Taloc Mythic Strategy/Tactics

Table of Contents

• +Introduction
  • 1. Contents
  • 2. Lore
  • 3. Outline
  • 4. TL;DR
    • 4.1. Tanks
    • 4.2. Healers
    • 4.3. DPS
    • 4.4. Everyone
    • 4.5. Positioning
  • 5. Bloodlust/Heroism/Time Warp
  • 6. Class-specific Advice for Taloc
  • 7. Changelog
• +Abilities
  • 1. Overview
  • 2. Phase One: The Corrupted Construct
    • 2.1. Plasma Discharge
      • 2.1.1. Blood Storm
    • 2.2. Cudgel of Gore
      • 2.2.1. Retrieve Cudgel
    • 2.3. Sanguine Static
  • 3. Transition Phase
    • 3.1. Coalesced Blood
    • 3.2. Volatile Droplet
  • 4. Phase Two: Ruin's Decent
• +Normal/Heroic Strategy/Tactics
  • 1. Positioning and Strategy
    • 1.1. Phase One
    • 1.2. Transition Phase
    • 1.3. Phase Two
  • 2. Tank Concerns
  • 3. Healing Concerns
  • 4. Bloodlust/Heroism/Time Warp
• ×Mythic Strategy
  • 1. Mythic Mode Abilities
    • 1.1. Hardened Arteries
    • 1.2. Enlarged Heart
  • 2. Strategy
  • 3. Bloodlust/Heroism/Time Warp
  • 4. Changelog

General Information

On this page, you will find a list of changes between Normal/Heroic modes and Mythic mode, as well as a working strategy to defeat Taloc in Uldir in Mythic mode.

The other pages of our Taloc guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the right.

While Taloc is active, he will cast Hardened Arteries once every minute. This will apply a 6-second debuff to 10 players that will reduce their movement speed by 20% per second, until they are rooted. When Hardened Arteries expires, it will deal a large amount of Shadow damage to anyone within 8 yards of the affected players.

When Taloc applies Hardened Arteries to the raid, he will also afflict the active tank with Enlarged Heart. After 6 seconds, this debuff will deal a tremendous amount of Shadow damage, split between anyone within 8 yards.

Taloc is an excellent warm-up boss for Mythic, almost to the point of perhaps being undertuned. The fight plays exactly the same as on Heroic, except every minute the boss will apply Hardened Arteries and Enlarged Heart to the raid. These mechanics are very simple to handle: players with Hardened Arteries spread out, and everyone else stacks on top of the tank with the Enlarged Heart debuff. Classes without hyper-mobile abilities such as Blink Chi Torpedo or Heroic Leap should spread out a few seconds prior to the debuffs going out, to ensure they make enough room for the slower classes. Assuming all the "clean" players stack with the tank, and all the "dirty" players are spread from one another, the entire raid should take about the same amount of damage when the debuffs expire.

Healers can feel free to use raid cooldowns for the Enlarged Heart and Hardened Arteries since outside of the Cudgel of Gore, raid damage is nonexistent.

We advise you to use Bloodlust/ Heroism/ Time Warp when the elevator reaches the bottom of the shaft. This will allow everyone's cooldowns to be ready to use after the extended intermission, and will help bring Taloc into execute range more quickly.

• 03 Oct. 2018: Page added.