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Midnight Season 1 encounter guide

Belo'ren, Child of Al'ar

Belo'ren is a repeating two-stage color encounter. Voidlight Convergence randomly gives every player Light or Void Feather; read your current feather after every Convergence, then use it to resolve matching-color soaks, Echoes, and interrupts until the Stage 2 boss egg is destroyed.

Before the pull

Set the encounter assignments before pull

  • Do not preassign Light or Void: Voidlight Convergence randomly assigns the current feather and can change it later in the fight.
  • Mark the planned Radiant Echo gaps and the outer walls for Light Dive and Void Dive soaks and patches.
  • Assign kick-capable players to call the matching Ember Eruption once current colors are known.
  • Call Ember eggs as a priority target: each Ember egg must die within 15 seconds or it hatches again. Save major damage for the later boss-egg Rebirth check.
Fight flow

Resolve the encounter in this order

  1. 01

    Convergence

    Voidlight Convergence deals repeated raid damage and randomly assigns Light Feather or Void Feather. Read the new feather immediately; it replaces any prior color plan. Stop clearing Echoes just before the cast so nobody is caught with the wrong color after the swap.

  2. 02

    Edict

    The tank with the matching color takes Guardian's Edict. If it is a cone, point it away from the raid. If it is the line version, keep the line clear. Complete the tank swap immediately after the resolution.

  3. 03

    Echoes and Burns

    Radiant Echoes form Light and Void walls. Players clear only the Echo that matches their current feather to make a gap. At the same time, heal Eternal Burns targets fully before the next overlap.

  4. 04

    Ember package

    A marked Light or Void Dive needs a matching-color group soak. Put the soak near an outer wall, share the hit, then interrupt the matching Ember Eruption. Kill the add and immediately swap damage to its egg.

  5. 05

    Egg check

    Finish each egg inside 15 seconds. Missing the timer respawns the phoenix and repeats the assignment pressure.

  6. 06

    Quills and Incubation

    For Infused Quills, the marked player lines the Quill through one assigned interceptor; everyone else stays out of the impact. During Incubation of Flames, keep damage on the boss egg while moving into your matching Light or Void flame.

Mechanics

What each mechanic asks of you

Voidlight Convergence

Raid

Read the randomly assigned feather after every cast, then use a healing cooldown for the repeated raid damage window.

Failure: Playing a previous color causes wrong-color Echo, soak, and interrupt mistakes.

Guardian's Edict

Tanks

The matching-color tank takes the hit. Aim the cone away from the raid or keep the line unobstructed, then swap tanks.

Failure: A cone through the raid or an incorrect tank resolution creates avoidable lethal damage.

Radiant Echoes

Everyone

Touch only a matching-color Echo to open a gap. Do not clear close to the next Convergence cast.

Failure: The wrong color is dangerous, and an Echo reaching the boss is lethal on Mythic.

Eternal Burns

Healers and affected players

Prioritize affected players until they are fully topped before the next mechanic overlap.

Failure: Leaving the debuff partially healed turns routine raid damage into deaths.

Embers of Belo'ren

Marked soakers and interrupters

Soak the matching Dive with a group at the edge, interrupt the matching-color Eruption, kill the Ember, then hard-swap to its egg.

Failure: A missed Eruption or surviving egg restores the add and snowballs the encounter.

Infused Quills and Incubation of Flames

Raid

The Quill target lines the shot through one assigned player. In Stage 2, keep boss-egg damage rolling while moving into the matching flame pattern.

Failure: Multiple Quill hits are especially dangerous on Mythic; stopping damage in Stage 2 risks a completed Rebirth.

Death Drop

Raid

When Belo'ren reaches zero health, he slams the center and starts the egg stage. Move away from the marked middle to reduce the impact, then immediately attack the boss egg.

Failure: Standing in the center creates an unnecessary lethal hit and loses valuable Rebirth damage.

Encounter Journal

Belo'ren, Child of Al'ar's actual abilities

The named boss spells, their individual sub-abilities, and the response for each. Ability names with known spell IDs open their own WoW-God spell pages.

Voidlight ConvergenceStage 1

Six seconds of repeated raid damage that randomly assigns every player Light Feather or Void Feather. Later casts can change the feather.

