Ra-den the Despoiled - Ny'alotha Raid Strategy Guide

By FatbossTV Updated: 2020/07/20

Vita EmpoweredVoid Empowered

The HivemindIl'gynothVexionaCarapace of N'zothRa-den LootVoid-Scarred Anubisath

Unguent Caress - The weapon always comes with the Lash of the Void corruption effect, which increases your character's corruption by 25.

Void-Twisted Titanshard

Vita-Charged Titanshard
Together these trinkets grant Titanic Empowerment: While in Ny'alotha, your spells and abilities have a chance to draw an orb of Vita and Void towards you. Collecting the orb increases your $pri by 19901 for 15 sec.

Encrypted Ny'alothan TextThe Formless VoidRobe of the Fallen KeeperReality-Defying GreavesBoots of Wrought ShadowDreamer's Unblinking PauldronsGibbering MawCarapace of Pulsing VitaShandai, Watcher of CosmosRa-den Loot GuideRa-den Quick Tips

Tanks should taunt off of one another after each Nullifying Strike.

The raid needs to kill an essence orb each time they spawn, alternating between killing the Essence of Vita and Essence of Void.

Void Empowered

Heal off the healing absorb applied at the beginning of the phase via Unleashed Void.

A single player without Instability Exposure should soak the Unstable Void missile whilst facing the next missile towards an ideal location.

Kill the Void Hunter add as soon as possible, whilst helping stacking on the player targeted by Void Collapse.

Vita Empowered

Stack next to the boss as to avoid accidentally gaining Unstable Vita.

Have players without Instability Exposure bounce the Unstable Vita debuff behind the raid.

Make sure that the two Unstable Vita participating players are furthest from one another.

Kill the Crackling Stalker add quickly to reduce the number of Chain Lightning spells it manages to cast.

Stack near the boss to allow healers to efficiently out-heal the Ruin damage.

Tanks should be 50% or lower when hit with Decaying Strike to reduce the damage dealt by Decaying Wound.

Dodge the Void Eruption zones before returning back to the boss.

Move away from your chained partner when afflicted with Charged Bonds.

Kill the boss before he gains too many Lingering Energies stacks!

Ra-den Phase One - General AbilitiesNullifying StrikeNullifying Strike

This deals a large burst of shadow damage to the tank and applies a 25 second long debuff which reduces the tanks maximum health by 20%.

Tanks need to taunt off of each other to prevent this debuff from stacking multiple times, usually after each cast.

Draw Vita/Draw Void

An Essence of Vita will travel towards the boss from the portal on the left, and an Essence of Void will do the same from the right.

When the orb reaches the boss, it will grant him either Void Empowered or Vita Empowered. These give him several abilities for 40 seconds.

The raid needs to kill one orb. Doing so makes the other orb immune to damage which guarantees that it will reach the boss.

The essence orbs always spawn from the same locations.

If the boss ever gains 2 stacks of either of these debuffs he will gain Overwhelming Rage, increasing his damage done by 300% which quickly leads to a wipe.

To prevent this enrage from triggering, the raid is forced to alternate between killing the two orbs.

The choice of which orb should be killed first is up to you, but we recommend that Vita is killed first as it grants the boss a more difficult ability set.

The orb that is killed first is going to trigger its empowerment the same amount of times, or one less time than the orb that is let through at the beginning.

DPS should switch to the essence orb the raid has decided to kill as to ensure that the boss does not absorb two essences at the same time.

If the boss does gain two essences at the same time it isn't an immediate wipe, but it will make the fight a lot tougher as the group has to deal with two sets of abilities rather than one.

Alternate between killing the two different essence orbs!

Ra-den Phase One - Void EmpoweredEssence of VoidUnleashed VoidUnleashed Void

This places a large healing absorption shield on the entire raid. Whilst the shield holds, the raid takes low magic damage every 3 seconds.

The raid should be stacked up next to the boss and healers should quickly remove this shield by out-healing it.

Healing should be prioritised on players who have low health and the tanks.

Unstable VoidVoid Empowered

This missile will mark a nearby location and slowly fall towards it.

Upon landing it triggers an Unstable Void Burst, dealing raid wide damage and silencing the raid for 8 seconds.

