Dragons of Nightmare Guide for The Emerald Nightmare

Table of Contents

• ×Introduction
  • 1. Contents
  • 2. Lore
  • 3. Outline
  • 4. TLDR
    • 4.1. Tanks
    • 4.2. Healers
    • 4.3. DPS
    • 4.4. Everyone
    • 4.5. Mythic-only: Lumbering Mindgorger
  • 5. Changelog
• +Abilities
  • 1. Overview
  • 2. Shared Abilities
  • 3. Ysondre
  • 4. Taerar
    • 4.1. Heroic Mode: Bellowing Roar
  • 5. Lethon
    • 5.1. Heroic Mode: Shadow Burst
  • 6. Emeriss
    • 6.1. Heroic Mode: Corruption of the Dream
  • 7. Energy Bars
  • 8. Changelog
• +Normal/Heroic Strategy/Tactics
  • 1. Overview
  • 2. Splitting the Raid
  • 3. Tanking Concerns
    • 3.1. Healing Concerns
  • 4. DPS Concerns
  • 5. Concerns for Everyone
  • 6. When to Use Cooldowns
  • 7. Changelog
• +Mythic Strategy
  • 1. Mythic Changes
    • 1.1. Lumbering Mindgorger
  • 2. Mythic Strategy
  • 3. Changelog
• +Loot
  • 1. Relics
  • 2. Rings and Trinkets
  • 3. Armor

General Information

Welcome to our World of Warcraft encounter guide for Dragons of Nightmare in The Emerald Nightmare. We will teach you everything you need to know to defeat the boss in every difficulty.

On this particular page, we will give you a short overview of the fight as well as a list of things to watch out for (include LFR tips when applicable).

The other pages of our Dragons of Nightmare guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the right.

About our Reviewer

This guide has been reviewed and approved by Pottm from Serenity.

To make it easy to navigate the guide, we have split it into 4 pages:

• Abilities: read about the encounter abilities;
• Normal/Heroic Strategy/Tactics: find out how to defeat the encounter in Normal and Heroic modes;
• Mythic Strategy: learn how to handle the new mechanics and increased difficulty of Mythic mode;
• Loot: shiny loot, neatly organized.

The Dragons of Nightmare make up the fifth boss in the Emerald Nightmare Raid Instance.

The Emerald Dream was entrusted to Ysera for safekeeping, and the mightiest of her green dragon brood were assigned to stand watch over four portals that connected directly to Azeroth. But even before the Cataclysm, these dragons began to show signs of corruption. Now, the path to the Nightmare's core runs through the dragons' lair.

The fight against the Dragons of Nightmare can seem daunting at first, because there are 4 dragons (Ysondre, Emeriss, Lethon, and Taerar), which have a shared health pool and several abilities (some shared, some not shared).

In reality, things are much simpler, because the raid only ever faces 2 dragons at a time, one of them being always Ysondre. Moreover, the raid needs to be split in two groups, each facing a single dragon. So most raid members are dealing with one Dragon at a time.

Here is a preview of the fight from the Legion Alpha/Beta.

• Swap dragon with the other tank at 7 stacks of the Mark.
• Do not get Corrupted Breath cast at the raid.
• Pickup adds, except Dread Horrors (unless many spawn).

• Dispel everything! (root from Call Defiled Spirit, sleep from Seeping Fog, and Shadow Burst in Heroic mode).
• Save healing cooldowns for where the raid messes up and spawn extra adds or takes extra damage.

• DPS the bosses and any add that spawns, especially spirits from Siphon Spirit, which cannot be allowed to reach Lethon.
• Interrupt the casts of Corruption from Essences of Corruption.
• Stand on top of the flower from Nightmare Blast if no one else is, in order to prevent Dread Horrors from spawning.

Move away from all the ground effects. The only one that cannot be avoided is Call Defiled Spirit.

In Mythic mode, the fight feels the same as in Heroic mode, except for players entering portals to deal with the Lumbering Mindgorger.

Make a small team of DPS players and 1 healer to deal with the Lumbering Mindgorger. They need to have good burst DPS and a short-cooldown interrupt.

• 04 Oct. 2016 (mythic page): Added pottm's Mythic Strategy.
• 04 Oct. 2016 (this page): Added a few words on Mythic.
• 24 Sep. 2016 (abilities page): Cleared up overview of the fight regarding how dragons activate.
• 18 Sep. 2016 (strategy page): Added more details following pottm's review.
• 18 Sep. 2016 (abilities page): Added more details following pottm's review.
• 18 Sep. 2016 (this page): Added more details following pottm's review.
• 15 Sep. 2016 (this page): Guide added.