Antoran High Command Antorus Raid Strategy Guide

By FatbossTV Updated: 2018/05/12

Mythic Antoran High Command GuideGarothi WorldbreakerLoot

Cloth: Legwraps of the Seasoned Exterminator, Man'ari Pyromancer Cuffs

Leather: Fiendish Logistician's Wristwraps, General Erodus' Tricorne

Mail: Depraved Tactician's Waistguard, Fleet Commander's Hauberk

Plate: Eredar Warcouncil Sabatons, Pauldrons of the Eternal Offensive

Cloak: Tier 21

Trinket: Ishkar's Felshield Emitter, Terminus Signaling Beacon

Pattern: Fiendish SpauldersPattern: Fiendish Shoulderguards

Blood: Svirax's Grim Trophy

Fel: Twisted Engineer's Fel-Infuser

Holy: Lightshield Amplifier

Iron: Fasces of the Endless Legions

Quick Tips

Overview – The Antoran High Command's three commanders attack their enemies both face-to-face and from inside their command pods. Only one commander is out of their pod at any given time, and commanders still in their pods attack their enemies using the might of the Legion military.
While a commander is attacking directly, their command pod is empty and can be commandeered. After a period attacking their enemies face to face, commanders will and return to their pod.

Damage Dealers –
Group up under a to mitigate the effects of .
Interrupt Fanatical Pyromancers when they cast .
Make maximum use of Legion command pods when one is vacated by the enemy.

Healers –
Group up under a to mitigate the effects of .
Focus additional healing on allies who enter a Command Pod as they suffer the effects of .
Quickly heal allies targeted by , and dispel the effects it leaves behind.

Tanks –
Group up under a to mitigate the effects of .
Position active commanders facing away from allies so they do not get hit by .
Avoid taking too many consecutive strikes from .

Encounter Overview

You start with Admiral Svirax. Every 90 seconds a new boss will spawn and the previous will retreat to theircommand pod. Move around the encounter area clockwise to follow the spawn sequence.

As the bosses rotate in and out of the command pods on a 90 second timer in a set order, this forces the raid to deal with different ability combinations at different times.

These different boss combinations can be seen as three individual phases.

The bosses will continue to cycle through these three phases, each taking their own turn to fight the raid directly, until the end of the encounter.

By moving clockwise around the room you will follow the boss spawn rotation, making it easy for tanks to pick up the new active boss; allowing DPS to immediately swap to it.

Antoran High Command AbilitiesExploit Weakness

This ability deals a large amount of physical damage in a 10 yard cone.

It also applies a debuff that increases the physical damage you take by 75%.

You've got to make sure the boss is facing away from the raid and taunt on the 2 stack mark.

Phase One - Active Boss: Admiral SviraxChaos Pulse

This deals a small amount of damage over a period of 3 seconds whilst also applying a damage taken increase for 15 seconds to two random members of the raid.

This effect can be dispelled, however it can be largely ignored and you simply let it time out.

However, towards the end of the fight it becomes more important to dispel it, as the combination of large raid wide damage and the damage taken increase from the Chaos Pulse can cause the debuffed players to take lethal damage.

General Erodus will spawn adds on a timer when he casts Summon Reinforcements.

You'll have a single Fanatical Pyromancer and two Felblade Shocktroopers spawn in close proximity to the current active boss.

The Fanatical Pyromancer must be interrupted when she casts Pyroblast.

This long cast deals a large burst of damage to a randomly selected player and if the cast goes off, the target can easily be killed if other sources of damage are coming in.

The Felblade Shocktroopers on the other hand are much less deadly.

These adds will need to be tanked and will frequently charge 1 of the 3 furthest targets from them and then begin a Bladestorm.
Assign a group of 3 players to stand further away than the rest of the raid to bait the Charge and Bladestorm to a single location.
This helps keep the Felblade Shocktroopers grouped up allowing for more efficient cleave and multidot damage, as largely the majority of the damage they receive from the raid should be passive.

Avoid Entropic Mines, circled in red.

It is important that the Fanatical Pyromancer is killed quickly, whilst also making sure the Felblade Shocktroopers are killed before a new set spawns, as having too many adds up can cause the raid to become overwhelmed.

Chief Engineer Ishkar will be sending out waves of Entropic Mines whilst he is in the pod.

These green landmines spawn in sets of 5 near random players, typically around ranged DPS and healers.
Anyone that walks over these mines will take a moderate burst of damage whilst also applying a hard hitting dot to the raid. This lasts 4 seconds and can stack.
If you're careless with mines and explode a few in quick succession you're going to be in trouble.

The Entropic Mine will explode by themselves 3:45 after spawning.

These self-detonations will often occur during other periods of high raid damage. To make matters worse the explosions will apply the DoT to the raid.

To prevent this painful overlap, a single player should be assigned to run into mines throughout this phase.

