The Council of Blood - Castle Nathria Strategy Guide

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TotentanzCastle Nathria Raid OverviewMythic Council of Blood Strategy GuideCouncil of Blood Quick Tips in Castle Nathria

Focus on killing one boss at a time. Recommended order: 1st: Baronin Frieda 2nd: Kastellan Niklaus 3rd: Lord Stavros

When a boss reaches 50%, get to your dance position and then move to the your marker over and over again until the dance ends.

Stay within the dance floor area whilst fighting the bosses to avoid being knocked back. This doesn't apply during the Totentanz.

Baronin Frieda

Interrupt her Schreckensblitzsalve casts. Dispel the debuffs applied if a cast is accidentally let through.

Spot-heal players targeted by the Essenz entziehen.

1 Boss Dead: Spread out when Stolze Eruption is cast.

2 Bosses Dead: Taunt half-way through the Seelenstacheln to have each tank hit by two spikes each.

Kastellan Niklaus

Taunt swap after two Duellantenriposte casts

Nuke down the Pflichtbewusster Diener add which is making the lowest health boss immune!

1 Boss Dead: CC and kill the Gräberdiener which deal low damage to random people.

2 Bosses Dead: Tank the Steinwachenveteran and kill it as soon as possible.

Lord Stavros

Face away from other players when tanking this boss due to the Ausweichender Sprung. Taunt swap after 2 casts.

When paired up with Dunkler Vortrag, find your partner and keep moving from the patches you spawn!

1 Boss Dead: Move away from the Blutwalzer dancers.

2 Bosses Dead: Find the single Tanzende Narren that can be killed. Kill them and stand near their corpse for a safe spot!

General Fight MechanicsBoss Death & Ability Generation

The bosses have separate health pools and when one dies, the others heal to full. This makes cleaving/multi-dotting pointless, unless it gives you a DPS increase on the primary kill target.

Each boss has a unique set of abilities that the raid needs to counter. When one boss dies, the remaining bosses gain one new ability.

The new abilities gained by the bosses does not depend on the boss killed, the bosses only check if another boss has died and do not check which boss died.

Boss Kill Order

As this encounter is still relatively new, it is difficult for us to give a definitive “best” kill order.

Most groups have found success with the following kill order: 1#Lord Stavros -> 2# Baronin Frieda -> 3# Kastellan Niklaus.

If this kill order isn't working well for you, we instead recommend that you kill the bosses in an order that removes the most problematic abilities for your raid team.

Baronin Frieda is mainly a problem if you struggle to keep track of interrupts, as her Schreckensblitzsalve deals very high damage if not kicked.

Kastellan Niklaus is mainly a problem if you have weak AoE/cleave damage and add control, especially with his Zorn des Kastellans on heroic difficulty.

Lord Stavros is a problem if you have players who struggle with heavy movement and awareness, as his Dunkler Vortrag ability can be very disruptive.

What seems to be the second most popular order is 1# Kastellan Niklaus -> 2#Lord Stavros -> 3# Baronin Frieda.

This kill order will continue to be updated in the following weeks as more strategies are explored.

Totentanz Intermission

Each player will then have an area of the room be illuminated by a spotlight. This location is unique for each player.

The raid has 8 seconds to get into position. Any player who does not reach their location within 8 seconds will be instantly killed.

To help each player reach their position in time, the raid should be loosely placed towards the centre of the room, as the locations can spawn across the entire dance floor.

Every time a boss reaches 50% health, all bosses and adds will retreat to the starting balcony and will take 99% reduced damage.

The raid will be told to either: Prance Forward, Shashay Left, Boogie Down, or Shimmy Right. Players simply need to move their characters one "square tile" in that direction.

Each successful step grants the player a stack of Ausgezeichnete Beinarbeit, granting 3% haste for 30 seconds. This will stack for each successfully executed dance step.

If you fail to move to this place, you will lose your Ausgezeichnete Beinarbeit stacks and take ever increasing damage from Falsche Tanzschritte. This damage will end once a move has been completed correctly or the dance ends.

