The Jailer (tactics)

The Jailer
Gender	Male
Race	Eternal One (Humanoid)
Level	?? Boss
Reaction	Alliance Horde
Affiliation(s)	Mawsworn
Location	Heart of Eternity, Sepulcher of the First Ones
Status	Killable
Sepulcher of the First Ones
Vigilant Guardian; Skolex, the Insatiable Ravener; Artificer Xy'mox; Dausegne, the Fallen Oracle; Prototype Pantheon; Lihuvim, Principle Architect; Halondrus the Reclaimer; Anduin Wrynn; Lords of Dread; Rygelon; The Jailer	(lore); (lore); (lore); (lore); (lore); (lore); (lore); (lore); (lore); (lore); (lore);
	Loot

For the character's history and lore, see Zovaal.

The Jailer is the final boss of the Sepulcher of the First Ones and the Shadowlands expansion.

Adventure Guide

For untold millennia, the Jailer patiently unfolded his plan to reach the heart of the Sepulcher. Now poised upon the precipice of his final victory, the heroes of Azeroth must rally to prevent the Jailer from dominating all of reality.

Overview

The champions of Azeroth assault the Jailer as he attempts to use the Machine of Origination to unmake existence.

At the start of the battle the Jailer, using Unrelenting Domination, begins assert control over the Machine of Origination by dominating its Control Pylons.

Once all of the Control Pylons have been brought under the Jailer's control, he turns his attention to configuring the Machine of Origination to harness the energy of the world soul of Azeroth using Unholy Attunement. Every cast of Unholy Attunement raises 3 Control Pylons, in an attempt to make curcuit from the outer edge of the Machine of Origination to the middle. The champions can fight against this by using Shattering Blast to destroy the Control Pylons before the circuit is complete.

When the Jailer has completed attuning the machine to the world soul of Azeroth, its life force begins being drained to power the Machine of Origination. In addition to the automatic drain from the Machine of Origination, the Jailer will also directly attack Azeroth with Desolation. Once Azeroth's life force reaches 10% the Jailer will execute Azeroth and unmake all of existance.

Tanks

Break line of sight with the Jailer during Unrelenting Domination.
Use Shattering Blast to knockdown pylons raised by Unholy Attunement.
Decreasing damage taken from Chains of Anguish will decrease damage mirrored to chained allies.
Intercept missiles from Desolation to protect Azeroth.

Damage Dealers

Jump into a pylon hole when Rune of Damnation is about to expire to avoid damaging allies with the explosion.
Break line of sight with the Jailer during Unrelenting Domination.
Swap quickly to players afflicted with Rune of Compulsion.
Intercept missiles from Desolation to protect Azeroth.

Healers

Jump into a pylon hole when Rune of Damnation is about to expire to avoid damaging allies with the explosion.
Break line of sight with the Jailer during Unrelenting Domination.
Misery and Rune of Domination require heavy healing for the entire raid.
Intercept missiles from Desolation to protect Azeroth.

Loot

The Jailer non-conduit loot
Item	Slot	Type	Notes
[Fractal Cypher of the Zereth Overseer]	Mount		Mythic only
[Bindings of the Banished One]	Hands	Cloth
[Chains of Domination]	Trinket		Strength/Agility
[Domination's Deliverance]	One-Hand	Fist Weapon	Agility
Epochal Oppressor's Greaves	Legs	Mail
[Forbidden Truth]	Off-Hand		Intellect
[Gavel of the First Arbiter]	Two-Hand	Mace	Strength
[Legguards of the Ultimate Threat]	Legs	Plate
[Runecarver's Twisted Ward]	Waist	Leather
[Scars of Fraternal Strife]	Trinket
[Worldkiller Iris]	Neck
[Zovastrum, the Unmaking]	Two-Hand	Polearm	Agility

Conduits that can drop as bonus loot:

[Hardened Bones], death knight
Haunting Apparitions, priest
[Lingering Numbness], monk
[Ready for Anything], druid
[Resolute Barrier], warlock
Reversal of Fortune, hunter
[Viscous Ink], demon hunter

Achievements

Objective of

[60R] Heart of the Sepulcher

Quotes

Prelude

At the start of the encounter, a combined in-game cutscene/pre-rendered cinematic plays.

The players run into the Heart of Eternity, where the Jailer stands waiting in front of a globe of Azeroth, looking at the map of Northrend.

Zovaal says: Can your mortal minds fathom...

Zovaal says: how long I have waited?

Zovaal says: Every event set in motion.

Zovaal says: Every pawn put into play.

The cutscene transitions to a pre-rendered cinematic, opening with a shot of Icecrown Citadel below the shattered sky.

Zovaal: All to claim the power slumbering within your world.

The camera slowly pans down below ground to the Forge of Souls.

Zovaal: The soul of Azeroth, wounded, vulnerable, yet teeming with potential.

The dormant soul grinders light up and start spinning rapidly. The camera changes to a shot of the Spire, lit up by a yellow glow from the bottom of the citadel. Suddenly, a massive beam of Azerite energy shoots up along the Spire, out of the top of the citadel, and into the top of the Sanctum of Domination looming in the rift above.

Zovaal: Potential that I will use to eradicate this flawed reality.

The cinematic transitions back to an in-game cutscene. The Jailer turns away from the beam of Azerite shooting into the chamber, turning to face the players and materializing his hammer in his hand.

Zovaal: Death claims the soul of your world. Now bear witness, mortals, to eternity's end.

In the Forge of Souls
Azerite shooting up along the Spire
The beam between Icecrown and Torghast

Encounter

Aggro: I will claim what is mine!

Rune of Damnation

Fall to ruin.
Your fate is sealed.

Torment

Break!
Rupture!

Martyrdom: You cannot withstand my power!

Relentless Domination: My will dominates all.

Oppression: Die at my feet!

Phase 2: The power of the First Ones is now mine to wield.

Decimator

Decimation!
Extermination.

Shattering Blast: You will break!

Rune of Compulsion: Reality crumbles.

Phase 3: The Jailer casts Unbreaking Grasp, stunning all players.; For uncounted ages I plotted to break this flawed cycle. To forge a new cosmos... dominated under my will.; All players receive Boon of Azeroth, ending the stun.; The soul of your world defies me?! No matter. It cannot save you.

Chains of Anguish

Anguish binds you!
You are shackled to failure.

Defile

All that you touch is defiled.
Your existence is a blight upon the cosmos.

Rune of Domination: All will be made to serve.

Killing a player

This is your end.
Unmade.
Your failure was inevitable.

Wipe: Every soul has its place... and your souls will know only oblivion.

Closing cinematic

Upon the Jailer's defeat, another pre-rendered cinematic, "The Jailer's Fall", plays:

The Jailer falls to his knees and grunts in pain as the visor on his helmet starts to melt away like smoke. Images briefly flash by of the rift above Icecrown Citadel and the triumphant Jailer in the Crucible after the death of the Arbiter.

Zovaal: This must not be...

The screen flashes to white and changes to showing a foggy memory of a chained Zovaal—not yet covered in Domination runes—being put on trial in the Crucible. The camera shifts to showing his point of view, looking up at Kyrestia the Firstborne.

Kyrestia: You have betrayed your duty as Arbiter, and shall be bound forevermore.

In the Heart of Eternity, Zovaal twists on the ground as more of his armor melts away. In the memory, the Winter Queen pronounces her judgment.

Winter Queen: Your madness has threatened the cycle of life and death entire.

Zovaal's skin starts melting away from his chest, hand, and face as well, gradually reverting to a lifeless metallic vessel. In the memory, Denathrius stretches down an open hand to Zovaal, then closes it into a fist.

Denathrius: You could have sought another way, brother. Imagine what we could have accomplished together.

The camera shifts to showing Zovaal from above, shackled on the ground as the shadow of the Primus looms over him from off-screen.

The Primus: Why, Zovaal? What drove you to this end?

Zovaal strains against his chains and looks up at the Primus. As he speaks, his facial expression changes from one of angry defiance to one resembling concern.

Zovaal: You preserve that which is doomed. A cosmos divided will not survive what is to come.

The camera shifts back to the Heart of Eternity, where the modern-day Zovaal finishes his own sentence, speaking the last three words as his final ones while the light fades from the eyes of his now lifeless vessel. The sigil lodged in the hole at the center of his chest loses its light, fading into an inert orb. On Azeroth, the light beam shooting up from Icecrown disappears while the rift above rapidly closes until the sky is once again intact.

Zovaal's armor dissolving
Kyrestia
The Winter Queen
Zovaal's body dissolving
Denathrius
The past Zovaal on trial
The lifeless vessel of the Jailer
The shattered sky closes

Trivia

In early PTR builds, the Jailer's Adventure Guide entry read: For millenia, Zovaal manipulated forces throughout the universe to place him in this position of power. At this final step, the heroes of Azeroth rally to fight a cosmic being who has never known defeat.

Patch changes

Patch 9.2.0 (2022-02-22): Added.

External links


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