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This fight is a pretty clever take on the traditional council-style boss fight, being that the four bosses are modeled after the four covenant leaders.
You’ll fight two bosses in phase one, two different bosses in phase two, and all four of them at the same time in phase three, you’ll for sure be Bloodlusting in phase three for one of the most insane Bloodlust moments of the entire expansion.
You’ll have at least two to four targets to hit at all times and with the specific mechanics each boss has, this fight gets super nutty.
Phase 1
In Phase One you’ll start off fighting War and Duty. Pull them together and just start cleaving
away.
Shortly after the pull, Prototype of War will spawn several sdds around the platform, these adds will channel a pool on the ground that quickly expands to fill up the entire room, this is bad because stepping into the pool deals moderate damage and makes you completely unhealable.
To avoid the room filling up, you’ll either send all of your DPS around to kill them one by one or you can split your raid into ranged and melee groups. Have the ranged get the far adds
while the melee start on the closer ones.
Since the bosses are difficult to move, it’s pretty pointless to try and stack them on any of the adds and the adds should die pretty quickly anyway.
Make sure to interrupt Gloom Bolt as much as possible because it does big damage and puts an absolutely massive healing absorb shield on the player targeted.
However, the most dangerous mechanic is Runecarver’s Deathtouch, a DoT that goes out on several players and after 30 seconds explodes for lethal damage on any player within 8 yards, it then jumps to another player and starts the 30 second countdown again.
The way you avoid all of this is by sending the debuffed players into the giant white bastion bubble on the ground, when the players gets inside, just have a healer dispel them.
Do not stay inside the bubble though because your healing and damage is reduced by 100%.
Prototype of Duty eventually jumps in the air and starts casting winds that push everyone back. At the same time she’ll cast a bunch of swirlies on the ground that, if hit, the player will take a bunch of damage every 2 seconds until the player is broken out. So don’t get hit by the swirlies and maybe think about using some raid mobility cooldowns like Windrush Totem or Stampeding Roar.
The tanks can also try and drag War on top of Duty to continue cleaving both.
Speaking of the tanks, the taunt swap is Humbling Strikes, a massive hit to Duty’s current target that increases the damage taken from Humbling Strikes by 100%, and 30% additional damage to the entire raid, so basically just taunt swap when the debuff falls off.
Try and keep both bosses around the same HP, because when either of them gets to 50%, they both retreat and Phase Two starts.
Phase 2
In Phase Two you’ll fight Renewal and Absolution. These two you’ll want to pull closer to the middle of the platform since there’s a bunch of things to dodge in this phase.
Things like the stampede of soul shapes that run in a line across the platform, getting hit by one of these does damage and knocks the player back.
There’s also going to be some blue tornadoes sporadically moving around the platform that
do a ton of damage and silences any player caught inside of one so just avoid these.
Renewal will also be casting Anima Bolt, which needs to be interrupted.
Now, one of the big mechanics during this Phase has to do with the Withering Seeds that spawn around the platform at about 35% health.
Healers check this out. If the seeds die, they’ll do a bunch of damage to the entire raid as well as leave a stacking DoT that also does a bunch of damage. However, you heal them to keep them from dying and if you heal them to full they’ll instead do a huge burst of healing to the entire raid, as well as put a 25% healing done increase to the entire raid for 30 seconds. This stacks, which means if you do it right and only heal one of them to full every 20 seconds, you could effectively have 25, 50, or even 75% healing done increase on the entire raid for basically the entire phase.
This is one hell of a healer mechanic and I respect it. You’ll need all that healing because Absolution puts a permanent debuff on everyone that does a bunch of damage every 2 seconds per stack.
Absolution also does Hand of Destruction, just like Sire Denathrius from Castle Nathria. He’ll pull everyone to him, and after 6 seconds does massive damage to the entire raid that's reduced the farther away from him you are.
While you are running away, everyone in the raid will also get these red orbs around themselves that, after 4 seconds, shoot out projectiles in each direction. These projectiles, again, do a ton of damage to anyone hit, stuns the target for 2 seconds, and puts an additional stack of the permanent debuff. All very not good things.
The way you deal with this is simple, after you get sucked in, just run away and spread out. Then dodge all the projectiles and everything else that’s trying to kill you, and you’re good. Immunities, personal damage reduction, and anything else is going to help out massively here.
The tanks will now have a new taunt swap, absolution will cast Wracking Pain which is a frontal cone, just like in Castle Nathria, that does a bunch of damage to any player or any Necrotic Ritualists hit.
This also applies a stacking damage taken increase by 25% for 40 seconds per stack. This is another one of those just turn the boss away from the raid and taunt swap when the debuff falls.
However, you might want to consider using this to help clear the adds that spawn in phase three, but probably not.
Phase 3
When either of these bosses get to 50%, the last phase starts.
In Phase Three you’ll fight all the bosses at whatever health they previously retreated at.
Since you are now fighting them all, you basically have all of their abilities to worry about, healer seeds, tank debuffs, the Hand of Destruction suck, a bunch of stuff to dodge, the Bastion bubble debuff dispels, and if you’re unlucky, you’ll need to kill all those green pool adds again.
All of this stuff happens one by one which makes it pretty straightforward to deal with.
The Hand of Destruction is going to be very difficult, so make sure to use healer cooldowns and raid movement abilities.
You’ll also need to have some designated interrupts for War and Renewal, but as long as you Bloodlust here, and make sure to kill all the bosses within 20 seconds of each other, you’re good to go.
And that’s pretty much it!
Here’s a quick recap of the fight for you to review or screenshot for later.
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