Forgeweaver Araz Raid Guide in Manaforge Omega

• Avoid orbs from Pylons during Invoke Collector.
• Tanks: Run away Arcane Obliteration and use this as your tank swap. Tank the add where you spawn it.
• Soak Arcane Obliteration and kill the add as a priority.
• Heroic: Split the raid into 3 teams to soak Arcane Obliteration.
• Move under the boss with Astral Harvest to spawn adds there to kill.
• Avoid Silencing Tempest circles. They... silence you.

• Arcane Obliteration
  1. This will target the active tank and spawn an Arcane Echo.
  2. Players in the raid should help soak this to split the damage taken.
  3. The Arcane Echo will copy any ability the boss casts.
  4. Healers: Players that soak this will have a healing absorb applied to them.

Tank moving out with Arcane Obliteration and players soaking.

• Pylons:
  1. When they spawn from the boss casting Invoke Collector it will fire lots of orbs into the room. Avoid these.
  2. It will then periodically cast Astral Harvest. This targets 3 players which will spawn orbs that will slowly go towards the Pylon. If it ever reaches the Pylon it will deal raid wide damage.
  3. Place these orbs under the boss and cleave them down.
  4. If a player spawns them far away a Death Knight can grip it to the boss.
  5. All CC works on these adds so it is good to use tools such as Ring of Peace, Leg Sweep, Ursol's Vortex etc.
  6. All Pylons work independently from each other. This means that when two Pylons are active they will both cast Astral Harvest making a total of 6 adds.

Players spawaning adds with Astral Harvest.

• Tanks: Overwhelming Power
  1. Stacking DoT from tanking the boss. You will naturally swap in the first Phase 1 at apporiate times due to Invoke Collector. In the second Phase 1 (and Phase 2) aim to swap every 2 or 3 stacks.

• Healers: Arcane Siphon
  1. Ticking damage to the raid.

Your goal in this phase is to destroy the pylons before they reach full energy and make the most of the Mana Splinter damage amplification windows. You only get 2 intermissions. Make them count!

• Pylons:
  1. Each Pylon has an energy bar. If it ever gets pull they will cast Arcane Convergence which deals a large amount of raid wide damage.
  2. The Pylons will fire Photon Blast beams towards random players. Avoid these.

• Tanks: Shielded Attendants
  1. These will spawn in the middle of the room during the intermission. Take one each and take it to your groups pillar and cleave it down.
  2. They will deal more damage to their target as time goes on, be ready with defensive cooldowns as your pillar gets low.
  3. When Mana Splinter happens use this as an opportunity to taunt swap (if the adds are still alive).

• Healers: Astral Burn
  1. Ticking damage that stacks.
  2. This will keep stacking for the whole intermission.

• Mana Splinter
  1. Once all the pylons are destroyed the boss is stunned and takes increased damage while stunned.
  2. This happens at aproximately ~3:20 and ~6:40 (can be sooner if DPS during intermission is faster)
  3. DPS: With the above timings in mind, if you are a 3 minute class you would use it on the pull and both Mana Splinter's.

• Dark Singularity
  1. At the start of this phase the boss will push everyone towards the entrance of the room and slowly try to pull you towards the Dark Singularity.
  2. If you touch it you die.
  3. If the adds go into it, it will deal large raid wide damage.
  4. The effect of the pull gets stronger the longer you are in this phase.

• Void Harvest
  1. Similar to the Astral Harvest adds in Phase 1 just spawn these under the boss and cleave them down.
  2. If a player spawns them far away a Death Knight can grip it to the boss.
  3. All CC works on these adds so it is good to use tools such as Ring of Peace, Leg Sweep, Ursol's Vortex etc.
  4. If they ever reach the Dark Singularity it will deal a large amount of raid wide damage.

• Dark Singularity
  1. This cast knocks players away from the boss.
  2. Try to get knocked towards the entrance of the room.
  3. If any adds are alive during this it would be advisable to stun them or put a displacement tool down such as Ring of Peace.

• 3 Pylons are activated.
• Tanks: The add spawned from Arcane Obliteration must stay 20 yards away from the boss to prevent it and the boss getting Mark of Power.
• Arcane Obliteration now leaves a 10 minute debuff on players preventing them from splitting the soak damage. This means that you need 3 teams of players set up as the boss will cast this twice in the first Phase 1 and once in the second Phase 1.

• Avoid orbs from Pylons during Invoke Collector.
• Tanks: Run away Arcane Obliteration and use this as your tank swap. Tank the add where you spawn it.
• Soak Arcane Obliteration and kill the add as a priority.
• Heroic: Split the raid into 3 teams to soak Arcane Obliteration.
• Move under the boss with Astral Harvest to spawn adds there to kill.
• Avoid Silencing Tempest circles. They... silence you.

• Destroy the Pylons.
• Dodge Photon Blast.
• Healers: Increasing raid damage throughout the intermission.
• Tanks: Bring the adds to the Pylons and cleave them down. 1 add per tank.
• Tanks: Swap adds once you start hitting the boss again.
• Once all Pylons are destroyed the boss takes increased damage!

• Avoid being pulled off the edge towards Dark Singularity.
• Spawn Void Harvest under the boss and kill + CC them.
• Stay close to the entrance of the room and avoid being knocked into the Dark Singularity.

• Astral Harvest:
  1. All orbs spawn with Power Manifested on them meaning you cannot hit or CC them.
  2. This can be removed by pathing the orb through a Void Tear which will always spawn opposite from the pylon that triggered the mechanic.
  3. Tanks: This means for effective cleave DPS from the raid the boss must be moved around the room constantly.
• Intermission Pylons:
  1. These now need to be killed at a similar time. If not the raid will wipe due to Containment Breach.
• Void Harvest:
  1. These spawn in sets of 9 (3 sets of 3 in quick sucession). Save some burst damage to kill them quickly.