Lasts 6 seconds. Primary Abilities. Molten Flame After 1. Drains 30 Energy per second. Incinerate After 0. Onslaught After 0. Again, take heroes that can macro well so you don't fall behind against the global. Use long-range skillshots and decently-bursty, long range AA heroes to grind Deathwing down. He can't heal, so trading his HP down is a viable strategy. Do note that Deathwing, similar to Dehaka, can global in to engage the teamfight.
This makes it so he doesn't have to close the gap that you rely on to wear him down. When you hear Deathwings take-off audio and see him disappear off the map, pull back, because a teamfight started with a Deathwing in the backline of a poke composition is a teamfight lost for sure.
As always, there are solutions to the presented problem. Is Deathwing OP or not? Time will tell. However, I see a lot of people missplay or missunderstand how to interact with Deathwing and I think that's a major cause of frustration. It feels bad when you get raidbossed. Try to understand the wincondition of your team and get your potato squad on board with the gameplan. When you play against Deathwing, you can't afford bad macro draft it's a weakness of his and a bunch of awkward heroes.
Source: Original link. Mods asked me to make a very basic version of my guides as a potential sidebar guide that also links to my other guides:. Deathwing's Strengths and Weaknesses. Outstanding burst damage Immune to any form of crowd control Global re-deployment thanks to Dragonflight Great at pushing and sieging enemy Structures.
Cannot be affected by allies' buffs or healing Slow casting animations Poor in-combat mobility Weak against high mobility Heroes. Deathwing's Talent Build Cheatsheet. Molten Flame Build Recommended. Level 1? Level 4. Level 7. Level 10? Level Copy build to clipboard Build copied! Talent calculator ». When playing this Build, you should heavily prefer World Breaker Form. Basic Attacks Build Situational. Level 1. Dragonflight Build Situational. Level 7? See our Talents page for further information ».
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See our Abilities page for further information ». However, the gronn did not take kindly to Deathwing and his black dragons trying to take over their territory and conflict arose between the two races. They were after the Skull of Gul'dan which Deathwing possessed he demanded it as payment from Ner'zhul. After that, Gruul and his ogre minions, along with the heroes, challenged Deathwing from his perch in Gorgrond — killing his eggs and impaling his lesser black drakes on the mountain spikes.
Infuriated by this act, Deathwing landed on top of them and attacked Gruul. Although clearly no match for the mad Aspect 's power, Gruul was saved by Khadgar 's miraculous spell when he disassembled some of the adamantium plates that were holding Deathwing's unstable body together resulting in Deathwing's retreat.
Having escaped back to Azeroth, Deathwing ended up in a fight with some of the archmagi of Dalaran and feigned defeat, falling into the sea, where most of the council assumed at the time that he died. Soon after Ner'zhul recklessly opened multiple portals on Draenor, the magical stress tore the planet apart. The energies released in this catastrophe altered Deathwing's eggs, resulting in the nether drakes : partially corporeal and partially ethereal dragons who possess the ability to shift between the astral and physical planes.
Without Deathwing's guidance, these otherworldly nether drakes are just now finding their own way among the blasted ruins of Outland. Deathwing, posing as Lord Daval Prestor, managed to make himself popular with King Terenas and the kings of the Alliance nations, and for a while had a strong influence in the decisions of state. Lord Prestor was a minor noble, dispossessed and without backing, who came from the north.
He and a handful of his close family traveled by foot — no mounts, not even any servants or guards — to the Capital City of Lordaeron, where he presented himself to King Terenas. When debating on what to do with Lord Aiden Perenolde , the treacherous king of Alterac , right after the Second War ended, Prestor advised Terenas to depose Lord Perenolde and declare martial law in the Alterac region.
Although no one had heard of him prior to five years before the Battle of Grim Batol , [12] Prestor claimed bloodlines in the royal house of Alterac [12] ensuring he was a distant cousin to Aliden Perenolde. Greymane supported Perenolde's nephew in his claim for the throne of Alterac.
Trollbane advocated dividing it between Lordaeron and Stromgarde. Realizing that neither situation was acceptable and that Lordaeron could not simply annex it, Terenas — telepathically coerced by Prestor — believed that a strong leader trusted by the Alliance leadership should be put in place as King of Alterac, and he declared Lord Prestor as his choice to take that position. Terenas was even prepared to give Prestor the hand of his daughter, Princess Calia , in the coming years as part of a marriage alliance between the new king of Alterac and the king of Lordaeron.
