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Guardian of the First Ones

This is a single-phase encounter against the Guardian. He has an energy bar, and when it reaches 0 he’ll chaincast a nasty AoE effect. You can charge his energy back up with the three Pillars, called Energy Cores, around the room. This fight gives off heavy Sludgefist vibes, and could be a heck of a DPS race.

3 Pillars around the boss, “Energy Cores”

• Boss links to Core when close to it, granting boss 5 energy per second to the core
• Unstable Energy
  • Cast by a Core the entirety of time the Guardian is linked to it
  • Deals 29k Arcane damage per sec to all players
• Radiant Energy
  • Standing in small circle around active Core reduces player damage taken from Unstable Energy by 85%
• Meltdown
  • When a core reaches 0 energy, it explodes & deals 58k Arcane damage to players within 15 yards, and 18k Arcane damage to players further than 15 yards. That Core is now no longer available to use the rest of the encounter

• You have a hard limit of using the 3 Cores each one time. After that, if the boss reaches 0 energy and you haven’t killed him yet, it’s bad news bears.

Guardian

• Disintegration
  • Shoots a line from the boss at a random player
  • Deals 29k Arcane damage to anyone hit. Also applies a debuff, stunning you and dealing 4k Arcane damage per second for 6 seconds DoT
• Threat Neutralization
  • Targets several players, puts an 8 yard circle around them for 4s
  • Deals 20k Arcane damage to anyone inside circle when it explodes
• Form Sentry
  • Boss creates several little floating orb thingies
  • These put a circle on the ground beneath it called Suppression Field
    • Deals 2k Arcane damage every 2 seconds to anyone inside it
    • Also incapacitates you while inside it
  • Move around platform randomly, seem to be pulled towards random player
  • Also deals 5k Arcane damage every ½ second to a few random players

• Elimination Pattern
  • Tank combo, 2 different abilities
  • Sunder
    • Slams the tank and the ground around them
    • Deals 66k Physical damage to the tank, and anyone within 6 yards
    • Also increases damage taken by subsequent Sunders by 200%for 20s
  • Obliterate
    • Massive Physical + Arcane smash
    • Deals 62k Physical damage to the tank
    • Also simultaneously deals 124k Arcane damage, split evenly between everyone within 6 yards of the tank
    • Also causes everyone hit by the Arcane damage to take 500% increased damage from Obliterate for 12 seconds
  • Always happens in the same order – Sunder > Obliterate > Obliterate > Sunder
• Purging Protocol
  • Begins chain-casting when energy hits 0
  • Deals 18k to the raid every 5s, increasing subsequent ticks by 100%
  • Stops casting once he gets linked with an Energy Core
    • Linking the boss to an Energy Core WILL interrupt a cast of Purging Protocol, mid cast

Strategy

• Lust on pull
• Start with boss at the front of the room
  • Keep him here until he hits 0 energy
  • After 2nd pulse, bring him to an Energy Core & regen his energy back to 100%

• From here, you’ll keep repeating this positioning. Move the boss towards the middle while his energy ticks down, let 2 ticks of Purging Protocol go off, then move him to a new Energy Core
• You’ll likely need to use a raid CD for the second tick of Purging Protocol
• Remember, while the boss is linked to an Energy Core, the raid needs to be stacked within the safe zone around the Core. The tighter the stack, the better

• Players affected by Threat Neutralization need to move away from the group
  • If you have Threat Neutralization occur while the boss is linked to a Core, the affected players need to stand as close to the edge of the safe zone as possible
    • It’s better to sacrifice yourself and die if necessary, than have the explosion hit the raid
    • The rest of the raid should be stacked as tightly as possible in whatever clear spot is available inside the safe zone, where you aren’t standing in the Threat Neutralization circles

• Dodge the Disintegration lines. These are super obvious, and your raid will just laugh at you. The extra one cast of Fireball isn’t worth it bruh, you’re still gonna lose to an Arcane Mage
• Tanks each need to take half the Elimination Pattern Combo.
  • The first tank will take the initial Sunder and the first Obliterate.
  • Then swap, second tank gets second Obliterate and the final Sunder
  • Important for tank #2 to NOT be within 6 yards for either of the first 2 abilities, or you’ll end up getting hit, getting the debuff, then dying when it is your actual turn to tank
• Raid needs to help soak Obliterate
  • You’ll want about half the raid soaking the first Obliterate, and the other half soaking the second Obliterate
  • Use a healing CD if necessary to keep everyone stable
• The Sentry Orbs were more of a nuisance during testing than actually dangerous. Just don’t stand in the circles under them
• There isn’t a whole lot else to say, this fight is pretty straightforward. You’re in a DPS race against the boss’s energy bar.
  • You’ll want to maximize every last second to fight this dude. This is why we recommend letting 2 Purging Protocols go off each time, to give you a hair more DPS time

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Painsmith Raznal

This is a 2 stage encounter. Stage 1 you’ll be fighting the boss, Stage 2 is an intermission. Intermissions last 50 seconds, with Raznal jumping away and crafting himself a new weapon. When he returns, his weapon ability becomes empowered.The Stage 2 intermissions occur at 70% and 40% HP on the boss. 

