Ahune

The subject of this article or section is part of Midsummer Fire Festival, a seasonal event that lasts two weeks, after which it is no longer available until the next year.

Ahune
Title	<The Frost Lord>
Race	Ice elemental (Elemental)
Level	82 Elite
Location	Slave Pens, Coilfang Reservoir
Status	Killable
Relative(s)	Neptulon (master)
Slave Pens Lord Ahune (Midsummer, summoned) Mennu the Betrayer Rokmar the Crackler Quagmirran (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) NPCs Numa Cloudsister (Midsummer) Luma Skymother (Midsummer) Skar'this the Heretic Other Coilfang Reservoir instances

Ahune is a frost elemental lord in Neptulon's service. The Twilight's Hammer plan to have him battle Ragnaros to start an elemental war on Azeroth. Players summon Ahune in the second room of the Slave Pens, at the Ice Stone to the left. He is only available during the Midsummer Fire Festival. Ahune is summoned by interacting with the Ice Stone, which can be done as many times as needed to kill him.

General information

Ahune is immune to frost. Players can continually queue for Ahune, but will only receive the [Satchel of Chilled Goods] once per day. Those who kill Ahune for the first time will receive a  [Shards of Ahune], which begins a quest. Make sure to click on the item to start  [65] Shards of Ahune before leaving the area, as the quest NPC is Luma Skymother inside the instance.

Known bugs

• Killing Ahune during any of phase 1 may not always spawn the loot chest, and will not count as a boss kill in Heroic Mode. This issue has occurred in both normal mode and heroic mode, should this issue occur in heroic mode you will not be saved to the instance. A highly recommended safeguard is to always kill Ahune during phase 2 to ensure the loot-chest spawns, even if Ahune is sitting at 1% in phase 1. This bug generally leads directly to another bug, in which Ahune will not spawn the Frozen Core when he submerges on subsequent attempts, making killing him impossible. It is therefore strongly advised to reset the instance if this bug is encountered.
• If Ahune is killed immediately before returning to phase 1, the Hailstone elemental may still spawn and attack the party, so stay alert for that possibility. In rare occasions, the timer even keeps running and a new Hailstone spawns every 2 minutes.
• Occasionally Ahune's Frozen Core spawns "inside" his larger form, which doesn't correctly submerge, making the Frozen Core difficult to target, using the "tab" key is the fastest way to target it. Alternately, assist someone with the Frozen Core already targeted.
• If a rogue uses Shadowstep on the core, there is a large possibility that the rogue will get stuck inside the base and eventually be killed when Ahune respawns. Should this happen but the rogue survives until Ahune is defeated, he'll still be stuck. The best course of action is to pull another mob close to the base so that the rogue may shadowstep to it
• Summoning Ahune occasionally makes combat pets (including hunters' "beast pets") or a second player talk.
• Ahune's HP may display as 100% less any damage dealt during phase 1; do not be alarmed if, for example, you DPS him down to 22% and his hp displays as 98% on the next phase 1.

Abilities

Phase 1

Lord Ahune

• Melee: 650-1125 (2k heroic) physical damage (against tank).
• Cold Slap: 1500-4500 frost damage, large knock back effect (only used on players in melee range).
• Ahune's Shield: While surfaced, all damage to Ahune is reduced by 75%.

Summons/Adds

• Ahunite Hailstone (70 Elite Frost Elemental): 55k (Heroic: 70k) HP. 400-950 (600-1000 Heroic) physical damage. Chilling Aura applies Hailstone Chill dealing 300 frost damage every 3 seconds and stacks up to 10 times. Pulverize attack, 2 sec stun, 6 sec cooldown.
• Ahunite Frostwind (Air Elemental): 1200 HP. Wind Buffet: Pulls a random party members to itself. Lightning Shield: deals 140-160 nature damage.
• Ahunite Coldwave and Ahunite Frostwind: 1500 HP (2k Heroic). 100-800 physical damage (up to 2.2k crit on cloth heroic mode).

Phase 1 & 2

• Ice Spear: 1500 frost damage, knock up effect (Up to 12% HP in fall damage), animation starts under a random party member, avoid by moving immediately.

Phase 2

• Submerges, disabling melee range attacks and Ahune's Shield, exposing his Frozen Core. Lasts 30 seconds.

Strategy

Phase 1

The base idea is simple: Kill adds until he submerges and nuke him down. Ahune will start by summoning an Ahunite Hailstone, an elite frost elemental that will need to be tanked. It has a Chilling Aura, which applies a stacking DoT effect to everyone in close to it. Ideally, only melee classes will be affected by it. Ahune also continually spawns smaller water elemental adds that have a small amount of hp (about 13k), but hit quite hard on cloth and tend to attack whoever is on top of the global threat (which will most likely be a healer). These should be killed as fast as possible. Ahune himself only takes 25% damage during this phase. While ranged can DPS Ahune freely (albeit weakly), anyone entering melee range with Ahune will suffer a large amount of frost damage and be knocked back a significant distance. Phase 2 starts approximately 90 seconds later.

