Mythic King Rastakhan Strategy Guide

By FatbossTV Updated: 2019/03/05

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Loot

Mail: Deathhunter's Legguards

Plate: Roka's Bonecrushing Manacles

Ring: Seal of the Zandalari Empire

Cloth: Vestments of the Afterlife

Leather: Phantom Stalker Shoulders

Mail: Mantle of the Soulbinder's Caress

Plate: Breastplate of the Deathbound

1H AGI Dagger: Last Fang of Rezan

2H INT Staff: Deathspeaker Spire

Tank: Bwonsamdi's Bargain

Healer: Mirror of Entwined Fate

Mythic Difficultygeneral

A large amount of progression time is usually spent on learning how to deal with some of the modified abilities, as well as how to get through the more difficult Phase Three.

Once the raid has punched through to the fourth phase, the boss usually dies that pull, as long as everyone is healthy.

Composition Recommendations

This fight can be either four or five healed. We recommend five healing the fight if possible, as there is not much of a DPS requirement for this encounter.

If possible, it is recommended that you bring two shamans to this encounter, as they help counter the Zombie Dust Totem during phase two as well as the Inevitable End cast during phase three.

We also recommend that you bring at least 8 or 9 ranged DPS, as this ensures the recommended phase three strategy can be used.

Limiting the amount of melee players also helps reduce the chance that the Plague of Fire bounces around in melee.

Phase OnePrelate Za'lanHeadhunter Gal'wanaSeal of PurificationPrelate Za'lanSeal of Purification

The player needs to ensure they do not kite the beam anywhere near the raid, as this will greatly limit the space the raid has to play in.

Grievous Axe FlurryHeadhunter Gal'wanaGrievous Axe FlurryGrievous Axe

This dot deals substantial damage and needs to be removed by healing the targets to 90% as soon as possible.

Plague of ToadsPlague of Toads

These toads are still dealt with in the same way, simply by moving away from their spawn locations and having ranged players dodge them as they cross the encounter space.

As there is 5 Poison Toad Slime puddles in melee, this severely limits the positioning options for melee players. We recommend that Rastakhan is dragged ~5 yards away from the patches to give melee players more space.

Anti-Magic ShellCloak of Shadows

This helps free up the encounter space whilst minimising the chance that other players will be hit by a toad.

This is, by no means, necessary and should be seen as an optional optimisation that those classes might want to do if they have the time and cooldowns available.

The exact location in which these adds die isn't of the upmost importance, however we recommend moving the adds and boss in the way described below.

Maintain this position until Siegebreaker Roka casts Meteor Leap for the first time.

As the cast ends, all adds should be dragged around the pillar to the East and into the corner (as shown on the map).

This pillar blocks line of sight for the Plague of Toads that Rastakhan has just spawned, as well as moves all adds away from the Greater Serpent Totem that is due to spawn.

Once Rastakhan spawns his Greater Serpent Totem, he should also be dragged around the corner and stacked on the adds, as to allow cleave damage to be split between the adds via Bind Souls.

The adds then die in this corner.

Example of enemy positioning during phase one.

Do note: This is just an example of how the raid can do this phase. Movement and enemy positioning can be done in any way that your raid sees fit.

All adds should be dead and the phase should be over around 1 minute into the encounter.

Phase Two

That being said, there are a few mechanical changes that will force the raid to make slight adjustments to this positioning.

Aura of DeathBwonsamdiAura of Death

This forces the raid to position slightly further away from Bwonsamdi than they did on heroic, as to ensure they do not stand within the aura at any given time.

The range of the aura also forces the tank with Bwonsamdi to position him in a specific way as to maintain range on healers whilst the healers remain outside of the 45 yard aura.

The tank should position Bwonsamdi in the far left area of the room. The tank should stand to the right of Bwonsamdi at maximum melee range.

Due to the large melee range of Bwonsamdi, the tank can be over 5 yards away from him without causing any movement from Bwonsamdi.

This will allow one or two healers to maintain range of that tank, whilst they themselves are outside of the Aura of Death range.

Positioning which allows healers to keep range of the Bwonsamdi tank!

Deathly Withering

This can be as simple as continuing to switch tank roles each time the Scorching Detonation is cast, similar to how it is generally done on heroic.

The benefits of this strategy is that it is very simple to execute, however it will likely lead to the bosses moving around a fair amount which can disrupt raid positioning and applying Deathly Withering stacks to the raid.
Alternatively, a single tank can be responsible for tanking Bwonsamdi for nearly the phase, dropping their stacks with immunity spells (such as Divine Shield) or by killing themselves and getting resurrected quickly afterwards.
The benefits of this strategy is that neither boss will move around very much at all during the phase, however it does require the Bwonsamdi tank to perfect the times in which they want to die.

The tank who will not be taking Bwonsamdi throughout the phase (i.e the tank without an immunity/huge damage reduction cooldowns) should stack with Bwonsamdi and drag him into position.

Once Rastakhan casts his first Scorching Detonation, the tanks switch roles, utilising movement abilities or warlock gateways as to minimise boss movement.

The Bwonsamdi tank then needs to deal with 3 Caress of Death casts.
Caress of Death 1: A large damage reduction or immunity cooldown should be used to survive this damage point. The tank wants to stay alive until the next Caress of Death.

