Whisper of Jormag

This article is about the raid encounter. For the boss within the instance, see Whisper of Jormag (NPC).

Whisper of Jormag

Levels

80

Type

Raid

Difficulty

Zone

Bjora Marches
(Shiverpeak Mountains)

API

1357, 1359

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WARNING: Entering this Strike Mission will reveal key plot points of the "Shadow in the Ice" story.
Gather your allies and relive the battle against the Ice Dragon's most persuasive servant yet. Deep under the mountains of the Bjora Marches, a whisper awaits.

— In-game description

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Deep under the mountains of the Bjora Marches, there is a Whisper that spreads the insidious words of the Elder Dragon Jormag. Delve into the icy depths and destroy Jormag's so-called ambassador.

— Raid selection

Whisper of Jormag is the fifth Icebrood Saga raid encounter introduced into the game.

Getting there

Players must own the Path of Fire expansion to join and be in a raid-mode (10 player) squad to join.

• Interact with the portal in the Rime Glen in Bjora Marches (south-west of  Still Waters Speaking Waypoint — ).
• Interact with the portal in Eye of the North ( Eye of the North Waypoint — ).
• Enter the Raid — Combined portal in Lion's Arch Aerodrome ( Aerodrome Waypoint — ).
• Join via the pop-up box when the raid instance is opened.

Objectives

• Speak to the Raven shaman to begin the raid encounter.
• Players in Raid Encounter: x (if public)
• Draw out the Whisper of Jormag.
• Defeat the Whisper of Jormag.
  • Whisper of Jormag
    
  • Raid encounter ends in: 10:00
• Raid Encounter complete!
• Mission closes in: 2:00
• Bonus rewards obtained: x/2

Rewards

• Three Essence chests (once per day)

• One small, one medium, and one large of the same type
• Type depends on the essence of the active pylon at the entrance
• Sent by mail if not opened in the instance

• Small Chest of Valor (If the Pylon of Resilience was active)
  • Raid Encounter: Lost Small Chest of Valor (guaranteed) (If the Pylon of Resilience was active, by mail if not opened in the instance)
• Medium Chest of Valor (If the Pylon of Resilience was active)
  • Raid Encounter: Lost Medium Chest of Valor (guaranteed) (If the Pylon of Resilience was active, by mail if not opened in the instance)
• Large Chest of Valor (If the Pylon of Resilience was active)
  • Raid Encounter: Lost Large Chest of Valor (guaranteed) (If the Pylon of Resilience was active, by mail if not opened in the instance)

• Small Chest of Vigilance (If the Pylon of Valor was active)
  • Raid Encounter: Lost Small Chest of Vigilance (guaranteed) (If the Pylon of Valor was active, by mail if not opened in the instance)
• Medium Chest of Vigilance (If the Pylon of Valor was active)
  • Raid Encounter: Lost Medium Chest of Vigilance (guaranteed) (If the Pylon of Valor was active, by mail if not opened in the instance)
• Large Chest of Vigilance (If the Pylon of Valor was active)
  • Raid Encounter: Lost Large Chest of Vigilance (guaranteed) (If the Pylon of Valor was active, by mail if not opened in the instance)

• Small Chest of Resilience (If the Pylon of Vigilance was active)
  • Raid Encounter: Lost Small Chest of Resilience (guaranteed) (If the Pylon of Vigilance was active, by mail if not opened in the instance)
• Medium Chest of Resilience (If the Pylon of Vigilance was active)
  • Raid Encounter: Lost Medium Chest of Resilience (guaranteed) (If the Pylon of Vigilance was active, by mail if not opened in the instance)
• Large Chest of Resilience (If the Pylon of Vigilance was active)
  • Raid Encounter: Lost Large Chest of Resilience (guaranteed) (If the Pylon of Vigilance was active, by mail if not opened in the instance)

Quickplay

• Magnetite Shard (5, 10) (guaranteed)
• One bouncy chest (once per week)
  • 5,000 
  • 48,006 

Normal

• Magnetite Shard (10) (guaranteed)
• One bouncy chest (once per week)
  • Misty Cape Scrap (guaranteed) (if Prototype Harmonizing Mist Loom has been purchased)
  • Piece of Rare Unidentified Gear (1) (guaranteed)
  • Icebrood Saga Raid Encounter Coffer (guaranteed)
  • Piece of Unidentified Gear (2) (guaranteed)
  • 2 
  • 10,000  (Karma rewards are affected by consumable boosters)
  • 48,006 
• Possible rare rewards:
  • Boneskinner's Rib
  • Ice Golem's Maw Box
  • Pristine Fang of the Whisper
  • Reliquary of the Raven Ceremonial Garb

Walkthrough

This raid encounter is the next progression after completing the Shiverpeaks Pass, Voice of the Fallen and Claw of the Fallen and Fraenir of Jormag encounters, which are collectively referred to by the community as the "IBS EZ3". As with the Boneskinner encounter, this fight is significantly more difficult. These two encounters along with the EZ3 are collectively referred to as the "IBS Fast 5" due to their relatively quick completion speed compared to the Cold War and the Forging Steel encounters.

