Brewmaster Monk Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Raid Tips

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Kazzara, the Hellforged

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The Amalgamation Chamber

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The Forgotten Experiments

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Assault of the Zaqali

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Rashok, the Elder

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The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn

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Magmorax

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Echo of Neltharion

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Scalecommander Sarkareth

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Kazzara, the Hellforged Build

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Blackout Combo/Black Ox Brew - Due to being mechanically simple, this is an excellent encounter to practice optimizing for additional damage.

Improved Roll/Windwalking - As this fight requires no additional utility, you are free to talent into extra mobility.

After every cast of Terror Claws.

Use Celestial Brew before each cast of Terror Claws, and Purifying Brew afterwards. You should other cooldowns if your health dips at all, especially later in the fight when the boss' constant pulsing damage becomes more painful. Diffuse Magic, Dampen Harm, and Fortifying Brew are all great options.

The main danger windows on this fight are the few seconds after the boss casts Terror Claws, so focus on surviving those moments.

By being a tank player, you cannot be targeted by Dread Rifts or Rays of Anguish unless there are not enough living players to choose instead.

As Kazzara loses health and creates more Dread Rifts/Rays of Anguish, begin moving her around the outer edge of the room to give the other players more room to deal with these mechanics.

The Amalgamation Chamber

The Amalgamation Chamber Build

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Blackout Combo/Black Ox Brew - Due to being mechanically simple, this is an excellent encounter to practice optimizing for additional damage.

Improved Roll/Windwalking - As this fight requires no additional utility, you are free to talent into extra mobility.

Phase 1: Never! You will keep your chosen boss for the entire time.

Phase 2: After every cast of Withering Vulnerability, making sure to not hit your cotank with Shadowflame Burst afterward.

You must keep the Essence of Shadow and Eternal Blaze at least 25 yards away from each other in Heroic or higher due to Elemental Instability. They must additionally remain 50 yards apart to avoid having players receive both the Corrupting Shadow and Blazing Heat debuffs.

In Phase 2, the boss combos the tanks with Withering Vulnerability, immediately followed by Shadowflame Burst. Be sure to taunt-swap so that each tank takes only one hit of the combo, and use a defensive cooldown such as Diffuse Magic or Dampen Harm along with Celestial Brew to mitigate the damage from whichever hit you take. Be sure to face the Shadowflame Amalgamation away from the raid if you are the tank taking the Shadowflame Burst hit in phase 2.

Heroic: Be ready to move through a gap in each cast of Shadows Convergence if tanking the Essence of Shadow, and away from every Coalescing Void.

Heroic: Be ready to soak any Molten Eruptions that are near you if tanking the Eternal Blaze, and ensure multiple players soak each Fiery Meteor created directly in front of the boss.

Mythic: In Phase 1 you will not clear your Mythic debuff at all. It will clear automatically once the phase ends. Be prepared to use defensive cooldowns as the phases stretches on.

Mythic: In Phase 2, clearing the debuff from Shadow and Flame is much easier, and you will want to do so by touching someone with the opposite debuff as quickly as you are able. Just be sure not to point a tank mechanic at the raid while clearing the debuff.

The Forgotten Experiments

The Forgotten Experiments Build

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Stormstout's Last Keg - Mythic only. In this difficulty, you will frequently be fighting two stacked bosses at once.

Improved Roll/Windwalking - As this fight requires no additional utility, you are free to talent into extra mobility.

Yu'lon's Grace - There are no noteworthy hits of magic damage requiring a cooldown in favor of additional passive mitigation.

Fatal Touch - There are three separate bosses for you to Touch of Death over time.

Based on Infused Strikes stacks (6-8), and if there is an Infused Explosion debuff on the raid. The Infused Strikes debuff is removed by making contact with another player that also has the debuff (such as your cotank).

Neldris:

Do not be in the path of Rending Charge.

Move away or be ready to make use of Expel Harm to survive each Bellowing Roar.

Thadrion

Avoid standing next to a player with Unstable Essence when it is about to be dispelled, as it jumps to the nearest player afterward and will complicate things if it ends up on a tank.

Heroic: move your active boss to the Erratic Remnants spawned whenever an Unstable Essence is dispelled.

Heroic: Thadrion deals additional raid-wide damage. This will result in slightly fewer stacks of the tank debuff, since he isn't attacking during his casts.

Rionthus

Do not allow any Temporal Anomaly to reach Rionthus; either move him away or run into them to knock them back. Be aware that he cannot move while channeling Disintegrate.

Mythic: You will receive Temporal Fracture every time you run into a Temporal Anomaly.

Mythic

The main change to this fight on Mythic difficulty is that a new boss spawns when the previous one hits 50% health, rather than 0%. This sounds simple, and for the most part, it is, but the addition of a second boss means that both tanks will be actively tanking one boss each. This will result in massively more stacks of the tank debuff being applied than outside these 2-boss windows. These two-Experiment windows are probably the single most dangerous sections of the entire raid for tanks. Be prepared to chain defensive cooldowns one after another during these two-boss windows, and clear the tank debuff as soon as Infused Explosion fades!

