Prophet Skitra Tactics and Strategy guide

Welcome to our strategy and tactics guide for Prophet Skitra in Ny'alotha. Here, we tell you all you need to know to defeat this boss. We also include a role by role breakdown of the strategy, so that you can quickly see what you need to do depending on your role: DPS, tanks, or healers.

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Read Before

Before you start reading the strategy, we advise you to look at the abilities of Prophet Skitra, in our encounter journal pages.

Prophet Skitra LFR Encounter Journal Prophet Skitra Normal Encounter Journal Prophet Skitra Heroic Encounter Journal Prophet Skitra Mythic Encounter Journal

Fight Overview

This is a two-phase encounter, with the two phases alternating back and forth until the boss is killed.
During Phase One, the raid needs to fight Prophet Skitra himself as well as a few adds, and this is mostly about positioning.
During Phase Two, the raid is split into two groups that are phased into different realms, and the two groups will need to communicate in order to identify one enemy that needs to be killed.

Fight Summary / TL;DR

3.1.

Tanks

During Phase One
- Tank the boss in the center of the room, moving him close to any Shred Psyche images after their Psychic Outburst casts end, enable cleaving damage.
- Perform a tank swap to deal with the debuff applied by the boss's Shadow Shock.
During Phase Two
- Stack with the rest of the raid and DPS the real illusion of Prophet Skitra.

3.2.

Healers

During Phase One
- Beware of the raid-wide damage from Psychic Outburst, although this should not be high if raid members are far enough away from the Shred Psyche adds when it is cast.
During Phase Two
- Beware of the high damage in this phase, which increases as the fight goes on.
- The raid should be stacked together, allowing you to use AoE healing. Coordinate with other healers to properly chain cooldowns.

3.3.

DPS

During Phase One
- DPS Prophet Skitra, the Shred Psyche adds, and quickly kill off the adds from Images of Absolution once they become attackable.
During Phase Two
- DPS the real illusion of Prophet Skitra and kill it as quickly as possible.

3.4.

Everyone

During Phase One
- If affected by Shred Psyche, move to a location far from the rest of the raid and drop the Shred Psyche add there, and then move away from it before it casts Psychic Outburst.
- On Heroic mode, when Images of Absolution is cast, use crowd control to create a sufficient gap in the wall of enemies to allow players to avoid coming into contact with any adds.
  - Kill the adds once they become vulnerable, after 30 seconds.
During Phase Two
- Stack up to make healing easier, and identify the real illusion of Prophet Skitra as quickly as possible.

Phase One

The first Phase One lasts until the boss reaches 80% health, and each subsequent Phase One after that lasts for 20% of the boss's health (down to 60%, 40%, 20%, and then 0%).

4.1.

Abilities

For a full list of the abilities used in this phase, check out our dedicated Prophet Skitra Encounter Journal page.

4.1.1.

Notes

Note that even though the Shadow Shock Icon Shadow Shock tank-swap ability also damages two other random raid members in addition to the active tank, these players are not debuffed to to take increased Shadow damage.

The way the Images of Absolution Icon Images of Absolution ability works is this:

A continuous wall of enemies will appear on one side of the arena, and they will begin moving forward across the arena. They will keep moving from one side to the other.
For 30 seconds, these adds are immune to damage but they can be crowd-controlled in a variety of ways.
After 30 seconds, they can be damaged and killed (they have very little health and so will die instantly).
Any raid members who enter a small radius around these adds will take huge damage and likely die.

The only way for the raid to survive this ability is to use crowd control to create a gap in the wall while the adds are immune to damage.

Finally, it is worth noting that the raid will take increased Shadow damage in each subsequent Phase One, due to the accumulation of Dark Ritual Icon Dark Ritual stacks from each Phase Two. This will make each Phase One more difficult.

4.2.

Strategy

Phase One strategy is simple.

Prophet Skitra should be tanked in the relative center of the arena, and the tanks should perform regular tank swaps to deal with the debuff applied by Shadow Shock.
The raid should stack on one side of the boss, while any players debuffed by Shred Psyche should move to the opposite side, relatively far from the raid, to drop off the add that spawns when the 5-second debuff expires.
The raid should immediately begin DPSing the Shred Psyche add, but melee players should not approach it until after its Psychic Outburst cast has completed.
On Heroic mode, when Images of Absolution is cast, crowd control some of the adds in a designated location in the wall (typically, around the area where the boss is being tanked) in order to form a gap. For example, you could root some adds, knock them back, grip to another location, etc.
- After the adds become vulnerable, kill them off quickly.

To maximize damage during this phase, you should ideally move the boss to within cleaving range of the Shred Psyche Icon Shred Psyche adds, but only after their cast of Psychic Outburst Icon Psychic Outburst finishes.

Phase One is the ideal time to use Heroism Icon Heroism/ Bloodlust Icon Bloodlust/ Time Warp Icon Time Warp. Given that stacks of Dark Ritual Icon Dark Ritual will make the fight more difficult in each subsequent Phase One, we believe that the final 20% is the ideal time to burst the boss.