
Chromaggus, Healer Guide
Posted 11 months ago for patch 1.13 by Preston.
This page covers a healer-focused strategy for Chromaggus in Blackwing Lair. 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
- Breath Attacks
- Two out of the five breaths will be used with each raid reset, chosen at random.
- The breaths hit all players in line of sight of Chromaggus and all players but the tank should break line of sight to avoid their effects.
- Breaths
Incinerate (red) deals heavy damage to all players.
Corrosive Acid (green) applies a damage over time effect that deals moderate damage over 15-seconds and reduces armor.
Frost Burn (blue) deals moderate to all players and applies a reduced attack speed effect.
Time Lapse (bronze) stuns all players and reduces maximum health by 50% for 6-seconds.
Ignite Flesh (black) applies a stacking damage over time effect.
- Brood Afflictions
- Applies random Afflictions to all players, regardless of if they're in line of sight of Chromaggus or not.
- If a player has all five Afflictions at once they are transformed into a Chromatic Drakonid.
- Chromatic Drakonid
- Deal damage to players within 15-yards using
Brood Power: Black.
- Deal damage to players within 15-yards using
- Chromatic Drakonid
- Afflictions
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Brood Affliction: Red (dispel, disease) deals light fire damage over time and heals Chromaggus if the affected player dies.
Brood Affliction: Green (dispel, poison) deals light damage over time and reduces healing received.
Brood Affliction: Blue (dispel, magic) drains mana over time and reduces cast speed.
Brood Affliction: Black (dispel, curse) greatly increases fire damage taken.
Brood Affliction: Bronze (dispelled using
Hourglass Sand) periodically stuns affected players.
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- Periodically Shimmers, gaining increased resistance to and increased vulnerability to different schools of magic.
Frenzy should be dispelled with
Tranquilizing Shot to remove the increased attack speed and spell damage effect.
Resistance Levels
- Players generally won't make use of any additional Resistances on this encounter.
Healing Notes
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.
- Overall priority on this fight is dispelling Afflictions and keeping players with
Brood Affliction: Red (dispel, disease) alive until they're dispelled.
Brood Affliction: Blue (dispel, magic) should be dispelled from yourself and other healers quickly.
- Apply as many heal over time or absorption effects to the tank as possible before breaking line of sight for
Time Lapse.
Debuffs to Track
- Major:
Brood Affliction: Red (dispel, disease),
Brood Affliction: Green (dispel, poison),
Brood Affliction: Blue (dispel, magic),
Brood Affliction: Black (dispel, curse)
- Minor:
Corrosive Acid,
Time Lapse,
Ignite Flesh
- Enrages to Dispel:
Frenzy
Addons
Healer DBM Settings for Chromaggus
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