Zul, Reborn Uldir Raid Strategy Guide

By FatbossTV Updated: 2018/11/09

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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

Quick TipsPhase One

Move away from your allies when afflicted with Dark Revelation.

Stand around the middle of the encounter space to ensure that you are not too close to a Dark Revelation explosion.

Kill the Minion of Zul adds via ranged damage... or simply purge them!

Deal damage to the Forces of Blood adds when summoned via Call of Blood over dealing damage to Zul.

Avoid standing in front of the Nazmani Crusher due to its Bloody Cleave.

Interrupt the Nazmani Bloodhexer's Bloodshard cast.

Kill the Animated Ichor that spawns from the Nazmani Bloodhexer when it casts Congeal Blood.

Cleave damage onto the Bloodthirsty Crawgs and kill them before they reach 100% energy and explode with an Engorged Burst!

Phase Two

Never stand in front of Zul as his Rupturing Blood cast will cause you to spawn a large permanent pool upon expiration!

Position yourself so that the path between you and the closest edge of the encounter space is free from Ruptured Blood pools and Zul.

Stand loosely behind Zul in the middle of the room to ensure you are not too close to a Deathwish explosion.

Kill the Minion of Zul adds via ranged damage... or simply purge them!

Have a single ranged player stand within a Pool of Darkness to prevent it dealing damage to the entire raid via its Erupting Darkness.

Tank-Specific Quick TipsPhase One

The adds should be tanked next to Zul as frequently as possible to allow DPS to cleave damage onto the boss, only moving the adds away when mechanics require it.

Face the Nazmani Crusher away from nearby players due to its Bloody Cleave.

Move the Nazmani Crusher 30 yards away from other enemies when it is about to reach 100% energy and cast Thrumming Pulse.

Tank the Nazmani Bloodhexers 10-15 yards away from Zul to ensure an Animated Ichor add doesn't spawn on top of the boss.

Use defensive abilities when tanking the Bloodthirsty Crawgs to reduce the amount they heal via the Hungering Maw passive.

Phase Two

Face Zul away from the raid at all times for the Rupturing Blood frontal cleave... only one tank needs to be hit by this at any given time.

Let the Rupturing Blood debuff expire at the edge of the encounter area in front of Zul to place the Ruptured Blood pool out of harms way.

Healer-Specific Quick TipsPhase One

Be ready to counter the incoming raid damage when a Dark Revelation times out.

Keep all players healthy to prevent somebody from dying if a Bloodshard is cast.

Phase Two

The raid will be taking ticking damage throughout the phase due to the Corrupted Blood dots... be ready to out heal it!

Dispel the Deathwish afflicted players when they are towards the edge of the encounter space.

Spot heal tanks when they have high Rupturing Blood stacks.

The player soaking the Pool of Darkness will be taking ticking damage... keep them healthy!

Zul, Reborn AbilitiesPhase One: 100% - 40%Shadow BarrageShadow Barrage

Healers simply need to out-heal this random source of damage.

As Zul casts this so frequently, he is incredibly difficult to move during phase one and will very rarely even melee hit the tank.

As a result, the raid should position themselves around the centre of the encounter area where Zul resides. This positioning also helps players generate distance when afflicted with Dark Revelation.

Dark RevelationDark Revelation

This 10 second debuff will deal a large burst of shadow damage to the entire raid upon expiration, however this damage falls off with distance.

The afflicted player should move to the edge of the encounter space, as to generate sufficient distance to bring the incoming burst of raid damage to reasonable levels.

Minion of ZulDark Revelation

Identically to the adds found in the King's Rest dungeon, each Minion of Zul will fixate a player and run towards them.

Any player who comes into contact with these adds will trigger Pit of Despair, causing all players within 5 yards to run in fear for 12 seconds, whilst also killing the Minion of Zul in the process.

Players should endeavour to kite the Minion of Zul adds whilst ranged DPS kill them as soon as possible, using crowd control spells, such as displacements, slows and stuns, to keep them stacked.

Bound by ShadowMinion of Zul

Players should aim to purge these magic buffs as a high priority.

Area of effect purges, such as Mass Dispel and Arcane Torrent, are incredibly strong here, as a whole group of adds can be defeated within a single cast.

Groups with multiple AoE purges should assign these spells to each Dark Revelation debuff to ensure all adds are removed as soon as possible.

Call of BloodCall of Blood

As a rule: defeating the adds takes priority over dealing damage to the boss.

That being said, the adds should be tanked next to Zul as frequently as possible to allow DPS to cleave substantial damage onto the boss, only moving the adds away when mechanics dictate.

When these adds are summoned via Call of Blood, they will be initially inactive in their spawn locations as they form, giving the raid time to prepare for them.

Nazmani CrusherNazmani BloodhexerBloodthirsty Crawg

These enemies can be nuked down by the raid before they cast any meanful abilities, as the DPS will be dealing high damage on the pull.