Deathwing's ultimate goal was to obtain a high level of power and influence within the Alliance, so he could destroy it from within. He had begun his campaign against the Alliance by pitting the kingdoms of Lordaeron, Stromgarde, Gilneas, and Kul Tiras against the Kirin Tor of Dalaran - who Deathwing considered threats to his new identity. Because of that, the Kirin Tor of Dalaran had their misgivings.
The red dragon Korialstrasz — in his guise as Krasus, a member of the Kirin Tor high council — attempted to penetrate the chateau of Lord Prestor, setting off a very powerful spell-trap known as the Endless Hunger.
The powerful energies maimed him, but Krasus was able to discover who he truly was. Two other members of the high council, Drenden and Modera , saw that Prestor was a complete blank magically, implying that he possessed great power — "possibly almost as powerful as Medivh ", as Modera put it. The fact that the Alliance leaders, including the normally stubborn Greymane, had given Prestor their support, and the fact that King Terenas appeared to be leaving Dalaran out of the loop entirely, increased the Kirin Tor's suspicions about this unusual man.
The orcs of the Dragonmaw clan at Grim Batol kept their hold over Alexstrasza, even though the bulk of the Horde had already been defeated. Deathwing tried to frighten the Dragonmaw orcs into believing that the humans were attacking Grim Batol, so that they would move Alexstrasza and her eggs north to Dun Algaz ; this left her eggs vulnerable.
Deathwing hoped to steal Alexstrasza's latest cache for himself to create a new dragonflight; though bearing the crimson scales of the Dragonqueen, they would be raised by Deathwing and carry his hatred for the mortal races. Deathwing used his pawns to manipulate the mage Rhonin , who had been sent to Grim Batol by Krasus, as part of a plan to free Alexstrasza.
He saved the young mage several times and helped him reach Grim Batol, hoping that his appearance inside the mountain fortress would further convince Nekros to flee from it. Though the orcs were convinced and began leaving Grim Batol, Deathwing's attack on the caravan, however, failed. Nekros tried to use the Demon Soul on Deathwing but was unsuccessful due to the disk having no power over the black dragon.
He then sent Tyranastrasz , old and sick, to stop the Deathwing, but he failed and was killed. At the behest of Krasus, the three remaining free aspects, Malygos , Ysera and Nozdormu , grudgingly decided to come out of their lairs and attack Deathwing.
However, due to the power they had given to the Demon Soul, they were no match for the black leviathan. Furthermore, he discovered its weakness and destroyed it, releasing all the powers of the dragons who had given their power ten thousand years earlier. Deathwing was sent retreating with four very angry, fully-empowered Dragon Aspects on his heels, though he managed to elude them in the end.
Shortly after the battle of Grim Batol, Lord Daval Prestor vanished under unusual circumstances when Deathwing was forced to go into hiding, with his chateau abandoned and his servants gone. Deathwing's influence over the nobles disappeared along with him. Onyxia and Nefarian , offspring of Deathwing and masters of the black dragonflight in the absence of their father, have tried to control the world. Onyxia followed in her father's footsteps by taking the Prestor name to attempt to manipulate the Alliance.
She posed as a human counselor named Katrana Prestor for the new child King of Stormwind. He was able to enslave the Blackrock Clan orcs who served him on the top of the mountain, the Blackrock Spire.
This section concerns content related to The Burning Crusade. In a brief dialogue with Overlord Mor'ghor , Lady Sinestra Sintharia revealed that Deathwing survived the events of the Battle of Grim Batol, and seeks the Netherwing eggs to continue Nefarian's experiments.
Deathwing's consort Sintharia serves as the primary antagonist of Night of the Dragon , carrying on Deathwing's experiments of creating twilight dragons. Deathwing himself does not appear until the end of the novel, where it is revealed he is using the research of his children and consort to perfect the creation of the Twilight dragonflight.