Whisper of Jormag

Health: 24,774,120

Enrage Timer: 10 minutes

Enrage Effect: Defeats all players

Fixation Mechanic: None

General

This encounter has decent healing pressure and heavily punishes players that fail certain mechanics. It is thus recommended to have at least two dedicated healers, especially for inexperienced or unorganized groups. There are little to no conditions involved in this fight. Players with the respective essence manipulation mastery can attack the nearby pylon to collect orbs for either the  Power of Resilience,  Power of Valor, or  Power of Vigilance effect, depending on the week. This grants players either the   Spirit Nova,   Night Terror, or   Shattered Psyche special action key to deal significant damage to the boss and its defiance bar.

After readying up, players must take the resulting portal then investigate the ice formation to start the encounter.

Phase 1 (100% – 75%)

The Whisper of Jormag will face one of the cardinal directions and periodically rotate between each of them. It uses the following skills:

Skill	Notes
Frostbite Aura	Pulses low damage every three seconds.
Ice Shatter	Throws out three ice chunks in front of itself, leaving behind a damaging field. The initial AoE telegraph does no damage. Afterwards, the boss may rotate and face a new direction.
Ice Tempest	Four ice tempests emerge from the boss then move outwards and spin around.
Lethal Coalescence (Green)	Targets a random player with a green circle that inflicts massive damage to all players within the circle after a delay. Each player standing within greatly reduces the damage.
Spreading Ice (Spread)	All players are targeted with an orange circle that explodes after a delay, dealing significant damage when standing in overlapping AoEs. Blocks and invulnerability do not work, however evades do work. Players can dodge into the arena boundary to avoid the attack while remaining in the same position.
Vicious Slam	Inflicts  Knockback to nearby players then slams its staff and launches all players into the air, spawning an icy spike underneath their original positions after a delay. Players should either activate their glider or fall to a different spot to mitigate this damage.

After the initial Vicious Slam, the boss follows a fixed, repeating attack pattern: Ice Tempest → Ice Shatter → Vicious Slam → Spreading Ice → Ice Shatter → Vicious Slam → Lethal Coalescence → 2x Ice Shatter.

Upon reaching 75% health, the boss becomes invulnerable then freezes and teleports each player to an isolated platform. This platform inflicts the ₁ Brain Freeze effect to players every second, increasing the severity of the pulsing damage on this platform. A Veteran Rimewhisper Doppelganger of the player spawns on both the main and isolated platforms. Defeating either doppelgangers returns players to the main platform. Breaking their defiance bar inflicts  Stun and  Exposed, but can generally be ignored given their low health.

The Whisper of Jormag returns to the main platform once all doppelgangers have been defeated.

Phase 2 (75% – 25%)

This phase is largely the same aside from two new skills:

Skill	Notes
Chains of Frost (Chains)	Three random players get a timer above their head, creating a chain between them and the boss upon expiry. Each chain inflicts rapid damage to anyone that touches them, requiring tethered players to move predictably and stay still. The damage extends from the player to within the boss hitbox.
Frigid Vortex (CC)	Unlocks its defiance bar and inflicts the  Frigid Vortex effect to all players, which pulses medium damage every second.

Players must take care not to run the chains through other players and avoid standing within the boss hitbox. Tethered players must also be careful when gliding or dropping down during the Vicious Slam attack. The chains expire after some time before a new set occurs. The boss will also periodically cast the Frigid Vortex, requiring players to prioritize breaking the bar over reviving downed players to interrupt the pulsing damage.

The boss follows a fixed, repeating attack pattern: Chains of Frost → Ice Tempest → Spreading Ice → Chains of Frost → Vicious Slam → Lethal Coalescence → Chains of Frost → Vicious Slam → Frigid Vortex.

As with before, players are teleported and must defeat their doppelganger once the boss reaches 25% health. The boss returns once all have been defeated.

Bug:

If the defiance bar from Frigid Vortex is broken and the boss subsequently phases, the Whisper of Jormag can either attack very rapidly, not attack at all, disappears, or goes invisible after the doppelganger phase. Players should therefore take caution and avoid breaking the bar if the boss is about to phase.

Phase 3 (25% – 0%)

The Whisper of Jormag unleashes a shock wave that  Launches players, then showers the arena with ice shards. The final phase introduces three more skills:

Skill	Notes
Icy Slash	Leans left and swipes in a 200° arc.
Icy Slice	Leans right and swipes in a 200° arc.
Slithering Rime (Orbs)	Rapidly spins and launches multiple orbs of ice that explode upon impact. These can be body-blocked by any entity, such as   Summon Flesh Wurm if properly positioned on top of the boss prior to this attack.

