Ruby Life Pools Dungeon Strategy Guide

By Mandl Updated: 2024/04/04

Ruby Life Pools Dungeon Entrance

EntranceNearest Flight Path

Ruby Life Pools Dungeon Quick Tips

Sidestep the Primal Juggernaut's Excavating Blast. Your tank must pay attention to the tank-buster ability - Crushing Smash.

Interrupt Flashfrost Chillweaver's Frostbolt & Ice Shield. This is by far the most important caster in the area.

Use CC abilities to stop Deepstone Earthshaper's Tectonic Slam.

Be aware of the clutches of eggs in the pools around the area. These will hatch if any player or enemy steps on them, spawning one Infused Whelp for each egg that was hatched. These casts Cold Claws relatively frequently on the highest threat target leading to a large amount of unnecessary frost damage and a potential stun if not dispelled.

At last, when facing Defier Draghar, make sure to avoid its frontal charge - Blazing Rush. In addition, your tank must use a defensive during the Steel Barrage channelled attacks.

Avoid the Hailburst before it hits the ground. It is bait to bait them close to each other so you can have more room to play around.

The person that gets a Chillstorm must place it outside of melee and preferably away from your group. Keep in mind that you have a limited time to escape the "vortex" without taking any damage. Here is a good place to use a defensive cooldown if you are in a critical HP. Remember that at the end of the Chillstorm cast, it will do damage and push you back, so stay away from any existing Hailburst.

Important mechanic: At 75% and 45%, Melidrussa Chillworn will spawn a dozen of Infused Whelps that do only auto-attacks to your tank and apply Cold Claws (healers must dispel that). During this time, you have to break the Frost Overload to end the intermission.

When Melidrussa Chillworn spawns its Infused Whelps, watch out for their tank as they apply Cold Claws. Collect the aggro and ask your healer for a dispel. Make sure to stack them under the boss so your party can both, cleave them and break the Frost Overload.

Keep everyone healthy during the Chillstorm. Remember that there will be a large burst of damage at the end of the cast.

Use healing cooldowns during the Frost Overload, the longer the shield lasts the more you have to heal. This is the hardest part of the fight.

Use defensive cooldowns for Chillstorm if your health dips low.

Prepare your offensive cooldowns for Frost Overload, the faster you break the shield the easier becomes for your whole party.

Immediately after defeating Melidrussa Chillworn, hop on the one of the Radiant Drake, who will carry you to the next area.2Kokia BlazehoofThunderheadFlamegullet

Thunderhead (left screenshot) is slightly harder to deal with of the two. Dodge the Storm Breath at all costs, as only a few ticks of this frontal will likely kill you.

Your tank must pay attention to Thunder Jaw, the "tank-buster" will deal high damage and knock them back.

Last but not least, watch out for Rolling Thunder debuffs. It will always apply 2 applications, each of them going on a random player from your party. Upon expiring, it will deal massive damage to all players within 100 yds, so the best way to deal with it is to let your healer dispel one target and wait until the second debuff expires, so you can delay the damage coming out of it. Upon dispelling, it will deal the full damage that you would normally get upon the debuff expiring.

Flamegullet is the easier "mini-boss" that you must face. Dodge its Flame Breath frontal cast at all costs.

The drake will also cast Fire Maw on your tank; the "tank-buster" ability will deal massive damage followed by a lingering damage-over-time Fire effect.

Finally, once Flamegullet is below 50% health it will cast Molten Blood, which can be treated as an Enrage effect that cannot be dispelled and will deal damage to all players within 60 yards. The longer the Flamegullet stays alive the more stacks of Molten Blood it will get, increasing its damage with every tick, hence why you want to delay your damage cooldowns to nuke it faster during this "burn phase".

Outside of that, there are several other notable non-boss-enemies you must watch out for:

Interrupt Primalist Cinderweaver's Cinderbolt at all times. Occasionally they will buff themselves with Burning Ambition, having higher haste but also taking 25% more damage. If you feel confident, let the debuff persist so you can kill them faster.