After performing 4 of these moves (6 on heroic), the Intermission phase will end and the bosses will return to the fight space once more

Once a Totentanz has completed, the bosses will not trigger another until a boss has died and another is then brought down to 50% health.

Unterdrückende AtmosphäreUnterdrückende Atmosphäre

This debuff deals low shadow damage every second, but as the stacks get higher the damage can become overwhelming.

The stacks are only reset upon killing a boss or by triggering a Totentanz Intermission.

This acts as a damage check, as players need to keep triggering events that reset the stacks as to keep the damage survivable.

Healers may wish to save healing cooldowns and use them during points in which the Unterdrückende Atmosphäre stacks are at their highest.

Dance Controller

Any player who enters this space will be knocked back onto the dance floor and take a minor amount of damage.

This is easy to do, but players just need to be aware that they should stay away from the edges of the space when dodging other mechanics.

The defenders disappear during Totentanz intermissions, as players can be forced out of the dance floor area whilst performing their steps.

Stay on the "dance floor" area whilst directly fighting the bosses!

Baronin Frieda SchreckensblitzsalveBaronin FriedaSchreckensblitzsalve

This cast must be interrupted at all times, as the Schreckensblitzsalve damage can easily lead to healers falling behind.

This cast can be covered by two 14 second cooldown interrupts on a rotation to prevent the spell from being cast.

If the spell does accidentally go through, healers should be ready to use healing cooldowns to cover the extra damage the raid is taking.

Essenz entziehenEssenz entziehen

This deals moderate shadow damage every second to several randomly selected players over 4 seconds.

This cast cannot be interrupted. Instead, healers must spot heal those players to ensure their survival.

1 Boss Dead: Stolze EruptionStolze Eruption

This deals a large burst of shadow damage to all players in the raid. Each player will also splash this damage to all others within 6 yards.

To counter this, players should look to be spread at least 6 yards from one another.

This ability can overlap with others, so players should pay close attention to the timers to make sure they don’t run near others when Stolze Eruption being cast.

Spread out when Stolze Eruption is cast!

2 Bosses Dead: SeelenstachelnSeelenstacheln

This 4.5 second long channel will send a total of 4 Seelenstacheln at her target. Each spike deals a large burst of physical damage an increases damage taken from subsequent spikes for 4.5 seconds.

Each Seelenstacheln also radiates a portion of the damage dealt to the primary target to all other players as shadow damage.

Tanks will want to taunt after 2 spikes have gone out, as to make it so the ability deals the least damage possible.

Kastellan NiklausDuellantenriposteKastellan NiklausDuellantenriposte

This deals a burst of physical damage and increases damage taken by the ability by 100% for 25 seconds. This will stack.

To keep stacks under control, tanks should taunt off of one another after the ability has been cast twice. This roughly lines up with Lord Stavros’ Ausweichender Sprung stacks, allowing tanks to reset both debuffs by taunting after the ability has been cast twice.

Unnachgiebiger SchildKastellan NiklausPflichtbewusster DienerUnnachgiebiger Schild

This causes the effected boss to become immune to all damage until the attendant add is killed.

As this damage immunity will always be applied to the “kill target” boss, DPS should instantly focus down this add so that they can damage the kill target once again.

This add does not need to be tanked and cannot be interrupted.

Kill the Pflichtbewusster Diener as soon as possible!

1 Boss Dead: Gräberdiener Kastellan NiklausWiderwilliger Kellner

These adds will spawn along the sides of the dance floor and will spam cast Essen werfen at random players, dealing low nature damage.

These adds can (and should) be displaced and crowd controlled, allowing the raid to stack them up easily to kill them off quickly.

It is important that the raid kills of these adds quickly, especially when a Totentanz phase is due to start as you will have to try and group them all back up again once they respawn after the dance has finished.

Kill the Gräberdiener as soon as possible!

