Blood Death Knight Tank Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.1.7
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Blood Death Knight for each boss of the following raid: Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.1.7.
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Aberrus. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible guides.
On this page, you will find Blood Death Knight specific information to deal with each boss in the Aberrus raid. These are not complete encounter guides but rather provide specific tips for doing the bosses as a Blood Death Knight.
This page assumes that you already understand most of the mechanics of each encounter. These can be found on the full raid guide, so what is contained here are details specifically tailored toward Blood Death Knight and what you can do to deal with each fight as best as possible.
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Kazzara, the Hellforged
Talents/Build
For this, boss, I suggest you use the default build at the top of this page.
Tips
- Taunt swap on every stack of
Terror Claws.
Terror Claws deals a combination of Physical and Magic damage. If you have
Blood Shield active and some Runic Power for
Death Strike you should be more than fine. You can use additional cooldowns if necessary, depending on your HP% at the time of cast.
Death's Advance to negate the pushback from
Wings of Extinction.
The Amalgamation Chamber
Talents/Build
For this, boss, I suggest you use the default build at the top of this page.
Tips
- Be prepared with
Death Strike for
Shadow Spike /
Flame Slash.
- Depending on your strategy for this encounter, you may need to swap bosses during Phase 1.
If this is the case, be ready to run with
Death's Advance.
- Fire - Phase 1: You can comfortably solo soak
Fiery Meteor with
Anti-Magic Shell.
- Shadow - Phase 1: The stacking health reduction from this boss will make
Shadow Spike more deadly. Be prepared to use cooldowns to survive these hits.
- Phase 2: The tank combo in this phase will require a taunt immediately
after
Withering Vulnerability and the tank that taunted should make sure that the other tank is not hit by
Shadowflame Burst.
For more information, please refer to our Amalgamation Chamber guide.
The Forgotten Experiments
Talents/Build
For this, boss, I suggest you use the default build at the top of this page.
Tips
- Taunt swap at 3-4 stacks of
Infused Strikes.
- When both tanks have
Infused Strikes stacks, run into each other to clear them. Do not do this again until
Infused Explosion has faded.
- Phase 3: Whoever is not tanking the boss should focus on keeping
Temporal Anomaly orbs away from the boss by running into them.
Assault of the Zaqali
Talents/Build
For this, boss, I suggest you use the default build at the top of this page.
Tips
- Be ready to
Dark Command and
Death Grip adds as they appear.
- Tank all adds on top of the Magma Mystic.
- Taunt the boss as soon as he jumps to your platform.
- Mythic: The pushback from Ignara can be negated with
Death's Advance.
Rashok, the Elder
Talents/Build
For this, boss, I suggest you use the default build at the top of this page.
Tips
- The tank mechanic of this fight is a combo hit. Taunt when you see the same
attack appear in the pattern. You do not want to be hit by
Flaming Slash or
Earthen Crush twice in the same combo.
- When
Shadowlava Blast is cast (big purple cone). Use this as your indicator to drag the boss into the middle of the room.
For more information, please refer to our Rashok, the Elder guide.
The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
Talents/Build
For this, boss, I suggest you use the default build at the top of this page.
Tips
- Taunt swap at 5-6 stacks of
Searing Claws.
- When you are not tanking, try to soak
Shrapnel Bomb's. Aim to have some
Blood Shield active for this so you do not die whilst being out of range of the boss.
- The pushback from
Blast Wave can be negated with
Death's Advance.
- The Golems can be gripped together. You can opt to save
Abomination Limb on the pull and use it on their first appearance, or use it on pull and save it for the second set.
- You can stop the casts from the Golems with
Death Grip,
Mind Freeze,
Blinding Sleet and
Asphyxiate.
Tactical Destruction is always cast on the pillars closest to the boss. When the Golems spawn, move the boss closer to the middle so the melee DPS do not have to run as much.
Magmorax
Talents/Build
For this, boss, I suggest you use the default build at the top of this page.
Tips
- When
Incinerating Maws is cast, wait until the attack has finished before taunting.
- If you are the target of
Incinerating Maws use
Anti-Magic Shell to help survive the hits.
- Keep the boss away from
Magma Puddle's.
- When you are not tanking soak
Magma Puddle's to reduce their size.
- The knockback from
Overpowering Stomp can be negated with
Death's Advance.
For more information, please refer to our Magmorax guide.
Echo of Neltharion
Talents/Build
For this, boss, I suggest you use the default build at the top of this page.
Tips
- Do not use
Death's Advance on the knockbacks in this fight. You want to be knocked through walls.
- Phase 1: Taunt after
Calamitous Strike.
- Phase 1: After
Calamitous Strike the boss will cast
Echoing Fissure, and this will be your indicator to move to a new area.
- Phase 2: Keep the boss near the Voice from Beyond adds to kill them.
- Phase 2: When an add has died, move to the next one.
- Phase 2: The tank mechanic in this phase is
Sunder Shadow. He will knock you through a wall, and shortly after, all walls between where you were knocked from to where you are now will be destroyed.
- Phase 3: Gain threat on the spawning adds.
- Phase 3: When
Ebon Destruction is cast run into a portal to survive.
Scalecommander Sarkareth
Talents/Build
For this, boss, I suggest you use the default build at the top of this page.
Tips
This boss was not testable on PTR. These tips will be added after the raid has gone live.
For more information, please refer to our Scalecommander Sarkareth guide.
Changelog
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 09 May 2023: Page added.
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This guide has been written by Mandl and Panthea.
Mandl is one of Acherus' Useful Minions and Blood Death Knight theorycrafter.
Panthea raids in Catalyst and is the author of TankNotes. He plays all tanks and is a "Useful Minion" for the Acherus Death Knight Discord. You can follow him on Twitter.
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