Stop any Flaming Barrage casts coming from Ashseer Flamelasher. In addition, right before they die, it will trigger Blaze of Glory - dodge the ground swirlies and break/purge the shield as quickly as you can.

Pay attention to Blazebound Destroyer's Living Bomb, it goes on a random target, it does damage per second and it explodes at the end, dealing a high amount of damage - knocking you in the air (use defensive cooldowns if vulnerable). Sidetip, you can get closer to melee and use the Living Bomb end-close knock-up explosion on Primalist Cinderweaver & Ashseer Flamelasher to disturb them. In addition, Blazebound Destroyer will occasionally cast Inferno doing unavoidable AoE damage to everyone within 100 yards, plus an additional damage-over-time effect every 2 seconds for 6 seconds.. Finally, when the Blazebound Destroyer is defeated, it will cast Burnout - quickly move out of melee to avoid taking lethal damage.

Avoid being hit by the initial damage of Ritual of Blazebinding. Note that it is always based on your location; stacking together will
"manipulate" where the add spawns. Upon that, switch immediately on Blazebound Firestorm and interrupt its Blaze Volley at all costs.

Be aware that upon death, Blazebound Firestorm will cast Burnout, leaving you a few seconds window to escape the mass AoE and its Scorched Earth follow-up effect.

Another reason why it is important to nuke the Blazebound Firestorm is that they deal uninterruptible group-wide AoE damage - Inferno. Ideally would like to have only 1 of such casts per add.

Avoid the Molten Boulder at all costs.

Position yourself so that Molten Boulder rolls into the sides of the room, while being close enough to allow DPS to easily cleave any Blazing Firestorms currently active. The easiest way to do this is to have your back to the sides of the room.

Use active mitigation for Searing Blows and its follow-up effect Searing Wounds.

Beware of Blazebound Firestorm's Inferno cast, as it will deal unavoidable AoE damage to everyone in your group. This is a good place to use your healing cooldowns.

Be ready to use external healing cooldowns for your tank during Searing Blows and its follow-up effect Searing Wounds.

Your priority in the fight is making sure to kill Blazebound Firestorm before he casts Inferno for a second time.

Avoid staying unnecessary in melee during Storm Warrior's Thunderous Stomp, which will reduce your Haste and Movement Speed if inflicted.

Primal Thundercloud have a large absorb on them; when this expires, is dispelled, or runs out of health, they cast Stormcloud Detonation at a location (dodge it) before despawning.

Use defensives when Tempest Channeler is casting Lightning Storm. In addition, use your spare interrupts to stop the Thunder Blast.

Interrupt Flame Channeler's Flashfire at all costs, as not only does it deal damage to a random player, but it also heals the Channeler. You can choose to ignore the Burning Veins buff since it makes them take more damage, but it also increases their Haste by 50%.

This is one of the hardest 2 - phase fights you will face. At the beginning of the fight you will be fighting Erkhart Stormvein, but once he reaches 50% health Kyrakka will join him, starting the Second Phase. Before that, there are several abilities you must avoid from both bosses:All Roles

Dodge spell=381525 coming from Kyrakka, failing to do so will apply a a Inferno Spit to you. Once Inferno Spit expires, it will leave a lingering Flaming Embers fire pool on the ground. Heads up, if you get in contact with Flaming Embers, they will re-apply Inferno Spit.

Stop casting when Erkhart Stormvein is about to finish its Cloudburst channel, otherwise, it will "lock" you on a spell cast for a short period.

Beware when Erkhart Stormvein is casting Winds of Change, as it will deal AoE damage to everyone and also apply a pushback effect. The pushback effect will also move any existing Flaming Embers.

During Phase 1 of the fight, Kyrakka will periodically target one player from your party to cast Inferno Spit, make sure you use defensive!

Chunking Kyrakka's health is going to be the most important as they are the more dangerous part of the boss fight. Use every opportunity to deal damage to them while they are on the ground during Phase 1.

Tank

Position Erkhart Stormvein (Phase 1) to allow your DPS to dodge Roaring Firebreath while not being too close to the edge to accidentally get pushed off by Winds of Change and simultaneously cleave off Kyrakka.

