Exarch Maladaar (tactics)

Exarch Maladaar is the second boss of Auchenai Crypts in Auchindoun. He is in the last chamber, the Crypt of Remembrance.

After his death, the naaru D'ore appears and redeems his spirit that eventually appears to Greatfather Aldrimus and thanks him for having him killed.

Adventure Guide
''The sole living remnant of the glory that once strode the halls of Auchenai, Maladaar has been driven mad by the loss of everyone and everything he ever loved. His lunatic dedication to the preservation of their memory has driven him to a mastery of the dark arts.''

Abilities

 * Avatar of the Martyred
 * Avatar of the Martyred
 * Avatar of the Martyred
 * Avatar of the Martyred
 * Avatar of the Martyred

Strategy
DPS during this fight should stay aware and focus on killing shadow doubles when they are spawned. Doubles have roughly the same health and abilities as the characters they copy, and will die quickly under a focused attack. At 25% health, Maladaar creates a double of himself with 30,000 HP. This double has a mortal strike ability, and can be offtanked or kited while you kill Maladaar. You may also kill the double first, but it will probably be harder for your tank to gain aggro on it.

Maladaar will hit players in close range with a shadow attack about 1000-1200 damage. Shadow resistance will help the tank, but is not vital. The key point is to kill the shadow doubles and keep them off the healer.

The AoE fear can result in your healer being killed if the non-healing party members are all melee. When he fears all of the melee party members he'll go straight for the healer and likely kill them. In this kind of group makeup the healer needs to be sure to stay in fear range. In groups with ranged DPS he usually goes for the ranged DPS instead of the healer so it isn't as much of a problem. Though this puts you in range of the shadow attack mentioned above the healing isn't too intensive; a couple heals for everyone every 5 to 10 secs is enough. A shaman can use Tremor Totem to minimize the effect of the AoE fear.

In the event you kill Maladaar, but not the double, the Avatar will remain over his corpse. After several minutes (but before the bosses' corpse despawns) the Avatar will die automatically. Alternatively, he can be killed by himself upon your return from the ghost run; he does give rep and has a good drop in heroic mode. Using an ankh or a soulstone to resurrect while the Avatar is still there may aggro him.

Heroic mode
Essentially the same fight; tank & spank. OT to pickup the Avatar helps, but quite easy. The Avatar hits as hard as him and can cause a wipe if using only one tank. Fortunately, you can resurrect, rebuff, and engage him while looting the actual boss. His Ribbon of Souls didn't seem to hit any harder than on normal mode.


 * On heroic mode, Avatar of the Martyred drops loot.

Related Achievements

 * Auchenai Crypts (achievement)
 * Heroic: Auchenai Crypts
 * Heroic: Auchenai Crypts Guild Run

Objective of

 * Auchindoun...
 * WANTED: The Exarch's Soul Gem
 * The End of the Exarch


 * Everything Will Be Alright (BC Classic)

Quotes

 * Intro
 * yell


 * Aggro
 * yell
 * yell
 * yell


 * Summoning Avatar
 * yell
 * yell
 * yell


 * Killing a player
 * yell


 * Laugh
 * yell


 * Death
 * yell

Trivia

 * Maladaar is voiced by Marc Graue.
 * The weapon he wields has the same model as Iblis, Blade of the Fallen Seraph.