After receiving the Legendary Meta Gem for collecting Secrets of the Empire, forging the Lighting Spear, and charging it using Nalak, Wrathion sends you back into the Throne of Thunder, this time to collect Titan Runestones, all of which drop from the bosses in the second half. Despite having to collect only twelve such items, the limitations on the bosses that drop them will mean that this stage will actually take longer on average.
The silver lining is that with each Titan Runestone, Wrathion will read what is written, and you will find out about the history of the Mogu, their fight against Y'shaarj, the silence of the Titans, the Curse of Flesh, and the rise of Lei Shen.
With all twelve runestones collected, Wrathion will then send you to take the heart of the Thunder King. As you've likely killed the guy ten or more times by now, another kill is not much of a burden. Finally bringing the heart to him, Wrathion actually eats it, but then goes into a strange trance.
Wrathion speaks cryptically about Azeroth (presumably) and a strange voice takes hold of him, saying "We must complete the Final Titan." Strange indeed.
This event concludes chapter III of the Black Prince Legendary chain, with no reward other than the previously-rewarded meta gem, but seeing as 5.3 is already out, you can immediately move on.
The next chapter is remarkably simple. Wrathion informs you that, in preparation for the oncoming battle in Orgrimmar, you must seek the blessings of the four celestials. You travel to each of the temples and speak with them. Wrathion learns lessons about Fortitude, Strength, Wisdom and Hope. To complete the quest, however, you must also accept and defeat one of the challenges given by the celestials.
Each celestial represents one of the four basic group roles: Niuzao for Tanks, Xuen for Melee DPS, Yu'lon for Ranged DPS, and Chi-Ji for Healers. Each challenge is tailored to one of these roles.
I was only able to attempt Xuen and Niuzao's challenges, though I understand Yu'lon's is very similar to Xuen's.
Xuen has you fight Wrathion, but he is blindfolded. You can thus get behind him and avoid most of his damage. However, he has several attacks that will require you to be light on your feet. One is a large arcing slash that does massive damage. He also creates fire patches on the ground that likewise do tons of damage, but this ability can be interrupted. Additionally, he summons packs of fiery blood (think Spine of Deathwing.) These must be killed quickly or they will overwhelm you. He will also occasionally summon a rain of fire, but you can dodge the falling fireballs.
I actually did not succeed with Xuen's challenge, because any moment of latency spelled instant death.
Niuzao's challenge is somewhat easier (given that I was able to do it in an offspec for my Death Knight, and got it on only my second try with Jarsus.) Here, you must defend Wrathion against an image of his father (that cool humanoid Deathwing model they didn't use that much.) In this case, he uses many of the same abilities, but of course your priority is to stay alive. Occasionally, he will fixate on Wrathion, requiring you to taunt him away. Everything is balanced a little differently, so the adds will go down without much effort, and Wrathion will effectively dodge out of the arcing attacks. The primary wrinkle to this is that at certain points, Deathwing will disappear and Wrathion will go to the center of the courtyard. There, four elementals will shoot shards of flaming rock. You need to intercept these with your body while dealing with adds, as they do huge damage to Wrathion, but only about 30k to you. As a special trick here, you can actually accept a Shado-Pan daily quest and bring along one of the companions, who will help you a little in your fight.
With your challenge achieved, you will return to Mason's Folly and Wrathion will give you your cloak, which is iLevel 600, with three secondary stats and a gem slot. This will of course be upgraded to the Legendary cloak in 5.4.
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