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Comment by 583527

He's fabulous! :D

Comment by 259313

No longer fabulous due to sadly having his voice changed to a rather typical sounding dragon voice.

The names of his abilities and this item were clearly designed with the original voice in mind, though.

As for what he does in the fight, while on the ground, he leaves patches of flame that need to avoided, and casts Devouring Magic on random mana using raid members, which causes a fraction of all the healing and damage they deal to harmfully splash to those nearby, meaning they should move out of the group.

While airborne, he fires twilight blasts at random raid members that cause damage to anyone within 10 yards, and before he lands, targets multiple spots with the aforementioned Dazzling Destruction.

Comment by 463904

Look out Alexstaza, there's a NEW dragon queen!

Comment by 609114

It's probably for the best that they changed his voice, considering the maturity and tolerance I've come to expect from the average pug player.

Comment by 717223

For anyone being like me, just generally interested what's the fuss is about, here's Theralions old voice overs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r7vZKzTEJQ
And it would have been so much better with the old one, because it were so fabulous.(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##Gryphon##DELIM##

Comment by 252897

Copy pasta from Valiona page

How to: Valiona and Theralion (Normal)

First things first, start by pulling Valiona, as you want him(her?) on the ground much rather than Theralion.

Fight consists of one dragon being on the ground, while the other one spams stuff from the air. The bosses share a healthpool.

TL;DR version:
Valiona on ground: Spread, clump up on Blackout, spread again, avoid breath
Theralion on ground: Stack, debuffed player gtfo, move from void zones

While Valiona is on the ground, the basic idea is to stay spread out at all times to minimize meteor damage and clump up when Blackout hits someone. In 10man, have everyone get to melee when someone gets hit by blackout and in 25man, you can have separate ranged & melee groups if you dont want to run around too much. Just make sure you dispel Blackout fast when people are together to avoid useless meteor damage.
Also, when breath comes, either move behind the boss OR if thats not possible, move as far away as possible from the breath, it does pathetic damage at max range.
When Theralion is about to land, some swirling looking void zone thingies spawn on the ground, just dont get hit by them and dps Valiona as long as possible.

While Theralion is on ground, its the opposite. You gotta stack up to split the meteor damage equally between everyone hit, but you must keep some players at range at all times. The easiest way to do this is to have around half of your raid in melee stacked up and the rest spread rather close to melee. When one of the people at range get marked to be hit by next meteor, simply run to melee (You have 6 seconds to react and move) and back out after meteor.
As for other abilities, if you get Engulfing Magic, if you have anyone next to you, do not cast anything (If you have dots/hots in, move even faster), as all damage and healing done will be hit as aoe around you.
If boss turns head towards you, you can preemptively move away from the void zone that will come to the ground.
When Valiona is about to land, he does a breath which will cover a third of the room (Think Felmyst). Its not a huge aoe really, so its easy to dodge, as long as you move to the correct side.

After that, rinse and repeat. The phases rotate until bosses die. Spread on Valiona, stack on Theralion.

Comment by 126853

Aww, this just in.

Different people dislike different things. Having a flutterbee telling me how he's going to swallow me is annoynig. o.O

Comment by TheChilliGod

These two totally remind me of Jessie and James from Pokemon.

Prepare for trouble, and make it double!

Comment by GraveDiggerX

Strategy Guide:

Below, I have written a guide on the abilities and how we defeated this boss.

Our Group:

Tanks - | Druid |
Healers - | Shaman | Paladin | Priest |
DPS - | Death Knight | Hunter | Rogue | Paladin | SPriest | Mage |

General Boss Information:

This boss encounter involves 2 dragons, Valiona & Theralion.
Only one will be engaged at a time. The other one will be in the air harassing the raid until they switch.
They each do unique abilities and have pretty much the opposite mechanics. (Described below)

Boss Abilities:

Valiona: (On the ground)
While on the ground, Valiona will periodically cast Devouring Flames.
During this time, Theralion is in the air and while he is there, he will periodically cast Blackout on a random player and when dispelled, will deal ~300,000 split amongst players within 6-8 yards.
He will also cast Twilight Blast on a random raid member and splashes to other players within 6-8 yards, including melee.
Right before the phase change, Theralion will cast Dazzling Destruction which is indicated by gigantic galaxy looking swirls on the ground. If you get hit by these you get sent into the Twilight Realm.

Theralion: (On the ground)
While on the ground, Theralion will cast Engulfing Magic on a random raid member which increases damage and healing done by 100%, but also deals that damage or healing to nearby allies.
During this time, Valiona is in the air and will constantly be casting Twilight Meteorite on a random raid member, indicated by a big arrow above their head. It splits its damage amongst nearby allies.
The last thing Valiona will do right before the phase change is cast Deep Breath which deals ~15k damage and sends the player into the Twilight Realm. She will cast this in one of 3 rows in the room and is predictable.

Our Strategy:

Engage Valiona first and have everyone spread out as much as possible due to Twilight Blast.
When someone gets Blackout cast on them everyone needs to converge to split the damage it doeas.
Rinse and repeat these until Dazzling Destruction is cast. 6 of these will be cast and after they are done Theralion will land and Valiona will fly away.
At this time, everyone needs to stack. Melee on the tanks and Ranged on a designated player. This is due to Twilight Meteorite. In order to keep you moving, Theralion will place void zones on random players, so you will have to rotate around the outside of him as a group.
When someone gets Engulfing Magic is cast on a member, just have that person move out for the duration, then back in. If that person is targeted by a Meteorite, then have that person stop casting and stack.
At the end of this phase, Valiona will cast Deep Breath. It will engulf 1/3 of the room and will phase anyone hit by it into the Twilight Realm. It is very easy to predict this and just move out of it when it happens. The zones are selected at random.
Overall this is a pretty easy fight.

I wish you the best of luck, and feel free to critique my post and ask any questions.

Please uprate if this helped at all!

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~Wrex | Pseudonym | Executus-US

Comment by 252897

Whats up with the downrating of strategy guides.

Thought people would uprate correct info and help rather than downrate ~_~

Comment by 650358

Just a quick addition, our shaman had grounding totem down and we think it was fizzling blackout. It failed to hit multiple times, helped out a lot. Not sure if this works, but maybe.

EDIT: Yeah, it does work. Pretty nice thing to have. Just make sure your shaman recasts it after each Blackout.

Hotfixed today January 18th, no longer works.

Comment by 344016

There are no specific pages for bosses, so I'm gonna throw this guide here for now.

Valiona and Theralion - This fight is an alternating two phase encounter. The fight will start off with Valiona on the ground, and Theralion in the air. Every once and a while, one dragon will fly up in the air, and the other one will come down. Only one dragon is active at any time, so don't worry about that.

A few seconds into the fight, Valiona will cast "Blackout" on a random raid member. Blackout will absorb 20k heals on it's target, and when removed or when the duration expires, the target will explode for 250k damage, split between the number of targets it hits. This means, that when someone gets Blackout, you need to stack on that person and either remove it when you know you're safe, or just wait 5 seconds for it to expire.

Every once and a while, Valiona will cast "Devouring Flame". This is a 2-3 second cast, and when she uses it, she will turn towards where she will breathe. Anybody standing infront of her while she is casting will take 25k damage a second. Needless to say, don't be infront of her when she uses this.

When Valiona is about to enter her air phase, she will start casting "Dazzling Destruction". This will cause several void zones to appear on the ground that appear in pairs. Standing in these void zones will cause 15k damage and send the target to the Twilight Realm. (If you are sent to the Twilight Realm, avoid balls and make your way to the portal.) After she is done, Valiona will enter her air phase and Theralion will come down.

Periodically, Theralion will cast "Twilight Meteorite" on a random person. The targeted player will get a purple arrow over their head, and the raid will need to stack ontop of them to split the damage. Theralion will also cast "Engulfing Magic". Any healing or damage taken by the target will mirror back onto nearby raid members. So if you get the debuff, run out of the raid.

Theralions last and most important ability is "Fabulous Flames/Dying Breath". This will leave a fairly large void zone on a random raider that takes a while to despawn. Because of this, you'll want to have your range stack up far away from the melee group and move west/left or east/right whenever a new void zone appears.

When this is over, Valiona will come back down and the fight just repeats until you kill her. Good luck! :-)

Comment by 724381

Grounding totem is currently stopping blackout making one of the more difficult mechanics completely irrellevant.

Having a shaman in each group is pretty much gg. On 10 man at least.

Comment by 541924

On 10m, if your group is having trouble reacting to the mechanics in time, the enrage timer is generous enough to run with 4 healers to smooth out people's mistakes.

Comment by armrule

Sharing strat & video --> http://raidbriefing.blogspot.com/2011/01/valiona-and-theralion-10-man-normal.html

Comment by Orkel

Blizz's second subliminal message that Twilight is gay.

First one is that they made a Twilight Destroyer (Halion).

Comment by Marloss

Here is a video comparing the new and the old voice, so that you can more easily notice the difference between them.

Comment by Mizetto

: : Tankspot's : :
Raid video on Boss #2 (Valiona & Theralion) within The Bastion of Twilight.
Link: http://www.tankspot.com/showthread.php?72669-Valiona-amp-Theralion

Comment by deathtyriel

What i wanna know is Valiona and Theralion twins? or are they yet to give us our cataclysm twins?

Comment by 259313

It's worth noting that the damage from Theralion's Twilight Blast is completely avoidable by simply moving for a moment when the spell's cast finishes.

For this reason, having him set as your focus whenever he's in the air can be helpful.

Comment by Vlad

There is no escape from the fury of the Twilight Flight!
Beta, fun memories...

Hosting my own site with easier access to the older voice-overs.

Comment by 149802

"I'll engulf as I please!"

Comment by 841997

Manliest dragon in the game, hands down.

(Before the voice change, of course.)

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Theralion

This NPC can be found in The Bastion of Twilight .

The Bastion of TwilightHalfus WyrmbreakerValionaTheralionAscendant CouncilCho'gallSinestraOverview

Valiona and Theralion are dragons that share a health pool; however only one will be directly attacking you at the ground at any one time. You will want one tank for this encounter.

The first dragon you will fight is Valiona. Note that both she and Theralion are on the ground initially, but pulling Theralion first will only result in him flying off and forcing Valiona to engage you.

The setup of the fight has you fighting Valiona first, while Theralion attacks your raid from the air. A short transition phase follows, then Theralion lands and needs to be tanked, while Valiona rains hell on your heads. Another transition phase (different from the first one), and it's back to Valiona. Rinse and repeat.

This fight greatly favors DPS that can double-dot both the dragon on the ground and in the air. Shadow priests, Moonkins, and Warlocks with Havoc are all a plus.

StrategyPhase 1

During this phase Valiona will be the boss on the ground--the one you need to tank--and Theralion will be in the air, thwarting your raid.

Position Valiona on the stairs she is currently at, facing her away from the raid. You will want everyone spread out at about 8 yards away from other players. The tighter together you are without getting closer than 8 yards, the easier the fight will be.

In this phase, Valiona will use only two abilities--, followed shortly by Devouring Flames. The moment you see Blackout happen, you will all want to collapse/stack at a predefined location (Valiona's tail works well for that). As soon as everyone is stacked, have a designated healer dispel the magic debuff, then quickly spread out again. Dispelling the debuff before stacking up will nearly kill a few players. Classes such as mages, paladins, and rogues can safely remove Blackout, as long as they are far enough away from the raid

Devouring Flames is generally easy to avoid. The ability is identical to the one used by Valiona during the third encounter in Grim Batol: she will face a random player, cast her breath, and then cover everything in front of her with flames. As in Grim Batol, if you absolutely can't get to her side/back, run away from the flames and try to self-heal--the damage is proximity-based.

