Laj

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Laj

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The fourth boss of The Botanica wing of the Tempest Keep instance in Netherstorm, it is kind of a Lasher. Map Location

Laj's room

Upon entering the room you will see a fight going on in the center. Feel free to watch, it is not advised that you get involved if at all possible.

They can be passed to proceed onto the final boss, but it may require a mind soothe or a sap on the NPC closest to the door. If you hug the wall you can go to the final boss with out any needs of these.

Fight

Ideal Group 2 ranged DPS, 1 melee DPS, 1 healer, 1 tank.

Laj periodically spawns two Thorn Lashers and teleports to his original position on top of the platform, thus he should be tanked where he spawns. Assign one ranged DPS to kill each spawn and continue business as usual on Laj. The spawns can be several different types some doing a mind flay, thrown damage, etc. All their attacks deal relatively large amounts of damage. They are vulnerable to both banish and fear. The spawns are also vulnerable to rogue stuns/incapacitates (Gouge/Cheap Shot/Kidney Shot).

Laj puts a disease on the tank, that should be cleansed since it increase the damage the tank takes. Laj will also randomly change color, when he does this he will be resistant to certain types of magic ( just like the mobs on both sides of the Botanist), Blue (Frost resistant), Red(Fire resistant), Green( Nature resistant), Black (Shadow). there is also arcane but at this time it's not known if he gets resistant to that as he went down in 3 color changes or less, and although it didn't seem to make much of a difference for our group at the time, it may save you some time and mana, and increase the damage he takes.

Bugged Room fight

The Laj room was also bugged for us, but we've found a really easy way to kill it while not aggroing bugged mobs. Aggro Laj and run back to the previous room. DPS Laj right after it crosses the doorway. After a while it will teleport back to his original position and will come back to the "fight room". As a warlock I placed [Curse of Doom] on him and since the fight took more than three minutes because of teleporting and running back, it had a chance to hit him 3 times. So dots help a lot in this fight. We had non-elite lashers coming to the room from time to time. Just DPS those down. The major downside of this strategy is after Laj is dead, his spawns are still standing in their original spawn position and you remain in combat. This means you have to run in and DPS them fast (since there might be several lashers on one spawn point) or wait until they despawn (despawn not confirmed—we killed them after Laj).

Note: Adds do despawn after about 5 minutes. We tried going in to kill them, and discovered that 75% were the thorn volley type. It was like WW1 trench advances .. Simply wait back in the "Fight room" , and let them keel over.

Loot

Normal and Heroic drops

Boots of the Shifting Sands Item Level 115Disenchants into:  [Large Prismatic Shard]: 1 (99.5%)  [Void Crystal]: 1 (0.5%) Binds when picked up Leather Feet 354 Armor +20 Agility +30 Stamina +19 Critical Strike   Prismatic Socket Prismatic Socket Socket Bonus: +3 Hit   Durability 65 / 65 Requires Level 70 Sell Price: 3 37 96 Devil-Stitched Leggings Item Level 115Disenchants into:  [Large Prismatic Shard]: 1 (99.5%)  [Void Crystal]: 1 (0.5%) Binds when picked up Cloth Legs 323 Armor +25 Intellect +56 Stamina   Prismatic Socket Prismatic Socket Prismatic Socket Socket Bonus: +5 Spell Power   Durability 100 / 100 Requires Level 70 Sell Price: 3 59 18 Spaulders of the Righteous Item Level 115Disenchants into:  [Large Prismatic Shard]: 1 (99.5%)  [Void Crystal]: 1 (0.5%) Binds when picked up Plate Shoulder 846 Armor +13 Intellect +41 Stamina +20 Dodge   Prismatic Socket Prismatic Socket Socket Bonus: +3 Dodge   Righteous Armor (1/5 pieces)  [Breastplate of the Righteous]  [Gauntlets of the Righteous]  [Helm of the Righteous]  [Legplates of the Righteous]  [Spaulders of the Righteous] (2) Set: Your Consecration ability costs 15% less mana. (4) Set: Reduces the cooldown on your Righteous Defense ability by 2 sec.   Durability 80 / 80 Requires Level 70 Sell Price: 4 68 60 Mantle of Autumn Item Level 115Disenchants into:  [Large Prismatic Shard]: 1 (99.5%)  [Void Crystal]: 1 (0.5%) Binds when picked up Leather Shoulder 20 Armor +17 Agility or Intellect +25 Stamina +14 Versatility Durability 85 / 85 Requires Level 70 Sell Price: 4 12 41 Mithril-Bark Cloak Item Level 115Disenchants into:  [Large Prismatic Shard]: 1 (99.5%)  [Void Crystal]: 1 (0.5%) Binds when picked up Back 185 Armor +32 Stamina +26 PvP Resilience Requires Level 70 Sell Price: 2 52 71

Heroic-only drops

Badge of Justice Binds when picked up Requires Level 70 Brutal Tanzanite Binds when picked up +10 Attack Power and +6 Stamina "Matches any socket." Sell Price: 3 Imperial Tanzanite Binds when picked up +5 Spell Power and +5 Spirit "Matches any socket." Sell Price: 3 Mysterious Tanzanite Binds when picked up +5 Intellect and +5 PvP Power "Matches any socket." Sell Price: 3

External links

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