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Darkflame Cleft Guide

11.1 - Undermine(d)

Last Updated:February 26, 2025|Changelog

Welcome to the Darkflame Cleft Mythic+ guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.1! This guide covers everything you need to know about your upcoming dungeon runs!

Route

Patch 11.1 - Undermine(d)
Darkflame Cleft

It is recommended to use the Mythic Dungeon Tools addon to look at your route and mobcount before the Mythic+ dungeon starts. Below you can see an example of a Weekly Route meant for +10 keys or lower. High Key Route will be added later into the season!

Simply import the route into the Mythic Dungeon Tool addon and take a look at it with your group.

Weekly Route
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Darkflame Cleft Route
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High KeyMedium
Pug Medium
Uility neededEasy

Utility Needs

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Darkflame Cleft
Enrage
Bleed
Magic Dispel
  • Panicked!
    • Enrage buff on Lowly Moleherds, granting them 50% haste but reducing damage done by 25%.
  • Enrage
    • Enrage buff on Pack Moles, increasing their attack speed and physical damage dealt.
  • Common utility examples:
    • Hunter
      • Tranquilizing Shot
    • Rogue
      • Shiv
    • Druid
      • Soothe
    • Evoker
      • Oppressing Roar with Overawe
    • Monk
      • Paralysis with Pressure Points
  • Crude Weapons
    • A stacking Bleed that is applied to a tank on trash but is also applied to random players during the Ol' Waxbeard boss encounter.
      • Doesn't do much until it's stacked for more than 15+ stacks.
  • Common utility examples:
    • Evoker
      • Cauterizing Flame
    • Paladin
      • Blessing of Protection
  • Flashpoint
    • Magic debuff that is applied to a random player, inflicting fire damage every second for 8 seconds.
  • Common utility examples:
    • Priest
      • Mass Dispel
    • Warlock
      • Singe Magic

Ol' Waxbeard Trash Area

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Darkflame Cleft
Rank Overseer
Royal Wicklighter
Lowly Moleherd
Pack Mole
Menial Laborer
  • Overpowering Roar
    • Inflicts damage to all players within 50 yards and increases damage and haste of all allies within 50 yards.
  • Wild Wallop
    • Slams into the ground, knocking back ALL nearby units, inflicting physical damage to anything caught in the impact and reducing their movement speed.
Rank Overseer
  • Required Kick:
    • Wicklighter Bolt
      • Inflicts fire damage to a random target.
  • Required Magic Dispel:
    • Flashpoint
      • Applies a Magic debuff to a random player which inflicts fire damage every second for 8 seconds.
Royal Wicklighter
  • Required Kick:
    • Mole Frenzy
      • Pulls and enrages nearby Trained Moles.
  • Required Enrage Dispel:
    • Panicked!
      • Whenever Lowly Moleherd drops below 50% health, he gains an Enrage buff granting 50% haste but reducing damage done by 25%.
  • Throw Rock
    • Inflicts physical damage to a random player.
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  • Required Enrage Dispel:
    • Enrage
      • Grants an Enrage buff to the caster, increasing attack speed and physical damage dealt.
Pack Mole
  • Required Bleed Dispel:
    • Crude Weapons
      • Applies a stacking Bleed to the tank which inflicts physical damage every second for 5 seconds.
        • Doesn't do much until it's stacked for a lot, like 15+ stacks.
Menial Laborer

Ol' Waxbeard

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"Kol"-to-Arms
Underhanded Track-tics
Reckless Charge
Luring Candleflame
Rock Buster
  • Ol' Waxbeard in Darkflame Cleft calls Menial Laborers into battle on foot or by minecart.
  • The minecart slams into anything in its path knocking back and inflicting physical damage to players it strikes.
    • Fatal to Menial Laborers.
  • Menial Laborers will fixate random nearby players when they enter the fray.
    • Menial Laborers attacks apply a stacking Bleed, inflicting physical damage every second for 5 seconds.
  • During the fight, try to stay near the railways to get rid of Menial Laborers with a minecart. Otherwise, you can easily get overwhelmed with their numbers and Crude Weapons will slowly kill you.
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  • Menial Laborers in Darkflame Cleft sneak a dynamite laden cart onto the nearby tracks. If it is not destroyed within 20 seconds, it explodes inflicting fire damage to all players and applies a fire debuff, inflicting damage every second over 20 seconds.
    • Instantly swap to it and make sure to kill the cart in time.
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  • Ol' Waxbeard in Darkflame Cleft charges towards the furthest player. This attack knocks back and inflicts physical damage to all players and triggers a Cave-In at the end of the charge, spawning few pools on the ground around random players.
    • Fatal to Menial Laborers.
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  • Waxbeard in Darkflame Cleft throws a fresh lit candle at a random player. The burning wax inflicts fire damage every 0.5 seconds and causes all Menial Laborers to fixate on that target for 10 seconds.
1 Luring Candleflame Ezgif
  • Ol' Waxbeard in Darkflame Cleft pierces his current target's armor with his pickaxe, inflicting physical damage and increasing physical damage taken by 25% for 6 seconds.
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Ol' Waxbeard Spell Timeline in Darkflame Cleft

