Nightbane is Karazhan's optional undead dragon, fought on the Master's Terrace — the side balcony off the servants' entrance, not the main raid path — and he does not exist until somebody clicks the Blackened Urn. He is a level 73 boss with roughly 1.33 million health, and most raids call him the tower's real final boss. Summoned and killed, he starts at $68.39.
The urn is the whole problem. It ends a nine-quest chain that opens at Archmage Alturus outside the front door in Deadwind Pass, and only once your character is Honored with The Violet Eye — reputation you can only earn off Karazhan bosses and trash. The chain runs Medivh's Journal, In Good Hands, Kamsis, The Shade of Aran (the journal is looted off Aran himself), The Master's Terrace, Digging Up the Past, A Colleague's Aid with Kalynna Lathred in Area 52, then Kalynna's Request, which sends you into Heroic Sethekk Halls and Heroic Shattered Halls for two books. Digging Up the Past will not complete while you are in a raid group, and that single step strands more players than the rest of the chain put together. The urn is permanent but bound to one character — only the player who finished the chain can start the encounter.
The encounter is four ground phases and three air phases, flipping at 75%, 50% and 25% health, and a clean kill runs 10 to 12 minutes. On the ground it is Bellowing Roar every 45-50 seconds, Charred Earth burning for 30 seconds under a random player, and a frontal Smoldering Breath the tank absorbs. The air phase is the wipe filter: Rain of Bones spawns five Restless Skeletons, Smoking Blast hits one player for about 2,000 damage per second for 15 seconds, and threat resets every time he lands.
What the dragon actually drops:
- Nightstaff of the Everliving — the two-handed healing staff, +348 healing;
- Panzar'Thar Breastplate, 1,450 armor of tank chest, plus both of his shields, Shield of Impenetrable Darkness and Dragonheart Flameshield;
- Emberspur Talisman, +66 healing and 11 mana every 5 seconds;
- Robe of the Elder Scribes, Talisman of Nightbane, Stonebough Jerkin and Ironstriders of Urgency.
He drops no Tier 4 token and no mount. The dragon mount that shares his name belongs to a far later expansion, so nobody can sell you one here. Karazhan sits on a 7-day lockout, which caps him at one kill per reset. timesaver.gg books him as the dragon by himself: the chain finished on your character if you need the urn, then the summon and the kill, on US and EU realms.