Stage 1 Abilities

• IMPORTANT – the floor is a grid of squares. These come into play for some abilities

• Weapon Abilities
  • Boss starts with the Cruciform Axe (100% HP > 70% HP)
    • Periodically targets the tank, puts a big circle around them, then shortly afterwards throws his axe at that tank
    • Deals 74k Physical to the tank, and causes an explosion at the location the axe landed. Explosion deals 49k Fire damage to all players, except the tank
      • Explosion damage is reduced by distance
    • The targeted tank also gets a debuff called Blackened armor, dealing 6k Fire damage per second and increases Physical damage taken by 200% for 12 seconds. Stacks.
    • Also causes Spikes also erupt from the floor in 4 directions, starting at the location the axe landed
  • Reverberating Axe (70% HP > 40% HP)
    • Works exactly the same, but deals more damage. Tank damage increased to 87k Physical, explosion increased to 62k Fire
    • Spikes ripple outwards this time, from wherever the hammer landed, instead of just shooting out 4 directions
  • Dualblade Scythe (40% HP > 0% HP)
    • Also works exactly the same, but buffed again. Tank damage increased to 99k Physical, explosion increased to 74k Fire
    • This time, Spikes will shoot out in 4 directions, AND ripple from the location the Scythe lands
  • Example of the Spikes:

• Spiked 
  • Spikes shoot up from the floor, dealing 33k Physical to anyone hit
  • This is caused by the boss’s weapon throw, AND occurs back-to-back during the intermissions
• Spiked Balls
  • A line of spiked balls appears on one edge of the room, the entire length of the edge
  • These roll directly across the platform
  • Anyone hit takes 165k damage, and stuns them for 8 seconds, if you live. Which you won’t, because you don’t have 165k health
  • These actually have a healthpool though, and can be killed to create an opening
  • Example of the balls:

• Shadowsteel Chains
  • Puts a circle of chains around several players, deals 3k Fire damage per second for 20 seconds
  • Running into someone’s circle deals 16k Physical damage to you, and knocks you back
• Flamescale Trap
  • Places traps under up to 4 random people, activates them after 8 seconds
  • Traps explode if they get stepped on, get hit with Spikes, or get run over by a Spiked Ball
  • Flameclasp Eruption
    • Explosion from the trap, deals 10k Fire damage to all players and increases damage taken by subsequent traps by 200% for 1.5 seconds

 

Stage 2 (Intermission) Abilities

• Spiked happens back to back for the duration of the intermission. They cover an entire edge, then move straight across the platform. However, there’ll be one safe spot that you can use to not get hit

• Shadowsteel Embers
  • Red swirlies on the ground
    • Deals 25k Fire damage to anyone in the swirlie when it explodes
• Black Flames
  • Deals 6k Fire to the entire raid every time the boss hits his new weapon with a blacksmith hammer
  • Also applies a stack of Lingering Flames
    • Deals 165 Fire damage per second, stacks
    • Permanent debuff, persists the remainder of the encounter

 

Strategy

 

Stage 1

• While fighting Painsmith, you’ll want him a bit off-center on the platform, to whichever side you choose
  • By doing this, you’ll naturally have at least 1 corner that’s pretty open, perfect for the tank to drop the weapon toss on. As an example, position like the picture below, and use the SKULL as your drop point for the throws

• This’ll give your team a lot of area to work with to dodge spikes when the boss has the Axe and the Scythe, as the radiating Spikes are the more dangerous formations
  • To dodge the radiating spikes, you’ll need to stand on a block directly in front of them, wait for them to shoot the floor right in front of you, then immediately move to stand on the block the spikes just shot up through
• When the Spiked Balls spawn, your RL should mark one and the ranged DPS should swap immediately and kill it as quickly as possible
• You’ll want to try and pop the Flamescale Traps relatively soon after they spawn, based on timers
  • Ideally, you never want the Spiked Balls or the ground Spikes to hit a trap and break it in an uncontrolled way
  • Because of the increased damage debuff, this can be a bad time very quickly
  • Instead, have 1-2 people working to break them in a staggered manner, spreading out the explosions by 2-3 seconds
  • We recommend having the tank not currently holding the boss run over these, with your raid leader calling exactly when to pop them
  • Make sure to communicate when doing this, so the healers know it’s coming and can use CDs as necessary. You’ll definitely want CDs if you pop 3 or more in quick succession
• Players with Shadowsteel Chains just need to spread out a bit from the group, and be careful not to run into people
  • This is especially important during the Spiked Balls, as you’ll likely have a small area to run through
• As you enter the 2nd, then 3rd, occurrences of Stage 1, the weapon toss on the tank gets progressively more dangerous. By the 3rd Stage 1, each toss creates both a cross-shape with Spikes, AND radiates them out. This can get super dicey, so watch your feet
  • The tank should always try to be directly on the corner square, which helps mitigate the cross-shape almost entirely
• Last note here, because the DoT that stacks in the intermission is permanent, the raid-wide damage ramps up pretty hard later into the fight.
  • You should use Bloodlust after the 2nd intermission ends and the boss returns to the platform
  • Blow him up before the increased raid damage from the ticks, and the weapon throws, gets overwhelming

 

Stage 2 (Intermission) Strategy

• When the boss jumps away to make a new weapon, you basically have this dance period where you don’t really stop moving
• Between running to the safe spot for the Spiked lines and the Shadowsteel Ember swirlies, there’s a ton of bad on the ground that’ll hurt pretty bad
  • Not really much to say here, other than dodge the bad and don’t die

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Soulrender Dormazain 

This is a single-phase encounter. You’ll be fighting Soulrender Dormazain while he’s torturing Garrosh Hellscream. It’s a fairly neat encounter with a basic dance mechanic.

