So there is a new boss in town for a bit. You can find him in the Slave Pens normal and heroic. If you are familiar with the Headless Horseman boss in SM he is similar in the sense that you summon him once inside the instance.

Phase 1
During this phase Ahune will summon multiple adds, among which one will be an elite frost elemental. This add has an aura that affects all people in melee range; it does 300 frost damage every 3 seconds and stacks up to 10 times the longer one is in melee range for a total of 3000 damage every 3 seconds. Tank him away from the party and have ranged dps burn him down fast while melee starts on the small adds. These adds have very little HP but hit quite hard on cloth (~1200) and they tend to attack whoever is on top of the global threat which will most likely be a healer. The small adds also pull random party members to themselves from time to time. The targets of this ability seems to be random.

Ahune himself only takes 25% damage during this phase so dpsing him is more or less pointless even though those few percent can make the change between sinking and swimming. He will periodically shoot frost bolts on players which do a small amount of damage (~800) to everyone. Every now and then he will do an impale like attack on random people. The attack is avoidable and has a fairly obvious animation at the place where the spike will surface so ideally no one should be hit by this. Around 90 seconds after the start of phase 1 he will enter the second phase.

Phase 2
Once phase 1 ends, Ahune will submerge and his core will become vulnerable. No adds will spawn during this phase. One dps should take care of the remaining adds (The elite elemental should be dead by the start of this phase). He will remain submerged for 30 seconds and everyone including the tank should dps the core. After 30 seconds he will re-emerge and restart the cycle but the second time he emerges one more type of adds will start spawning (Heroic Mode only). A well geared party can survive 4 cycles but Ahune should be killed the third time he submerges because the next time he emerges the party is most likely to be overwhelmed.

Notes About Roles

* Tank: This is a simple fight for you. Just stay away from the things that pop you up in the air.
* DPS: You should be well geared. Limit your mana expenditures once the elite is down. Make sure you can DPS hard during Phase 2.
* Healers: Aggro management is key here. Priests are particularly well suited for this fight with their combination of Fear and Fade spells. Keep the tank topped off during Phase 1, but ultimately the DPSers are what wins this fight. They need to live.

* Once you have Ahune down to 15% or less during Phase 2, he should be burned to completion, ignoring the elementals during Phase 1.

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