
Guardian of the First Ones, Healer Guide
Updated 10 months, 1 week ago for patch 9.1.5 by Preston. View the change log.
This page covers a healer-focused strategy for Guardian of the First Ones in Sanctum of Domination in Shadowlands. 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, combat log information, and Dungeon Journal information. I'll continue to update it as-needed.
General Mechanics and Abilities
Normal and Heroic
- Players must assist the tanks in dealing with
Elimination Pattern.
- During
Sunder, stay more than 6-yards away from the tank to avoid the critical damage dealt. Players hit take greatly increased damage from subsequent
Sunders while the debuff persists.
- On Heroic, during
Obliterate, stand within 6-yards of the tank to split the damage dealt. Players hit take greatly increased damage from subsequent
Obliterates while the debuff presists.
- During
- Don't stand in front when it turns to cast
Disintegration. Players hit are stunned and take light damage over time.
- When targeted by
Threat Neutralization, move more than 10-yards away from other players and avoid the subsequent impact location.
- Summons Sentries throughout the encounter, which orbit the Guardian.
- Sentry
- Avoid their
Suppression Fields.
- Deals light damage to random players with
Sentry Fire.
- Avoid their
- Sentry
- At 0% energy, deals increasing heavy damage over time to all players with
Purging Protocol.
- To prevent this, the Guardian must be brought to an Energy Core, detailed below, to have its energy recharged.
- Three Energy Cores are present from the beginning of the encounter.
- Energy Core
- Emits an
Radiant Energy field.
- If the Guardian is in the field, it gains energy over time from
Energizing Link while dealing heavy damage over time to all players with
Unstable Energy.
- If players are in the field, they take greatly reduced damage from
Unstable Energy.
- All players should stand in the field any time the Guardian is about to be moved to the field.
- If the Guardian is in the field, it gains energy over time from
- At 0% energy, stay more than 15-yards away to avoid the critical damage from
Meltdown.
- Additionally, this deals moderate damage to all players.
- Emits an
- Energy Core
Mythic Differences
- At least four players must be hit by
Obliterate to prevent the Guardian from losing additional energy.
- Energy Cores now begin the encounter at 0% energy and must be recharged with
Energy Absorption by being hit with
Threat Neutralization.
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
Purging Protocol /
Unstable Energy [occurs about every 75-seconds]
- Use Minor Cooldowns on
Obliterate [occurs about everything 60-seconds]
Meltdown [occurs immediately after
Purging Protocol]
- Pre-heal Before (mainly for heal over time classes)
Potion of Spiritual Clarity use
- likely after a
Meltdown, once players are back near full health
- likely after a
- Other things to watch for
- I'll update this section once I've seen more of the encounter.
Debuffs to Track
Major
Disintegration causes players to be incapacitated and need additional healing over time.
- Several debuffs can cause players and tanks to take additional damage, however, this is rare unless a mistake is made, so the debuffs may just clutter raid frames.
- (Optional)
Sunder
- (Optional)
Obliterate
- (Optional)
Useful Addons
DBM Settings
Below are the DBM settings I'll be using for Guardian of the First Ones in Sanctum of Domination. 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 Guardian of the First Ones
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