Stormslam is a very powerful tankbuster with a stacking magic vulnerability debuff that does not fall off on its majority of the time. Ask for your healer's dispel and plan your defensive cooldowns better.

Be aware of where all the Flaming Embers are, and position the boss so that you have an escape route if the winds push them towards you. As the tank, you are uniquely positioned to be able to see behind your group - in this fight, this is a major advantage!

Healer

This fight is made arbitrarily harder the worse your group is at dodging avoidable damage and not standing in Flaming Embers. Be aware of your surroundings.

Inferno Spit stacks hurt; the good news is that the unavoidable ones (from Inferno Spit) are only going to go on 2 people. The bad news is that DPS randomly taking avoidable damage will compound this problem, as they'll also be punished with bonus Inferno Spit stacks.

Do not panic! Track ability timers, and play proactively rather than reactively on this encounter. Preparation and anticipating mechanics are some of the best ways to not get caught out and roasted by the breath, boxed in by Inferno Spit or thrown off the platform.

DPS

During Phase 1 do your best to cleave both bosses to 50% before entering Phase 2, as the early fight is much easier.

Use defensive cooldowns if you get Inferno Spit debuff on you.

Ruby Life Pools Dungeon MapMelidrussa Chillworn Boss Guide in The Ruby LifepoolsImportant Melidrussa Chillworn Trash Tips and Tricks

Sidestep the Primal Juggernaut's Excavating Blast. Your tank must pay attention to the tank-buster ability - Crushing Smash.

Interrupt Flashfrost Chillweaver's Frostbolt & Ice Shield. This is by far the most important caster in the area.

Use CC abilities to stop Deepstone Earthshaper's Tectonic Slam.

At last, when facing Defier Draghar, make sure to avoid its frontal charge - Blazing Rush. In addition, your tank must use a defensive during the Steel Barrage channelled attacks.

Melidrussa Chillworn Tips and Strategy

Avoid the Hailburst before it hits the ground. It is bait to bait them close to each other so you can have more room to play around.

Keep everyone healthy during the Chillstorm. Remember that there will be a large burst of damage at the end of the cast.

Use healing cooldowns during the Frost Overload, the longer the shield lasts the more you have to heal. This is the hardest part of the fight.

Use defensive cooldowns for Chillstorm if your health dips low.

Prepare your offensive cooldowns for Frost Overload, the faster you break the shield the easier becomes for your whole party.

Kokia Blazehoof Boss Guide in The Ruby LifepoolsImportant Kokia Blazehoof Trash Tips and TricksImmediately after defeating Melidrussa Chillworn, hop on the one of the Radiant Drake, who will carry you to the next area.2Kokia BlazehoofThunderheadFlamegullet

Thunderhead (left screenshot) is slightly harder to deal with of the two. Dodge the Storm Breath at all costs, as only a few ticks of this frontal will likely kill you.

Your tank must pay attention to Thunder Jaw, the "tank-buster" will deal high damage and knock them back.

Flamegullet is the easier "mini-boss" that you must face. Dodge its Flame Breath frontal cast at all costs.

The drake will also cast Fire Maw on your tank; the "tank-buster" ability will deal massive damage followed by a lingering damage-over-time Fire effect.

Outside of that, there are several other notable non-boss-enemies you must watch out for:

Kokia Blazehoof Tips and Strategy

Be aware that upon death, Blazebound Firestorm will cast Burnout, leaving you a few seconds window to escape the mass AoE and its Scorched Earth follow-up effect.

Another reason why it is important to nuke the Blazebound Firestorm is that they deal uninterruptible group-wide AoE damage - Inferno. Ideally would like to have only 1 of such casts per add.

Avoid the Molten Boulder at all costs.

Use active mitigation for Searing Blows and its follow-up effect Searing Wounds.

Beware of Blazebound Firestorm's Inferno cast, as it will deal unavoidable AoE damage to everyone in your group. This is a good place to use your healing cooldowns.

Be ready to use external healing cooldowns for your tank during Searing Blows and its follow-up effect Searing Wounds.

