Before beginning the Halion fight it is important to note that you should split your raid into two teams each consisting of at least 1 tank and enough healers to keep each team alive. Additionally each team should be able to do  damage comparable to one another, because in the third phase of the Halion fight you will be forced to fight Halion between the Physical Realm and the Twilight Realm at the same time.  More information provided below.

Abilities

Phase 1: Physical Realm

• Twilight Precision – Increases Halion’s chance to hit by 5% and decreases all players’ chance to dodge by 20%.
• Flame Breath – Inflicts 17,500 to 22,500 Fire damage to players in front of Halion.
• Meteor Strike – Inflicts 18,750 to 21,250 Fire damage to enemies within 12 yards of the targeted area. Takes about 5 seconds to land. Shoots X-shaped lines of fire after it hits the ground.

• Fiery Combustion – Inflicts 4,000 Fire damage every 2 seconds for 30 seconds to a random raider. Every time Fiery Combustion does damage, it applies a stackable Mark of Combustion.

  • Mark of Combustion – Has no immediate effect on the target. When removed (by either magic-remover or curse-remover, or after 30 seconds) it causes a Combustion of size proportional the the number of Marks.
  • Combustion – Inflicts 2,625 to 3,375 Fire damage every second to targets that remain within the explosion area. Combustion has 6 yards radius. Also knocks nearby players back with Fiery Combustion.

Phase 2: Twilight Realm

• Twilight Precision – Increases Halion’s chance to hit by 5% and decreases all players’ chance to dodge by 20%.
• Dark Breath – Inflicts 17,500 to 22,500 Shadow damage to players in front of Halion.
• Dusk Shroud – Inflicts 3,000 Shadow damage every 2 seconds to everyone in the Twilight Realm.

• Shadow Pulsars – Summons two Shadow Pulsars at the two ends of one the fighting area’s diameters. The Pulsars slowly circle the area, beaming a Twilight Cutter for 10 seconds, then resting for 20 seconds, then beaming another Cutter.

  • Twilight Cutter – Inflicts 13,875 to 16,125 Shadow damage every second to players touched by the shadow beam.

• Soul Consumption – Inflicts 4,000 Shadow damage every 2 seconds for 30 seconds to a random raider. Every time Soul Consumption does damage, it applies a stackable Mark of Consumption.

  • Mark of Consumption – Has no immediate effect on the target. When removed (by either magic-remover or curse-remover, or after 30 seconds) it causes a Consumption of size proportional the the number of Marks.
  • Consumption – Inflicts 2,625 to 3,375 Shadow damage every second to targets that remain within the explosion area. Combustion has 6 yards radius. Also pulls nearby players to its center with Soul Consumption.

Phase 3: Split

• Twilight Precision – Increases Halion’s chance to hit by 5% and decreases all players’ chance to dodge by 20%.
• Corporeality – Halion takes and and does more damage in the realm he takes less damage in. At 0% and 100% Corporeality, Halion does and takes 400% extra damage in one of the realms, and no damage in the other.
• Physical Realm – Halion continues using his abilities from phase 1 when fighting players in the physical realm.
• Twilight Realm – Halion continues using his abilities from phase 2 when fighting players in the twilight realm.

Phase 1 Physical Realm

Halion will instantly summon a ring of fire around him which will define the combat area for the remainder of the fight.  Have your main tank pick up Halion and move him to the edge of the fire in order to give your raid more maneuvering room. Have the Tank face Halion away from the raid in order to avoid any frontal attacks.

The first phase should be something we are all accustomed to by now, every so often Halion will cast Fiery Combustion on a “ranged” player which will cause 4000 damage every 2 seconds for 30 seconds as well as begin to stack Mark of Combustion on the player which can be removed with a decurse or magic removal.  Once either the Mark of Combustion reaches 30 seconds or it is removed the player will explode causing fire damage and a knock back to players within range of them. The range of the explosion is dependant upon how many marks of consumption are on the player when it is removed.  In addition the player will lay consumption around himself after the explosion which inflicts 2,625-3,375 shadow damage every second, the radius of the Consumption is dependant of how many Marks of Consumption are on the player when Fiery Consumption is removed. The trick is to have the debuffed player run away from the raid once they have the debuff and to remove it as quickly as possible to limit the radius of the Consumtion.

There will also be a Meteor Strike ability  that targets a player in the raid and drops a meteor out of the sky and producing a flaming X on the ground which needs to be avoided.  Players can identify when a meteor is about to land by the consecration like feature which appear on the ground about 5 seconds before the meteor strikes.

Once Halion reaches 75% a portal will spawn which looks exactly like the portal from the Twilight Sanctum and all players should enter it beginning phase 2 in the Twilight Realm.

Phase 2 Twilight Realm

Halion should be positioned in the middle once you enter the Twilight Realm, be sure to keep him in the center during this phase in fact think about the rest of this fight as a balance game. Have the tank on the front side of Halion while the rest of the raid is behind him. The twilight phase is very similar to phase 1- instead of flame breath Halion will cast Dark Breath which will still place a stackable Mark of Combustion debuff on the “ranged” raid memeber, but this instead of a knock back on the Combustion the effect will suck players in towards the explosion area.

This time their wont be any Meteor Strike however he will cast to shadow Pulsars which will appear exactly opposite of each other on the edge of the combat area. These orbs will make what looks like some sort of electrical connection dividing the combat area in half and slowly start circling around the combat area.  The Raid will have to move around the area being careful not to cross the beams.  If a player does cross the beam he will be inflicted with massive amounts of damage, in addition to a brutal verbal bashing by his raid leader.

Once Halion reaches 50% inside the Twilight Realm a portal back to the physical realm will appear.

Phase 3 Corporeality Phase

Once the portal back to the physical realm appear signaling the beginning of phase 3 the raid will be split up into two teams.  One team will enter the portal returning to the same scenario as phase 1 while the other team remains int he twilight realm continuing with Phase 2.  You should split your teams equally with at least 1 tank on each side and balancing your healers and DPS as necessary to do comparable damage while still being able to maintain sufficient healing.

Halion needs to be DPS’d at an equal rate on both sides, if one realm starts to kill Halion quicker than the other Halion will become increasingly stronger on the other side.  Ideally you want to stay at about the same rate with little variance. The portal back and forth will remain open so you can make any on the spot corrections as needed.

Her is a break down of the Corporeality-

• Corporeality < 50% – Halion does and takes more damage in the Twilight Realm. He does and takes less damage in the physical one.
• Corporeality = 50% – Halion does and takes normal damage in both realms.
• Corporeality > 50% – Halion does and take more damage in the Physical Realm. He does and takes less damage in the twilight one.

You should try to keep Halion’s corporeality between 40% and 60%.

If you would like to view the loot table for the Ruby Sanctum you can check it out here.

Ruby Sanctum Loot Table