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Temple of Ahn'Qiraj

RaidLevel 60+40 players

Raid Map, Bosses & Location

Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, the 40-player raid into the heart of the qiraji empire and the Old God C'Thun.

Silithus

Map Art

Silithus world map art
Cenarion Hold, SilithusCenarion Hold, Silithus
Temple of Ahn'Qiraj entrance
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Temple of Ahn'Qiraj entrance in Silithus at 29.0, 92.7.
Level
60+
Raid Size
40
Bosses
9
Location
Silithus
Continent
Kalimdor

About Temple of Ahn'Qiraj

The qiraji were never the point. They are a workforce, shaped and set to building, and the thing they were built around has been under the desert since before there was a desert. C'Thun is one of the Old Gods the titans could not destroy and settled for burying, and the empire above it is less a kingdom than a body the prisoner grew for itself.

The temple runs down from the ruins into chambers that stop resembling architecture the deeper they go. The Twin Emperors rule in name and are two halves of one creature; the Prophet speaks for something that does not need a mouth; and beneath all of it the prisoner has been awake the entire time, patient in the specific way of something that has already outlasted its jailers once.

The seal did its job for ten thousand years. What is behind it has spent those ten thousand years working out how the world above is put together, and it has had every one of its questions answered by the things it sends up.

First Run

  • The temple is entered from within Ahn'Qiraj in southern Silithus, past the Scarab Wall.
  • Forty players at maximum level, and the hardest content of the Classic progression short of Naxxramas.
  • Nature resistance carries entire fights here. Build the sets before the first night.
  • The Scepter of the Shifting Sands quest line gates the raid's opening rather than individual entry.

Veteran Notes

  • Nine encounters, ending with C'Thun.
  • Forty players, maximum level.
  • Viscidus and Ouro are both mechanical puzzles more than damage races.
  • The Twin Emperors require the raid to split and hold two separate rooms at once.

Raid Bosses

9 bosses wait in Temple of Ahn'Qiraj.

  1. 01The Prophet Skeram
  2. 02Silithid Royalty
  3. 03Battleguard Sartura
  4. 04Fankriss the Unyielding
  5. 05Viscidus
  6. 06Princess Huhuran
  7. 07Twin Emperors
  8. 08Ouro
  9. 09C'thunFinal

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, 92.7

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