Your priority in the fight is making sure to kill Blazebound Firestorm before he casts Inferno for a second time.

Kyrakka and Erkhart Stormvein Boss Guide in The Ruby LifepoolsImportant Kyrakka and Erkhart Stormvein Trash Tips and Tricks

Avoid staying unnecessary in melee during Storm Warrior's Thunderous Stomp, which will reduce your Haste and Movement Speed if inflicted.

Primal Thundercloud have a large absorb on them; when this expires, is dispelled, or runs out of health, they cast Stormcloud Detonation at a location (dodge it) before despawning.

Use defensives when Tempest Channeler is casting Lightning Storm. In addition, use your spare interrupts to stop the Thunder Blast.

Kyrakka and Erkhart Stormvein Tips and StrategyThis is one of the hardest 2 - phase fights you will face. At the beginning of the fight you will be fighting Erkhart Stormvein, but once he reaches 50% health Kyrakka will join him, starting the Second Phase. Before that, there are several abilities you must avoid from both bosses:All Roles

Dodge Roaring Firebreath coming from Kyrakka, failing to do so will apply a a Inferno Spit to you. Once Inferno Spit expires, it will leave a lingering Flaming Embers fire pool on the ground. Heads up, if you get in contact with Flaming Embers, they will re-apply Inferno Spit.

Stop casting when Erkhart Stormvein is about to finish its Cloudburst channel, otherwise, it will "lock" you on a spell cast for a short period.

Beware when Erkhart Stormvein is casting Winds of Change, as it will deal AoE damage to everyone and also apply a pushback effect. The pushback effect will also move any existing Flaming Embers.

During Phase 1 of the fight, Kyrakka will periodically target one player from your party to cast Inferno Spit, make sure you use defensive!

Tank

Healer

This fight is made arbitrarily harder the worse your group is at dodging avoidable damage and not standing in Flaming Embers. Be aware of your surroundings.

DPS

During Phase 1 do your best to cleave both bosses to 50% before entering Phase 2, as the early fight is much easier.

Use defensive cooldowns if you get Inferno Spit debuff on you.

Quick Role TipsMelidrussa Chillworn Trash

Pay attention to the Primal Juggernaut's tank-buster ability - Crushing Smash, use personal defensive if needed, this can be especially dangerous when you have other non-boss-enemies on top of that.

Use CC abilities to stop Deepstone Earthshaper's Tectonic Slam.

Be aware of the clutches of eggs in the pools around the area. These will hatch if any player or enemy steps on them, spawning one Infused Whelp for each egg that was hatched. These casts Cold Claws relatively frequently on you, leading to a large amount of unnecessary frost damage and a potential stun if not dispelled.

Use your active mitigation during the Defier Draghar's Steel Barrage channelled attacks.

Melidrussa Chillworn

Kokia Blazehoof Trash

Pay attention to Thunderhead's Thunder Jaw "tank-buster" ability, it will deal high damage and knock them back.

Flamegullet will cast Fire Maw on you, dealing massive damage followed by a lingering damage-over-time Fire effect. This is a good place to use your active mitigation.

Kokia Blazehoof

Use active mitigation for Searing Blows and its follow-up effect Searing Wounds.

Kyrakka & Erkhart Stormvein Trash

Be mindful of how you position Storm Warrior due to its melee cleave - Thunderous Stomp, which will reduce your Haste and Movement Speed of the affected people. Stay away from the ranged players!

Interrupt Flame Channeler's Flashfire at all costs, as not only does it deal damage to a random player, but it also heals the Channeler.

Kyrakka & Erkhart Stormvein

Melidrussa Chillworn Trash

Do your best to dispel as many Ice Shield as you can coming from Flashfrost Chillweaver.

Dispel the high stacks of Cold Claws coming from the spawned Infused Whelp.

Melidrussa Chillworn

Keep everyone healthy during the Chillstorm. Remember that there will be a large burst of damage at the end of the cast.

Use healing cooldowns during the Frost Overload, the longer the shield lasts the more you have to heal. This is the hardest part of the fight.

