Mythic+ Dungeon Difficulty Rankings and Tier List for Fortified/Spiteful/Necrotic Affixes

• Easy
  • Operation: Mechagon - Junkyard
  • Tazavesh: So'Leah's Gambit
• Moderate
  • Return to Karazhan - Upper
  • Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
  • Iron Docks
• Hard
  • Return to Karazhan - Lower
  • Grimrail Depot
  • Operation: Mechagon - Workshop

We have MDT routes for this week's affixes and for all dungeons, which you can find in the guide linked below.

This week's affixes are Fortified, Spiteful, Necrotic, and Shrouded. The MDT routes linked above provide enough flexibility for you to choose if you do want to play with Encrypted (only +10 keystone difficulty) or not.

First, we will provide you with a few general tips for the week, and then you can read on below for our difficulty rankings of the dungeons.

• The most important thing this week is to watch out for Spiteful, as it only takes 2-3 melee hits from Spiteful Shades to be lethal. Make sure to use Crowd Control abilities such as stuns, knockbacks, and slows, as well as keeping a safe distance from the spirits or, if you are a melee, using personal defensive cooldowns.
• Necrotic is really tough for the tanks. Make sure to use all of your group utility to help them reset their stacks more easily! If you are a Kyrian tank, you can use your Phial of Serenity to remove it. A Blessing of Protection from a Paladin can also work; just make sure to cancel it as quickly as possible to prevent a random party member from gaining threat, resulting in their death!

Operation: Mechagon - Junkyard is going to be the easiest dungeon this week due to several reasons. Spiteful will not have much of an influence on you. Not only will they die fast due to Shock Bots, but also the lack of mass-pulls will definitely help you overcome the affix. Necrotic might affect your group, if you decide to pull several non-boss-enemy groups together. Therefore, there should be nothing to worry about as the mobs should die way before they reach critical stacks of Necrotic Wound on your tank.

The hardest part about Tazavesh: So'Leah's Gambit will be the fact that you will have big troubles with Spiteful as most of the pulls are rather large. However, the dungeon timer is relatively easy to pass, meaning you do not have to force yourself to play big to time this key. Hence, taking it slow will cause you to be faster rather than doing double-pulls and wiping due to excessive spawns of Spiteful. Of course, this also applies for Necrotic: the smaller the pull the slower the Necrotic Wound stacks ramp up, meaning your tank will have plenty of breathing room. Just take this dungeon slowly and beware the boss fights, as they are not to be underestimated.

Neither of the weekly affixes will have any influence on the difficulty of the dungeon. The one thing you should keep in mind are the boss fights; this will be your main obstacle. Each of the bosses will tough to deal with, despite being Fortified, potentially creating something we call a "soft-enrage" if not killed quickly. An example of this behavior can be identified at the very first boss of this dungeon — The Curator — where you will eventually run out of space due to Power Discharge covering the whole room and the stacks of Overload becoming lethal.

Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder in particular will be quite tough to deal with for several reasons. First, Necrotic will be terrible to deal with here as the mobs have a built-in teleport, so once your tank begins to kite them away to reset Necrotic Wound, the enemies will port onto the tank unless you stun them prior; hence, having good group-synergy is important here. Second, Tyrannical will be a serious threat to any group entering this key, as it will create one of the hardest bosses to deal with, meaning that you want to save every cooldown available to pass them, and collect as many Bounties from Shrouded as you can on your way there. Do not underestimate this dungeon just because it is straightforward, and it will be quite easy to time!

Iron Docks is one dungeon where good group-synergy will net you the most amount of time using the Iron Stars. There are a lot of non-boss-enemies which will deal unavoidable damage to you, such as Grom'kar Footsoldier's Charging Slash, so you need to be really quick with using your own personal defensive cooldowns. Necrotic will not have much of an impact on your team, outside of the few pulls prior to engaging the first boss of the dungeon. After that is mostly smaller pulls combined with Iron Star strategy. Keep your eye out, however, for the final boss fight, as Skulloc is one of the hardest bosses to defeat in the current dungeon pool. Focus and kill Koramar as quickly as you can so you can stop the Rapid Fire coming out from Zoggosh.

Despite the several nerfs to Return to Karazhan - Lower, it still remains one of the hardest dungeons to complete in time. There are several reasons why that is the case, with one of them being how hard the boss fights are. The high mob-density in this dungeon will make both the Spiteful and Necrotic affixes hell to deal with. In addition, the limited space of this dungeon will impact the most Spiteful Shade spawns, as it will be hard for you to manage to dodge them effectively. Use your utility to prevent yourself from being hit by a Spiteful Shade.

Grimrail Depot is normally one of the easier dungeons. However, with this week's affixes it will be one of the hardest to complete in time. The lack of space, especially in the train area leading to Nitrogg Thundertower and Skylord Tovra, will make dodging Spiteful spawns close to impossible without sacrificing DPS. If that is not enough, wait until you realize you need to also pay attention to Nightmare Clouds and the lethal Carrion Swarm frontal from Nathrezim Infiltrator. Necrotic will also be a major concern because of the lack of space, which will make kiting for resets harder for your tank. Finally, boss fights in this dungeon are known to be one of the hardest available across all dungeons in Shadowlands, so be extra prepared!

Operation: Mechagon - Workshop will be hardest key this week, not only because it holds one of the hardest bosses in Mythic+ but also because the limited space of the whole dungeon will make dealing with Necrotic and Spiteful really difficult. Pay attention to the narrow corridor leading to K.U.-J.0., as that is where you will find it the toughest dealing with the weekly affixes; even the Toxic Wastelings can be troublesome. Finally, one of the hardest bosses, even on Fortified, across all dungeons — Head Machinist Sparkflux — will be the main concern; do your best to collect as many bounty stacks as possible from Shrouded beforehand to make the fight easier.