Of note, each boss attack occurs in quicker succession where they may overlap. If the orbs from Slithering Rime are not blocked by an entity, players should pay extra caution in avoiding the center and sidestepping these orbs.

The Whisper of Jormag is silenced upon reaching 0% health.

Bug:

Spreading Ice no longer deals damage to the original player during this phase.

Achievements

Reflections in the Ice	Shadow in the Ice	5
Defeat your frozen clone in 10 seconds or less in the Whisper of Jormag raid encounter. Reward: Raid Encounter: Lost Small Chest of Resilience	Defeated Your Frozen Clone within 10 Seconds	5

• Defeat your Veteran Rimewhisper Doppelganger within 10 seconds.
• Eligibility is tracked by the effect  Eligibility: Reflections in the Ice.

Vortex, Interrupted	Shadow in the Ice	10
Interrupt the Whisper of Jormag's Frigid Vortex 5 times in one encounter. Reward: Raid Encounter: Lost Small Chest of Resilience	Interrupted the Whisper of Jormag's Frigid Vortex 5 Times in One Encounter	10

• Break the Whisper's defiance bar 5 times during the same encounter, occurring from phase 2 onwards (75%).
• Eligibility is tracked by the effect  Achievement Eligibility: Vortex, Interrupted.

Slither-less	Shadow in the Ice	5
Complete the Whisper of Jormag raid encounter without triggering Slithering Rime explosions. Reward: Raid Encounter: Lost Small Chest of Resilience	Completed the Whisper of Jormag Raid Encounter without Triggering Slithering Rime	5

• During the last phase (25%), don't be hit by any icy orbs rolling out from the boss.
• Orbs can be blocked by other players and entities, such as a well-placed   Summon Flesh Wurm.
• Eligibility is tracked by the effect  Eligibility: Slither-less.

Legendary Whisper of Jormag	Shadow in the Ice	1  10
Defeat the Whisper of Jormag in the raid encounter.	Defeated the Whisper of Jormag	10

(Bonus) Strike Back: Whisper of Jormag	Return to Shadow in the Ice	0
Complete the Whisper of Jormag raid encounter. Reward: Chest of Legendary Crafting Materials	Completed the Whisper of Jormag Raid Encounter	0

• Complete the raid encounter.

NPCs

Allies

• Raven Shaman Hallveig

Foes

• Veteran Rimewhisper Doppelganger
• Whisper of Jormag

Objects

• Anvil
• Pylon of Resilience (only targetable depending on week)
• Pylon of Valor (only targetable depending on week)
• Pylon of Vigilance (only targetable depending on week)

Dialogue

Interacting with Raven Shaman Hallveig

Thanks for the assistance, Commander. Is your squad ready to go?

(If public)

(Advancing will lock your party and prevent any other players from joining the Strike Mission.)

Let's do this.

We're still waiting for more people to show up.

Interacting with Raven Shaman Hallveig in public with fewer than 5 players

You'll need more help. Report back with reinforcements.

(At least five players must be in the map to proceed. Wait for more players to join, or enter the squad version from outside.)

I'll check back when help arrives.

Related achievements

• Daily Icebrood Saga: Daily Whisper of Jormag Raid Encounter — Complete the Whisper of Jormag raid encounter in the West Bjora Marches. (0)
• Daily Raid Encounter: Priority Raid Encounter: Whisper of Jormag — Defeat the Whisper of Jormag in the Whisper of Jormag raid encounter. (0) (Historical)

Version history

Patch	Changes
February 27, 2024	Post-victory achievements will now be rewarded much faster in Icebrood Saga strike missions to prevent the achievements from being missed if a player left the map too quickly after receiving their first rewards.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Icebrood Saga strike missions now reward Blue Prophet Shards and Blue Prophet Crystals. All Green and Red Prophet Shards and Green and Red Prophet Crystals have been converted to Blue Prophet Shards and Crystals, respectively.
April 27, 2021	Fixed an issue that caused the Eye of the North's prompt for daily strike achievements to be out of sync with the daily strike.
March 17, 2020	Added a universal strike access portal in Eye of the North, from which any of the current Strike Missions can be launched. One strike per day is now promoted as a Priority Strike, with its public version available from the Eye of the North and a daily achievement that rewards the new Prophet Crystal currency. Added Prophet Shards as a reward from all strikes. Prophet Shards and Crystals can be traded with vendors in the Eye of the North for powerful rewards.
January 30, 2020	Opened up the Strike Mission: Whisper of Jormag to all players, not just players who have completed the story content.
January 29, 2020	Fixed an issue with the Strike Mission timers in Bjora Marches.
January 28, 2020	Whisper of Jormag has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Prior to the February 28, 2022 game update, the strike mission rewarded shards depending on the weekly Emissary:
  • Blue Prophet Shard (1-3)
  • Green Prophet Shard (1-3)
  • Red Prophet Shard (1-3)

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