Kokia Blazehoof Trash

Watch out for Rolling Thunder debuffs. It will always apply 2 applications, each of them going on a random player from your party. Upon expiring, it will deal massive damage to all players within 100 yds, so the best way to deal with it is to dispel one target and wait until the second debuff expires, so you can delay the damage coming out of it. Upon dispelling, it will deal the full damage that you would normally get upon the debuff expiring.

Once Flamegullet is below 50% health it will cast Molten Blood, which can be treated as an Enrage effect that cannot be dispelled and will deal damage to all players within 60 yards. The longer the Flamegullet stays alive the more stacks of Molten Blood it will get, increasing its damage with every tick, this will be a great place to use your healing cooldowns.

Pay attention to Blazebound Destroyer's Living Bomb, it goes on a random target, it does damage per second and it explodes at the end, dealing a high amount of damage - knocking you in the air. In addition, Blazebound Destroyer will occasionally cast Inferno doing unavoidable AoE damage to everyone within 100 yards, plus an additional damage-over-time effect every 2 seconds for 6 seconds. Prepare healing for each Inferno cast as they will be the hardest part.

Kokia Blazehoof

Beware of Blazebound Firestorm's Inferno cast, as it will deal unavoidable AoE damage to everyone in your group. This is a good place to use your healing cooldowns.

Be ready to use external healing cooldowns for your tank during Searing Blows and its follow-up effect Searing Wounds.

Kyrakka & Erkhart Stormvein Trash

Prepare your healing cooldowns during Tempest Channeler's Lightning Storm.

Kyrakka & Erkhart Stormvein

This fight is made arbitrarily harder the worse your group is at dodging avoidable damage and not standing in Flaming Embers. Be aware of your surroundings.

Melidrussa Chillworn Trash

Sidestep the Primal Juggernaut's Excavating Blast.

Interrupt Flashfrost Chillweaver's Frostbolt & Ice Shield. This is by far the most important caster in the area.

Use CC abilities to stop Deepstone Earthshaper's Tectonic Slam.

Melidrussa Chillworn

Use defensive cooldowns for Chillstorm if your health dips low.

Prepare your offensive cooldowns for Frost Overload, the faster you break the shield the easier becomes for your whole party.

Kokia Blazehoof Trash

Dodge the Thunderhead's Storm Breath, as only a few ticks of this frontal will likely kill you. In addition, use defensive if you get the Rolling Thunder debuff

Dodge the Flamegullet's Flame Breath frontal cast at all costs.

Interrupt Primalist Cinderweaver's Cinderbolt at all times.

Stop any Flaming Barrage casts coming from Ashseer Flamelasher.

Kokia Blazehoof

Your priority in the fight is making sure to kill Blazebound Firestorm before he casts Inferno for a second time.

Kyrakka & Erkhart Stormvein Trash

Avoid staying unnecessary in melee during Storm Warrior's Thunderous Stomp, which will reduce your Haste and Movement Speed if inflicted.

Use defensives when Tempest Channeler is casting Lightning Storm. In addition, use your spare interrupts to stop the Thunder Blast.

Interrupt Flame Channeler's Flashfire at all costs.

Kyrakka & Erkhart Stormvein

During Phase 1 do your best to cleave both bosses to 50% before entering Phase 2, as the early fight is much easier.

Use defensive cooldowns if you get Inferno Spit debuff on you.

