The Siege of Niuzao Temple is a 5-man dungeon located in the Townlong Steppeson Pandaria. The dungeon is only open to level 90 players. It houses 4encounters: Vizier Jin'bak,Commander Vo'jak,General Pa'valak,Wing Leader Ner'onok.

1. Introduction↑top

The Siege of Niuzao Temple instance is located south-east of the island whereNiuzao Temple stands. There, the Mantid army has established a ForwardAssault Camp and is in the process of building a bridge to access the temple'sisland. You will need to assault the camp and kill the Mantid leader to preventthe construction of the bridge.

The dungeon has a linear layout during which you will progress througha hollowed out tree (which serves as the entrance point to the instance)before wreaking havoc on the camp until you reach the bridge. You willencounter four bosses in your journey.This dungeon is only accessible in Heroic mode at level 90.

Hollowed Out Tree	Upper Tree Ring	Forward Assault Camp

This guide will cover all of the four boss encounters, as well as thequests and achievements that are available in the dungeon.

2. Loot↑top

The level of the items you can obtain from the Siege ofNiuzao Temple is 463, with one exception, Tolakesh, Horn of the Black Ox,which has an item level of 476.

2.1. Armor

Item Name	Armor	Slot	Main Stats	Source
Breezeswept Hood	Cloth	Head	Intellect	Wing Leader Ner'onok
Whisperwind Spaulders	Cloth	Shoulders	Intellect	Wing Leader Ner'onok
Bombardment Bracers	Cloth	Wrists	Intellect/Spirit	Commander Vo'jak
Breezebinder Handwraps	Cloth	Hands	Intellect/Spirit	General Pa'valak
Hood of Viridian Residue	Leather	Head	Intellect	Vizier Jin'bak
Chestwrap of Arcing Flame	Leather	Chest	Intellect	Commander Vo'jak
Windblast Helm	Leather	Head	Agility	Wing Leader Ner'onok
Belt of Totemic Binding	Mail	Waist	Intellect	Wing Leader Ner'onok
Airbender Sandals	Mail	Feet	Intellect	Wing Leader Ner'onok
Galedodger Chestguard	Mail	Chest	Agility	Wing Leader Ner'onok
Archer's Precision Grips	Mail	Hands	Agility	Commander Vo'jak
Siegeworn Bracers	Plate	Wrists	Intellect	General Pa'valak
Girdle of Soothing Detonation	Plate	Waist	Intellect	Vizier Jin'bak
Sightfinder Helm	Plate	Head	Strength/Mastery	Commander Vo'jak
Spaulders of Immovable Stone	Plate	Shoulders	Strength/Dodge	Wing Leader Ner'onok
Sap-Encrusted Legplates	Plate	Legs	Strength/Dodge	Vizier Jin'bak
Anchoring Sabatons	Plate	Feet	Strength	Wing Leader Ner'onok

2.2. Weapons

Item Name	Type	Main Stats	Source
Gustwalker Staff	Staff	Intellect/Spirit	Wing Leader Ner'onok
Tolakesh, Horn of the Black Ox	One-Hand Dagger	Agility	Wing Leader Ner'onok
Siege-Captain's Scimitar	One-Hand Sword	Agility	Commander Vo'jak
Ner'onok's Razor Katar	One-Hand Fist Weapon	Agility	Wing Leader Ner'onok
Tempestuous Longbow	Bow	Agility	General Pa'valak

2.3. Amulets, Cloaks, and Trinkets

Item Name	Type	Main Stats	Source
Mantid Eye Amulet	Amulet	Intellect	Take Down the Wing Leader
Hardened Resin Pendant	Amulet	Intellect	Take Down the Wing Leader
Flashfrozen Resin Globule	Trinket	Intellect/Hit	Vizier Jin'bak
Vial of Ichorous Blood	Trinket	Intellect/Spirit	General Pa'valak
Engraved Amber Pendant	Amulet	Agility	Vizier Jin'bak
Saboteur's Locket	Amulet	Agility	Take Down the Wing Leader
Aerial Bombardment Cloak	Cloak	Agility	General Pa'valak
Bridge Breaker Medallion	Amulet	Strength/Mastery	Take Down the Wing Leader
Badge of the Amber Siege	Amulet	Strength/Parry	Take Down the Wing Leader

3. Quests↑top

4. Vizier Jin'bak↑top

The encounter against Vizier Jin'bak is a simple fight. The bossneeds to be tanked and all the tank has to do is survive the meleeattacks.

At the center of the room, there is a Sap Puddle, which deals Sap Residue damage to anyone touching it. Regularly, Jin'bak summonsSap Globules. They need to be killed before they reach the Sap Puddle,because they cause it to grow in size. The size of the Sap Puddle determinesthe damage done to all party members by Detonate,an ability that Jin'bak regularly casts.

Sap Puddle	Detonate

5. Commander Vo'jak↑top

After defeating Vizier Jin'bak, you will exit the Hollowed Out Treearea and you will enter the Forward Assault Camp. There, you will be greetedby 3 Pandaren fighters. With their aid, you will defend yourselvesagainst the troops of Commander Vo'jak, who are climbing up the ramp tothe platform where you are standing. After a few waves, Vo'jak will climb upthe ramp himself to engage your group.