As soon as this first set of adds have been defeated, the group should follow the strategies and positioning recommendations detailed below to ensure the adds are kept under control.

Nazmani Crusher

Nazmani CrusherBloody Cleave

The tank should always face the Crusher away from nearby players. This is made easier by having melee players always position behind the crusher.

The Bloody Cleave is one of the harder hitting tank abilities in the encounter. The tank should ensure they have some form of active mitigation available to more smoothly survive the hit.

Move the crusher away before it casts Thrumming Pulse!

Nazmani CrusherThrumming Pulse

This cast increases the damage dealt by all Forces of Blood adds and Zul within 30 yards by 50% for 40 seconds.

Although the tank should aim to position the Crushers close to Zul to increase damage output onto the boss, they must move the add to the edge of the encounter space when this is due to be cast.

After the cast has completed, the tank should move the Crusher back to the rest of the enemies as to allow DPS to cleave once again.

This tank should avoid tanking other trash mobs as they will also drag these along with the Crusher when they move it towards the edge of the room.

DPS should focus the majority of their damage on the Nazmani Crushers as they can be defeated before reaching 100% energy, removing the need for the tank to move the add around.

Call of BloodNazmani Crusher

Nazmani Crushers are not susceptible to any form of crowd control spells.

Nazmani Bloodhexer

Nazmani BloodhexerBloodshard

This 1.5 sec interruptible cast can be very deadly if not interrupted, as it can make short work of a low health individual.

The group should aim to interrupt each of these casts as to ensure that any player on low health isn't finished off.

Interrupting the cast also forces the add to melee hit the tank, allowing said tank to position the Bloodhexer more easily.

Animated IchorNazmani BloodhexerCongeal Blood

This creates an Animated Ichor add that will move directly towards Zul, healing Zul for it's current health before dying upon reaching the boss.

The add will lose 1% health every 0.5 seconds whilst it is active.

The tanks need to position the Bloodhexers around 10 yards away from Zul before they cast Congeal Blood.

The DPS must then switch damage onto the Animated Ichor to defeat it before it reaches Zul.

The Animated Ichor is susceptible to crowd control, including displacements, slows, snares and stuns. The raid should utilise these effects to ensure the add doesn't reach the boss.

As the Forces of Blood adds take a higher damage priority than Zul, the rest of the adds should also be moved out to the Bloodhexers position to maintain high add damage, before being moved back after the Animated Ichor has been dealt with.

A well timed stun can interrupt the Congeal Blood spell, giving the raid a few more moments to kill the Bloodhexer before the Animated Ichor spawns.

Call of BloodNazmani Bloodhexer

The raid must be ready to interrupt the Bloodshard casts as soon as the Bloodhexers are active as to allow the tank to position them quickly.

Death Grips and other displacement effects are also very useful at achieving a similar goal.

Bloodthirsty Crawg

Bloodthirsty CrawgHungering Maw

The non-Nazmani Crusher tank should hold threat on these adds whilst maintaining a high up-time on physical damage reduction abilities, as this will reduce the amount these adds heal.

Although the Crawgs can usually be tanked in a standard way, groups that are struggling to out-damage their Hungering Maw heal may want to kite the adds around.

Kiting the adds will prevent them from dealing damage, therefor removing their ability to heal.

The adds are susceptible to most forms of crowd control, notably displacements, slows and stuns, all of which should be used to prevent them from dealing damage.

Bloodthirsty CrawgEngorged Burst

This kills the add and applies a debuff to the entire raid which deals heavy shadow damage every 2 seconds over 10 seconds.

The raid needs to kill the Bloodthirsty Crawgs before they reach 100% energy, as even a single instance of Engorged Burst can wipe the raid.

Call of BloodBloodthirsty Crawg

Each tank should attempt to pick up a single pair of Crawgs and bring them into the middle of the encounter space for cleaving.

Misdirection and Tricks of the Trade should be used where possible to help the tanks pick up the newly spawned adds.

The raid should defeat the leftover adds as soon as possible.

Phase Two: 40% - 0%

Zul loses access to all previous abilities, including the ability to summon adds, and instead has access to four new abilities.

Zul also needs to be tanked during this phase, as he will frequently melee hit the tank.

Locus of Corruption

This also applies Corrupted Blood to the entire raid, a permanent and irremovable debuff which deals light ticking damage every 2 seconds. This effect can stack.

The raid will receive one stack of Corrupted Blood per 5 energy Zul has passively generated over the course of phase one.

Rupturing Blood

This ability is cast frequently enough for the debuff to stack. Upon expiration the afflicted player will spawn a large patch of Ruptured Blood at their location.

This Ruptured Blood is permanent and will frequently apply stacks of Corrupted Blood to anyone who stands within it.

Only one tank should take this hit at any given time.

The tank should proceed to gain as many stacks of Rupturing Blood as they can before the damage becomes overwhelming, at which point the other tank should taunt and do the same.

The Rupturing Blood afflicted tank should move to the edge of the encounter space in front of Zul and to let the debuff expire.

