Holy Paladin Healing Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.7
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Holy Paladin for each boss of the following raid: Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.7.
Disclaimer
In this section, you will find information about each boss individually in Aberrus. These tips and build recommendations will not change regardless of whether you have the set bonus. Instead, you will be primarily deciding if you should run Beacon of Virtue or Beacon of Faith. While Virtue has the higher potential ceiling, it can be quite mana-intensive, so do not hesitate to swap off of it when facing fights where mana is a concern.
Talents
You can easily import the talent tree below into the game with the following string:
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Kazzara, the Hellforged
Recommended Talents:
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Tips
- Despite being a dragon, this boss does not have a tail swipe mechanic, which means that it is safe to stand behind.
- This boss deals increased damage and has extra mechanics as it loses health, you will want to manage your mana and cooldowns well to ensure that you have enough to cover the end of the fight when it gets more intense.
The Amalgamation Chamber
Recommended Talents:
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Tips
- In phase 1, the bosses will be split apart. During this time, you will gain a stacking debuff, either Corrupting Shadow or Blazing Heat. If your stacks ever get too high, you can run to the other boss to let your stacks reset and fall off.
- In phase 2, the boss will deal increasing damage until death; you will need to keep players alive as long as possible during this phase while also rotating through healing cooldowns.
The Forgotten Experiments
Recommended Talents:
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- You can use Blessing of Protection to remove the bleed effect from Rending Charge.
- You will need to dispel players with Unstable Essence when Thadrion is active. However, it will spread to another player with each dispel, so you will want to only dispel when a player reaches high stacks. You will also want to avoid dispelling if the player is in the raid, as it will leave a giant circle under them, likely killing any player it touches.
- Rionthus will spawn orbs around the room that will grant the boss a massive shield if they are able to reach him. Help soak these orbs when you notice them close to you.
- When Rionthus is casting Deep Breath, you will want to look in the air and stay as far away from him as possible. He will pick 1/3rd of the room to fly down and kill anyone in that area. Always be safe and move as far as possible to one side.
For more information, please refer to our Forgotten Experiments guide.
Rashok, the Elder
Recommended Talents:
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Tips
- Whenever the boss is brought to the center of the room, he will deal massive damage. Try to plan to have healing cooldowns active each time he is brought to the middle.
- If you are targetted by Searing Slam, it is important that you do not drop the circle on another Lava Vortex, or it will likely wipe the raid.
For more information, please refer to our Rashok the Elder guide.
Assault of the Zaqali
Recommended Talents:
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Tips
- This encounter has many kickable spells. While not required, you may want to consider talenting into Rebuke to help interrupt.
- Make sure that you are dispelling players who have the Magma Flow debuff on them.
- Blessing of Protection can be used to immune the damage from Catastrophic Slam, just make sure no allies are in it, or they will still die.
For more information, please refer to our Assault of the Zaqali guide.
The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
Recommended Talents:
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Tips
- Try to position so that the Blast Wave mechanic does not push you into any fire existing within the room. You can't be pushed off the edge, so use that to your advantage when possible.
- Both Divine Shield and Blessing of Protection can be used to remove Shrapnel Bombs from the room. You should aim to clear traps when space becomes tight or use BoP on an ally for them to remove traps.
Magmorax
Recommended Talents:
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Tips
- Help soak the Magma Puddle circles to shrink them and save space in the room.
- This boss deals increased damage as it loses health; you will want to manage your mana and cooldowns well to ensure that you have enough to cover the end of the fight when it gets more intense.
- If Lava Ejection is not soaked, it will wipe the raid. You will need to help your allies soak this, but soaking it leaves a debuff, increasing your damage when soaking. Do not soak again until this debuff falls off.
- Avoid standing in front of the boss due to Blazing Breath. This will kill you if you are hit by it.
- Blessing of Protection can be used to not only immune the damage from Overpowering Stomp, but the knockback from it as well.
For more information, please refer to our Magmorax guide.
Echo of Neltharion
Recommended Talents:
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Tips
- This boss will spawn walls that will cause you to be LoS and unable to reach your allies or the boss. It is extremely important that you follow the raid and the boss and not get stuck on the other side of the boss.
- Rushing Darkness can be used to break the walls spawned by the boss but you will want to avoid standing between the players targetted by this and the boss as it will deal damage to you.
- If you are ever targeted by Corruption, it is extremely important that you help to kill the Voice from Beyond adds.
- In the last phase, you will need to stand in Sundered Reality to avoid dying to Ebon Destruction. Failure to do so will kill you.
For more information, please refer to our Neltharion guide.
Scalecommander Sarkareth
Recommended Talents:
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Tips
- Blessing of Protection can be used on the tank to help immune damage; You will be required to do this on Mythic difficulty.
- Embrace of Nothingness can be immuned with Divine Shield. This can help reduce the amount of damage your raid takes.
- Using Divine Shield while having Infinite Duress to explode early, potentially killing allies who aren't positioned correctly.
For more information, please refer to our Scalecommander Sarkareth guide.
Changelog
- 20 Jul. 2024: Page Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 08 Aug. 2023: Talent recommendations updated.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Talents updated for patch 10.1.5.
- 10 Jun. 2023: Sarkareth tips added.
- 09 May 2023: Page added.
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