Phase 2

Ahune will submerge and his Frozen Core will become vulnerable. Ahune continues casting Ice Spear during this phsae, but will otherwise not attack or spawn adds, even when players get within melee range. He will remain submerged for 30 seconds; everyone including the tank should dps the core as hard as possible, taking care to avoid the ice spears and not slip on the icy patches. When Ahune emerges, he will return to phase 1 and begin the cycle again. Each time he restarts the cycle he will spawn more adds, however, so you will need to kill him before the adds overwhelm your group.

Notes

• No players need to be in melee range of Lord Ahune during Phase 1 as he does not move and has no threat list.
• Ice is slippery; running over ice may result in a knockdown effect.
• Melee need not stand directly beside Ahune in phase two. His hit box is very large and stretches to the edge of the icy ground.
• Stand behind the tank; if there's no threat generation, the adds will go for the closest player.
• Ice Spears may punt you into the water, likely resulting in a wipe. Try to stay on the left side of the icy area. When you see any of the following signs, you should take a few steps in any direction to avoid Ice Spear's punt effect; A glowing icy swirl, a ring of snowflakes, ice crystals near/under your feet.
•  [Frost Resistance Totem] or  [Frost Resistance Aura] will substantially reduce the damage from Ice Spears and Hailstone Chill (Up to 75% resist). Unfortunately, the totem and the aura do not stack.

Loot

Ahune's demise leads to the spawning of a loot-containing chest.

Like other holiday bosses, Ahune's drops can be sold but not disenchanted.

Ice Chest

Cloak of the Frigid Winds Item Level 880Disenchants into:  [Temporal Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Back 145 Armor +1013 Intellect +1519 Stamina +554 Haste +308 Versatility Requires Level 110 Sell Price: 29 46 78 Icebound Cloak Item Level 880Disenchants into:  [Temporal Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Back 145 Armor +1013 Agility / Strength / Intellect +1519 Stamina +554 Critical Strike +308 Versatility Requires Level 110 Sell Price: 29 68 47 Shroud of Winter's Chill Item Level 600Disenchants into:  [Sha Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Back 36 Armor +71 Agility / Strength / Intellect +107 Stamina +41 Critical Strike +54 Haste Sell Price: 23 81 80 The Frost Lord's Battle Shroud Item Level 880Disenchants into:  [Temporal Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Back 145 Armor +1013 Agility / Strength / Intellect +1519 Stamina +616 Critical Strike +246 Haste Requires Level 110 Sell Price: 29 90 15 The Frost Lord's War Cloak Item Level 880Disenchants into:  [Temporal Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Back 145 Armor +1013 Agility / Strength / Intellect +1519 Stamina +492 Critical Strike +369 Haste Requires Level 110 Sell Price: 30 1 14 Formula: Enchant Weapon - Deathfrost Binds when picked up Use: Teaches you how to permanently enchant a melee weapon to cause your damaging spells and melee weapon hits to occasionally inflict additional Frost damage and slow the target. Requires a level 60 or higher item. Requires Outland Enchanting (50) Sell Price: 1 50 Shards of Ahune Binds when picked up Unique This Item Begins a Quest Requires Level 75

 [Satchel of Chilled Goods]

Emblem of Frost Binds when picked up Requires Level 80 Frostscythe of Lord Ahune Item Level 600Disenchants into:  [Sha Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Unique-Equipped Staff Two-Hand Speed 3.60 346 – 469 Damage (113.2 damage per second) +689 Intellect +274 Stamina +81 Critical Strike +81 Haste Use: Let the Frostscythe's chill flow through you. (1 Min Cooldown) Durability 120 / 120 "A cold chill flows from the scythe." Sell Price: 56 39 86 Ice Chip Binds when picked up Unique Use: A chip off the old block.

Level 70 drops

The following items only dropped from the level 70 version of Ahune (2008-9), and are listed here for historical purposes only.

• Cloak of the Frigid Winds (level 70)
• [Frostscythe of Lord Ahune]
• [Icebound Cloak]
• [Scorched Stone]
• [Shroud of Winter's Chill]
• [The Frost Lord's War Cloak]

Note

• Ahune's weapon seems to be [Frostscythe of Lord Ahune] just like Murmur's [Shockwave Truncheon], Thunderaan's [Thunderfury], and Ragnaros' [Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros].
• In addition to this, anyone that gets knocked back by Ahune during phase 1 may find a  [Pocket Full of Snow] in their inventory, which contains several Snowballs.

Patch changes

Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): Updated to level 82.
Patch 2.4.0 (2008-03-25): Added.

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB