Court of Stars Mythic+ Route Guide - Legion 7.3.5

By Voulk Updated: 2018/04/10

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The Mana Wyrm + Guard pack near the beginning can be dreadful. You'll have to hard single target the Guard and avoid as much AoE as possible.

Tip: Hard CC the Guard and drag the wyrms more than 30 yards away before killing them.

The most dangerous Bursting packs are the Imp groups. Focus on killing the imps at the same time to avoid staggering the debuff.

A Raging Mana Saber is super deadly. Make sure to keep it stunned and locked down below 30%.

Make sure you are line of sighting all Fel Detonation casts from the Enforcers. You should be doing this anyway but a Raging detonation is certain death.

BossesPatrol Captain GerdoPoisoning the flask is essential. Luckily, 5/5 group members are running Alchemy.

Arcane Lockdown

Multi Target

Arcane

Dodgeable

Debuff (Magic, DoT)

Resonant Slash

Ground

Arcane

Dodgeable

Streetsweeper

Ground

Arcane

Dodgeable

Signal Beacon

Summon

Hinder

Single Target

Dispellable

Debuff (Magic, Stun)

Gerdo occasionally bugs and Resonant Slash does not always line up that well with the marks on the ground.

There is no downside to disabling all Signal Beacons. On high keys disabling the full set is recommended since a poorly timed Hinder can plant your tank squarely in the middle of the Resonant Slash.

There isn't really much damage going out during the fight so the healer should push as much DPS as possible. Dispelling Arcane Lockdownon one person will give them more time to DPS.

Tip: Druid Shapeshift, Blessing of Freedom and other Snare Breaks will also remove the debuff.

Talixae FlamewreathYou brought AoE CC... right?

Burning Intensity

AoE

Fire

Avoidance

Infernal Eruption

Ground

Fire

Dodgeable

Avoidance

Withering Soul

AoE

Interruptable

Debuff (Magic)

Get your CC's in order before the fight starts. On a high Court of Stars key you're going to need at least two AoE interrupts for the imps and you want to avoid as much overlap as possible. Even a pug group can coordinate a couple stuns.

Stack on top of each other before Infernal Eruption is cast. This will group up the imp spawns and make them easy to AoE down.

Withering Soul can be interrupted . The healer will already be maxed just keeping up with the Burning Intensity damage. The tank is an ideal interrupt candidate.

Healing wise there's very heavy damage going out even if all imps are killed quickly. Make sure you are using your full array of healing cooldowns.

MelandrusYou brought a good healer... right?

Blade Surge

Ground

Physical

Dodgeable

Piercing Gale

Ground

Physical

Dodgeable

Slicing Maelstrom

AoE

Physical

Avoidance

You'll take significantly less damage from Slicing Maelstrom if you're not standing on top of any images.

An image is left every time the boss completes his Blade Surge cast. Try to keep all his images in the all in the same quarter of the room.

Tip: Blade Surge will target a ranged DPS or healer.

The entirety of the fight's damage is physical, so make use of relevant defensive cooldowns.

The maximum number Image of Melandrus is eight. The damage stops scaling up at this point.

This is a really great fight for Avoidance gear and if you can pick up 10-15% without dropping much damage or healing then you should do so.

Tank damage is light. Focus your efforts on the rest of the party.

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Do not pull multiple trash packs at once, so that the maximum stack size of Bolster stays low

Attempt to DPS the enemies down evenly

However, if there is a priority target, such as the Wrathguard Bladelord in Black Rook Hold, it may still be beneficial to focus fire and kill these targets first

The healer will need to use cooldowns on the tank if possible when an enemy has high stacks of Bolster

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Do not pull multiple trash packs at once

Use AoE CCs, such as stuns, knockbacks, and slows, to allow the tank to kite effectively at high stacks of Necrotic Wound

During boss fights, a non-tank player with a taunt ability can taunt the boss away from the tank to allow Necrotic Wound to fall off

Necrotic WoundQuakingQuakeQuakeQuakeRagingEnrageEnrageEnrageSanguine Ichor

Sanguine Ichor heals enemies standing within it for 5% of their health each second

Sanguine Ichor deals damage to players standing within it for 15% of their health each second

Sanguine IchorSanguine IchorSkittishMisdirectionTricks of the TradeTeemingTeemingExplosiveExplosionBlizzardStarfallGrievousGrievous WoundGrievous WoundBurstingBurstBurstingCloak of ShadowsIce Block

A Volcanic Plume

Move before it erupts

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During the Inquisitor Tormentorum encounter in the Vault of the Wardens, due to the Tormenting Orbs

Fighting Valarjar Marksman in the Halls of Valor

Fighting Rockbound Trappers in Neltharion's Lair, or during the Naraxas encounter

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Avoid pulling excessive trash packs

Use AoE CC and stuns liberally to reduce damage

Focus on priority targets

Tanks may need to kite enemies more frequently

Multiple tanks may be preferred for certain dungeons with particularly dangerous trash pulls

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This can cause many extremely dangerous abilities to one-shot the party if health levels are not high enough

Serves as an additional gear check to these dungeons

Tanks may need to kite bosses more frequently

Multiple tanks may be preferred for certain dungeons with particularly threatening boss mechanics

TyrannicalTyrannical

Black Rook Hold: Smashspite's Brutal Haymaker debuff increases the damage the tank takes by 75%, and may cause Earthshaking Stomp or melee attacks to be fatal

Court of Stars: Advisor Melandrus's Slicing Maelstrom will become unsurvivable with just a few Image of Advisor Melandrus spawns

Darkheart Thicket: Shade of Xavius's Nightmare Bolt may one-shot players without active defensive cooldowns, especially if he gains any stacks of Apocalyptic Empowerment

Halls of Valor: Hyrja's Arcing Bolt and Expel Light abilities may one-shot while she has 4+ stacks of Mystic Empowerment: Thunder or Mystic Empowerment: Holy

Maw of Souls: Ymiron's Dark Slash is extremely powerful under Tyrannical and may require external cooldowns for the tank to survive

Comments

Comment by Fawnix

Very detailed guide. Great job!

Comment by 173963

Small note about the before the last boss:

You say

Tip: Having somebody run back to the door early does not save time since it doesn't change the timing of the RP.

but if one person stays to pick up the key (tank or melee usually), the other players can start opening the door immediately as the key is picked up, and the boss RP starts when you try to succesfully open the door. So it does save a few seconds of running.

Another tip for high m+ is to actually intentionally fail at least once in the spy guessing game. If you guess the spy on the first go and disable all 5 beacons, this triggers the achievement RP instead, which is considerably longer.

Court of Stars Mythic+ Route Guide - Legion 7.3.5

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