2 Bosses Dead: Kader des KastellansKastellan NiklausKader des KastellansSteinwachenveteran

This add needs to be tanked as it will deal heavy damage with its melee attacks and will cast Sündenberührte Klinge on its tank.

This deals a large burst of physical damage whilst granting the add a permanent 50% damage dealt increase which can stack.

The raid should look to DPS this add down quickly to ensure that its damage increase stacks do not get too high.

Tanks should keep the add near the boss so that DPS can cleave damage onto Kastellan Niklaus whilst focusing damage onto this add.

Tank the Steinwachenveteran near the boss whilst DPS nuke it down!

Lord Stavros Ausweichender SprungLord StavrosAusweichender Sprung

This teleports Lord Stavros behind his current tank. He will then instantly charge through the tank and continue along this path for 20 yards.

Anyone caught in this charge will take a substantial burst of physical damage and take 100% increased damage from Ausweichender Sprung for 25 seconds.

An easy way of thinking about this is to think that the tank is going to shoot out a 20 foot narrow beam in front of them when the ability is cast.

Make sure you are not facing other players when this ability is cast. This way only the tank will be hit.

The tanks should taunt off of each other after two Ausweichender Sprung casts. This lines up with Kastellan Niklaus’ Duelist’s Reposte stacks.

Dunkler VortragLord StavrosDunkler Vortrag

These players will be taking damage every 0.5 seconds whilst they are further than 8 yards away from their partner.

Afflicted players can see who their partner is as they will be connected to them with a red beam.

The players will also be spawning zones underneath themselves which detonate after a moment, dealing high shadow damage to anyone within them.

Find your Dunkler Vortrag partner and keep moving!

All other players should avoid these players as they move as to avoid the pools that the pairs are spawning.

To minimise the damage taken by the pools left by the ability, the raid should look to loosely spread out to give more safe spaces for people to dodge into.

Players should focus on making sure they are not hit by the zones created by this ability as the highest priority, rather than just running wildly towards their partner. As long as healers spot heal partners that are apart, they can survive this ability without even being close to each other.

1 Boss Dead: BlutwalzerLord StavrosBlutwalzer

When cast, a section of the dance floor will be descended upon by Walzender Venthyr. These adds will occasionally shift around in that area.

Anyone who touches an add will take moderate shadow damage and be stunned for 1 second.

As soon as the raid sees where the Walzender Venthyr spawn, they need to move away from those locations as to not get caught in the spinning paths.

These adds cannot be interacted with in any way.

Move away from the area near the Blutwalzer dancers!

2 Bosses Dead: Tanzende Narren

This will coat the entire dance floor with ghostly dancers. Players cannot interact with them.

Shortly after spawning, all adds will begin to cast Heftiger Aufruhr. Upon completion, each add will deal a near lethal burst of damage to all players within 11 yards.

Due to the positioning of the adds, this Heftiger Aufruhr will cover the entire dance floor space.

Heftiger Aufruhr

Players have the 15 second duration of this cast to kill this add as to create a small safe space within the room.

As this add has a large amount of health, players should save cooldowns to make sure they kill it in time.

It is a good idea to use Bloodlust for the first time this is cast and output potions on the second time this is cast.

The entire raid should move over towards this add so that when it dies they will already be within the safe zone.

Tanzende NarrenDunkler Vortrag

Partners should dodge their zones whilst being close to the attackable add so that they are close enough to stand in the safe zone when the Heftiger Aufruhr cast completes.

This is a good time for the raid to use movement speed cooldowns as to ensure that people can get to safety in time.

Heroic Difficulty Council of Blood in Castle NathriaLast Boss AbilitiesBaronin FriedaVerzerrter Schmerz

This causes players to spawn pools of Schmerz manifestieren at their location whenever they take damage from her abilities.

Schmerz manifestieren deals moderate shadow damage every half second to anyone who stands within it. These pools last 30 seconds.

With the addition of Seelenstacheln during this phase, this will lead to a large amount of pools spawning.