Some time after Sinestra's death, Deathwing retrieved her corpse and used the power of N'Zoth to reanimate her for the sole purpose of creating more eggs to turn into twilight dragons. Deathwing first made his debut in World of Warcraft as a cameo appearance during the battle against the Old God Yogg-Saron , inside Ulduar. He appears in human form and under his original name of Neltharion and is featured along with all the other Aspects in a flashback that depicts the creation of the Dragon Soul , ten thousand years earlier.
Cataclysm marked the return of Deathwing and his wrath constituted a world-changing event known as the Shattering. He plays a part in a number of quests as well as the achievement [ Stood in the Fire ] and is also the final boss encounter of the expansion.
He is the last of the Dragon Aspects to appear in dragon form in the game, and is the third one that can be confronted by raids or dungeons the first being Malygos and second Nozdormu in the corrupted form of Murozond. Deathwing rising from the Maelstrom. Deathwing unleashing destruction on Azeroth after bursting forth from the Elemental Plane.
After the battle at Grim Batol, Deathwing returned to Deepholm , the realm of the earth elementals , to recuperate. When he arrived, the native stone dragons flocked to his side, easily swayed by the Old God -amplified power of the Aspect of Earth.
Hidden away inside the Stonecore in the Temple of Earth , Deathwing waited, recovering from the wounds of his last battle against the forces of Azeroth. As he bided his time until he could reforge the world in molten fire, the Twilight's Hammer toiled over him, forging a new armor of elementium plates that were then hammered to the Dragon Aspect's skin to hold his tormented body together. In recent years, the whisperings of the Old Gods had gotten worse; the Old Ones' dread power steadily increased as C'Thun and Yogg-Saron stirred from their ancient slumbers, and the growing influence of the Old Gods magnified Deathwing's power ten-fold.
From within his lair in the elemental plane of Deepholm, Deathwing awoke from his slumber and literally erupted into the world. His explosion into Azeroth was so powerful that it tore a rift between the Elemental Plane and Azeroth and caused earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and floods, reshaping the very face of the world.
Very few lands have remained untouched in the wake of the devastating Shattering. Stormwind City got its share of the destruction when Deathwing swooped into it and crashed down on the city gates.
The entire park was blown away, and his searing heat caused the towers where he landed to glow red until they were fully repaired. Afterward, he flew off, something which puzzled the city guards as they are certain he would be able to destroy the entire city if he wanted to. Following his explosive escape from Deepholm, Deathwing cast a deadly shadow over the people of Azeroth. Deathwing randomly chose zones to attack; a reddened sky was the only warning before every living creature caught in his approach was consumed by his terrible fire and killed.
Dying in this manner rewarded the [ Stood in the Fire ] achievement. Deathwing continued strafing random zones "until his ruinous reign was brought to an end" until the end of patch 4. The main storyline quest of the Badlands in Cataclysm is centered around Rheastrasza and her research of the black dragonflight and of a way of purifying them.
She has captured the black dragon, Nyxondra , and forces her to lay eggs for the experiments. She feels pity for the black dragon but knows it is for the greater good. After succeeding in creating a purified black dragon egg, she constantly moves around to avoid being found by agents of the black dragonflight, who want to destroy the egg.
In the quest [] Rheastrasza's Gift , she is killed by Deathwing, who was after the egg. The egg he destroyed, however, was not the purified one, but Rheastrasza's own egg. The real egg, purified by a titan device an adventurer acquires during the quest chain, hatches into Wrathion. There is also a minor quest chain involving Theldurin the Lost and his friends telling rather tall tales about how each of them defeated Deathwing. At the beginning of the storyline, Deathwing summons the Firelord, Ragnaros along with his fire elemental servants into the world of Azeroth, aided by his mortal followers, the Twilight's Hammer cult with the ultimate goal of destroying Nordrassil.
During the Uldum storyline it is revealed that Deathwing enlisted the aid of Al'Akir and his air elemental minions to do his bidding.
The Neferset tribe of the Tol'vir , native residents of Uldum, have also joined his ranks as they have been seduced by the promises of power and removal of the Curse of Flesh.
Al'Akir, as well as mortal forces led by Commander Schnottz , also sought to gain control of the Forge of Origination , a titan superweapon capable of wiping out all life on Azeroth.
Deathwing is later seen in the Twilight highlands quest chain. After beating back his Twilight dragon minions, the player along with Alexstrasza and her son Calen , use a sanctified circle of life to lure Deathwing to their location so Alexstrasza can destroy him once and for all.
