Mythrax

Fatboss

2 Phase Encounter, with p2 occuring at 66%, and 33% hp on boss.

Overarching Mechanic of the fight is Annihilation stacks

• Annihilation reduces your MAX HP by 1% per stack for the rest of the fight, as well as a small DoT
• Heroic DoT is 1370/3s per stack
• After taking a stack of Annihilation, you spawn an Existence Fragment at your feet for every 2 stacks you gained
  • Soaking a fragment reduces your Annihilation stacks by 2
• The VAST majority of abilities that deal Annihilation stacks can and must be avoided

Phase 1

• Essence Shear
  • Frontal cone ability, deals moderate tank damage and applies 16 Annihilation stacks
  • Also prevents anyone hit from spawning Existence Fragments for 25 seconds
• Oblivion Sphere
  • Spawns an orb on a random raid member, charms everyone within 5 yards
  • While charmed, take small ticking damage + 1 stack of Annihilation every 2s
  • Spheres cannot be killed by DPS to stop the charms, but they are broken when the charmed players are sufficiently knocked back. Regular knockbacks work well, and damaging the charmed players also knocks them back slightly based on the amount of damage
  • When the charmed players break free, deals 24k to the raid
  • Spheres do NOT despawn in phase 1
• Imminent Ruin
  • 12s debuff on 2 players
  • When it expires, AoE explosion for 30k damage
    • You take less damage the further away you are
    • Anyone within 12 yards of the explosion gains 4 Annihilation stacks
• Obliteration Blast
  • Frontal ability targeted at a random raid member, hits everything in its path
  • Moderate damage, and applies 8 stacks of Annihilation to anyone hit
• Phase 1 Strat
  • Tank boss near the wall, raid loosely spread out around the center of the room, /range 6
  • Imminent Ruin targets need to run to opposite sides of the room ASAP
    • Obviously may not always be possible. If the targeted players are near each other, just run opposite directions towards the walls
  • Oblivion Spheres must be broken as quickly as possible, with knockbacks used to break the affected people out or ranged dps switching and damaging the affected players, knocking them back
    • Once everyone is broken from a sphere, don't go near it.
    • I recommend having 3-5 people assigned to break orb charms, NOT the entirety of the ranged dps
  • Tanks must swap every Essence Shear
  • NOBODY is to pick up Existence Fragments except for tanks, unless you're over 25 stacks
  • After a tank swap, whichever tank just took an Essence Shear needs to run around the room and clear their stacks
  • Officers will need to keep an eye on everyone else’s stacks, and call for anyone who needs to clear some of theirs
    • Rule of thumb is have people over 25 clear stacks
    • After second Phase 2, have anyone over 20 get clear themselves to below 20
  • If you are short on Existence Fragments, you can assign 1-2 players to be hit by Essence Shear that have low stacks
    • Will not kill most DPS if they use some type of personal, and spawns the most Existence Fragments of any ability you can soak
  • This creates extra orbs for tanks to soak
  • Having tanks <10 stacks at all times is a priority
  • When the boss reaches 20% HP, no more Existence Fragments spawn, must burn boss ASAP
    • Lust at 20%

Phase 2 - 66%, 33%

• Xalziax’s Awakening
  • As we transition phases, boss spawns 2 Oblivion Orbs that must be dealt with immediately
  • At the end of a short cast, he deals 30k to raid and applies 5 stacks of Annihilation
  • Boss also goes immune, so don’t bother attacking
  • If you run into the boss at the middle of the room during this phase, you take 30k damage, so don’t fucking do that
• Obliteration Beam
  • Kin’Garoth style lazerbeam, just don’t get hit like monkeys
  • Deals insane damage and applies stacks. If you get hit you’ll die
• Visions of Madness
  • 5 “clones” of random players spawn, and begin casting Mind Flay
  • This IS interruptible, and the adds are stunnable
• N’Raqi Destroyer
  • 2 giant old-god styled adds spawn
  • These each do the same Essence Shear the boss does on the tanks
  • Void Volley
    • Interruptible cast that deals 30k to the whole raid
    • Interrupting this is priority #2 this phase, behind only the beam
  • Critical Mass
    • If adds are within 40 yards, they take 80% less damage and deal 80% more damage
    • Just spread the adds
  • Oblivion Spheres
    • At the end of each phase 2, all Oblivion Spheres in the encounter area are reset and despawn.
• Phase 2 Strat
  • Tank the adds ~45 yards apart near the walls, with the raid positioned in between them
  • Recommended to use the OPPOSITE side of the room from where Mythrax himself was
    • This gives you significantly more room to work with, as all of the Obliteration Spheres from p1 are still active and clogging up the area where you were
  • Immediately focus down the Oblivion Orb’s charmed players that spawn at the beginning of the phase
  • Melee DPS all stick to the N’raqi Destroyers, ranged will swap to kill the Visions of Madness
  • Split Melee DPS between the 2 Destroyers to make sure we have interrupts and no Void Volleys get cast
  • Immediately move for Obliteration Beam
  • All adds must die during this phase, before the boss reactivates.
  • Phase 2 lasts approx 70 seconds from the time he begins running to middle, about 60s after Xalziak’s Awakening cast finishes