Blazikon Trash Area

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Wandering Candle
Kobold Taskworker
Pack Mole
Blazing Fiend
  • Quenching Blast
    • Inflicts fire damage to players within 30 yards.
  • Surging Flame
    • Inflicts fire damage to players within 10 yards and leaves a fire pool on the ground, which inflicts fire damage each second to anyone standing within it.
Wandering Candle
  • Bonk!
    • Spawns a pool on the ground, which inflicts physical damage to players standing in it and stuns them for 3 seconds.
Kobold Taskworker
  • Required Enrage Dispel:
    • Enrage
      • Grants an Enrage buff to the caster, increasing attack speed and physical damage dealt.
Pack Mole
  • Required Kick:
    • Explosive Flame
      • Inflicts fire damage to all players and applies a stacking debuff to them, increasing their fire damage taken by 10% for 20 seconds.
Blazing Fiend

Blazikon

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Darkflame Cleft
Enkindling Inferno
Wicklighter Barrage
Extinguishing Gust
Incite Flames
Dousing Breath
Blazing Storms
  • Blazikon unleashes a fiery burst towards each extinguished candle, reigniting that candle and inflicting fire damage to all players in its path.
  • The inferno sears all players, inflicting fire damage every second for 8 seconds. This effect stacks for each extinguished candle that has been lit up by Enkindling Inferno.
  • Make sure to light as many candles as you can with Wicklighter Barrage to reduce the amount of stacks coming from Enkindling Inferno.
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  • Blazikon hurls a torrent of flames at 3 random players, inflicting fire damage to players within 6 yards of each impact and igniting the candles.
Darkflame Cleft Wicklighter Barrage
  • Blazikon forms gusting winds towards each player. Tornadoes that reach players inflict nature damage.
    • Tornadoes extinguish candles they touch.
  • Make sure to hit at least one candle with a tornado to have a safe spot during the Incite Flames cast.
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  • Blazikon causes all lit candles to surge with incandescent heat and spread burning patches of embers. These flames inflict fire damage every second to players standing within.
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  • Blazikon summons strong winds, inflicting nature damage to all players and extinguishing all candles.
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  • Blazikon invokes the power of flames when no players are in melee combat, inflicting fire damage to all players.
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Blazikon Spell Timeline in Darkflame Cleft

The Candle King Trash Area

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Torchsnarl
Wandering Candle
Sootsnout
Kobold Flametender
Menial Laborer
  • Massive Stomp
    • Inflicts nature damage and knocks back all players within 50 yards.
  • One-Hand Headlock
    • Charges at a random player and grabs them, stunning for 5 seconds.
  • Pyro-pummel
    • Channeled cast on a tank, inflicting flamestrike damage every second for 4 seconds.
Darkflame Cleft Torchsnarl
  • Quenching Blast
    • Inflicts fire damage to players within 30 yards.
  • Surging Flame
    • Inflicts fire damage to players within 10 yards and leaves a fire pool on the ground, which inflicts fire damage each second to anyone standing within it.
Darkflame Cleft Wandering Candle
  • Required Kick:
    • Candleflame Bolt
      • Inflicts fire damage to a tank.
    • Flaming Tether
      • Grabs a random target, rooting them and inflicting fire damage every second for 6 seconds.
        • This is a Magic debuff and can be dispelled in case of a missed kick.
  • Ceaseless Flame
    • Conjures a fire frontal cone towards a random player, inflicting fire damage every half a second for 4 seconds.
  • Burning Candles
    • Spawns few candles on the ground, inflicting fire damage to players standing in them.
Darkflame Cleft Sootsnout
  • Required Kick:
    • Flame Bolt
      • Inflicts fire damage to a random target.
Darkflame Cleft Kobold Flametender
  • Required Bleed Dispel:
    • Crude Weapons
      • Applies a stacking Bleed to the tank which inflicts physical damage every second for 5 seconds.
        • Doesn't do much until it's stacked for a lot, like 15+ stacks.
Darkflame Cleft Menial Laborer

The Candle King

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Darkflame Cleft
Eerie Molds
Darkflame Pickaxe
Paranoid Mind
Throw Darkflame
  • The Candle King forms several wax statues of players. Each statue inflicts fire damage to all players every 2 seconds as long as it survives.
    • A player coming within 2 yards of a statue causes the wax to flow from it and encase the player completely, stunning them for 5 seconds.
  • Throughout the fight, always make sure to hit the wax statues with other boss abilities such as Darkflame Pickaxe and Throw Darkflame which will destroy them.
Darkflame Cleft Eerie Molds
  • The Candle King aims a pickaxe at a random player. The pickaxe collides with the first target it hits, inflicting shadow damage and knocking them back.
    • If it strikes a wax statue, it instead shatters it.
  • Always hide behind the wax statues whenever you are targeted by a Darkflame Pickaxe.
Darkflame Cleft Darkflame Pickaxe
  • The Candle King amplifies players fear of the dark, causing them to flee in fear for 4 seconds.
    • Interruptible.
Darkflame Cleft Paranoid Mind
  • The Candle King marks 3 random players. After a short time, he hurls the shadowy flames at them, inflicting shadow damage to targets within 5 yards and applying a healing absorb on them.
    • Any wax statue cleaved by the Throw Darkflame will get shattered.
      • Wax statues shattered by a Throw Darkflame will melt down and form a pool of molten wax, inflicting fire damage every second to any player within.
  • Always try to hit as many wax statues as you can whenever you get a Throw Darkflame debuff.
Darkflame Cleft Throw Darkflame
The Candle King Spell Timeline in Darkflame Cleft

