Mythic Zul, Reborn Uldir Strategy Guide

By FatbossTV Updated: 2019/01/06

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Cloth: Visage of the Ascended Prophet

Leather: Armbands of Sacrosanct Acts, Usurper's Bloodcaked Spaulders

Mail: Cincture of Profane Deeds, Crest of the Undying Visionary

Plate: Chestplate of Apocalyptic Machinations, Imperious Vambraces

Cloak: Cloak of Rippling Whispers

Agility Dagger: Pursax, the Backborer

Intellect Dagger: Tusk of the Reborn Prophet

Mythic DifficultyPool of DarknessPool of DarknessErupting DarknessAbsorbed in DarknessCorrupted Blood

The raid must rotate players throughout the fight to ensure that the Corrupted Blood stacks are spread evenly amongst the raid.

This is best done by ranged DPS or healers, unless the Pool of Darkness spawns in melee range.

Players must be ready to quickly take over from a soaker if they need to move due to Dark Revelation/Deathwish.

Players currently soaking a Pool of Darkness during a Dark Revelation/Deathwish explosion should receive priority healing/use a personal cooldown to survive the incoming damage.

Individuals should avoid soaking all the Pool of Darkness zones, as the Corrupted Blood stacks they will receive will likely kill them in the later stages of the fight.

That being said, stopping the Erupting Darkness should be the number one priority of any nearby players. After the Erupting Darkness has stopped, the soaker should then request for somebody else to take over if they have high stacks.

Forces of BloodBlood Recall

The only way an add can permanently die and be removed from the encounter is if they are defeated whilst afflicted with Decaying Flesh.

This passive is not applied to the Minion of Zul adds, nor the Animated Ichor that is spawned via the Congeal Blood cast.

Decaying FleshDecaying Flesh

This 12 second debuff prevents Blood Recall from triggering.

The debuff will jump to a different add, prioritising those of a different type, when it expires, is purged, or when the add afflicted with the debuff dies.

In the case that the last active add dies with the Decaying Flesh, there will be no target available and debuff will disappear for the rest of the encounter, likely resulting in a wipe as no adds from that point onward will die.

Decaying Flesh

Instead, the Crawgs should be used by the DPS as a means of increasing single target damage onto the boss.

If done correctly, the group can achieve such high damage as to defeat Zul in under 4 minutes.

Characters that gain a large amount of single target via cleave, such as Subtlety Rogues and Affliction Warlocks should be stacked as much as your roster allows. Guilds may want to consider bringing in lesser geared alt characters, specifically Rogues, to achieve this goal.

Characters that do not gain a large amount of single target damage should avoid damaging the Crawgs as much as possible.

The raid may need to limit the amount of players using the Crawgs for a single target damage increase, as you may run the risk of killing the Crawgs too frequently, leaving large time periods where no extra damage can be gained from them.

The other tanks should limit the amount of damage they do to these Crawgs to ensure they do not rip threat.

The tank will likely need to kite the Crawgs around towards the end of the encounter, where their numbers are greatest.

The kiting tank may need to have periods in which they face-tank the adds to generate threat, before starting the kiting once again.

Classes (such as Frost Mages, Fury Warriors, Assassination Rogues ect) can be assigned to keep the adds slowed to allow for easier kiting.

Phase 1 Strategy

This requires a careful control of the Decaying Flesh debuff.

Dispels should be called for and controlled by a single player, using them to ensure that the correct add gets the debuff in the correct time window.

Do note: Due to the pseudo-random nature of Decaying Flesh debuff bounce targets, several dispels may be necessary to ensure it reaches the correct target.

As the Decaying Flesh might not always reach the desired add immediately, any given Crusher or Bloodhexer which is going to be killed should be kept above 25-40% health to ensure they do not die to incidental damage before the debuff has been delivered.

Once the Decaying Flesh has bounced to the correct enemy at the correct time, DPS need to ensure it dies within the 12 second window to remove it from the encounter.

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Rough Time

Event

Strategy

0:00

Pull

Bloodlust, focus all damage into Zul, allowing those who gain single target from AoE to AoE.

Bloodhexer gains Decaying Flesh

Kill the Bloodhexer before the debuff times out.

Crusher 1 - Thrumming Pulse cast

Make sure the Crusher is away. Bring it back afterwards, give it the debuff and kill it (might require dispel)

Crawgs spawn

Quickly gain threat on this new set of adds and begin to kite them around the boss if needed to survive.

Bloodhexer set spawns

Hard crowd control these adds if damage can be met to skip the next set spawning. If not, use HC strat.

Crusher 2 spawns

This crusher will be largely ignored by DPS. Ensure that it is moved out for it's casts. It will be killed shortly after p2 transition

Bloodhexer set 2 spawns

The boss must be brought to 40% and transitioned before this point to skip this spawn.

If this is unachieveable for your raid group, the previous Bloodhexer set should be killed and this set should be CC'd.

Crusher 2 - Thrumming Pulse cast

After this cast, the Crusher should be brought back into melee range, given the debuff, and killed before it can cast again.

Phase 2

One tank must be available straight away to tank Zul and face him away from the rest of the raid.

This tank should receive as many Rupturing Blood debuffs as they possibly can handle. At which point, the other tank should taunt whilst the debuffed tank moves to the edge to die (and be battle ressed) or receive a Blessing of Protection.

Note: the amount of stacks tanks can receive vary wildly on class. That being said, all tanks should be able to receive a minimum of 5 stacks before they cannot handle any additional incoming damage, assuming they managed their cooldowns (both personal and external) correctly.

The crowd controlled Bloodhexers will need to have their CC reapplied to them towards the end of the encounter.

The Crawgs will still be active during this phase and should continue to be used by the assigned DPS to increase their single target boss damage.

Players with Deathwish may want to be left to jump at the very late stages of the boss (last few percentages), as to delay their explosions to the latest possible moment.