Late Fight Strat

• As you get into the 2nd and 3rd “Phase 1” rotations, we will need to keep a close eye on managing everyone’s Annihilation stacks, especially tanks. Tanks MUST be clear of stacks before phase 2 starts, as there will be almost no orbs in P2 other than the ones spawning right at the beginning of the phase
• By the 3rd “Phase 1,” you may need to have people rotating being hit by the Obliteration Wave just to spawn extra orbs.
• At 20%, no more orbs spawn and he needs to die ASAP, lust at 20%

Mythic changes

• Xalzaix
  • Periodically Mythrax will cast Living Weapon, calling on Xalzaix to fight with him
  • This happens ~15s from the beginning of every Phase 1, and every 1 min after that during that respective Phase 1
  • Little floaty squid thing starts attacking us
  • Void Echos
    • Cast doing 33k to raid
    • Each subsequent cast deals 50% more damage
  • Obliteration Blast
    • Same as the boss casts, except at a random player
    • Dude isn’t tankable, just spams his 2 abilities
    • Once he hits 50% HP, he runs away like a little alliance bitch
  • On Mythic, Obliteration Blast (the frontal cone nuke the boss & squid do), and Obliteration Beam (the lazer beam in phase 2) both DESPAWN any Existence Fragments they touch
    • Makes it significantly harder to stockpile orbs for tanks
    • Everyone should try to keep stacks as low as possible. Tanks get first priority on orbs.

Phase 2 - Lasts 75s

• During p2 on Mythic, the squid Xalzaix comes into play again.
• Obliteration Beam cast by boss ALWAYS is directed at Xalzaix
  • Xalzaix also casts Obliteration Beam at the same time in a different direction
  • Need to dodge both
  • Both beams also despawn Existence Fragments

Mythic Strategy

• ​Tank the boss in the center of the room instead of on the wall, with the raid evenly spread out around him.
• Assign healers specific spots, so every player is in range of at least 2 healers
• When Mythrax casts Living Weapon, all DPS swap to the squid and bring it to 50% ASAP
  • Target is to bring Xalziax to 50% before his 3rd cast of Void Echos.
  • Also, DoTs continue ticking on Xalzaix after he hits 50% and runs away. Because of this, DoT classes are amazing, as he'll spawn the next time with below 100% HP.
  • DoTing the squid before he runs away at 50% is extremely important to ensure you kill it ASAP next time he comes to fight
  • Goal is to only kill 2 Living Weapons per phase
• If Mythrax is within 5% of a phase push, ignore Xalzaix and just push into phase 2
• If tank has >15 stacks going into phase 2, let them collect any orbs to reduce stacks. The tanks CAN NOT enter phase 2 with more than 25 stacks.
• Lust timing is dynamic on this fight, and no real best time to use it on Mythic. Ideally, you use Lust when you're either falling behind DPS wise on Xalzaix or the p2 adds, or at 20% HP on the boss if it wasn't needed before.

Phase 2

• Position the entire raid in the North East corner of the room, with 2 raid markers down 15 yards from each other right along the wall
• Lock gate between the two raid markers
• One tank will bring the first N'Raqi Destroyer to the raid group, and everyone focuses it down
  • When Visions of Madness spawn, cleave damage onto them as much as possible
  • When Destroyer dies, DPS nuke down any remaining Visions of Madness
• While the entire raid is stacked up killing the first Destroyer, the second tank is on the opposite end of the room >50 yards away tanking the second Destroyer
  • you need to assign a healer to be with this tank and keep them alive
  • Also need a second interrupt with this tank
    • Ideally, you have a resto shaman. If that's not possible, any healer + dps with an interrupt will do
    • The healer (and DPS if you have one over here) should stand near the center of the room. This will make any Visions spawned on these players be closer to the rest of the raid, making them easier to kill off and deal with
  • Once the first Destroyer dies, the second tank runs the second Destroyer over to the raid group
• While everything else is going on with the Destroyers and Visions, the Raid Leader needs to keep track of Obliteration Beam. It will always be aimed directly at the raid wherever you are grouped up, and everyone will need to shift to the opposite raid marker.
• Just continue repeatedly moving between the two raid markers until everything is dead and Phase 1 begins again