March on Quel'Danas Raid Guide

March on Quel'Danas is a two-boss Season 1 raid at the Sunwell. Belo'ren teaches Light vs Void polarity — every mechanic is safe for one color and dangerous for the other. Midnight Falls / L'ura is a three-phase finale with Death's Dirge memory game, Void Core destruction, and Dawn Crystal light management in darkness.

Clear Sunwell approach in one pull — Sentinels patrol in pairs.
Assign Light/Void feather groups before Belo'ren pull; colors swap on Voidlight Convergence.
Place Death's Dirge markers: X, Square (for T), Circle, Diamond, Triangle clockwise around L'ura.
Heal Dawn Crystals to full in Phase 1 — you need them for Phase 3 Torchbearer light.
Lust Belo'ren egg phase and L'ura Phase 2 Galvanize — not pull.
Mythic approach: kill patrols before Sentinels reach terrace or trash respawns.

12.0

Belo'ren, Child of Al'ar

Light/Void polarity encounter. Phoenix phase: soak matching-color dives, interrupt matching-color Ember eruptions, kill embers and their eggs. At 0% phoenix becomes an egg — Phase 2 is the real health bar. 30-second burn windows per egg phase; Ashen Benediction stacks permanent healing reduction.

The fight, in order

Phoenix P1
Match-color soaks, interrupts, ember kills.
Check your feather color after every Voidlight Convergence — colors swap. Soak Light Dive or Void Dive of YOUR color at the outer edge. Matching-color players interrupt Light or Void Eruption on embers. Kill Ember, then destroy the egg within 15 seconds or it rebirths.
Everyone
Death Drop
0% phoenix → egg. Gateway knockup. Lust.
At 0% phoenix health, Belo'ren knocks the raid up and becomes an egg — use warlock gateway through knockup if available. Lust the egg phase, not the phoenix — egg HP is the real boss health bar. Stand in floor zones matching your color during egg burn.
Damage
Egg burn
30s window on egg — real boss health.
Burn the egg hard for 30 seconds with every cooldown — this is your damage window on real HP. Tanks soak Guardian's Edict frontals with matching color only; wrong color buffs boss 20% permanently. Healers pump egg damage window, not raid sustain.
Damage
Reset
Phoenix returns + Ashen Benediction stack.
Phoenix returns after egg phase with another Ashen Benediction stack — permanent 10% healing reduction to the raid. Finish egg phases fast; stacks make phoenix phases deadlier. Heroic: intercept Infused Quills with matching-color players.
Everyone
Kill
Egg to 0% before 6-minute enrage.
Repeat phoenix cycles until egg reaches 0% before the 6-minute enrage. Never soak opposite-color orbs in Radiant Echoes walls — lethal despite 50% reduction. Matching-color players handle interrupts exclusively; wrong color cannot kick eruptions.
Damage

Do this

Check your feather color after every Voidlight Convergence — colors swap.
Soak Light Dive / Void Dive of YOUR color; run dives to the outer edge.
When Embers spawn, only matching-color players interrupt Light/ Void Eruption.
Kill Ember, then destroy the egg within 15 seconds or it rebirths.
Tanks: soak Guardian's Edict frontals with matching color — wrong color buffs boss 20%.
At 0% phoenix: gateway after Death Drop knockup; lust the egg phase.
Stand in floor zones matching your color during egg burn.

Not this

Soaking opposite-color orbs in Radiant Echoes walls — lethal damage.
Wrong-color Guardian's Edict soak — permanent +20% boss damage per stack.
Letting Ember eggs rebirth — raid-wide nuke and add returns.
Lusting phoenix phase instead of egg — real HP is the egg.
Soaking leftover orbs right as Voidlight Convergence swaps your color.
Heroic: unintercepted Infused Quills — wrong color or no intercept hits hard.

On Heroic:

Infused Quills require color intercepts.
Two embers spawn per cycle.
Ashen Benediction stacks hurt faster.

Mechanics

Boss
Add
Tank
Healer
Damage
Get out
Stand here

Check your colour

Every player gets a Light or Void feather.
Each Convergence swaps the colours.
Call your new colour; only touch mechanics that match it.

Voidlight Convergence

After each Convergence, call out your color. Only interact with mechanics matching your feather.

Assigns Light or Void Feather to every player. Colors swap periodically.

Everyone

Pop your colour

A wall of Light and Void orbs crosses the room.
Run into an orb of your own colour.
That opens a gap. Never touch the other colour.

Radiant Echoes

Matching-color player runs into orbs of their color to create gaps. Wrong color takes full damage despite 50% reduction.

Walls of Light and Void orbs cross the room.

Everyone

Edge, then soak

A Dive puts a soak circle on a player.
Take it to the outer edge; a matching colour helps soak.
An Ember spawns there. Kill it, then its egg.

Light / Void Dive

Targeted player runs to outer edge. Matching-color soaker helps soak. Kill Ember, then egg within 15s.

Soak circles on players; matching color must soak. Leaves expanding pool + Ember add.