The Darkness Trash Area

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Darkflame Cleft
Corridor Creeper
Shuffling Horror
Skittering Darkness
  • Eater of the Dead
    • Corridor Creeper eats the corpses of nearby creatures, increasing damage done by 10% for each.
  • Creeping Shadow
    • Stacking debuff on a tank, inflicting shadow damage every second for 6 seconds.
Darkflame Cleft Corridor Creeper
  • Required Kick:
    • Drain Light
      • Drains the flames from a candle, reducing its energy by 2 every second for 10 seconds. Each time this drain occurs, it inflicts shadow damage to all players within 30 yards.
Darkflame Cleft Shuffling Horror
  • Suffocating Darkness
    • On death, leaves a pool on the ground, inflicting shadow damage to players standing within it.
Darkflame Cleft Skittering Darkness

The Darkness

Patch 11.1 - Undermine(d)
Darkflame Cleft
Smothering Shadows
Eternal Darkness
Call Darkspawn
Umbral Slash
Shadowblast
  • Darkness enshrouds the area. All players without a light source have their damage and healing done reduced by 99%.
  • Remaining within the candlelight protects the player from Smothering Shadows, but reduces the heat level of the candle over time. Players can pick up and move the candlelight source.
    • If the candle heat is depleted, The Darkness wreathes the area in gloom, inflicting shadow damage to all players and causing them to flee in fear for 1 second. This also increases their damage taken by 10% and reduces their haste by 5% for 10 minutes. This effect stacks.
    • Hurl a lump of wax gathered from a dead candlebearer nearby to restore heat to your candle.
  • The whole fight revolves around players fighting The Darkness and keeping up the heat in the candle simultaneously. Aside from players passively draining the heat from the candle, it can also get reduced by being hit with other boss abilities such as Eternal Darkness, Umbral Slash and Shadowblast.
Darkflame Cleft Smothering Shadows
  • The Darkness releases waves of pure shadow every second for 4 seconds. Each wave inflicts shadow damage to all players and reduces the Candlelight's heat.
    • Always keep an eye on the Candlelight's amount of heat and replenish it before every cast of Eternal Darkness.
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  • The Darkness beckons multiple Wriggling Darkspawns to crawl out of the shadows.
    • Interruptible. Kick it as soon as possible to reduce amount of adds getting summoned.
  • After getting in range, Wriggling Darkspawns will start casting Drain Light at the candle, reducing its heat and inflicting shadow damage to all players every second for 10 seconds.
    • Interruptible.
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  • The Darkness readies its claws and slashes out in a line towards the Candlelight. The wave of darkness inflicts shadow damage to players hit and reduces the Candlelight's heat.
    • Pick up the Candlelight and move it away from the frontal to avoid losing heat from it.
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  • The Darkness targets a random player with a massive blast. After 6 seconds, the shadow erupts, inflicting shadow damage to players within 10 yards. If this effect hits the Candlelight, it reduces its heat.
    • Move out of the group by the end of the debuff duration to not cleave anyone and not lose any extra heat.
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The Darkness Spell Timeline in Darkflame Cleft

Lootpool

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Darkflame Cleft
Trinkets/Jewelry
Weapons
Armor
TypeItem
TrinketBurin of the Candle King
TrinketCarved Blazikon Wax
TrinketConductor's Wax Whistle
TrinketRemnant of Darkness
NeckFlickering Glowtorc
RingWick's Golden Loop
TypeItem
PolearmPoleaxe of Somber Fate
DaggerCrepuscular Carver
1-Hand AxeDark Zone Headtaker
1-Hand AxeRail Rider's Bisector
Off-handArcane Scuttle

ALL

TypeItem
BackCandlebearer's Shroud

Cloth

TypeItem
ShoulderPhotophobic Amice
WristGleamwax Shackles
HandsKing's Malicious Clutches

Leather

TypeItem
GlovesShimmering Glimclaws
WaistGleamkeeper's Buckle
LegsShadowspawn Leggings

Mail

TypeItem
HeadGloaming Visage
ShoulderMole Knight's Grimemail
WaistScent-Strong Candlecord
FeetGloomstomper's Sabatons

Plate

TypeItem
HeadWaxsteel Greathelm
HandsCaliginous Claspers

Credits

Written By: Wexi

Reviewed By: Xerwo

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