Encounter Abilities

• Soulrender
  • Torment
    • Soulrender tortures Garrosh an extra bit, unleashing Anima that coats the room
    • You’ll notice there’s 4 distinct “zones” of the room, separated by the chains on the ground
    • When Torment is cast, 3 of the 4 zones will slowly fill with Anima, then explode, dealing 45k Shadow damage to anyone hit
      • Also applies a DoT, dealing 10k Shadow per 2 seconds for 6 seconds
      • Stacks
    • Happens at 0:12, then every 45s
  • Tormented Eruptions
    • At 100 energy, Soulrender casts Torment for 30 straight. In testing, this ended up causing the Torment effect 5 times over the 30 seconds, making it basically a dance – you’re running from safe spot to safe spot

• Warmonger Shackles
  • Soulrender creates 3 Shackles on the ground, which connect to Garrosh with chains
    • Causes Garrosh to start casting Hellscream, 35 second cast bar
      • If the cast completes, he starts dealing ticking damage, dealing 31k Physical per second until interrupted
  • Clicking on a Shackle makes you pick it up and able to move with it
    • Moving 40 yards away from Garrosh breaks the chain, dealing 25k Shadow damage to the raid
  • To interrupt the Hellscream cast, either before or after it completes, you need to break the chains from all 3 Shackles
  • When a player breaks a Shackle chain, they then get a permanent debuff that deals 2k Shadow every 3s, and prevents you from picking up another chain

• Brand of Torment
  • Puts a circle around a couple random players
    • Doesn’t really matter, but cool to note, this animation is the exact same as the Sargeras’ Rage ability from P3 Mythic Argus.
  • The circle doesn’t deal damage to the affected players
  • Instead, it deals 13k Shadow to anyone inside the circle, INCLUDING adds for the fight
  • Additionally, any adds standing in the circle take 50% increased damage
• Ruinblade
  • Big tank slap, deals 64k Physical damage & increases Physical damage taken by 100% for 40s. Stacks
• Garrosh
  • Torturing Garrosh creates a couple more mechanics
  • Rendered Soul
    • Throws several swirlies on the ground. Being hit by the swirlie when it explodes deals 33k Shadow damage
    • This seems to be always cast 1-2 times during Torment & Tormented Eruptions
  • If any adds successfully reach Garrosh, they become Defiant, making them immune to CC effects & increasing damage dealt by 200%
  • The River of Souls, the area around Garrosh, is bad news bears if you stand in it. Deals 8k damage every 0.2s, and reducing healing taken by 100%
    • Probs don’t stand in that stuff
• Echoing Screams
  • Deals 4500 Shadow to the raid every 5 seconds
    • This didn’t appear on testing in any difficulty. Unsure if this is just encounter-long passive, or specific to certain times

• Adds
  • Mawsworn Agonizer
    • Smaller adds, spawn in sets of 3-4
      • Immediately start walking slowly towards Garrosh
      • If they reach him, they get Defiance and deal 200% extra damage
    • Also cast Agonizing Nova, dealing 11k Shadow damage and reduces movement speed of the entire raid by 20% for 6 seconds
      • Interruptible
    • These guys can be slowed, gripped, knocked back, etc until they reach Garrosh

Strategy

• Lust on pull
• Tank the boss near the middle of the room
  • Tanks need to swap after every Ruinblade cast
• Put a raid marker in each of the 4 zones of the room
  • When Torment is cast, your raid leader should call out which marker is the safe zone
  • When the boss reaches 100 energy and uses Tormented Eruptions, make sure you’re staying with the group and following the raid leader from safe zone to safe zone
    • It’d be a major shame if you ran the wrong direction during Tormented Eruptions and blew yourself up. I mean, everyone would laugh and get enjoyment out of it, but it’d be bad for your parse
  • During the Tormented Eruptions, you may want to use raid-wide speed buffs like Stampeding Roar or Wind Rush Totem
• For Warmonger Shackles, assign 3 groups of 3 people to run the Shackles out. You’ll likely only have this occur 2-3 times total through the fight, so assigning 3 groups should suffice
  • Put a raid marker near Garrosh, but not so close that you’re in the River of Spirits
  • Everyone should stack on this marker when the Shackles go out
  • Drop 1-2 DR cooldowns on the raid, like Power Word Barrier or Anti Magic Zone
  • Try to pop all 3 Shackles as quickly as possible
• Mawsworn Agonizer & Brand of Torment
  • When Brand of Torment goes out, affected players should just make sure they aren’t standing on other raiders
  • When the Mawsworn Agonizers spawn, you’ll want to use knockbacks and grips if possible to get them all stacked together
    • Then, have any players with Brand of Torment go stand on the adds
    • Everyone else should be nuking as hard as possible
    • With multiple stacks of 50% increased damage taken, the Agonizers will get annihilated

• Absolutely do NOT let the Agonizers reach Garrosh
  • If you don’t have many knockbacks or grips in your raid, utilize slows, and have the Brand of Torment players basically run from add to add, so you always have something to attack with the 50% increased damage debuff
  • Also make sure to interrupt every cast of Agonizing Nova. Letting any go off is a bad time.

• Make sure you watch for the swirlies from Garrosh, they’re a bad time
  • They tend to overlap with Torment, so things can get dicey. Watch your feet, pay attention, and don’t die to stupid things.
• Das pretty much it. Nuke the hell outta the guy, kill adds, dodge stuff, have a nice dance party, and collect some loot

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Remnants of Ner’zhul

Single-phase encounter. You nuke down Ner’zhul, breaking apart his armor. As you break off his armor, the raid damage steadily increases. He’ll also summon orbs to try and kill you that you’ll be able to yeet off the platform. Pretty cool tbh. 