Everyone

Matching-colour kick

Each Ember channels a raid-wide Eruption.
Only a player of the Ember's colour can interrupt it.
Call a kick order for each Ember type.

Light / Void Eruption

Matching feather player uses Eruption ability to interrupt. Wrong color cannot kick — call interrupt rotation per ember type.

Ember channels raid-wide blast; only matching-color interrupt works.

Everyone

Kill the egg

A dead Ember leaves an egg behind.
It hatches again after 15 seconds.
Kill the egg at once with single-target damage.

Ember Rebirth

Kill egg immediately with single-target. Rebirth deals massive raid damage and resurrects the ember.

Dead embers become eggs; rebirth after 15 seconds.

Damage

Right tank soaks

Each Edict is a Light or Void frontal on the tanks.
The matching-colour tank taunts and soaks it.
The other tank moves clear. A wrong soak enrages the boss.

Guardian's Edict

Matching-color tank taunts and soaks their edict. Other tank moves clear. Never let wrong color get hit.

Light and Void frontal cones on tanks. Wrong-color soak enrages boss +20% permanent.

Tank

Burn the egg

At 0% the phoenix knocks everyone up and becomes an egg.
Stand in the floor zone of your colour.
Lust and burn the egg for 30 seconds.

Death Drop / Egg Phase

Warlock gateway through knockup. Lust and burn egg 30 seconds. Stand in color-matching floor zones.

Phoenix at 0% knocks raid up, becomes egg. Egg HP is real boss health.

Damage

Finish eggs fast

Every egg phase adds a stack: 10% less healing, for good.
Healers plan for weaker healing each cycle.
Finish egg phases fast to keep stacks low.

Ashen Benediction

Finish egg phases fast — stacks make phoenix phases deadlier. Healers: plan reduced throughput.

Each egg phase cycle adds permanent 10% healing reduction to raid.

Healer

Intercept by colour

Each quill flies at a player.
A player of the quill's colour steps into its path.
Intercepting halves the damage; a miss hits the raid.

Infused Quills

Matching-color player stands in quill path between quill and target. Wrong color or no intercept = raid damage.

Heroic+: Void/Light quills target players; matching color intercept halves damage.

Everyoneheroic onlymythic only

Your job

Tank

Soak Guardian's Edict with matching feather only.
Taunt swap so correct color faces each frontal.
Call color before each Edict combo.
During egg phase, help kill embers if any spawn.

Healer

Track Ashen Benediction stacks — throughput drops each cycle.
Pre-shield matching-color dive soakers.
Egg phase: pump egg damage window, not raid sustain.
Heroic: quill intercept damage spikes.

Damage

Ember → egg is always first priority in phoenix phase.
Save burst for egg — lust egg, not phoenix.
Matching-color players handle interrupts exclusively.
Pop Radiant Echoes gaps for raid movement.

From the Encounter JournalBlizzard's own notes and ability list for Belo'ren, Child of Al'ar

Belo'ren guards the Sunwell with both Light and Void magic. His Voidlight Convergence infuses players with either Light or Void, protecting them from one while leaving them vulnerable to the other. When his health is depleted, Belo'ren retreats into an ashen egg and begins to cast Rebirth. Players must damage Belo'ren to diminish his Immortal Flame before he is reborn anew.

Damage

Light Feather reduces incoming Holy damage. Void Feather reduces incoming Shadow damage.
Damage from Light Dive and Void Dive is split evenly between all players hit.

Healers

Light Feather reduces incoming Holy damage. Void Feather reduces incoming Shadow damage.
Light Burn and Void Burn absorb significant healing and inflict damage over time until fully healed.

Tanks

Light Feather reduces incoming Holy damage. Void Feather reduces incoming Shadow damage.
Failing to hit a player with Guardian's Edict empowers Belo'ren, significantly increasing his damage.

Stage One: Phoenix RebornBelo'ren ascends in his majestic phoenix form wielding the power of the radiant Light and devouring Void.
Stage Two: Ashen ShellAs Belo'ren falls he retreats into an ashen egg and kindles the fire of rebirth.
- Rebirth
  - Ashen Benediction
- Incubation of Flames
  - Light Flames
  - Void Flames

From Blizzard's Encounter Journal (game data API). Ability tooltips via Wowhead.

The fight, in order

Phoenix P1

Death Drop

Egg burn

Reset

Kill

Do this

Not this

Mechanics

Voidlight Convergence

Radiant Echoes

Light / Void Dive

Light / Void Eruption

Ember Rebirth

Guardian's Edict

Death Drop / Egg Phase

Ashen Benediction

Infused Quills

Your job

Tank

Healer

Damage

Damage

Healers

Tanks

The fight, in order

Phoenix P1

Death Drop

Egg burn

Reset

Kill

Do this

Not this

Mechanics

Voidlight Convergence

Radiant Echoes

Light / Void Dive

Light / Void Eruption

Ember Rebirth

Guardian's Edict

Death Drop / Egg Phase

Ashen Benediction

Infused Quills

Your job

Tank

Healer

Damage

Damage

Healers

Tanks