Iragoth, the Eternal Dragon

Iragoth, The Eternal Dragon appears in Rotation 2 in the Doom Tower. This challenging encounter will force you to build a team specifically designed to counter her mechanics. Let’s break it down.

Spike Storm
Attacks all enemies. Places a [Block Active Skills] debuff for 1 turn.

Spirit Rush – 3 Turn Cooldown
Attacks all enemies. Inflicts bonus damage for every turn remaining on all enemy skills’ cooldowns (20% damage for each turn of cooldown). Places a [Fear] debuff on enemies with no skills on cooldown.

Soul Burst – 3 Turn Cooldown
Attacks all enemies. Puts all enemy skills on cooldown. Fills Iragoth’s Turn Meter by 5% for every turn remaining on all enemy skills cooldowns.

Conjure Souls [Passive] – 5 turn Cooldown
Summons three minions at the start of the turn: one Eternal Priest then two Eternal Guards. Iragoth can have a maximum of 3 minions in battle at any time. Places an [Eternal Rage] buff on Iragoth for 2 turns if only one minion is summoned or no minions are summoned by this skill. This buff cannot be removed or blocked. The [Eternal Rage] buff increases Iragoth’s Speed and causes Iragoth to ignore [Unkillable], [Block Damage], [Shield] buffs and ignore 50% of the target’s DEF when attacking.

Consume Soul [Passive]
At the start of the turn, sacrifices an Eternal Priest, resets the cooldowns of Iragoth’s skills, and grants an Extra Turn. If there are no Eternal Priest’s on the team, sacrifices an Eternal Guard and heals Iragoth by 15% of Iragoth’s MAX HP. This skill will be on a 4-Turn cooldown at the start of the battle, and will activate and go on cooldown every 5 turns even if there are no Eternal Priests or Eternal Guards on the team.

Otherworldly [Passive]
Immune to [Stun], [Freeze], [Sleep], [Provoke], [Block Active Skills], [Block Passive Skills], [Fear], [True Fear], [Decrease SPD], [Poison] and [Heal Reduction] debuffs. Also immune to HP exchange effects, HP balancing effects and Turn meter reduction effects.

Almighty Strength [Passive]
Damage from skills that scale based on enemy MAX HP cannot exceed 10% of the boss’ MAX HP when attacking the boss

Allies

Eternal Priest

Bolt Strike
Attacks 1 enemy. Places a [Block Active Skills] debuff for 2 turns.

Unbound Souls [Passive]
Resets the cooldowns of all enemies skills when Eternal Priest is killed by an enemy.

Eternal Guard

Guard Break
Attacks all enemies. Places a 60% [Decrease DEF] debuff for 2 turns. Also places a [Provoke] debuff for 1 turn on enemies under [Block Active Skills] debuffs.

Eternal Protection [Passive]
Decreases the damage taken by allies from AoE attacks by 75%

Iragoth requires careful management of his allies. You don’t want to ignore them as this will give Iragoth his Eternal Rage buff but at the same time attempting to kill all allies at higher levels may result in taking too long to kill Iragoth. The best strategy is to kill the Eternal Priest first. This ensures the Consume Soul passive won’t grant Iragoth an extra turn and it also returns your skills by killing the priest. You will then want to ensure you kill 1 of the Eternal Guards. You can leave 1 Eternal Guard alive. This will mean Iragoth will heal 15% every so often but it will allow you to put more damage towards Iragoth.

Additionally, you will want to bring some form of cleanse or Block Debuffs ability to avoid receiving Block Active Skills debuff. This will avoid your allies becoming provoked by the Eternal Guards.

Once you have managed to deal with the allies, you will then need to mitigate and deal with the damage Iragoth does to your team. Bringing an A1 Decrease Attack is essential otherwise you will find the damage output too great due to the Soul Burst and Spirit Rush multipliers. You should also avoid champions that bring skills with long cooldowns as this will increase his damage for each cooldown by 20%. You can opt for a Decrease Attack champion on a non-A1 ability but you will need to bring enough Resistance on this champion to ensure the skills are not put on Cooldown by Iragoth’s Soul Burst ability.

One thing to note: Iragoth’s abilities themselves can be put on cooldown (this must be done by a Warlord style effect and cannot be done through a Block Active Skills debuff as Iragoth is Immune to this in his Otherworldy Passive). Like all Dragons in Raid, he is immune to any Turn Meter or Decrease Speed effects. He is also immune to poisons so the only true way to deal damage will be skills, Warmaster or Giant Slayers procs and HP Burn.

Main things to Avoid:

1. Champions with long skills cooldowns: Each turn of your cooldowns on your champions increases Iragoth’s Spirit Rush by 20% so avoid excessive cooldowns.
2. Glass cannon builds: Iragoth outputs significant damage even with Decrease ATK therefore you will need your team to be reasonably tanky and capable of taking hits.
3. Low Healing comps: You will need to bring some form of self-healing or skill healing to your comp. You will take a large amount of damage and you cant quickly burst through the encotuner.

Beating Iragoth can be done in a few ways and we have 2 examples of team compositions below! First let’s cover the minimum stats you should aim to hit.

For a full stat breakdown, use our handy Raid Stages Tool which displays enemy stats for every encounter in the game. If you are not already a member of the HellHades community, you can sign up for a Free Account to gain access to this tool. Below we will outline the minimum stats you should aim for:

The key stats you should consider are Accuracy and Speed on your team alongside good HP/Def to survive the damage. If you have champions with skills you want to use, you should look to put enough resistance on the champion to ensure Iragoth cannot reduce their skill cooldowns.

Rotation 2 – Normal

You will face Iragoth on Floor 40, 80 and 120 Normal and is Void Affinity. To be successful, aim for:

• Speed: 161+
• Accuracy: 125+
• Resistance: 275+

Depending on which strategy you choose, you should ensure you have enough HP and Defence to survive this encounter. Generally we advise at least 30k HP and 2800 Defence for Normal.

Rotation 2 – Hard

You will face Iragoth on Floor 40, 80 and 120 Hard and is Void Affinity. To be successful, aim for:

• Speed: 251+
• Accuracy: 355+
• Resistance: 475+

Depending on which strategy you choose, you should ensure you have enough HP and Defence to survive this encounter. Generally we advise at least 50k HP and 3500 Defence for Hard.