
Ra-den the Despoiled, Healer Guide
Updated 2 years, 2 months ago for patch 8.3 by Preston. View the change log.
This page covers a healer-focused strategy for Ra-den the Despoiled in Ny'alotha, the Waking City. While it's tailored for healers, other roles may also find the information useful. If you have any suggestions or feedback, you can leave a comment below or tweet @PrestonDvorak.
This guide has been updated and maintained based on my own experiences with the encounter, logs information, and Dungeon Journal information. I'll continue to update it as-needed.
General Mechanics and Abilities
Normal and Heroic
Stage One - Gathering Power
This stage begins the encounter and ends when Ra-den reaches 40% health.
- The tanks will be dealing with
Nullifying Strike, which will likely force a tank switch.
- One Essence of Vita and one Essence of Void are drawn towards Ra-den from the two portals in the front corners of the room.
- Each Essence that reaches Ra-den grants a stack of
Unclaimed Vita or
Unclaimed Void.
- At 2-stacks,
Overwhelming Rage greatly increases Ra'den's damage dealt.
- One Essence should be allowed to reach Ra'den if its corresponding Unclaimed buff isn't active in order to trigger the next Empowerment (detailed below).
- At 2-stacks,
- Once one Essence is killed, the other becomes immune to damage.
- Each Essence that reaches Ra-den grants a stack of
- After absorbing an Essence of Vita and gaining
Vita Empowered:
- Deals moderate damage to all players with
Unleashed Vita.
- Targets a random player with
Unstable Vita, other players must rotate being the farthest from the affected player to consume one stack each until all stacks are gone.
- Consuming a stack or being in the path of the affected player and the farthest player away applies
Instability Exposure, making subsequent stacks deal fatal damage while the debuff is active.
- Consuming a stack or being in the path of the affected player and the farthest player away applies
- Summons a Crackling Stalker.
- Crackling Stalker
- Deals light to moderate damage to random players with
Chain Lightning.
- Deals light to moderate damage to random players with
- Crackling Stalker
- Deals moderate damage to all players with
- After absorbing an Essence of Void and gaining
Void Empowered:
- Applies a moderate healing absorption shield to all players, causing them to take light damage over time, with
Unleashed Void.
- Players must soak the impact location of
Unstable Void.
- Based on the damage dealt, 2-3 players will likely need to soak each impact.
- Soaking the impact applies
Instability Exposure, making subsequent soaks deal fatal damage while the debuff is active.
- Failing to soak an impact causes it to deal moderate damage to all players, silence all players for 8-seconds, and apply
Instability Exposure to all players.
- Summons a Void Hunter.
- Void Hunter
- Casts
Void Collapse on the largest group of players that are within at least 8-yards of each other, dealing 1 million damage split between them.
- Players hit receive 50% less healing due to
Void Defilement.
- Players hit receive 50% less healing due to
- Casts
- Void Hunter
- Applies a moderate healing absorption shield to all players, causing them to take light damage over time, with
Stage Two - Unleashed Wrath
This stage begins when Ra-den is at 40% health and ends when he's killed.
- The tanks will be dealing with
Decaying Strike.
- This applies
Decaying Wound, dealing 50% of the tank's current health as damage every 2-seconds for 10-seconds.
- This applies
- Deals increasing damage over time to all players with
Ruin for the rest of the encounter.
- Steadily gains stacks of
Lingering Energies, increasing damage dealt.
- Avoid the impact locations of
Void Eruption.
- When affected by
Charged Bonds run at least 40-yards away from the chained player to break the effect.
Mythic Differences
Stage One - Gathering Power
- An Essence of Nightmare is also drawn towards Ra'den in addition to the Vita Essence and Void Essence.
- Because only one Essence can be killed, you'll be dealing with two sets of Empowerments at a time.
- After absorbing an Essence of Nightmare and gaining
Nightmare Empowerment:
- Avoid the impact locations of
Unleashed Nightmare.
- The player affected by
Unstable Nightmare must have the damage soaked when the effect expires.
- Soaking applies
Instability Exposure, making subsequent soaks deal fatal damage while the debuff is active.
- The player closest to the affected player will gain
Unstable Nightmare if any stacks remained.
- Soaking applies
- Summons a Night Terror.
- Night Terror
- Avoid the
Dread Infernos as they follow players around the room.
- Avoid the
- Night Terror
- Avoid the impact locations of
- After absorbing an Essence of Vita and gaining
Vita Empowered.
- Crackling Stalker
Chain Lightning now deals increased damage each time it jumps to a new player.
- Crackling Stalker
Stage Two - Unleashed Wrath
- Targets three random players with
Corrupted Existence dealing critical damage and causing the player to die if they reach 100% health while the debuff is active.
Healing Notes
Quick Notes, All Difficulties
The notes below mostly pertain to progression difficulty, meaning if you out-gear the difficulty you're on or use extra healers they may not apply.
- Use Major Cooldowns
- during stage two
- Use Minor Cooldowns on
- Pre-heal Before (mainly for heal over time classes)
Potion of Replenishment use
- just before entering stage two
- Other things to watch for
- The tanks will be taking heavy damage throughout the encounter.
- Stage two will get more healing intensive the longer it lasts due to
Lingering Energies.
Debuffs to Track
Major
Unleashed Void absorbs healing and deals light damage over time.
Void Defilement causes players to receive less healing.
Decaying Wound causes the tank to need critical healing.
Corrupted Existence causes the affected player to die if they reach 100% health.
Minor
Charged Bonds causes players to need additional healing.
DBM Settings
Below are the DBM settings I'll be using for Ra-den the Despoiled. You can set them up however you'd like, but these ones should work well as a starting point. Some settings may be Mythic only.
Healer DBM Settings for Ra-den the Despoiled
Heroic Ra-den the Despoiled, Restoration Druid PoV
Below is a video of me killing Ra-den in a Heroic PUG.
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