The Spirit Kings

The Spirit Kings is the fourth boss encounter in Mogu'shan Vaults. It is a council encounter with four bosses activated successively.

Background

 * Main articles: Zian of the Endless Shadow, Meng the Demented, Qiang the Merciless, Subetai the Swift

Adventure Guide
''Ancient records tell of these legendary rulers, powerful mogu who carved an empire from the very rock of Pandaria. Their names still cause the land to tremble: Zian of the Endless Shadow, Meng the Demented, Qiang the Merciless, and Subetai the Swift. Some say their spirits lurk in the vaults, lost in ghostly memories of battle and glory.''

Kings' Process
The Spirit Kings animate in sequence, with one king attacking the players until defeated, at which time another king enters the fray. Defeated kings become incorporeal, but continue to bring one of their powerful abilities to bear periodically.

On Heroic difficulty, each Spirit King animates and joins the battle when its predecessor is brought below 30% of maximum health.

The Bossses share a 10 minutes Enrage timer in all difficult settings:



Qiang the Merciless
When the players defeat the Warlord King, he remains in battle in a weakened state and only uses his Flanking Orders ability.

Meng the Demented
When the players defeat the Mad King, he remains in battle in a weakened state and only uses his Maddening Shout ability.

Subetai the Swift
When the players defeat the Bandit King, he remains in battle in a weakened state, only able to use his Pillage ability.

Zian of the Endless Shadow
When the players defeat the Sorcerer King, he remains in battle in a weakened state, only able to use his Undying Shadows ability.


 * Notes

Strategy
The Kings always spawn in the same order: Qiang, Subetai, Zian, Meng.

The fight is a lot about paying attention to what happens and adapt accordingly.

General tactics

 * Qiang
 * Everyone should move with the tank at the pull and throughout the phase in order to soak the damage from the cleave - if too few people get hit by it then the ones that get hit will die.
 * Pay close attention to where Flanking Orders spawn and will move. If anyone gets caught in it they will die.
 * Stay behind the boss when he start casting Annihilate. Anyone caught in it will die.
 * Subetai
 * Move away as quickly as possible when he cast Pillage.
 * When he casts volley, move out of the cone as quickly as possible. Stay relatively near the boss (within ~15 yards) to ensure you don't take more than 1-2 hits from Volley when running out of it.
 * Ranged should spread out in order to make as few people as possible get hit by Rain of Arrows. Players that get hit can be freed instantly with Hand of Protection, as well as any other effect that removes stuns (ex. Blink), but otherwise the arrow should be killed ASAP so that the target does not die.
 * Zian
 * Players that get Undying Shadow should move around the edges in order to not dump the resulting Coalescing Shadows in the middle of the room. Ranged should nuke the Undying Shadows.
 * Shadow Blast should be interrupted at all times. Three players should be assigned in a rotation to interrupt this.
 * Meng
 * During Maddening Shout the raid should stack up and AoE in order to break it quickly.
 * Crazy Thought can be interrupted as much as possible, however it is mostly futile as he will chain cast it.
 * During Cowardice the raid shouldn't outright nuke him. At 50-70 Sanity the DPS will need to slow down or even stop DPS entirely so that they don't take too much damage.

Related Achievements

 * The Vault of Mysteries
 * Heroic: Four Kings
 * Getting Hot In Here
 * Mogu'shan Vaults Guild Run

Intro

 * say
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Qiang the Merciless

 * Intro
 * yell


 * Enters the fight
 * yell


 * Flanking Orders
 * yell
 * yell


 * Killing a player
 * yell
 * yell
 * yell


 * Unused quote
 * I cannot be... defeated.

Subetai the Swift

 * Enters the fight
 * yell


 * Pillage
 * yell
 * yell


 * Killing a player
 * yell
 * yell
 * yell


 * Unused quotes
 * Bandits and emperors, we both take what we want.
 * I am... bested.

Zian of the Endless Shadow

 * Enters the fight
 * yell


 * Undying Shadows
 * yell


 * Killing a player
 * yell
 * yell
 * yell


 * Death
 * yell


 * Unused quote
 * I sense...courage. Willpower... light? That will not do.

Meng the Demented

 * Enters the fight
 * yell


 * Maddening Shout
 * yell
 * yell


 * Killing a player
 * yell
 * yell
 * yell
 * yell


 * Death (Crazed)
 * yell


 * Death (Cowardice)
 * yell


 * Unused quote
 * Who dares summon Emperor Meng, most majestic of mighty monarchs?

Outro

 * yell

Unused quote

 * Lorewalker Cho: Ah, the ancient Vaults of the Emperors of Mogu'shan. What might this button do?

Trivia

 * In chinese, Meng means dream, Qiang strength, Sebotai great colors and Zian police or public order.
 * It's also possible that Subetai derives his name from Subutai, a Mongolian general and the primary military strategist of Genghis Khan and Ögedei Khan.
 * Initially, the encounter was buggy and the bosses would frequently disappear and reset at random, to the point where players would jokingly refer to it as "The Reset Kings".