5.1. Phase One: Waves of Adds

During the first part of the fight, you have to fight many waves of adds.They go up the ramp and eventually reach the platform where you have to engagethem and finish them off. One of the Pandaren fighters will keep providing youwith Caustic Tar, which you can use to slow down enemies climbing the ramp.Caustic Tar is a clickable object (see image on the left). After clickingit, your cursor becomes a target and you can click again to throw Caustic Tarat the location you have selected.

The only enemies worthy of a mention are the Sik'thik Demolishers, whoexplode when you attack then, dealing a large amount of damage to nearby units.For this reason, you will want to attack them when they catch up withother enemies on the ramp that have been previously slowed by Caustic Tar.

Throughout Phase One, a Sik'thik Amberwing will regularly bomb theplatform, so watch out for that.

5.1.1. Achievement: Where's My Air Support?

To complete Where's My Air Support?, you need to kill the Sik'thik Amberwing.What makes this task difficult is that the Amberwing will only be in range of yourDPS a few times and when this happens they need to burn him down as hard as they can.This means that the tank and the healer need to keep the adds under control until theAmberwing leaves.

5.2. Phase Two: Vo'jak

After defeating all the waves, you finally get to fight Vo'jak. This isa tank and spank fight. The tank (or any other party member)can use Caustic Tar to remove Rising Speed, an attack speed increasingbuff that the boss stacks on himself.

Also, watch out for Thousand Blades, which is a damaging whirlwind-likeattack that also removes Caustic Tar (enabling Rising Speed to stack again).

Finally, Vo'jak uses Dashing Strike, which causes him to rush to a randomplayer, damaging enemies he finds in his path before dealing a large amountof damage to his target. This is an important concern to healers.

6. General Pa'valak↑top

Once you have dealt with Vo'jak, you can continue progressing in thecamp. Before you reach General Pa'valak, you will find a number ofShado-Pan Prisoners that you can free, if you still have to completeSomewhere Inside.

6.1. Adds

The fight against Pa'valak has one important mechanic that everyone needs topay attention to. When he reaches 65% and 35% health, he becomes invulnerableand summons many waves of Sik'thik Soldiers to assist him. While the sheernumber of enemy troops rushing towards you can be a little frightening, youcan quickly dispose of them (see below).

Other Mantid units, called Sik'thik Amber-Sappers, will throw bombs atyou. For the first few seconds after they touch the ground, you can click them,which enables you to target a location when you will throw them to explode. Use itto kill the incoming Sik'thik Soldiers. If youcan no longer interact with a bomb, get away from it, as it will otherwisedeal a lot of damage to you when it explodes. When all the soldiers are dead,you get to fight Pa'valak again.

6.2. Rest of the Fight

The fight with Pa'valak himself is very easy. He has one ability ofconcern: Blade Rush. He uses it to throw his sword at a random playerand then rushes to them. When the sword lands, it deals proximity damagewithin 4 yards. When Pa'valak reaches his sword, he deals proximity damageand knocks back nearby players.

His other ability is Tempest. It regularly damagesparty members.

6.3. Achievement: Return to Sender

To complete Return to Sender, you need to defeat General Pa'valakwhile he has 20 stacks of Detonate. This debuff isstacked on him every time you throw a bomb dropped by theSik'thik Amber-Sappers at him.

Completing the achievement is not as easy as it seems. First, the debuff onlylasts for 90 seconds, which means that you need to DPS Pa'valak fast enoughthat the debuff does not drop between the 65% and 35% health, and then againbetween 35% and 0% health.

Also, the Sik'thik Amber Sappers will barely drop enough bombs for you tostack the debuff 20 times, so you need to have as many players from yourgroup as possible working on gathering the bombs and sending them to Pa'valak.

7. Wing Leader Ner'onok↑top

Wing Leader Ner'onok is waiting for your group at the far end ofthe bridge that the Mantid workers are trying to build. The difficult partof the fight is when Ner'onok takes off and flies to the other end of thebridge. We detail this event a bit further. First, we present you with thethree abilities that Ner'onok will use throughout the fight.

• Hurl Brick deals Physical damage to the tank.
• Caustic Pitch creates puddles on the ground that deal damage to playersstanding inside, while also slowing them down.
• Quick-Dry Resin is a debuff that is applied on a random party member.It deals damage every second, and encases the targeted player after a few seconds.You need to jump to prevent being encased. Below, you can see the progressionbar that indicates how close you are from getting encased.

At 66% health, Ner'onok will fly to the other end of the bridge.Once he gets there, he will keep casting Gusting Winds,which pushes party members away from him. The idea here isto reach Ner'onok at the other side of the bridge and interrupt a castof Gusting Winds, which causes him to resume fighting (as we described above).To progress through the bridge, you need to protect yourself from being pushedaway by using the small walls and the Caustic Pitch puddles.

At 33% health, he will fly back to his original position, and you will haveto make it through Gusting Winds again before finishing him off.

7.1. Achievement: Run with the Wind

To complete Run with the Wind, you need to defeat Wing Leader Ner'onokwhile under the effect of Tenwu's Resolve.

When Wing Leader Ner'onok first casts Gusting Winds, you can use the winds tojump over the missing section of the bridge. There, you will be able totalk to Tenwu who will grant you Tenwu's Resolve and will teleport youback to the part of the bridge where you came from.

From there on, you have two minutes to kill Ner'onok. This means thatyou need to train yourself to properly deal with Gusting Winds, in orderto waste as little time as possible.

8. Final Considerations↑top

This concludes our Siege of Niuzao Temple dungeon guide. If youfind any inconsistency or mistake, feel free to comment or send us an e-mail.