This page covers healer-focused strategies for the Brackenhide Hollow dungeon in Dragonflight. 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 as well as Dungeon Journal and combat log information. I'll continue to update it as-needed.

Below are guides for the bosses in Brackenhide Hollow, including their abilities, healer notes, and addon settings.

To spawn this encounter, five Tuskarrs must be freed from cages in the area. Denoted by yellow dots on the minimap. During this encounter, players fight against all three gnolls at the same time.

• Rira Hackclaw
  • Don't stand in front to avoid Cleave.
  • During Bladestorm:
    • Fixates on random players with Bladestorm.
    • Stay more than 8-yards away to avoid the moderate damage over time.
  • At 100% Energy, about every 45-seconds, calls for the war-band to perfom a series of attacks.
    • Rira: The tank should stand between Rira and the player targeted by Savage Charge to take the heavy damage.
    • Gashtooth: Dispel Decayed Senses (magic) to remove the incapacitating and greatly increased Physical damage taken effect from the tank.
    • Tricktotem: Summons a Hextrick Totem, which incapacitates the healer with Hextrick until the Hextrick Totem is killed.
• Gashtooth
  • Deals moderate damage and then moderate damage over time to all players with Gash Frenzy.
    
    • Affected players must be healed to at least 90% health to remove the damage over time effect.
• Tricktotem
  • The tank will be dealing with Earth Bolt.
  • Interrupt or purge Greater Healing Rapids to prevent the healing over time.
  • When a member of the war-band reaches 30% health, increases all enemies Haste for the remainder of the encounter with Bloodlust.

• All bosses gain a stack of Predatory Instincts for every 10% health players are missing, greatly increasing Haste.
• Gashtooth
  • Targets random players with Marked for Butchery, dealing heavy damage over time.

Mythic+ Affix Notes

• [Retired] Each boss will spawn orbs.
• [Retired] High stacks are likely during Gash Frenzy.

• Keep all players near full health to minimize stacks of Predatory Instincts.
• Use cooldowns on Gash Frenzy.

• Major: Decayed Senses (dispel, magic), Hextrick, Marked for Butchery, Gash Frenzy
• Minor: Bladestorm
• Buffs to Purge: Greater Healing Rapids

• Don't stand in front to avoid Vine Whip.
• Every 45-seconds, during Grasping Vines:
  • All players are pulled towards Treemouth.
  • After 4-seconds, the closest player is Consumed, taking moderate damage over time until the Consuming damage absorption shield on Treemouth is depleted or 10-seconds has past.
• Every 20-seconds, avoid the impact locations of Decay Spray, targeted near a random player's location.
  • This spawns four Decaying Slimes.
    • Decaying Slime
      • Interrupt or stay more than 5-yards away to avoid Gushing Ooze
      • Upon death, stay more than 5-yards away to avoid Burst and the resulting Withering Away! pool.
• Dispel Infectious Spit (disease) as frequently as possible to remove the stacking damage over time and reduced movement speed effect.

• During Grasping Vines, all players within 10-yards are Consumed.
  • If no players are Consumed, Treemouth gains Starving Rage, greatly increasing Haste and damage dealt.
  • After being Consumed, players gain Partially Digested, greatly increasing damage taken from Consume while the effect persists.

Mythic+ Affix Notes

• Can make managing which player is Consumed more difficult.
• [Retired] Decaying Slimes can cause additional orbs to spawn.
• [Retired] High stacks are likely on Consumed players.

• Use cooldowns as-needed to heal the player affected by Consume.

• Major: Consume
• Minor: Infectious Spit (dispel, disease), Withering Away!
• Root Effects: Infectious Spit

• The tank will be dealing with the extra damage and knock back effect from Gut Shot.
• Increases damage dealt by and the cooldown rate of abilities for all enemies within 15-yards with Huntleader's Tactics.
• At 100% Energy, about every 30-seconds, summons two Rotfang Hyenas with Call Hyenas.
  • Rotfang Hyena
    • Susceptible to most crowd control effects.
    • Fixates on the player affected by Smell Like Meat or Feeding Frenzy.
      • When affected, guide the Hyenas over Ensnaring Traps to Stun them.
      • Soothe Feeding Frenzy to remove the greatly increased damage dealt effect.
    • Avoid the impact locations of Bounding Leap. Players hit are Stunned and take heavy damage.
• Interrupt Master's Call to prevent Rotfang Hyenas from becomming immune to crowd control effects and gaining increased movement speed.
• Avoid the locations of Ensnaring Traps. Triggering a trap Roots all players and enemies within 5-yards and causes them to take light damage over time with Ensnaring Trap.

• Rotfang Hyena
  • Upon reaching a player, Crippling Bite deals heavy damage, greatly reduces movement speed and healing received, and deals moderate damage over time.
• Ensnaring Traps are no longer destroyed when triggered, and will rearm themselves.