Assault of the Zaqali

Assault of the Zaqali Build

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Stormstout's Last Keg - This is the primary AoE encounter of the raid.

Fatal Touch - With frequent add waves, you may often make use of Touch of Death.

After every two stacks of Heavy Cudgel or Flaming Cudgel.

Phase 1 starts with a brief fight against Warlord Kagni, then the raid splits into two groups that fight waves of continually-spawning adds on two platforms on opposite sides of a bridge. Gather all of the adds together so your group can AoE them down.

The boss will jump back and forth between the two platforms. Be ready to pick him up when he lands. He clears his threat table when he lands, too, so make sure you have Provoke available to grab him after he has fully landed.

Kagni strikes the tank with Heavy Cudgel two times, then leaps to the other side. Have Celestial Brew up for each strike, and be prepared to take extra damage for the next 45 seconds after the second strike. This is a good spot to use defensive cooldowns such as Fortifying Brew and Dampen Harm.

Once Warlord Kagni reaches 25% health, he leaps to the door and attempts to bash it down. Taunt-swap the boss at 2 stacks of Flaming Cudgel, help soak his Catastrophic Slams against the door, and burn him down!

Heroic: If an enemy hits the door, the raid will wipe from a Barrier Backfire.

Mythic: In the first phase of the fight, Ignara, Warlord Kagni's phoenix mount, will occasionally spawn small phoenix adds that fixate players. Ignara will also occasionally use a Vigorous Gale on the raid, which can knock you off the platform.

Rashok, the Elder

Rashok, the Elder Build

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Improved Roll/Windwalking - As this fight requires no additional utility, you are free to talent into extra mobility.

Hasty Provocation - Although it is not required, this can be used to help reposition Rashok more quickly when he is approaching full Energy.

Taunting is based on a random sequence of three abilities cast during Wrath of Djaruun. You must not be hit by the same ability (Flaming Slash or Earthen Crush) twice in these combos.
Flaming Slash deals Fire damage, making it more dangerous.

Earthen Crush deals Physical damage, and will be greatly mitigated by Stagger.

Be ready to slowly move Rashok around the outer edge of the room as it gradually fills with Lava Vortexes created from Searing Slam in Heroic and higher.

Every player in your raid group must help soak every Charged Smash, or Rashok will gain extra Energy and trigger Ancient Fury more quickly.

Rashok's cast of Shadowlava Blast is your warning to move him into the Elder's Conduit in the center of the room. Do not move him here otherwise, or he will trigger a wipe from his Smoldering Rage.

Mythic: In this difficulty, Charged Smash applies the permanent Overcharged debuff which is only cleared by walking into the Elder's Conduit in the middle of the room. Clearing this debuff triggers a Conduit Flare and deals raid-wide damage, so you will want to position Rashok so he is near the Conduit, and players can easily move from the Charged Smash into the Conduit to clear without having to leave melee range. Do not place these Smashes directly on the Conduit, or multiple Conduit Flare will instantly occur and cause deaths. Keep the boss near the Conduit and facing to the side for each smash.

The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn

The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn Build

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Improved Roll/Windwalking - As this fight requires no additional utility, you are free to talent into extra mobility.

Yu'lon's Grace - There are no noteworthy hits of magic damage requiring a cooldown in favor of additional passive mitigation.

Fatal Touch - There are adds regularly spawning for you to Touch of Death over time.

Based on when your stacks of Searing Claws expire (usually 6-8, but rarely more).

During this encounter, Zskarn will regularly trigger Dragonfire Traps; the two nearest to him will always be activated. Position him accordingly along the edges of the room, and keep the middle of the room clear for as long as possible.

Zskarn throws out several Shrapnel Bomb periodically throughout the fight. If you are not actively tanking the boss, you should use defensive cooldowns like Celestial Brew and Dampen Harm to survive running into these bombs. If they are not soaked within 30 seconds, they will explode and likely wipe your raid.
As a Brewmaster, you are both uniquely mobile with Roll, Transcendence, and Tiger's Lust while also having the power of Stagger to naturally reduce the damage of these bombs. All the same, be wary of receiving multiple stacks of their debuff.

A common strategy for this mechanic is to bring a third tank player who will focus entirely on them.

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Mythic: Dragonfire Golems gain immunity to crowd control from Reinforced Defenses once they fall below 50% health and must be exclusively interrupted.

Mythic: Magmorax

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Improved Roll/Windwalking - As this fight requires no additional utility, you are free to talent into extra mobility.

Yu'lon's Grace - There are no noteworthy hits of magic damage requiring a cooldown in favor of additional passive mitigation.

Blackout Combo/Black Ox Brew - Due to being mechanically simple, this is an excellent encounter to practice optimizing for additional damage.

After all three hits of each Incinerating Maws (three stacks of its debuff).

Do not let Magmorax touch any Magma Puddles at any point, or he will trigger a Blazing Tantrum and quickly gain additional Energy.

Due to Incinerating Maws being a three-hit attack, the third hit will hit the hardest due to you already having two stacks of its debuff. Use your Celestial Brew in the middle of the combo, though defensive cooldowns such as Dampen Harm will last long enough to cover all three.