Ner’zhul Abilities

• Shatter
  • At 80%, 60%, and 30% HP, a piece of armor breaks off Ner’zhul, dealing 16k Shadow to the entire raid
    • Deals unavoidable damage to the raid, and also puts down a boatload of swirlies. Dodge swirlies.
    • This damage ramps each time Shatter happens
• Malevolence
  • Puts a 21 second debuff on 2 random players. Dispellable
  • When the debuff is removed, either from expiring or dispelling, the player explodes & the entire raid gets knocked back away from the affected player. Also deals mild raid damage
  • Also leaves a puddle on the ground, deals 12k Shadow per second if you’re standing in it
• Grasp of Malice
  • Puts several lines on the floor, radiating from the center of the platform
  • Super obvious looking cones of bad
  • They explode after a few seconds, dealing 20k Shadow to anyone hit, and knocking them back

• Aura of Spite
  • Boss passively deals 3306 Shadow damage to the entire raid every 3s
  • Intensity of this increases with each piece of armor broken off. 
    • 3857 Shadow per tick after 1 piece broken
    • 4408 after 2 pieces broken
  • Spite
    • Periodically puts swirlies on the ground that explode after a few seconds
    • Getting hit deals 16k Shadow damage and incapacitates you for 3 seconds
• Orb of Torment
  • Orb add that spawns periodically. 
  • They spawn with Eternal Torment, reducing damage taken by 99%
  • Cast Torment regularly, dealing 4k Shadow to several random players every 3s for 15s
    • This continues happening even if the Orb is killed
  • Sorrowful Procession
    • Once the Orb is “killed,” it can be picked up by a player, granting you an extra action button
    • Doing this deals 3k Shadow damage every 3s, and reduces your movement speed by 30%
    • The extra action button throws the Orb
  • You want to pick up the Orb, walk it to the edge, then yeet it off

• Suffering
  • At 100 energy, boss shoots a shadow lazer at the current tank, goes through the tank to the edge of the platform
  • Anyone hit takes 25k Shadow, and increases their damage taken by Suffering by 500% for 30s
  • Any Orbs of Torment hit by this lose Eternal Torment, making them take full damage

 

Strategy

• You’ll want to keep the boss near the middle of the room, with the raid loosely spread, but generally staying towards the center of the room. 
• Players with Malevolence should move all the way to an edge of the platform
  • Your raid leader should call out when a dispel should happen, so everyone knows when the knockback is coming
  • Make sure nobody is too close to an edge, or you’re going byebye
  • For the person with the debuff, the knockback will knock you backwards based on where you’re currently facing
    • Make sure your back is facing the center of the room
  • You’ll want to set up raid markers on opposite ends of the room. The first affected player runs to one marker, and the raid shifts towards that side of the room
  • Dispel debuff, everyone gets knocked towards opposite marker
  • Player #2 with debuff gets dispelled, everyone gets knocked back again in the opposite direction
• 
• Dodge the super obvious cones of bad from Grasp of Malice. If you get hit and get knocked off, your RL or GM is probably gonna put it on Twitter or Youtube to meme you
• When the boss reaches 80%, 60%, or 30%, healers should be aware of the Shatter damage
  • This ramps each time it happens, so plan on using healer CDs for the 2nd and 3rd Shatter. Probably want 2-3 for that third Shatter
• Make sure to dodge the swirlies on the ground from Spite. Big chunk of damage + incapacitate = gonna have a bad time
  • Aura of Spite isn’t really something to be directly concerned about. It’s just constant ticking damage so the healers don’t get bored
  • Later on in the fight, after all 3 pieces of armor have broken off, the ticking damage can get a bit intense. Rotate healing CDs as necessary
• Orb of Torment + Suffering
  • When a new Orb of Torment spawns, everyone should move away from it, except the active tank
    • Active tank should make sure they are standing directly between the Orb and Ner’zhul
    • Ensure the Suffering lazer hits the Orb
  • As soon as the Orb gets hit with Suffering, all DPS should hard-swap and kill it ASAP
  • Once it “dies,” have an assigned player pick it up, run it to the edge, and lob the thing off the platform
  • Continue repeating this for each Orb of Torment
  • A single missed Suffering lazer can set you back significantly on healing, as the extra random damage they put out, especially later in the fight, can get overwhelming
  • Oh, and make sure nobody but the tank and the Orb get hit by the Suffering lazer
    • Tanks should swap after each Suffering
• As far as Bloodlust goes, pop at 30% HP on the boss

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The Nine

This is a two phase fight. You start by fighting Signe and Kyra. When either of these hits 15%, a third boss drops down, Skyja, who has significantly higher HP than the other two. Activating Skyja is the beginning of Phase 2. 

Phase 1

• Kyra
  • Unending Strike
    • Tank smack, deals 51k Physical damage
    • Also applies a 10% increased damage taken debuff, stacking
    • ALSO hits the entire raid with Repeating Slash
      • This deals 5k Physical damage, PER application of the stacking debuff on the tank who was hit with Unending Strike
  • Formless Mass
    • Creates a small blob add that has to be killed
    • Casts Siphon Vitality, which leeches 12k Shadow from every player & heals the add for the same amount
    • Can be interrupted
  • Wings of Rage
    • At 100 energy, Kyra sucks everyone towards her for 7s
    • At the end of the 7s, she does a big smash within 10 yards
      • Deals 49k Physical + stuns for 10s 

• Signe
  • Song of Dissolution
    • Channeled ability, ticks every 1.5s for 6s
    • Each tick applies a stacking debuff to the whole raid
      • Deals 1600 Shadow per second for 5s, per stack
      • Each stack refreshes duration
    • Interruptible
  • Soulful Blast
    • Casted ability at the tank, deals 25k Shadow damage
    • Interruptible
  • Reverberating Refrain
    • At 100 energy, pushes all players away for 7s
    • After the 7s, she explodes and deals 49k Shadow to all players FURTHER than 10 yards from her, and also fears anyone hit for 6s