Ruby Life Pools LootArmor and WeaponsMelidrussa Chillworn

Type

Item

Stats

Two-Hand

Chillworn's Infusion Staff

INT Crit/Mast

Leather Hands

Subjugator's Chilling Grips

AGI-INT Crit/Vers

Mail Legs

Egg Tender's Leggings

AGI-INT Haste/Vers

Plate Feet

Scaleguard's Stalwart Greatboots

STR-INT Vers/Mast

Kokia Blazehoof

Type

Item

Stats

One-Hand

Havoc Crusher

AGI Crit/Haste

Off-Hand

Kokia's Burnout Rod

INT Crit/Mast

Mail Head

Blazebound Lieutenant's Helm

AGI-INT Vers/Mast

Back

Fireproof Drape

AGI-STR-INT Haste/Mast

Leather Chest

Invader's Firestorm Chestguard

INT Vers/Mast

Kyrakka

Type

Item

Stats

Two-Hand

Backdraft Cleaver

AGI Crit/Haste

One-Hand

Skyferno Rondel

AGI Haste/Vers

Off-Hand

Drake Rider's Stecktarge

INT-STR Vers/Mast

Leather Head

Crown of Roaring Storms

AGI-INT Crit/Vers

Plate Chest

Breastplate of Soaring Terror

INT-STR Haste/Mast

Mail Hands

Galerattle Gauntlets

AGI-INT Crit/Mast

Cloth Waist

Sky Saddle Cord

INT Haste/Mast

Cloth Legs

Wind Soarer's Breeches

AGI-INT Crit/Mast

TrinketsTzurok

Type

Item

Stats

Trinket

Ruby Whelp Shell

AGI-INT-STR

Kokia Blazehoof

Type

Item

Stats

Trinket

Blazebinder's Hoof

STR, Haste

Kyrakka

Type

Item

Stats

Trinket

Kyrakka's Searing Embers

Crit

Ruby Life Pools AchievementsRuby Life Pools

Achievement

Description

Defeat Kyrakka and Erkhart Stormvein in Ruby Life Pools.

Heroic: Ruby Life Pools

Defeat Kyrakka and Erkhart Stormvein in Ruby Life Pools on Heroic difficulty or higher.

Mythic: Ruby Life Pools

Defeat Kyrakka and Erkhart Stormvein in Ruby Life Pools on Mythic or Mythic Keystone difficulty.

Keystone Hero: Ruby Life Pools (Dragonflight)

Complete Ruby Life Pools at Mythic Level 20 or higher, within the time limit.

Dragon Kill Points

Defeat Kyrakka and Erkhart Stormvein after chilling, searing, tempering, and keeping alive the Nascent Ruby Egg in Ruby Life Pools on Mythic difficulty.

Dragon Kill Points

Defeat Melidrussa after defeating 40 of her chamber's Infused Whelps in Ruby Life Pools on Mythic difficulty.

Does Steam Do Fire Damage?

Defeat Kokia Blazehoof after heating up 4 life pools with Molten Boulder in Ruby Life Pools on Mythic difficulty.

Comments

Comment by kardinal

This guide leaves out or is mistaken on quite a few items. For instance, it glosses over the other critical abilities associated with the trash in the ring leading to Kokia (2nd boss), and it is Primalist Flamedancers who cast Flame Dance, not the Cinderweavers. Knowing the ability of the Fire drake, that he puts out a stacking DOT on all players when he goes below 50%, is crucial, and is not represented in this guide. I expect there are other serious omissions as well.

Comment by Netcownt

Ruby Life Pools Achievements list is not correct, the text is of Are You My Broodmother? but the link points twice to Dragon Kill Points.

Comment by TheBabyBrat

Does Living Bomb actually hurt the mobs? Or does it just bounce them into the air?

Comment by Ashurban

Thundergullet and Flamehead are Thunderhead and Flamegullet, and typo "Livinb" bomb. That section needs could do with a clean up and linking to the abilities.

Comment by wdog

Can someone update this to include all the Blazehoof trash? Very strange to only put half the mobs you encounter in that area. And you guys wonder why people don't care for your Dragonflight guides thus far.

Comment by Jescker

I wish this dungeon will come back in S3!

Comment by ThePrefessional

There is one mistake with this guide that I also believed until I started running it and had confirmed with another player. The Molten Boulder will target a random player not just the tank, and this guide makes it seem like the Molten Boulder is the tanks sole responsibility. Everyone needs to be aware of positioning . Not too mention that if the arena does become compromised with bad fire positioning, you can drastically move the boss to do somewhat of a soft reset with a clear canvas.

I have a full video breakdown of this dungeon, plus the typical route on my youtube channel. The Prefessional Direct link to Ruby Life Pools Guide is HERE

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