Zul'jan
Altar of Fangs · boss 3 of 3
With the Fang of Ula'tek, Zul'jan performs the final ritual to gain the power to release the monstrous weapon his ancestors sealed away thousands of years ago. Still held in the sway of the spirit of Malacrass, Zul'jan is unaware that the Fang is also the only hope for his sister Zul'jarra's survival.
Snake-head beams feed his dagger. Stand in them to stop the empower, take a delayed poison for doing so, and let his physical hits clear the poison.
Left alone, the beams grant Zul'jan Fang Empowered, a stacking raid-wide Nature pulse that never falls off. Intercept the beams to stop it: doing so gives you Ritual Venom, which bursts when it expires, and Bloodletting from his physical hits is what removes the venom before it can burst.
The spells that matter
The handful you actually react to. Hover for Blizzard's own text; click through for the full tooltip.
What actually kills you
Everything else is noise until these three are handled.
- Letting Ritual of the Fang finish unintercepted. Fang Empowered stacks and never comes off, so each completed ritual is permanent raid damage.
- Holding Ritual Venom to expiry. It bursts for Nature damage; take a Bloodletting hit first and it strips the venom instead.
- Axegrinder on the rebound. The armor-ignoring axes ricochet around the arena and still hurt after the first pass, only losing damage as they slow.
Your job
If you tank
- Chop Down hits your target twice per cast; it is the main tank damage.
- Bloodletting leaves blood pools that tick Nature damage where players hemorrhage. Keep him moving so the floor stays usable.
If you heal
- The intercept is deliberate damage taken. Whoever blocks the beams takes Nature damage every second plus a Ritual Venom that bursts later; plan for both.
- If nobody intercepts, Fang Empowered stacks Nature damage on the whole group with no way to remove it.
If you DPS
- Get into the beams to intercept the ritual. Damage taken there is chosen; Fang Empowered is not.
- Axegrinder ignores armor and ricochets back through the arena. Track it on the return, not just the first pass.
How the fight goes
| Part | What to do |
|---|---|
| Step 1 | Ritual of the Fang: snake heads beam power into the dagger. Intercept the beams to stop Fang Empowered and take Ritual Venom. |
| Step 2 | He fights with Chop Down, Boneslicer and Axegrinder; his Bloodletting strips Ritual Venom and leaves blood pools as it lands. |
| Step 3 | The ritual repeats. Every one you let complete is permanent stacking raid damage. |
Higher keys
Heroic and Mythic
The journal publishes no key-level-specific text; higher keys scale health and damage. We would rather say that than invent a difference.
Loot
Everything Zul'jan can drop, from the Midnight Season 2 item database.
| Slot | Item |
|---|---|
| Head | Spare Speaker's Hood |
| Chest | Chestguard of Corroded Scales |
| Legs | Ancient General's Obsidian Pillars |
| Hands | Handwraps of Blasphemous Rites |
| Ring | Band of the Amani Warlord |
| Trinket | Tattered Amani War Banner |
| One-hand | Sharpened Lightwood Slasher |
| One-hand | Polished Lightwood Channeler |
| Ranged | Ancestral Amani Recurve |
Nothing matches that.
This boss drops a trinket. Trinket value varies enormously by spec — see the simulated trinket rankings.
Worth a bonus roll?
You cannot roll this boss on its own. A dungeon roll is against the whole instance, so this table is one part of a pool that includes every other boss in Altar of Fangs — the bonus roll guide explains what that changes, and the planner works it out per spec.