Pulse: AoE ability which deals about 4k shadow damage about every 3 sec.
  • Void Blast: Single target attack which deals 10-11k dmg and puts a debuff slowing your attack by 35% (is spell reflectable and can be resisted).
  • 8 Void Spawns appear upon a Void Sentinels death, doing 700-900 melee damage each. 30k HP. Can be enslaved by warlocks, can be worthwhile enslaving a few at the end of phase one to use against Entropius or even during phase 1.
    • Shadow Bolt Volley: 1200-1600 shadow damage to targets around them (resistible.)

Void Spawns and Void Sentinel can be snared, Void Spawns can be feared.

• Darkness: Every 45 sec, creates a large Void Zone, covering the larger circle (i.e. from up to the outside edge of the wide purple band in the center) in the middle of the room, and does ~3,000 shadow damage per second to anyone standing in it and they cannot be healed. This also spawns 8 Dark Fiends which explode for 5,000 raid-wide damage and leaves a 2000 damage dot on raid when one reaches a target (resistible). These can be killed by Dispels or Purges.

• Enrage: M'uru and Entropius share a 10 minute enrage timer. At this point all damage increases by 5x and the raid instantly wipes due to 2500 - 10,000 damage Negative Energy attacks.

Entropius

• Negative Energy: Becomes a Chain Lightning type attack with random targets every second throughout the fight. This does ~1885 to 2115 Shadow damage to the 1st target, ~50% of that to 2nd target and ~25% to 3rd target. The number of primary targets increases every 12–13 seconds. Unresistible.

• Darkness: Spawns a Void Zone under a player dealing 3000 Shadow damage every second. Will spawn 1 Dark Fiend after a few seconds which must be Dispelled or Purge.

• Singularity: Spawns over a player. After a few seconds will move around and toss any nearby players around dealing 500 damage a tick.

Raid Composition

M'uru is a very DPS intensive fight, and as such it requires stretching your healing and tanking as much as possible. This includes having about 4 tanks, 6 healers and 15 DPS. It is highly recommended, if not absolutely necessary, to include a Protection Paladin as one of your tanks to pick up the Void Spawns that spawn.

You must divide your DPS up into a few sub-groups, that are able to each put out substantial amounts of DPS. Generally you will have 2 groups assigned to killing Humanoid adds, as well as a Warlock group assigned to kill Void Sentinels and Void Spawns.

Strategy

M'uru transforms into Entropius

Pulling M'uru

When you are ready to pull M'uru, DPS will mount up in the door way and be ready to run in to their positions and burn M'uru as hard as possible before switching to your respective jobs. Humanoid tanks should be ready to pick up their adds on each side from the start, using only one or two attacks to throw up a Sunder Armor or Faerie Fire on the boss.

Can also use an Eye of Kilrog to engage and quickly reset him, allowing 30 seconds for the raid to setup and position themselves.

Phase 1

While your raid group runs in and attacks M'uru, you will be in Phase 1. This phase is a combination of a control fight and a DPS race. Each Humanoid group, which will be comprised of one tank, one healer, and three to four DPS, will be in charge of controlling each add entrance (the doorway and the opposite side of the room, where the ramp down to Kil'jaeden is blocked off.) A Mage is also highly recommended on each side, to Polymorph a Berserker or Mage. You will also have a group of AoE, generally Warlocks, to control the Void Sentinels and Spawns. This AoE group is recommended to be comprised of a Protection Warrior or Feral Druid, a Protection Paladin, 3-4 Warlocks and 2 healers (one for each tank). You should also have two raid healers assigned to keep the rest of the raid up.

Humanoid adds

Each Humanoid Wave consists of two Berserkers and one Mage. When the Humanoid wave enters the room, the tank should pick up all 3 of them while a mage sheeps a Berserker and the tank drags the other two adds slightly away from the sheep so multitarget attacks such as Blade Flurry, Cleave, Sweeping Strikes or Multi-Shot can occur.

Void Sentinels and Void Spawns

The warrior will need to be fast in picking up the Void Sentinels, and the warlocks need to be quick in DPSing the Void Sentinels to allow this mobility. Warlocks will have to manage a rotation on the Sentinels and Spawns to ensure that DPS is still active on M'uru, you need to allow the Protection Paladin to gather up two or three sets of spawns before AoEing them down. Warlocks should DPS the Void Sentinels, kill them, allow the Protection Paladin to pick up the adds and while this is occurring DPS M'uru until another Sentinel is ready to be DPSed.

Darkness

You should assign a Shadow Priest to DPS M'uru full time and Mass Dispel the Dark Fiends when Darkness comes up inside of it, thereby killing them. Be ready to target ones that resist with a single Dispel or call it out so someone else can Dispel/Purge.

Phase 2

After M'uru has been slain, he transforms into Entropius, a demon-type void god. Most of the adds that were alive during the transition should be dead or almost dead as there is 10 seconds before Entropius engages the raid. Entropius has 1,450,000 health and at this point the fight turns into an all-out DPS race before the raid damage from Negative Energy ramps up substantially and overwhelms your healers. This fight also tests the reflexes of all players in the raid and their ability to move on a seconds notice.

