Archavon the Stone Watcher

Archavon the Stone Watcher
Gender	Male
Race	Stone giant (Giant)
Level	?? Boss
Reaction	Alliance Horde
Location	Vault of Archavon
Status	Killable
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Archavon the Stone Watcher is a raid boss in the Vault of Archavon, accessible only while a player's faction controls Wintergrasp.

Strategy

Archavon the Stone Watcher is a quick raid encounter (like Onyxia or Magtheridon). This encounter requires two tanks.

This encounter with Archavon is a DPS race with only a few mechanics to watch out for:

• Every so often he will start shooting rock spikes at a random raid member. This person cannot avoid the damage (around 7k). However, they can damage other people around that person. Just make sure you aren't unnecessarily damaging others or getting damaged by moving away.
• He will also randomly jump/charge towards a random raid member and leave a white cloud on the floor which will do ~2k nature damage per tick if you are standing in it. After he spawns the cloud he will stand still for a couple seconds then run back towards the main tank.
• Both tanks should be taunting every time their taunt cooldown comes up. There is no need to time the taunt with regards to a tank being picked up, as both tanks will have high aggro and there is no danger of losing the aggro lead as with the timed taunt strategy previously suggested on wowwiki. This also allows classes that are aggro mongers, such as rogues, fire mages and destruction warlocks to dps without fear, as they're often the classes killed by Archavon using the old strategy.

It is common for players who have just recently won the Wintergrasp game to go straight down into Archavon's vault for an attempt. Do your research on whomever you PUG and make sure they have a high sustained DPS.

Archavon is on a hard enrage timer (5 minutes) that will boost his damage 8-fold and immediately wipe out the raid if he is not killed quickly enough. It may seem harsh, but for the 25-man in particular, be sure to use the WoW Armory to check the stats of any damage dealers you recruit. Many raids concentrate on finding tanks with very high health and healers with 20k mana, but for this fight, the damage is far more important. As a rule of thumb, make sure all the raid members have 15k health (buffed) and all caster DPS has at least 16k mana. These are good indicators of a players gear, and the better the gear the better the damage per second.

• On normal difficulty, with Archavon's health at 2,300,900 HP, the raid as a whole needs to output more than 7,670 DPS. As a good rule-of-thumb, with two tanks and two healers, the tanks should never go below 550 DPS and the remaining six members should stay above 1,100 DPS.
• Effective tanking requires a swap in aggro following the Stomp ability where he picks up the primary target for several seconds and then throws them across the room. This can be handled in a number of ways, though taunts are required as being picked up removes all aggro from that target. An alternative to the two tank method is to have a highly survivable dps grab the boss with a taunt and live through the several seconds until the tank taunts the boss back. A lesser strain on the healers can be achieved with taunting before the stomp is cast and thus being picked up instead of the tank, though the 0.6 second cast time on the ability makes this very challenging.
• On heroic difficulty, with Archavon's health at 9,970,700 HP, the raid as a whole needs to output more than 33,236 DPS. As a good rule-of-thumb, with two tanks and five healers, the tanks should stay above 850 DPS and the remaining eighteen members should stay above 1700 DPS.

Loot

On Normal (10-man), he drops two items, which can be a hand, leg or chest Tier 7 (10) set piece for any class (the item itself, not the token) or Hateful Gladiator's Season 5 assortments.

As with Normal (10-man) loot, Heroic (25-man) loot consists of a random selection of four Tier 7 (25) or Deadly Gladiator's Season 5 items; hand, leg, or chest. Additionally, he has a chance to drop [Reins of the Grand Black War Mammoth] or [Reins of the Grand Black War Mammoth].

Videos

10-man encounter

Archavon the Stone Watcher - Paladin Tanking Perspective

25-man encounter

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Achievements

•  Archavon the Stone Watcher
•  Heroic: Archavon the Stone Watcher

See also

• Archavon's Log

External links

[1] 

• Wowhead
• WoWDB

World of Strats 10/25 man strategy guide

License To Kill VoA boss fight strategy video