This page covers a healer-focused strategy for Illidari Council in the Black Temple in The Burning Crusade. While it's tailored for healers, other roles may also find the information useful. If you have any suggestions or feedback, you can leave a comment below or tweet @PrestonDvorak.

This guide has been updated and maintained based on my own experiences with the encounter, combat log information, and Dungeon Journal information. I'll continue to update it as-needed.

General Mechanics and Abilities

During this encounter, players will be fighting against the four members of the council at the same time.

• All Council members share a health pool due to Balance of Power
• Gathios the Shatterer
  • Dispel Hammer of Justice (magic) to remove the stun effect.
  • Avoid the location of Consecration.
  • Can have one of two Blessings active at a time.
    • Blessing of Protection grants immunity to all physical attacks.
    • Blessing of Spell Warding grants immunity to all magic attacks.
  • Can have one of two Seals active at a time, along with using its corresponding Judgement.
    • Seal of Blood causes melee attacks to deal additional damage.
      • The tank will be dealing with moderate damage over time from Judgement of Blood.
    • Seal of Command causes melee attacks to have a chance to deal addition damage.
      
      • The tank will be dealing with heavy damage from Judgement of Command.
  • Can have one of two Auras active at a time, affecting himself and enemies within 30-yards.
    • Devotion Aura increases armor.
    • Chromatic Resistance Aura increases resistances.
• High Nethermancer Zerevor
  
  • Commonly tanked by a Mage.
  • The tank will be dealing with Arcane Bolt.
  • Stay more than 10-yards away to avoid Arcane Explosion
  • Purge Dampen Magic to remove the decreased damage taken from spells effect.
    • Ideally, the Mage tank will Spellsteal this.
  • Avoid the locations of Blizzard and Flamestrike.
• Lady Malande
  • The tank will be dealing with Empowered Smite.
  • Interrupt Circle of Healing to prevent the healing on all enemies.
  • When possible, interrupt Divine Wrath to prevent the moderate damage and moderate damage over time.
  • While the damage absorption effect from Reflective Shield is active, a portion of damage taken is reflected back at players.
• Veras Darkshadow
  
  • Vanishes and applies Deadly Poison to random players before deals heavy damage to an affected player with Envenom.

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Resistance Levels

• Players generally won't make use of any additional Resistances on this encounter.

Healing Notes

Quick Notes

The notes below mostly pertain to progression difficulty, meaning if you out-gear the encounter or use extra healers they may not apply.

• Use Cooldowns
  
  • while Reflective Shield is active
  • as-needed if too many players are hit by Consecration, Blizzard, or Flamestrike
• Other things to watch for
  • Keep players affected by Deadly Poison near full health to ensure they survive if targeted by Envenom.

Debuffs to Track

Major

• Hammer of Justice (dispel, magic) should be dispelled immediately.
• Dampen Magic should be purged, or spell-stolen by the Mage tank.
• Judgement of Blood causes players to need moderate healing over time.
• Divine Wrath causes players to need moderate healing over time.

Minor

• Deadly Poison causes players to need light healing over time.
• Flamestrike causes players to need moderate healing over time.

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Useful Addons

DBM Settings

Below are the DBM settings I'll be using for Illidari Council in the Black Temple. You can set them up however you'd like, but these ones should work well as a starting point.

Healer DBM Settings for Illidari Council

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