• Val’kyr Stuffs
  • While you fight the first two bosses, the third will call down adds to cast abilities at you
    • These happen one at a time, spread out over time
  • Agatha’s Eternal Blade
    • Several lines appear, and shortly afterwards Val’kyr fly down the lines. Being hit deals 51k Physical damage & knocks you back
  • Daschla’s Mighty Impact
    • Puts purple circles around a few players, 20 yards
    • Circles explode after a few seconds, dealing 25k Shadow to anyone within the circle
  • Annhylde’s Bright Aegis
    • Annhylde drops to the ground and puts down a massive AoE protective shield for 40. Reduces damage taken by all bosses by 90% while inside the circle
  • Aradne’s Falling Strike
    • Creates several small soak circles around the room
    • After 8s, the soak circles explode
    • Deals 14k Shadow damage to anyone in the soak circle
    • If any circle is NOT soaked, the whole raid takes 29k Shadow damage
  • Brynja’s Mournful Dirge
    • Puts small 5 yard circles on several players
    • Affected players take 2500 Shadow per second for 6s
    • When the circles expire, they explode and deal 27k Shadow damage to anyone hit, except the person who actually had that circle
  • Arthura’s Crushing Gaze
    • Picks a random player & puts a 10 yard circle around them
    • After 8s, slams into that player, dealing 124k Frost damage, divided evenly among everyone hit
• End of Phase
  • When either Kyra or Signe reaches 15% HP, Skyja activates, and you move into Phase 2

Phase 2

• Both Kyra and Signe continue using all their abilities until they each respectively die
• All of the Val’kyr stuff continues happening
• Skyja
  • Fragments of Destiny
    • Puts a debuff on several random people. Deals 3k Frost damage every second. In testing, there were 3 debuffs out. 
    • Dispellable, but no duration
    • When dispelled, jumps to the next closest player
    • If all 3 of the debuffs jump onto the same player, they all disappear and instead leave a puddle of ice on the ground
    • Puddle is 10 yards wide, deals 10k Frost per second & slows you by 50% while standing in it
  • Word of Recall
    • Cast every roughly 1:15 after Skyja activates
    • Causes all previous Val’kyr abilities to be re-cast
  • Link Essence
    • Links several players together
    • If any linked player takes damage, 60% of that amount will be split evenly to the remaining linked players
      • Ex – one player in the link takes 10k damage. 6k damage will be split between the other linked players
  • Pierce Soul
    • Big tank smack, deals 62k Physical damage
    • Also reduces movement speed and healing received by 10%. Stacks
  • Resentment
    • Applies a raid-wide DoT for 12 seconds
    • Ticks for 3700 Shadow damage every second

Strategy

Phase 1

• You’ll want to stack Kyra and Signe on each other for cleave damage, just off-center of the room. Give plenty of room to spread as needed
  • Tanks should swap when Kyra’s tank has 3 stacks of Repeating Slash
    • Or more, if your healers really want to pad
• When a Formless Mass spawns, everyone should hardswap and burn ASAP.
  • Interrupt every cast, do not let any get off
• Interrupt Signe’s Song of Dissolution ASAP, unless again your healers are begging you to let them pad. Gotta get that Rank 1 parse somehow
• Interrupt Soulful Blast as much as possible. This is a much lower priority than the Formless Mass casts or Song of Dissolution.
• When Wings of Rage is cast by Kyra, run away from the circle. When Reverberating Refrain is cast by Signe, run TO Signe and have a dance party in that circle
• Keep an eye on timers for when Val’kyr are coming. Dodge lines, soak the small purple circles, spread out with big purple circles, move bosses out of the giant shield zone, move away if you have small white circles
  • Most important one here is the Crushing Gaze. If you’re the target run into melee
  • If you don’t have at least 4 people in melee, you’ll need some ranged to come in as well to help soak
• Nuke these two down fast, and try to get them to both reach 15% HP as close as possible. As soon as one reaches 15%, Skyja activates

Phase 2

• Pop Bloodlust when Skyja activates
  • Alternatively, if you’re struggling to keep up with all the mechanics coming in from the Val’kyr later in the encounter, you could save lust for the last ~30% HP
• Prioritize finishing off Kyra and Signe, so you don’t hafta deal with their abilities anymore
• Continue handling all the Val’kyr stuff. Soaks, dodges, etc. 
• As far as Skyja is concerned, the biggest deal is Fragments of Destiny
  • You’ll want to assign a starting spot somewhere near the edge of the room
    • Use this as the drop point for the first set of Fragments
    • You’ll need to dispel the debuff and bounce it to people. Have one assigned person without the debuff stand directly on the marker. All 3 people with the debuff should stand around this person, then have healers dispel all 3 debuffs in quick succession
    • It may take a few pulls for some people to learn proper positioning here, but shouldn’t be too bad
    • Do it right and it essentially negates the mechanic
    • Just make sure to always have a marker down for the assigned person who’ll get all 3, and have it be near the edge of the room
    • See image below, the icons with blue outlines are the ones with the fragments, the player on Orange is going to get all 3 when they’re dispelled, leaving a puddle behind

• Healers will need to keep a close eye on Link Essence players, so none of them die. 
  • If your GM gets the Link Essence, your healers should band together as a council and ensure nobody heals them
• Tanks will want to swap after every 1-2 Pierce Souls
• You’ll want to use some type of throughput CD for Resentment, to keep the raid stable
• This phase can get pretty hectic. Between having the Fragments going out, lines to dodge, circles to soak, people needing to spread, needing to move the boss out of the shield circle, etc. Things start to ramp up as Skyja casts Word of Recall, and after her 2nd cast of it you basically have mechanics coming out non-stop
  • Keep your cool, focus on each thing going on, and nuke down the boss

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Eye of the Jailer

This encounter is you against Odin’s Eye, which has been turned against you by the Jailer. The Eye is aided by a handful of Deathseeker Eye adds. This is a three phase encounter. You’ll alternate between Phases 1 and 2, until you’ve completed Phase 2 twice, at which point you’ll enter Phase 3. 