If a player stands in the location the missile lands, it instead will bounce back into the air and mark a new location.

The player who soaked the missile takes a moderate burst of shadow damage and gains the Instability Exposure debuff, increasing the damage taken from both Unstable Void and Unstable Vita by 300% for 30 seconds.

A single player should soak the Unstable Void zone.

A player with Instability Exposure should not soak the Unstable Void, as they will be one shot without an immunity.

Multiple players should not soak the missile, as no benefit is gained and more people will take damage and gain the Instability Exposure debuff.

When soaking, the player should face their character towards the location they want the next missile to land because, generally speaking, the next landing location is approximately 15-20 yards directly in front of the soaking player.

As the Unstable Void landing locations are generally away from the boss, ranged players should soak the missile rather than melee players.

The amount of times the missile will bounce seems to scale with raid size, with lower raid sizes having less than 5 missiles to catch.

Call Void HunterVoid EmpoweredVoid Hunter

This add needs to be picked up by the off-tank and should be positioned next to the boss as to allow DPS to focus it down whilst cleaving damage onto the boss.

This add will frequently cast Void Collapse, marking a random non-tank player who is stood within the largest clump of players.

After the 3.5 second long cast, the player will take a lethal burst of shadow damage which is split between all other players within 8 yards.

All players hit by this are also afflicted with Void Defilement for 14 seconds, reducing all healing taken by 50%.

All nearby players should help split the damage of the Void Collapse, aside from tanks as they don't really want to gain the Void Defilement debuff.

As the Void Collapse is cast often enough for the Void Defilement to stack, raids who cannot kill the add within two casts should have different people soak the Void Collapse each time, as this will prevent the Void Defilement from ever reaching 2 stacks.

All non-tank players should help soak the Void Collapse.

Ra-den Phase One - Vita EmpoweredEssence of VitaUnleashed VitaEssence of VitaUnleashed Vita

This deals a moderate burst of nature damage to all players.

Healers simply need to make sure that all players are healthy before this occurs.

The raid should be stacked directly behind the boss when this happens as to help healers more easily keep everyone healthy.

Unstable VitaVita EmpoweredUnstable Vita

This player will be knocked back if they are within melee range of the boss and have a 7 second long debuff with up to 5 stacks.

Upon expiration, the debuff will jump to the furthest player, dealing a burst of nature damage to all targets along the path.

Each player hit will also gain Instability Exposure, increasing the damage they take from this mechanic by 300% for 30 seconds.

Once the Unstable Vita has reached its new player, it will have one fewer stack. This debuff will continue to jump until it reaches 0 stacks.

Unstable VitaInstability Exposure

This is best done by doing the following.

The raid should stack tightly behind the boss.

Two world markers should be placed 15 yards behind the raid and 40+ yards apart from each other, with one on the left and one on the right.

The initial target of Unstable Vita stands on one marker, whilst another ranged player stands on the other.

As the player on the other marker is furthest from the Unstable Vita player, it will jump to them whilst not hitting anyone else in the raid.

After each jump, the player who just lost the Unstable Vita should return to the raid and a new player without Instability Exposure should take their place on the world marker they just left.

Once this has process has been repeated up to 5 times, the debuff will disappear and the mechanic is over.

The amount of stacks the debuff initially spawns with seems to scale with raid size, with lower raid sizes having less than 5 stacks.

Make sure that the two players dealing with the Unstable Vita are furthest from one another.

They can either assign players to an individual marker and an order in which to soak on that marker, or they can just assign an order for players to soak, regardless of markers.

Ranged players should be the only players taking part in this process, as they will still be able to produce output effectively whilst far from the boss.

If the raid leader doesn't want to pre-assign players to do this job, they can instead call players as they go.

A simplified example of how to deal with the Unstable Vita.

Call Cracking Stalker

This add needs to be tanked and should be dragged next to the boss and nuked down as soon as possible.

The add will occasionally cast Chain Lightning, dealing a moderate burst of damage to a random player before jumping to up to 5 other nearby players. Each jump deals the same amount of damage.

The damage from this ability is not enough to force the raid to spread out. Stay stacked and simply out heal the damage dealt by this ability.

Ra-den Phase Two

Any active empowerment mechanics will continue to play out. The raid should focus on dealing with these cleanly as soon as possible as to focus on the new abilities the boss gains.

