Kazzara, the Hellforged Raid Guide in Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible

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As this fight is very static in how it plays out, I've provided a raid plan link to show a step-by-step visual explanation for movement on this encounter. Click the numbered tabs at the top of the page to work through the boss encounter.

• RaidPlan Link

• Use Bloodlust / Heroism on the pull.
• Several players will be targeted with Dread Rifts. They will have a circle around them indicating where the puddle will spawn when the debuff expires..
• After Dread Rifts's have spawned, the same number of people will be targeted with Rays of Anguish.
• Rays of Anguish will spawn a beam that follows a player. You can make the beam stop following you by kiting it into a Dread Rifts.
• Heroic/Mythic: The Rays of Anguish beam will not despawn until it has consumed a Dread Rifts.
• Dodge Hellbeam (Cast at 100 energy).
• At 80%, 60% and 40% the boss will cast Hellsteel Carnage and deal raid wide damage. This will also spawn Revenant's Blood pools for the rest of the encounter, which you must avoid.
• Hellsteel Carnage also increases the amounts of Dread Rifts (and by extension Rays of Anguish) by 1 each cast.
• Healers: Infernal Heart will deal ticking damage to the raid when the boss is below 80%. The tick rate increases at 60% and 40%.
• Tanks:Tanks swap on 1 stack of Terror Claws.
• Avoid Hellbeam.

The entry boss to the raid is a fairly straightforward encounter. The key mechanic for the fight is to spawn Dread Rifts pools away from the boss and destroy them with Rays of Anguish. As the encounter goes on, there will be more rifts and beams.

• Before the pull, establish if you are going to keep the boss in the middle of the room and have Dread Rifts's placed around the side of the room, or if you are going to move the boss around the room and place Dread Rifts's near the boss.
• At the start of the fight, use Bloodlust / Heroism and DPS cooldowns and take advantage of this period of time with no mechanics.
• When players get Dread Rifts they should move in the pre-designated areas and drop their debuffs away from each other (you do not want them to overlap).
• After Dread Rifts expires, it will spawn a rift on the ground. These deal very large amounts of damage to players that stand in them.
• Shortly after, Kazzara will cast Wings of Extinction, which will deal a large amount of damage to the raid and push them away from the boss.
• After this several players (the same amount as Dread Rifts) will be targeted by Rays of Anguish. This will place a small arrow above the player indicating that the beam is following them, and the player can remove this by making the beam go into a Dread Rifts.
• Tanks: Swap on 1 stack of Terror Claws.
• When Kazzara reaches 100 energy, they will target a random player and cast Hellbeam in their direction. Stay close to the boss to minimize movement. Consider using Stampeding Roar if the group is very spread out.
• At 80%, 60% and 40% Kazzara will cast Hellsteel Carnage and deal raid wide damage.
• After Hellsteel Carnage has been cast, Hellsteel Fragments will fall in the room, an additional player will be targeted by Dread Rifts, and Revenant's Blood will spawn periodically in the room.
• Avoid Hellsteel Fragments and Revenant's Blood.
• Healers: Infernal Heart will occur from 80% onwards. This deals ticking damage to the raid, and the frequency of ticks increases at 60% and 40%.

Heroic changes:

• Rays of Anguish will follow players until they kite the beam into Dread Rifts.

Mythic changes:

• If Dread Rifts goes over any patch of Molten Scar the raid will be hit by Infernal Fusion.

Your strategy for this boss is largely unchanged, but you must be better with your placement of Dread Rifts to minimize the amount of damage that the raid will take from Infernal Fusion.