
Nythendra, DPS Guide
Posted 5 years, 1 month ago for patch 7.2 by Virendra.
This page covers a DPS-focused strategy for Nythendra in The Emerald Nightmare. While it's tailored for dps, other roles may also find the information useful. If you have any suggestions or feedback, you can leave a comment below or tweet @SquidWonder.
This guide will be updated as needed.
Normal and Heroic
The information below pertains to Normal and Heroic difficulty. There are very few differences between Normal and Heroic, if something is Heroic-only it will be noted as such.
General mechanics to know about
- Move out of
Infested Breath
- Run
Rot to your raid's designated spot
- In Stage 2, move away from Corrupted Vermin before they burst
Stage 1 - The Plagued Dreamer
- Pop your cooldowns at the start of the fight - Heroism/Time Warp/Bloodlust should be used here. Deal as much damage as possible before
Infested Ground stacks up.
- Nythendra will choose a random target and cast
Infested Breath in a frontal cone. Run out of this ASAP. Every tick of damage you take causes an
Infested Ground to form. Additionally, you will gain stacks of
Infested in Heroic mode. She casts this twice before moving to Phase 2.
- Do not stand behind Nythendra.
- Periodically, players will be afflicted with
Rot. After 8 seconds, you will drop a pool of
Infested Ground at your feet. Run to your raid's designated drop spot, drop the pool, and return to the fight.
Stage 2 - Heart of the Swarm
- After two casts of
Infested Breath, Nythendra will collapse and pull all pools of
Infested Ground to her. Avoid these while continuing to damage.
- Insects will spawn all over the ground. Keep your eye out for Corrupted Vermin: once they grow big enough they will explode with
Burst of Corruption, dealing damage and applying a stacking debuff that causes you to take more damage from subsequent bursts.
- This phase lasts 20 seconds, then Nythendra resumes Stage 1.
- In Heroic mode, stacks of
Infested will clear.
DPS Strategy
- This is a straightforward fight. Go all out on the pull so you don't have to worry about dodging rots and corrupted pools.
- If you happen to get caught in
Infested Breath,
Burst of Corruption, or gain too many
Infested stacks, pop your defensive cooldowns.
- Don't drop
Infested Ground in your group.
- Deal as much damage as possible, but remember a dead player deals no dps.
DBM Settings
- Enable warning for
Rot
- Enable timer for
Infested Breath
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