Akil ' zon ( original ) Akil ' zon is the Amani lord of eagles . He is one of the four animal bosses in the Zul ' Aman instance . He guards the cage containing Harkor as part of the Zul ' Aman Timed Event . Trash . Before facing Akil ' zon the group must complete a small Gauntlet event . For more details on the event and strategy on how to complete it successfully , see Akil ' zon gauntlet . Strategy . This fight focuses on player positioning . Players should form a semi - circle around the boss , maintaining 8 yards or more between each other to prevent Static Disruption from hitting multiple people at once . Healers will need to keep all raid members ' health high - - Akil ' zon will sometimes cast Gust of Wind on a player and then follow up with a Static Disruption . Recommended positions for this fight are for all ranged members to spread out around the left or right side of the platform . This will reduce the overall area in which the raid is spread out and reduce the maximum distance anyone will need to run to get under the Electrical Storm . This fight discourages stacking melee classes because they will often share Static Disruption . If using more than two melee classes , assign two with markers and have additional melee stack on one or the other . The marked melee should attempt to be as far from each other as possible . Disruptions will hit all stacked members , but this will reduce the overall jumps . Electrical Storm . Akil ' zon will create an Electrical Storm centered on a random player in the raid . This person will be lifted into the air and a cloud emanating lighting bolts will form around them . There will also be a black circle on the ground . All raid members must move into the very center of the storm ( calm in the eye ) as the damage received from the storm will kill most players in only a few seconds . Players with the Static Disruption debuff will take increased damage . The Electrical Storm ability is on a 45 second cooldown , which begins when he is initially aggroed . Because this is a cooldown to his ability and not a timed use , the actual case point can appear random . Generally the best approach to dealing with Electrical Storm is for the entire raid to collapse at 10 to 5 seconds before the storm cooldown is up ( this is the time tracked by mods such as Deadly Boss Mods or BigWigs ( AddOn ) ) . Collapse Method 1 . Raid members should collapse towards the boss but attempt to spread out slightly so that any Static Disruptions cast will chain to as few people as possible . People should begin collapsing towards the boss with 5 seconds left on the storm cooldown timer . This method greatly benefits from group heals as the group will likely take one or more static disruptions before the storm appears . Attempt to keep everyone above 50 % as best as possible . Notes regarding this method : Collapse Method 2 . Using timers to establish when to collapse during this fight is risky because of the unpredictability of the Storm ability . The full raid taking more than one Static Disruption at this point will typically result in a wipe . Alternative strategies require large amounts of awareness on the part of the entire raid and will often result in the raid wiping because the storm spawned far away from the other nine people that were collapsing . Set group based collapse points : This method results in a 50 % reduction of post - cooldown pre - storm Static Disruption damage making healing much easier for the healers but can be less attractive for groups attempting the timer as melee will likely be unable to contribute DPS to the boss during the storm . Listening . The following sound settings can be used to allow you to hear when Akil ' zon is about to use Electrical Storm . In the sound menu , maximize Ambiance : Before the fight all you should hear are birds chirping . During the fight , you will hear the storm roll in ! Eagles . After the first Electrical Storm , Akil ' zon will call forth his " bruddahs " which will bring some Soaring Eagles into the fight . They are different from the birds you met during the gauntlet run to the boss . They fly in the air and dive - attack random party members . That means melee dps and off - tanking is useless against them . These eagles have Eagle Swoop which hits for around 1500 . Warlocks can seed , hunters can shoot down , mages can fireball , and shaman can chain lightning . They move very quickly across the boss area and some players may find it difficult to finish casting a spell before they are behind the player or out of range . Strategies . There are several strategies for dealing with the birds : Loot . For the timed event loot , see the Zul ' Aman timed event article . Wrath of the Lich King . Akil ' zon does a brief return after the quest , where it along with the other now freed animal aspects tell the player to meet with the leopard goddess , Har ' koa . He is also summoned after the quest , where the gods tell the player to defeat the guardians at the Altar of Quetz ' lun and kill the Prophet of Akali .