At level 80-85

Ideal Raid Composition: 4 healers, 2 tanks, 19 dps

Strategy

At level 80, like Brutullas before him, M'uru is a trivial encounter due to the fact it was designed to be a gear check and dps race. However, please remember to:

1) At least 2 tanks should still be assigned to pick up any adds that are summoned and/or spawned around the encounter area (especially Void Sentinels).

2) Stay out of void zones.

3) Spellsteal / purge / (mass) dispell Dark Fiends.

At 85 the phases should go on much quicker, as long as there is people dispelling the Dark Fiends and staying out of the void zone it should be no problem, burning down Entropius should be of no concern.

Loot

M'uru drops 3 items plus one of the Sin'dorei rings.

M'uru loot

Blackened Naaru Sliver Item Level 154 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Unique Trinket Requires level 70 Equip: Improves haste rating by 54. Equip: Chance on hit to enter a Battle Trance, during which your melee or ranged attacks will each grant 44 attack power, stacking up to 10 times. Expires after 20 seconds. Sell Price: 7 20 39 Glimmering Naaru Sliver Item Level 154 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Unique Trinket Requires level 70 Equip: Increases spell power by 63. Use: Gain 250 mana each sec. for 8 sec. Channeled. Sell Price: 7 20 39 Shifting Naaru Sliver Item Level 154 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Unique Trinket Requires level 70 Equip: Improves haste rating by 54. Use: Conjures a Power Circle lasting for 15 sec. While standing in this circle, the caster gains 320 spell power. Sell Price: 7 20 39 Steely Naaru Sliver Item Level 154 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Unique Trinket Requires level 70 Equip: Increases your expertise rating by 54. Use: Increases maximum health by 2000 for 15 sec. Sell Price: 7 20 39 Robes of Faltered Light Item Level 154 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Cloth Chest 257 Armor +40 Spirit +40 Intellect +39 Stamina Blue Socket Blue Socket Yellow Socket Durability 100 / 100 Requires level 70 Equip: Improves haste rating by 32. Equip: Increases spell power by 71. Sell Price: 6 40 43 Harness of Carnal Instinct Item Level 159 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Leather Chest 499 Armor +75 Agility +22 Intellect +52 Strength +64 Stamina Red Socket Yellow Socket Blue Socket Durability 120 / 120 Requires level 70 Equip: Increases armor penetration rating by 28. Sell Price: 8 18 95 Sunglow Vest Item Level 159 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Leather Chest 499 Armor +41 Intellect +48 Stamina Red Socket Blue Socket Blue Socket Durability 120 / 120 Requires level 70 Equip: Improves haste rating by 33. Equip: Increases spell power by 71. Equip: Restores 13 mana per 5 sec. Sell Price: 8 21 88 Garments of Serene Shores Item Level 159 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Mail Chest 1110 Armor +41 Intellect +48 Stamina Red Socket Red Socket Red Socket Durability 140 / 140 Requires level 70 Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 25. Equip: Increases spell power by 71. Equip: Restores 16 mana per 5 sec. Sell Price: 9 75 72 Heroic Judicator's Chestguard Item Level 159 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Plate Chest 1983 Armor +61 Strength +78 Stamina Blue Socket Yellow Socket Yellow Socket Durability 165 / 165 Requires level 70 Equip: Improves dodge rating by 44. Equip: Increases defense rating by 29. Sell Price: 10 56 13 Warharness of Reckless Fury Item Level 159 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Plate Chest 1983 Armor +61 Strength +67 Stamina Red Socket Yellow Socket Yellow Socket Socket Bonus: +4 Strength Durability 165 / 165 Requires level 70 Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 41. Equip: Improves haste rating by 32. Sell Price: 10 52 3 Fel Conquerer Raiments Item Level 159 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Cloth Chest 266 Armor +41 Intellect +60 Stamina Red Socket Yellow Socket Yellow Socket Durability 100 / 100 Requires level 70 Equip: Improves haste rating by 33. Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 24. Equip: Increases spell power by 71. Sell Price: 6 57 44 Vicious Hawkstrider Hauberk Item Level 159 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Mail Chest 1110 Armor +47 Agility +30 Intellect +64 Stamina Red Socket Yellow Socket Blue Socket Durability 140 / 140 Requires level 70 Equip: Increases attack power by 104. Equip: Increases armor penetration rating by 26. Sell Price: 9 72 22 Shadowed Gauntlets of Paroxysm Item Level 159 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Leather Hands 312 Armor +41 Agility +33 Stamina Red Socket Blue Socket Socket Bonus: +3 Agility Durability 40 / 40 Requires level 70 Equip: Improves haste rating by 30. Equip: Increases attack power by 82. Sell Price: 4 13 78 Gauntlets of the Soothed Soul Item Level 159 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Plate Hands 1239 Armor +33 Intellect +27 Stamina Yellow Socket Red Socket Durability 55 / 55 Requires level 70 Equip: Improves haste rating by 30. Equip: Increases spell power by 53. Equip: Restores 9 mana per 5 sec. Sell Price: 5 53 95 Aegis of Angelic Fortune Item Level 154 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Shield Off Hand 6459 Armor 178 Block +33 Stamina +21 Intellect Durability 120 / 120 Requires level 70 Equip: Increases spell power by 39. Equip: Restores 13 mana per 5 sec. Sell Price: 10 17 43 Muramasa Item Level 154 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Sword One-Hand Speed 2.60 196 - 365 Damage (107.9 damage per second) +27 Stamina Durability 105 / 105 Requires level 70 Equip: Improves haste rating by 35. Equip: Improves hit rating by 17. Sell Price: 16 6 93 Ring of Hardened Resolve Item Level 154 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Unique Finger 308 Armor +48 Stamina Requires level 70 Equip: Increases defense rating by 32. Equip: Increases your expertise rating by 22. Equip: Increases the block value of your shield by 42. Sell Price: 6 2 56 Ring of Omnipotence Item Level 154 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Unique-Equipped Finger +14 Intellect +21 Stamina Requires level 70 Equip: Improves haste rating by 31. Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 22. Equip: Increases spell power by 40. Sell Price: 6 2 56

