Sjonnir The Ironshaper

Sjonnir the Ironshaper
Race	Iron vrykul (Humanoid)
Level	79 Elite (Normal mode) 82 Elite (Heroic mode)
Reaction	Alliance Horde
Location	The Forge of Wills
Status	Killable
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Sjonnir The Ironshaper is an Iron vrykul boss located in the non-linear instance, Halls of Stone.

Attacks and abilities

• Lightning Shield: Self-buff which creates 10 balls of lightning. When Sjonnir is hit, there is a 50% chance that the attacker will take 1000 nature damage. (3000 nature damage on heroic.) Every time the shield causes damage, one ball is consumed. The shield disappears after 10 minutes or all balls are consumed. This can be stolen by a mage using Spellsteal. Also has a chance to be dispelled if using a felhunter.
• Lightning Ring: Channeled ability dealing 943 to 1057 nature damage to nearby targets and increasing the nature damage they take by 10% for 10 seconds.
• Summons Troggs and Blobbs towards the end of the fight.
• Hits for around 1000 to 2000, but normally ~1600 white damage.
• Chain Lightning: Deals 1850 to 2150 nature damage and arcs to up to 3 nearby targets, dealing greater nature damage to each successive target.
• Brann Bronzebeard enters the fight when Sjonnir is at ~10%.

Tactics

Regular

His lightning shield should be dispeled or spellstolen quickly as this saves some damage throughout the fight.

The tank will need to gather the adds that are spawned throughout the fight. Watch for the little blobs as they will congregate in the middle of the fight zone and form into larger oozes. If you have an AoE tank, the adds should not be a problem, continue focus firing on the boss. If your group finds them getting out of hand and aggroing the healer, they can be dealt with quickly by the DPS.

When he uses his AoE lightning attack, it is strongly recommend moving out of the way. Getting a full stack of the nature damage debuff means the oozes will likely kill the tank.

Heroic

It is strongly encouraged remove his Lightning Shield (priests dispel, shamans purge, warriors shield slam, or mages spellsteal), as the 1000 nature damage it does in normal is increased to 3000 in heroic.

An easy method is to have one DPS on the left press and one DPS on the right press, both killing the adds as they spawn. The tank keeps Sjonnir in the center near where he starts while the healer and the other DPS are on the walkway you come in on.

Alternate Heroic Strategy

This works well even if you have no one to deal with Lighting Shield or resist nature damage. This is probably the easiest and safest method.

• Tank boss near middle of the room, slightly closer to the entrance of the room.
• Stay out of the channeled Lighting Ring, including Tank.
• All DPS fend of non-elite adds to keep healer from taking hits. Adds WILL be a problem for most all tanks as healer gains threat for a long period of time prior to adds reaching healer.
• Tank to focus on elite adds and boss.
• When Oozing Slime mobs show up, all DPS should burn them down immediately.
• While DPS burns adds, Tank keeps boss away from group.
• Roughly when Slimes / Blobbs are dead, elite ally dwarf NPC's lvl 81 will start to spawn and no more enemy adds will come. These dwarves will help kill the boss.
• Focus fire down boss.

Basically, survive until you see the Slime / Blobb guys coming out around the center of the room. ALL DPS focus on the slimes at this point. Kill every one of them before they morph into uber slimes. At that point you'll have elite dwarves charging into the room to help you DPS boss down.

Again, simply avoid Lighting Ring (channeled attack), burn slimes as soon as you see them, and then burn boss.

Loot

Static Cowl Item Level 35Disenchants into:  [Small Glowing Shard]: 1 Binds when picked up Cloth Head 3 Armor +4 Intellect +6 Stamina +5 Critical Strike Durability 80 / 80 Requires Level 29 Sell Price: 7 31 72 Amulet of Wills Item Level 35Disenchants into:  [Small Glowing Shard]: 1 Binds when picked up Neck +2 Strength +3 Stamina +2 Dodge +1 Versatility Requires Level 29 Sell Price: 4 91 40 Ironshaper's Legplates Item Level 35Disenchants into:  [Small Glowing Shard]: 1 Binds when picked up Plate Legs 14 Armor +4 Strength or Intellect +6 Stamina +3 Critical Strike Durability 100 / 100 Requires Level 29 Sell Price: 9 73 99

Heroic Mode

Bands of the Stoneforge Item Level 35Disenchants into: Not disenchantable Binds when picked up Plate Wrist 8 Armor +2 Strength or Intellect +3 Stamina +3 Haste Durability 55 / 55 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 7 9 Leggings of the Stone Halls Item Level 35Disenchants into: Not disenchantable Binds when picked up Mail Legs 9 Armor +4 Agility or Intellect +6 Stamina +4 Critical Strike +4 Haste Durability 120 / 120 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 13 97 31 Sjonnir's Girdle Item Level 35Disenchants into: Not disenchantable Binds when picked up Plate Waist 9 Armor +3 Strength or Intellect +4 Stamina +4 Versatility Durability 55 / 55 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 5 65 79 The Fleshshaper Item Level 35Disenchants into: Not disenchantable Binds when picked up Unique-Equipped Dagger One-Hand Speed 1.80 2 – 5 Damage (1.9 damage per second) +1 Agility +4 Stamina +2 Critical Strike Durability 80 / 80 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 19 81 85 Sun-Emblazoned Chestplate Item Level 35Disenchants into:  [Small Glowing Shard]: 1 Binds when picked up Plate Chest 16 Armor +4 Strength or Intellect +6 Stamina +4 Dodge +4 Critical Strike   Prismatic Socket Socket Bonus: +2 Critical Strike   Durability 140 / 140 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 9 79 11 Spark of Life Quest Item "This iridescent essence is evidence of the resurgence of the Dragon Isles." Boots of the Whirling Mist Item Level 35Disenchants into:  [Small Glowing Shard]: 1 Binds when picked up Leather Feet 5 Armor +3 Agility or Intellect +4 Stamina +3 Critical Strike Durability 65 / 65 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 7 76 1 Forge Ember Item Level 35Disenchants into:  [Small Glowing Shard]: 1 Binds when picked up Unique-Equipped Trinket +5 Critical Strike Equip: Your damaging and healing spells have a chance to increase your spell power by 180 for 10 sec. Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 8 5 7 Design: Deft Monarch Topaz Binds when picked up Use: Teaches you how to cut a Deft Monarch Topaz. Deft Monarch Topaz +8 Agility and +8 Haste Rating "Matches any socket." Sell Price: 4 50 Monarch Topaz Requires Northrend Jewelcrafting (15) Sell Price: 4 Emblem of Heroism Binds when picked up Requires Level 80 Frozen Orb Crafting Reagent Sell Price: 20

Quotes

Upon aggroing:

• "Soft, vulnerable shells. Brief, fragile lives. You can not escape the curse of flesh!"

Upon slaying a player:

• "Flesh is no match for iron!"
• "Armies of iron will smother the world!"

Upon death:

• "Loken will not rest, until the forge is retaken. You changed nothing!"

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB