Illidari Council The Illidari Council is a group of four blood elf bosses in the Black Temple . The fight is comparable to High King Maulgar since it sports a difficult pull and a rather chaotic battle for survival , which requires high situational awareness and fast reflexes from all raid members . Note as of patch 4 . 0 . 1 , several players are experiencing bugs with this fight ; the bosses are healing themselves for large amounts ( outside of Circle of Healing ) or being unable to die once they reach 1HP . Abilities . All four bosses share a common health pool of initially 4 , 300 , 000 HP . Damage done to any boss is deducted from this pool , they automatically all die when the pool is depleted . They will Enrage in 15 minutes . Preparation . All raid members must have at least 11k HP buffed . A rogue wearing Gladiator ' s Leather Gloves is extremely useful ( for the ranged physical spell interrupt ) . The Pull . Similar to High King Maulgar , a correct pull is difficult to set up , but extremely important . In order of precedence , the mobs should be assigned as follows : Gnomes can experience line of sight issues when attempting the pull . They need to either go to the top of the platform or change their character model ( e . g . with or ) . Pet Pull . The critical element is the mage , who may easily die if one of the other bosses attacks him . It ' s possible to start the fight with an Imp ( or other pet ) , which then takes the first Arcane Bolt . This gives the raid a second or so to get the mobs under control . Of course , the mage tank must give the pet just a split second head start , and gain Aggro on Zerevor ( and spellsteal ) as quickly as possible . Tanking . Lady Malandes heals must be interrupted under all circumstances , and all her other spells should be interrupted as much as possible . Since she ' s the preferred target of Gathios ' blessings , she ' s invulnerable to one type of damage ( physical or magic ) most of the time . Therefore a total of four interrupters should stay on her - two physical and two magical . Curse of Tongues , Deathfrost and Mind Numbing Poison are highly recommended . If there ' s some AoE on her spot and she ' s blessed vs . magic , a last resort is to have a Rogue wearing the PvP gloves interrupt her by throwing . The group tanking / interrupting her must call out the target if a Divine Wrath gets through , so that the raid healers can adjust . High Nethermancer Zerevors Dampen Magic must be spellstolen as frequently as possible . Everybody must keep at least 10 yards away from him to avoid arcane explosion . Gathios the Shatterer is the main DPS target . The main tank should use spell reflect when the Seal of Command is Judged ( this happens in regular intervals ) . The melee damage dealers must be extra careful never to attack him from the front , since an increase of his attack speed ( after a parry ) can mean near - instant death for the MT . This is particularly difficult , because if there ' s some AoE taking place , the tank has to move . The best practice is to stop melee until Gathios stands still in his new location . Aggro ( on Gathios ) is not an issue , because the spell reflects create a lot of threat . After the second reflected Judgement , all damage dealers can safely ignore their threat meters and go all - out . After a Vanish , Veras temporarily ignores his aggro list , until he ' s hit again by the tank . A druid or paladin tank is therefore better suited for this task than a warrior . If a warrior must tank him , it ' s highly advisable to set up an macro which follows an Intercept or Intervene directly with an Autoattack . Healing . Two healers on the main tank , one on each of the three other tanks , remaining healers on raid heal . The whole raid has to watch out for a lot of different AoE effects . There ' s about six different types of AoE and debuffs which can occur , and there is nothing predictable . Raid members must be very quick to run out of AoEs , and healers must be extremely alert to heal through some poison debuff or other damage , while evading AoEs themselves . Tips . One tactic that can help your tank locate Veras Darkshadow after a vanish is to have a hunter make the a spamable macro to mark Veras before he reappears . This should put a big red arrow over Veras about 3 seconds before he reappears .