Sin'dorei PvP rings

Sin'dorei Band of Dominance Item Level 141 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Unique Finger +15 Intellect +22 Stamina Requires level 70 Equip: Improves resilience rating by 15. Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 28. Equip: Increases spell power by 34. Sell Price: 6 2 56 Sin'dorei Band of Salvation Item Level 141 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Unique Finger +19 Intellect +30 Stamina Requires level 70 Equip: Improves resilience rating by 19. Equip: Increases spell power by 34. Equip: Restores 7 mana per 5 sec. Sell Price: 6 2 56 Sin'dorei Band of Triumph Item Level 141 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Unique Finger +30 Stamina Requires level 70 Equip: Improves resilience rating by 19. Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 28. Equip: Increases attack power by 58. Sell Price: 6 2 56

M'uru loot Sunmote turn-in

Robes of Ghostly Hatred Item Level 159 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Cloth Chest 266 Armor +32 Spirit +40 Intellect +39 Stamina Red Socket Red Socket Yellow Socket Durability 100 / 100 Requires level 70 Equip: Improves haste rating by 27. Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 26. Equip: Increases spell power by 71. Bladed Chaos Tunic Item Level 159 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Leather Chest 499 Armor +42 Agility +45 Stamina Blue Socket Yellow Socket Red Socket Socket Bonus: +8 Attack Power Durability 120 / 120 Requires level 70 Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 38. Equip: Increases attack power by 120. Equip: Increases armor penetration rating by 30. Utopian Tunic of Elune Item Level 159 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Leather Chest 499 Armor +32 Spirit +41 Intellect +48 Stamina Red Socket Blue Socket Blue Socket Durability 120 / 120 Requires level 70 Equip: Improves haste rating by 33. Equip: Increases spell power by 71. Garments of Crashing Shores Item Level 159 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Mail Chest 1110 Armor +41 Intellect +48 Stamina Red Socket Yellow Socket Yellow Socket Durability 140 / 140 Requires level 70 Equip: Improves haste rating by 40. Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 25. Equip: Increases spell power by 71. Noble Judicator's Chestguard Item Level 159 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Plate Chest 1983 Armor +52 Intellect +52 Stamina Red Socket Red Socket Blue Socket Durability 165 / 165 Requires level 70 Equip: Improves haste rating by 34. Equip: Increases spell power by 61. Equip: Restores 10 mana per 5 sec. Breastplate of Agony's Aversion Item Level 159 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Plate Chest 1983 Armor +78 Stamina Blue Socket Blue Socket Red Socket Socket Bonus: +6 Stamina Durability 165 / 165 Requires level 70 Equip: Increases defense rating by 36. Equip: Increases your dodge rating by 52. Equip: Improves haste rating by 40. Gloves of the Forest Drifter Item Level 159 Disenchants into: [Void Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Leather Hands 312 Armor +34 Agility +20 Intellect +42 Strength +45 Stamina Red Socket Blue Socket Durability 40 / 40 Requires level 70 Equip: Increases armor penetration rating by 20.

Notes

• Before being nerfed in Patch 2.4.3 he was considered the hardest boss ever released. He remains the boss least amount of guilds downed before being nerfed.^{[citation needed]}

Patch changes

• Patch 2.4.3 (2008-07-15): M'uru, Entropius, Shadowsword Berserkers and Shadowsword Fury Mages have all had their health decreased.
  
• Patch 2.4.2 (2008-05-13): Changed Negative Energy spells cast by M'uru and Entropius to no longer cause spell interruption on the target.
  
• Patch 2.4.0 (25-Mar-2008): Added.
  

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