The raid can transition the boss into phase two just as he spawns a set of essence orbs, as these will despawn as soon as the boss reaches 40% health.

Gorge EnergyGorge EnergyLingering Energies

Lingering Energies is a 10% damage increase that is permanent and will stack each time Gorge Energy is cast.

This mechanic acts as the pseudo-enrage for this encounter, as you'll want to kill the boss before he gains too many stacks.

Bloodlust, damage potions and DPS cooldowns should be used in this phase as to get through it as soon as possible.

Decaying StrikeNullifying StrikeDecaying Strike

This strike deals a burst of physical damage and applies Decaying Wound.

This 10 second debuff deals shadow damage equal to 50% of the players health at the time of application every 2 seconds for 10 seconds.

This encourages the tank to get hit by Decaying Strike when they are low on health, as this will reduce the damage they take from the dot applied.

Healers want to make sure they leave the tank around 50% health for the hit before spam healing them back to full as soon as the debuff is applied.

Ruin

This damage will increase with time as the boss gains Lingering Energy stacks.

The entire raid should stack behind the boss as often as possible as to help healers efficiently heal up this damage.

Void EruptionVoid Eruption

Moments later these zones explode, dealing a high burst of shadow damage to all players within them.

Players must be ready to move out of these zones as soon as possible, as the damage can one shot you if the boss has high Lingering Energy stacks.

After the zones have exploded, the raid should restack next to the boss so that healers can counter Ruin damage more easily.

Raids might find this mechanic easier to dodge if the boss is positioned in the middle of the room for this phase, as it gives people more directions to dodge zones.

Move out of the Void Eruption zones. Stack back up afterwards!

Charged BondsCharged Bonds

This links the two players with a lightning chain. Whilst linked these players take nature damage every second. This damage increases by 20% per second.

The only way to remove the chain is to move 40 yards away from your linked partner.

The two afflicted players should move in opposite directions as soon as possible to break the chain and stop the damage.

Healers may want to spot heal these players, especially if it is taking them a long time to break the chain.

Heroic Difficulty

These increases in add health and boss ability damage just serve to further punish the raid if they make mistakes

Mythic DifficultyMythic Ra-den Strategy Guide

This encounter becomes significantly more challenging on Mythic, because of the addition of the Nightmare Empowered mechanic. This forces players to always have to deal with the boss having two empowerments, and dealing with two simultaneous adds.

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Comments

Comment by mmrghost7

I HAVE made an easy soltion to "UNSTABLE VITA " mini game ,i'm just not sure what exactly will happen in last phase tho , does the mini game exist on last phase or not ?

Comment by Azhurea

According to the Dungeon Journal there is a difference to Unstable Vita on Heroic:

Unstable Vita: Charges the target with storm energy, causing a surge of lightning every 6 sec, which transfers Unstable Vita to the farthest available target. The streaking lightning inflicts 40 Nature damage,applies an application of Instability Exposure and knocks back all players in its path.
Each transfer consumes a stack of Unstable Vita. (Heroic, Mythic)

Unstable Vita: Charges the target with storm energy, causing a surge of lightning every 6 sec, which transfers Unstable Vita to the farthest available target. The streaking lightning inflicts 40 Nature damage, applies an application of Instability Exposure and knocks back the target.
Each transfer consumes a stack of Unstable Vita. (Normal)

*Unstable Vita on Heroic now knocks back all players in its path instead of hitting a single target.*

I am not sure about any change to Lingering Energies as none is indicated

Comment by Xenostrigger

video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMLfhdFgl1o

Comment by Wolfenstein3000

IS THIS THE MOST COMPLEX BOSS EVER?

Comment by INvShika

I see three references to Ruin, but no explanation as to when it happens and how often

Comment by Ryawy

My group did something slightly different for Unstable Vita. Instead of having only the marked players step out, we set up two markers at the far points where they would be standing and split the ranged between them. The vita would pick a player from Marker A and once it jumped, the person with the debuff would return to the stack, where they would be safe. It takes the pressure of callouts for that mechanic off the raid leader

Comment by gamerunknown

Mythic world first should be updated

Ra-den the Despoiled - Ny'alotha Raid Strategy Guide

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