Ahune Ahune is a frost elemental lord in Neptulon ' s service . The Twilight ' s Hammer plan to have him battle Ragnaros to start an elemental war on Azeroth . During the Midsummer Fire Festival , players encounter Ahune by entering a special variation of the Slave Pens instance . A player queues for the special instance through the Dungeon Finder or by talking to a particular event NPC in a major city . Entering the instance in this way places the party in the second room of the Slave Pens , near an Ice Stone . The Ice Stone is then activated to summon Ahune . General information . Ahune is immune to frost . Players can continually queue for Ahune , but will only receive the once per day . Those who kill Ahune for the first time will receive Shards of Ahune , which begins a quest . Make sure to click on the item to start before leaving the area , as the quest NPC is Luma Skymother inside the instance . Strategy . Phase 1 . The base idea is simple : Kill adds until he submerges and nuke him down . Ahune will start by summoning an Ahunite Hailstone , an elite frost elemental that will need to be tanked . It has a Chilling Aura , which applies a stacking DoT effect to everyone in close to it . Ideally , only melee classes will be affected by it . Ahune also continually spawns smaller water elemental adds that have a small amount of hp ( about 13k ) , but hit quite hard on cloth and tend to attack whoever is on top of the global threat ( which will most likely be a healer ) . These should be killed as fast as possible . Ahune himself only takes 25 % damage during this phase . While ranged can DPS Ahune freely ( albeit weakly ) , anyone entering melee range with Ahune will suffer a large amount of frost damage and be knocked back a significant distance . Phase 2 starts approximately 90 seconds later . Note that all the adds are immune or substantially resistant to frost effects . Death knights may need to alter their tanking strategies on this fight . Phase 2 . Ahune will submerge and his Frozen Core will become vulnerable . Ahune continues casting Ice Spear during this phsae , but will otherwise not attack or spawn adds , even when players get within melee range . He will remain submerged for 30 seconds ; everyone including the tank should dps the core as hard as possible , taking care to avoid the ice spears and not slip on the icy patches . When Ahune emerges , he will return to phase 1 and begin the cycle again . Each time he restarts the cycle he will spawn more adds , however , so you will need to kill him before the adds overwhelm your group . Loot . Like other holiday bosses , Ahune ' s drops can be sold but not disenchanted . Level 85 drops . The following items only dropped from the level 85 version of Ahune ( 2011 - 2012 ) , and are listed here for historical purposes only . From the Ice Chest object ( 2011 - 12 ) : Level 80 drops . The following items only dropped from the level 80 version of Ahune ( 2010 ) , and are listed here for historical purposes only . From the Ice Chest object ( 2008 - 9 ) : Level 70 drops . The following items only dropped from the level 70 version of Ahune ( 2008 - 9 ) , and are listed here for historical purposes only . Note . When first added , Ahune appeared in the standard Slave Pens instance , in both normal and heroic versions . The 2010 revision to the event ( increasing Ahune to level 82 ) moved it to a specialized instance where the normal Slave Pens mobs do not appear .