The Prophet Skitra, Healer Guide
Updated 3 years, 3 months ago for patch 8.3 by Preston. View the change log.
This page covers a healer-focused strategy for The Prophet Skitra 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
This encounter alternates between the two stages.
Stage One - The Prophet
This stage begins the encounter and first ends when Skitra reaches 66% health. It begins again following stage two and ends again at 33% health.
- Targets the tank and two random players with Shadow Shock, applying a stacking debuff that increases shadow damage taken.
- When affected by Shred Psyche, move as far away from other players as possible.
- Then, move as far away from the resulting Shredded Psyche as possible to reduce the damage taken from Psychic Outburst.
- Continues to deals damage with Psychic Reverberations until the Shredded Psyche is killed.
- Then, move as far away from the resulting Shredded Psyche as possible to reduce the damage taken from Psychic Outburst.
- On Heroic, stay at least 10-yards away from the Images of Absolution as they move across the room.
- Image of Absolution
- Immune to damage while Intangible Illusion is active.
- Can be crowd-controlled while this is active, allowing you to create safe pathways.
- Deal increased damage with Surging Images.
- Immune to damage while Intangible Illusion is active.
- Image of Absolution
Stage Two - Illusionary Projections
This stage begins when Skitra reaches the health thresholds noted in stage one and ends when the "real" Prophet Skitra illusion is killed.
- All players will be affected by either Clouded Mind or Twisted Mind, splitting them into different realms.
- Players in each realm must find the real Prophet Skitra.
- The real Prophet Skitra will be in the same location in each realm.
- If a false Illusion is killed, all players take critical damage from Mindquake.
- Players in each realm must find the real Prophet Skitra.
- Applies a stack of Dark Ritual to all players every 5-seconds, increasing shadow damage taken.
- Deals moderate damage to all players with Illusionary Bold.
Mythic Differences
- Shred Psyche effects are only visible to players that are in the same realm as the affected player.
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
- as-needed during stage two
- Use Minor Cooldowns on
- Pre-heal Before (mainly for heal over time classes)
- Shred Psyche
- entering stage two
- Potion of Replenishment use
- after leaving stage two
- Other things to watch for
- Be aware of non-tank players affected by Shadow Shock as they'll be taking extra damage.
Debuffs to Track
Major
- Shadow Shock causes players to take additional damage.
DBM Settings
Below are the DBM settings I'll be using for The Prophet Skitra. 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 The Prophet Skitra
Videos
Heroic Prophet Skitra, Restoration Druid PoV
Below is a video of me killing Prophet Skitra in a Heroic PUG.
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