Players will likely want to move as a group each time this spell is cast to keep pools stacked up.

Players will then want to loosely spread for the Essenz entziehen channel, whilst still trying to place themselves in low traffic areas.

Kastellan NiklausZorn des Kastellans

This causes any of his adds to grant a 100% damage increase for 18 seconds to all other adds within 12 yards when they die.

Players will want to make sure that the Steinwachenveteran does not receive this buff by either not killing the Widerwilliger Kellner adds at all, or by moving the stoneguard away from these adds before they die.

Widerwilliger Kellner adds should be stacked up as much as possible and killed off at the same time -- ideally whilst under a crowd control effect as the pack begins to die.

The Pflichtbewusster Diener doesn’t gain anything from a damage increase, but the raid needs to be aware that his death will buff other nearby adds.

Do note: The damage buff only applies to other adds, not the boss.

Lord StavrosZwei linke Füße

This causes all players to gain stacks of Zwei linke Füße every time they move, reducing their movement speed by 2%. This stacks up every 0.3 second of movement.

When standing still, players will lose stacks at a fast rate. This debuff can also be removed by abilities that counter “movement impairing effects” such as Dispersion or Blessing of Freedom.

This ability is problematic as many of Lord Stavros’ abilities cause players to move around: Tanzende Narren, Dunkler Vortrag and Blutwalzer.

Players need to “ration” their movement as to make sure that they have the movement speed available to them for when they need to move from boss mechanics.

Mythic Difficulty Council of Blood in Castle NathriaTanzfieberTotentanzTanzfieber

Each player will receive 3 stacks of the debuff which lasts 30 seconds. If the debuffs expire, the player is instantly killed.

The only way to remove the debuff is to jump. Doing so removes one stack from the player whilst dealing a moderate burst of shadow damage to the raid.

The raid needs to coordinate to remove all debuffs from players in a staggered way so that the incoming raid damage is as smooth as possible.

The raid may also want to remove multiple debuffs simultaneously whilst using cooldowns, especially if removing the debuffs has to be delayed due to other incoming damage.

You need all five players to jump 3 times before their debuffs expire.

Afterimages

Nachbild von Baronin Frieda : This add will cast Schreckensblitzsalve. This boss should be defeated near the middle of the encounter space so that she is in range for players to interrupt her.

Nachbild von Kastellan Niklaus: This add will summon Pflichtbewusster Diener. Players need to be prepared to nuke this add throughout the fight whenever it appears.

Nachbild von Lord Stavros: This add will cast Dunkler Vortrag. This forces players to continue to maintain a loosely spread position even when Lord Stavros is killed.

These adds will not cast any abilities during the Totentanz phase.

The Council of Blood Boss ModelsBaronin FriedaKastellan NiklausLord StavrosThe Council of Blood Loot Summary from Castle Nathria