General Info

• The boss platform is a crescent, and the boss generally hangs near the middle of the crescent. In testing it seemed like he wasn’t supposed to move, but could move along the edge of the platform
• On each of the 2 furthest edges of the platform, there is a harpoon pile. Clicking this will yeet you over to the opposite side. 
  • These are active the entire encounter, and can be used to quickly hop from one side to the other
  • (I couldn’t get a clear picture of the harpoon pile, so used SKULL instead)

Phase 1 Abilities

• Piercing Lens
  • Focused smack on the tank. Deals 33k Physical damage. This is the Eye’s primary “melee” damage ability on tanks. 
• Deathlink
  • The Eye shoots a bolt at the current tank, dealing 41k Physical damage, and dealing splash damage to anyone near the tank as Shadow damage. 2 second cast time
• Eye Bolt
  • The adds (which aren’t attackable at this point) randomly shoot people for 6k Shadow damage periodically
• Fracture Soul
  • The boss puts a few swirlies on the ground under random people. These explode after a short time, dealing 10k Shadow damage
  • Anyone hit has their soul Fractured, creating 3 images of themselves called Fractured Souls
    • These images deal 1k Shadow per second, reduce movement speed by 20%, and reduce damage & healing by 30%, stacking per image
    • Images despawn when the affected player runs over them
• Annihilating Glare
  • The boss shoots a giant freaking Eye Beam in a straight line in front of itself. Deals 62k Shadow per second to anyone hit, and knocks them back
  • The boss will rotate here and do nearly a full 360 with the eye beam

• Stygian Abductor
  • Big add that starts in the sky
  • It’ll pick a random target and cast Dragging Chains. Target gets a circle around them
    • Attaches chains to the target, and anyone within 6 yards
    • Splits 25k Shadow damage evenly between everyone hit
    • Also pulls everyone hit towards the flying add. The strength of this pull is based on how many people hit – less people hit = stronger pull
    • If too few people are hit, those who did soak get pulled off the ledge and die
  • After Dragging Chains ends, the Abductor lands on the ground and starts casting Assailing Lance at the tank
    • Assailing Lance deals 37k Physical, and puts a 3k/s bleed for 10s, stacks. 
    • Forces tank swaps
• When the boss reaches 66% and 33%, he puts up a shield, becomes immune to damage, and you enter Phase 2

Phase 2 Abilities

• Eye of the Jailer
  • Stygian Ejection
    • Boss throws 2 Deathseeker Eye adds at the platform, one near each of the Harpoon piles. You’ll see swirlies on the ground where they’ll land. If you’re in the swirlie when they land, you’ll be smacked for 16k Shadow damage and get yelled at by your raid leader
  • Titanic Death Gaze
    • Big AoE explosion, deals 16k Shadow to the entire raid. 8 second long cast, begins casting 16s after the Deathseeker Eye adds land, then every 34s you remain in Phase 2
  • Desolation Beam
    • Shoots a beam at a random player, dealing 8k Shadow then chaining to additional nearby players. Damage increased for each jump
  • Fracture Soul
    • Works exactly the same as Phase 1
• Deathseeker Eyes
  • These need to be tanked, can be moved around the platform
  • Piercing Lens
    • Same thing as when the big boss does this, just a basic Physical damage smack that serves as their melee
  • Slothful Corruption
    • Debuffs random players for 21s. Deals 2k Shadow per second, and reduces casting, ranged attack speed, and movement speed by 40%
    • Dispellable
  • Spreading Misery
    • Debuffs a few random targets, dealing 4.5k Shadow damage per second for 5 seconds
    • When this expires, leaves a puddle on the ground
    • Puddle lasts for 10 minutes. Standing in puddle deals 4.5k Shadow every 1.5 seconds
  • Shared Suffering
    • If the two Eyes are within 30 yards, they cast Suffering every 3s
      • Deals massive raid-wide ticking damage. Deals 41k Shadow damage, and each tick applies a raid-wide debuff increasing shadow damage taken by 20% for 1 minute
  • Dying Suffering
    • A dead Eye will cast Suffering every 8 seconds if the other Eye is still alive

 

Phase 3 Abilities

• When the final set of Deathseeker Eyes dies, the boss casts Immediate Extermination
  • Increases attack rate by 50%
  • Also pulses on the raid every 10s for the remainder of the fight
    • Each pulse deals 13k Shadow damage to everyone
    • Also applies a debuff reducing healing received by 10%, stacking
• The Eye of the Jailer also retains everything from Phase 1, including the Stygian Abductor adds spawning
• Phase 3 is a race, kill the Eye before you can’t heal anymore and just die

 

Strategy

Phase 1

• You’ll start with the tanks in the middle holding the boss. Stand a few steps away from each other so you don’t splash Deathlink
  • Melee should be on the sides, away from the tanks
  • Ranged & healers spread out around the platform
• Dodge the Fracture Soul swirlies
  • If you fail at this, you get those 3 images spawning. You’ll need to go and run over all 3 as quickly as possible, when the raid points and laughs at you for getting hit
• Watch your spell timers. When the boss is about 5s away from casting Annihilating Glare, start moving towards one of the Harpoon piles. 
  • Click the pile as the beam gets close, then spread back out around the platform
• When a Stygian Abductor spawns, you’ll want 5-6 people stacking on the Dragging Chains target
  • If YOU are the target, run towards the back of the platform, so it’s further to be dragged
  • If needed, assign a set stacking point for the target of Dragging Chains to run, and have your soakers meet the target there
• Outside that, just nuke the boss until you hit a Phase 2 trigger point. Remember, you’ll enter P2 at 66% and 33% HP

Phase 2

• Tanks need to pick up the Deathseeker Eyes ASAP
  • Keep them about 35-40 yards apart
  • We recommend moving them towards the back of the platform, and the raid loosely spread between the 2