Theralion's only ability in this phase is , which he will cast frequently on random raid members. This is the reason you want to stay 8 yards apart; stacking during Blackout is the reason you don't want to be at much more than that.

During the transition phase Theralion will cast Dazzling Destruction, which fires several pairs of void zones in random locations. Large purple swirly marks indicate where the spell will hit, so you should be able to avoid it easily. Note that if you get hit by one of those, you will be sent to the Twilight Realm, where you need to navigate through a score of Twilight Fiends and orbs. You will need to find a portal to send you back to the physical world.

The very first ground phase will end soon after the second Blackout. Every ground phase after that will always have a third Blackout, which happens during Dazzling Destruction. Try to keep the center of the room clear, so that you can stack there and get rid of the debuff.

Phase 2

This is Theralion's phase. He will land in the middle of the room and should be tanked there. Your melee should be stacked somewhere behind him, and your casters spread out at predefined locations.

Theralion's signature move in this phase is , which he will cast frequently on random raid members. This is the reason you want to stay 8 yards apart; stacking during Blackout is the reason you don't want to be at much more than that.

Fabulous Flames is Theralion's other ability, but unfortunately there is nothing you can do to counter it. Run out of the dark purple void zone that spawns.

While flying in the air, Valiona will shoot Twilight Meteorites at players in the ranged pile. Unlike Dazzling Destruction, those actually target the player, so moving won't save you--it will, in fact, kill you, if you run the wrong way away from the raid. You will get a purple arrow over your head if targeted with the Meteorite. If you are melee, stay put and stacked up. If you are ranged, run into melee so the meteorite damage can be split equally among everyone stacked within 8 yards.

The transition phase here has Valiona using Deep Breath three times (reminiscent of Felmyst from Sunwell Plateau). She will fly across the room three times, every time covering a random third of it with fire. Have a designated raid member call out the side she will be burning, so that everyone can move out of the fire. Raid markers on the ground help a bit with this--calling "X side!" or "Star side!" is easy to visualize. Should you get hit by the flames, you will be sent to the Twilight Realm; don't worry, you already know how to escape from it.

Heroic Mode

Twilight Sentries will periodically spawn in the Twilight Realm and fire uninterruptable Rift Blasts onto the raid in the normal realm. These must be constantly killed or else the raid will be overwhelmed. The players in the Twilight Realm must avoid triggering the numerous slow-moving orbs and taking extra damage. When first zoning into the Twilight Realm, players are temporarily granted Twilight Protection to save them from unseen damage taken while rendering the new realm.

The players in the Twilight Realm are affected by Fabulous Flames from above. The position of the Twilight Sentries are marked in the top realm by glowing blue orbs, so ranged DPS should take care to avoid standing on top of them and risking a poorly-placed Fabulous Flames on top of the Sentries.

Rogues with an unconventional subtlety spec (8/2/31) can survive fulltime in the Twilight Realm with good usage of feint and recuperate. Players that remain in the Twilight Realm receive a stacking debuff, Twilight Zone, that increases their vulnerability to shadow damage and lasts two minutes, which makes rogues an ideal choice as they can clear their stacks quite frequently with talented Cloak of Shadows.

An additional tank will be needed due to the stacking debuff Twilight Shift. At 5 stacks, accumulated after roughly a minute of constant tanking, the current tank gains Shifted Reality and is sent down to the Twilight Realm with nearby allies. Therefore, there must be an additional tank with cleared debuffs to pick up the dragon when one tank is phased. If need be, ranged dps and a healer can stack up on the affected tank to port down to help clean up the Twilight Sentries. As on normal-mode, players exist the Twilight Realm via randomly-spawned portals.

All dps should leave the Twilight Realm under 20% to finish burning down whichever dragon is on the ground.