This will place the Ruptured Blood pool safely away from the raid and high traffic areas.

The tank should then return to the boss and get ready to taunt off of the other tank.

Tanks should continue to place the Ruptured Blood pools on top of each other, as the pool will not grow or merge when placed on top of one another.

To help reduce the overall damage taken, the tank can remove the Rupturing Blood early through Blessing of Protection. The tank needs to make sure they are in an ideal location before they use this.

DeathwishDeathwish

This endless-duration magic debuff forces players to run towards the nearest edge of the encounter area and subsequently jump to their death.

When the player jumps off, or is dispelled, a Dark Revelation will trigger, dealing a burst of drop-off damage to the raid and spawning several Minion of Zul adds.

Dispelling the debuff before the player jumps to their death will grant the player control of their character once again.

The healers should allow the afflicted targets to move as far away from the raid as possible before dispelling them.

The group will then need to deal with the Minion of Zul adds in the same way as before, by crowd controlling them whilst killing them with ranged damage or purges.

Ruptured BloodDeathwish

This is done by forming a semi-circle behind Zul. The two players targeted by the Deathwish are likely to travel in different directions, at which point they can be safely dispelled.

To help stagger the damage, a single player can be gripped back to the group via Leap of Faith whilst the other is dispelled.

The gripped player can then be safely dispelled once they reach the edge, long after the first Deathwish player has be dispelled.

Pool of DarknessPool of DarknessErupting DarknessPool of Darkness

This pool will deal a burst of damage to all players within 45 yards every 2 seconds via it's Erupting Darkness cast.

If a player stands within the pool, they will prevent the Erupting Darkness and instead will be Absorbed in Darkness, taking shadow damage every 2 seconds.

A ranged player needs to quickly identify where the Pool of Darkness has spawned and then stand within it, whilst healers focus healing into them to keep them healthy.

This player can be targeted by a Deathwish, so a backup ranged player should be ready to take over in the event the soaker is forced to move away.

Raid Finder DifficultyZul, RebornNazmani CrusherThrumming Pulse

This removes the need for the tank to drag the crusher away from other mobs as it reaches full energy.

Deathwish

This allows the healers to dispel the player much more quickly.

However the group must still be cautious of the Minion of Zul adds that spawn from the Deathwish afflicted player.

Heroic DifficultyZul, RebornPool of Darkness

This is dealt with in the same way, by having a ranged player quickly identify where it is and then stand within it whilst healers keep them healthy.

Nazmani BloodhexerSanguine Presence

Whenever two Bloodhexers are within 20 yards of each other, they will heal all enemies for 10% of their maximum health every 2 seconds... this includes Zul!

This forces the raid to keep the Bloodhexers apart at all times, as if the boss receives any healing it will likely result in a wipe.

As the Bloodhexers spawn in pairs, a single player should hard crowd control one of the two Bloodhexers when they spawn, hunters being particularly good at this as they can place a trap down beforehand.

The group should defeat the non crowd controlled add before switching to the remaining add.

The group must defeat both Nazmani Bloodhexers as the highest priority before the new set spawns in, as a new bloodhexer can spawn on the same location as the crowd controlled one, triggering the Sanguine Presence.

Dark Revelation

The afflicted players should move to two different edges of the encounter space, as this will generate sufficient distance to bring the incoming burst of raid damage to reasonable levels.

Minion of ZulPit of Despair

The group is instead forced to instead kill the adds via ranged damage or purges.

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Comments

Comment by Chokblaar

For some reason it seems that Sanguine Presence is active on normal mode. At least for the group I was with.

Comment by Grymbones

This boss is ridiculous.

Comment by gankhill

What is up with the trash before this boss?

Comment by eel21

Pool of Darkness is not present on normal at all.

Comment by 1553156

Someone might find this interesting as this expansion is "Void" infested. There is a real life phenomena called "Call of the Void" and described as "an thought to jump off the ledge you are standing on". And Zul's Deathwish ability does this to players.

Comment by Hyrican

And such thoughtfulness ... going into a normal raid without having a priest handy (in a flex setting) ... and being on alliance

it is so nice to handle the minions of zul constantly instead of one bloodelf or priest doing them instantly. How does this get through beta testing?

Comment by Lionheartby

Dear fellow mages,

DO NOT try to spellsteal off the minion of zul buff.

Comment by FinalFlash

can someone confirm if there are Diminishing returns on the Hexers on Heroic?

Comment by Furiondave

There is one thing i dont understand in this fight... the Animated Ichor is healing zul with its current health... so, i dont see the point to kill the Animated Ichor at all. Of course, the best if its not spawning at all, but if it spawned, better to stay at Zul, and kill other adds, cause if you start focus the Ichor, its a minor dmg loss. Or i missed something?

Comment by Incandio

If you're wondering how to progress after Zul, go to the south side of the platform you just killed him on and click on the Titan Console (then jump into the hole).

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