Mythic+ Affix Notes

• Several affixes can make avoiding Rotfang Hyenas more difficult.
• [Retired] Rotfang Hyenas can cause additional orbs to spawn.

• Use external defensive cooldowns on any player affected by Crippling Bite.
• Help crowd control Rotfang Hyenas whenever possible to prevent them from reaching players.

• Major: Crippling Bite, Smell Like Meat, Feeding Frenzy, Bounding Leap
• Minor: Ensnaring Trap
• Enrages to Soothe: Feeding Frenzy
• Root Effects: Ensnaring Trap

• The tank will be dealing with extra damage and the healing absorption effect from Decaystrike.
• Don't stand in front when she turns to cast Choking Rotcloud. Players hit take heavy damage.
  • Avoid the resulting Choking Rotcloud that moves around the area. Players inside it are Silenced by Choking Rotcloud and gain stacks of Withering Rot.
• Avoid the impact locations of Rotburst Totem. Players hit take heavy damage.
  • Rotburst Totem
    •  Continually casts Rotting Burst, applying a stack of Withering Rot to all players.
• At 100% Energy, every 90-seconds, during Decaying Strength, Withering Rot is consumed from all players, causing the following events:
  
  • Avoid the impact locations of Withered Eruption targeted on each player.
    • The size of the impacts and the damage dealt increases for each stack of Withering Rot on the player.
  • Reduces players' damage dealt with Decaying Strength.
    • The potency of the damage reduction effect is increased for each stack of Withering Rot on the player.
  • Wratheye gains a stack of Decaying Strength for each stack of Withering Rot on players, increasing damage dealt.
    • One stack is lost each time Wratheye attacks.
• Avoid the Decaying Fog that blocks in the encounter area. Players inside it are Silenced and take moderate damage over time.

• Withering Rot lasts until it's consumed by (373917) .

Mythic+ Affix Notes

• [Retired] Rotburst Totems can cause extra orbs to spawn.
• [Retired] Players will gain stacks quickly due to the persistent damage throughout the encounter.

•  Use cooldowns on Decaying Strength, or as-needed to deal with high Withering Rot stacks.

• Major: Decaystrike

Below are notes for the trash mobs in Brackenhide Hollow. Brackenhide Hollow has a relatively open layout. Trash mobs are grouped based on their nearest boss.

Hackclaw's War-Band Area

• Players must free five Tuskarr from cages in the area to spawn the War-Band encounter.
• Bonebolt Hunter
  • The tank will be dealing with several abilities:
    • Extra light damage and light damage over time from Bone Bolt, and the increased damage taken from subsequent Bone Bolts.
    • Their primary ranged attack, Shoot.
  • Avoid the locations of Toxic Traps. Triggering a trap deals moderate damage and creates a Toxic Trap pool.
  • At 10% health, attempts to run away to aggro additional enemies.
  • Can be difficult to move due to their preference for casting spells.
• Vicious Hyena
  • The tank will be dealing with extra light damage and the reduced healing received effect from Infected Bite.
• Bonecrusher
  • Targets random players with Bloody Bite, dealing moderate damage and then light damage over time until the affected player is healed above 90% health.
  • Deals moderate damage to and reduces movement speed of random players with Crushing Smash.
• Trickclaw Mystic
  
  • Interrupt Focus Earth or purge Focus Earth to prevent the increased magic damage dealt effect.
  • While within 10-yards of a Rotchanting Totem from a Decay Speaker: Interrupt Witherbolt or dispel Withering (disease) to prevent the stacking light damage over time, reduced Haste, and reduced movemement speed effect.
  • When possible, interrupt Earth Bolt to prevent the light damage dealt to the tank.
  • At 10% health, attempts to run away to aggro additional enemies.
  • Soothe immediately.
• Bracken Warscourge
  • Stun to interrupt Hideous Cackle to prevent all players being Feared.
  • Stay more than 5-yards away to avoid Ragestorm.
  • Targets random players with Bloody Bite, dealing moderate damage and then light damage over time until the affected player is healed above 90% health.
• Claw Fighter
  • Fixates on random players with Vicious Clawmangle, dealing light damage over time.
  • Targets random players with Bloody Bite, dealing moderate damage and then light damage over time until the affected player is healed above 90% health.
  • Soothe immediately.
• Decay Speaker
  • Interrupt Decay Surge to prevent the light damage dealt to the tank.
  • Avoid the impact locations of Withering Burst. Players hit take heavy damage and gain a stack of Withering (dispel, disease), which deals moderate to moderate damage over time and reduces movement speed.
  • Summons Rotchanting Totems which empower the following enemies within 10-yards: Trickclaw Mystic.