• Being loosely spread is important, you don’t want a giant clump of people or Desolation Beam could mess your raid up
• Like in P1, don’t get hit by Fracture Soul swirlies
• Healers should keep an eye on timers so they know when Titanic Death Gaze is being cast. It’s not lethal damage by itself, but can certainly finish off anyone who’s low
  • Also make sure to dispel Slothful Corruption ASAP
• Any players targeted by Spreading Misery should move to the edges of the room ASAP. Drop the goop as far out of the way as possible
  • Remember, the goop lasts 10 minutes, so dropping them in the middle of the platform early on could screw you later in the fight
• Make sure both Eyes die at nearly the same time, ensuring it’s within 8 seconds of each other, so you don’t let any ticks of Suffering go off

Phase 3

• Pop Bloodlust as soon as the boss reactivates after the 33% HP Phase 2 ends
• This is just Phase 1, but on steroids. Nuke the boss down before it gets out of hand and you just all start dying

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Tarragrue

• Two Phase fight. P1 is 100%-10%, P2 is 10%-0%
• You’ll clear a floor of Torghast on your way to the boss, complete with Anima powers
  • Make sure 2-3 people get the Anima power “Ever-Beating Heart”
• Tank boss near middle of room
• Overpower is a big tank smash, tank swap after each one
• Remnant of Forgotten Torments makes a soak circle on the ground in one of 3 flavors
  • Each flavor does a raid-wide effect. Upper-Reaches Might increases the raid’s Physical damage taken, Mort’regar’s Echoes increases the raid’s Magic damage taken, Soulforge Heat is a raid-wide DoT
  • Soaking the circle reduces the potency of the raid-wide effect, but puts that same effect on the player soaking as a 1.5 minute debuff
  • Have 2 people help soak each, clear the circles ASAP
• Players with Predator’s Howl need to stay 5 yards away from people, and healers should dispel this
• Healers need to keep people with Grasp of Death alive, it ticks hard
• Chains of Eternity will throw a giant chain at a marked player. Chain hits the first person it comes in contact with, stunning them & pulling them to the boss. If they reach the boss, they die. Have a player with “Ever-Beating Heart” Anima Power soak this, they don’t get stunned
• Hungering Mist is the boss’s signature ability, basically a dance. Creates several images of itself, they put down mist, mist explodes. Run to the safe spot. Repeat several times. 
• Sooth or Tranq Shot the boss when he uses Fury of the Ages
• At 10%, boss casts Jailer’s Gaze, removes all Anima Powers from the raid, boss starts dealing 500% increased damage, no other abilities
  • Kite boss & burn him

 

Eye of the Jailer

• 3 phase fight. You’ll alternate between P1 and P2 two times. After the 3rd P2, you enter P3
• There’s harpoons in the top corners of the crescent shape room. Clicking the harpoon yeets you across the open area
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• Piercing Lens is basically the boss’s melee attack
• Deathlink shoots a lazer at the tank, also deals splash damage to anyone nearby. Don’t stand on the tank
• Eye Bolt is basically just random damage on the raid
• Dodge the Fracture Soul swirlies. If you fail, run over the 3 images of yourself you see ASAP
• Annihilating Glare is a giant ass spinning lazer beam that does a 360. Run from the beam, use the harpoon pile to lob yourself across the room to stay ahead of the lazer
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• When a player is targeted by Dragging Chains, they should run to a marker near the center of the room. 5-6 people should run there as well to help soak. They all get chained & dragged towards the edge. More soakers = weaker pull. 
  • Then add drops down. Kill the add. Tank swap after 3 stacks of Assailing Lance from the add.
• P2 triggers at 66% and 33% HP
  • 2 Deathseeker Eyes spawn, one on each point of the crescent
  • Tank these 30+ yards away, or you wipe
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  • Kill within 8 seconds of each other, or you wipe
  • Dispel Slothful Corruption debuff when it comes out
  • Drop Spreading Misery puddles at the far edges of the platform
  • When the eyes die, you re-enter P1
• P3 triggers after the 2nd p2 ends
  • Boss retains all the same abilities as P1, but attacks 50% faster
  • Also now does ticking damage every 10s, increasing in power
  • Lust at the start of P3

 

The Nine

• 2 Phase fight. P1 is against 2 big Val’kyr – Kyra and Signe, P2 triggers when either of the first two bosses hits 15%. 3rd, much larger Val’kyr – Skyja.
• Tank Kyra & Signe on each other
• Tanks swap in p1 when the Kyra tank has 3 stacks of the debuff
• Kill the blob when it comes out, and interrupt its cast
• Interrupt both of Signe’s abilities
• At 100 energy, Kyra and Signe each have a special ability
  • Kyra – pulls everyone towards hurt, then explodes on anyone within 10 yards
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  • Signe – pushes everyone away from her, then explodes on anyone further than 10 yards
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  • Run away from Kyra, run to Signe
• Bring them both to 15% at the same time
• Skyja comes when either hits 15%
  • Lust when she comes down
  • Finish off first 2 bosses, then nuke Skyja
• Tanks need to swap at 3 stacks of Pierce Soul
• Healers may want to CD for Resentment
• Fragments of Destiny are sets of 3 permanent debuffs that can be dispelled. Dispelling makes it jump to the closest player. Having all 3 debuffs on the same person makes them disappear, and drop a puddle 
  • Have a marker near the edge of the room
    • Have assigned person on the marker
  • Stand in a triangle around the assigned person, dispel all 3 debuffs on that person
  • This’ll make them disappear, and puts the puddle wherever you chose the marker
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• There’s also 6 Val’Kyr add abilities throughout the fight. One is lines to dodge, one is large purple circles for people to spread with, one is some soak circles on the ground that need soaked, one is tiny circles on several players that just need to spread out, one is a massive meteor-style circle for split damage that needs soaking, and the last puts a ground-based shield you have to move the bosses out of
  • These occur progressively more frequently the longer the encounter goes

 