The player exploding these mines should ensure that the DoT stack does not go too high by grouping mine explosions into sets of two or three.
You must make sure that you leave ample time between each set of explosions to allow the DoT to drop.
A good player to soak the mines is the off tank, as they can use defensive abilities to lessen the damage from the initial mine explosion.

So quite simply - whilst fighting the Admiral, you want to kill adds and avoid the mines.

Have the raid loosely stacked around the edges of the room and slowly move the boss around the room.
By moving clockwise around the room you'll also follow the boss spawn rotation, making it easy for tanks to pick up the new boss as well as allowing DPS to immediately swap to it.

As you are fighting the Admiral directly, her command pod is unoccupied. Any player can move over to the command pod and interact with it to enter.

Whilst inside these pods you'll have two abilities, one of these abilities is the same in each pod and the other is unique for each pod.

View from within a command pod.Chaos Pulse is universal, each pod also has a unique spell.

The shared ability is Chaos Pulse. This is a single target damage dealing ability that applies a damage taken increase stacking to 15%.

The player piloting the pod should use this frequently on the active boss to keep a high uptime on the increased damage taken debuff.

The Admiral's Pod's unique ability is Withering Fire.

This targetable spell will create a large targeting zone that'll detonate a few seconds later.
This will deal a large burst of damage and apply a 25% damage taken increase to all adds that it hits. This ability doesn't interact with the boss.
This ability is best placed on all adds, however the Felblade Shocktroopers can be difficult to hit as they charge frequently. Therefore placing the ability on the location of Fanatical Pyromancers ensures that at least some of the adds will get hit by the ability.

Use Withering Fire on Fanatical Pyromancersand Felblade Shocktroopers while maintainingChaos Pulse on Admiral Svirax.

Whilst inside any of the pods the player will be taking ever increasing ticking damage through Psychic Assault.

Healers must heal the player inside to combat this ticking damage.
The player inside the command pod can remain inside until the active boss takes back control of it every 90 seconds.
Generally speaking, DPS players are best suited to command the pod, however during low damage periods healers may want to take up this role.

Once the command pod player has left after 40 seconds, another player should immediately enter it, to make full use of the Chaos Pulse and Withering Fire abilities.

Generally speaking, DPS players are best suited to command the pod, however during low damage periods healers may want to take up this role.

After 90 seconds of fighting the Admiral directly, she will Assume Command of her pod, safely ejecting any player that is currently inside it.

At this moment, Chief Engineer Ishkar will leave his pod and begin to fight the raid directly.

Phase Two - Active Boss: Chief Engineer Ishkar

Adds will continue to spawn as General Erodus is still summoning reinforcements from within his pod, however the Entropic Mines will no longer spawn as Chief Engineer Ishkar is no longer in charge of his pod.

This allows you to have the raid pretty stacked up, with only a group of three ranged players outside to bait the charges from the Felblade Shocktroopers.
Any leftover Entropic Mines should be soaked throughout this phase, making sure not to overlap the dot with the Admiral's new Fusillade cast.

You'll now have to deal with the Admirals unique pod ability, which is Fusillade.

After a charge up time, she will deal a flat burst of fire damage to the entire raid.
This damage easily manageable at first, however each subsequent cast will do 25% more damage via the Zeroing In buff that the Admiral gains on each cast.
This ability acts as the pseudo enrage for the encounter, as the raid needs to defeat the High Command before this Fusillade damage becomes too high and one shots everyone.

The damage from this ability can be mitigated, not only through the use of defensive cooldowns, but also through the use of Chief Engineer Ishkar's command pods unique ability.

This ability will spawn a Felshield Emitter at the area you chose in the encounter area.
This will create an usable object for any raid member to interact with by right clicking on it.
Doing so will create a shield with a 10 yard radius which will reduce all incoming fire damage by 50% for people who are huddled underneath it.
The raid wants to use these shields to mitigate the damage for each Fusillade.
It is best that a single player is responsible for using the Felshield Emitter to ensure that two Felshield Emitters are not used at the same time, as the damage reduction does not stack.
After a Felshield Emitter is used it will despawn.


Interrupt the Fanatical Pyromancerwhen Pyroblast is cast.	Move from the Felblade Shocktroopers while Bladestorm is channeled.


Use Chief Engineer Ishkar's podto spawn Felshield Emitters.	Interact with a singleFelshield Emitter when Fusillade is cast.	Move within the shield to gaindamage reduction against Fusillade damage.

Felshield Emitter

You'll only need 3 Felshield Emitter per phase, as Fusillade is only cast 3 times per phase.

However you'll need to create additional Felshield Emitters in advance for the upcoming phase, as you'll have to deal with Fusillade cast but you will not have access to Chief Engineer Ishkar's Pod.

So place 3 Felshield Emitters right next to Chief Engineer Ishkar's pod for the raid to use in phase two, as well as an additional three next to General Erodus' pod on the other side of the room for the raid to use during phase three.