Treemouth's Area

• Avoid the water in this area, being in it deals light damage over time with Rotting Creek.
• Brackenhide Shaper
  • The tank will be dealing with extra light damage from Touch of Decay.
  • Stun to interrupt Summon Lashers to prevent additional Infected Lashers from being summoned.
    • Infected Lasher
      • Deals light to moderate stacking damaging over time to random players with Bleeding.
  • Stun to interrupt Summon Slime to prevent additional Decaying Slimes from being summoned.
    • Decaying Slime
      • Upon death, stay more than 5-yards away to avoid Burst and the slime pool left behind.
  • Should be killed first or otherwise prevented from gaining excessive stacks.
  • Soothe immediately.
• Fetid Rotsinger
  • Interrupt or avoid the impact location of Burst of Decay. Players hit take moderate damage.
  • Stun to interrupt Summon Totem to prevent a Decay Totem from being summoned.
    • Decay Totem 
      • Stay more than 10-yards away to avoid Withering (dispel, disease).
• Wild Lasher
  • The tank will be dealing with stacking light to moderate damage over time from Bleeding.
• Decayed Elder
  • Interrupt or dispel Decaying Roots (magic) to prevent the light damage over time, Root, and reduced Haste effect on a random player.
  • Summons two Infected Lashers with Summon Lashers.
    • Infected Lasher
      • Deals light to moderate stacking damaging over time to random players with Bleeding.
  • Should be killed first or otherwise prevented from gaining excessive stacks.
• Wilted Oak
  • Don't stand in front to avoid Necrotic Breath (dispel, disease).
  • Stay more than 10-yards away to avoid the Stun effect and moderate damage from Stomp.
  • Summons two Infected Lashers with Summon Lashers.
    • Infected Lasher
      • Deals light to moderate stacking damaging over time to random players with Bleeding.
  • Should be killed first or otherwise prevented from gaining excessive stacks.

Gutshot's Area

• This area includes Bonebolt Hunters, and Vicious Hyenas, detailed above.
• Avoid the Teeth Traps in this area. Triggering one deals moderate damage and Roots the player in place.
• Stinkbreath
  • Don't stand in front to avoid Stink Breath. Players hit take moderate damage and are Disoriented.
  • Stay more than 7-yards away for avoid Violent Whirlwind
• Rotbow Stalker
  • The tank will be dealing with their primary ranged attack, Shoot.
  • Targets random players with Scented Meat, dealing light damage over time and forcing all Vicious Hyenas, Meatstalker Vultures, Gutchewer Bears, and other beasts to attack the affected player.
  • Can be difficult to move due to their preference for casting spells.
  • Deals light damage over time to all players with Bone Bolt, and increases the damage taken from subsequent Bone Bolts.
• Gutstabber
  • Can be Stealthed.
  • Dispel Withering Poison (poison) to remove the light damage over time and reduced Haste effect.
  • Targets random players with Bloody Bite, dealing moderate damage over time until the affected player is healed above 90% health.
• Meatstalker Vulture
  • Interrupt Screech to prevent the light damage dealt to and Silence effect on all players.
• Gutchewer Bear
  • Stun to interrupt Maul to prevent the moderate damage dealt to the tank.
  • Soothe immediately.

Decatriarch Wratheye's Area

• This area includes Fetid Rotsingers, and Bracken Warscourges, detailed above.
• Vile Rothexer
  • Dispel Withering Contagion (disease) to remove the light damage over time and reduced damage dealt effect.
    • If no dispel is available, when affected, stay more than 5-yards away from other players to avoid spreading the effect.
  • Deals moderate damage to all players and consumes all  Withering Contagions (dispel, disease) with Siphon Decay.
    • Purge Siphoned Decay to remove the increased damage dealt effect.
  • Should be killed first or otherwise prevented from gaining excessive stacks.
• Disease Slasher
  • The tank will be dealing with extra light damage and the healing absorption effect from Decay Claws.
  • Targets random players with Bloody Bite, dealing moderate damage and then light damage over time until the affected player is healed above 90% health.
• Witherling
  • Targets random players with Bloody Bite, dealing moderate damage and then light damage over time until the affected player is healed above 90% health.
• Wither Biter
  • Targets random players with Bloody Bite, dealing moderate damage and then light damage over time until the affected player is healed above 90% health.
• Filth Caller
  • Interrupt Decay Surge to prevent the light damage dealt to a random player.
  • Avoid the locations of Rotting Surge patches.

• Major:
  • Magic Dispel: Decaying Roots (dispel, magic)
  • Disease Dispel: Withering (dispel, disease), Necrotic Breath (dispel, disease), Withering Contagion (dispel, disease)
  • Poison Dispel: Withering Poison (poison)
  • Damaging: Bone Bolt, Infected Bite, Bloody Bite, Scented Meat, Decay Claws
  • Incapacitating: Disoriented
• Minor:
  • Damaging: Bleeding, Rotting Creek, Teeth Trap
• Enrages to Soothe: None
• Buffs to Purge: Focus Earth, Siphoned Decay
• Root Effects: Crushing Smash, Withering, Decaying Roots, Teeth Trap