The Twin Emperors Guide: Strategy, Abilities, Loot

In the Season of Mastery, the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj has gained a new affix system that allows for new challenges and additional loot to be gained for defeating bosses inside of the raid instance. Check out our in-depth guide for this new feature in the AQ40 raid guide hub.

• You can either use two Warriors, who will generate threat with melee attacks on Vek'nilash and with Battle Shout on Vek'lor (be away from hostile bugs to avoid splitting its threat generation), or have two Warlocks tank Vek'lor with Searing Pain.
• Keep the emperors split apart (to prevent boss heals) by pulling them down from their pedestals into opposite room corners. Because of their periodic positional swapping with each other (plus threat reset), you will need to have a tank for the opposite emperor ready on each corner, ahead of the swap.

• Stay relatively close to the center of the room in order to maximize the amount of people you can heal, unless you are focusing on tank healing, in which case you can be at the entrance stair area closest to your tank.
• Dodge any Blizzards from Vek'lor and bugs that become hostile.

• Melee should be on Vek'nilash and casters should be on Vek'nilash bugs. If all bugs have been dealt with, casters can attack Vek'lor from a central position until new bugs become hostile. Make sure to not overaggro Vek'lor, especially after a swap.
• Dodge any Blizzards from Vek'lor and hostile bugs that grow, as their explosion is deadly.

The Twin Emperors, as one of the last encounters in AQ40, is a hard fight that requires special preparation and strategy.

Make sure to have cleared all Anubisath Defenders in the previous room before engaging The Twin Emperors, or they will teleport into the room and wipe your group as soon as you pull!

Assign tanks for each side of the room and begin by pulling both bosses down the stairs into the middle of the room, making sure they are far apart. Casters and raid healers should be in the middle of the room and focus DPS on hostile bugs, while melee players chase down Vek'nilash for most of the boss damage.

Make sure to dodge the Blizzards and exploding bugs from Emperor Vek'lor, and never go close to him or he will deal a ton of damage and push you back with an Arcane Explosion.

On his side, Vek'nilash will reduce the defense of your tank by 100 and generally deal a ton of physical damage. He will also make some of the bugs hostile, so make sure to kill those fast.

Item	Slot
Amulet of Vek'nilash	Neck
Ring of Emperor Vek'lor	Ring
Vek'lor's Gloves of Devastation	Gloves
Gloves of the Hidden Temple	Gloves
Bracelets of Royal Redemption	Wrist
Royal Qiraji Belt	Belt
Regenerating Belt of Vek'nilash	Belt
Belt of the Fallen Emperor	Belt
Grasp of the Fallen Emperor	Belt
Boots of Epiphany	Boots
Royal Scepter of Vek'lor	Off-Hand
Kalimdor's Revenge	Two-Hand
Vek'lor's Diadem	Token
Vek'nilash's Circlet	Token
Imperial Qiraji Armaments	Token
Imperial Qiraji Regalia	Token