C’thun Down

Wanted to note that on June 8 my guild finally killed C'thun, the end boss of the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, the third and currently the hardest of the three raid instances in the game. Ahn'Qiraj is populated mainly by egyptian-style giant stone critters and enormous bugs; the instance is a mix of ruined temple and underground bug lair.

C'thun is an interesting fight. He is an Old God, or part of one, who had been lying quiescent for millenia. He starts out as a giant eyeball with gaze attacks and tentacles which spawn from the floor. When the eyeball is dead his body or husk emerges (Phase 2). In this stage he cannot initially be harmed, though he is continually attacking the raid via giant tentacles. A mouth tentacle will periodically pop up and swallow people, landing them in the stomach, a separate room. Here they must attack two tentacles while being injured by digestive juices. When the two tentacles are dead, C'thun's body on the surface becomes vulnerable for a brief period, until his stomach tentacles grow back.

All in all, an interesting and imaginative encounter; a nice change from humanoid critters and dragons. Although there are still two more optional bosses in Ahn'Qiraj — a giant burrowing sandworm and an enormous slime that must be frozen and cracked to defeat it — we are ready now for the challenges of Naxxaramas, the new instance coming in a patch sometime in the next few weeks. 

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