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Heroic		Mythic
Deadly		Important
Tank		DPS
Healer		Interruptible
Magic		Curse
Poison		Disease
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Theralion

When the encounter begins, Theralion immediately takes to the air, while Valiona engages the attackers on the ground. The twin dragons share a single health pool, and each alternates between being airborne and fighting on the ground.

Grounded Abilities
Theralion uses the following abilities while on the ground.
- Engulfing Magic – Theralion twists the magical energies within an enemy spellcaster, increasing their damage and healing done by 100% for 20 sec.
  However, each time the affected player deals damage or healing, Engulfing Magic triggers a twilight explosion. The blast causes damage equal to the amount of damage or healing dealt to all players within 10 yards.
  In a 25 player raid, Theralion twists the magical energies of three enemy spellcasters.
- Fabulous Flames – Theralion launches a burst of twilight energy at the location of a random enemy. Fabulous Flames leave a circular patch of twilight fire on the ground for 45 sec., inflicting 18525 to 19475 Shadow damage every 1 sec. to all players in a 12 yard radius.
Airborne Abilities
Theralion uses the following abilities while in the air.
- Twilight Blast – While hovering overhead, Theralion continually launches bolts of twilight flame at the locations of random players. When a Twilight Blast impacts the ground, it explodes and inflicts 34125 to 35875 Shadow damage to all players within 8 yards of the impact location.
- Dazzling Destruction – As he prepares to land, Theralion mesmerizes his foes with swirling patterns of energy on the ground. Theralion then strikes each of these locations with massive blasts of twilight power, inflicting 14625 to 15375 Shadow damage to players within 12 yards and sending anyone caught in the blast into the Twilight Realm. If a player is already in the Twilight Realm when struck by Dazzling Destruction, that player dies.

Valiona

When the encounter begins, Theralion immediately takes to the air, while Valiona engages the attackers on the ground. The twin dragons share a single health pool, and each alternate between being airborne and fighting on the ground.

Grounded Abilities
Valiona uses the following abilities while on the ground.
- Blackout – Valiona surrounds a random player in a shroud of Twilight energy, absorbing the next 75000 points of healing on the target. When Blackout expires or a player dispels the effect, the dark energy explodes in a massive torrent. The explosion inflicts 975000 to 1025000 Shadow damage divided amongst all players within 8 yards.
- Devouring Flames – Valiona unleashes a prolonged breath of Twilight flame in the direction of a random player. Devouring Flames inflicts up to 90000 Shadow damage every 1 sec. for 5 sec. The damage diminishes on targets within the breath the farther away from Valiona they are located.
Airborne Abilities
Valiona uses the following abilities while in the air.
- Twilight Meteorite – Valiona sets her sights upon a random player and prepares to unleash a powerful Twilight Meteorite on them. When the meteorite lands on the player, it inflicts 292500 to 307500 Shadow damage divided amongst players within 6 yards of the impact point.
- Deep Breath – As she prepares to land, Valiona takes a deep breath and strafes from one end of the chamber to the other, engulfing a third of the room in Twilight Flames. Contact with this dark flame inflicts 29250 to 30750 Shadow damage, and draws the player into the Twilight Realm. If the player is already in the Twilight Realm when struck by Deep Breath, that player dies.

Twilight Realm

Being struck by Theralion's Dazzling Destruction or Valiona's Deep Breath pulls players into the Twilight Realm. In this alternate plane of existence, spheres of volatile twilight energy float around and detonate if touched. Collapsing portals appear randomly throughout the area, and players may use a portal to return to the material plane. Each portal disappates after a time.

In Heroic Difficulty Shifting Reality also pulls players into the Twilight Realm.

Unstable Twilight – Coming into contact with one of the floating orbs of twilight energy within the Twilight Realm causes it to violently explode. Unstable Twilight inflicts 39000 to 41000 Shadow damage to all players within 8 yards, but only affects players inside the Twilight Realm.

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