Remnants of Ner’zhul

• Single phase fight, nuking down Ner’zhul
• Boss’s armor Shatters off at 80%, 60%, and 30%. Causes raid-wide AoE damage
• Players with Malevolence need to run to edge of room & be dispelled. This debuff being removed knocks back everyone in the raid, and leaves a puddle. Make sure if you are the one being dispelled, your back is to the center, or you get knocked off
• Dodge the super obvious Grasp of Malice lines
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• Aura of Spite ticks the entire encounter, just heal through it
  • Dodge the Spite swirlies when they come out
• Orb of Torment adds spawn sometimes, take 99% reduced damage
• Boss does a lazer called Suffering. If this hits an Orb of Torment, it’ll make the orb take full damage. Tanks make sure to hit the orbs with the lazer
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  • Then DPS swaps and kills orb
  • Someone then has to pick up the orb, walk it to the edge, and lob it off the side
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  • Tanks need to swap after a Suffering cast
• Bloodlust either on pull or 30%, whatever works best for you

 

Soulrender Dormazain

• Single phase encounter, with Garrosh being tortured in the background
• Torment causes 3 of the 4 quadrants to fill with anima and explode, dealing massive damage
  • When Torment happens, find the safe quadrant
  • When Tormented Eruptions happens, it’s Torment 5 times back to back. Keep running around from safe spot to safe spot, or you die
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• When Warmonger Shackles is cast, have 3 assigned players each grab 1 shackle and start running to the back of the room
  • Everyone else stacks up on a raid marker, and pop 1-2 healing and/or DR CDs
  • You have 35s to clear all 3 Shackles, or you wipe within seconds 
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• When the Mawsworn Agonizer adds come out, slow all of them. Use grips & knockbacks to try and group them up & blast them
  • Players with Brand of Torment circles should stand directly on top of the adds, increases the damage they take
  • Do not let these adds reach Garrosh
• Players with Brand should spread out from other people whenever they are not standing on adds
• Tanks swap after every Ruinblade
• Dodge the swirlies Garrosh throws at the ground
  • Also don’t stand near where Garrosh is

 

Painsmith Raznal

• 2 Stage encounter. Stage 2 is basically an intermission. Stage 2 happens at 70% and 40%
• Square grid platform
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• Boss carries a giant weapon. Throws weapon at a tank periodically, dealing chunk of damage to the whole raid
  • Also creates spikes shooting from the floor. 
  • Different patterns based on how many intermissions you did. 
  • 0 intermissions done = spikes radiate out from where weapon landed
  • 1 intermission = spikes in a cross 
  • 2 intermissions = radiates + cross
  • Dodge spikes
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• When the Spiked Balls come out, mark one & kill it, leaving yourself an open space to walk through
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• Players with Shadowsteel Chains need to stay a few yards away from everyone
• Raid Leader needs to call out when to clear the Flamescale Traps, spread them out 2s apart
• Intermission
  • Basically dancing through spikes the whole time, don’t get hit
  • Also dodge swirlies
  • Intermission lasts 50 seconds
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• Lust after 2nd intermission, nuke down boss

 

Guardian of the First Ones

• Single phase fight, reminiscent of Sludgefist
• 3 Pillars around the room called Energy Cores
• Lust on pull
• Boss’s energy slowly ticks down. When it hits 0, he starts chaincasting Purging Protocol, deals massive damage & ramps each cast
• Having boss near an Energy Core regens his energy, and interrupts Purging Protocol casts
  • Once an Energy Core has been drained, it explodes and disappears
  • While boss is gaining energy, the Core ticks for heavy AoE damage. Small circle around the Core takes 85% reduced damage from the AoE, so everyone stack in the small circle around the Core
  • It’s explosion deals massive damage, so move out to avoid explosion
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• Start with boss not near any Cores, bring towards a Core after he runs out of energy & casts Purging protocol twice
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  • Rinse & repeat this with the remaining two Cores
• Dodge Disintegration lines
• Players with Threat Neutralization need to move away from everyone else
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• Run away from the Form Sentry floating orbs. These are just kinda annoying, but do not stand in the circle under them
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• Tanks need to swap halfway through the Elimination Pattern
  • 2 part combo, cannot soak both
• Kill boss

 

Fatescribe Roh’Kalo

• 3 Stage fight, Stage 2 is basically an intermission. Intermission occurs at 70% and 40%. After first intermission, return to Stage 1. After second intermission, go to Stage 3. 
• Stage 1
  • Tank with Invoke Destiny needs to run away from the raid for when it explodes
    • Raid needs to kill the add that spawns, if you’re fixated don’t let it reach you
    • Blow up the smaller adds that spawn after the first add dies
  • Don’t get hit by the Fated Conjecture lazer beams
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  • Players with Call of Eternity need to run to edges of room to drop the debuff. When debuff expires, leaves an orb on the ground
    • All old orbs explode every time Call of Eternity debuffs expire
    • Don’t be standing near orbs
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• Stage 2
  • Boss takes 99% reduced damage, you have 40 seconds to complete the intermission
  • Raid takes ticking damage the entire intermission, and little adds spawn that you just need to kill & interrupt
  • Also dodge little floating orbs that’ll be moving around
  • The 6 rings on the ground activate and reorganize themselves
  • Each ring gets 1 blue target (left), and 1 blue Rune (right)
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  • Several players get Empowered, and when empowered people stand on a ring it spins
    • Odd # of empowered players on ring = clockwise
    • Even # of players = counterclockwise
    • Need to get the Rune onto its target spot
    • Once you get all 6 runes done, you complete the intermission
    • Failure to complete within 40s = wipe
• Stage 3
  • Lust immediately
  • Boss actives several rings at a time throughout this phase, same number of players get empowered
    • Same rules for spinning, odd = clockwise, even = counterclockwise
    • Clear the runes ASAP, you only have 30 seconds in Stage 3, or you wipe
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  • Boss also retains all P1 abilities, gets pretty hectic

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