
Portal Keeper Hasabel, Healer Guide
Updated 4 years, 4 months ago for patch 7.3.5 by Preston. View the change log.
This page covers a healer-focused strategy for Portal Keeper Hasabel in Antorus, the Burning Throne. 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 fight as well as Dungeon Journal information. I'll continue to update it as-needed.
General Mechanics and Abilities
Normal and Heroic
During this fight, Hasabel will be opening various portals to unleash different Legion forces.
Platform: Nexus
This is the base platform which all of the portals connect to.
- The tanks will be managing stacks of
Reality Tear.
- Upon expiring,
Bursting Darkness deals damage to the group based on the number of stacks.
- Upon expiring,
- Move out of
Collapsing World to avoid fatal damage.
- This deals light damage to the entire group, even outside of the affected area.
- Avoid the lines created by
Felstorm Barrage.
- If no players are on the Nexus Platform,
Catastrophic Implosion occurs.
- On Heroic,
Transport Portal summons various demons to the fight.
- Felblaze Imp
Fiery Detonation needs to be interrupted or subsequent casts will deal increasing damage to the group.
- Feltouched Skitterer
Acidic Web roots players and deals light damage over time.
- Hungering Stalker
Howling Shadows needs to be interrupted or spell casts should be stopped before it finishes casting.
- Felblaze Imp
Platform: Xoroth
When Portal Keeper Hasabel reaches 90% health, she opens the portal to Xoroth. Players must enter the portal to kill Vulcanar.
- Vulcanar
- Stay at least 10-yards away from Vulcanar to avoid
Flames of Xoroth.
- Ideally, this will be interrupted every time to avoid heavy damage on the tank and melee.
- Avoid the impact locations of
Supernova
- Stay at least 10-yards away from Vulcanar to avoid
Empowered Portal: Xoroth deals steadily increasing damage to the group while Vulcanar is alive.
- Once Vulcanar is killed,
Portal: Xoroth continues to deal light damage to the entire group.
- Once Vulcanar is killed,
- When affected by
Everburning Flames, move away from the group to drop the resulting
Everburning Light.
- One player must take the flames back through the portal to the Nexus Platform.
- Standing near
Everburning Light will remove
Mind Fog from the Nathreza portal.
Platform: Rancora
When Portal Keeper Hasabel reaches 60% health, she opens the portal to Rancora. Players must enter the portal to kill Lady Dacidion.
- Lady Dacidion
- Destroy the
Felsilk Wraps on affected players to remove the stun.
Poison Essence deals damage to all players based on their current health amount.
- Destroy the
- Avoid the
Caustic Slime pools.
- Before the debuff expires, move at least 10-yards away from other players to avoid causing extra damage from
Caustic Detonation.
- Before the debuff expires, move at least 10-yards away from other players to avoid causing extra damage from
Empowered Portal: Rancora deals steadily increasing damage to the group while Lady Dacidion is alive.
- Once Lady Dacidion is killed,
Portal: Rancora continues to deal light damage to the entire group.
- Once Lady Dacidion is killed,
Platform: Nathreza
When Portal Keeper Hasabel reaches 30% health, she opens the portal to Nathreza. Players must enter the portal to kill Lord Eilgar.
- Lord Eilgar
Empowered Portal: Nathreza deals steadily increasing damage to the group while Lord Eilgar is alive.
- Once Lord Eilgar is killed,
Portal: Nathreza continues to deal light damage to the entire group.
- Once Lord Eilgar is killed,
Mind Fog reduces how far players can see.
- Standing near an
Everburning Light from the Xoroth portal removes the effects of
Mind Fog.
- It's possible to have all players stack on the boss to negate the need for
Everburning Light, which is most viable in Normal and Heroic.
- It's possible to have all players stack on the boss to negate the need for
- When affected by
Cloying Shadows, move at least 8-yards away from other players to avoid spreading it.
- Standing near an
Mythic Differences
Platform: Nexus
Transport Portal
- All adds periodically increase their damage done and movement speed with
Unrelenting.
- All adds periodically increase their damage done and movement speed with
Platform: Xoroth
- Vulcanar
- The three stacks of
Aegis of Flames reduces damage taken.
- The stacks must be removed with a
Caustic Detonation from the Rancora portal. Each
Caustic Detonation removes one stack.
- The stacks must be removed with a
- The three stacks of
Platform: Rancora
- Lady Dacidion
Poison Essence is now
Leech Essence and heals Lady Dacidion for five times the amount of damage dealt to the five nearest players.
- This is countered by
Hungering Gloom from the Nathreza portal. You will likely need two to three
Hungering Gloom before Dacidion is killed.
- This is countered by
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 on
Collapsing World during
Empowered Portal: Xoroth,
Empowered Portal: Rancora, or
Empowered Portal: Nathreza, which occur when their respective portals are active and deal increasing damage over time to players inside the active portal.
- The final moments of the fight, when all portals are closed and the group is taking damage from all of them at once.
- Use Minor Cooldowns on
Collapsing World during
Empowered Portal: Xoroth,
Empowered Portal: Rancora, or
Empowered Portal: Nathreza, if major cooldowns aren't available or aren't necessary.
- The final moments of the fight, when all portals are closed.
- Pre-heal Before (mainly for heal over time classes)
Collapsing World
- Entering an Empowered Portal
- Leytorrent Potion use
- After
Felstorm Barrage, ideally when an Empowered Portal isn't active.
- After
- Other things to watch for
- Dispell
Delusions from yourself once you've gained enough mana or if you need to continue healing.
Cloying Shadows and
Hungering Gloom can be dispelled once the affected player is away from the group.
- Dispell
Debuffs to Track
Cloying Shadows can be dispelled once the affected player is away from the group.
Hungering Gloom can also be dispelled once the affected player is away from the group.
Delusions can be dispelled as needed.
- (Optional) Several abilities deal light damage over time.
Everburning Flames, this can also be dispelled if needed.
Caustic Slime
- On Heroic,
Acidic Web
Gear Recommendations
Below you'll find legendary and gear recommendations for healing Garothi Worldbreaker. Recommendations are mostly based on Mythic difficulty. Gear recommendations for classes other than Druids are largely based off the top items shown on WarcraftLogs. If your class Discord or other guide is recommending something else, let me know in a comment so I can make any necessary updates.
Restoration Druid
Legendary Items: Velen's Future Sight,
Aman'Thul's Wisdom]
Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus also has frequent use.
Mistweaver Monk
Legendary Items: Velen's Future Sight,
Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus
Holy Paladin
Legendary Items: Ilterendi, Crown Jewel of Silvermoon,
Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus
Maraad's Dying Breath also has frequent use.
Discipline Priest
Legendary Items: Velen's Future Sight,
Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus
Holy Priest
Legendary Items: Velen's Future Sight,
Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus
X'anshi, Shroud of Archbishop Benedictus also has frequent use.
Restoration Shaman
Legendary Items: Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus
Velen's Future Sight,
Roots of Shaladrassil, and
Soul of the Farseer all have frequent use as the second legendary.
DBM Settings
Below are the DBM settings I'll be using for Portal Keeper Hasabel. 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 Portal Keeper Hasabel
Videos
Heroic, Restoration Druid PoV
Below is a video of me and my guild defeating Portal Keeper Hasabel on Heroic difficulty. There is no commentary, only game sounds.
Mythic, Restoration Druid PoV
Below is a video of me and my guild defeating Portal Keeper Hasabel on Mythic difficulty. There is no commentary, only game sounds.
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