Raid response: Read your current feather after every cast. Light reduces Holy damage; Void reduces Shadow damage. Plan raid healing here.

Burning Heart

Both stages

Persistent raid-wide Fire damage that intensifies during the egg phase.

Raid response: Healers should reserve throughput for the Rebirth window instead of treating the egg phase as downtime.

Embers of Belo'renStage 1

Light or Void Embers create matching Dive soaks and later cast a matching Eruption.

Raid response: The marked Dive gets a matching-color group soak at the edge. Interrupt the matching Eruption, kill the Ember, then kill its egg in 15 seconds.

  • Light Dive / Void Dive: A matching-color split-damage soak that knocks players back and leaves a permanent damaging patch.
  • Light Eruption / Void Eruption: Raid-wide Ember cast; the matching feather player interrupts the matching school.
  • Ember Rebirth: An Ember egg re-hatches after 15 seconds if it is not killed.
Radiant EchoesStage 1

Light and Void orbs drift through the arena as a moving wall.

Raid response: Touch only the orb that matches your feather to make a safe gap. Never take the opposing color.

Guardian's EdictStage 1

Light and Void tank cones, sometimes together, that empower the boss when unresolved.

Raid response: The matching-color tank must take each cone. Face cones away, keep line space clear, then swap.

  • Light Edict: Holy and Physical frontal cone.
  • Void Edict: Shadow and Physical frontal cone.
  • Voidlight Edict: Light and Void Edicts cast together.
Eternal BurnsStage 1

Light Burn or Void Burn absorbs healing and deals damage over time until fully healed through.

Raid response: Spot-heal the absorb to zero before the next overlap. Do not leave Burns partially cleared.

  • Light Burn: Holy damage-over-time healing absorb.
  • Void Burn: Shadow damage-over-time healing absorb.

Infused Quills

Stage 1

Light or Void quills fire at a marked player and hit the first player in their path. Mythic impact also splashes nearby players.

Raid response: The marked target lines it through one assigned interceptor. Everyone else stays clear of the impact circle.

Death Drop

Stage transition

At zero health, Belo'ren slams the middle, dealing falloff damage and beginning Rebirth.

Raid response: Get away from center for less damage, then turn immediately to the boss egg.

RebirthStage 2

Belo'ren retreats into an egg and attempts to restore Immortal Flame.

Raid response: This is the kill check: use damage cooldowns on the egg before Rebirth completes.

  • Immortal Flame: The boss energy that must be depleted during the egg phase.

Incubation of Flames

Stage 2

Light and Void flame patterns erupt across the arena while the egg must be damaged.

Raid response: Stand in your matching flame while maintaining egg uptime. Match movement to your feather.

Ashen Benediction

Stage 2

A Rebirth completion damages the raid and applies a healing reduction that stacks.

Raid response: Avoid seeing this cast: finish the egg before the timer. If it happens, stabilize and respect the next ramp.

Role plan

Your job in the pull

Tanks

Own the Guardian's Edict color call. Keep cones away, maintain a clean line when required, and execute the swap immediately.

Healers

Plan coverage for Convergence, then triage Eternal Burns to full. Recheck colors after every Convergence and cover the Dive / Eruption overlap rather than treating the color split as fixed.

DPS

Do not tunnel the boss through Phoenixes. Soak your color, interrupt your assigned Eruption, and swap to eggs immediately. Continue priority damage through pinwheel movement.

Everyone

Your current color is a responsibility, not a cosmetic marker. It is randomly reassigned by Convergence. Clear only matching Echoes and move away from center for Death Drop.

Raid leader tool

One-button PUG briefing

Paste this into a new in-game macro before the pull. It fits within WoW's 255-character macro limit and sends the essential plan as raid warnings. You need raid-warning permission; replace /rw with /raid if you do not have it.

#showtooltip
/rw BEL: Colors are random each Convergence - check yours.
/rw EDICT: matching tank takes it. Cone away, line clear, then swap.
/rw TOP Burns. Soak Dives at edge. Kill Ember then EGG in 15 sec. Quill: 1 intercept. Move from Death Drop.
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