The plan quickly falls apart as Deathwing proves to be more powerful then they realize. After a quick dialogue, Deathwing and Alexstrasza face each other above Grim Batol , shadowing the events of Day of the Dragon.
After a long battle, Alexstrasza and Deathwing spiral out of sight, with Deathwing spitting a stream of magma. Alexstrasza, severely wounded, lands near the entrance and tells the player, along with Calen, that Deathwing was dead. Soon after, however, Deathwing rises above the hillside, wounded, but not nearly as bad as Alexstrasza. The player then flees with the near-dead Alexstrasza as Calen distracts Deathwing long enough for them to escape. Deathwing then leaves as, according to Calen, he was wounded more then he let on and needed time to heal.
Deathwing uses [ Shadowflame ]. It is revealed that once, long ago, Deathwing had been warned that an orc named Thrall would rise to challenge and possibly defeat him. So Deathwing sent out the Twilight Father to kill him. Deathwing sends Blackmoore from an alternate universe in an attempt to assassinate Thrall, but the plan fails when Thrall kills Blackmoore. Following the death of Malygos , the Blue Dragonflight are torn between two possible new leaders - Kalecgos , and Arygos.
Ultimately, it is revealed that Arygos has entered into an alliance with the Blue Dragonflight's original despoiler, Deathwing, in order to become the new Aspect of Magic - and Deathwing, though eager to see him overthrow Kalecgos, warns him not to repeat the mistakes of his father. Their plot ends in failure, however, as Tarecgosa sacrifices herself to save Kalecgos from Arygos' assault, and Arygos flees Coldarra - swearing that Neltharion will destroy them all. As Thrall and the other Aspects, including the newly-elevated Kalecgos, debated on how to defeat Deathwing, the shaman's spirit communed with the earth and took an earthen form.
It was there that he encountered Deathwing, using the power of the Old Gods to imprison his spirit within. The corrupted Aspect mocked Thrall, believing that the Aspects sought to replace him as Earth-Warder with the mortal shaman, and claiming that the "gift" he had been granted by the Titans - his charge to defend Azeroth - was in fact a curse, imprisoning him to his duty. To demonstrate, he allowed Thrall to experience what it was like to have the weight of the earth on his shoulders, claiming that this was what the Aspects wanted - "to damn you to a life of eternal torment", as Deathwing stated it.
He then unleashed a series of scathing attacks against Thrall's earthen form; because the shaman had embraced Azeroth, and Azeroth embraced him, his "wounds" materialized in the physical world in the form of earthquakes. The Aspects decided that in order to defeat Deathwing, they would have to acquire the Dragon Soul in its "purest form" - a period not long after its creation, during the War of the Ancients ten millennia earlier.
As the Soul was imbued with a powerful enchantment to prevent dragonkind from ever using it, the Aspects called on Thrall to be the wielder of the Dragon Soul in the battle against Deathwing. Deathwing is the final boss of the Dragon Soul raid that opened with Patch 4. The final battle against Deathwing is actually two encounters within the same instance; one fought on his back as he flies toward the Maelstrom , and then the final battle at the Maelstrom itself.
Deathwing also features heavily in the three five-man dungeons that lead up to the raid. In the first, End Time , the future is shown if Deathwing is not defeated and the Hour of Twilight at last falls - a charred Dragonblight in Northrend, with all life extinguished forever. Deathwing is shown as a burnt-out shell of his former self, his powers having, at last, destroyed him from within.
His lifeless corpse is impaled at the top of Wyrmrest Temple, his lava-like blood seeping from his mouth. To prevent the Hour of Twilight, the bronze aspect Nozdormu sends adventurers to go ten thousand years into the past, to the War of the Ancients, and retrieve the Dragon Soul - having been completely obliterated by Rhonin and Krasus shortly before the Shattering - so that Thrall could invoke its power to defeat Deathwing, though his past self tried to jealously defend the talisman from the adventurers - but it doesn't work.
Once the artifact is retrieved, the adventurers must escort Thrall to Wyrmrest Temple and protect him from Deathwing's minions, so that the weapon could be secured for the final battle. In the Dragon Soul raid, adventurers work together to defeat Deathwing's commanders in order to buy Thrall and the Aspects time to charge the Demon Soul.
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