WoW HandbookThe Independent Handbook for WoW Forever.

Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj

RaidLevel 60+20 players

Raid Map, Bosses & Location

Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj, the 20-player raid at the gates of the silithid empire in Silithus.

Silithus

Map Art

Silithus world map art
Cenarion Hold, SilithusCenarion Hold, Silithus
Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj entrance
—
Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj entrance in Silithus at 29.0, 92.8.
Level
60+
Raid Size
20
Bosses
6
Location
Silithus
Continent
Kalimdor

About Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj

A thousand years ago the qiraji came out of Silithus in numbers the night elves could not count, and the War of the Shifting Sands cost Kalimdor more than anyone afterwards cared to record. The bronze dragonflight intervened, Fandral Staghelm lost a son to it, and the war ended not in victory but in masonry: a wall across the desert, sealed with a scarab gong and left for someone else's problem.

The empire behind the wall has not been idle for a thousand years. It has been breeding. The ruins inside the gate are the outer city, open to the sky and held by the qiraji field armies, and what they are defending is not the ruins — it is the time the rest of the hive needs.

The wall is old and the seal is older, and Silithus has started producing signs that everyone stationed there recognises and nobody wants to report. The gong can be struck from the outside. Once it is, the desert stops being a border.

First Run

  • The gates are at the Scarab Wall in southern Silithus.
  • Twenty players at maximum level.
  • Opening the gates is a server-wide event, not a personal attunement.
  • Much of the raid is fought outdoors in open ground, which rewards ranged positioning.

Veteran Notes

  • Six bosses, ending with Ossirian the Unscarred.
  • Twenty players, maximum level.
  • General Rajaxx is a wave event rather than a single fight.
  • Runs faster than any other raid of its size once a group knows the route.

Raid Bosses

6 bosses wait in Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj.

  1. 01Kurinnaxx
  2. 02General Rajaxx
  3. 03Moam
  4. 04Buru the Gorger
  5. 05Ayamiss the Hunter
  6. 06Ossirian the UnscarredFinal

Getting There

  1. ContinentKalimdor
  2. ZoneSilithus Levels 55–59 · Contested territory
  3. Nearest flight pathCenarion Hold, Silithus Horde · 48.8, 36.7
  4. Entrance29.0, 92.8

Raid Progression

  1. Barrow Deeps10 players · 0 bosses
  2. Hyjal Summit20 players · 0 bosses
  3. Molten Core40 players · 10 bosses
  4. Onyxia's Lair40 players · 1 bosses
  5. Blackwing Lair40 players · 8 bosses
  6. Zul'Gurub20 players · 10 bosses
  7. Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj20 players · 6 bosses
  8. Temple of Ahn'Qiraj40 players · 9 bosses
  9. Naxxramas40 players · 15 bosses