Caress of Death 2: The tank wants to die after the ability has hit him. Healers need to be prepared to instantly revive the tank at this point.
Ancestral Protection Totems are particularly good for this, as the tank can immediately take the resurrect and taunt Bwonsamdi.

Caress of Death 3: The tank either needs to use an immunity here, which will also allow his Deathly Withering stacks to reset, or the tank needs to die one final time and be resurrected as soon as possible.

Caress of Death 4 should not happen, as the phase three transition will occur before that point.

Plague of FirePlague of FireMeleeMelee players must also spread out before the ability comes in, as a stacked melee group can get completely decimated if the plague is left to bounce around endlessly between them. Zombie Dust Totem

A shamans Tremor Totem can instantly remove the mind control effect on the players. With a rotation of two shamans with Tremor Totem, all Zombie Dust Totems can be countered in this way.

Players must still kill the Zombie Dust Totem as soon as possible, as it will mind control a new set of players after approximately 25-30 seconds.

If no shaman is available, the group should look to crowd control the mind controlled targets whilst the Zombie Dust Totem is destroyed.

Death's DoorDeath Rift

This "bubble" is formed with 4 Death Rifts placed at the entrance of the room in a very precise pattern.

The idea behind the "bubble" is to allow all Death Realm players to remain there throughout the phase, with the "bubble" creating a barrier which automatically soaks nearly all incoming Dread Reaping shards.

There needs to be a small gap between two of the rifts, as to allow players to enter the "bubble" without triggering Deathly Withering.

Before the fight begins, the raid leader should set up four world markers in the locations that the Death Rifts should be dropped during phase two (as shown in the image).

Example of Death Rift "Bubble" Formation.

Death Rift

As soon as this is done, the raid should then look to push him down and start the transition.

The raid needs to assign 10 players to be dragged into the death realm. This should consist entirely of ranged DPS (preferably ones with strong single target DPS cooldowns) and 2 healers.

The team should also have good movement speed options, as to outrun the Inevitable End cast. This is most easily done with two shamans with Wind Rush Totem.

The tank responsible for Bwonsamdi needs to move as far away from him as possible once the transition begins. This movement can be assisted with movement speed increases/warlock gateways.

Before Bwonsamdi is transferred to the Death Realm, a Monk and a Demon Hunter should deal damage to him at least once, as to apply their damage taken increasing debuffs.

Phase ThreeDeath RiftWithering Burst

Once inside, the group should use Heroism, DPS cooldowns and second damage potions and nuke Bwonsamdi to 50% as soon as possible.

Enter the Death Rift "Bubble" via the small gap between two of the zones.

Deathly WitheringDeath Rift

We recommend that one player calls out who should reset throughout the phase, as to keep the stacks low, no higher than roughly 13 stacks.

Resets should be done in small groups. We recommend grouping the Death Realm players into two groups of 3 and two groups of 2.

These groups can then be called out throughout the phase in a staggered fashion, as to make sure that the Living Realm players are not "one-shot" by 10 Withering Bursts occurring at once.

Inevitable End

This pull in effect is stronger than heroic, so much so that it will move you towards him if you are not using a movement speed increase, even if you begin running straight away.

The group should only have one Inevitable End cast during phase three, however Bwonsamdi can sometimes disrupt his spell queue and cast them within quick succession, forcing you to deal with two.

This is why we recommend sending down two shamans, as using a Wind Rush Totem on both Inevitable End casts will give the entire group enough movement speed to avoid being pulled into the Death Rift "bubble" around them.

Bwonsamdi will sometimes not move the raid back into the Living Realm when he hits 50% health, unless somebody moves into melee range of him.

A single player should be ready to quickly move over to Bwonsamdi to counter this bizarre behaviour.
Deathly Withering stack resetting might need to be temporarily halted if the Living Realm players are taking high damage, such as during a Scorching Detonation.
A player upstairs may want to call out when this needs to happen, as the players in the Death Realm may not be paying close attention to the health of players not within their realm.

Empowered SpiritDeath RiftAll three adds should be crowd controlled as soon as they spawn. This crowd control needs to be maintained until the crowd control immunity kicks in one minute later. It is around this 1 minute marker that the Death Realm players should rejoin the Living Realm, allowing all 20 players to deal with the adds, rather than just 10. All three adds have the same abilities as they had on Heroic difficulty, and must be dealt with in the same way once they become active. Phantom of RageNecrotic Smash

This will cause the tank to take substantially more damage in this phase, however this can lead to a cleaner transition into phase four, as this high health add will already be at low hp.

This is not a mandatory strategy, just a small optimization that guilds may want to do if they are struggling to kill all of the adds as they enter phase four.

Phase Four

Once they are dead they will enter the Death Realm, but as no players are within the realm the adds will not interact with the raid in any way past this point.

Aside from the stronger pull in from the Inevitable End, the increased amount of toads in the Plague of Toads, and the reduced time that the Plague of Fire takes before it spreads - the fight remains pretty much the same as heroic.

As this phase may last longer than it did on heroic difficulty, the tanks should be prepared to move Rastakhan into areas of the room that have less Death Rifts, as to allow players to dodge the ever increasing amount of Dread Reaping shards a bit easier.

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Comments

Comment by DaRichi

One thing you should mention is that if a player dies, all of the death-doors he placed will disappear, meaning that if for example your demonhunter put down one of your 4 death-doors for the range-bubble and he dies, there will be one missing and the strat will become unplayable as you should only get 4 death-doors before transitioning!

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