Item Type

Normal

Heroic

Mythic

Raid Finder

Cloth Feet

Glitzernde Glasschuhe

Leather Feet

Verzauberte Stepper

Neck: Crit/Mastery

Geburtssteinanhänger des Adligen

Leather Chest

Korsett des flinken Duellanten

Plate Feet

Stiefel des Steinwachenbediensteten

Mail Hands

Kettenhandschutz des Kastellans

Cloth Legs

Kostümhose des Höflings

Trinket

Makabres Notenblatt

Item

Type

Class

Zenitanimakügelchen

Weapon

Warrior, Rogue, Monk

Item

Class: Spec

Erinnerung an die ewige Anrufung der Leere

Priest: Shadow

Erinnerung an den bestechenden Halunken

Rogue: Assassination

Item

Class: Type

Eisige Abhärtung

Death Knight: Finesse

Gieriges Verschlingen

Demon Hunter: Finesse

Angeborene Entschlossenheit

Druid: Endurance

Wendung des Schicksals

Hunter: Finesse

Schutz des Winters

Mage: Finesse

Schwindelerregende Akrobatik

Monk: Finesse

Paladin: Finesse

Priest: Finesse

Rogue: Endurance

Shaman: Endurance

Warlock: Finesse

Inspirierende Präsenz

Warrior: Finesse

Castle Nathria Class Guides and Top Builds

Blood DKFrost DKUnholy DK

Havoc DHVengeance DH

Guardian DruidFeral DruidBalance DruidRestoration Druid

Beast Mastery HunterMarksmanship HunterSurvival Hunter

Arcane MageFire MageFrost Mage

Brewmaster MonkMistweaver MonkWindwalker Monk

Holy PaladinProtection PaladinRetribution Paladin

Discipline PriestHoly PriestShadow Priest

Assassination RogueOutlaw RogueSubtlety Rogue

Elemental ShamanEnhancement ShamanRestoration Shaman

Affliction WarlockDemonology WarlockDestruction Warlock

Arms WarriorFury WarriorProtection Warrior

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Kommentare

Kommentar von Quafrinhage

When the Baroness is conducting the dance phase, at the end she will say..

"Enough! Your spastic gyrations sicken me."

YIKES we can't all have moves like Michael Jackson you know :(

EDIT - It appears the line was changed. The word 'spastic' has now been omitted.

Kommentar von Jephtha

I can't believe Blizzard made a C*m Town council boss... (ref: Nick Mullen, Stavros Halkias and Adam Friedland)

Kommentar von belwyr

The priest legendary recipe dropped is actually Erinnerung an die ewige Anrufung der Leere.

Kommentar von grubey

If you are really struggling with this - our guild did:
-Stavros
-Freida
-Niklaus

It made the whole fight so much quicker and easier.

Kommentar von tfindling

Form almost a straight horizontal line for the group and have the dark recital people run backwards into the room. The penalty for not being near each other is far less than allowing the explosions to hit in the group. You can heal through the penalty for being 8+ yards away if you ignore the mechanic on purpose.

Kommentar von catnip18

If Niklaus is last his adds do enrage him as of 12/27/2020

Kommentar von ocram

The Quick Tips section recommends Frieda -> Niklaus -> Stavros, while the Boss Kill Order section recommends Stavros -> Frieda -> Niklaus.

Kommentar von Mendicant

Anyone know what clicking the begrudging waiter before they spawn does? I think instead of 5 spawning only 4 do but I'm not sure

Kommentar von SammyQ

this is great guide - but i saw no red lines any of the times i got paired so it was impossible to find my partner.
maybe this is a bug when graphic set at lowest?

Kommentar von vindurza

Just tell them we're here for the party.

Kommentar von RizzleBizzle

Heroic Version is soloable by a prot paladin from around 8% remaining on frieda at least.. (Nik > Stav > Frieda)

Imagine doing that and dying on 420hp left, yes 420 hp....

Yeah I did that last night. :( :(

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/AyQLMjNfZHw498FV/

Kommentar von Necrochrist

I'm trying to solo this right now on Mythic and keep getting one shotted during the dance. I'm making all the steps, but I'll end up getting one-shot as soon as the dance starts before I even get to take the first step, or I'll get killed right after the dance ends. I have no idea what the hell is going on.

Kommentar von Wotulookinat

If you're trying to solo this one, there are several mechanics that are really annoying if you forget them. The first one is to keep jump-jump-jumping, when you get the Dancing Fever debuff. The second is to enjoy the Dance Macabre - move to the lit zone and follow the instructions, you get a little firework display when you do it right, but don't forget the Dancing Fever jump-jump!. Contrary to other instructions, kill Stavros and Castellan first, which avoids you having to do the paired dance (the one where you have to find the one targetable partner). This leaves Frieda who, as a caster, won't chase you around - this allows you to click on the little green waiters when they appear every minute or so. As the gargoyles will bounce you off the steps, you need to approach the waiters very cautiously so that you can properly click on them and having a boss chase you around makes that more complicated. Four successful clicks allows you to get the Pour Decision Making achievement

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