Mythrax the Unraveler Strategy/Tactics for Normal/Heroic
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General Information
On this page, you will find a working strategy to defeat Mythrax the Unraveler in Uldir for both Normal and Heroic modes, which usually only differ by the tuning of the boss.
Here, we assume that you have read our descriptions of the abilities for this encounter.
The other pages of our Mythrax the Unraveler guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the right.
Annihilation Management
Based on Beta testing, the way to deal with Annihilation
is to only have players with very high stacks of the debuff collect
Existence Fragments in order to keep their Annihilation down to a
reasonable level. The exception to this is the tank, who must go out of their
way to collect orbs and remove Annihilation after each
Essence Shear
cast.
In this Beta version, the raid was always fighting a losing battle against
Annihilation stacks, which will continuously increase on
the whole raid as the fight progresses. That said, changes to the Dungeon
Journal indicate that this may change for the live release of the fight,
so we will update the guide when we know more.
Positioning and Strategy
Phase One
When the encounter begins, tank Mythrax about of third of the way out from
the center of the room, facing away from the raid. Tanks need to swap after
every Essence Shear to let the other tank collect
Existence Fragments in order to remove
Annihilation stacks.
The raid should be spread around the room in order to avoid multiple people
being caught in Oblivion Spheres. When spheres go out, use
displacement abilities like
Death Grip,
Typhoon, or
Ring of Peace to knock players out of them. Be careful if using AoE
knockbacks if too many people have been charmed, as the
Crashing Oblivion triggered when players are removed from the
spheres could be lethal. If there are no available displacement effects, have
your DPS knock charmed players out with damaging abilities.
If there are too many Oblivion Spheres in melee, the Tank should back up roughly
10 yards.
Melee players need to be mindful not to enter the
Oblivion Spheres to try to knock others out, since this will just
cause them to also become charmed.
When Mythrax turns around and targets a player with
Obliteration Blast, everyone needs to move out of the path towards
which the boss is facing to avoid the cast.
Players afflicted with Imminent Ruin need to run to the edges of
the room as it is expiring to ensure they do not grant additional stacks of
Annihilation to other players, as well as to reduce the
damage the raid will take. This debuff does take 12 seconds to expire, so players
should aim to stay in range of the boss and continue DPS for as long as they feel
safe doing so.
Phase Two
When Mythrax enters Phase Two, the raid needs to loosely spread around the
room in order to dodge the two Oblivion Spheres that spawn. Players
charmed by these spheres should be knocked out or otherwise moved from the
spheres as soon as possible.
The tanks need to pick up the two N'raqi Destroyers that spawn,
and tank them on opposite sides of the room from one another. Once the
Destroyers are in position, the raid needs to stack on the Destroyer that the
group intends to kill first in order to group up the spawns of the
Visions of Madness. This will make it much easier to AoE them down
quickly, before their
Mind Flay can become a problem. The Tanks
are able to handle interrupting the Destroyers on their own, leaving DPS to the
Visions of Madness.
From here the raid needs to simply dodge the Obliteration Beam
while AoEing down the
Visions of Madness and keeping the
N'raqi Destroyers interrupted.
The blast from Xalzaix's Awakening should spawn a large number of
Existence Fragments. Players with high stacks, as well as the tanks
should pick up as many fragments as they can during this phase, or as Mythrax
cycles back into Phase One.
The focus of the raid in this phase is entirely on the adds, since Mythrax is not really part of the fight at this point.
Tank Concerns
The number of stacks of Annihilation you have is going be
your main concern for this fight. Do not be afraid to steal "other people's"
Existence Fragments in order to keep your stacks under control.
Healing Concerns
Healers are going to need to be keenly aware of how many people are being
caught in Oblivion Spheres. Ideally, it would be just one person per
sphere, but things can sometimes get messy in melee. Be ready with raid
cooldowns in situations where many people might break out all at once, or if
those breaks are going to line up with
Imminent Ruin.
Bloodlust/Heroism/Time Warp
We advise you to use
Bloodlust/
Heroism/
Time Warp at the beginning
of the fight to synergize with cooldowns and potions.
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