Drahga Shadowburner

Drahga Shadowburner is the third boss of the Grim Batol 5-player dungeon in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. He's a member of the Twilight's Hammer.

''This Twilight's Hammer courier is on a mission from the Bastion of Twilight. Should heroes overcome his fiery minions, Drahga will reveal a portent of doom for Azeroth's defenders.''

Drahga Shadowburner fights the players alone until he reaches 30% remaining health. He will then call on Valiona to join the fight. Drahga then continues to fight the players from on top of Valiona's back.

Valiona joins the fight when Drahga Shadowburner reaches 30% remaining health. She will fight with Drahga until she reaches 20% remaining health, when she ejects Drahga and leaves him to face the players alone.

When Drahga yells yell or yell, a patch of fire appear on the ground. After a few seconds, an elemental will spawn at the patch and fixate on a random party member. If the elemental reaches the chosen party member, it will likely kill them. It is imperative that everyone moves away from the fire patch, DPS focuses on the elemental after it spawns (applying stuns and snares if possible), and the targeted person keeps away from the elemental until it is killed.

Eventually, Drahga will mount Valiona. During this phase everyone needs to stay out of Shredding Swipe (a ground-based AoE zone), and, on heroic difficulty, out of Valiona's frontal cone Devouring Flames. Note that Devouring Flames is cast in a random direction, so everyone needs to move out of its way. Drahga will continue casting fireballs at random party members and summoning elemental adds during this phase.

• Intro
• say
• say
• say

• Aggro
• yell

• Summoning Invoked Flaming Spirit
• yell
• yell

• Summoning Valiona
• yell
• yell

• Killing a player
• yell
• yell

• Valiona defeated
• yell

• Death
• yell

• Drahga's quote "BY FIRE BE...BURNED!" is a play on Ragnaros' famous quote BY FIRE BE PURGED! Likewise, the quote "You should have come better prepared!" is a play on Illidan's catchphrase.
• Strangely both Drahga's voice and name sound more female than male. This might mean that he was meant to be a female but was changed into a male in the last development phase, and both voice and name remained, possibly due to an oversight. What is certainly an oversight is that Drahga and Valiona have the exact same voice.
• Drahga is voiced by David Lodge.