Place three Felshield Emitters near Chief Engineer Ishkar's command pod.Then place an additional three near General Erodus' command pod.

Assume CommandPhase Three - Active Boss: General ErodusEntropic MineEntropic MineFusilladeSummon Disruptor Beacon

Using this will spawn a beacon wherever you place it in the encounter area for 7 seconds.

This beacon will interrupt add spellcasting as well as slow their movement speed.

This isn't particularly useful as the adds are likely dead at this point anyway, and no new adds will be spawning during this phase.
The beacon also destroys any Entropic Mines within 12 yards.

This helps to make space for the raid to move around in, as the room at this point in the encounter has become cluttered.

Entropic MineSummon Disruptor BeaconEntropic MineFelshield EmitterFusilladeEntropic MineAssume Command

The fight will then repeat, continuously cycling through the phases until either the bosses die, or the raid wipes - likely through a Fusillade one shotting them.

The raid will want to use defensive cooldowns to survive the Fusillades that occur later on in the fight, ensuring that the most powerful damage reductions are used for the last few casts.

Role ResponsibilitiesTank

Ensure that only a single tank gets hit by the Exploit Weakness frontal cleave at any given time.

Taunt off one another when your Exploit Weakness debuff drops (2 stacks).

Position the boss near the current unoccupied command pod to allow players to enter the pod without excess travel time.

Maintain threat on the Felblade Shocktroopers and interrupt any nearby Fanatical Pyromancers when they cast Pyroblast.

Do not run into any Entropic Mines.

Slowly move the boss towards clockwise around the room towards the next active bosses command pod.

Stand underneath an activated Felshield Emitter when Fusillade is cast.

Healer

Keep the player within the command pod healthy to combat the damage from the Psychic Assault.

Do not run into any Entropic Mines.

Stand underneath an activated Felshield Emitter when Fusillade is cast.

Be prepared to use healing cooldowns on the Zeroing In buffed Fusillade casts that happen towards the end of the encounter.

DPS

Do not run into any Entropic Mines.

Stand underneath an activated Felshield Emitter when Fusillade is cast.

Interrupt any Fanatical Pyromancers when they cast Pyroblast.

Kill off any Fanatical Pyromancers and Felblade Shocktroopers before a new set spawns in.

Have a group of three ranged DPS stand further away than the rest of the raid to bait the Felblade Shocktroopers Demonic Charge.

Command Pod Hijackers - Usually DPS or HealersAll Pods:

Maintain the Chaos Pulse debuff on the current active boss.

Do not remain in the command pod for longer than 45 seconds. Otherwise you instantly die...

Pod One: Admiral's Pod

Use the Withering Fire spell to damage the adds

Pod Two: Chief Engineer Ishkar's Pod

Spawn three Felshield Emitter at the Chief Engineer Ishkar's Pod and an additional three at General Erodus' Pod

Pod Three: General Erodus' Pod

Summon Disruptor Beacons to clear the room of Entropic Mines.

Raid Finder DifficultyHeroic DifficultyPsychic Assault

Healers are able to heal the targets inside, however the damage will become excessive after 45 seconds.

If the player remains in the pod for longer than 45 seconds, the ticking damage will likely kill them.

We recommend leaving the pod 45 seconds after you entered.

A single healer should be assigned to keep the player inside the command pod alive.

Once the command pod player has left after 45 seconds, another player should immediately enter it so that the raid can make full use of the command pod's abilities.

Psychic Scarring

This lines up perfectly for each time a phase rotates back around. Two players should be assigned per phase to use the command pods and their powerful abilities.

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Comments

Comment by Freeozy

Dont know why no one or any guide mentioned but mines will explode after ~~4mins~~ a couple of minutes (not exactly sure how long) and if you dont clear them in time they all explode together and give you 9 10 stacks which can wipe you.

Comment by CzarDragon

Dont know why no one or any guide mentioned but mines will explode after 4mins time and if you dont clear them in time they all explode together and give you 9 10 stacks which can wipe you.

This honestly needs more up-votes as our group ran into the same issue. Our second time around to the General's Pod. We noticed our stacks would jump up to about 6 or so, fall of and then get another 7 a few seconds after. The WarcraftLogs didn't show anyone triggering this. And even if they did it was only 1 or 2 mines.

In addition to my comment above: My group handled this by designating ONE person to purposefully trigger mines when the Admiral is out of her pod (when fusillades weren't happening). This damage is easily manageable. Just do not clear any during the Engineer or General phase as add charges and fusillades happening will be too tough on the healers.

We killed the boss on our next attempt after struggling with this nonsense. Hope this helps.

Comment by AnonymousRobert

If you are soloing this, DON'T get into a command pod. As soon as no one is still fighting, the battle is over and you effectively wipe.

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