Magma Puddles can be stood in to reduce their size and completely remove them over time.
Heroic: Avoid reaching 25 stacks of Searing Heat from soaking Magma Puddles or you will be Incinerated.

Mythic: Searing Heat can stack up to 40 instead, but its stacks are permanent.

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Stormstout's Last Keg - The final phase of this fight features a massive amount of adds, with the earlier phase also featuring stacked cleave.

Fatal Touch - With multiple adds over time, you can make frequent use of Touch of Death.

Phase 1: After every cast of Calamitous Strike.

Phase 2: After every cast of Sunder Shadow.

Phase 3: After every cast of Calamitous Strike.

Transcendence is especially strong on this fight, due to bypassing the restrictions created by Twisted Earth.

The Echo of Neltharion features autoattacks that are especially strong; be ready to act a little more defensively than usual.

Phase 1

Position the Echo of Neltharion so that your entire raid is in the same section of the room blocked off by Twisted Earth. Its formations block line of sight!

Echoing Fissure is cast in the direction the Echo of Neltharion is facing; face him near a wall to limit the amount of space it will take up.

Position yourself to get knocked backward through a small portion of Twisted Earth when you are targeted by Calamitous Strike, creating a path for your raid to follow as they avoid further Echoing Fissures.

Mythic: The main mechanical change of this fight is that each Twisted Earth wall you Shatter makes the raid take increased damage, so you want to minimize the number of walls you break. Ideally, you will only break 1 or 2 walls with each slam.

Intermission/Phase 2

More sections of Twisted Earth will appear after the intermission ends. Move the Echo of Neltharion over to a section containing a Voice From Beyond before you are blocked off, and remove its Hidden in Void shield.
Heroic: Hidden in Void can only be removed by players affected by Corruption. Be careful not to damage them with passive cleave!

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Sunder Shadow will let you clip through the segments of Twisted Earth throughout the room, and Shadow Strike will break all the scales between you and the boss. Use this to clear a passage through the room so that your raid can navigate to the next Voice From Beyond and kill it.

Phase 3

Sunder Reality will regularly be triggered on nearby sections of Twisted Earth, making portals that continuously spawn Twisted Aberrations. Be ready to get their attention.

Stand in a portal created from Sunder Reality during each cast of Ebon Destruction to gain the Sundered Reality debuff and survive the mechanic.

In this Phase, you no longer need to destroy additional sections of Twisted Earth with Calamitous Strike. Instead, position yourself to be knocked away from them.

At times, both you and your cotank will be debuffed by Calamitous Strike. This is especially dangerous and will require your strongest defensive cooldowns to survive.

Mythic: Additionally in Phase 3, each Sunder Reality portal can only protect one person from each Ebon Destruction cast, so be sure to find your own safe space.

Scalecommander Sarkareth

Scalecommander Sarkareth Build

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Stormstout's Last Keg - There are multiple waves of adds you need to quickly gather up in this encounter.

Summon Black Ox Statue - If you are having a particularly hard time with threat against these adds, the AoE Provoke effect of this talent may prove useful.

Fatal Touch - With frequent add waves, you may often make use of Touch of Death.

Diffuse Magic - You must have this talent in Mythic.

Phase 1: After every cast of Burning Claws.

Phase 2: After every cast of Void Claws.

Phase 3: After every cast of Void Slash.

Phase 1

Begin by moving Scalecommander Sarkareth near the platform's edge, avoiding being knocked off during his Oppressing Howl.

Rotate around the edge of the room every time a Scorching Bomb is created, being ready to swap tanking every time Burning Claws is cast. The damage dealt to the raid from Blazing Blast when its debuff expires is based on how much of its DoT damaged your health. Take advantage of Celestial Brew and cooldowns such as Dampen Harm or Diffuse Magic to reduce this explosion.

While debuffed by Oppressing Howl, you must be hit by a cast of either Mass Disintegrate or Searing Breath to remove it. If you have not done so by the end of the phase (ending early if Sarkareth reaches 65% hp), you will be Dazzled and likely die.

Phase 2

Do not interrupt End Existence until the cast has nearly finished to ensure all players have returned from the Emptiness Between Stars with 10 stacks of Astral Flare.

In this phase, Burning Claws has been replaced with Void Claws, which will hits players within 20 yards with Void Blast when it expires. Before it expires, run away from other players, or hit 10 stacks of Oblivion and shift into the Emptiness Between Stars, where the debuff will fizzle without hitting the raid!
You can quickly gain stacks of Oblivion by standing on the Desolate Blossoms in this phase.

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Heroic: Null Glimmers must be moved through a Desolate Blossom to remove their Rescind buff. Make use of Ring of Peace to assist with this and limit your Oblivion stacks.

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Begin this phase in the center of the room, and go back to the edge after the first cast of Cosmic Ascension. This is to place Astral Formations properly. Make sure to gather the additional Null Glimmer that spawn.
In this Phase, Rescind cannot be removed and must simply be out-damaged instead.

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You can quickly gain stacks of Oblivion by catching the Motes of Oblivion falling throughout the arena. Most void will only abilities give you one stack of Oblivion per hit, but these give 5!

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